Unlike the old warships of the Wa Kingdom, because the San Martin Empire has been at a disadvantage at sea for a long time, they tried their best to tap the potential of the old warships, and replaced all the wooden warships with new breech-loading guns.

Although the caliber of the guns was generally small due to the limited recoil resistance of the wooden deck, it was enough to penetrate the rather weak armor of the cruiser.

The number of guns carried by the sail warship was much larger than that of the ironclad ship, and in the face of the barrage of rain down, Dewey was so angry that he scolded, but it took time for the warship to turn, so he could only order the turn while firing back.

Seeing that his tactical intentions had been realized and Dewey's fleet was intercepted, Dinant immediately ordered the main fleet to turn around and rush up from the flank of Dewey's fleet.

The Imperial warship of St. Martin, designed with the idea of bowing against the enemy, charged from the front, aimed its bow at the Boston warship, and covered it with heavy artillery fire.

Although the ironclad ships of the St. Martin Empire are old, the caliber of their guns is not small, and as many as thirteen 305 mm caliber main guns are concentrated on attacking several large ironclad ships of the Boston Empire.

Soon a Boston Imperial ironclad was punctured through the weak link of the ironclad, and the shells that entered the hull pierced the boiler room, destroying the warship's power system.

The speed of the hit ironclad dropped sharply, and seeing that there was a advantage to be taken advantage of, the other ironclad ships of the Saint Martin Empire aimed their guns at it. An immobile warship is undoubtedly a living target.

Under the joint attack of several warships, several shells fell on the ironclad ship one after another, and one of the shells coincidentally hit the junction of the front main gun and the deck.

After the shell penetrated the hull of the ship, it drilled into the front main gun ammunition depot of the ironclad ship along the pipeline to transport the ammunition, and directly destroyed its ammunition, and the bow of the 12,000-ton ironclad ship was blown apart, and the raging sea water swarmed into the breach.

The heavy sea pressed the bow into the sea, and the stern was raised high above the water, and the two propellers turned slowly in vain but could not change their fate, and after struggling for nearly an hour, the giant ship finally sank slowly to the bottom of the sea.

The sinking of an ironclad ship greatly boosted the morale of the Imperial Navy of San Martin, and the firepower of each warship seemed to be fierce, and soon the group of sail warships that bravely attacked also achieved results, although the hull of these sail ships was relatively fragile, and the number of guns on each warship was as high as hundreds.

Dozens of warships were covered by dense fire from thousands of guns, and the weakly armored Boston cruiser was soon destroyed, and the three cruisers were shattered by dense artillery fire and soon began to sink.

Enraged, Dewey immediately ordered the cruiser not to follow the ironclad action, but to turn around and begin to move towards the bow of the sail battleship group, seizing the T-shaped position.

Seeing this, Marshal Dinant immediately ordered his own cruisers to rush forward and entangle the opposing cruisers to prevent them from taking advantage of their speed to turn and create opportunities for his own sail ships.

Marshal Dinant led the ironclad fleet to meet the opposing ironclads, attracting their firepower and creating favorable fighters for the sail warship group.

The ironclad ships led by Dewey were all designed and manufactured by the Boston Empire itself, although there is still a certain gap between them and the traditional powers of the Western Continent in terms of technology, but after all, they are new warships launched this year, and they are still very advanced in terms of tactical concepts.

Although the steel plate riveting process of the Boston Empire was not up to par, it was impossible to directly manufacture battleships from steel plates, and could only continue to manufacture ironclad ships with riveted iron armor on the outside of wooden hulls, but with their tonnage of 12,000 tons, they still had obvious advantages over the old ironclad ships of the St. Martin Empire.

The Boston Empire's 'Galino'-class ironclad ships had four 305 mm main guns and a large number of secondary guns, relying on these guns, eight ironclad ships poured down on the St. Martin Imperial ironclad group with dense firepower, and the two old ironclads were immediately shot and damaged, and the speed slowed down suddenly.

The two weakly armored old warships were soon provoked by another round of shelling, and they were sunk without any suspense. However, their sacrifice was worth it, three more Bostonian cruisers were sunk, and the remaining three were already in danger.

Seeing that the cruiser was in danger, Dewey's forehead had oozed a layer of fine beads of sweat, and he immediately ordered the ironclad ship to disengage from contact with the enemy and move closer to the cruiser, but Dinant took the ironclad fleet to stick up, leaving Dewey without skill.

Soon the St. Martin's side annihilated eight new Boston cruisers at the cost of four cruisers sunk and twenty-seven sail battleships, but their remaining ships were also heavily damaged, and they had little strength to fight again.

At this time, Dinant's goal had been achieved, and since the opponent's cruiser fleet had been completely annihilated, it would be difficult for the remaining ironclad ships that were not fast to pursue.

Looking at his own warships that were still fighting bravely, Dinant said gloomily: "It's a pity that we don't have the ability to completely annihilate these ironclad ships, if we don't retreat, we will be sunk sooner or later." ”

The adjutant said with some reluctance: "Lord Marshal, we are now in the limelight, and we have a numerical advantage, so we may not be able to sink them all." ”

Dinant shook his head: "Confused, although we have many warships, only a few ironclad ships' main guns can penetrate the opponent's armor, and other warships can't cause damage to them at all, and if we continue to fight, we will only be slaughtered." The ironclad ship that was sunk just now can only be regarded as our luck, do you think we can be so lucky every time? ”

Dinant slowly sat down and said with a painful face: "Our warships have reached the limit, the officers and men have done everything they can, we can't ask for anything more." There are times when we have to make the reluctant choice to give the order and disperse and retreat. ”

Just when the Imperial fleet of St. Martin was playing smoothly, the flagship suddenly issued an order to disperse and evacuate. Although these Imperial St. Martin Navy did not understand the commander's order, the well-trained St. Martin Imperial Navy immediately carried out Marshal Dinant's order, and all the St. Martin Imperial warships began to retreat in all directions.

Dewey was also aware of his superiority, and just as he was about to line up and start the slaughter, he suddenly found that the opponent began to disperse and retreat, which made him feel extremely angry, as if he had smashed on cotton with all his strength.

Dewey was a recent young rear admiral, and did not have as much combat experience as Marshal Dinant, this time in order to confuse the intelligence network of the St. Martin Empire, he left several well-known admirals in the country, and chose the little-known Rear Admiral Dewey to command the fleet.

Although his ironclad fleet was powerful, its speed was not as good as it could be, and even the oldest ironclad of the St. Martin Empire was not much slower than the newer ironclad of the Boston Empire.

Now without the speed advantage of the cruiser, it will be difficult for him to pursue. But if you can't catch up, you have to chase it, at least the opponent's sail battleship must be slower than your own ironclad ship, and the opponent's ironclad ship is not much faster, and Dewey, who is now holding back the fire in his belly, will not let go of the opponent.

"I ordered to stop the retreat, the helmsman was right full rudder, and the gunners were ready for battle." The captain of the sail battleship 'Orbus' commanded loudly.

"What?" The first mate on the side exclaimed, "Captain, we have received an order to retreat quickly, and we should carry out this order." ”

The captain shook his head and said, "We can't run away, the speed of the sail battleship is too slow, we don't have a chance at all." Rather than be caught up with a humiliating sinking, I would rather choose a heroic battle sinking. ”

The captain's words infected all the sailors, and no one of them refuted them, and everyone began to prepare for the last battle.

The 'Orlander' ironclad that was following closely behind suddenly found that the enemy fleet that was fleeing suddenly crossed the line, and the ironclad ship, which was not prepared at all, suddenly rushed over its head and put itself under the enemy's gun.

"All fire." The captain gritted his teeth and gave an order, all the artillerymen quickly pulled the tow rope, and with a dense loud noise, dozens of shells flew towards the ironclad ship not far away.

Although the caliber of the gunfire of the sail battleship is too small to inflict lethal damage on the enemy, it does not mean that the ironclad will not be harmed. Although most of the shells fell into the water or were ricocheted off by the enemy's armor, about ten shells still hit the deck of the opponent.

The dense shelling blew up the foredeck of the 'Outlander', dozens of sailors were killed by surprise, and the two secondary guns also suffered considerable losses.

After receiving a sudden attack, the 'Orand' tried to retreat and then return fire, because they were too close to the opponent and the large-caliber main guns could no longer attack the opponent, but their idea was good, but the 'Orbus' clung to it and did not give the opponent a chance to retreat.

Seeing that the 'Outlander' was at a loss, several other Bostonian ironclads also stopped their attacks and sailed over to help. Under the salvo of many ironclad ships, the 'Orbus' was blown to pieces, and the heroic captain and the more than 300 sailors under his command all died heroically.

The sinking of the 'Orbus', those ironclad ships chased after them again, just now the sacrifice of the 'Orbus' has been seen in the eyes of the officers and men of the San Martin Navy, seeing the other party approaching again, the captain of the sail battleship 'Kirinko' that fell behind the most sturdy scanned the surrounding sailors with firm eyes and said: "Brothers, the 'Orbus' has set an example for us, and now it's our turn." ”

Hearing the captain's words, the indignant sailors asked for battle. "Right full rudder, let's give the Bostonians a little bit of a try." The 'Kirinko' also chose to intercept the other side.