Seeing that his fleet was bombed by airships in just half an hour, the commander of the French expeditionary fleet, François, his face had turned like a purple eggplant.

Although France is one of the most powerful countries in the world, it is also quite difficult for the French government to build such a powerful navy. Now this established powerful French navy contains almost all the essence of the main force, under his own leadership to expedition to Asia, but the result has not been engaged with the Northeast Navy naval artillery, the loss is so strict, François did not faint is already his mental ability to bear relatively strong.

Ruth, the captain of the Cecilia, said with a pale face at this time: "Admiral, the enemy's airship has finally flown away, and now our fleet is almost 8,000 meters away from the fleet of the Northeast Navy, and when we reach a position where the main guns can fire, should we immediately form a battle line to meet the fleet of the Northeast Navy?" ”

The French Expeditionary Fleet was originally composed of battleships on four battle lines in parallel, but it was bombed by the airships of the Northeast Air Force, which not only sank and damaged many French warships, but also caused confusion on the four battle lines of the French fleet because of the evasion of bombs.

Commander François saw that the three behemoth-like airships at the head of the fleet, probably threw away all the bombs they were carrying, and finally turned around and evacuated, the purple eggplant-like face became a little lighter, if these airships continued to bomb, François was ready to let the remaining warships of the fleet disperse and retreat.

François, who was in good spirits, saw the Northeast Naval Fleet that was gradually approaching in the distance, and had already seized the T-shaped when the French expeditionary fleet was bombed, shouted loudly: "Order all the main warships to return to the battle line at once, and prepare to re-seize the T-head, and the other warships will follow the main warships around us, although we have suffered a lot of losses from the airship attack, but we still occupy the numerical advantage, for the sake of France, destroy the enemy's fleet!" In addition, let the destroyers and torpedo boats hurry up and salvage the surviving officers and men in the sea! ”

At this point, only by defeating the Northeast Naval Fleet, François may still be able to explain the past to the French parliament and the people, otherwise François really can't imagine that he has lost so many main warships of the French Navy, and after returning to China, he will face what kind of situation he will face.

Cecilia's flag bearers immediately issued flags to the other warships of the French expeditionary fleet on the orders of Commander François.

Ruth, the captain of the Cecilia, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Admiral, will the enemy's airship still come?" ”

François smiled bitterly, "I can only hope that God bless France!" What happened to the Russians? ”

Ruth also smiled bitterly and said: "The soldiers of the watchtower reported that the situation of the Russians is not good, many warships were also sunk by airships, I really didn't expect that the Qing Dynasty could develop such a huge and advanced airship, we and the Russians can win the naval battle, and the loss is unacceptable!" ”

When Lin Daxin led the First Fleet and the Second Fleet of the Northeast Navy to be 8,000 meters away from the combined fleet of the French Navy and the Russian Navy, the Helios supership and the Mars large airship, which were bombarded indiscriminately above the Russian fleet, also dropped a total of 125 tons of bombs and turned around and returned to the direction of Russky Island.

If the face of the commander of the French expeditionary fleet, François, was the color of a purple eggplant, then the face of the commander of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet, Rozhdestwinsky, was as gloomy as black charcoal.

The indiscriminate bombardment of the Helios supership and the Mars large airship in just half an hour dealt a very heavy blow to the Russian Second Pacific Fleet, and the heavy losses made Commander Rozhdestwinsky cry of distress involuntarily.

As soon as the two airships flew to the head of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet, the Joan of Arc-class large fast armored cruiser Yaroslavovna with a displacement of 11,092 tons was sunk by the Mars large airship, and the Borodino-class all-steel battleship Yegoryevsk with a displacement of 13,500 tons was seriously damaged by the Helios supership, and its speed had dropped to less than 15 knots.

The Helios supership dropped two 800-kilogram bombs at once, and after injuring the Yegoryevsk, it dropped two bombs in a row, but it did not hit the large Russian warship, at this time Zhang Heng, the captain of the Helios, received a telegram from Zhang Guoxin, the captain of the Hercules and the temporary commander of the airship unit, ordering all the airships to drop four bombs every one second apart, so the Helios supership also took a time to drop four bombs on the Russian large warship at intervals of one second.

Immediately after the performance of the Helios supership began, the behemoth with an airbag length of 300 meters flew to the top of the Borodino-class all-steel battleship Bratsk with a displacement of 13,500 tons, and the Helios supership dropped four 800-kilogram bombs this time, of which 3 bombs hit the Bratsk, and 1 bomb hit the Bratsk 1 twin 40 times the caliber 305 mm main gun turret, The 254-mm armor of the main gun turret did not withstand the 800-kilogram bomb, and after a loud bang, the main gun turret was blown up, and all 16 Russian naval gunners inside were blown to shreds. Another bomb pierced 51 mm of deck armor and exploded inside the hull, damaging several steam engine pipes and causing a skyrocketing fire.

The deadliest was when an 800-kilogram bomb pierced through 76 mm of deck armor and 2 layers of steel plates, exploding near one of the main gun ammunition compartments of the Bratsk. The steel plate wall of the ammunition compartment could not resist the explosion of 800 kilograms of bombs at all, and instantly detonated hundreds of 305-millimeter shells in the ammunition compartment, and after an earth-shattering explosion, the Bratsk was blown into two and sank into the sea, and none of the more than 600 Russian naval officers and men on the warship could escape, and all of them sank to the bottom of the sea with the Bratsk.

The all-steel battleship was sunk, making Zhang Heng, the captain of the Sun God, excitedly wave his fist and shout: "Okay! Just drop the bomb this way! Quickly load the 4 bomb ports with 800 kg of bombs, and then we will blow up Lao Maozi is a large warship. ”

The Borodino-class all-steel battleship Blagoveshchensk was flown overhead by the Helios supership, and then dropped four 800-kilogram bombs on it, two of which hit the all-steel battleship with a displacement of 13,500 tons.

Two bombs penetrated the deck armor and several layers of steel plates of the Blagoveshchensk, and exploded near the bottom of the hull, one of the bombs blew out a large hole more than 8 meters long and more than 2 meters wide in the underwater armor on one side of the hull, and the other bomb directly drilled into a power compartment before exploding, directly detonating several boilers in the power compartment, and blew up a large hole more than 20 meters long and nearly 10 meters wide at the bottom of the hull of the Blagoveshchensk, and seawater poured into the hull from two gaps. The closure of the hatch did not prevent the sea water from pouring in, and it was not long before the Lagoveshchensk sank into the sea, and less than 400 of the more than 600 Russian naval officers and sailors escaped, floating on the surface.

The Borodino-class all-steel battleship Biklian was also flown overhead by the Helios supership and dropped four 800-kilogram bombs, two of which hit the all-steel battleship with a displacement of 13,500 tons. Although one bomb pierced the deck armor and exploded inside the ship, killing many Russian naval officers and men, and causing a large fire, it did not do much damage to the Bikryan. However, another bomb hit the position of the bow of the Bikryan, penetrated the 76 mm deck armor of the bow of the ship, and only exploded after penetrating the torpedo launch bay in the bow, detonating dozens of 381 mm torpedoes inside, "boom-boom-" An explosion sounded and blew up the capital of the Bicryan, and after a while, the stern of the Brackrian was raised high above the sea and sank into the sea little by little, and more than 600 Russian naval officers and sailors on the Brackrian jumped into the sea and escaped more than 400 people, Also floating on the sea, waiting for the rescue of other Russian warships.

The other Borodino-class all-steel battleship Barnaul was only hit by one of the four 800-kilogram bombs dropped by the Helios supership, but this bomb directly penetrated the Barnaul's 76 mm deck armor, and then penetrated two steel plates, and penetrated into the ammunition compartment of one of the Barnaul's main gun shells, which contained hundreds of 305 mm shells.

Then the fate of the Barnaul was doomed, after a violent explosion, the Barnaul broke into one large and one small, and several all-steel battleships of the same level, sank into the sea, more than 600 Russian naval officers and sailors on the warship because the speed of the warship sinking was too fast, no survivors, that is, the Russian naval officers and soldiers who jumped into the sea to escape, were also sucked into the whirlpool generated when the warship sank, and all of them entered the bottom of the sea with the two warships that sank very quickly.

Four Borodino-class all-steel battleships of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy with a displacement of 13,500 tons were sunk one by one by the Helios supership with bombs, but the performance of the Helios supership was not over, and the Catherine II-class ironclad battleships with a displacement of 11,500 tons, Catherine II and Pobedonosets, were also blown overhead by the Helios supership and sunk with 800 kg of bombs. R1152