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No one knows what happened to the Guadeloupe Fleet of the Royal French Navy that day. Within tens of minutes, how much tortured the French warship suffered.

　　 In fact, the first two rounds of volleys have already made Julian Luc realize that something is wrong, and he did immediately order the messenger to use a semaphore to inform the other warships to turn around immediately and quickly leave this huge trap.

　　 Yes, in Julian Luc's opinion, this is a huge trap. The ridiculous thing is that he didn't even see through, and led the fleet into this trap stupidly.

The semaphore was invented by the British as early as 1684, but the semaphore at that time was not to order soldiers to use flags of different colors in their hands to make semaphores. At that time, the semaphore was to use several obvious symbols to communicate. , The speed of delivering messages is inconvenient and slow. Until 1793, French talents invented the beacon.

However, in this era, although the navies of European countries have not unified the semaphore, the navies of each country have their own internal communication methods. For example, the French navy now has the prototype of a signal beacon. Signal transmission is carried out in this way.

　　 Of course, because the Yanhuang tribe has the bug of the stone bear, semaphores have long been popular among the Yanhuang tribe. So when Henry Antoine led his three warships to break into the Elizabeth River the previous year, the coastal defense artillery regiment warned with a semaphore. As a result, Henry Antoine didn’t know what that meant. It was directly sunk by Norfolk’s shore defense artillery regiment.

　　 Before Luc’s messenger had time to give other warships a semaphore (let's call it semaphore), the third round of salvo came.

　　 The position of the semaphore for the semaphore is on the bow or stern, usually on the bow. As a result, a 76mm high-explosive grenade directly hit the bow of the ship, and the messenger who had just walked to the bow was immediately torn to pieces by the violent energy.

As for Julian Luc, he didn’t even utter an exclamation. Another 105mm high-explosive grenade with greater power fell beside him, so the Royal French Navy’s fleet in Guadeloupe The supreme commander, Major General Julian Luc, and dozens of officers and soldiers surrounding him, just like the messenger just now, directly turned into pieces of meat flying all over the sky.

　　 Three shells accurately hit the front part of the Honor, and more than two-thirds of the upper deck of the Honor was swept away by violent fragments. The mainmast was gone, and after a violent sway of the frontmast, after a sound that made people feel the tooth roots sour, it crashed down.

　　 The people on the two Tier 3 sailing battleships closest to the Honor witnessed the tragedy of the Honor, and everyone was shocked.

This second-class sailing battleship with a length of nearly sixty meters and a displacement of nearly 1,900 tons. After being exposed to three high-explosive grenades, there are almost no people able to stand on the middle and front part of the upper deck, and the bow is also small. A big chunk. Although there were sailors at the back of the upper deck, those sailors were obviously frightened and collapsed.

That’s right. Even if these sailors had fought naval battles before, they were also fired between solid shells. Although the lethality of scatter grenades is terrifying to humans, they are weak compared to this kind of high-explosive grenades. exploded.

　　 Where have they seen such a powerful high-explosive grenades?

　　 The solid bullet hits the hull, at most it is a hole as large as a washbasin. But this kind of high-explosive grenade, especially the high-explosive grenade fired by the 105 heavy artillery, is filled with a full three kilograms of high-explosive Xiaohuazhang. Once this thing explodes, it will be a large hole with a diameter of several meters.

The sailors standing on the back of the upper deck of the Glory immediately discovered after the explosion. Not only did the two masts disappear, but there were also two big scary holes in the middle and front of the upper deck of the Glory, which looked as dark as death. Big open mouth.

　　 The most terrifying thing is that the people on the upper deck are gone, and even the gunners on the second deck are gone.

　　 There were a total of 650 people on the Glory, but when these three shells hit the Glory, at least a hundred people lost their lives...

　　Honor is very unlucky, but it is very lucky.

　　 Unfortunately, these three shells almost destroyed the upper deck of the Honor, and even the commander of the fleet was blown up.

　　 But this ship is really lucky, at least much luckier than the Royal Dauphin that Antoine took the summer. Because after receiving three high-explosive grenades, the Glory managed to escape the bombing of ammunition miraculously, unlike its sister ship Royal Dove, which was killed by a single shell.

The Honor is the flagship after all, so most people’s attention was attracted by the explosion on the Honor. Few people saw the Brittany hitting a 76mm high-explosive grenade just now on the stern part of the ship. Two shells were fired.

　　 Compared to the Honor, the Brittany is undoubtedly more tragic.

Two of its shells were 105mm high-explosive grenades. One of the high-explosive grenades tore a huge hole in front of the Brittany starboard side near the waterline, and a large amount of seawater poured in instantly. The cabin of the Brittany.

　　 And this is not the most serious ~www.readwn.com~The catastrophic consequence was caused by another high-explosive grenade.

After the high-explosive grenade flew more than five kilometers in the air, it got into a hatch leading to the lower deck with one head, and then the high-explosive grenade directly landed on the second deck. explosion.

　　 Brittany is just a four-tier ship with two decks, and the lower deck is already very close to the bottom of the ship. So when this powerful high-explosive grenade exploded on the second deck, it not only opened a four to five meters in diameter in the bottom of the ship, but also detonated the black powder on the second deck.

　　 Therefore, the French sailors who were originally concerned about the situation of the Glory were suddenly shaken by a loud noise.

　　 All the people turned their heads together, and then they saw a scene that they will never forget.

The forty-meter-long Brittany seemed to have turned into a huge fireball. Countless sawdust, broken bones, and odds and ends flew around in the explosion, and a thick black smoke began to rise. As if from the smirk of a **** demon...

　　 This Tier 4 ship with a displacement of more than 1,300 tons was turned into two halves in a huge explosion. The huge hull seemed to be broken abruptly by two larger giant hands, and turned into two impenetrable hulls, slowly sinking.

　　Everyone was stunned with fright. Where did these sailors see such a tragic sight?

　　 But it's useless for them to be afraid, because a more violent attack is still behind...

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