Chapter 207:
Chapter 281
Jack Aubrey watched the Luck drive to the back of the fleet, and then ordered his messenger: "Call the Luck and ask them if the target is behind them! How far is it! "
"Yes!" The messenger quickly passed the order to the signal soldier of the Goddess of Victory, and Lantern quickly called out...
And the lucky number also quickly replied.
"Your Excellency Commander, the Luck said that the devil is about two nautical miles behind them, and will come soon!" Toys made by man are the devil..."
"Don't talk too much!" Jack Aubrey glanced at the soldiers dissatisfied. He knew that there were many such rumors in the fleet. The lucky ones were a group of cowards. They were actually frightened by the toy warships of the Orientals. of.
As an overseas fleet stationed in India, they have seen many merchant ships from the East. To be honest, those merchant ships are really not as good as the merchant ships of the Empire on which the sun never sets. Their built ships are a little more stable when they are sailing. The advantages, the speed is not fast, the cargo capacity is not large...
This is also the reason for the spread of this idea of underestimating the enemy.
But as the commander of the fleet, although Jack Aubrey also has this kind of thinking, he is still somewhat vigilant. He doesn't want to leave regrets due to carelessness in his commanding career. After all, that ship is a general horse. The murderer who destroyed Puerto De Las.
But he didn't care too much. After all, his friend had already said in the letter that although the firepower of the ship was very fierce, the rate of fire was not fast. One shot every minute? And only twelve main guns? Where can the fierce firepower go?
Jack Aubrey thought of this and looked at the other first-class battleship not far from his flagship. It was a behemoth of war with 120 artillery pieces on three decks. This is his pride and the capital of his rampage across the Indian Ocean.
I just don't know what kind of surprises that said to be very powerful Eastern battleship will bring me? Jack Aubrey couldn't help touching the stubble of his chin and smiled. Obviously, he didn't think that he, who had more than seventy warships, would lose to an unknown Eastern warship.
"God, what the **** is that?"
The exclamation of the messenger interrupted Jack Aubrey's thoughts. He hurriedly looked up and saw a huge battleship slowly sailing out of the seaway... You can't see the mast of the sailboat on it, Can't see the deck of the boat, not even the bare exposed deck.
All you can see are the muzzles of twelve black holes and the hull composed of irregular polyhedrons...
The soldiers who were holding the hooks on the deck and preparing for the battle were all dumbfounded, and the iron hook with the rope in their hands fell on the deck unknowingly, not to mention that it was more than ten meters higher than their own ship. The side of the ship, just say where is this weird polyhedron going to be hooked? How can this Nima climb up?
"Fire the cannon——!!" Jack O'Brien didn't care too much, and ordered loudly.
"fire!"
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As the order was passed out one after another, the flagship of the Goddess of Victory opened fire first, and more than sixty artillery pieces on the third deck on one side fired at the same time, and the smoke filled the entire sea.
When the other warships saw the flagship firing, they also ordered to fire...
For a time, more than seventy battleships fired at the same time. The scene was extremely spectacular. Sparks appeared from the open muzzles of the wooden battleships' flanks, followed by gunpowder smoke. The fog that had dissipated on the entire sea surface showed signs of thickening again.
After two consecutive rounds of artillery salvos—
"...God..." Jack Aubrey looked at the scene in front of him, and couldn't help but open his mouth wide. He saw the dense shells hit the huge ship with a whistling sound, but they didn't even stop. The outer surface of the battleship was not penetrated and fell into the sea, causing no damage to the huge ship...
"This, this is impossible...!" Jack Aubrey reluctantly picked up the telescope in his hand and looked at it, but after careful observation, it made him even more desperate... The shells weighing more than ten pounds hit the ship's On the surface, there was not even a single white spot...
At this moment, more than a dozen gun barrels the thickness of an adult's arm slowly stretched out from the sides of the giant ship. In Jack Aubrey's desperate eyes, he spit out tongues of fire that were more than one meter long——
"Da da da……"
The brisk machine gun sounded, and the wooden battleships were like butter cut by a hot knife, and they were easily smashed into two pieces...
"Disperse... retreat..." Jack Aubrey gave the retreat order in frustration. He didn't think his fleet could defeat this monster, this monster from the east, one ship could bury them all in the sea .
Before the messenger passed the order, there was already a battleship looking at the situation, sailing and preparing to escape...
Jack Aubrey, who noticed this scene, didn't say anything. He knew that in this case, running away was the wisest choice to make.
But something unexpected happened to him. At this moment, the main gun on the monster began to move and aim...
"..." As a naval commander, even if he died in battle, he still wanted to know the specific data of this warship, so he stared at the main gun of the giant ship, wanting to see how this ship could use only secondary guns. What kind of power does the main artillery have for the behemoths that have been beaten by their huge fleet...
"Hissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss-"
There was a strange sound of electric current, followed by a loud bang. Jack Aubrey hurriedly looked in the direction where the main gun of the huge ship was fired, and saw that a nearby second-level battleship had been hit with a hole as high as one person... The entire ship was rushing in. The water began to tilt in an instant, and it was about to sink.
"It's amazing..." Jack Aubrey sighed at the power of the artillery fire of the giant ship. Just when he was about to turn around and order the retreat, the sight he inadvertently saw made his pupils shrink, and he hurriedly picked up the telescope again. Looking in the direction of the about-sinking second-level battleship, I saw a large hole in the hull of a third-level battleship that was sailing on the edge of the battlefield and was about to escape, and was slowly sinking. ...
"This--!" Jack Aubrey couldn't believe his eyes, the power of this artillery made him feel hopeless...
This terrifying shell actually penetrated one battleship from beginning to end, and then sank another battleship... No, the original target of that giant beast was the third-level battleship that was about to escape. God, who is he? fighting something...
Jack Aubrey is now only left with deep despair...he can't see a glimmer of victory, can't even run away...
Because at this moment, the twelve main guns on the behemoth began to swing back and forth to aim, and as the gunfire sounded, Jack Aubrey found that none of the escaped warships had escaped, and they were all directly sunk... Especially the rate of fire of the giant beast is not one shot per minute as mentioned in the letter, but more than twenty shots per minute...
Obviously, either Charlie is lying, or the beast has been teasing them all the time without using all his strength...
"Raise the white flag... We surrender!" After Jack O'Brien said these words with difficulty, he slumped on the deck as if he had been evacuated.
I am afraid that he is the only commander in the history of the naval battle of the Empire that never set the sun, and ordered surrender within fifteen minutes of the battle, right? ... I may be nailed to the pillar of shame in the history of naval warfare forever.
But he really couldn't watch the group of sailors who had followed him for many years to die in vain... But he couldn't beat him, he couldn't escape... What else could he do?
This is the reason why they should be beaten when they fall behind. They used to use such technological advantages to hang and beat the eastern countries, and now they are hanged by their technological advantages.
sooner or later...
Chapter 282
At this moment in the command room of the battleship Umbrella——
In the command room of more than 100 square meters, thanks to the holographic projection technology, the surrounding walls seem to have disappeared, and standing here is like standing on the top floor of a battleship with a wide field of vision.
"It was a pleasant battlefield experience..." Zhou Ye sat on the sofa in the center with a cigar in his hand, looking at the East India fleet surrounded by Yamato Nadeko with a relaxed expression...
Commanding the battleship is naturally not Zhou Ye, but the artificial intelligence Yamato Nadeko on the battleship. Zhou Ye knows that he does not have that kind of commanding talent, and he will not interfere randomly. Anyway, professional things are left to professional people to do. , he just watched the fun.
"Your Excellency, the trembling lasted 13 minutes and 26 seconds. Our ship sank 27 enemy warships and damaged 32. The white flag of surrender has been raised on the enemy's flagship. May I ask if you accept the enemy's Fang's surrender request?"
Yamato Nadeko, in a gorgeous red kimono, appeared beside Zhou Ye with the help of holographic projection technology and was reporting the battle to his creator.
"I've surrendered..." Zhou Ye pouted his lips in a boring way, which was really inconsiderate.
Looking at the white flag raised by the flagship on the opposite side, he thought for a moment and said, "Then accept their surrender, order their commander to lay down their weapons and come to me!"
"Yes, Your Excellency Commander!" Yamato Nadeshiko responded obediently, and then passed the message through the signal lights at the top of the giant ship.
"Your Excellency, they agreed to our request..." Jack Aubrey's adjutant whispered beside him, "but..."
"Okay!" Jack Aubrey reluctantly stood up and laughed at himself: "Speak up, there is no worse news for me!"
"They asked you to board their battleship alone..." The adjutant hesitated, but said it anyway.
"Okay, reply to them, I'll go..." Jack Aubrey stood up, tidied up his straight military uniform, and tried to preserve his last face.
