"Rose" and "Victory" are both cruisers, the speed is fast, this time the momentum is surging, they thought that their huge fleet is nearby, the Qing army is just a cruiser, how can there be the courage to resist, it is definitely a rush to catch away, but never expected that Su Ke would dare to be so arrogant and unreasonable to put on a desperate posture, when I can see the porthole of the port side of the "Shunfeng" fully open, the distance between the two sides is less than one nautical mile, at most it is more than 900 meters away, Even if Cook Bosnia's order was issued in a timely manner, the British sailors were also extremely hard, but it took time to reduce the speed and turn the rudder, and the distance between the two sides was inevitably close to less than 750 meters, and at this time, the Qing army was ready to shoot, but the two British battleships were still busy making tactical maneuvers, and it was clear that they were two good targets.

"Concentrate your firepower and bombard the enemy ship on the left rear side of Lao Tzu!"

Su Ke is a rising star in the navy, the second phase of the Qingdao Navigation College graduates, although he has not participated in the previous battle of Dongying, but there is no lack of courage in bloody battles, even if the enemy's large fleet is nearby, he will not pay attention, let alone wait for the two British warships to do a good tactical maneuver, but when he saw a wave of his hand, he had already given the order in a high-pitched voice.

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

Most of the sailors of the Qing army grew up after the battle of the Dongying Expedition, and although they lacked actual combat experience, their training level was not low at all -- the three main fleets of the Qing army had two large-scale actual combat exercises every year, and the training on weekdays was even stricter to the point of being strict; if we really calculated it, the navy's military expenditure was actually much more than that of the army, but because most of the military expenditure was on the accounts of the "Eight Banners Firm," the expenses displayed in the state accounts were not too conspicuous, there was no doubt about it. With so much silver smashed, the tactical literacy of the Qing Navy will naturally not be too low, no, the twelve artillery pieces have already roared in turn, and the huge force of the shock has pushed the entire battleship back more than ten meters flatly.

"Shunfeng" is a high-speed cruiser, the function of the idea is to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, equipped with not many cannons, and all of them are medium guns, not like the battleships are all equipped with heavy guns, but even so, the power of the artillery is still very strong, the caliber is fifteen, the effective range is more than 1,500 meters, the use of rear-loading cartridge loading method, the shells are basically new type of flowering shells, only equipped with a small part of the conical solid bullets and shotguns, This first round of salvo is all a new type of flowering bomb, filled with projectiles and yellow explosives, the power is incomparable, has initially had the prototype of the blasting bomb, a round of salvo down, although most of the empty, but there are still four shells hit the "Rose" fiercely, two of them hit the rear deck, the "Rose" stern exploded two big holes, the flames instantly steamed, the other two hit the starboard side of the "Rose", sawdust splashed, its upper gun porthole was destroyed two, The artillery on the gun emplacement, along with the gunners who were preparing for battle, were all blown to pieces.

"Fight back, fight back!"

Fang suffered such a big loss as soon as the war began, and Lieutenant Colonel Cook Bosnia was angry, and he stomped his feet and roared.

The two cruisers of Great Britain are not the latest types of battleships of Great Britain, with a total length of 32 meters, a long and narrow hull, a brig, only one gun deck, nine guns on each side, a bow gun, and no guns at the tail rudder, the function of the idea is roughly the same as that of the cruisers of the Qing army, which are used for reconnaissance and the purpose of transporting letters and breaking diplomatic relations, in terms of ship type, it is basically the same as that of the Qing army, but the volume is obviously smaller, and the artillery is also medium-sized rear-loading artillery. The difference is that the artillery made by Great Britain is obviously behind the new cannon of the Qing army, and the black powder is added by manual estimation, although the shells used are also flowering shells, but the inside is still black powder, not the yellow explosives used by the Qing army, whether it is loading efficiency or the power of the artillery, it is worse than the standard artillery of the Qing army, but the level of ship management and actual combat experience of the British sailors is obviously higher than that of the Qing army, although it was caught off guard by the preemptive strike of the Qing army. But it can be adjusted very quickly.

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

Lieutenant Colonel Cook Bosnia's command, the "Victory", which had not been attacked before, took the lead in completing the tactical maneuver of turning, and almost as soon as the side side was facing the "downwind", it had already launched a brazen counterattack, nine guns were fired in turn, and the round shells whistled through the sky, and smashed towards the "downwind", but the quasi-head was obviously affected by the sharp turn, and only one shell smashed on the side of the "downwind", although it exploded a ball of sparks, but it failed to penetrate the ship's side. It's just that a shallow pit was blown up on the side of the ship, and there is nothing else, the effective firing range of the "Victory" naval guns (curved fire, firing angle of four degrees) is only about 800 meters, and the distance between the two sides is almost 750 meters, even if the shells can hit the Qing warship, it is already the end of the strong crossbow, and naturally there will not be much power at all, as for the remaining eight shells, they all fell into the air, except for splashing waves, there is no rest, and the shelling effect of the "Rose" that launched the attack was even worse. Originally, there were only seven cannons left, and after firing them one by one, they all fell into the air, obviously, it was not that the British sailors did not work hard, but in fact, this distance was not the shelling distance that the Britons were accustomed to, and when the artillery itself was defective, the hit rate was naturally not very guaranteed.

"Drive diagonally, lean over and hit again!"

Seeing that the effect of the artillery bombardment was not good, Lieutenant Colonel Cook Bosinia couldn't help but be a little anxious, and he didn't want to fight with the Qing army at such a distance, so he hurriedly changed his tactics with a wave of his hand.

"Keep firing and focus on the wounded one!"

Before the war, although Su Ke was fierce, he was actually a little apprehensive in his heart, after all, this was his first battle, and it was one against two, before he had figured out the reality of the British, how could Su Ke really take it lightly, but when he saw that the other side was shelled down, he only scratched a little of his own fur, and his hanging heart fell to the ground, and he didn't care about the tactical maneuvers of the two British warships, and excitedly issued the general order again.

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

The gunners of the Qing army were all well-trained, although they lacked actual combat experience, but in the case of the victory in the first round, all of them were very high-spirited, and their hands and feet were more nimble than in the usual training, and the loading of the artillery was much faster than that of the Britons, and the two battleships of the Britons were in place, and the port side guns of the Qing army began the second round of firing.

Perhaps under the influence of the first round of shelling of the Warring States, the Qing soldiers almost took out all their skills, the effect of the second round of shelling was obviously stronger than the first round, twelve shells, six hit the target, one of the cannonballs even damaged the foremast sail of the "Rose", which immediately slowed down the speed of the "Rose", as for the remaining five shells, two hit the ship's building, causing a raging fire, and the other three smashed on the foredeck, The British sailors who were busy with the bombing were so wounded that if it weren't for the squire beside him who desperately crushed Lieutenant Colonel Cook Bosnia under him, he would have become the first captain to die in this naval battle.

"Don't panic, keep getting closer, and order the 'Victory' to attack and attract enemy fire!"

Lieutenant Colonel Cook Bosnia narrowly escaped the disaster, but he was not frightened by it, but when he pushed away the mortally wounded and dying attendant who was pressing on him, he struggled to stand up straight, waved his hands, and gave the order in a loud voice.

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

The officers and men of the British Navy were undoubtedly extremely outstanding in their ability and resolute in carrying out their orders, and even while driving diagonally, the gun emplacements were nervously preparing for battle, busy but not chaotic; even though the "Rose" had already suffered a heavy setback, the officers and men of the "Victory" remained unmoved, and quickly grabbed a distance of about 600 meters from the "Shunfeng" in a diagonal direction, and unceremoniously launched a fierce artillery bombardment.

"Boom, Boom......"

Nine shells whizzed through the sky, almost in no particular order, and smashed towards the "Shunfeng", this time, the hit rate was obviously much higher, a total of four shells smashed on the "Shunfeng", one on the front and rear decks, another hit the side side, and the last one hit the rear sail of the "Shunfeng", damaging both spinnakers, and several other Qing officers and men were killed and wounded.

The British's counterattack opened two holes in the fore and rear decks of the "Shunfeng", causing a raging fire, which seemed to be strict, but in fact the damage here was not large, but the damaged two-sided triangular sail made the speed of the "Shunfeng" drop sharply, as soon as he saw this, the boatswain of the Qing army immediately roared and issued a series of orders, and several sailors took out the spare spinnaker, climbed the tall mast, and prepared to replace the new sail.

"Grandma is a bear, and she dares to fight back, sons, give Lao Tzu a hard beating, and overturn the enemy ship that came over!"

Su Ke is not the master who suffers losses and does not fight back, this time the "Rose" is far behind, and the "Victory" is constantly leaning towards his own ship from the diagonal direction, immediately changing the previous combat goal, and roaring and giving the general order.