Chapter 365: Complete Victory
From the battlefield to Kampong Son Bay, the distance in a straight line was less than 100 kilometers, but at this point the voyage made the end point an unattainable dream of Admiral Gervais, the three battleships sped up to the limit, holding back the billowing smoke to the north, more than ten kilometers away from them, four Chinese battleships leisurely hit the target, the flames from the muzzles of the guns were like the roar of a demon in the eyes of the French, and the huge cannonballs whizzed across the sea, slamming into their bodies like meteors, and the steel and flesh were shattered together in the deafening explosion.
What made the Gallic roosters even more unbearable was that they were powerless to resist in this battle, and could only bear it silently like a group of small people who were crushed by gorillas, and this humiliation was even stronger than the physical damage.
In addition to the four first-two-level main guns of the Cholgibelli at the rear, in the frenzied ravages of the twenty two-four-zero guns on the opposite side, they could occasionally make a few weak protests, and even hit the two ships of Wangwu and Emei, which had to be close to ten kilometers because they had no fire control system, and the Charlie Martel and Bouvet in front had not been able to cause any damage to their enemies until now.
But even the four 45-gauge main guns of the Cowlergibelle at such a distance, using shells with bumping fuses, would not be able to penetrate the alloy armor of these two battleships, even if they were only armored cruisers of the lower rank, and the mere external explosion would be terrifying to look at, and would not matter at all to such a well-protected battleship, even if the French shells were filled with a powerful picric acid.
But every shell they hit the French did a nerve-wracking injury.
"Since this naval battle, all the old battleships can be completely reused to make steel, no wonder the emperor is so confident in this war." In the command tower of the Kunlun, Zheng Donghan looked at the three French battleships that were flooded by artillery fire in the distance and said with emotion, in fact, before the war, they were quite apprehensive in their hearts, after all, the French had an advantage in the number of battleships, and they were all ready to bear certain losses. But in the current situation, the initial concern was a complete joke.
"But why would the emperor give such a good thing to foreigners? How good it is for us to keep it ourselves, if the 88th Fleet is really completed, those foreign devils are all such old battleships, we can say that we will go sideways on this sea. Then he said very confusedly.
"If you don't give it to them, how can they fight each other? Good things are all here, even if the relationship between those foreigners is bad, they have to partner against us, now it's so good, every family has this thing. No one obeys each other, and sooner or later they must not fight? It's like two people who quarrel, when you're unarmed, at most you give me a punch and I'll kick you, but what if someone gives them a knife! At that time, I'm afraid we will have to stab each other, and our emperor is giving them knives all over the world! Liu Buyun said insidiously.
As soon as he had finished saying this, he saw a huge ball of fire suddenly arch under the foredeck of the Bouvet in the distance, along with a 305 main gun. Countless shards of steel flew into the sky, and even the ship in front of it jumped upwards in a terrifying way.
"Ammunition Death!" Zheng Donghan shouted excitedly.
A single 280 shell that burrowed into the ammunition depot under the Bouvet main gun easily ended the lives of the battleship and the hundreds of sailors on it. In just a few minutes, it was lost on the surface of the sea, leaving only a huge whirlpool engulfing the surrounding qiē.
After the Qinling sank the Buwei, the Kunlun at the front was immediately added to the thirty-two knots. Giving up his battle position and going directly to the left side of the Charlie Martel, while the Qinling stepped forward to fill its vacancy, forming a situation of two ships attacking left and right. Twenty 280 guns continued to pour shells from both sides at the same time on the already battered battleship.
However, the battleship has not sunk until now, which surprised Zheng Donghan.
"Twelve thousand tons, as long as the ammunition is not detonated, how can it be so easy to sink." Liu Buyun said.
"Commander, the Far Eastern Fleet in Cam Ranh Bay has come out." At this time an officer reported.
Liu Buyun nodded very casually, there is Lin Taizeng's fleet staring at it, there is no need to care, the two first-class battleships of the French, the Carnot and the Messina, it is a fantasy to come up with it! In fact, Lin Taizeng felt that the strength in his hands was a bit redundant, otherwise he would not have sent the two princess-class ships here again.
Just one Wisconsin is enough to single-handedly take on the two French battleships, this trophy pulled back from the United States, because the main gun was not installed at the beginning, and there were only two main gun positions in the front and rear, so Emperor Yang simply took it as a real product, and directly installed two triple 280 main guns, and the guns used were exactly the same as the Kunlun class, even if there was no fire control system, it was not something that the old battleships could provoke. What's more, there are thirteen old warships there, including Dingzhen, these heavily modified old ships all have terrifying medium-caliber firepower, and the six protective cruisers of the French in front of them are simply abused, especially monsters like Marauders, Kaiyuan, and Lang that spray dozens of shells a minute
His self-confidence was entirely justified, for in less than ten minutes he received another telegram that the French fleet, which was trying to break out of Cam Ranh Bay, had torpedoed two protective cruisers in the narrow waterways of the Chinese destroyers, which had been attacked by high surprises, and the remaining ships, knowing that there was no hope of breaking through, had withdrawn back as quickly as possible.
And at this time, the Charlie Martel on the opposite side was also finished, although this battleship had twelve watertight compartments, which is the main reason why it has been able to survive until now, but under the ravages of one and one hundred and twenty shells, it finally capsized on the sea because of too much water, looking like a huge dead fish.
Now only the Cholgibelli is left at sea.
"Give them the flag and demand immediate surrender!" Liu Buyun looked at the battleship that had been flooded by fire and ordered, in fact, the Joljibaili had completely lost its combat effectiveness at this time, and even the voyage had dropped to a little more than ten knots, and if it did not surrender, it would be able to support ten minutes of shelling at most.
As the flag was played, looking at the black holes on the left and right, and after realizing that he had no choice, the white flag was finally raised on the Cowlergibelle.
The naval battle, which decided the fate of the Vietnam Theater, ended with a complete victory for the Chinese Navy, with the French Expeditionary Fleet losing all the battleships and their fleet commanders, as well as six protective cruisers, ten destroyers, and only five diesel-engine cruisers and ten destroyers fled to Kampong Son Bay, where they survived on the closed environment, while the Chinese Navy lost only four destroyers.
With naval artillery, the Chinese Empire formally established itself as the hegemon of the East Asian seas.
Although the naval battle is over, the shock to the whole world is far from over, the fiasco of the French clearly tells the countries of the world that a new era has begun, an era that belongs to all large-caliber naval guns, all the old battleships have been kicked into the garbage heap, the perfect battleship is the real master of the sea, if you want not to lose the sea, then go all out to build this kind of battleship!
Although the price of diesel engines is a little more expensive, although it is easy to be choked by Yang Feng in this way, but in order not to be expelled from the Ocean Club, countries have no choice, of course, with the exhibition of technology, this kind of machine is not so far away, the best imitation of Britain has begun to be installed on destroyers, although the volume is large, the failure rate is high, but people clearly see hope.
"Negotiations? The French wanted to throw in the towel so quickly? In the imperial palace in Beijing, Emperor Yang said somewhat stunned, less than a week after the end of the naval battle, France took the initiative to admit defeat, which is a bit too exaggerated, of course, it is not their own admission of defeat, this kind of admission of defeat can not be proposed.
Although he is looking forward to a defeat between China and France, it will be bad if France is beaten unilaterally, after all, if the French are broken, then it will be difficult to have enough strength against the Germans, in fact, the current Britain has begun to try to strengthen friendship with France, and even Nigeria's oil has released the wind to open with France.
For France, this war also lost its significance, the defeat of the naval battle also meant that the French army in Vietnam completely lost its logistical support, in this distant colony, they did not have any arms industry, the Chinese 6th Army had begun to move south, Gallerien could not use bayonets against hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops, right?
Moreover, the anti-war voice in France is also very high, they have too many real enemies, China can't even rank in the top three, Germany, Italy, and even Britain across the Channel are close at hand, this is what they need to be really vigilant against, as for Vietnam, it is nothing more than a colony, and it is not worth investing too much money.
Of course, there is a bad one to get on the surface, the French are worried that they will continue to fight, and finally really angered Yang Feng, no longer provide them with high-power diesel engines, if that is the case, France will not only lose Vietnam, although China and France have declared war, in fact, until now, Yang Power Systems Company, still has not frozen the supply of diesel engines to France, so the construction plan of the Dandong-class perfect battleship of the French Navy has not been affected, and even the after-sales service of the diesel engine battleships that have been in service has not been interrupted. (To be continued......)
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