Just as the Batulu-1 was dealing with three British warships, the armed merchant ship chasing the Saiyin-2 returned - not long after chasing, only a black one was left in front of them.

Small point, and the side sails on both sides of this armed merchant ship are raised, so I can only look at the ocean and sigh.

The return of the armed merchant ships immediately made the fleet's commander-in-chief, the former Governor of Bengal, Lawrence, the teacher of the former Governor Clive, dumbfounded.

He is not a serious naval officer, but at this time, because a lot of operations of the British Navy have been standardized, he only needs to follow the manual. Therefore, he can still be invincible when facing the French and Dutch navies at this time.

land (in the Indian Ocean region).

But after encountering an enemy ship he had never seen before and a strange combat mode, he was very alert and immediately gave up his command rights to the commander of the Bombay Fleet using a semaphore.

The commander of the Bombay Fleet was Charles Sanders, an experienced naval general. After seeing Lawrence's flag, he was not polite and immediately issued an order for the entire fleet to move south.

Since we can no longer catch up with the enemy's clipper ship, the enemy fleet will definitely come quickly, but no matter what, we still have a tailwind, while the enemy has a headwind.

Although the enemy is still in my mind that the enemy is the Truchen people, and the enemy warships are also the remnants of steam battleships, when faced with the real war, the traditional combat thinking still prevails.

What's more, in his mind, even if steam power is used, due to the huge hull, there will still be the influence of tailwind and headwind!

He obviously didn't realize that the pointed design of the Truchen warship's bow had minimal impact on the tailwind and headwind.

When Sanders' decision was made, the Batulu-1 happened to fire the round of shells that destroyed the Wales!

In Sanders' mind, even if the Truchin battleship is more maneuverable than their battleships, the armor thickness of one's own battleships cannot be damaged by the opponent's artillery shells in a short time, not to mention that one's own side has two other armed merchant ships?<

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So, they ignored the fighting here and went straight south!

At this time, when the Wales was slowly sinking into the sea in an almost vertical position, the two armed merchant ships finally turned around.

This time, Zhuang Jiyun did not always be on guard against enemy ships' artillery as he did just now. According to the intelligence bureau's information, the largest artillery on armed merchant ships of major European countries was only twelve pounds, and there were only a few of them. Most of them were twelve pounds.

A small one-pound cannon, or a short-barreled artillery piece.

Such artillery is nothing compared to the Truchin battleship covered with a layer of iron armor.

What's more, the chimney position he was most worried about was because the enemy's tall battleship had been damaged, and the height of the armed merchant ship with only some artillery on the middle deck was much lower than his own. The artillery on the middle deck suddenly encountered swells and raised its firing angle.

The probability of hitting one's own chimney is extremely slim.

But it is different if it is a tall battleship. It has two layers of artillery. The upper layer has a slightly higher muzzle. Due to its dense arrangement, it is still easy to hit the chimney!

Moreover, since the Wales was destroyed, the two armed merchant ships no longer moved in tandem at this time, but moved hand in hand. It seemed that they obviously wanted to sandwich the Batulu-1 in the middle and fire a salvo with broadside guns.

of.

Zhuang Jiyun satisfied them.

The distance between the two armed merchant ships is about thirty meters, and the width of the Batulu is also twelve meters, so the space left for the Batulu is only eighteen meters!

But Zhuang Jiyun still got in without hesitation!

When the three large ships were almost level, the cannons on the ships roared!

"Boom..."

The sound of "ping ping ping ping pong" solid shells was immediately heard from the ship's side of the Batulu, but the two armed merchant ships were hit by a total of six 12cm and 15kg heavy grenades on each side of the Batulu.

baptism.

Just like the Welsh, when the Batulu got out, the two armed merchant ships immediately burst into flames!

It is almost as expected by Zhuang Jiyun. Although the word "armed" is included in the word "armed merchant ship", it is still a merchant ship. Since it is a merchant ship, its deck and hull are obviously not as thick as those of a battleship.

This time Zhuang Jiyun was not willing to let all the broadside guns blast, but the bombardment of six 12cm howitzers on each side immediately wiped out the two armed merchant ships!

......

Half an hour later, the main fleets of both sides met.

At this time, the north wind was still blowing strongly, and the British fleet was sailing at full sail, standing in what they considered the so-called windward position.

However, as the Batulu-1 appeared again behind him, Sanders suddenly realized that something was wrong.

This warship actually defeated three own warships in a short period of time!

There is also a third-level battleship among them!

Otherwise it would be unexplainable why the Welsh did not follow.

Sanders, who has experienced many battles and has never been defeated in naval battles with the French and Dutch, looked solemn.

However, now he has no way out - the ship's speed has reached its maximum, and the battle formation has been fully deployed. If he retreats or turns again at this time, it will definitely leave an opportunity for the enemy.

When William Pitt Jr. of the British Empire pioneered the use of his own gunners' fast fire rate, thick armor and fast ship speed to pass through the middle of the enemy ships, he could use the dense gun emplacements on both sides to bombard the enemy ships and win a great victory.

, European naval warfare has also entered a new era.

The reason why the British have repeatedly prevailed in naval and land battles is that in addition to regularizing and standardizing their navy and army, there is another important factor.

That is, whether it is their army or navy, their gunners and soldiers can fire much faster than their opponents. Not to mention, in the recent battle between the Governor of Cleve and the Bengalis, there were tens of thousands of enemies, and

He had less than a thousand European musketeers.

But he took advantage of his own artillery and the rapid fire rate of the guns that made the enemy despair and defeated the Bengalis. In fact, the Bengalis only lost a few thousand people, but it was these thousands of people lost that made the current Bengali Nava

Bujafa counterattacked on the battlefield, which led to the complete defeat of the Bangladesh Army.

Although Jaffa's on-the-battle rebellion played a key role, the British's extremely high military quality was also an important reason for his defection.

However, Deng Quan would not let Sanders' plan come true. Once Sanders' plan came true, although his side could still win, his warships might also be seriously damaged, especially the chimney exposed on the first deck.

A second-tier battleship will never survive a bombardment at full capacity.

So, he took one Bogda and three Batulus and started maneuvering the moment they met the enemy ships!

The ensuing battle was similar to Zhuang Jiyun's battle with the Wales. The Truchin battleship used its high speed and high maneuverability to completely ignore the wind direction, and completely destroyed Sanders' fleet after spending half a day!

On the periphery, Zhuang Jiyun's Batulu killed some armed merchant ships that came around - yes, it was indeed a kill. For those armed merchant ships, the Batulu was not only taller, but also much thicker.

, the solid bullets they fired rarely caused major damage to the Baturus.

At this time, how to deal with the enemy's three-layer dense heavy artillery, the Truchen people's tactics were officially launched. Of course, compared with the British, the Truchen navy was also standardized and accurate, but due to the Truchen navy

The Qin Navy is a completely regular navy and will never put motley crews such as armed merchant ships into the queue. In fact, Deng Quan only had to deal with two second-class battleships and one third-class battleship.

After an 18-centimeter grenade blasted into the largest ship, the "Anglo", causing it to explode with a frightening sound and then snap into two pieces, Deng Quan's nervous heart finally calmed down.

On the Bogda, the Frenchman Dubres and the Portuguese Henry watched all this in stunned silence.

You know, just a few years ago, one of Clive's fleets severely damaged his fleet, but now there are two fleets!

What's more, Sanders, who was seriously injured and rescued by the Truchen people, was one of the few outstanding naval admirals in the British Empire!

Four battleships and eight armed merchant ships, if placed on the European battlefield, would be a huge force that could influence the situation for several years. If the French were to deal with them, their opponent would still be Sanders. Even if they had more battleships,

Without more than three days of hard work, you can only get the result of "victory".

And absolutely cannot wipe out all enemy ships!

But the Truchin fleet was not without losses.

An armed merchant ship that escaped encountered the four Tengiss further behind. Since there were only two rotating cannons exposed on the first deck, it did not take up a lot of space to deal with an armed merchant ship with more than a dozen cannons on both sides.

It’s cheap.

Of course, in the end, the four Tengis worked together to destroy the armed merchant ship, but a chimney of one of them was also destroyed by the armed merchant ship, so it could only use one steam engine to sail. To restore the two steam engines

At such a speed, you need to rush to Port Mare to replace the chimney.

And they only had one chimney.

The chimney is the only weakness of the Truchen steam battleship.

It was another dusk, and a huge sunset seemed to be lying at the end of the Indian Ocean, dyeing a large area of ​​the ocean red.

A large number of corpses attracted all kinds of fish, and then the real ocean killer sharks, and then a melee - that happened in the water.

The sea area south of the Maldives was also rendered blood red by the setting sun. Some of it was sunlight, some was the blood of the British Navy, and most of it was caused by various fish.

In this battle, a large number of British soldiers and sailors jumped into the sea after their own warships were completely destroyed. The Truchen people were obviously not good men and women. If Dubres hadn't happened to know Sanders, the Truchen people would not have been

He will be rescued.

As for the others, Lawrence, the former governor of Bengal and now the army commander, was blown to pieces by a grenade. Obviously, the British sailors and infantrymen who were killed on the spot could not be counted.

The other people on the sea, the Truchins, had neither the energy nor the will to save them, so they responded with rifle fire to those lying on the logs holding up white shirts and small white flags.

When Dubres saw this, he couldn't help but muttered.

"You are indeed powerful, but you still lack the spirit of a gentleman"
Chapter completed!