Kowloon wins

Chapter 1119 The Boiling Ocean ([-])
"Commander, your arm..."

On the small high platform under the main mast of the "Zhenyang", Wang Yanxia narrowed his eyes and stared at the "Brave" that was about to sail out of the shooting range of his own ship, and did not notice that his arm was oozing blood at this moment. , but a sharp-eyed attendant officer next to him, exclaimed, and stepped forward to check Wang Yanxia's injuries.

"I'm going to be fine, get out! Go, let those bastards below cheer me up!"

After being reminded by the accompanying officer, Wang Yanxia noticed that his left arm was hit by a flying bullet at some point. The injury was not serious, but the blood flowed a little bit more. It looked very scary, but Wang Yanxia himself didn't care at all. He pushed the attendant officer away and let out a stern voice.

"Yes!"

Hearing that Wang Yanxia's voice was wrong, the accompanying officer didn't dare to delay a little bit, and hurriedly agreed loudly, rushed into the cabin like flying, and ran down the stairs to the gun deck at the bottom.

"Humph!"

Wang Yanxia ignored the departure of the attendant officer, frowned coldly, and ignored the injury on his arm, picked up the binoculars and aimed at the "Brave" diagonally opposite, his eyes were full of coldness In the previous flagship duel, the "Zhenyang" really suffered a dull loss. In the regular firefight time of less than 4 minutes, with an obvious advantage in artillery loading, our own side It only fired one round, but the "Brave" was able to fire two rounds. This already made Wang Yanxia extremely angry, but what made him even more annoyed was that his side's hit rate this time was really terrible. The salvo of the cannons actually only hit two medium-sized flowering shells. Although several British sailors were killed, compared to the losses of their own side, such a small battle result is really not worth mentioning.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

In the flagship duel, the British Navy completely gained the upper hand. There was a lot of cheers on the "Brave", and there were endless voices mocking the poor skills and tactics of the Qing army. The Qing army's "Wei Ming" medium-sized battleship had already arrived, and it unceremoniously fired a salvo. Whether it was luck or the collective morale of the gunners of the "Wei Ming", seven heavy guns and thirteen medium-sized naval guns fired a salvo, and actually hit five heavy artillery blasting shells and six medium-sized blooming shells!

In naval battles, especially in long-distance naval battles, the hit rate is never too high. Even in a traditional battle line battle with a distance of about 200 meters, the hit rate is at most about 40.00%. Among the navies of various countries, only the British Navy can do it. As for the second-rate navies such as Spain, the warships that can reach [-]% are already considered the elite of the elite. In artillery battles, there are too many factors that affect shooting. No matter the wind direction or tide, or the stability of your own battleship, it will have a great impact on the artillery. The average hit rate can reach [-]%, then It was already astonishingly high, but now, the "Wei Ming" round of shelling actually had a hit rate of more than [-]%, which can only be described as almost a miracle.

The miracle is for the officers and soldiers of the "Wei Ming", but for the officers and soldiers of the "Brave", it is definitely bad luck. It is just such a round of shelling. A raging fire had already ignited on the "Brave". Nearly a hundred people were killed or injured, but fortunately no bombs were hit at the waterline. Although the speed of the ship was affected, there was no danger of sinking.

"The boatswain stabilizes the battleship, and the artillery positions counterattack, counterattack!"

From the beginning of the war to the present, the "Brave" has never suffered such a big loss. In the previous battle, although it has suffered more than a dozen shells, all of them are medium-sized explosive shells. It was all insignificant, and there were less than ten casualties in total, but under such a round of beatings by the "Weiwei", the battle damage was so serious that all the officers and soldiers on the battleship were killed. Dazed, and in chaos, he never reacted to the attack of the "Weiwei". Fortunately, Edward Vernon was still clear-headed, and hurriedly roared, finally, he was about to be attacked suddenly. All the officers and soldiers woke up.

It has to be said that the quality of the officers and soldiers of the British Navy is astonishingly high. Although they were beaten to death and wounded by the "Wei Ming", under the orders of officers at all levels, they quickly came to their senses. The soldiers of the marine corps organized themselves one after another, and they were busy fighting the fire to stop the loss, while the artillery positions fired shells with all their strength in the voice of the commander's command, and launched a counterattack against the "Weiwei", but it was a pity that Because the shooting angle has passed more than half, this round of shelling did not achieve the slightest result. It only exploded countless water jets near the stern of the "Weiwei", but failed to damage the "Weiming" at all. .

"Fire the cannon and hit me hard!"

The "Wei Ming" had just passed by, and the "Wei Shun" had already arrived at high speed, but seeing the huge hull, it rushed into the area where the water column was still churning. Under the main mast, the captain Chen Yaojia held a single Using the binoculars as a command knife, he pointed straight at the "Brave" which was still in chaos, and roared hoarsely.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The gunners on the gun decks of the "Weissun" had already been ready. As soon as the order was given, the gunners went crazy and pulled the gun tethers one after another. Twenty heavy and medium artillery roared one after another. The artillery shells whizzed and smashed towards the "Brave" at a distance of about 610 meters. In vain, only one medium-sized explosive shell hit the mizzen mast of the "Brave", damaged two jibs, and ignited the fire. Apart from this, there were no other results, but it was itself in the battle of the "Brave". During the counterattack, a heavy artillery shell hit the poop, and two medium-sized explosive shells hit the rear deck, but the loss was not large, only two unlucky sailors were seriously injured.

"fire!"

"Call me!"

……

Just when the "Brave" was beaten terribly, the Qing army's flagship "Zhenyang" also ushered in a bitter battle-the British third-tier battleship "Hood" and the medium-sized battleship "Kelly" were almost connected end to end. Driving diagonally opposite the "Zhenyang", the captains of the two warships gave the order to shoot almost at the same time. Suddenly, more than 32 artillery pieces of various types roared one after another. "Zhenyang" slammed into his head and face, and the bullets rained down. The poor "Zhenyang" hadn't recovered from the previous heavy damage, and was hit by eight shells on the spot. The sails on the front and rear masts were destroyed. Several sides were shattered, and a fire was ignited because of it. The speed dropped suddenly, and two [-]-pound heavy artillery shells hit the bottom gun deck, destroying a heavy gun, and more than a dozen gunners died or died. Injury, the loss is not small.

"Counterattack!"

"fire!"

"beat!"

……

Facing the siege of two enemy ships, all the gunners on the "Zhenyang" became angry. In addition, they had just been scolded by someone sent by Wang Yanxia. The commanders all roared, the heavy and medium artillery roared in unison, one after another shells roared through the sky, and hit the "Hood" and "Kelly" respectively, but the effect was obviously not very good, only two A heavy explosive bomb hit the target, and one flew over the poop of the "Hood", but it did not explode, it just opened a big hole in the poop, that's all. German" caused casualties, while another heavy shell hit the side of the "Kelly", but luckily, it hit the frame at the thickest part, although a large shell exploded on the side of the ship here. However, it failed to achieve the effect of penetration. As for the medium-sized flowering bombs, three of them hit the "Hood" and "Kelly" respectively, but unfortunately none of them mattered, so they only got the kill. It was just the result of injuring several British sailors.

Seeing the speed of the "Zhenyang" drop sharply, the "Hood" and "Kelly" would not let go of this excellent fighter. Forcibly reducing the speed of the ship, with fierce firepower, it aimed at the "Zhenyang" and bombed wildly. All types of artillery fired desperately, regardless of salvo or not, whoever loaded it first would be the first The cannon was fired, and the thunderous shelling sounded continuously. For a while, the "Zhenyang" in a passive state was surrounded by water jets blown up by the shells, and the ship was shot again in many places. Because of the huge size of the ship and the insufficient power of the British's shells, it was never in danger of sinking, but even so, it was an indisputable fact that they were at an absolute disadvantage.

"Cover the flagship, call me!"

Just as the "Zhenyang" was struggling to support, the "Weiming" which had just made great achievements before finally arrived in time. Seeing that the flagship was severely damaged, the captain Zhang Shancheng became anxious immediately and roared Commanding the entire ship to launch a rapid artillery attack to relieve the danger of the "flagship", two warships from each side fought at such a low speed staggered, one came and one went, each refused to give way, countless shells came and went. It's a tough fight...

(End of this chapter)