Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 166 The East China Sea Annihilation Battle (5)
"Small wars are not very good, but they are quite kind." Yan Fu also said with emotion.

After the two warships sank one after another, the entire formation was completely disrupted.The originally organized resistance was disintegrated in an instant, and the warships all fought on their own, completely losing the confidence and momentum they had at the beginning.

The "Qing No. [-]" hit two consecutive shots on the "Katsuragi" that was fleeing to the northwest. Now even the commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy can't save the fleet from the bad luck of failure.

Although the "Kyushu" is still aggressively attacking the three ships "Zhenyuan", "Weiyuan" and "Jiyuan", it is obviously lacking in confidence, and the distance is getting closer and closer, so the defense on which it depends for survival has now been exhausted. Not so solid anymore.

In the southeast direction, the "Musashi" that had been misfired suddenly fired a shell and hit the frontmost "Chengfeng", which was purchased from Germany and imitated the "Polang" (formerly the Tourer), which was captured during the Sino-French War. Although the speed is as high as 19 knots, it has a displacement of 5700 tons, and the defense of German-made warships is also considerable.

But it also couldn't withstand the close-range bombing of the main gun of the 106-ton battleship. The [-]mm steel plate was directly pierced, and the shell exploded inside the armor plate.It directly blasted a terrifying hole in the steel plate on the left side, and sea water poured into the cabin in an instant.

The entire "Chengfeng" tilted to the left all of a sudden, and when everyone hadn't recovered, another shell exploded 100 meters to the right of the "Chengfeng". Set off a huge whirlpool. "Chengfeng" was wandering in the whirling nest, completely lost the majesty and prestige that just dominated the sea, and turned into an eagle with no direction and circling in place.

However, after the "Musashi" fired these two shells, it was suppressed again immediately, and the machine guns and main guns of the "Sea Lion" and "Flying Eagle" fired at the "Musashi".

For a while, the "Musashi" was surrounded by artillery shells, and the sea water raised by the few shells that exploded in the surrounding sea surrounded the "Musashi" in the middle.The water column fell heavily on the deck, but most of the shells still hit the "Musashi" accurately.The "Musashi", which was already covered in bruises, could not stand the uninterrupted bombardment, but it burst into flames in an instant, and the fire continued to spread.

The "Chengfeng" got this rare chance to breathe and also played the semaphore of "Our ship is seriously injured, go back to Dagu Military Port for repairs", and slowly left the battlefield.

"Daqing No. [-]" is closely following "Katsuragi". When it comes to one-on-one capabilities, apart from a few battleships of the same level in the Royal Navy in the world that can compete with "Daqing No. [-]", I can't find any of them.

Although the four battleships sold by the United Kingdom are also relatively advanced warships in the world, they are still a bit behind the main warships captured by the Qing Dynasty from the Royal Navy, regardless of speed, firepower, and defense. It's down a notch.

Finally, the game of cat and mouse is over.After a loud noise, the "Katsuragi" also slowly sank into the sea following the "Hiei".

There are only two battleships "Kyushu" and "Musashi" left on the battlefield, and the "Daqing No. [-]", "Zhenyuan", "Jiyuan", "Weiyuan" and "Zhiyuan" can continue to fight. , "Laiyuan", "Jingyuan", "Flying Eagle", "Sea Lion" and the flagship "Changsheng" ten warships, including one battleship, four ironclad ships, three gunboats, and two cruisers.

No matter in terms of firepower configuration, number of warships, morale, etc., the fleet's failure is already a certainty.

Just when everyone thought the battle was about to end, the "Musashi", which was burning with fire and almost misfired, suddenly changed its course and rushed towards the flagship "Changsheng" of the Qing Fleet in the middle of the battlefield. Pull on a pad back.

"Changsheng" is like a child in front of "Musashi". How can "Changsheng" with a displacement of only 4000 tons withstand the impact of the [-]-ton giant ship moving at full speed?
"Full starboard rudder, advance at full speed. Avoid the warship in front, and attack with secondary guns." Yan Fu gave the order calmly and decisively.

"Yes."

The bow of the "Changsheng" shifted to the right at once, leaving the route of the "Musashi" impact.And constantly fired shells at the "Musashi" that was rushing towards him with its secondary artillery. The "Musashi" that was burning with fire obviously did not take the secondary artillery attack of "Long Victory" seriously.Still persistently driving towards his goal at a high speed.

"boom"

It was another shell that accurately hit the "Musashi", but unlike before, the bullet fog that was obviously larger than two circles told everyone that this shell did not come from the "Flying Eagle" or "Flying Eagle" that had been chasing him. The sea lion" is also not from the "Long Victory" who is avoiding himself, but from the "Daqing No. [-]" who has just solved "Gecheng"

This shell directly blew up the power system of "Musashi". The rupture of the output pipe of the steam engine made the whole warship emit thick white steam. The cannon stopped.The death of the artillery made the main gun no one to fire shells at all, and the misfiring "Musashi" stood like a target in front of the "Long Victory".

On the deck of the "Musashi", an officer pulled out the command saber at his waist and waved it at the black muzzle of the "Long Victory".

"Boom" "Boom"

With the continuous shaking of the "Long Victory" main gun, the commander disappeared into this world together with the entire "Musashi".

After a false alarm, only the single commander of the fleet, the Kyushu, was left.After being surrounded by groups, he still has no intention of surrendering, and is still ready to fight to the death.

At this moment, the spirit of Bushido was brought into full play, and the "Kyushu" was running at full speed to look for the main warships of the Qing Dynasty, hoping to get a fate of both.

It's a pity that he didn't succeed. Only an idiot would die with him in such a situation of great advantage!
After watching the fleet that was built with all the power of the whole country in the past ten years, which is known as Asia's number one, was slowly eaten away by the Qing Navy in just a few months, as the commander-in-chief of the navy, Takuya Takayama is now disheartened. cold.Even if he could break through, he couldn't explain to the emperor. He made up his mind to die, and he just asked for more support before being sunk.

Since he couldn't find the main warships of the Qing Dynasty to die together, he locked his target on the gunboats with slow speed and small tonnage.

"Turn to the northwest and head towards the three gunboats on the back, be sure to shoot one at a time." Takuya Takayama ordered loudly.

"Roms."

Although the battle situation is very unfavorable, and has already felt the approach of death.But the officers and soldiers on the entire "Kyushu" continued to complete their work conscientiously, and there was no slack or confusion.

It has to be said that the development of the navy in recent years has been quite rapid, both in terms of the tonnage and quantity of warships, as well as the operation and quality of naval soldiers have been greatly improved.

Unfortunately, after this battle, the navy will cease to exist.

(End of this chapter)