The naval commander of the European Allied Forces, the English Admiral Holtz, has approached the enemy fleet.
He was full of confidence and prepared to break through the defense of the enemy fleet.
They were about ten nautical miles away from the enemy, and he thought this distance was extremely safe.
Admiral Holtz did not expect that the main gun of the Great China Navy had a range of more than ten nautical miles.
This is ten nautical miles. According to the calculations of the Dahua Empire, the range is a little over 18 kilometers.
Even the extremely long fortress guns on the shore cannot reach this kind of range.
This kind of thing was completely beyond the expectations of the European Allied Navy.
Let the European Allied Navy be suddenly attacked by the enemy in a relatively dense formation.
Admiral Holtz was surprised by the range of the main guns of the Imperial Navy, but he was even more surprised by the extremely terrifying incendiary bombs.
The British Navy had already encountered fire attacks a few years ago.
Most of the warships that year were directly engulfed in fires caused by napalm bombs.
They, the naval generals, later recalled that when wooden warships were attacked by napalm bombs, there was almost no way to escape unscathed.
This was also the time when the Royal Navy of England was fully committed to building steamships covered with iron hulls.
They agreed that if covered with a layer of iron shell, the napalm bomb would only cause some casualties and would not ignite the entire warship in a short time.
Admiral Holtz did not expect that the Dahua Empire's incendiary bombs had been upgraded. The temperature of these incendiary bombs could even melt steel.
He is thinking whether the army will continue to attack?
A panicked Spanish voice came from the side.
"This is Satan coming to the world, and this is a force we cannot resist.
My God, redeem your pious people."
Admiral Holtz directly ordered: "Disrupt the morale of the military and lock it up."
After receiving the military order, the military police immediately began to deal with the frightened general.
When the other generals saw this situation, his face turned pale and his legs were still shaking, but they no longer dared to say anything about retreat.
After Admiral Holtz experienced this setback, he had already figured out that the European Allies had no way out.
At the very least, this naval battle would result in both sides losing.
Otherwise, let the Great China Empire control the Mediterranean.
The continuous supplies from the Great China Empire will be transported by sea to supply the army.
Not only the Holy Roman Empire could not stop it, but France could not stop the Great China Empire's offensive.
Only the lonely British Isles are left, unable to reverse the disadvantage at all.
Admiral Holtz immediately issued the order.
"The whole army attacks, and conventional ships cover the glorious ships.
Target the battleship Qin Shihuang and use all your strength to destroy the battleship Qin Shihuang."
Holtz's order was issued, and the semaphore soldiers began to convey the order through semaphore.
The fleet received the final order, and the submarine executing the Glorious Plan began to dive; under the cover of friendly forces, the warship quickly approached the fleet where the battleship Qin Shihuang was located.
However, there are also some people who believe that this naval battle is bound to be lost. They use mechanical failures and other excuses to slow down the warship and fall to the rear of the fleet.
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Commander Zhan Tie has been paying attention to the movements of the European Allied Navy.
The battleship Qin Shihuang has used up its inventory of white phosphorus bombs and wiped out more than a quarter of the enemy forces.
Even with such heavy casualties, the European Allied Navy still did not escape, but launched a final charge towards them.
When Chief of Staff Cao Zhengyuan saw this situation, he analyzed: "The Commander-in-Chief of the European Allied Navy is a sensible person.
He knows that if he retreats now, the final result will be to be defeated by each of us.
That’s why they chose to put their money where their mouth is, and if there is a comeback, they will make a profit.”
Commander Zhan Tie frowned and said, "I'm still worried that the European Allied Forces have trump cards that we don't understand.
Let all ships be more vigilant, we have the upper hand and must not be careless."
After Zhan Tie conveyed his order to the entire army, he took out his telescope and observed the situation on the battlefield.
The European Allied Navy bypassed the burning sea area and continued to attack the Imperial Royal Navy Fleet.
The three fleets of the Imperial Royal Navy are getting closer and closer to the European Allied Navy.
The distance between the two armies soon reached within the range of the cruiser's main gun.
The Imperial Royal Navy fleet began to slow down, and the warships' main guns were raised high, launching a salvo at the European Allied Navy.
The Imperial Royal Navy fleet is no longer in a hurry to quickly approach the European Allied Navy fleet.
Within this distance, if the European Allied naval fleet wants to attack, it must withstand multiple salvos from the Imperial Royal Navy fleet.
If the European Allied naval fleet wants to escape, they can pursue it as quickly as possible.
The warships of the European Allied Forces are obviously not as fast as the warships of the Imperial Royal Navy.
Chief of Staff Cao Zhengyuan put down his telescope and said: "The European Allied Navy has obviously sent a small number of warships to contain the fleet where the Taishan and Huashan are located.
The main force of the European Allied Navy attacked the battleship Qin Shihuang.
They underestimated the battleship Qin Shihuang. With the thickness of the battleship's armor, they stopped in place and allowed them to attack.
The weak firepower of these European Allied warships may not be able to penetrate the armor of the Qin Shihuang battleship."
Commander Zhan Tie was not so optimistic.
"The battleship Qin Shihuang looks very powerful, and it is indeed very powerful.
But it also has its weak points, such as propellers.
The propeller blades and main shaft may seem strong, but they cannot withstand the self-destruction of a submarine.
As the flagship, the battleship Qin Shihuang is the face of our Royal Navy.
The heavy damage to the battleship Qin Shihuang will also greatly boost the morale of European countries."
Chief of Staff Cao Zhengyuan said confidently: "I believe that the soldiers will protect the battleship Qin Shihuang."
While they were chatting, the battle was already heating up.
The main force of the European Allied naval fleet has exchanged fire with the fleet where the battleship Qin Shihuang is located.
The destroyer Anshan is exchanging fire with enemy warships.
They have sunk two warships by virtue of the empire's unique fire control sight and the improved accuracy of naval guns.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Captain Zhou Zhengkui was scratched by a stray bullet and his arm was bleeding. He said confidently: "Brothers, work harder.
Even though there are many enemy ships, they are all weak-skinned guys.
There is still some protection above the waterline, but no protection at all below the waterline.
Just aim at the waterline and a few rounds can sink a warship."
Captain Zhou Zhengkui was encouraging the entire army when he felt a huge impact coming from the bottom of the sea.
His face changed drastically, and he secretly said something bad.
The destroyer was used to defend against submarine attacks from the European Allied Forces.
They dropped a large number of depth charges at a depth of about ten meters.
These trigger-type depth charges will not stay quietly in the same position, but will float along with the current.
Apparently a depth charge floated below the battleship Anshan.
A submarine happened to be passing by and detonated the bomb.
Zhou Zhengkui just prayed that it would not be a submarine filled with explosives.
His prayers didn't work, and he clearly felt a larger shock wave hitting the bottom of the warship.
He heard a huge crash and the destroyer Anshan began to tilt from side to side.
Just as the ship stabilized, an engineer ran over to the cabin and said in horror: "A three-meter-long hole was opened in the bottom of the ship. The watertight compartment is no longer functioning. The warship is sinking slowly."
Captain Zhou Zhengkui already knows that the destroyer Anshan has been severely damaged and basically cannot be saved.
He immediately issued an order: "Chief of Staff, take the healthy crew and leave in a lifeboat."
When Zhou Zhengkui saw that the chief of staff was still hesitating, he turned stern and reprimanded loudly: "This is a military order, execute it immediately."
The chief of staff took the uninjured crew members and left in three lifeboats.
Captain Zhou Zhengkui watched them move away from the destroyer Anshan.
In a battlefield full of smoke, they may not be able to reach friendly ships safely, but at least they have hope of survival.
The lifeboat needs to rely on oars to escape the battlefield, and these wounded people are a complete burden.
They have more important tasks.
The destroyer Anshan must not sink to the bottom of the sea silently like this.
Captain Zhou Zhengkui saw Supervisor Wu Ke with a broken leg.
"Old Wu, do you hate me?"
Wu Ke waved his hand weakly and said: "Say no matter whether you hate it or not, the ship is about to sink. I know what you are thinking.
We must not silently sink to the bottom of the sea with the warship, and we must take a few of them with us before we die."
Captain Zhou Zhengkui saw Wu Ke and understood what he was thinking.
"Old Wu, take someone to the ammunition room.
I drove the warship towards the warship that was protected by layers of enemies. It must be unusual.
After the collision, the ammunition chamber was immediately detonated."
Wu Ke nodded and said, "Leave this matter to me."
Captain Zhou Zhengkui piloted the Anshan destroyer and braved the enemy's hail of bullets, without making any attempt to dodge, and rammed straight towards the target ship.
The two armies were originally very close, and the enemy did not expect that the destroyer Anshan would be so reckless.
The battleship Anshan rammed away from the two escorting warships at extremely high speeds and landed directly on top of the heavily protected warships.
At this time, most of the Anshan destroyer's watertight compartments failed, and the seawater was less than half a meter below the warship's deck.
After Wu Ke felt the impact, he did not forget his mission and directly led people to detonate the ammunition depot.
The Anshan destroyer immediately exploded, creating a shock wave that overturned three surrounding warships.
The warship he collided with also suffered a more powerful explosion, and a bright fireball appeared on the sea.
On the destroyer Laiyang, Captain Wei Fang was trawling the net, and he also saw the prowess of the destroyer Anshan.
"This is the Imperial Royal Navy, and we have no fear of any enemy."
"Captain, don't think about friendly forces. We have netted twice, but we haven't caught any big fish yet."
After Wei Fang thought briefly, he issued an order: "Is it too shallow? Let's lower the trawl net to 25 meters and see."
The soldiers immediately took the order and lowered the 25-meter net.
The destroyer Laiyang had just sailed half a circle when they immediately discovered that a big guy was caught in the wire trawl net.
The captain of the guard immediately issued an order: "Drop depth charges quickly and send the message to friendly forces at the same time."
Commander Zhan Tie also saw the heroic performance of the destroyer Anshan.
The destroyer Anshan was not the only one on the battlefield to do this. Some warships that had been severely damaged had no hope of escaping from the battlefield.
They made a unanimous choice. The warship whose power system was not damaged chose to ram into the enemy.
For warships whose power systems were damaged, they chose to burn out all their stock of artillery shells in a short period of time.
Due to the heroic performance of the officers and men, the number of enemy troops on the sea became less and less.
The battleships Taishan and Huashan were in the fleet, and they encountered fewer enemy ships.
The enemy ships have now been destroyed and the European Allied fleet is being surrounded from both sides.
The European Allied fleet is about to be completely destroyed.
These small warships had no room for resistance under the attack of the Imperial Royal Navy's giant ships and cannons.
In a naval battle, whichever side has stronger firepower and longer range will gain an absolute advantage.
When Commander Zhan Tie saw the telegram from the destroyer Laiyang, his face changed slightly and he immediately issued an order: "There are submarines lurking underwater, and they are preparing to sink our warships through self-destruction.
Each ship immediately threw steel wire mesh into the water and took action as soon as possible."
Chief of Staff Cao Zhengyuan said in surprise: "There are many depth charges underwater, and steel wire mesh is thrown from all directions, which will detonate the depth charges underwater.
The seabed will become undercurrents, except for the large tonnage of the Qin Shihuang battleship, which will have less impact.
The remaining warships were affected by the undercurrent and were unable to continue attacking the enemy.
If the depth charge is hit by the current and hits the bottom of the ship, it may damage the warship."
Chief of Staff Cao Zhengyuan raised objections, but he did not stop the order from being conveyed.
Commander Zhan Tie simply explained: "The enemy ships on the sea are not a big threat, but the submarines on the bottom of the sea are too big a threat.
These are life-threatening guys who never thought about going back after they went to sea.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It is better for a ship to be bombed by depth charges than to be bombed by these submarines."
Zhan Tie's order was quickly implemented, and the destroyer dropped a large number of steel wire nets in this area.
The steel wire mesh slowly sank, detonating the depth charges previously dropped underwater and causing a chain reaction.
Doing so did cause damage to the Royal Navy warship.
However, the shock waves and turbulence caused by the explosion destroyed the submarines hidden by the European Allied Forces in this area.
After diving to a depth of less than twenty meters, the submarine began to slowly leak water.
The people in the submarine did not want to return, so they could endure this change.
After the submarine is impacted, it either disintegrates or sinks to the bottom of the sea, never to come up again.
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The naval commander of the European Allied Forces, Admiral Holtz, watched the fleet launch a general attack.
The number of naval ships of the Great China Empire was only one-tenth of theirs before, and even after the war started, a large number of warships were lost immediately.
The number of their warships is six times that of the Imperial Navy.
However, using this desperate strategy, it still failed to break through the defense line of the Imperial Navy.
Admiral Hotz knew the reason; their firepower was weak and their armor was weak.
If the warships of the Great China Empire were hit by a few cannonballs, the casualties would be casualties at most, but the warships would suffer little damage.
The warships of the European Allied Forces will be sunk after receiving a few shells.
As the war continued, Admiral Holtz became increasingly depressed.
Not only did the fleet in front fail to break through, the fleets on both wings have also been wiped out.
They have been surrounded by the Imperial Navy.
Admiral Holtz's only hope was for the submarine to achieve victory.
When he saw the sea area where the battleship Qin Shihuang was located, huge fluctuations occurred, and water columns several meters high appeared around the ship from time to time.
Admiral Holtz, hoping he could see the battleship Qin Shihuang sink.
When he saw that the battleship Qin Shihuang was intact, only a few warships of the Imperial Navy were slightly damaged, and a large number of fleets were pressing towards them.
Admiral Holtz felt suffocated.
In this naval battle, the European Allied Navy suffered a disastrous defeat.
All the wealth that the British Navy had accumulated over several years was ruined by him.
He took out the revolver from his waist and pointed it at his head.
Then a crisp gunshot sounded.
The gunshot was a funeral for himself and for other countries in Europe.