Twenty ironclad ships could finish all the shells of the entire ship in an hour. As a result, six of the ten British battleships completely lost their combat effectiveness. The remaining four ships, although they still maintain enough combat effectiveness, are still unable to fight. Basically, more than 80 percent of the skilled artillerymen have lost their combat effectiveness in the shelling, and many of them have been shocked by the shock wave to the hard objects on the ship, and then directly hit the coma. Even if you can wake up, it's muddy, and it's good if you don't hit your own battleship.

There is no way, twenty ironclad ships, forty dormitory guns, thousands of shells of various kinds, it is already counted without dismantling them into pieces. Then, the ironclad fleet, which had been depleted of all the shells, came out of the circle of the British fleet again at great speed, and sailed for Storm Harbor, where they were to be inspected to see if anything bad had happened. Both ships weigh hundreds of tons, but that's because the hull is made of steel, which is much smaller than a wooden sailing ship for the same weight.

Britain had fifty-five battleships, twenty cruisers, thirty-five frigates left. The Storm and its fleet began to turn around and leave as the ironclads retreated. Crazy 75mm guns, wrecked one approaching frigate after another. The cruiser opened fire from afar, trying to gather fire to kill them. However, even the twelve-pounder cannon hit the modified frigate, and it was also blocked by the steel plates installed in the cabin, which did not cause much damage.

At this time, the Ijik sailing frigates also began to burst out at full speed, a steam unit, capable of allowing the frigate to reach a speed of 20 knots. In the stunned state of the British, the frigate was the first to complete the turn and began to retreat. Then there were the cruisers, which crossed the hull under the cover of the frigates, and the guns on both sides spat wildly, so that the cruisers that the enemy wanted to approach were repulsed. The Storm turned to the sound of cannons.

The fleet retreated at full speed, and all ships safely walked out of the battlefield. It's not that the British don't want to pursue, but the Izuk chicken thieves have long been prepared, and they have used artillery fire to separate the British fleet from the wreckage of ships. Only a portion of the frigates on the periphery had the speed to go around the entire layer of wreckage and catch up with the retreating fleet. However, with only a frigate, what is there to catch up with, the only way to do it is to send them to death. With the firepower of their frigates, there was nothing to do with the fleet of the Ijik, but they would be crippled by just one 75mm shell.

So, without a single British warship in pursuit, the Igik returned safely to Stormhaven, under the protection of shore defense guns and heavy howitzers. The supply of supply shells one by one, the repair of ships, the repair of ships, at most half a month, can return to a perfect state. They were not worried that the British would take advantage of this time to attack Stormport, but they hoped that the British would rush over stupidly with a hot brain. Ten shore defense batteries have been built here, each with three 250mm caliber heavy fist 30 front-loading rifled guns.

Because of the official war with the British, in order to protect the safety of Storm Harbor, Sholin once again invested heavily in allowing the engineers to liberate fifty heavy howitzers, which were merged with the original port artillery regiment and turned into a hundred again. A hundred heavy howitzers, bursting out with more power than a fleet without battleships could withstand. Only a battleship can resist a few more rounds with its rough skin and thick body, force its way in, and design storm harbor. If the British arrived, they would have dug their own graves.

To tell the truth, the British did not dare to come. At the time of departure, sixty-five large and small warships were in high spirits. However, after an encounter, after inspection, the four battleships had no possibility of emergency repair, and they were too far away and too badly damaged to be towed back to the shipyard in time. The remaining battleships, each of which needed to be repaired. In order to restore full combat effectiveness, three of them had to stay in the shipyard for more than a month. The shipyards on the North American continent are even more backward than the mainland, not to mention compared with the company.

Xiao Lin's shipyard is a backward equipment in the 21st century that has invested 2 billion US dollars in procurement, and its technical capabilities are in the 70s of the 20th century. With the exception of some necessary details, everything else has been mechanized. The British shipyards in North America mainly rely on manpower, and at most have a few torque devices. That's why the efficiency of repairing battleships is so slow. Moreover, just three huge battleships have already squeezed out most of their repair capabilities.

In addition to the casualties of battleships, the losses of cruisers and frigates were also very large. Of the twenty cruisers, six were sunk by fire in the middle of the confrontation with the cruisers of Igic. It's the Igcik that relied on the advanced cruisers to play scoundrels. The cannon is powerful and fast, and the inside of the ship's cabin is full of thick steel plates. Under the fire of the British, five ships and five ships together fired at a cruiser of the enemy. With such a rogue tactic, it is natural to sink six ships.

At the same time, nine more ships had to go to the repair shop. The corvettes were the ones with the heaviest losses, and the British frigates, in front of the battleship group led by Igik, simply could not play to the advantages of design. That bit of speed and agility is not comparable to the company's frigates. It surpassed cruisers and battleships, but did not form an overwhelming advantage. On the contrary, there is a danger of capsizing at any moment in the midst of their artillery fire. When the ironclad ship in front of them attacked, they didn't know whether they were alive or dead to intercept it.

Of the thirty-five frigates, seven were sunk directly by submarine hunters and missile boats. Later, eight more were sunk by the sailing ship, and there were exactly fifteen of them. Six other ships, coming up in front of the sailing ship to harass the sailing ships, were violently sprayed by the Spitfire Battery, and Ijik retreated with the fleet and was still burning on the sea. Other than that, the other ships were undamaged, and they didn't even need to be in the repair shop. However, with the loss of twenty-one ships, the British frigate cluster had lost most of its combat effectiveness.

After this battle, the British had less than thirty warships left with enough combat effectiveness. Because of the large number of losses of frigates, the tactical options of the fleet were greatly limited. Without frigates, the fleet was not flexible enough to huddle together at all times, relying on powerful and dense fire to prevent the enemy's approach. If you spread it out a little, it will be divided by the enemy and eat the entire fleet little by little. And now, the company's navy, in their opinion, is a good player in dividing guerrilla tactics.

Although they despise such despicable tactics, they have to admit that they really can't think of any way to deal with it. In desperation, Kamal could only turn back with the fleet, so as not to be wiped out by the company's fleet on the sea. Even so, he would be ridiculed by those who were hostile to him, and scolded by the three counts of Limman, and he could only choose such an action. The return of the fleet at Kamal, greatly reduced in number, and the scarred hull of the ship caused an uproar among all the British who were in the harbor waiting for the fleet's victorious return.

Unlike what I imagined, it didn't look like a winning battle at all. Most of them still had a fluke mentality and began to inquire about the situation of the battle with the navy ashore. The silent, haggard state of the navy told them that they had indeed failed. At a huge price, not a single enemy ship was left. This is not at all the record that the unparalleled British fleet of this era can play, and even the most bragging naval soldiers can only walk away in silence.

I don't know who made the first move, but a clash between the navy and civilians broke out in the public part of the port. It may be that civilians could not stand the incompetence of the Navy and acted in anger. It may also be that the Navy could not tolerate the reproachful questioning of civilians, and the slightest rudeness led to a fight. By the time Lin Man's private soldiers arrived to maintain order, there were actually five navies and twelve civilians who died in the fight. Kamal was locked up for this, and Lin Man already thought that Kamal was an untalented admiral.

Later, the strength of the company's navy came out of the mouths of the naval fighters who experienced this battle. The entire North American continent knew that the Yanhuang Trading Company, which they saw as a predominantly Native American power, had broken through the limitations of the tribal Indians and built a powerful fleet that could defeat the British, a naval power. The first to react to this were the Spaniards and the Portuguese who received the news in the second batch.

At the same time, both sides reined in their own means and withdrew the hand they stretched out to the company. The two did not believe that the company could completely crush the British, so they wanted to take advantage of the war between the two sides to make a little profit, whether it was robbery or theft, as long as the result was good, any means could be used. However, since the company's fleet defeated the terrible navy of the British, it means that all the previous legends have a great factual basis.

That being the case, it would not be in their interest to rashly attack such a powerful force without receiving further detailed information. And by this time, the French began to do things on the European continent. King Louis XV of France, after receiving the technology for the manufacture of two weapons given by the company, immediately let the arsenal begin construction. At the same time, many large arsenals, with the help of French textbooks provided by the company and several junior engineers, began to transform their production lines.

Louis XV was so enthusiastic that he even used the royal family's private property to support the reforms. In just half a year, the production and repair of Hall M819 muskets and heavy-fist guns have been completed. Louis XV began to show his fangs to the British, and 10,000 elite French troops, all dressed up, began to assemble on the border.