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But compared to the enemy's warships, their battleships are more powerful than the enemy's warships after all. New, more advanced warships.

This is also the second lieutenant's confidence.

After rushing out, the upper wind was also seized by the enemy, so they could only rush sideways, line up the battle line, and flank the enemy while sailing towards Puerto Rico.

Hard work always pays off. In less than 15 minutes, after a round of salvo, the enemy's two first-class battleships were paralyzed, and the enemy's capital ship was taken care of by three Type III ironclad ships. Twelve 128mm shells hit the enemy Three of the second-generation warships were destroyed, the enemy's superstructure was completely destroyed, observation equipment and masts were all destroyed, and the enemy's tail dual-mounted [-]mm artillery turret was destroyed. The entire battleship was reduced to a speed of only [-] knots. Return fire with the midsection and front turrets.

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After rushing out of the port, in less than half an hour, three enemy warships were severely damaged, and one warship was seriously injured on our side, and there was still a numerical advantage. The British immediately dropped the other merchant ships and warships of the landing force and retreated, the second lieutenant Arrange a Type [-] battleship to escort the severely damaged battleship, continue to bombard the enemy's landing ships and soldiers, and take the remaining eleven warships to chase the nine fleeing enemy warships.

The sea is confused with gunpowder and smoke, the waves are rough, and the waves are beating against the swaying hull. The sailors on the battleship are busy rescuing the fire that ignited where they were hit. During the process, the entire battleship drifted backward by nearly seven or eight meters, and the battleship tilted nearly 50 degrees in the opposite direction, and then due to gravity and waves, it swayed in the opposite direction, self-correcting this abnormality As the battleship drifted sideways, the artillery fired successively caused the battleship to move nearly [-] meters sideways.

The helmsmen and engineers worked hard, the propeller behind the battleship made a buzzing idling sound, and then submerged in the waves for a while, making a real sound of hitting the sea water, and the whole battleship was shaking. Struggling in the sea, crisis bursts in the artillery fire.

Some warships are unlucky, for example, here, the remaining eleven warships chased the enemy's nine warships, which were not lightly injured, but were still hit by the enemy. This time, it was a cruiser with a huge hull. , it is destined to become a cannonball magnet, and the cannonball can hit it without dodging.

A cruiser was hit on the flank, and was immediately pushed back by more than three meters. The armor plate on the battleship was knocked off, and the iron skin of the fist-thick hull was blown up like a rotten tomato. Fortunately, it was above the waterline, and only a few tons of sea water poured in, but it was enough to hurt the cruiser's muscles and bones. Nearly thirty sailors and gunners, handymen on board, soldiers, casualties, and damage managers They all rushed to the place where the shot was fired, pulled long hoses, and poured seawater towards the place where the explosion occurred.

The doctors and other soldiers who poured out of the cabin carried the wounded into the cabin for treatment, and the corpses were carried away by the soldiers to the cabin for centralized management. The speed of the cruiser at the time of the injury dropped from 25 knots to 22 knots, and two doors were damaged. The 37mm rapid-fire gun, two 75mm secondary guns, and one [-]mm secondary gun. A turret in the middle was deformed by the fragments of the shell because the rotation mechanism was stuck, and it took at least half an hour to repair.

However, the battleship still has nearly eight main guns firing. This is a cruiser, and the piggyback cannons can still fire. They are nearly two meters higher than the forts on the deck, and they are not hurt. Their firing makes the enemy one generation The iron-clad ship was hit and caught fire. Half an hour later, this battleship was abandoned by the enemy due to the excessive fire. The enemy fled to another battleship in small boats, but before they finished transferring, the Qin ship The two turrets at the tail of the cruiser, a deck main gun, and a backpack main gun. Four shells came to this once paralyzed battleship. After a violent explosion, the battleship tilted in less than 5 minutes, and then flipped over. Dumped into the sea.

The enemy's remaining battleship, which was severely damaged just now, was also hit by another Type 5 battleship here. It suffered heavy damage twice, and was destroyed before it could react. sink into the sea.

After the loss of three warships, the enemy became even more panicked and began to disperse and flee. During the escape, a capital ship, a second-generation ironclad ship, was besieged by four warships here, one capital ship, one cruiser, one A Type [-] battleship destroyer and a Type [-] frigate. After paying for a Type [-] destroyer, the enemy's battleship was forced to sink itself.

The British commander of this fleet and a group of senior British naval officials were captured. In less than 15 minutes, other warships escaped two first-class battleships, captured two first-class battleships, and one Spanish-made first-generation battleship was captured. sunk.

Leave a Type II ironclad ship to clean the battlefield, take care of the prisoners, let the marines and some sailors on the fleet go up to take over the enemy's battleship, and leave a seriously injured Type III ironclad ship as escort, and the remaining eight The battleship sailed towards the waters of Puerto Rico with injuries. This time they fought and chased, and they were very close to Puerto Rico, only [-] nautical miles away. For the clear sea, [-] nautical miles can clearly see the situation there. It's almost the same over there.

The captain's fifteen battleships over there fought only eleven battleships, the British lost eight battleships, two were captured, one escaped, they lost three themselves, three were seriously injured, and one battleship was left to clean and cover The seriously injured battleship withdrew from the port, and was preparing to meet the main fleet of the Caribbean Fleet coming from the port of another Spanish colonial island not more than [-] nautical miles away.

In fact, the British are not unprepared. The main fleet in the Caribbean just patrolled the surrounding [-] nautical miles yesterday, just to prevent the arrival of Zhuang Lin and his Panamanian main fleet. It has been more than half a month since Qin captured Puerto Rico. It has been about ten days since they came here. How can we not find out that the reason for the destruction of the Spanish fleet was the failure caused by the ambush of the main fleet in Dingyangzhou of Qin State, so they dispatched their own auxiliary fleet to attack the colonial islands occupied by the enemy, and at the same time they were in Spain. The island was replenished, patrolled, and even had the intention to ambush, waiting for Zhuang Lin and their main fleet to arrive, and then rushed out to destroy them.

They put such a small force to attack the island, just to give Zhuang Lin and his fleet a chance. What they didn't expect was that the enemy would not be fooled at all, or that the pile of rags from the enemy stationed here dared to rush out of the port and defeated them with superior force bait fleet.

When the San Juan fleet and the Puerto Rico fleet meet here, the battlefield is almost cleaned up, and the wounded are basically transported back to other warships by small boats. The merchant ships that come out of the port will send additional sailors, gunners, and soldiers to the fleet. On board, just after the arrangements were made, after four hours of sailing, the main force of the British Caribbean Fleet also arrived.

After an hour of maintenance and transfer of the wounded, there were only [-] Qin Empire fleets that had gone through the war under the coordination of the captain, and they confronted the main Caribbean fleet that the enemy had come to.

The captain used a telescope to observe the enemy's main fleet, eight British second-generation ironclad ships, seven British first-generation ironclad ships, nine quasi-ironclad ships, thirteen improved battleships, and three enemy ships that fled back. The first generation of ironclad ships and eight of the enemy's reconnaissance ships are all thousand-ton fast ironclad ships, and beside them are the last five steam engine battleships of the Spaniards, with wooden shells and steam engine power.

A total of 53 battleships.

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When the enemy's 53 warships appeared from the sea level, [-] nautical miles from the Puerto Rico coastline, [-] ships had already extinguished their fires, and the new Qin fleet led by the temporary captain after simple repairs was ready to face the battle.

Two capital ships, three cruisers, four frigates, and five destroyers are already facing the sea wind and slowly moving towards the enemy fleet.

At the same time, a telegram has been sent for the second time, "The enemy is only fifteen nautical miles away from our fleet, and it is expected to enter the engagement distance in half an hour."

The first telegram was before the start of the war, that is, five hours ago, and the arrival of the British was a week ago. The Lu Fang fleet, which had already been prepared, went to the port of Curacao yesterday to rest and set sail again. It started at 160 o'clock in the morning last night. Traveling at a speed of [-] knots, it has sailed more than [-] nautical miles on the sea.

There are hidden reconnaissance ships around. When the British landed, they were ready to ambush the British. It’s just that the fleet can’t stay at sea all the time. It has to go back to take care of it. I went back the day before yesterday and came back today. The British bombardment and landing are not the same. It can kill the garrison on the island and the fleet guarding the port at once, so Lu Fang took the fleet back to Curacao, the nearest Venezuelan port they occupied, for maintenance, and continued to come back early this morning to ambush and protect the port.

Just when they reached [-] nautical miles, they received a telegram from the temporary captain. The enemy had already achieved certain results. They were preparing to attack and defeat the enemy's landing force outside this morning, so they accelerated a little and took [-] knots. speed sprint.

The speed of [-] knots is already the fastest speed. Although many old-fashioned Type [-] warships in the fleet are improved, their speed is not too fast. They have been used for many years, even if the speed was the leading Type [-] improvement at that time. The speed of the small warship is [-] knots, and now it is only the fastest speed of [-] knots.

But it is impossible for a warship to maintain the fastest speed all the time. Now Lu Fang is thinking about slowing down, and ordered to gradually reduce the speed from seventeen knots to sixteen knots, and then gradually reduce the speed to ten knots, and then Sail at a speed of three or four knots and let the machine take a rest. This will definitely delay their arrival at the battlefield. The sky is already bright, and they are still nearly 100 nautical miles away from the target, which will take at least six hours.

In other words, it may not be able to catch up with the decisive battle between the interim captain and the British fleet.

Lu Fang was a little dizzy in his head. If he set off an hour earlier, it wouldn't be the case, but he had to execute the current action, otherwise the battleship would lie down in the past, it would be bad, it was delivering food.

Half an hour later, the speed of the fleet dropped to ten knots, and he sailed another six or seven nautical miles. He looked at his pocket watch, and the decisive battle should have started now. He only hoped that the temporary captain and the others could delay it for a longer time, otherwise the loss would be huge. big.

The remaining half an hour is suffering. The enemy is only [-] nautical miles away, and the machines of the battleship are still being repaired and rested. In the distance, the naval battle has already begun.

Fourteen warships rushed towards the enemy's 53 warships, and the British began to fire at about three nautical miles, which was close to six kilometers in three nautical miles, a distance of more than 5000 meters. It's not a problem, the turret has the largest elevation angle, and it can completely fire a salvo. The firepower covers about 1000 meters in front of the fleet. Although there are no hits, the momentum is very loud, suppressing this side in terms of momentum.

After a fierce naval battle here, each of the combined fleets lost nearly half of their strength, and after the replacement sailors and gunners on the battleships, their fighting will was not as high as before.

The enemy's eight fast ironclad ships of the thousand-ton class had approached for about one nautical mile, and they also fired fierce artillery fire from the three 75mm guns on the battleships. The smoke covered the sea of ​​Puerto Rico, making the fleets of both sides faintly visible in the smoke.

This kind of interference tactic is to cover the enemy's other warships and rush to surround them, because after all, the enemy's warships are too many. Under the cover of gunpowder smoke, artillery fire, and rising water columns, the five steam engine battleships of the Spaniards fled back. The three first-generation ironclad ships of the British landing fleet and thirteen improved British first-class battleships quietly formed an encirclement circle and surrounded them.

At a distance of nearly 500 meters, more artillery fire continued to spew out and tilt the ammunition to this side, while this side began to maneuver in a snake shape to get rid of the enemy's encirclement, while approaching the shore, in an attempt to use the force from the coastal waters The reef allowed them to distance themselves from the enemy, disperse the enemy's fleet formation, and create opportunities that were beneficial to them, but they forgot that this was a British colonial island, and they were more familiar with this sea area than these sailors from the New Qin Kingdom.

Half an hour into the battle, a mobile Type III ironclad ship hit the rocks under the pressure of three enemy first-generation ironclad ships that fled back. The bow of the ship flooded a lot and stopped in place. When the battleship sank the enemy's thousand-ton fast ironclad ship that was trying to get close to the enemy who sank them, it was fired by five enemy Spanish warships and was shot 32 times. The silence was broken immediately. Inside the reefs.

Of the 230 people on board, only 12 escaped, floating on the sea and waiting for rescue.

Another Type III ironclad ship covering it, after severely damaging a Spanish warship, rammed head-on into an enemy British first-generation warship, detonated the ammunition depot, and died with the enemy. There were 250 people on the ship, and only three were on board. Finally rescued, the others were all martyred.

Another Type III battleship saw that something was wrong and ran towards the fleet. Seeing this, the fleet quickly escaped from the reef area and ran to the deep water area of ​​the other side of the port, which was no more than eight nautical miles away. The thousand-ton ironclad ship hit head-on, and a three-meter-long opening was opened in the measuring line. After fighting for more than ten minutes, after sinking two Spanish steam engine warships, a [-]mm artillery shell from a first-generation warship that came by the enemy hit the ammunition bay of the turret that was too late to close, and also exploded and sank.

There were 240 people on board, and 11 people were rescued in the end.

Less than an hour and 10 minutes into the war, the provisional fleet lost three Type III ironclad ships, paralyzed a Spanish steam engine warship of the enemy, sank three enemy steam engine warships, and died together. Ironclad ship, severely damaged one of the enemy's first-generation ironclad ships, sank two thousand-ton ironclad ships of the enemy, and severely damaged one.

It can be said that it is worth it, but for the final victory, there is still little hope.

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The sea battle is still going on, and Lu Fang's fleet is still rushing to the battlefield. He regrets that he observed the British's carelessness in the landing battle the day before yesterday, and did not stay. Now the situation is getting more and more critical, and the fleet may be in danger of being completely wiped out. That is the strength of all auxiliary fleets except their main fleet.

Even if he was in a hurry at the moment, he couldn't help him. After 15 minutes of maintenance, he led the fleet to sail again, still advancing at a speed of [-] knots. He didn't dare to go soaring at a speed of [-] knots. An old converted battleship will be lying down.

At this moment, the interim captain is still fighting with the battleship fleet.

Because one of their previously injured cruisers was also besieged by five enemy battleships at the moment, and was shot five times, although the enemy's three 75mm artillery shells would not cause much damage to the enlarged Ironclad IV cruiser , but the explosion of these three shells shattered the injured wound on the waterline that was simply repaired forward, causing the wound to crack below the waterline, causing several watertight compartments to flood. The 25-ton battleship carried nearly one hundred Tons of seawater, even a cruiser with strong power and capable of sailing at a speed of [-] knots in wartime is faltering at this time, and its speed has dropped to only [-] knots.

What's more, two British 120mm guns equipped on the battleship also hit the cruiser, causing two of the six dual-mounted turrets in the front and rear to be destroyed, and one lost the ability to rotate and could only move towards the cruiser. Fired at an angle, there are twelve [-] [-]mm cannons, and now there are only six left. Facing the enemy, they have already seized the limelight, and the speed is faster than the eight [-]mm cannons on the second-generation ironclad ship at [-] knots The gunfire of the British second-generation ironclad ship can only be parried at this time, and cannot cause much damage to the enemy.

Such a tight situation forced the second lieutenant to assign a Type [-] ironclad ship, which is now a destroyer with a new name from Xinqin State. The five destroyers and two frigates he led before served as the cover of the fleet and resisted the enemy. The eight thousand-ton ironclad ships that rushed up, five Spanish steam engine warships, three British first-generation ironclad ships that escaped before, and five first-class armed battleships attacked.

At the cost of losing three destroyers and seriously injuring one, they paralyzed five first-class armed battleships of the enemy, wiped out five Spanish steam engine warships, sank two thousand-ton fast ironclad ships, and seriously damaged one thousand-ton fast ironclad ship , He also sank two enemy first-generation ironclad ships, severely damaged one enemy first-generation ironclad ship, and then he was left with only one destroyer and two frigates.

At this moment, he arranged for the last destroyer on a frigate, an improved ironclad battleship IV, to block the eye-catching for the cruiser. With the body of the destroyer, he blocked a round of bombardment from the enemy's second-generation ironclad battleship for the cruiser, and Blocking the five battleships that were paralyzed, plus the impact of four thousand-ton fast ironclad ships, the result was that the destroyer was sunk. After the cruiser was adjusted, it was ready to use the remaining six main guns and the remaining ten guns. The side 75mm secondary gun is against the enemy.

And his two frigates had to kill the first-class armed battleships that the enemy continued to pounce on. Braving the enemy's artillery fire and being shot three times, they used fierce artillery fire to preserve the six giant cannons on the battleship. , sixteen 75mm secondary guns on one side, twelve 37mm rapid-fire guns, and eight 37mm rapid-fire guns deployed on the front and rear plates killed the four thousand-ton fast ironclad ships attacked by the enemy, and then were shot down again. He was hit by a [-]mm shell, and immediately his flagship joined the ranks of the seriously wounded.

A central twin-mounted cannon turret was destroyed. Nearly 40 sailors and gunners died in the explosion, nearly [-] people were injured, and the number of personnel was reduced by nearly one-sixth.

What is more tragic is that another frigate that protected them and followed the flagship, an improved type of ironclad ship, almost all the turrets were destroyed, only the single cannon on the back was still firing, and the side of the secondary gun was also fired. There were only three doors left, and the entire hull was billowed with smoke, and the fire was raging, and many crew members had to jump into the sea to escape.