Turning left and right, the Swordfish led the following battleships from the inside to the outside where gunfire was pouring, and rushed towards the 700-meter ironclad ship.
Lu Hu stood on the Tianjin and watched in surprise as the Dutch flagship rushed over.
"What do the Dutch want to do? Our ship is obviously faster than theirs. Do they think they can rush up and engage in a battle?"
Shi Dingping thought for a while, then raised his hands and said, "I'm afraid the Dutch were a little bit out of control by our bombing. They are struggling to the death and want to fight us to the death."
Lu Hu touched his chin and thought for a while.
"Concentrate your firepower to sink Hongmao's flagship!"
The semaphore was hoisted, and as soon as the Swordfish rushed to the outside of the battle line, it was attacked by more than a dozen ironclad ships.
Armor-piercing bombs were fired at the Swordfish like raindrops. In just a blink of an eye, five or six explosive bombs exploded in the cabin of the Swordfish. The screams were like the sound of pigs being slaughtered in a slaughterhouse.
From the front to the stern of the ship, the entire battleship began to shake violently on the sea, as if it was about to be blown apart by explosive bombs at any time.
Fortunately, as a third-level battleship, the Swordfish had a very strong hull structure and could barely withstand the damage from the shells.
Gascoigne knelt down on the deck with a bang, took Adelbert's arm and said: "Commander Holland! Raise the flag and surrender, we can't win!"
Adalbert glared at Gascoigne angrily, threw his hand away, and shouted: "Only a coward surrenders to the yellow race!"
Gascoigne cried and said: "We came to the Far East to colonize, not to die!"
Adelbert roared: "Only by mustering the firmest will of us white people can we truly conquer the Ming Dynasty, which has a population of 100 million!"
A cone-shaped shell suddenly fired from the east and crashed into the Swordfish's waterline hull.
Adalbert suddenly stopped roaring and stared at the armor-piercing bullet that broke through the shell with wide eyes.
If Adalbert remembers correctly, that location was a powder magazine.
The battleship's gunpowder magazine is hidden on the lower level of the gun deck. There is another layer of thick wood outside the gunpowder magazine to prevent solid bullets from hitting the gunpowder magazine directly.
However, the penetrating power of the conical steel core bullet is really outstanding. After penetrating the hull near the waterline, the conical bullet broke through the partition of the powder magazine and plunged into dozens of barrels of black powder.
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There was only a loud bang, and the explosive shells ignited all the gunpowder in the Swordfish's bottom cabin. Huge flames and shock waves burst out like fireworks, swallowing up the entire battleship in an instant. Half of the battlefield was covered by this
The light from the huge explosion illuminated it, making it impossible to look straight at it.
The shock wave shattered the top deck in an instant, and Adalbert was swallowed up by the air wave before he could even let out a scream.
The naked eye could no longer see what Adalbert had become, but under the impact of such an air wave, it was obviously the only outcome for his body to be blown to pieces.
Gascoigne was also hit, but he was standing slightly to the side. Instead of being blown into pieces by the air wave, he was blown up and directly knocked up several meters into the air before falling into the air with a thud.
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When Lu Hu saw the Swordfish explode, his eyes were dazzled and he quickly turned his head away. When he turned around to look back, he found that the Dutch flagship had been blown into two pieces without any suspense.
.In fact, the 20-meter-long section of hull in the middle of the battleship no longer exists. Only the charred bow and stern are burning on the sea surface and sinking to the bottom of the sea little by little.
The sea was littered with charred corpses of sailors, and white bubbles and red blood were mixed together, spreading to the surroundings in the undulating waves.
The Europeans on other battleships watched in stunned silence as the flagship died.
Finally, they ended their meaningless resistance and raised the white flag one after another.
