Super Emperor of the Late Qing Dynasty

Chapter 73: The Powerful Dingyuan Ship

You can search for the latest chapters in Baidu for "Super Emperors Search Novels of the Late Qing Dynasty (www.soxscc.com)"!"Order Nanchen, Nanrui, and Kaiji, the three cruisers continue to pursue the three French ships, Chaoyong, Yang Wei, and Yang Wu, along with Dingyuan, are responsible for resisting the left Gaul led by Douwell. Army, the Guangyuan four ships led other gunboats to defeat the right fleet led by the Baya at the fastest speed."

Ding Ruchang saw Gao Lu's rapid changes taking the lead, and he quickly gave orders.

"My lord! This..."

The standard bearer couldn't believe Ding Ruchang's decision. He actually wanted to deal with the entire Gaul Indian fleet with four ships.

"Execute the order now!"

Ding Ruchang shouted, his confidence comes from the heavy armor of the Dingyuan ship. In the past few naval battles, he found that apart from the 280MM artillery that could cause some damage to him, other gunboats could not cause damage to Dingyuan. .

The few cruisers were left to prevent the French ships from forcibly rushing to the side and rushing past.

In fact, Ding Ruchang was completely right. During the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan with the heavy dealers of 365mm had to bear more than 100 rounds of devils and still remained unsinkable, but because the shells were only the original black powder rounds, they were not powerful. It cannot sink the Devils battleship.The main artillery of the Japanese ship was Jiale's bitter sour 10-inch howitzer and armor-piercing shells that could not cause fatal injuries to Dingyuan.

The order was quickly communicated. Although other warships were puzzled, they still resolutely executed the order, and quickly executed the order and began to turn.

With a speed of 15 knots, the three cruisers of "Nanchen", "Nanrui" and "Kaiji" quickly interspersed and blocked the passage of the three old ships approaching the Gallic army.

Other toss and turns are also in accordance with the order to start looking for their opponents.

"Are the Qing people always so arrogant? Although Dingyuan is strong, can he withstand so many warships?"

"Sink the two small cruisers first, and then do their best to deal with Dingyuan and sink their flagship!"

Lisby sneered. He decided to eliminate the light cruiser of less than 2,000 tons, Chaoyong and Yang Wei, as quickly as possible, and put the 3,500-ton Yang Wu to the side. After sinking Dingyuan, Daqing was fine. The days are coming to an end.

This is the only one he released in this naval battle by experts of later generations, no!It is half the correct order.

Due to the change of formation, the Weir and Victory came to the front, and the escort cruisers "Champalan" and "Laperutz" also followed them not far behind.

After receiving the order, they quickly turned their muzzle to the "Chao Yong" and "Yang Wei" on the right wing of the Dingyuan ship.

The "Super Brave" and "Yangwei" are unprotected cruisers, pursuing speed and protection of capital ships to prevent torpedo boats from approaching. Their hulls are covered with a thin layer of iron, which cannot withstand large-caliber artillery shells. The two battleships were the first to be sunk in the Sino-Japanese War of Jiawu..

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White smoke came out of the muzzle of the battleships of the French-Indian-Ocean Fleet, and dozens of shells poured into the two battleships "Super Brave" and "Yang Wei".

The two 280MM cannons, three 190MM cannons, six 240MM cannons, eight 140MM cannons on the "Victory" side, and many other 160 and 140 cannons started to show off.

Such close-range coverage is a blow, even a battleship with an armor of 300mm can hardly resist.

The guaranteed defenses of "Super Brave" and "Yangwei" are almost the same. Now the hull of the ship is constantly being shot and exploded, and the cabin is on fire, and many soldiers have become fragmented.

And more shells fell around them, stirring up huge water pillars.

The encounter between the two ships made Yang Wu on one side feel scalp numb. Even with his 3,500-ton body, he couldn't resist this shell for a few rounds, let alone "Super Brave" and "Yang Wei".

The "Chaoyong" gradually tilted and began to sink slowly. All of their main guns were blown up. Lin Taizeng had to order the abandonment of the ship and lead the remaining dozens of soldiers to jump into the sea to escape.

The "Yang Wei" was not much better. The fire burned several cabins. Although the airtight valve was dropped in time, the influx of sea water made him tottering and unable to maintain his speed.

Suddenly at this time, the Dingyuan ship made an unexpected move. His huge body blocked the Yang Wei and moved slowly, always keeping the angle designed to block the Gallic Army.

He also played the banner to make Yang Wu retreat and be responsible for blocking the warships that wanted to bypass Dingyuan.

"Asshole! Arrogant! Since you want to be Ji Lixiong so much, then you can do it all, and bomb Dingyuan with all your strength and sink him."

Seeing that Dingyuan wanted to fight them with six warships, including the 5,700-ton Douwell, the 4,600-ton Victory, and the 3,500-ton Galileo.Risbi, who was so embarrassed and angry, didn't care about the inferior sea fleet there, but gave this order directly.

And this order was called a stupid order by later generations. If he could really fight Shen Dingyuan, coupled with the Baya might really turn things around, but the reality is cruel.

Six warships madly poured artillery fire on Dingyuan, but half an hour later, hundreds of shells in Dingyuan’s body worked overtime to ignite the fire again and again, and still remained strong. The shells below 240mm were almost under the armor of 365mm. It can be immunity.

The 240mm shell can only leave a large crater on him. Only the 280mm shell of the Dowell can cause some damage to him, but as long as it doesn't hit the critical point, it won't hurt him.

And his 305mm cannon, every time the roar made the Gallic army tremble, the 3,500-ton Galileo was hit by three rounds, and the last one caused a series of explosions in the ammunition depot and sank.The previous 1,200-ton cruiser returned to the west with only one shot, and one of the Dwyer’s secondary artillery was broken.

Later generations of experts analyzed that the victory that the Gallic Army wanted to achieve could only be achieved by using Duwell and Baya as the core to wipe out the other warships outside Dingyuan, and finally deal with Dingyuan with all its strength and cooperate with torpedoes. Victory in the second naval battle.

This time Dingyuan became popular during the first battle, which greatly stimulated the importance of the Western powers on the battleship giant guns. In fact, they have larger battleships in their own country. At this time, Gili Gaul already has 10,000-ton battleships. It is only a long time. There is no major naval battle, which makes them insufficiently aware of the power of heavy armor and cannon.This naval battle accelerated their development, dreadnought class, and even super dreadnought.

The Indian-Ocean Fleet led by Lishi finally realized that when too much time was wasted on Dingyuan, the French Sea Fleet was in desperation...