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Chapter 1335 Fleet Loss

"Cough, cough..." Hannah coughed uncomfortably. When she regained consciousness, she couldn't help but spit out too much sea water in her stomach.

"Are you awake?" Li Jinde rescued him, pretending nothing happened.

"Am I already in the kingdom of heaven?" Hannah looked at the surrounding situation in a daze.

"Heaven? Let's live well, miss. Wipe your hair clean so you don't catch a cold. I have to save other drowning people." Li Jinde handed over a dry towel.

"It's you, why are you here? Where are the people from the Ottoman Empire?" Hannah saw Li Jinde, the only one who could communicate with her normally, and remembered that she was fighting Turkish soldiers, and looked around in shock.

"The war is over, the Ottoman fleet was destroyed, we won a big victory. Now we are rescuing the drowning soldiers, thanks to your fate. Why don't you stay on the island of Malta? Do you know that you almost lost Life?" Li Jinde, as the father of a daughter who was just born, can somewhat understand Castella's feelings of protecting his sister.

Seeing that Li Jinde was lecturing again, Hannah thought that she had really taken the war for granted, and had to admit that what Li Jinde said was right, so she whispered, "Thank you..."

Li Jinde had already gone to rescue other drowning soldiers, and did not hear Hannah's thanks.

The first aid method he learned from the medical school can save many drowning people.

When Hannah saw Li Jinde perform chest compressions and artificial respiration on the drowning sailor, she couldn't help but wonder if Li Jinde did this to her when she was unconscious.
Thinking of this, Hannah couldn't help but blush when she looked at her untied neckline again.

The ships of the United Fleet that hunted and killed the Ottoman Empire returned one after another, and the senior officers of the Fourth Fleet, the Royal Fleet, and the Maltese Fleet all went to the ironclad ship that is currently in good condition.

"In this decisive battle, all our ships suffered light or heavy damage. This ironclad ship suffered the most shells, but the damage was not serious." The officer of the Fourth Fleet reported his losses.

"The two frigates were severely damaged. The Shuhan, as the main force on the right wing, suffered a lot of artillery fire and ramming from the opponent. There were cracks on the starboard side, and more than a dozen gun ports were invalidated. Repairs need to be carried out before the next sea battle, otherwise it is very likely In the next sea battle, the hull will not be able to withstand the bombardment of this level again and will be broken." During this period, the shipbuilder inspected the [-]-cannon sail battleship Shuhan and came to an unoptimistic conclusion.

"In other words, we not only had two frigates this time, but also a battleship whose hull was severely damaged." Sun Xu himself commanded the Shuhan.

The battleship Shuhan does not have the armor of an ironclad ship, and it is still difficult to bear the concentrated shelling of dozens of ships of all sizes.

The brutality of the battle can be imagined. Three of the 12 warships of the Fourth Fleet were severely damaged, and the remaining nine suffered varying degrees of damage.

For the Fourth Fleet, which has not participated in any decent battles since its establishment, this sea battle made them experience the real battle of death.

There were 300 casualties in the sea battle. This is because the Fourth Fleet tried to avoid a more tragic boarding battle.

The Royal Navy, the Knights of Malta, and the Moroccan pirates led by Jansson were killed by the Ottoman fleet in this naval battle. Their losses in personnel and ships far exceeded that of the Fourth Fleet.

Together they lost more than 1500 sailors, soldiers, and other personnel, two hundred guns, and a dozen ships.

Almost all the lost ships were pirate ships snatched from Algiers and galleys used by the Knights Hospitaller. No ships of the Fourth Fleet were sunk, while only one frigate of the Royal Navy was sunk by pirates.

The Moroccan pirates who wanted to make a fortune with the Fourth Fleet were encouraged to participate in this naval battle. They were deployed in the Chinese army as cannon fodder and attracted the Ottoman fleet to attack them. Only 500 of the 100 people survived people.

The property that these pirates seized in Algiers died with them at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, and they could never return to Morocco.

The rest of the more than 100 surviving Moroccan pirates regretted their greed, but they had all come to this point, and they were reluctant to loot the next time, so they had to continue to hang out with the Fourth Fleet.

After defeating the imperial fleet, it will take some time for the Ottoman Empire to reassemble such a fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, which means that the door of the Mediterranean Sea is wide open, and the territory of the Ottoman Empire along the Mediterranean Sea is under the attack of the combined fleet!The real looting is about to begin!

"There hasn't been such a large-scale naval battle in the Mediterranean for a long time. It's hard to believe that this is a naval battle won by our fleet." Sir Pennington is quite satisfied with the results of the Royal Fleet's frigate being hit and sunk and the rest of the ships being damaged to varying degrees. of.

They also captured more than 20 large and small Ottoman ships this time, and captured more than 3000 prisoners.

As for the warships sunk and the enemies killed, it is impossible to count them all. They all sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

"The battleship Crown Prince was even more damaged than your Shuhan, almost on the verge of sinking. It was pierced by the ramming angle of two ships of the same size, and then the King of Seas collided with each other Fortunately, His Majesty the King, this warship built by the previous king for His Majesty did not sink. Our shipwrights and sailors are repairing it, and it is estimated that it can barely sail," said the Earl of Stratford.

The battleship Crown Prince was the most tragic sailing battleship in this battle. It was hit hard by the ramming angle of two large Ottoman ships, which almost caused the hull to rupture.

"But the biggest loss this time is the members of the Knights Hospitaller, Castella, you can pick the Ottoman ships we captured first, you are welcome." As the commander-in-chief of the United Fleet, Sun Xu wants to acquire Malta, a military force in the Mediterranean Sea. The base, intentionally or unintentionally, favored the Knights of the Hospitaller when dividing up the loot.

"I want that galleon. It should be a ship built by a Spanish shipbuilder captured by the Turks." Castella was not polite, and directly asked for the captive Grand Vizier's ship.

"Tsk tsk tsk, the Ottoman Empire didn't even bother to use Spanish ships. They didn't expect to secretly build galleons and imitate the Spanish style. Now the galleons they worked so hard to build were completely destroyed by us. It's hard to imagine the Ottoman emperors. How outraged it would be." Sir Pennington had no objection to Castella's imitation of the Spanish galleon, which had a better design in Britain.

(End of this chapter)