When there is an absolutely life-saving reason to retreat, as long as you are not a fool, you will choose to retreat very wisely......

Therefore, Mr. Qian, who was closely watched by everyone, gave the order to retreat without thinking about it......

Plus the retreat direction is exactly downwind.

After the order to retreat was given, in the blink of an eye, the warship withdrew dozens of paces away.

Under such circumstances, the second round of flowering bullets fired by the Haw Par Army could only fall on the sea behind the warship, blowing up thick water columns as high as seven or eight feet......

Looking at the two imperial warships retreating from the wolf bèi, the tiger and leopard army warships, there was still a puzzled expression on his face, not knowing why the opponent was only hit by a flowering bomb, and the captain who died directly at the bottom of the sea without hitting the gunpowder bay did not give the order to pursue.

Under the gaze of the deputy beside him, he decisively ordered: "Inform the soldiers and immediately start rescuing the officers and soldiers of the imperial court sailor division who have fallen into the water...... I want to know how the new artillery they are equipped with came to be, how can they hit so far...... Also, why did their warship sink so quickly...... I don't believe that the power of one of our flowering bombs can be so great......

Soon, more than 100 officers and soldiers of the imperial court sailors who were still left on the sea were rescued.

When the captain learned that his so-called new gun was an enhanced version of the redcoat cannon. As for the reason for the sinking of the warship, it turned out to be that the recoil of the artillery was too large, which directly shook the warship to pieces.

The captain's face, which was still puzzled just now, immediately revealed a mocking expression from the heart.

After a short period of contemplation, he immediately decided: "Speed up the return voyage, we will return to the naval division station in the shortest possible time." Report the situation to the Commander. Otherwise. In the absence of clarity about the situation and Achilles' heel of the other party. We're likely to lose a lot......"

When the Haw Par Force sailed upwind and returned to the fleet station.

After a day of wolf bèi fleeing for their lives, the imperial navy finally returned to the garrison before the ship completely broke up.

Liu Yun, the commander-in-chief of the naval division, immediately rushed to the dock with anticipation on his face when he learned that the soldiers were about to return to the station, ready to welcome the soldiers who returned triumphantly......

However, as the expeditionary ships got closer and closer to the docks. Liu Yun, the chief soldier, slowly felt that things did not seem to be developing in the direction he imagined. From the flotilla that was getting closer and closer, Liu Yun Ah Jin did not see the slightest sign of victory, but saw a trace of solemnity and desolation that can only be found after defeat.

First of all, the three warships that were dispatched, and what I see now, are only two.

Not surprisingly, a warship that everyone did not see must have died at the bottom of the sea in the naval battle......

Not only that, but the two warships that came back. From a distance, they look like two terminally ill old men. It was very difficult to get to the dock.

You must know that these warships are all new ships that have just been built.

Unless it is heavily damaged in a naval battle, this will definitely not happen.

Therefore, when the two warships, which still looked intact on the surface, docked one after another, the expectation on the face of the chief soldier Liu Yun had been replaced by solemnity......

With a gloomy face, he stared at the warship that had approached the dock dozens of paces away, waiting for his subordinates to give him an explanation.

Soon, the two thousand commanders of the two warships ran towards him with anger......

After a very neat military salute, one of them, like an angry lion, complained loudly to Liu Yun......

"Lord Commander, you must be the master for us...... Our brothers who died in naval battles died not at the hands of the Haw Par Army, but at our own hands...... These warships and new artillery equipped to us by the Ministry of War have no way to use them in naval battles...... Please ask the commander-in-chief to get justice for us......"

When his subordinates just spoke, Liu Yun, the chief soldier, subconsciously thought that his subordinates in front of him must be shirking responsibility after defeat.

However, when he heard that the other party did not exaggerate how powerful the Haw Par Army was, but directly pointed the finger at the rear of the military department.

Liu Yun, the chief soldier, subconsciously began to pay attention to it.

However, until his subordinates finished speaking, Liu Yun didn't figure out why the two subordinates pointed the finger at the military department......

Maybe it was the subordinates who saw the confusion and incomprehension on Liu Yun's face, and another Qian general said directly: "Lord Commander, what is the specific reason, you can see it when you get on the boat......

"The Ministry of War has equipped us with these warships and new artillery, not to defeat the Haw Par Army, but to send us to death...... If we had known this, we might as well use the original warship......"

Under the guidance of President Qian, Liu Yun, who was surrounded by more than a dozen subordinates, directly boarded one of the warships......

When everyone walked into the gun compartment of the warship, a picture that surprised them all came directly into their field of vision.

On the floor of the gun compartment, where more than 20 new red-coated cannons were placed, the wooden floors with a thickness of more than five inches seemed to be squeezed by something, some of them were directly deformed and broken, and some of them appeared huge gaps with a width of more than an inch.

At a glance, there is hardly a piece of ground that is still intact in the large artillery bay......

As a veteran of the naval division, if Liu Yun, the chief soldier, still doesn't know what is going on, then his decades of military career will be in vain......

After forcibly suppressing his imminent anger, Liu Yun's eyes that could almost kill him immediately shifted to the deputy chief soldier of the water division.

Like an angry lion, he asked loudly: "Lord Zhou, you took over these warships from the military department...... You're also a veteran of the sailors, and when you took over, didn't you think about the maximum impact that the warship could withstand......"

"Sue Sù Ben General, what the hell is going on...... Otherwise, Ben will have to use your head to apologize to the sailors who died on the battlefield......"

Under Liu Yun's murderous gaze, the sweaty deputy general hurriedly replied: "Your Excellency, you were also present when the warship artillery was test-fired!" These are absolutely not matters related to the last general, please be aware of the general......"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mr. Qian, who had just escaped his life from the hands of death, opened his mouth and sneered......

"It's true that there is no problem with one artillery firing, but on the battlefield of naval warfare, can we fire one artillery cannon at a time...... Lord Commander, our two warships have just fired two salvos...... If you don't believe it, you can just find a warship and test fire...... At most three volleys, the ship will definitely fall apart......"

"If it weren't for the fact that the last general saw the opportunity and immediately ordered the soldiers to withdraw from the battlefield, none of the more than 800 soldiers on the two warships would have been able to return......" (To be continued......