The protective armor of the Brute-class armored cruiser did not cover all the hulls on the side of the ship, but only covered the engine room, boiler room, main turret and ammunition lifting channel, and the upper deck was still a wooden structure.

For an armored cruiser of more than 7,000 tons, it is nothing to be hit by dozens of shells, of course, these shells cannot explode to the ammunition depot, otherwise the ammunition explosion will be a catastrophe for the warship, what really makes the warship afraid is: the follow-up disasters caused by these shells, the fire is one of them.

At that time, the main body of the ship was usually made of wood, so the fire was the number one killer for the warship, and when it comes to extinguishing the fire, many people may have in their minds the situation of a group of people holding large and small buckets and basins full of water, and pouring water on the fire, in fact, this way of extinguishing the fire is not helpful for the fire. The Tyranny ship was equipped with a number of water pumps, which pumped seawater onto the ship and sprayed it on the fire source with special pipes.

As soon as a few sailors pulled out the fire pipe, a cannonball exploded next to them, and the sailors were suddenly blown into a blur of flesh and blood, and the valve was also blown up, and the water "spewed" out, poured on the flames, and raised bursts of mist; Many sailors picked up the fire extinguisher in the cabin and added the fire extinguisher, the fire extinguisher structure of that era was very simple, a bucket was filled with water, sodium bicarbonate was added to it, and the sulfuric acid bottle was installed at the mouth of the barrel.

But the fire extinguishers soon ran out, and the captain had to order that all the fire-fighting equipment should be centralized in the engine room and ammunition depot, as long as it was ensured that these two places were not engulfed in flames, at least the battleship would not sink; At the same time, the captain gave the order, anchored, and the whole ship retreated back to obtain the assistance of other warships.

The entire British fleet recovered from the panic of the attack and began to search for the direction where the shells were flying, and Deng Shichang immediately ordered the Jingzhong to withdraw from the battlefield at full speed.

The water pump on the Barbarian had been completely damaged, the fire extinguisher had run out of water, and seeing that the fire was uncontrollable, the captain had to give the order to abandon the ship, and at three o'clock in the morning, the ammunition depot of the Barbarian exploded, and the entire warship sank into the sea.

The commander of the British fleet could not believe that all this was true, he did not know who attacked his warship, he could not think of the enemy, so he ordered the fleet to sail towards the Bohai Sea according to the original plan, and entered the heart of the Qing Dynasty - Beijing.

Lin Yuan, who had not slept all night, nervously followed the battle situation, and an ingenious plan was formed in his mind, he wanted to let the British fleet experience what the most terrifying voyage was.

Lin Yuan came to the weapons depot, the custodian who had just finished the weapons storage work was dozing off in his chair, Lin Yuan's footsteps woke him up, he forced his sleepy eyes and said, "Comrade Captain, is there something wrong?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "It's okay, where are our chicken ribs?" ”

The custodian laughed, "In the sixteenth arsenal, what, they can come in handy?" As early as 1558, there were records of mines in military books compiled by the Chinese, and the cost of mines is low and powerful, and a mine costing hundreds of thousands of dollars can sink a warship costing tens of millions.

Mines developed rapidly after World War II, from the initial anchor mines, drift mines, and sinking mines to the later self-propelled mines, and the Beijing ship was also equipped with 30 self-propelled mines, but in modern naval warfare, especially in the operations of the aircraft carrier fleet, it is difficult to use these weapons, because their combat distance is too short, take this type of mine on the Beijing ship as an example, the maximum sailing distance is 25 kilometers, and in the face of anti-ship missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers, such weapons are obviously of little use, so the officers and men on the Beijing ship are "cordial" The ground calls it chicken ribs.

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "In the future, it can change its name, just call it 'Terror Maker'." ”

A fighter plane rose into the blue sky and laid a self-propelled mine on the course of the British fleet, and then the control of the mine was handed over to the Beijing ship, and the mine waited for the prey like a patient tiger, and finally, the prey appeared in its eyes. The Beijing ship immediately gave the order to attack, and the mine immediately turned on the rocket booster and rushed towards the British fleet at a speed of 100 knots.

On the British flagship, the fleet commander had already begun to fantasize about entering Beijing, and now it was their turn to have his predecessors invade Beijing more than thirty years ago and rob the countless treasures of the Old Summer Palace.

Suddenly, the Sovereign-class battleship Resolve behind him let out a loud "boom" that distracted all his thoughts.

He hurried to the bridge and anxiously asked the observer: "What happened?" ”

"Report to the Commander," said the observer, "I saw something in the water, flew to the Determination, and then there was a boom, and I don't know what happened to the road. ”

The commander frowned and roared, "What did you say? What do you mean by having something! Can't you even tell what it is? ”

The observer resigned: "I don't know, I've never seen anything like that before, it looks like a torpedo." ”

The commander roared angrily: "Nonsense, there are no ships on the sea for a few nautical miles around here, who fired the torpedo!" ”

The observer said, "Could that be a sea monster?" In 1887, Japan purchased a warship, but the warship mysteriously disappeared in the process of going to Japan, and some Japanese biologists suggested that the warship was swallowed by a sea monster, which is still very popular in Japan.

The commander frowned and shook his head, compared to torpedoes, the sea monster was obviously more reliable.

At this time, I saw that the Determination began to sink slowly, and the commander knew that this explosion had caused great damage to the Determination, and there might not be a complete watertight cabin on the Determination.

That's when the Resolve signaled: "We may have struck a mine!" ”

The commander couldn't help but scold: "Nonsense! How can anyone lay mines on the sea! ”

The commander is not wrong to think so, according to the way of laying mines, the main anchor mines of mines are to use anchor chains and anchor cables to arrange mines at a fixed depth, this way is obviously impossible, the water depth of this sea area in the East China Sea reaches 1000 meters, how long does it take to lay anchor mines! Sinking a mine is to sink to the bottom of the sea, and when the warship comes, it will float and blow up and sink the warship, with a water depth of 1,000 meters, not to mention whether the shell of the mine can withstand the water pressure on the ground, it is extremely difficult to detect the warship alone.

Then there is the floating mine, which is to let the mine go down the water to bomb the warship, but this is the sea! The probability of a floating mine in the sea that can blow up a warship is simply negligible.

Where can the commander of the British fleet know that his opponent is a Chinese warship from the future!