"Commander, your arm ......"

On the small high platform under the main mast of the "Zhenyang", Wang Yanxia stared at the "Brave" on the opposite side that was about to sail out of the firing range of his own ship, and he didn't notice that his arm was oozing blood outwards at this time, but an officer on the side of him had sharp eyes and exclaimed, and he was about to step forward to check Wang Yanxia's injuries.

"Ben will be fine, get out of here! Go, let those bastard boys cheer up Lao Tzu! ”

was reminded by the attendant officer, Wang Yanxia noticed that his left arm was hit by a flying projectile at some point, the injury was not serious, but the blood was bleeding a little more, and it was very scary to look at, but Wang Yanxia himself didn't care at all, pushed the attendant officer away, and broke his throat coldly.

"Yes!"

Hearing that Wang Yanxia's voice was wrong, the attendant officer didn't dare to delay a little, hurriedly answered the promise in a loud voice, rushed into the cabin, and ran down the ladder to the lower gun deck.

"Humph!"

Wang Yanxia didn't pay attention to the departure of the attendant officer, frowned and snorted coldly, regardless of the injury on his arm, he picked up the telescope and aimed at the "Brave" diagonally opposite, his eyes were full of cold anger, no other, in the previous flagship duel, the "Zhenyang" really suffered a loss, in less than four minutes of regular firefight, in the case of obvious gun loading advantages, his side only fired one round, and the "Brave" was able to fire two rounds, This has already made Wang Yanxia extremely angry, but what makes him even more annoyed is that his own hit rate this time is really bad enough, more than 40 cannons fired a salvo, and only hit two medium-sized flowering shells, although it killed several British sailors, but compared to their own losses, such a small result is really not worth mentioning.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

In the flagship duel, the British Navy completely had the upper hand, and the "Brave" was full of cheers, and the voices of ridiculing the Qing army's clumsy tactics were endless, but before the officers and men of the "Brave" could make enough noise, the Qing army's "Weiming" medium-sized battleship, which had suddenly accelerated, had already been killed, and unceremoniously a salvo blasted over. Thirteen medium naval guns fired a salvo and actually hit five heavy artillery blasting shells and six medium flowering shells!

In naval battles, especially in long-distance naval battles, the hit rate is never too high, even in the decisive battle of the traditional battle line about 200 meters apart, the hit rate is only about 50 percent at most, and this, in the navies of Western countries, only the British Navy can do it, as for the second-rate navy such as Spain, the warships that can reach 40 percent are already considered the elite of the elite, as if in the current artillery battle that is more than 600 meters away, there are too many factors that affect shooting. No matter the direction of the wind or the tide, or the stability of its own warships, it will have a great impact on the shelling, and the average hit rate can reach 10 percent, which is already amazingly high, and now, the "Weiming" has a hit rate of more than 50 percent, which can only be described as an almost miracle.

The miracle was for the officers and men of the "Weiming", but for the officers and men of the "Brave", it was absolutely an out-and-out doom, just such a round of shelling, the "Brave" was already on the raging fire, the ship's side, foredeck, shipbuilding, sails and other places were damaged, and the powerful explosive bombs gnawed out several huge holes, and the officers and men on the ship were killed and wounded nearly 100 people, but fortunately there was no bomb at the waterline, although the speed of the ship was quite affected, but there was no danger of sinking.

"The boatswain stabilizes the battleship, and the gun positions counterattack, counterattack!"

In the previous engagements, although it had also suffered more than a dozen shells, all of them were medium-sized flowering shells, and the parts that were hit were all inconsequential, and the total number of casualties was less than 10 officers and men. Fortunately, Edward Vernon was still in his right mind, and he hurriedly roared, and finally woke up the officers and soldiers who were suddenly attacked.

It has to be said that the officers and men of the British Navy are really amazingly high, although they were killed and wounded by the "Weiming", but under the orders of officers at all levels, they quickly came to their senses, and the sailors and the marines who accompanied the ship organized one after another, and were busy extinguishing the fire and stopping the loss in all directions, while the gun positions were firing shells with all their might under the commander's command, and desperately launched a counterattack against the "Weiwei". Countless columns of water exploded near the stern of the "Weiwei", but it failed to hurt the "Weiming" at all.

"Open the cannon and hit Lao Tzu hard!"

The "Weiming" had just passed, and the "Weishun" had already arrived at high speed, but when he saw the huge hull rushing into the area where the water column was still churning, under the main mast, the captain Chen Yaojia held a monocular as a command knife, pointed straight at the "Brave" in the chaos, and roared hoarsely.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The gunners on the deck of the "Weishun" have long been ready, and the gunners have just ordered Fang, all the gunners have gone crazy, and they have pulled the bolt ropes, and the twenty heavy and medium guns roared in turn, and the twenty shells roared and smashed towards the "Brave" at a distance of about 610 meters, the momentum is not small, but it is a pity that the "Weishun" obviously does not have the good luck of the "Weiming", all seven heavy artillery blasting shells missed, and only one medium-sized flowering bomb hit the rear mast of the "Brave". Breaking the jibs on both sides and igniting the fire, there was nothing to be done, but in the counterattack of the Brave, it was hit by a heavy artillery shell on the aft tower and hit the aft deck by two medium-sized flowering shells, but the damage was not great, and only two unlucky sailors were seriously injured.

"Fire!"

"Call me!"

……

At the same time when the "Brave" was beaten terribly, the "Zhenyang," the flagship of the Qing army, also ushered in a bitter battle -- the British third-class battleship "Hood" and the medium-sized battleship "Kelly" sailed almost end to end to the diagonal opposite of the "Zhenyang," and the captains of the two battleships gave the order to shoot almost at the same time; at that moment, more than 70 guns of various types roared one after another, and all kinds of shells smashed towards the "Zhenyang" like a torrential rain, and the bullets rained down like a rain, poor "Zhenyang" Before he could recover from the previous heavy damage, he was hit by eight more shells on the spot, and the sails on the front and rear masts were shattered several times, and a large fire was ignited as a result, and the speed was suddenly reduced, and two 32-pound heavy shells smashed on the lower gun deck, destroying a heavy gun, and more than a dozen gunners were either killed or wounded, and the loss was not small.

"Fight back!"

"Fire!"

"Hit!"

……

In the face of the siege of the two enemy ships, the gunners on the "Zhenyang" were all angry, and they had just been scolded by Wang Yanxia, all of them were holding back their anger in their hearts, and they were willing to be beaten passively, and the commanders of the various artillery positions all roared, and the heavy and medium guns roared in unison, and one after another the shells whistled through the sky, smashing into the "Hood" and "Kelly" respectively, but the effect was obviously not very good, only two heavy explosive bombs hit the target, and one flew over the tail tower of the "Hood", But it did not explode, it only broke a large opening at the tail building, and did not cause casualties to the "Hood", and another heavy shell hit the side of the "Kelly", but it was not very lucky, and hit the skeleton in the thickest place, although a large crater was blown up on the side of the ship here, but it did not achieve the effect of penetration, as for the medium-sized flowering shells, there were also three hits the "Hood" and "Kelly" respectively, but unfortunately they were not important. It only achieved the result of killing and wounding a few British sailors.

Seeing that the speed of the "Zhenyang" had plummeted, and that the "Hood" and "Kelly" would not let go of such a good fighter, the officers and men of the two ships controlled the sails with great skill, and in a very short period of time they forcibly lowered their speed, and with ferocious firepower, they aimed at the "Zhenyang" and bombarded them wildly, and all types of artillery fired desperately, regardless of whether the salvo was fired or not, whoever loaded it first would open fire first, and the thunderous shelling sound was always loud and non-stop, and for a time, the "Zhenyang" was in a passive state It was surrounded by columns of water that had been blown up by cannonballs, and the ship was again hit in many places, that is, because of the huge hull of the ship and the fact that the Britons' shells were not powerful enough, there was no danger of sinking in battle, but even so, it was an indisputable fact that it was at an absolute disadvantage.

"Cover the flagship, hit me!"

Just when the "Zhenyang" was struggling to support, the "Weiming", which had just made great achievements, finally arrived in time, and when the flagship was not lightly damaged, the captain Zhang Shan was in a hurry when he boarded, and roared and commanded the whole ship to launch a rapid artillery attack to relieve the danger of the "flagship......