"Wrong! Mistake! Still a mistake! We made too many mistakes!! ”

Everyone who saw this scene was stunned.

John. Admiral Jervis muttered to himself.

It is a mistake to meet the enemy in the bow, it is a mistake to set up the main guns in large caliber, and it is a mistake to expose the batteries.

The design ideas of the ironclad ships of the entire British Empire Navy are a collection of a series of mistakes!

Especially the open casemates!

This is all too prone to the tragedy of shells and ammunition depots being blown up.

It wasn't just the British Navy's side that was stunned.

Even the officers and men of the Ming Navy looked at this earth-shattering scene in amazement.

Two words pop into everyone's mind: luck!

Truly.

Luck was too good.

Just by virtue of the small-caliber explosive shells launched by the Ming Navy, it was just tickling the Tulip with a displacement of up to 12,000 tons.

But it's just a matter of fact.

A shell apparently detonated a blaster from a main gun!

Caused such a serious explosion!!

But in fact.

More serious things.

No one expected it yet.

At this time.

On the Tulip.

Most of the sailors near the ammunition depot.

Even if they weren't killed, most of them fainted.

So.

The passage connecting the battery and the ammunition depot, no one went to close it at all!

Plus the Tulip's conning tower was blown up.

The ship's command system was completely paralyzed.

No one knew at all that an even greater danger was coming.

The burning flames spread down the passage all the way to the ammunition depot.

Just before everyone reacted to it.

Rumble!!

There was an even louder bang.

A mushroom cloud rose into the sky.

Accompanied by a loud sound and firelight.

The hope of the British Empire's sea power, the battleship Tulip, was almost completely shattered.

The sea water rushed in frantically at this moment, forming a whirlpool on the surface of the sea.

The battleship, which was already somewhat tilted, began to sink gradually from the bow position

The second sunken warship was born in this naval battle.

No one thought of it.

The second to be sunk was the largest battleship in the world!

John. Jervis's head buzzed.

There was only one thought left in his mind now: it's over!

The Indian Ocean Fleet of the British Empire is finished.

The maritime supremacy of the British Empire is also over!

British Empire

It may be over too.

Because.

The Tulip, the main battleship of the British Empire.

was actually beaten all over the ground by the cruisers of the Ming Empire!

Ten minutes.

One Giant-class was heavily damaged, and the other Giant-class was heavily damaged. Sunk!!

Is this Chinese lucky?

No!

It is a fundamental mistake in the design of warships of the British Royal Navy!

These battleships, which cost the British Empire a lot of military spending, are simply a pile of garbage!

A pile of extremely expensive garbage!

The Tulip quickly disappeared into the sea, and even the more than 2,000 sailors on board survived—the shock of the massive explosion was enough to stun most of the ship's crew.

The defeat on the battlefield is irretrievable.

Everybody knows.

The battle at sea in the northeastern Indian Ocean has already been decided.

But the war is not over yet – because war is not a drama, there is no pause button.

If there is a pause button.

George III would certainly not hesitate to press it.

Then have a good discussion about how to defeat the war with dignity.

But alas.

In this day and age.

It is impossible for the commanders of the front line to have real-time contact with the emperors and kings of the rear.

Although Daming has made radio and cable electricity here.

However, the technology to send electricity directly from the Indian Ocean to the central capital is still not available for the time being.

So.

Even if you know it's a defeat.

John. There's no way Jervis can't get out.

Because the cruiser formation of the Ming Navy was almost much beyond the expectations of all the officers of the British fleet, it not only withstood the bombardment of the British battleship formation, but even gave them a little physical shock by the way - the price was of course the sunken Tulip.

So.

The failure of the British battleship formation to crush the cruiser formation of the Ming ship was completely disastrous for the Royal Navy of the British Empire.

Because the 12 town-class battleships have completed the detour and seized the T-shaped battle position on the side of the British battleship formation!

More than 200 guns of larger caliber were all pointed at the last Giant-class battleship with full combat power, the Waves.

The roar of more than two hundred cannons.

In a short period of time.

It caused the superstructure of the Wave to fall into flames.

A continuous stream of blasting shells continued to fall on the deck of the Wave.

The fire soon spread across the deck.

In order to avoid the consequences of the explosion of the ammunition depot, as with the Tulip.

The captain of the Wave could only give the order to inject seawater into the ammunition depot.

This is equivalent to disarming the last 10,000-ton battleship of the British Royal Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet!

But even so.

The Ming ship did not let go of this battleship, which had been completely caught in the sea of fire.

Rapid-fire cannon shells poured wildly.

The fire gradually became out of control.

Ten minutes later.

The remnants of this giant-class battleship also had to lay down the lifeboat and evacuate from the Waves, which had been completely turned into a sea torch, which was equivalent to abandoning the Waves.

After the loss of two Giant-class ships, and one of the Vostok, which was also heavily damaged.

The battleship formations of the British Royal Navy finally showed their cross-cutting effect - the remaining 15 battleships rushed towards the Hung Lie and the formation behind it in flames.

No way.

Deng Huanzhuang could only order the three Hong-class cruisers and Wei-class frigates behind to disband and disperse their actions to avoid the enemy's impact, and at the same time ordered the Honglie, which was only half powered to continue to move towards the established course to attract enemy firepower.

After the disbandment of the formation.

The frigates and cruisers of the Ming ship looked like they had to fight on their own.

This made John. Jervis breathed a sigh of relief.

But

When these scattered ships on the sea once again concentrated their fire on the Oakland at the forefront.

John. Jervis couldn't help but go completely numb.

'Damn it! What's going on with these Chinese? They have already lost formations! They have lost the organization! Why can they still launch a salvo!! ’

John. Jervis broke the defense.

Before.

The Ming ships formed a column and used column tactics to gain the upper hand. Jervis wasn't as numb as he is now.

"How did they stay coordinated and organized in the midst of this chaos?!"

John. Jervis and Will. Smith glanced at each other.

"New communication technology!"

Will. Smith groaned in pain.

"Obviously, a few decades ago, science was born in Europe, and our science and technology are far superior to China's, but now."

The two lamented almost at the same time.

The other side has the advantage everywhere.

This is, the heavens are going to kill my Great Britain

(End of chapter)