Chapter 2495: The Great Battle at Sea (1)

The "Challenge" drove away crookedly. Although it had no rudder, the officers and soldiers on the ship were highly skilled and controlled by sails, so driving was not a problem.

"These birdmen also wave goodbye to us!" said a sailor on the open deck of the "Fuqiang".

His companion said: "This is a good thing, you should be polite in return!"

The sailor stood up stupidly and responded to the Challenge.

At the same time, at least three white-skinned muskets were aimed at him!

However, none of the muskets fired. Similarly, the snipers on the "Fuqiang" did not shoot the white skins on the "Challenge" who waved goodbye.

Perhaps this is the tacit understanding, why should it be difficult for a soldier to be a soldier, right!

The "Fuqiang" started smoothly, and then it used port cannons to suppress the "Enthusiastic" and fired one round. The poor "Enthusiastic" was "trembling" and it was difficult to withstand the enthusiasm of the other party.

The gun caliber (32 pounds) of the Warship III battleship is not as large as the caliber of the first battleship Fuqiang (42 pounds), and the two are not in the same heavyweight class.

Then "Fuqiang" turned to the neighboring "Hundred Eyes Giant" battleship, and after a few minutes of confrontation, Mr. David soon discovered that there were enemy ships all around, and he had sailed into the core of the British battleship formation. Place!

The British fleet’s battleship "Royal James" has arrived, and the "Fuqiang" has a peak duel!

The battle between the two giant ships was terrible. The shells they fired slammed into each other’s ship, hitting one big hole after another, exploding the sky full of wooden sticks, and some wooden blocks flew high. The mast shows the horror of the power of its shells.

"Their battle is the battle between giants, and each other is the center of the storm. The shells fired are like lightning bolts. If we are caught in the middle, we will be destroyed in a minute!" A passing battleship Long in awe and authentic.

The battle did not last long. About forty minutes later, the "Fuqiang" was defeated!

The ship has been shot a lot. It should be known that the gunner of the "Royal James" has a rate of fire of one round per minute. There are fifty artillery on one side. Forty minutes, the "Fuqiang" shot more than 1,000 rounds. Severely damaged, it became an "uncontrollable empty shell." The officers and soldiers on the ship suffered heavy casualties, and the blood wet the stairs leading to the lower deck!

"Fuqiang" was not surprisingly defeated, because it was in an upwind position. Although the lower gun deck could be opened, the gun position was not ideal. The 42-pound artillery was not able to fully utilize the power of the 42-pound cannon. Some shells went to the sea after firing!

In the upwind combat mentioned earlier, if the waves are too large, the lower muzzle cannot be opened. Even if the muzzle can be opened, it must be used with caution. The result is a sudden reduction in firepower.

On the contrary, the gun position of the "Royal James" went smoothly, and the shells fell firmly on the "Fuqiang" body.

But the luck of the "Fuqiang" is good, or the combat plan can be said. The large cruise ship "Xun 309" following the "Fuqiang" bravely drove forward, throwing out the steel cables and ropes, and giving the "Fuqiang" to the ship. Drag out of the battlefield to save the "Fuqiang" from being captured or sunk.

"Xun 309" is a "fatification" type cruise ship. The ship’s bulwark has a certain degree of protection against shells over 18 pounds, which is stronger than the "Kaohsiung-class" fast cruise ship commonly equipped in the South China Fleet. "Xun 309" was slow, and was mainly used to accompany the capital ship, taking a cruise ship to follow a first-level or second-level battleship. As a result, the "Fuqiang" was rescued.

Mr. David was undamaged. He carried his commander's flag in his arms. Captain Huang Bo was holding the emperor’s golden framed statue. The two calmly transferred to the "Xun 309", and then Mr. David boarded again. On the second-tier battleship "Heilongjiang", where his commander flag was hoisted!

Since the "Fuqiang" is not unlucky, the unlucky one is the "Royal James". Its overall loss in the battle was not large, but the main mast and rear mast were both broken. Generally speaking, the battleship at the leeward was destroyed. It is less likely to break the mast, but the "Royal James" Leng is a strange thing!

How could the mast break in the fierce battle!

At this time, the South China Fleet swarmed up, relying on the crowds to beat the British. The "Royal James" was in a catastrophe. It could not get the support of friendly ships and lost its mobility. It encountered the command of a famous admiral of the South China Fleet. The first-tier battleship "Friendly" made a fierce attack, and another third-tier battleship assisted the "Friendly" in destroying the water dogs.

Xiao Changrong’s name is very good, and he performed well enough to be promoted to admiral after he was only forty years old. The "Friendly" commanded by him was not friendly at all when he fought, according to the "Royal James". The guns went down, and the "Royal James" was brutally beaten without firepower.

When the South China officers and soldiers boarded the "Royal James", they found that the battleship was full of dead and wounded, and almost none of them could stand!

After the Chinese boarded the ship, the seriously injured and dying British deputy commander Richard Dean was also transferred to the "patrol 309". He was taken care of and survived.

When the "Fuqiang" fought with the British, the other battleships were not idle. They rushed to the British battle line and launched a fierce confrontation with them. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com was on the sea for a while. The rumbling of the artillery and the inexhaustible fighting feasted the eyes of the melon-eaters in the distant Italian coast city of Catoroa!

The naval battles during the sailing period often took place not far from the coastline, and they often attracted a large number of melon-eaters to watch the battle. They held up their binoculars and saw clearly, applauding the performance of the brothers in Christ, and the warship that cursed the Eastern pagans was sinking quickly.

The first- and second-tier battleships of the South China Fleet often collide with the British battleships, while the third-tier battleships cut into the enemy's position, attacking the enemy ships on the left and right with side-side artillery fire, which can exert the firepower on the ship to the fullest, but also can disrupt the battle. The British battle line makes them unable to look at each other from end to end.

In all fairness, a British battleship of the same level and a South China battleship are almost equal, and it is difficult to distinguish between high and low.

However, the number of South China battleships was so large that the British ships had one enemy and two. After a period of tenacious resistance, they inevitably entered a state of excessive gunner losses and sharply reduced firepower. They were bombed by the South China battleships. Among them, "the prince" The prince was under the siege of three South China battleships, namely the first-class battleship "Paiguo" and the second-class battleship "Xinjiang", as well as the third-tier battleship "Southeast Asia 173", which was vociferously called "Prince Prince". Surrounded, the result of the fierce attack was that the "Prince Prince" could not bear it, and fled!