That's right! I forgot to mention a little bit earlier.

That is, under the escort of so many warships, the transport fleet was actually attacked by a mere ten torpedo boats, and there was such an embarrassing scene.

It's not that Jackie Fisher, the naval expert of the Great Yin Empire, is not good enough in command.

There are also the Dayin Navy, which is definitely the current sea overlord, as well as many of Guo Jia's modern naval ancestors, who are too good and not professional enough.

Even the possibility of a surprise attack by the enemy's torpedo boats when the fleet of its own fleet passed through such a narrow area was not taken into account or guarded against it.

One of the most important reasons is that they are too professional.

So much so that by mistake, they all fell into a misunderstanding:

When the large number of lookouts with binoculars in the fleet did not see the slightest smoke rising on either side of the strait, it was assumed that there were no ambushes of any torpedo boats.

Even if you do, don't worry about their threats.

The reason is simple, in their cognition, the source of power for torpedo boats, except for steam boilers, is not a second possibility at all.

The steam boiler needs to be warmed up for a long time before it can generate enough steam power to drive the torpedo boat at high speed.

Whether it is the preheating of the boiler or the operation, there is always a lot of smoke generated in the process.

Even if the thermal coal used is the best anthracite available today: Welsh white coal.

It doesn't mean that when this thing burns, there is no smoke at all; It's just that the smoke isn't thick black smoke, it's a lighter white smoke.

Such white smoke is absolutely invisible in the eyes of the Yin Law Fleet and professional lookouts.

In short, because these people did not know anything about the starting speed, operating status, power, speed, etc. of the torpedo boats equipped with the Xuange battalion.

After all these things were combined, it finally led to the emergence of such a scene.

Of course, it doesn't really matter why this happens.

It is important that the convoy escorted by the Yin Fa Expeditionary Fleet has already suffered a devastating blow under the full assault of the torpedo boats.

If this situation continues, because a large number of cargo ships have been sunk, the entire Malacca route will be completely blocked, and the expeditionary fleet will have no way back, which has become an outcome that everyone expected.

However, in the face of such a situation, not to mention the frightened sailors and soldiers of the transport fleet.

The sailors on the Yin Law Expeditionary Fleet didn't seem to be so afraid......

"Brother Su, these unfortunate bastards are so pitiful; But don't worry, we will definitely kill all the Xuange camps later, and hang enough young people to avenge you~"

Ark Dabel, after glancing in the direction of the rear convoy.

Although he was only an ordinary shell carrier in a gun crew on the foredeck of the armored cruiser "Feixiang", he was not qualified to be equipped with a telescope at all.

Naturally, there is no way to see the current tragedy of the rear transport fleet through visual inspection.

But just by the loud explosions coming from there and the skyrocketing fire, you can clearly see what is going on over there.

The hapless sailors, and the infantrymen of both countries on board, are now going through something.

It's a pity that even if he knew, Ake Dabel, a sailor of the Yin Kingdom, couldn't do anything.

The only thing he could do was to take advantage of the gap between carrying the shells, take off the military hat on his head and express his condolences from afar, and muttered the opening sentence in his mouth.

As for the concern for their own safety, there is no concern at all.

Come to think of it, no matter how powerful the torpedo boats in the Xuange battalion are, they can only bully cargo ships that have no firepower configuration and only have some rifles in the sky.

If you come to attack these serious warships, you will simply seek death.

The large number of guns on the battleship was able to easily tear them apart; Even without a direct hit, the huge column of water set off by the cannonball could have flipped them even closer.

And the four warships of the Xuange Battalion on the opposite side were frankly unexpectedly powerful.

The caliber of their naval guns is not small, the key is the rate of fire, the hit rate, the power of the shells, etc., which far exceeded all their expectations.

This is not! It was only in the fifth round of artillery shelling that the two sides actually hit a 210 mm shell on this side first.

More precisely, at a distance of one or two nautical miles on their left flank.

The French, a fast cruiser called the 'Pride' with a displacement of 5,300 tons, coincidentally hit the front main gun.

The turret with semi-encirclement protection, a group of running crew operators hid behind the protection, but most of them were lucky to survive at that time.

However, the 12-inch, that is, the 305 mm caliber twin-mounted front main gun, was completely scrapped.

But so what? As the expeditionary fleet gradually approached, the number and caliber far exceeded that of the Xuange battalion, and the cannonballs rained down, and the distance from their warships became closer and closer.

Hitting and destroying them seems to be only a matter of time.

So even if the rear road is blocked because a large number of transport fleets are sunk, then what is there to worry about? As long as the four warships of the Xuange Battalion were completely wiped out, they would be able to move on.

Don't worry at all, you'll be stuck in this strait.

Unfortunately, it didn't take long for Akor Dabel to think otherwise.

Because when he walked towards one of the guns in charge of his group with a 6-inch cannonball, that is, a 152-millimeter caliber shell, in his arms, he suddenly felt something.

As soon as he looked up, he immediately saw a scene that made his whole soul tremble.

I saw that in the sky to his left, about five or six kilometers away, at an altitude of about a kilometer above the ground, a total of dozens of strange flying objects were flying towards him.

Each of them is much bigger than the eagle.

Originally, there were many flocks of geese in the formation, but now the formation has been dispersed while gradually reducing the speed.

It is reminiscent of the vultures that are ready to hunt after they begin to dive.

At the same time, in the intervals between the explosions of shells; A dense 'buzzing' sound could be faintly heard in his ears.

Perhaps it was for this reason that there were no sharp fangs to be seen on top of those strange flying objects.

But their sheer size, which fell in Ake Dabel's eyes, especially such a 'buzzing' sound, which fell on her ears, made him feel great fear.

What's more, for the first time in my life, I encountered this kind of opponent from the air.

It was like seeing a group of demons running out of hell and pounced on them fiercely, and every cell in the poor Yin Kingdom sailor's body was inexplicably afraid.

So much so that as soon as he let go of his hands, a cannonball in his hand fell towards the deck.

That is, instinctively, his right foot takes a step back; Otherwise, a shell weighing almost 50 kilograms would have smashed the ball of his foot into a crushing fracture.

Such a mistake would have been replaced by another time.

The frantic shouting and scolding in the mouth of the artillery commander, and even the kicking and beating of the military boots, were already overwhelmingly greeted.

Words at the moment? One of the sailors, including the gun commander, looked up when they heard the sound and saw a threat overhead.

So now, like him, his body is trembling and his face is pale.

For a moment, where was the time to reprimand him.

Anyway, when the air force of the Xuange Battalion all appeared in front of the Yin Law Fleet, that scene immediately frightened the foreign devils.

It is not an exaggeration to have such a scene.

After all, at that time, the so-called advanced technology in the West had not developed to the point of exaggeration; Psychology similar to 'feudal superstition' still has a heavy influence on the hearts of ordinary people.

They didn't kneel on the ground and kowtow like garlic like the natives, which is already quite a good performance......

******

The flight speed of those bombers in the sky made everyone from the modern plane very disgusted.

But for people of this age, that's a fast horse.

Not long before the battle line formed by the Yin warships, but only

Should I say it or not, the naval quality of the Great Yin Empire in this era was really at the ceiling level at that time, especially the officers who were served by a large number of noble children.

Just when Ake Dabel's heart was full of fear, he heard a sparse burst of gunfire in his ears.

Turning his head to look over, he found that the first mate on their ship was pulling out a revolver from his waist and firing into the air continuously.

Seeing the action of shooting, after attracting the attention of these people, the first mate's face turned pale.

But in his mouth, he also shouted at the top of his voice:

"Don't be afraid, the things in heaven are not some devil; Clearly, there were people hiding in it, but it was just a strange flying machine from the Xuange camp.

The ones with guns fired with me and knocked them down. ”

After hearing this, Ark Dabel tried his best to open his eyes and look over, and sure enough, he could see that in the front position of those monsters, there were two people sitting in them, and they were not real devils.

Suddenly, he was still a little afraid of this unknown weapon that could fly.

At least not to the extent that even the soul trembles with fear as it did at the beginning.

And when he looked at the bombers in the air, there were already a dozen sailors with rifles in their hands, rushing out of the lower deck and the conning tower.

Pulling the bolt of the Lee Medford rifle in his hand, he fired into the sky in a continuous burst of fire.

There were not many people firing on the 'Flying Flight' alone, but after counting the entire fleet, there were at least one or two hundred long and short guns constantly firing in the air.

After such a dense burst of gunfire, the fear in Ak's heart calmed down a little.

At such a time, the bombers in the sky had already flown over the Yin fleet, and the situation had taken a new turn.

Specifically, in the frightened eyes of Ake Dabel and others, they found the abdomen of those strange flying machines in the sky, and they were suddenly opened.

Then, like laying an egg, a long, oval tube weighing at least 500 pounds fell from it.

As it fell, the thing emitted an unusually bizarre screeching sound.

The sound fell on Ark Dabel's ears, causing him to be upset and the fear that had just calmed down in his heart grew stronger again.

It's so good that this long barrel still smashed down on Ak's head.

Under the great instinct of survival, he hurriedly staggered back three steps.

It was just a movement and a retreat distance that completely saved his life.

Because the long tube that could smash him into a meatloaf fell straight to his original place; The deck, with its thick oak material, was smashed into a large hole.

In the end, more than half of it smashed in, and only the remaining half of the tail was stuck outside.

Ark Dabel sat down on the ground in a tremor of his feet, and it was a terrible mess, but nothing but that.

After Xu is catastrophe and immortality, he discovered the strange flying machine of the Xuange Camp in the sky, such an attack that threw a large iron cylinder from the air, and the damage was actually smaller than his original expectation.

plus I want to make up for my previous embarrassing performance, and make up for it a little bit.

Ark Dabel got up, got up and forward, and cursed in a relaxed tone:

"Aren't the Hu of the Xuange camp, and those of his subordinates, known as the last knights in the East? They are so powerful, but there is only this method similar to throwing a spear......"

The creature didn't finish scolding, and it was halfway through his scolding that he noticed something he had overlooked, and it caught all his attention.

It was at the tail end of the long barrel that he spotted a small propeller that was still spinning, but not too fast.

Under the ghost's command, he slowly stretched out one of the index fingers of his right hand and pointed it at the small propeller; Sure enough, just as he expected, the thing stopped spinning.

It's just that what he didn't know was that his own action had taken away the last chance of survival that he had left.

Because what kind of small propeller is, to put it bluntly, actually the air fuse dropped on the bomber.

The speed generated by the fall of the thing causes the propeller to rotate continuously, which causes the fuse to continue to loosen; When it is loose enough distance, the fuse can detonate the explosion of the aerial bomb on impact.

So Ake Dabel did not take advantage of this time to escape, nor did he quickly stop the fuse turning.

By the time he slowly stopped the fuse, it was too late.

The next second, a 250-kilogram aerial bomb exploded, along with a shell on one side and a batch of shells in a small ammunition storage room that had not yet closed the door.

Under the terrifying force of the explosion they generated, Akor Dabel's cargo and a surrounding artillery crew disappeared in an instant.

And this is just the beginning, the terrifying power of the bomb with the amazing charge and the explosion of multiple shells will lift a 152 naval gun on the base.

At the same time, a huge hole was torn open in the deck, and the wood chips and steel shards of the oak deck flew in all directions under the drive of the shocking shock wave.

Suddenly, the entire superstructure and personnel of the battleship received a terrifying blow.

All the personnel on the upper deck were put down, the masts and chimneys were broken one after another, and even the armored conning tower shook violently in the explosion, and the personnel inside fell down one after another in the shaking, and even were thrown out.

Like many crew members in the lower cabins, they hit the wall and couldn't get back up.

Anyway, the power of such a bomb is beyond the imagination of everyone in the Yin Law Fleet.

When the personnel on the other warships of the expeditionary fleet looked at the sound of the explosion, they looked at the 'Feixiang' that had almost suffered a devastating blow, and a cool breath in their hearts rushed straight to the heavenly spirit cover.

But before the cool air that rose from the bottom of their hearts could rush to their Heavenly Spirit Gai, a greater shocking change occurred.

The explosion was violent, as it not only tore open a large chunk of the upper deck of the Flying Flight, but also the lower deck with ease, sending the aftermath of the explosion to the lowest power compartment.

Although it was an aftermath, it was still a huge force, and two or three seconds later, the steam boiler of the 'Flying Flight' exploded.

I saw a huge fire, after the interior of this armored cruiser, which had been in the water for only 5 years and had a displacement of 6100 tons, rose from within.

This warship, which could be used as the main flagship if it had been placed in the Far East, began to sink at an alarming speed.

None of the hundreds of people on it, from the captain to the boilermaker, had time to escape.

Seeing such a scene, Jackie Fisher, the commander of the expeditionary fleet, collapsed to the ground with his legs limp.

Luckily, a captain by his side helped him up.

It was such an action that made him see more desperate scenes.

The first person to carry out low-altitude bomb dropping thought that he was a little beauty in the bombing formation; When she was about to fly over the 'ship', she opened the bomb bay in the belly of the plane in advance.

After calculating the advance amount, he ordered the deputy on the plane to start dropping bombs, and dropped one first to try the actual combat effect.

Because there was no radio on the plane, the pilots of the dozen or so planes in the back position reacted one after another at the moment when the aerial bomb fell.

They also opened their magazines and began to drop a bomb at the target below.

This total of more than a dozen aerial bombs did not achieve the same effect as Xiaomei's; In fact, Xiaomei's effect is so good, there is a lot of luck in it.

The other four-shot bombs that landed on the deck did not have continuous detonating ammunition and boilers, so that one shot could hit the soul and reimburse a warship of thousands of tons.

The remaining six or seven bombs all fell into the sea.

But even so, every bomb that landed on the deck would smash a terrifying opening, knocking down many people and causing the surroundings to burn.

The two of the bombs that landed on the surface of the water were relatively close to the target, and the explosion was powerful enough to tear a hole in the hull of the ship.

The range of the torn opening, though not enough to sink the battleship.

It also made the damage management team above frantically busy; And these are the appetizers of the first air raid operation on this plane......

(End of chapter)

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