Chapter 1108 Lightning Strike! Lightning Strike (Second update, please subscribe)
Although the firepower of the Imperial Navy is very fast, the "Peru" and "Bolivia" still showed the powerful combat effectiveness of the battleships. Under the protection of thick armor, they still fought tenaciously on the sea, even though its twelve
The rate of fire of the 3-inch naval gun is very slow, but every time the 30-inch naval gun fires, it shakes the sea.
Suddenly, a cloud of smoke suddenly rose amidships of the cruiser Datong, causing Grau to shout excitedly, "It's a hit!"
It's a twelve-inch artillery shell!
This shot gave Grau and other naval admirals hope. In fact, they did not give up hope at all, because they all knew what defeat in this naval battle meant.
"Very good, that's how we fight! Tell everyone, keep shooting, we will defeat them soon..."
Although there was a fire burning on the armored ship "Huaraz", under the command of Captain Condel, the sailors still fought tenaciously. On this warship, which was mainly Chilean, even a fire broke out
A small Chilean flag, this is their last hope.
At this moment, the lookout who had been observing the battlefield suddenly spotted several ship shadows in the sea fog on the starboard side.
Boat shadow?
How can this be?
Soon he saw several warships heading towards the fleet at full speed.
"Enemy ship, enemy ship found on the starboard side!"
"Enemy ship, enemy ship!"
Amidst the shouts, ten small lightning strike ships quickly sailed towards the fleet under the cover of sea fog. The Royal Navy observer Major Madson on the "Peru" looked at the small ships in surprise.
, they didn't even fire their cannons, they sailed towards the fleet like sharp arrows.
These warships look very small, only a few hundred tons. What do they want to do?
They were pointing straight at the fleet like arson ships.
"The lightning strike ship is the lightning strike ship..."
Suddenly, Madsen thought of the warships unique to the Ming Empire.
It's a lightning strike ship!
A warship armed with torpedoes.
"It's the lightning strike ship of the Ming Empire!"
Standing on the bridge of the "Bolivia", Lieutenant General Williams shouted an order.
"Quick, starboard..."
When he mentioned the starboard side, he thought that in order to make up for the lack of combat effectiveness on the port side, in previous naval battles, he had repeatedly moved gunners from the starboard side to the port side to make up for the losses there.
But despite this, the cannon was still fired on the starboard side, but the rate of fire of the retracted cannon was too slow. Although the firing of the six-inch naval gun seemed to be very powerful, it was just a water column on the sea. Those torpedo ships were in the water column without hesitation.
rushed towards the enemy ship.
"One thousand meters!"
"Eight hundred meters!"
When the distance was close to 600 meters, Ding Tao suddenly turned the helm with all his strength. While the torpedo ship was rowing half a circle on the sea, the torpedo chief in the middle of the ship had already operated the launch tube to aim at the "Peru".
"Launch torpedoes..."
Six torpedoes were launched one after another!
Six torpedoes launched by compressed air flew out of the launch tube and flew towards the "Peru" the moment they entered the water. As the air-driven torpedoes surged in the sea water, they created a trail of bubbles in the sea.
, the torpedo was like a sharp arrow leaving the string, heading straight towards the "Peru" aircraft.
"torpedo!"
Because everyone focused on the port side and ignored the starboard side, by the time someone discovered the enemy ship rushing out of the sea fog on the starboard side, it was already too late. The most deadly thing was the torpedo. Although the torpedo's wake was very obvious, when they
When it flew like a sharp arrow, the people on the warship didn't know how to respond.
"Torpedo, it's a torpedo!"
Looking at the approaching torpedo, Admiral Grau shouted hastily.
"Full left rudder, sailing at full speed..."
The appearance of torpedoes disrupted the Peruvians' position. In such a state of confusion, they could only avoid torpedoes by avoiding collisions.
Although the torpedoes were fired from the torpedo-strike ships at a distance of about five hundred meters, the Peruvians still had a certain amount of reaction time. Just as they hurriedly turned the rudder, a torpedo almost flew past the hull.
But before the sailors on the ship could breathe a sigh of relief, a torpedo hit the starboard side of the "Peru" directly.
With a loud bang and a violent explosion, everyone saw a sea wall rising on its starboard side. Just when the sea wall composed of sea water was about to fall, another sea wall rose.
"Hit!"
When the "Peru" was accurately hit by three consecutive torpedoes, the "Bolivia" was also hit, and then the "Huasca", "Independence", "Federation"...
After an hour and a half of the naval battle, the lightning strike ship that suddenly joined the battlefield became the straw that broke the camel's back. Just one encounter completely changed the course of the naval battle.
After the lightning strike team drew a circle, it once again struck the enemy ship with lightning. Compared with the long artillery battle, the torpedo attack was fatal. The "Peru" with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons was hit by three torpedoes in succession.
After that, it immediately tilted severely and was about to sink into the sea. After the stern of the "Bolivia" was hit, the turbulent seawater poured directly into the stern of the ship, slowly raising the bow. Ten minutes later, with the
With a "click" sound, the giant ship of nearly 10,000 tons broke into two pieces like a toy.
The once shocking sea battle ended with two lightning strikes by the lightning fleet!
When everything was over, in the black smoke, only a lone cruiser was left in the once mighty Peruvian-Bolivian Federation fleet on the sea.
The sea was full of corpses and sailors floating in the waves. The sailors who fell into the water looked at the fleet in horror. They could not believe that everything they had experienced before was defeated like this!
How could he lose so quickly?
The fog slowly faded away, and this fleet of the Peruvian-Bolivia Federation, which cost tens of millions of pesos, disappeared from the world, leaving only a lonely "Covadonga" with its mast hanging high.
The white flag is the fundamental reason why he survived.
"Okay, it's all over!"
The corners of Cheng Bichen's lips raised slightly. When he ordered to rescue the Peruvian soldiers who fell into the water, he moved for the first time. Looking at the sea in front of him, what he thought of was not when the Navy Department wanted to mobilize warships. He said that only one Nanhua class was needed.
, a Linhai-class ship is enough, and it is not time to proceed as planned, take advantage of the victory, go straight to the port of Callao, threaten Lima, and force Lima to surrender.
He was thinking of Zhongdu and the ongoing negotiations.
"Now...how will Americans react?"
In fact, what he is concerned about is not the reaction of the Americans, but how the war will end after it starts. After all, the most important thing after the war breaks out is to end the war!
(End of chapter)
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