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As for the three frigate squadrons led by Zhang Yuan, their mission is to hold back the enemy's main fleet. They were not asked to retreat, and even if they wanted to retreat, they would not be able to, because they were sandwiched between sixty enemy main battleships. All directions are enemies.

Withdrew another nautical mile. After the cruiser team sank the four enemy destroyers rushing ahead, it suffered another loss. One cruiser was besieged by three enemy destroyers, losing more than 30 personnel and two artillery pieces. One turret, one of the main guns was lost, the firepower dropped, more ants killed elephants, this is the embodiment.

After losing a destroyer there, they sank two enemy steam engine warships and severely damaged two of them. The number of the enemy's auxiliary fleet dropped to eighteen. For the first time, the fleet of the New Qin State was superior to the enemy's , before the enemy's [-] main warships rushed to the front, they briefly occupied the numerical advantage.

But it is a pity that the only two remaining two first-generation warships captured by the enemy in the second destroyer team were besieged by four enemy steam engine warships because of their slow retreat, and were targeted by one of the enemy's main battleships. During the fire siege, Zhang Siyuan didn't let other warships go to rescue them, but ordered the warships to retreat, and retreated another nautical mile. At this time, they were only nine nautical miles away from the port of Ceuta.

The enemy's other auxiliary fleet entangled the destroyer squad as usual. The remaining six warships of the third destroyer squad were besieged by nine enemy steam engine battleships. After retreating for about a mile, they could not retreat. The enemy's two ships The main battleship ran up to assist, Zhang Siyuan couldn't see it, so he ordered the injured cruiser to rush up to help in the battle, and the other three cruisers took the ten main battleships rushing towards the enemy, and the ten main battleships of the enemy also stared at it. They didn't let go, and rushed towards them regardless of the other destroyers.

The three cruisers stopped retreating, and rushed forward, directly hitting and sinking an enemy steam engine battleship that could not be avoided, then the three cruisers used the front turrets and twelve artillery pieces to shoot at the enemy's main battleship rushing forward. Twelve shells crossed 500 meters, creating a huge fountain effect around the enemy. Two of the shells were 30 meters away from the enemy. The shell at a distance of 30 meters caused a crew member on the enemy deck to fall into the water. The other crew members were staggering, and another one later exploded five meters away from the enemy. The shock wave caused the enemy's hull on the other side to distort and crack, and the enemy's capital ship shook on both sides, causing several gunners to fall into the water. water.

A little more than two hours after the battle started, the fifth destroyer team successfully arrived at the battlefield, and the addition of nine new destroyers made the battle situation temporarily favorable to them.

The first thousand and 640 chapters of the tragic death charge

The warships were cruising on the sea, fighting with the enemy's warships, the artillery fire was fired, the water column was full of sky, the smoke was lingering, the fire was soaring into the sky, and the whole sea boiled.

The addition of nine destroyers from the Fifth Destroyer Squad has stabilized the battle situation. There are still seventeen destroyers here, five of which have withdrawn from the battlefield, and there are still eleven auxiliary battleships and fourteen main battleships left. When focusing fire, the three battleships of the cruiser sank one of the main battleships of the enemy, which made the battle situation more favorable, but the other 20 main battleships of the enemy were only four or five nautical miles away from the battlefield. To be lost.

On the other side of the strait twenty nautical miles away, there were only eight warships left in the frigate fleet, four of which were sunk. Of the enemy's [-] main battleships, five were sunk and three were severely damaged. The battleship has already rushed to the center of the battlefield on this side and the battlefield on the other side, becoming the backup of the second batch of main battleships.

The battle lasted for three hours. Lieutenant Baozi arrived at the battlefield with the sixth destroyer squadron and the fourth frigate squadron. He took over the enemy's five main warships from the destroyer squadron and covered the withdrawal of seven wounded destroyers from the battlefield and returned to the port. .

At this time, with the addition of destroyers from the two rear ports, the destroyer team returned to the level of 24 ships, entangled with the enemy's remaining steam engine battleships, and eight main battleships. With seven ships left, the pressure has eased a little, but only a little.

After the fourth squadron of the frigate came up, it took over the enemy's five main battleships from here, and the three cruisers dealt with the enemy's two main battleships. It was easy. After 5 minutes of continuous salvo and shelling, the enemy's two The main battleships fled in a hurry, and were severely damaged. The three cruisers faced the enemy's second batch of [-] main battleships rushing over.

The battle lasted for four and a half hours, it was already noon, and one of the enemy's main battleships was severely damaged. The enemy's main battleship was belching white smoke, hoisted a white flag, and withdrew hastily. The three cruisers pushed the front of the battlefield. At one point, the enemy's main battleship was stopped, and the seven frigates behind them failed to make the cruiser special, severely damaged one of the enemy's main battleships, and sank one of the enemy's main battleships.

In this way, of the enemy's first batch of fifteen main battleships, one was sunk by a cruiser, three were severely damaged, one was severely damaged by a destroyer, and one was sunk, and the frigate sank one enemy, and one was severely damaged. Eight capital battleships were lost.

On the side of New Qin State, after paying the price of three destroyers, the first destroyer team sank one of the enemy's main battleships, and after being severely damaged by one destroyer, severely damaged one of the enemy's main battleships. The enemy's eight steam engine battleships were besieged and sank eight enemy steam engine battleships. Finally, they were jointly sunk by the enemy's first five main battleships, and the second destroyer squadron was completely wiped out.

The third destroyer squadron participated in the battle with the loss of one ship. Seven destroyers sank the enemy's six steam engine warships, and one destroyer lost four destroyers. Two were seriously injured and fled back to the port. The remaining four destroyers fought, and the eight destroyers of the fourth destroyer squad came to besiege the four destroyers of the enemy. After one was sunk by the enemy and one was seriously injured and left the battlefield, the remaining six battleships came with two destroyers from the third destroyer squad. The fourth destroyer squadron was reorganized. At this time, the four destroyer squadrons following Zhang Siyuan's battle had a total of 28 destroyers and the remaining twelve.

The enemy's auxiliary fleet was wiped out.

The fifth and sixth destroyers besieged the remaining five main battleships of the enemy. After losing five destroyers themselves, they sank two enemy destroyers, and the three wounded destroyers did not withdraw from the battlefield, and continued to fight with the remaining destroyers. The remaining first batch of besieging the enemy rushed over to two main battleships.

The seven warships of the four squadrons of the frigate turned around and took over seven of the twenty main battleships rushed by the enemy's second batch, and were besieged by the other five main battleships of the enemy.

The enemy sent two more ships to help the auxiliary fleet here, but the auxiliary fleet was completely wiped out. They fought against the enemy's twelve destroyers independently. After a while, after they sank the two destroyers on the side of the New Qin State, they themselves were also killed. As many as ten destroyers were all destroyed.

The ten remaining destroyers went to help the frigate squad and successfully pulled away the enemy's three besieged main battleships, allowing the frigate squad over there to face the enemy's seven main battleships one-on-one.

With great effort, it was only at this time that the enemy's auxiliary fleet of forty warships and fifteen main battleships were completely wiped out. Twenty-eight destroyers were lost here, and the remaining fourteen destroyers.

Over there, a cruiser led fourteen destroyers to deal with the enemy's ten main battleships. Here, three cruisers alone dealt with the enemy's ten main battleships. Over there, Zhang Yuan and his team had four frigates to deal with the enemy's twelve main battleships. , Lieutenant Baozi led six frigates to break through and block the enemy's third batch of twelve main battleships rushing over, but how could the six be able to stop them? The enemy's main battleships sent eight to deal with them, and four continued to move towards this place. come from the side.

Zhang Siyuan watched, he couldn't let Zhang Yuan lose, and ordered four frigates to come back and join Lieutenant Baozi. After the fifth hour, the cruiser hit three enemy battleships in a row. Yan escaped, but Zhang Siyuan didn't chase after him, and continued to fight with the remaining seven main battleships of the enemy. The people on the other side separated three main battleships to besiege the three cruisers on this side. One cruiser sank one of the enemy's main battleships, and the enemy's main battleships immediately dropped to three. The situation was precarious. The enemy's main battleships immediately began to retreat, and Zhang Yuan and the others were also retreating.

The enemy's three main battleships retreated to join the third batch of four, seven ships, and then continued to fight against fourteen destroyers and one cruiser. This side faced the enemy's seven main battleships. While hesitating whether to help this side or the other side, Zhang Siyuan's flagship fired a volley and hit an enemy warship again. The enemy warship was hit by its propeller and stopped spinning in the center of the battlefield. Zhang Siyuan's flagship gave up and continued to fight. , turn to hit the other cruiser with the same flanking fire and focus on the other one.

The battle is between brothers, you sink one, I hurt one, exchange alternately, the warships of the new Qin State with stronger anti-sinking ability will last longer, and the main battleship captured by the British will sink faster, soon The captured enemy warships were almost sunk, eight destroyers remained, the cruiser was seriously injured, three of the enemy's seven rendezvous main battleships sank, one was seriously injured, and the three main battleships faced the siege of eight destroyers , had to go to rendezvous with the eight main warships fighting with the New Qin State frigate squad.

And the remaining six main enemy battleships on this side also retreated while fighting again. During the retreat, they severely damaged a cruiser led by Zhang Siyuan who was chasing too fast, so that two of his four cruisers were seriously injured. They can't retreat yet, they staggered along with the fleet and continued to fight. If they retreated, their morale would be lost.

All the main battleships of the enemy rushed over in three batches, a total of 47 ships, and now there are only [-] ships left. Of the [-] ships, at least one was sunk, and nine ships were seriously injured and fled the battlefield. Two cruisers, five frigates, and eight destroyers are still in combat, the other two cruisers are injured, and two destroyers are on their way back to the port.

640 Chapter 2 Desperate Charge [-]

In fact, there were four cruisers, because the two seriously injured cruisers did not escape and were still fighting behind the destroyers. While letting the destroyers cover them, they continued to provide fire support for the destroyers. With the enemy's seventeen main warships charging.

Zhang Siyuan led two cruisers around the enemy to attack, even when he was seriously injured, he still attacked.

Zhang Yuan and the others successfully retreated with eight of the enemy's main warships with all their wounds, and joined Lieutenant Baozi's five frigates. They fought well. The fifteen frigates were still the main body of the frigates. The fleet just wiped out 40 main battleships of the enemy. In fact, they had to face more than 67 main battleships of the enemy, and there were [-] main battleships of the enemy's main fleet.

Now Zhang Siyuan is putting all his money into fighting the enemy. The enemy still has 25 main battleships left, 41 main battleships and 44 auxiliary warships have been lost. It can be said that the African fleet has been crippled.

However, they were also disabled. Up to now, no enemy warship has been captured, and the number of their current warships has almost dropped to the point where all the navy officers and soldiers have gone to the army. Of course, if these people can go back alive.

Now it is all the family property, except for a few wounded destroyers and a wounded frigate, all the family property is here.

Four cruisers rushed to the front, eight destroyers, and eight frigates surrounded them. Facing the enemy's main fleet, which was still more than twice as powerful as theirs, they launched a desperate charge.

Before the charge, they put all the small boats they brought into the sea, just to save the seeds of a sailor. The small boats searched the sea for their crew and sailors who fell into the water. When one was full, they immediately brought it back to them. During the charge, all 32 small boats went back, bringing back 720 sailors, mercenaries from various ships, and marine soldiers, but there were still many drowning sailors who had not had time to rescue them at sea.

Two fast cruisers lead the way, and two faltering cruisers follow behind. The battlefield is not far apart, less than five nautical miles, and we will arrive in 10 minutes. Far from the three frigates and destroyers they withdrew, they rushed forward, and the flanking enemy sent out seven main battleships to fight.

They also know how powerful this side is, leaving seven ships to deal with the five frigates here, seven ships to deal with eight destroyers, five ships to deal with Zhang Yuan's three frigates, and eight main battleships to deal with the four cruisers here. Zhang Siyuan took another cruiser to engage the enemy first, and the enemy began to swim without attacking, consuming their ammunition, and at the same time using their superiority in numbers to delay time, perhaps the enemy also became timid and wanted to run away.

The battle started at four o'clock in the morning and ended at two o'clock in the noon, a full eight hours, and both sides suffered heavy losses.

The enemy's eight main battleships passed through the firepower of their two cruisers, and when they turned around, four main battleships dealt with the injured two cruisers that were staggering behind, while facing Zhang Siyuan, their flagship and another cruiser It's just dragging, the number of enemies is superior, Zhang Siyuan and his cruiser have not many shells after a day of battle, so they can't do anything to them.

But the enemy was wrong. Although the cruiser over there was injured, it could still fire and maneuver, but at a much slower speed. The two seriously injured cruisers turned around and fired at full force, bearing the enemy's artillery fire.

The four main battleships of the enemy were hit head-on before they changed their formation. Two of the battleships were smeared and two of them were slightly injured. They had to retreat a little. Their cruiser was hit by the enemy's four main battleships many times, and finally couldn't hold on anymore. After the enemy hit the ammunition depot, only a few shells were left to die, causing the cruiser to be directly blown into two sections. Only seven or eight of the more than 50 officers and soldiers jumped into the sea, struggling to stay away from the cruiser.

Zhang Siyuan and their flagship continued to face the enemy's four wounded main battleships.

On the other side, one of the seriously injured cruisers opened fire, seriously injured one of the enemy's main battleships, and sunk one of the enemy's main battleships, but was hit by concentrated fire from the remaining two enemy battleships, and was shot many times. Both sides perished , two warships sank into the sea one after the other, and the crew members who fell into the water on both sides floated helplessly on the sea.

This cruiser was a good ship. After seriously injuring the enemy, it sank a main battleship of the enemy, and at the same time died with the seriously injured main battleship of the enemy.

The two remaining enemy battleships besieged the only remaining cruiser, which was badly wounded. The cruiser hit a slandered enemy battleship with the last bombardment, immobilized that battleship like him, then turned and sank the enemy. A seriously injured main battleship was also sunk by that seriously injured enemy main battleship.

At this time, the enemy still had five wounded main warships. Zhang Siyuan and his flagship were also in a difficult situation. They were seriously injured. Although the loss of firepower of the warships was not small, there was still one that could not move, and two were moving slowly, but there were still two main battleships that were slandered and could fight with his cruiser.

At this time, there was only one cruiser left on this side, and the eight destroyers on the other side were also covered with injuries, and fell into the siege of more than a dozen main battleships of the enemy. Fortunately, there were eight frigates fighting side by side with them.

But obviously these enemy ships are different from the main battleships that have not experienced the previous hard battles. They have all the firepower. At least ten of the previous battles were soy sauce, because there are too few warships in the New Qin Kingdom here and the strait is narrow. This is why Zhang Yuan and the others were able to resist the enemy's 67 main battleships with a fleet of [-] frigates. Later, the enemy sent [-] main battleships to come, and they were rushed by the destroyer fleet and The fourth squadron of frigates in the port of Ceuta blocked it.

Now that most of the battleships on both sides have been lost, they are all angry, and they don't want to back down. If they lose one-third of their warships according to the battles of the Sino-Japanese War or the Battle of Jutland in later generations, both sides are trying to find a way Leaving the battlefield, although the four countries basically have deep hatred for each other, but for this reason, all warships are irrationally put together, and no one will do such a thing.

And the British African fleet here was attacked and wiped out nearly 400 auxiliary warships, and nearly half of the main force of more than 60 ships. Now they are thinking about destroying Zhang Siyuan and their fleet, and they have wiped out their African fleet. There are still six super fleets, and Zhang Siyuan and the others who have exhausted all the battleships have become an army, and they are an army trapped on the African continent. This business can be done, and it is very wise to lead the commander of the African fleet. Very strategic.

Of course, the fight here is fierce, and the two sides are not without losses. Eight destroyers are covered with injuries. Less than 15 minutes after the battle started again, one destroyer was sunk. The biggest damage they caused to the enemy was the enemy who escaped just now. The remaining three seriously injured main battleships of the first batch of fifteen main battleships were hit hard again, so the three enemy main battleships had to retreat, because their firepower was too weak to help.

This destroyer used his own life to narrow the number of warships on both sides. There are still fourteen main battleships left by the enemy over there, and five main battleships are left here. However, a main battleship that is seriously injured by the enemy cannot If you don't move, you can only stop there, because Zhang Siyuan is already far away from the accuracy range of the guns of this enemy's main battleship.

He still has this vision, so what he has to face is the enemy's two main battleships that are seriously injured and can still fight, and two main battleships that are slanderous.

Small details such as accurate calculations and on-the-spot command in battle can determine which side wins a battle with disparity in strength. Sometimes it is impossible to guess whether the explosive power of a relegation team will overturn Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The reason why the new Qin State has been able to repeatedly win more with less is to pay attention to dividing the enemy, suppress the enemy with quality advantages, and always pay attention to details, and with the help of wireless telegraphy, countless such tactical masters have been trained over the years, so generations of naval generals Not once was it a disappointment.

In the new Qin state, the high-level people are called navy generals, but all the Chinese Han people below are still used to calling them sailors. This is an unchangeable fact, because since the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty, the naval fleet has been called a navy in China. The fleet, even when Zhang Qiang was in power, was mostly called the navy fleet. It was not until the eldest prince became emperor that it was changed to the navy.