[238] Bayonets at sea

The roar of the British naval guns sounded like a drum beat in the agitation of the water, and the three battleships of the North Sea Fleet, Haijing, Tai'an, and Weiyuan, which had not dismantled their guns, fought back in the face of British artillery fire, rushed into 2,300 meters and fired back with the bow guns of three battleships.

The Seamirror has a total of three guns, one 160mm and two 120mm, which are mounted in a triangular shape in the bow; The Tai'an has ten small cannons, arranged in the gun compartment like a centipede, and there is only one 120mm gun in the bow; The Weiyuan has a 178mm Krupp cannon in the bow, and only the forward pair of the six 120mm Krupp guns can fire forward.

So as soon as the North Sea Fleet opened fire, the commander of the Chinese fleet of the Royal Navy, Grigin, laughed.

"These poor idiots, only three ships have just enough range from their bow guns, and together only 7 guns can fire. Hahaha......"

The British Navy has a tradition of having naval cadets on every warship, even if it is a 500-ton gunboat, it has to arrange 6 to 10 cadets, and the Ellecourt is the flagship, carrying 17 cadets from the Naval Academy.

Hearing Griggin's ridicule, the five cadets and several other officers on the bridge lookout at the bow of the ship all laughed gracefully.

"Your Excellency, I think that the resistance of these Chinese has added interest to this naval battle, otherwise I really don't know how to return to the parliament and Her Majesty the Queen in the subsequent battle reports." A clerk said flatteringly.

Grigin smiled happily: "Hals, you're right, it's really chic. Griging took a heavy bite on the pronunciation of the word "fun".

"Report to the commander, the Haijing has been hit twice in the bow and one on the deck, and it is being repaired!"

"Report to the commander, the bow of the Weiyuan was hit by a bullet and is being repaired."

"Report to the Commander, one person died in the foredeck of the Tai'an's mastboard."

"Report to the Commander ,......"

Bad news came from the walkie-talkie one after another.

Deng Shichang pointed his face at the walkie-talkie and shouted: "All the North Sea Fleet obey the order!" Don't slow down! Raise the Z flag! Today next year will be the death day of the enemy ship! ”

Seeing that the five battleships braved the fire of the British battleships for nine minutes in a row, rushing to 1,800 meters, Deng Shichang could no longer hold back.

"Commanders of the ships' guns, order the recoilless guns to fire! Machine guns are ready, and once you are 800 meters in, you can strafe the opposing deck in advance! ”

Seeing that the North Sea Fleet approaching in the distance was constantly being shot, but hoisting the Z-shaped flag again, Grigin was triumphant.

"These fools actually hang the Z flag......

The bow gun under full speed will rise and fall with the hull, there is no crosshair at all, and none of the few shells hit the great Royal Navy, and it is still desperately hanging the Z flag.

Haha, order all battleships, change to high-explosive shells, start salvo preparations, listen to my instructions, make the first starboard salvo at 1500 meters, hang the nose spinnaker, three-quarter power of the main engine, maintain a speed of 7 knots and turn in place, and make a port salvo! ”

Even in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle 20 years later, the large Krupp main gun equipped with Dingyuan Zhenyuan could only hit 3,000 meters, and it was good to hit two percent, and no matter how far it went, it would be uncertain.

The same was true for the Royal Navy in 1877, so Griging was ready to close to 2,000 meters to deliver a salvo of all naval guns.

Hu Yanyi sat on the bow of the Caojiang ship with his own gun squad and another 80mm recoilless gun squad, aiming nervously at the enemy ship. As the hull of the ship undulated, the leap of the massive target in the optical sight became more and more sluggish.

More than 100 years of scientific and technological progress have made the optical sighting system on the army's recoilless guns much more accurate than the optical sights of naval guns in these years.

"Put!" Hu Yanyi roared wildly.

Just listen to "Bang! With a bang, the muzzle of the 82 Wu gun spewed out a puff of white smoke with fire, and the exhaust hole at the rear of the gun also spewed out white smoke.

Almost at the same time, another artillery squad also pulled the firing wrench, and the bow of the Caojiang ship was suddenly shrouded in a faint smoke of gunpowder, and the sea breeze blew, and the smoke immediately dissipated without a trace.

The recoilless guns on the five battleships of the North Sea Fleet, Caojiang, Meiyun, Haijing, Tai'an, and Weiyuan all opened fire, "Bang! Syllable! Syllable! "The strange sound of an explosion after the clash of gold and iron kept ringing.

Grigin, who was standing on the bridge platform, had not yet realized what the short cylinder on the bow of the North Sea Fleet was, and a high-explosive grenade flew over, but it did not hit the hull, but hit the towering chimney!

Boom! Riveted of cast steel, extremely strong in the minds of the British, up to seven millimeters thick, with a series of cast steel semi-cylinders carefully riveted to the outside of the steel frame, fastened to the deck with four thin iron chains, the "great" chimney of the flagship Ellecourt was blown off in the middle!

The explosion was so powerful that there were many dead and wounded on the deck below the chimney, and no one survived!

The huge explosion frightened Griging so much that he squatted on the bridge platform on the spot: "What! What is that! Damn, who can tell me what's wrong with the chimney!! ”

As the North Sea Fleet approached, numerous recoilless guns on the deck of the warship were shelled with long iron nails at a standard rate of fire of 5 to 6 rounds per minute, and high-explosive grenades flew through the air towards the Royal Navy. In less than a minute, all the warships of the Royal Navy had been shot one after another.

Seeing the huge explosion on the enemy ship in a row, Deng Shichang's blood boiled, and he waved his fist and shouted: "Fight hard!" Each ship is aiming at its own target, and it must bite it! ”

The warships of the Royal Navy immediately discovered that the Chinese shells were extremely powerful, unlike the solid shells of the British army, the shells of the Chinese Navy were all high-explosive shells, while the flowering explosion shells of the Royal Navy had a very short range and could only be used at a distance of 1500 meters.

"Volley!" Grigin could no longer stand the explosions that rang out on the battleship, and at a distance of 1500 meters ordered the fleet in the T position to launch a salvo.

The black powder emitted a neat thick smoke of gunpowder, and forty-six guns on one side of the six battleships of the Royal Navy opened fire at the same time, and forty-six shells rained down on the battleship in front of them.

"The Caojiang was shot on the deck, and two people were injured!"

Deng Shichang stood on the bridge of the Weiyuan like a root, and gave an unwavering order: "Leave the British alone!" Keep firing! The ships of the British are also wooden shells, and the cannonballs are not as powerful as ours! Let's see who knocks whose shell first! ”

Another high-explosive grenade hit the Alekaut, this time on the side side, the wooden hull was fragile like papier-mâché under the high-explosive grenade, and a large hole three meters in diameter was revealed in the hull! There are already four such big holes on the Ellecourt! One of them is close to the waterline, and the sea water is flooding like crazy! The British sailors in charge of repairing the damage were helpless in the face of such a huge diameter hole!

Because of their proximity to the edge of the column, the two small 500-ton gunboats of the British army were frantically attacked by a large number of recoilless guns arranged on the side of the North Sea Fleet for more than 170 rounds, and each ship was hit by six or seven bullets, and was quickly destroyed.

The two sixth-class ships, the Pegassa and the Abateros, each of which were in the early 1,000-ton period, were hit by more than five high-explosive grenades, and the hull of the ship seemed to have been pierced by God's holy spear.

However, the barrel of black powder in the ship was also ignited by the explosion of the grenade, and the Pegasa exploded from the central gun compartment, and the whole ship was cut in two, and the part carrying the steam engine in the rear began to sink, and the front part continued to be cocked.

The bridge of the Abbateros had been almost flattened, the commander had all been killed, and the entire battleship was hung with a devastated black hole, floating on the surface of the sea, still being hit by dense grenades from time to time, making terrifying explosions.

The engine room of the stern ship of the fifth-class battleship Cleopatra was shot, the dark wheel wrapped in the iron guard wheel had been blown up, the mast of the ship was also blown off, and the whole ship lost power and floated aimlessly with the waves. The bursts of high-explosive grenades did not spare the lifeless battleship, and they were still beating it.

"Baron Griggin, the Chinese's shells are too powerful! Our battleship was damaged by Yan zhòng! As long as it is hit, it is a huge damage that cannot be cleaned up! We must evacuate! ”

The staff officer on the Ellecourt was horrified and yelled at Grigin.

Grigan was already dumbfounded, and in just two minutes, his fleet had become a pile of broken logs, floating like garbage in the waves, a result that he could not have imagined before the war!

"Nope! No! No! I'm going to duel with that despicable Chinese! Command the flagship charge! Rush up! Beat him into a sieve with a dense range of broadside guns!! Griging wielded the Queen's slender command sword frantically and staggered on the bridge platform like a madman, but the rest of his mind brought him to tears.

"Whoa!!" Grigin finally burst into tears.

"It's over! China has powerful explosives and flowering shells in the world, and such gunboats are invincible! As soon as it comes into their range, it will be completely destroyed!

Woowoowoo......

Even in the face of battleships, I have to Ellecourt can hold more than two hundred rounds of bullets without sinking, but the Chinese can destroy my flagship hull with one shot! That's four inches of oak!

The shells of the Chinese are made by the devil! It's the devil! Devil!!!

The Royal Navy is finished...... Finished! ”

Before Grigin could finish crying, he rushed into the 1,000-meter Caojiang, and the crazy recoilless gun sent four more high-explosive grenades, one of which hit the bridge, and the mushroom cloud suddenly engulfed the deck, the smoke of gunpowder rose, the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the bridge platform disappeared, and Grigin and his staff officer, along with several trainee officers, disappeared without a trace.

On the three steam dark steamer transport ships watching the battle from a distance, the British officers were terrified, and frantically ordered the engines to turn on full horsepower and quickly evacuate the battlefield south, but the transport ships were loaded with a large amount of coal and water, and because of the long supply lines from Hong Kong to the north, the decks of the battleships were full of coal, not to mention the supply ships, which were completely 200% carrying.

Deng Shichang has never been so high-spirited as he is today, holding a sharp weapon like a high-explosive cannonball, and he feels invincible at the moment.

"Hit! Sink them all! Not one remains, sweep with a machine gun! Don't take prisoners!

The Mae Yun Tai'an will catch up with me, and I must capture the British transport! Beat the flag, if you don't stop the boat, you will smash them too! Wash the deck as much as you can, don't break the hull! ”

Political Commissar Chen Weipeng had been silent before, but at this moment he finally couldn't hold back his excitement: "Old Deng! You're amazing! ”

Deng Shichang held Chen Weipeng's outstretched hands, and shook hands a little unskillfully: "Where, the recoilless cannon invented by the chairman is too powerful!" It's a bayonet at sea! ”

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