462 Naval Duel

The gunners of the Zhenyuan ship and the Dingyuan ship completely disregarded the life of the guns, and desperately aimed and fired, and then aimed and fired again!

When the Allied fleet group was closing the distance, there was even a secondary gun on the Zhenyuan ship, and the barrel burst due to overheating!

Of course, this kind of small accident could not stop the hedgehog-like artillery salvo of the Zhenyuan ship in the slightest!

The Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships not only fired with full firepower, but also faced the Allied fleet head-on, relying on their own iron-shelled armor to unscrupulously close the distance to improve the hit rate of their own artillery!

Finally, the Confederate fleet can return fire!

Then, they despaired......

The side chord of a second-class battleship opened the two rows of dozens of gun windows in unison, poked out the gun muzzles, and finally used the blood of friendly soldiers to close to the effective firing range, and aimed the side chord at the bow of the Zhenyuan.

Then, the two rows of guns of the second-class battleship built by the British broke out one after another, shooting out a series of solid iron balls, almost smashing into the Zhenyuan ship's body in the face!

However, the crew on the Zhenyuan ship only felt a slight sway, and most of the solid shells were even directly blown into the sea by the armored shells of the Zhenyuan ship!

The red iron ball didn't even ignite a single flame on the Zhenyuan ship......

However, the life of this second-class battleship with a salvo was also coming to an end, and only a few guns in the bow of the Zhenyuan ship were aimed at this second-class battleship, but just one salvo blew up this seemingly sturdy sail and wooden-hulled battleship into a fireball!

In this way, the Zhenyuan ship and the Dingyuan ship were almost undamaged in the Allied fleet group, relying on their huge bodies and steel armor, like an invincible little power, to ignite one Allied warship after another into a torch!

At the same time, the three first-class battleships of the Taiping Army also joined the battle group, and their duty was mainly to sink the Allied warships that crossed the fire network of the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships to intercept and kill.

The ocean was full of Allied warships that had been lit into torches and emitted billowing smoke, and the black smoke that obscured the sky and the sun could not let in the sunlight.

Soon, the Confederate fleet lost the command of its flagship and fell into the embarrassing realm of fighting on its own.

It didn't take long for some Allied warships that could not stand the losses and were frightened to begin to flee, giving up their mission and glory, like lost dogs, just wanting to stay away from the artillery of the Taiping army!

The Zhenyuan and Dingyuan warships specially selected those huge battleships to bombard, such battleships had large targets, were easy to aim, and had fierce firepower, and after defeating these battleships, there would not be much of the main combat power of the Allied fleet.

Although those ocean-going frigates can also press the Taiping Army's transport ships, the guns equipped on the frigates will not be able to sink the Taiping Army's transport ships for a while and a half, and at most they will cause them a certain amount of lethality.

The Allied fleet was being slaughtered by the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships, and there was not much time for the ocean-going frigates that dominated the majority to sink the Taiping transports.

As for the broadside battle, it is even more impossible for the Allied fleet to fight the Taiping Army transport ships, but the Taiping Army transport ships are full of heavily armed Taiping soldiers.

The platoon of guns of the Taiping Army soldiers alone was enough to slaughter the sailors of the Allied frigates who tried to approach the broadside battle.

The soldiers of the Taiping Army do not have the attribute of seasickness, they are the perfect system soldiers!

Under the billowing smoke, the Allied fleet soon fell into a melee with the Taiping fleet, and inevitably, a large number of ordinary Allied warships were also inserted into the Taiping transport fleet group!

As a result, the Taiping transport fleet began to suffer casualties, and the casualties were gradually expanding!

The reason is simple, the number of ships in the Allied fleet is simply too much!

Thousands of ocean-going warships of various types can be called the largest fleet in the world!

Although none of the main battleships of the Allied forces broke into the Taiping transport fleet group, the ordinary ocean-going frigates alone were enough for the Taiping transport fleet without artillery to be severely beaten.

Although it is difficult for ocean-going frigates to sink the Taiping transport fleet, they can use chain bullets to break the sails of the Taiping transports, so that the Taiping transports cannot maneuver and become a live target for the sea, and then the artillery slaughter of the ocean-going frigates shows their skills.

Solid bullets and grape bullets took turns, and the Taiping Army's platoon guns were powerful, but the platoon gun bullets could not penetrate the hull and wooden hull of the ocean-going frigate!

The Allied ocean-going frigate artillery could stay in the well-concealed side-chord gun emplacements and shoot as much as they wanted, until the corpses on top of each other on the Taiping Army transport ship......

If the Taipings were hiding in the cabin of the transport ship, the Allied ocean-going frigates would shoot at the hold with solid bullets, which may not be very lethal, but in the dense space of the ship, the burst of wood chips and other smashing were enough to knock down a large area of the crowded army soldiers inside.

If the Taiping soldiers came to the open deck to counterattack, then grapeshotfire waited, and only one petlet bomb hit the deck, that is, a group of people fell!

This is the reason why the Allied fleet is willing to go out to intercept the Taiping landing fleet, and the transport ship encounters an ocean-going warship at sea, which is the role of being slaughtered!

Although it was not as exaggerated as the ironclad ship's slaughter of the sail battleship, it was enough for the Taiping army to suffer heavy losses!

However, in order to annihilate the landing obstacle of the Allied fleet, the necessary bait and losses are inevitable, and the anti-Han alliance is not stupid, if they don't throw enough bait, they will not gather the entire alliance fleet to confront the Taiping fleet head-on!

Of course, if the Anti-Han League knew that the firepower superiority of the two iron-hulled warships in the Taiping Navy was so unscientific, it would not have automatically sent them to the door and been slaughtered......

The price-performance ratio does not match at all!

The Allied fleet is taking all the sea control of the Anti-Han League in exchange for a division and army of the Taiping Army!

It's a pity that after the battle at sea, the Allied fleet has lost its unified command, and even if the Allied flagship wants to retreat, it can't do it, not to mention that the Allied flagship has become the key target of the two ironclad ships for the first time, and has already become a burning floating torch.

Some of the Allied fleets fled the battlefield, but the Allied fleets were all veteran elites from various countries, and most of the warships chose to continue fighting for glory and various other reasons, and successfully broke into the Taiping transport fleet in the center, which is why the Taiping transport fleet was slaughtered.

When the advancing ocean-going Allied frigates slaughtered the Taiping Army transport ships, as everyone knows, the Allied battleships that resisted on the periphery had been swept away by two ironclad ships, and a large number of frigates had also been sent to the bottom of the sea to feed fish, and they were being counter-surrounded by two ironclad ships and three first-class battleships!