"God bless the Tsar!

Strong and noble,

Your rule brings glory, our glory!

Your rule is afraid of the enemy,

Rule the Orthodox Church.

God bless the Tsar!"

Melodious military music and solemn singing sounded on every Russian warship, drums and music sounded, and soldiers raised their guns to salute.

This means that the battle officially began. Although there were no military bands (including sailing warships) on the six ironclad ships of the Ming Navy, all the officers and soldiers also began to sing "Salvation of the World and Restoration of China" in unison.

The rituals were also learned from the European Navy. Compared with baskets of silver dollars, a national anthem that represents the country and nation seems to have a higher role in boosting morale.

"The Chinese did not change their formation!" When the music of "God Bless the Tsar" dissipated, Flagel discovered that six Chinese "coffin ships" were still advancing in a horizontal direction, and it seemed that they did not find that the Russian fleet was about to attack them.

Like flanking.

"There must be some conspiracy..." Flagel had a very bad premonition.

"Roar up, and you'll know everything!" Neverskoy shouted, "There are almost 350 cannons that will point to the coffin ship, and I don't believe it is iron!"

The shell of the Chongming Iron Craft is indeed not made of iron, but made of steel!

At 6:10, the port side gun of the Russian fleet flagship Queen Anna battleship began to bombard the Chongming. 40 cannons roared at the same time, and the shells hit the Chongming steel armor like raindrops, making a crisp sound of jingling.

Twenty or thirty white ideas suddenly appeared on the starboard steel armor of the number. These were Russian shells that knocked out the black paint!

Yes, no shell exploded! Although the Russians used flowering bullets, there was no fuse trigger in this era, so the explosion of shells was delayed. The Chongming steel armor was arranged at a certain angle and was tilted.

The shells on it rolled into the sea and were destroyed by the sea.

Seeing this scene, Flagel and Neverskoy on Queen Anna's mouths were wide open, and almost all of them could stuff an apple into it.

"How is this possible!!!"

"Oh my God, it's an ironclad ship!!!"

"Send flags, disband the formation, and retreat!"

Baron Flagel realized at the first time that this naval battle had lost. He was a squat! Even the 68-pound cannon on Queen Anna could not be hit, and he was still fucked. Now the distance between the two sides was less than

300 yards, the 32-pound Hodgsky blasting bomb was enough to kill Queen Anna.

At this moment, the 10 32-pound long cannons on the starboard side of the Chongming Iron Craft were fired.

Boom boom boom boom...

Although only 10 cannons were fired, it was fatal enough for the Queen Anna Class III battleship. The distance between the two sides was too close, and there was no possibility of not being hit. And the 32-pound conical Hodgsky exploded

The bullets were not something that the wooden armor of the third-level battleship could withstand. There were loud bangs, and the huge hull suddenly shook.

"God, I've been hit..."

"Is it over?"

Flagel and Neverskoy closed their eyes in pain, knowing that what the Chinese fired was shells filled with starch explosives.

Rumble...

The huge explosion sounded one after another! Six of the 10 Hodgsky blasts were successfully detonated. This is not the black gunpowder that was igniting, but the nitro H starch that was exploding! Even if this explosive is in history

World War I was still the main explosive used by participating countries, and its power was greater than that of A-oil explosives. The weight of a 32-pound Hodgsky blasting bomb was approximately equivalent to the weight of a 105 howitzer shell in later generations.

, and this is not included in the weight of the pure warhead, its explosive power is almost comparable to a 150 grenade. What is the outcome of a wooden shell ship from the mid-19th century being hit by six 150 grenades? I thought about it with my heels.

Understood.

Almost at the moment when the explosion sounded, Baron Flagel found himself flying in the sky, and then fell heavily into the sea. If he hadn't had a good body as a navy soldier, he would have been dizzy now.

He struggled to cut the water twice, letting his bald head surface. At this time, the scene that he would never forget for his life came into his eyes. The Queen Anna battleship, with a full load of nearly 2,800 tons, had been broken into two sections and was sinking.

Burning! A tall mast broke, making a squeaking sound. It fell into the water with the already burnt sails, causing huge waves two stories high, almost flaming them.

Geer was flooded.

"Baron! Get out of here..."

A surviving Russian sailor swam to the baron, yelled at him, and stuffed him a broken wooden board. The baron looked at the finished Queen Anna again, sighed and looked at one ship about a nautical mile away.

The big ship swam over, and this boat was Maxiu Perry's flagship Mississippi.

Rumble! Another loud noise. The second victim of the Chongming Iron Craft appeared again. The battleship of the General Posses followed Queen Anna and was hit by seven 32-pound Hodgsky blasts.

Four of them exploded. However, for the general of the Possian General, this result was fatal enough. In an instant, the explosion shook the sky, the fires soared into the sky, and the water was covered with broken boat boards, sails and Russian soldiers.

The corpse.

At this time, the Russian fleet had disbanded and began to flee, and the six Chinese steam iron armored ships also dispersed and began to pursue them.

"Go on, smash these Russian ships!"

The Chongming, who rushed to the front, was Feng Ziye. After killing two third-class battleships one after another, he seemed to be crazy and shouting loudly, chasing the last Russian third-class battleship. But an unexpected scene appeared.

, a Russian fourth-class warship was not sure whether it was panic or unable to think about it, but it was rushing towards the Chongming ship anyway.

"Send death, right? OK, I will fulfill you!" Feng Ziye sneered and turned the rudder, aiming the starboard side of the Chongming at the enemy ship. The Russian warship actually took the same action, the two ships were 300 yards apart.

Align the upper and starts to bombard fiercely almost at the same time!

"God bless Russia! Open fire and bombard its paddle wheel!"

The officer who commanded the Russian warship was steering and making a loud order. This suicide attack was not a completely brainless move, but a paddle wheel targeting the only weakness of the Chongming-class ironclad ship! In fact, the steam sailing ship Napoleon, driven by a propeller, was driven by a propeller.

It appeared a few years ago. However, the engineers of the Nanyang Bank did not know how to design the propeller propulsion system, so the Chongming class still used paddle wheel propulsion. Therefore, there was such an empty door for warships wrapped in iron armor above the waterline.

.However, the price of attacking this empty gate is life.

"Okay! Another one exploded!"

Seeing a Russian warship turning into a ball of fire, Feng Ziye shouted loudly, but he soon discovered not much. His Chongming was spinning on the sea!

Then he heard the mournful voice of the South China Sea engineer accompanying the ship: "Captain, one of our paddle wheels was destroyed, and the ironclad ship lost its power!"

"These Russian lunatics..."

Maxiu Perry witnessed this scene through a telescope. When he saw a Russian fourth-class warship exchanged his sacrifice for the entire fleet's respite, he couldn't help but sigh.

"But the progress of the Chinese people is even more worrying..." Perry murmured in a low voice. The British Empire is very awesome, but the focus in Britain is not the Pacific Ocean after all! And China is a big country along the Pacific coast. Originally, it was thought that China was

But the army is strong, and I didn't expect their navy to make such rapid progress...

"Mr. Brigadier General, many Russian sailors swam towards us!" The first mate of the Mississippi suddenly shouted in Perry's ear.

Perry looked to the sea and found that there were indeed many heads floating on the water, moving closer to him.

"No, don't worry about them." Perry shook his head, "Let the Chinese catch prisoners. Let's hurry up, leave here..."

The first mate asked: "Where to go?"
Chapter completed!