Iron Dynasty

The intelligence is not wrong. The Chinese Empire really has a musket that can shoot continuously. This is terrible.

On the deck, Corbansi was also paying attention to the situation of the Imperial Fleet. When he noticed the continuous shooting of weapons on the deck, his heart sank.

The Chinese Empire is too terrifying. As long as they have this weapon, we can only be massacred on the battlefield. Fei Lin said in a condensed voice.

Corbasi nodded, That's why we have to get their advanced weapons at all costs and send them to the country for imitation.

Just as he was talking, he suddenly noticed that the lights of the flagship of the Imperial Fleet suddenly went out, and he said happily: Great, their commander is on this warship, let the soldiers focus on attacking this warship, as long as their The flagship is captured, and they will be in chaos.

Filin also saw it at this time, and he glanced at Corbansi with some admiration, the famous Spanish naval admiral worthy of being called Spain's sea fortress.

In the face of such a disadvantage, they are still fighting evenly now, which is already very rare.

All gunners attack the sixth battleship from the left in the southwest! Filin gave the order.

Boom boom boom...

A salvo burst out after the order was given, and one after another burst into the ironclad King.

At the same time, other warships successively focused their firepower on the ironclad Sovereign, and under the cover of the battleship artillery, the small boats in the sea quickly approached the Sovereign.

Kebansi looked at this scene with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and then his eyes turned to an ironclad ship in the southeast, which was on the edge of the imperial fleet.

He said: Send soldiers immediately to attack the first battleship on the right. Now that the enemy's flagship is besieged by us, the other battleships will be eager to break the siege and ignore the battleships on the edge, and capture the ironclad ship!

It's a brilliant move! Filmin said excitedly, and he asked the messenger with the lantern to issue another order on the edge of the deck, causing some of the boats to approach the east side.

On the Sovereign, the marines continued to suffer casualties under the enemy's artillery fire. After the searchlights went out, it seemed that all the enemy's artillery fire was concentrated on the Sovereign, and the enemy's shells were thrown from time to time on the deck.

The intensive attack took a heavy toll on the marines on the battleship.

General, it's too dangerous here, you have to go back to the cabin. Liu Chen said to Yue Yun that the Sovereign is the core of the ironclad ship, and Yue Yun is the core of the Sovereign. If something happens to Yue Yun, this naval battle will be won. It also equals a fiasco.

Yue Yun's expression was cold, he said: I thought that once the ironclad ships came out, the Qingzhou fleet would be able to run wild from now on, this naval battle really taught us a lesson, the emperor is right, and strategically we must despise the enemy. , but strategically we must pay attention to the enemy.”

After all, he said to Liu Chen: Order the King to turn around and use the movement advantage of the steam-engine battleship to annihilate the enemy battleship. We can't take it too seriously. We are very disadvantaged by this kind of unequal shot.

While the two were talking, the soldier brought up the spare searchlight, and after some installation, the searchlight turned on again.

Liu Chen looked at the more than 60 sailing warships burning on the sea. Although the enemy's wooden ships were approaching them, the enemy suffered heavy losses in this kind of artillery attack. After all, relatively speaking, the bearing capacity of ironclad warships was much stronger than that of wooden sailing warships. .

Nodding his head, he immediately asked the searchlight to issue an order to change the formation of the fleet, and this time they would annihilate the enemy's warships during their voyage.

And those little wooden boats let them float in the sea.

After the order was issued, the ironclad group immediately resumed sailing, taking advantage of their speed to keep a distance from the small wooden boats, but kept within the firing range of the machine guns.

This kite-flying style of play quickly exhausted the soldiers on the boat. The steam-engine warships relied on the power of the steam engine, and they relied on the manpower.

Corbanci's face paled after noticing the changes in the Imperial fleet. Because it was a sneak attack, the Imperial battleships were parked at the beginning, which was beneficial for them to approach.

But now their commanders were apparently aware of the problem, and the ships pulled anchor and set sail.

The most hateful thing is that although these ironclad ships are cumbersome, their speed is not slow. If they are sailing warships, their boats can still catch up, but these steel monsters run too fast, and the boats can't catch up with them at all, but they are hung by them. beat.

Fei Lin's excited expression also disappeared, and they are now in a very embarrassing situation, which is that they can only be beaten and cannot fight back.

Boom boom boom...

The moving ironclads continued to fire at the sailing warships, and the rotating turrets allowed them to attack the enemy in any direction.

Sixty-five, seventy, eighty... Every time an enemy warship was hit, Liu Chen would report the number to Yue Yun.

Freed from the entanglement of the boat, their attack seemed to be easy, and the balance of war was tilted in their favor again.

Don't let one go, send ten warships to bypass the flanks and block the mouth of the Ganges, Yue Yun said.

His order was issued, and ten ironclad ships left the team and drove straight towards the Ganges River.

The movement of the Imperial Fleet was seen by Corbansi, and he slowly put down the telescope. He sighed heavily, It's not that I have poor command, but the ironclad ships of the Imperial Fleet are too strong. If we don't have ironclad ships, I am afraid that Europe will dominate the era of maritime hegemony. will never return.”

Although Fei Lin was extremely unwilling, he could only choose to bow his head in the face of the 80 sailing warships burning in the sea. He understood what Corbansi meant.

Retreat! Corbanci issued the final order. The offensive of the imperial warships has not stopped, and their fleet is still losing. Once the mouth of the Ganges is blocked by the imperial warships, they will have no escape. Relying on the speed of the ironclad ships, they will be killed. sunk one by one.

Yes. Filin's voice trembled.

This order was cruel, as it meant that they would abandon the soldiers in small boats in the sea, but he had to carry it out, and instead of destroying the whole army, it was more appropriate to keep some of the battleships for future use.

Thinking of this, he asked the messengers to issue an order to retreat. The captains of the remaining seventy battleships had long been looking forward to this order, and now they are desperately heading for the mouth of the Ganges.

On the Sovereign, Yue Yun showed a triumphant smile. For him, the remaining battleships were not enough. After this war, the route from India to Europe was decided by the Imperial Navy.

Even if they hide in the Ganges, they cannot escape their grasp in the end.

Starting tomorrow, the warships will cruise along the Indian coastline in groups of three, sinking any supply ships from Europe.