Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 147 The Bloody Battle in the Sea (3)
Like going crazy, the "Nanxiang" rushed towards the channel of "Sulang" with hundreds of tons of seawater in his stomach, desperately trying to block its way.In order to avoid colliding with it, the "Speed ​​Wave" was forced to reduce its speed, sink the Chinese warship first, and then go to rescue the gunboat and torpedo boat behind it.Nansho's desperate assault made it even closer to the Akitsusu, which was already seriously injured. Even the smallest caliber cannon on the Akitsusu could reach the range, but this also made Komitsu Ryuichiro hesitate. .

"Order the warship to go due east and retreat at full speed. Keep the distance from the enemy ship rushing up."

"General, what's so scary about the wounded cruiser? Let's give him a shot and keep his soul at sea."

"What do you know? He was shooting from a long distance without aim, and wanted to die with our ship at close range. Can I give him this chance?" Xiaoman Liichiro said proudly.

"The general is wise, I will give the order."

The "Nanxiang" was still advancing at a high speed, and when it saw the retreat of the "Qiujinzhou", it became more courageous.The attack of several consecutive shots seemed to be on target again, and exploded on the armor plate of "Qiujinzhou", which could not be penetrated due to the long distance.It didn't do any harm.

But the hits of these few shots seemed to confirm Koman Liichiro's guess, and he rushed to be complacent about his retreat order.

"Reporting to the general, the Speed ​​Wave sent a semaphore requesting our ship to sink the Qing cruiser Nanxiang. According to the current direction and speed, the ship is heading for the Speed ​​Wave."

"Oh?" Liichiro Xiaoman picked up the binoculars and looked at it, silently calculating.Turning around suddenly, he ordered: "Tell Sulang to go forward at full speed and ignore other things. I will naturally sink Nanxiang."

"Hai." The communications soldier turned and left.

It has to be said that the 26-knot speed of "Qiujinzhou" played a huge role on the battlefield, and it appeared on Nanxiang's advancing channel in an instant.

"My lord, what should I do if Qiu Jinzhou is still haunted?" the adjutant asked eagerly.

"Run into it and see if he gives way. Prepare the main gun with two ammunition, and stop firing now. Give him a fatal blow within a distance of 3000 meters!" Zhou Zhan quickly ordered: "Tell the main gunner that the gunner cannot be shot within a distance of 3000 meters." Hit the target and engage in military law."

"Yes."

The "Nanxiang" did not reduce its speed because of the "Qiujinzhou"'s blockage again. The muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the "Qiujinzhou" but did not fire a single shot, and it still drove forward desperately.

Threats, naked threats.But what is ridiculous is that a cruiser that is currently the number one in Asia and intact is threatened by a warship in the Qing Dynasty whose main guns are in a semi-mute state and has eaten hundreds of tons of seawater.

"Fire." Koman Riichiro nervously gave the order.

"boom"

Another shell fell into the sea water, and the jet of water hit the Qing soldiers on the deck.At this time, Zhou Zhan also came to the deck, and saw that "Qiujinzhou" in the distance seemed to keep such a distance from him.

"Rush over and get closer. The main gunner is ready to fire." Zhou Zhan ordered to the communication soldier beside him with a dark face.

"Yes."

Finally, "Nanxiang" and "Qiujinzhou" entered a zero distance called death in a naval battle.Before entering this distance, it does not matter whether the warships of both sides are damaged or intact.Once at this distance, it only takes one shell to be fatal.

"Fire the cannon." Zhou Zhan seemed to have seen the moment of miracles. He sank the "Qiujinzhou" with his seriously injured body, which really created the biggest naval battle miracle since the war between China and Japan.

"boom"

Before the main gun of "Nanxiang" fired, the "Qiujinzhou" on the opposite side had already fired first, amidst the roar of the cannon.The soul of Nanxiang returns to the sea.All the more than 200 soldiers on board were killed.

The three cruisers quickly came to the rear of their own formation. Facing the devastation of the five cruisers of the Qing Dynasty, the gunboats that attacked the terrifying gunboats at close range could not get close at all. Now four of them have been sunk, and one of them has shot " Our ship was seriously injured and withdrawn from the battle" and retreated to the northeast.The torpedo ship saw that the cruiser that could not hurt the Qing Dynasty had already moved forward to reinforce the besieged "Kyushu".

"Daqing No. [-]" and "Daqing No. [-]" are still entangled with their opponents. It stands to reason that these two [-]-ton battleships captured from the United Kingdom are far more advanced than the battleships sold by the United Kingdom, both in terms of artillery density and speed. battleships of the same type.But until now, the two sides have been entangled, and even faintly fell into a disadvantage.

The young Qing Navy showed its immaturity at this time. The artillery of the "Daqing No. [-]" class battleship adopted the advanced design of the terraced rotary cannon, but the navy even thought of adding a cover to the open-air exposed fort after capturing them back!The reason was that fast-firing machine guns began to appear on warships at that time, such as the American Gatling gun and the French five-barreled Hatchkiss gun. The sailors working in the exposed fort are a great threat.They put a large cover similar to a ship's turntable on the cannon in the exposed fort, which is called a dome-type cannon cover. The cannon cover is connected to the cannon mount through several brackets, and rotates with the cannon. play a certain protective role.In order to prevent the weight of the gun cover from being completely pressed on the gun mount, a track was laid on the top of the thick armored wall of the exposed fort, and the gun cover with wheels at the bottom was mounted on the armored wall to rotate.But after installing this big cover, it is inconvenient to aim, the smoke is not easy to dissipate, the pitch angle of the artillery is restricted again, and all the disadvantages of the deck swivel are all picked up at once.

More importantly, the cannon cover of this kind of machine gun is not thick enough, and it has no defense against large-caliber shells. If there is no cannon cover, the large-caliber shells may fly by without causing any damage. Even if they hit people, That is to say, the sailor who was hit was just unlucky himself. After using the cannon cover, although it cannot prevent large-caliber shells, it can prevent small shell fragments. Flying around inside the gun cover, causing serious damage to the personnel on the gun emplacement.In this naval battle, the Qing navy finally paid a heavy price for its extravagance. As soon as the "Daqing No. [-]" exposed fort with a dome-style canopy was hit by a Japanese shell, the sailors in the platform immediately Either death or injury, no one was spared, so that the originally powerful firepower of the "Daqing No. [-]" class could not be exerted at all.

The casualties were so severe that the original intensive firepower of "Daqing No. [-]" and "Daqing No. [-]" could only be used halfway, and more gunners died in the seemingly protected gun covers.

Yan Fu saw it in his eyes and regretted it in his heart.I regret that I listened to the words of the technical staff at that time, but who would know whether installing this dome-style gun cover is beneficial to combat without actual combat?

This is the tuition fee that the Qing Navy needs to pay, and they need to pay for the young.

"Tell Chengfeng, kill the devil's cruiser for me. You don't need to come back for reinforcements." Yan Fu tried to calm himself down.

"However, we are already very passive here. Daqing No. [-] and Daqing No. [-] have been suppressed to the point where they can't hold their heads up." An adjutant said excitedly.

Yan Fu roared in a rare way, "I am the chief military officer, I will be responsible for anything, and execute the order."

"Yes." The adjutant was shocked by the sudden yell from the usually good-tempered superior. General Yan was under too much pressure.

Although this time he only took on the task of assisting, the real sharp knife of the emperor was the two divisions that landed in Yokohama, preparing to attack the army in Tokyo.

But after all, Yan Fu is leading the current large-scale eradication of Zhen, Ding, Wei, and Ji; all capital ships except the Siyuan ironclad ships, if they can't fight well, or if the warships suffer serious losses, it will be difficult to explain.

(End of this chapter)