"Their cruiser fleet also turned!"

Right now.

Someone reported another unexpected situation.

John. Jervis hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked forward.

I only saw the cruisers of the Ming Navy, with a group of frigates turning to the right, judging from the direction of their turn, they would pass through the horizontal line of the British fleet head-on!

"Commander! We can concentrate our fire on that large armored cruiser! ”

Will. Smith said.

That warship was theoretically the flagship of the cruiser formation of the Ming Navy - the reason why I say it is theoretical is because Will. Smith wondered if his students would be able to follow the theories taught by their teachers.

This group of scumbags is obviously too messy.

"Well, now we can only beat their cruisers first!"

John. Jervis was a little helpless.

He suddenly remembered a Chinese allusion: Tian Ji horse racing.

After all, at this time, the culture of the East was prominent in the West.

The upper-class people must talk about Confucius, and they must talk about Lao Zhuang.

Without quoting a single Chinese classic, it seems that they are uneducated.

This is the case now.

The superior horse of Great Britain faced the inferior horse of Great Ming.

The superior horse of the Ming Dynasty faced the inferior horse of the Great Britain.

Now the battleships of the British Empire can only go to the other side's cruiser fleet.

And now the only thing that can stop the battleship formation of the Ming Imperial Navy, which is circuitous, is the cruiser fleet on its right flank.

"Let Rear Admiral Walker command the cruiser fleet and storm the battleships of the Ming army with a horizontal formation! Be fast! ”

Rumble!!

A huge fireball exploded across the Hunglie's armor belt.

The British explosive shells, of course, were not enough to blast through the armor of armored cruiser battleships with a displacement of five thousand tons.

But the massive blast wave swept across the right deck of the Honglie, and the scorching air wave mixed with flying fragments of cannonball skin knocked all those exposed to the deck into a blur of flesh and blood.

Meanwhile.

Deng Huanzhuang, who was on the conning tower, shook suddenly, and was thrown again.

But the good thing.

Instead of fainting directly, he struggled to his feet and continued to direct the battle.

"Lose that mother!"

Deng Huanzhuang spat in a low voice, and the saliva mixed with blood foam was stained on the deformed deformed deputy.

"Captain! The upper deck was badly damaged, two of the batteries lost their steering function, and many rivets on the right side of the ship fell off with this blasting projectile, and if one shot was made, the right side could lose all the armor plates! ”

His supervisor covered the wound on his head and panted to report.

The armor of a cruiser was not as strong as that of a battleship.

Now it was still under the bombardment of the main guns of the enemy battleships.

If you are hit again by a 330 mm caliber blasting shell.

The Hung Lie will most likely be sunk directly!

Deng Huanzhuang heard this, and cold sweat flowed down his back.

On the contrary, the large Ito Yunori next to him was calmer: "Their next round of shelling is in five minutes!" Captain, are we going to withdraw from the battle columns! ”

"Withdraw?"

Deng Huanzhuang thought for a moment, gritted his teeth and shook his head.

"No! Can't be withdrawn! We will continue to attract enemy fire! Time! Time is of the essence to us! ”

Deng Huanzhuang tidied up the officer uniform on his body.

"Turn on the megaphone, I'm going to talk to the whole ship!"

He said loudly.

Soon.

Deng Huanzhuang's voice sounded in every corner of the Honglie.

"Our ship will continue to sail forward, and the ship's guns will counterattack, attract enemy firepower, and buy time for the main fleet!"

"Our capital ship has made a detour to the enemy's flank, and if it succeeds, the enemy ship will be trapped in a place from which there will be no return! My generation served in the army to defend the country, and he had long put life and death out of the way, and now he is just dead! ”

"Daming Wansheng!!"

"The Hong Lie is almost unbearable!"

Chen Huacheng's face showed a hint of pain.

Zhang Bao's face was gloomy.

"Governor, the order of the shelling has been set, the number one target, the Vostok!"

Zhu Yimi's voice is very calm, after this battle, he can be regarded as a veteran of the battlefield.

"Let's do it!"

Zhang Bao stood up and took a deep breath.

"Concentrate your firepower and bombard the enemy's flagship, the Vostok!"

The order was very stuck, reaching the entire battleship formation.

12 battleships.

36 x 300 mm (100 in) guns.

72 180 mm (60 in) guns.

108 120 mm (40 in) secondary guns.

A total of 216 rapid-fire guns roared almost simultaneously.

216 shells rained down on the Vostok in front.

About ten seconds later.

The shells smashed around the Vostok.

Two hundred and sixteen shells burst almost simultaneously, churning the entire sea and setting off huge waves that almost engulfed the entire Vostok.

The sea is not yet calm.

The second round of shelling has begun again!

"Too fast, too fast"

John. Jervis grabbed his deputy with both hands.

Lips bubbled with urgency.

On the opposite side, more than 200 artillery pieces were bombarding.

On his side, there are a total of 48 cannons.

Although the caliber is far superior to the opponent.

But the opponent's cannon is a rapid-fire gun.

Theoretically, it was more than ten times the rate of fire of the 330-mm cannon on its side.

The opponent's ten rounds of artillery bombardment fired more than 2,000 shells, and his own side could only fire forty-eight rounds.

That's a huge gap.

Jean John. The more Jervis thought about it, the more bad it became.

Soon.

The advantage of the opponent's large number of guns and fast rate of fire quickly translated into a real number of hits.

A one hundred and eighty mm caliber blasting shell exploded next to one of the turrets.

OK.

The armor of the turret was thick enough.

withstood this bombardment.

But the British didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief.

A third round of shelling followed.

This time.

Two shells hit the deck of the Vostok.

One of the shells was impartially above the battery and drilled into the area where the crew members were located from the open battery.

The huge explosion caused the detonation of a 330 mm blaster that had just been loaded.

A huge explosion overturned the entire battery.

All members of the artillery crew were killed.

"Damn it! Who came up with the idea to pay attention to why the battery should be in the open air!! ”

John. Jervis saw a huge turret being overturned.

Immediately, he was not calm.

A main gun is reimbursed like this!

Originally, there were few cannons.

will be bombarded by the other party like this again.

Sooner or later, the massive Vostok will be disarmed by the other side.

Is this still worth it?

And

The salvo of more than 200 cannons of the opponent was able to hit almost one without shells in every round.

That is to say.

The opponent's firepower can continue to fall on your side.

And the salvo on my side, I'm afraid it will take several rounds to hit one.

That's the gap.

Although the opponent's small-caliber explosive shells could not pose a threat to the armor of the Vostok.

But the successive explosions still caused huge trouble for the Vostok.

Poison gases, explosions produce fires.

Thick smoke and tongues of fire spread across the battleship.

The ship's management and loss soldiers worked hard, but round after round of shelling quickly made their efforts come to naught.

Within minutes.

Everything on the deck of the Vostok was in flames.

"Governor, the Vostok is half-crippled, it is advisable to divert the target!"

Zhu Yimian, who was holding the telescope with one hand, was on fire.

Washing deck stream is correct!!

In a state of real battleship bombardment.

The British are not opponents at all!!

"The next goal: Tulip! ”

Zhang Bao's hands were trembling slightly.

Win!

It's going to win!!

Of course, it is unlikely that the Vostok will be sunk, but now that the Vostok has caught fire and burned, even if it can be rescued and escaped back to South Africa, it will take at least a year or two of overhaul before it can go to sea!

The Vostok is finished.

Then here it is

Another 12,000-ton battleship, the Tulip.

Two hundred and sixteen cannons turned their muzzles.

Aim for the Tulip!

Boom Boom!

Several rounds of shelling in a row almost dumb the Tulip out of fire.

At the time of the third round of shelling.

A shell actually got into the cabin through a gap in the turret.

Rumble!

A loud explosion detonated several large-caliber blasting shells in the ship's hold.

Then, a fireball shot into the sky.

The steel ship, with a displacement of 12,000 tons and a symbol of the glory of the British Empire, shook suddenly.

The entire ship tilted as a result of the massive explosion, and the bridge just above the cabin was blown away by the explosion.

The good officers of the tulips who commanded the battle on Oh were all killed! (End of chapter)