1825 My New Daming

Chapter 129 Guan Tianpei is Crying Cryingly! (Seventh update, first order, follow-up order)

Airships Lots of airships!

Not one or two, but a full 25 airships formed two columns, flying from the sky above Shikoku Island to the sea in the southeast direction.

Boehmer quickly raised his binoculars to look at the sky, and carefully distinguished the shape of these airships and the cabins hanging below. He found that the twenty or so airships in the sky were not "aided" by the United Kingdom to Japan (aid that requires money) The kind of small airship, but a large long-range airship that only the Ming Empire has!
These airships apparently took off from the Daeming Navy's Jueying Island base in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, flew over Japan's territory (there is no concept of airspace yet) and flew over the Kii Waterway to support their fleet.

But the question is how did the airship unit of the Ming Navy on Jueying Island know that their warships had "intense friction" with the British Royal Navy and the Japanese Shogunate Navy because of a little misunderstanding?
Only a few hours had passed since the start of the fight between the two sides, and it was impossible for the Ming army's hull to turn back Yingdao's report.Even if their airships were hidden in the sky at that time, it would take at least four or five hours to fly from the Kii Waterway to Jueying Island. Even if the airships arrived at Jueying Island, the Ming Army airship troops would set off immediately, and they would not be able to fly now. To the skies over Kii Waterway!

Could it be that Daming's airship can reach a speed of 200 kilometers or even 300 kilometers per hour?Or did they have telegraphs or telephones that didn't need wires?But no matter what the reason is, it is not good news for the Royal Navy's visiting fleet to Japan.

Colonel Boehme still hasn't figured out how those airships that were "firing" in the sky flew to Kii Waterway in such a short time?The fourth wave of shells has already roared and flew over from nowhere!
Because someone on the destroyer Xinchang acted as eyes and ears for the two cruisers on the other side of Cape Muroto, guiding the 20 155mm guns on the two cruisers to fire, and they were firing under radio command, so those cannons were surprisingly accurate. , The first two salvos have already achieved near misses and straddle shots, so it's time to hit the third wave!

I only saw one shell after another, whistling and landing around the Lid'an, except for the ones that hit, most of them could be regarded as near misses.The armor-piercing projectile that hit the Liedan was impartial, hitting the cruiser's stern deck, and directly into the officer's rest cabin under the stern deck.The violent explosion caused by picric acid immediately caused disaster in the officer cabin!

Picric acid already has the effect of arson, and the luxurious interiors in the officer's cabin, as well as the wood and various textiles that can be seen everywhere, are all flammable, and are quickly ignited by the burning picric acid. The fire quickly began to spread, and in just a few minutes, the fire burned all the way to the deck, and soon the "butt" of the 4300-ton cruiser was burning red.

Of course, the catastrophe of the Ridean was not over yet, because the fourth wave of salvos came back immediately, and 20 rounds of 155mm picric acid shells roared in. These shells were all lobbed, and most of them were Nearly missed, two more shots directly hit the weakly protected deck of the Lid'an.One of them did not penetrate due to the early explosion of the picric acid charge. Instead, it exploded a huge fireball on the Leander's holdout deck. The burning picric acid flew everywhere with the blast, not only Many cables and ropes were ignited, and corpses were scattered all over the fort around the bow.And the lying corpse stuck the bow turret again, making it difficult for the powerful 7-inch cannon to move.

Immediately afterwards, the fifth wave and the sixth wave of volleys came again and again!A total of four 155mm armor-piercing projectiles hit the target in these two salvos!One shot hit the building below the bridge, and it exploded on the spot, shaking all the people inside the bridge.Two other shells both hit the port deck of the Ridean, and one penetrated and exploded in the coal bunker below the Ridean's port deck, which then caused a fire.

The most deadly shot pierced a chimney, but the cannonball filled with picric acid did not explode immediately, but fell along the inner wall of the chimney, and fell into the boiler room of the Leander. Then came a central bloom, and a big explosion in the boiler room.On the spot, the boiler leaked, the pipes were damaged, and all the British who were in charge of burning the boiler were killed.

Lid'an's motivation was completely lost in no time!

For this sake, the Lid'an has already suffered six 6mm picric acid armor-piercing rounds, plus dozens of near misses.This 155-ton cruiser caught fire and lost power, and the surface of the hull was also pitted by the shrapnel that nearly missed the bomb. It hurts to look at it——If the Lidean could talk, it must be crying by now called.

But even if this cruiser is blown up like this, it still floats on the sea very stubbornly, it just refuses to sink, what a stubborn ship!
However, Colonel Boehmer still clearly realized that the ship was no longer available, and immediately gave the order to abandon the ship, and let the destroyer Hippo come up to rescue people.But just after he gave the order, a naval officer beside him told him that the smoke-filled destroyer of the Ming Dynasty was no longer smoking, and was bombarding the Hippo with another destroyer of the Ming Dynasty!

"What? Is this a trap?" Colonel Boehme looked back, and immediately fell into despair!

Because he found that the situation of the Hippo was worse than that of the Lydian, not only the two destroyers of the Ming army bombarded it, but also those cannons hidden somewhere!
I only saw shells falling like raindrops around the Hippo, which was only a few hundred tons.Suddenly, a huge fireball erupted on the Hippo not far away.

Amidst the gunpowder smoke, Colonel Boehmer could only see that the destroyer of several hundred tons seemed to be cut into two pieces by a giant, and then sank rapidly at the same time, completely disappearing from people's sight in the blink of an eye.

Although the sinking was only a destroyer, Boehme still felt the scythe of death dangling in his head.As an old navy, he knew very well that the reason why the Lidean was able to survive until now was because of the insufficient power of Ming's 155mm shells.If it is replaced with a shell of more than 200mm, it is possible to sink the Ridean with one round.

But now the Ming Navy does not need 200mm cannons to sink the Lidean, which has lost its combat effectiveness, as long as the two destroyers come up to launch torpedoes.

Thinking of this, Bohme could only order in a trembling voice: "Abandon ship. I order, all abandon ship."

However, contrary to Colonel Boehmer's expectations, the two destroyers of the Ming Navy did not fire torpedoes at the burning Ridean, and of course they did not stop the British who abandoned the ship from paddling or swimming towards Shikoku Island. Watching the abandoned Ridean fire indiscriminately, it seems that the battle is still going on.

Bohme, who was sitting on a small sampan, of course didn't know that the reason why the two destroyers of the Ming Dynasty did not sink the Lide'an was to use it as a bait to attract the formation of the Indomitable, which was coming at a speed of 15 knots. Rescue the Lydian.

The Indomitable is an ironclad ship of more than 1 tons, and it is still flying the flagship flag!
Guan Tianpei, who had already flown over the Jiyi Waterway, could see the "chubby" Indomitable with a high-power telescope, and he was so speechless!

If this battleship can be sunk with an airship, the Daming Naval Air Force will become famous.

Guan Tianpei pointed the telescope in his hand to the sea northwest of Cape Muroto, and then stared at the Indomitable, which was rapidly heading south under the protection of a destroyer.

"Give power to the Vladivostok and Lushun to tell them that the Indomitable is coming, and there is only one destroyer beside them. The opportunity to sink it has come. Please come to support the Vladivostok and the Lushun immediately. Let's kill the Indomitable together!"

"Yes, sir!"

(End of this chapter)