Super Emperor of the Late Qing Dynasty

Chapter Seventy Four: Gaul's Defeat

You can search for the latest chapters in Baidu for "Super Emperors Search Novels of the Late Qing Dynasty (www.soxscc.com)"!The column on the right is dominated by the Gallic Sea Fleet. Among them are the three cruisers "Baja", the iron-clad ships "Renault", "Soni" and "Nieri", and several remaining gunboats, and the other two old cruisers It has been chased off by the three Kaiji ships.

So he faced four four-thousand-ton "Guangyuan" four ships and a new gunboat with a general rudder.Originally relying on Baya's strength, they could still work hard to support.

However, as the "Nieri" was hit by a shell at the boiler position, it lost power and had to stop. When the three cruisers of Nanchen, Nanrui, and Kaiji solved their opponents and surrounded them from the other side, The demise of the Gaul Sea Fleet is doomed.

The lost power of the "Nieri" set a record. He was not sunk by a capital ship, but by a torpedo fired by the new gunboat Zhenxi.

When the Gaul army focused on the battleship of the Qing Dynasty, a huge explosion sounded serious for everyone.A huge splash of water emerged from the cruiser "Nieri", the red light under the water was clearly visible, and a torpedo penetrated into the torpedo tank of the "Nieri".

It triggered a series of terrifying explosions, and the 2,100-ton ship hull sprang upward and fell backward.Before the hull could recover its position again, another big explosion occurred again.

The boiler also exploded under the stimulus of the torpedo. The boiler was riddled with holes in an instant, and the hot compressed steam directly rushed out, scalding all the staff in the boiler room to death.

The horrible explosion also penetrated the fragile bottom and side bottom of the ship. The armored deck above the boiler room was also distorted by the horrible explosion. The sailors in the ship had completely collapsed. What they saw was burning fire everywhere. There was splashing sea water and overflowing white steam. The warship's ship had sunk in the water, and the sinking rate was still accelerating.

The stern of the "Nieri" began to rise out of the sea. He was sinking too fast, and the people inside were destined to be unable to escape. Even if it swam out, the huge vortex created by the sinking of the ship would drag him to the bottom of the sea.

All this stunned the people of the French Sea Fleet. A main cruiser was sunk by a gunboat, and it sank so quickly.Almost all of the Gaul navy officers and soldiers were enveloped by dark clouds. They looked forward to the Indian Ocean Fleet coming to support them, but the fleet over there was venting its firepower against Dingyuan frantically, and even split several ships to support them. Mean nothing.

"Asshole! What the hell is he doing! If the general alone would never make such a big mistake!"

"Aim at the medium cruiser approaching and fight hard!"

Pierre's heart was about to collapse, and the sea fleet was now in danger.

Even with Baya is still extremely powerful, but without a helper, he can not face four cruisers over 4000 tons and many cruisers and gunboats at the same time.

He could only use fierce artillery fire to vent his inner anger. Two consecutive 280MM shots hit the Guangwu, and one hit the outer armor of his main gun, causing the 240mm main gun on the side of Guangwu to misfire. One exploded on the deck, and the violent heat wave lifted more than a dozen clear seamen.

A big pit appeared on the deck of the Guangwu, which caused a big fire. Guangwu played its banner and slowly retreated to organize forces to extinguish the fire on the hull.

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The 2,000-ton household cruiser "Soni" was hit near the propeller and stopped.

The "Caesar" of the Qing Dynasty followed him. Although the Caesar was only a medium-sized ironclad ship, the tonnage of 4,600 tons was more than twice that of the "Soni".Moreover, he is equipped with a dual-mounted 240mm main gun, which is not inferior to Guangyuan and Guangwu. Although its recoil is great and affects the hit rate, there is no difference between Soni who loses speed and lamb to be slaughtered.

With the assistance of the "Kaiji", with the crazy roar of the Caesar's 240mm main gun, an armor-piercing projectile was shot from the ceiling of the "Soni" gun gallery, directly hitting the trunnion and mount of the linked barrel, and then The barrel directly took the turret away from the trunnion and threw it into the sea.

The huge explosion ignited a nearby ammunition pile, causing a terrifying chain explosion to destroy the artillery gallery.The claws on the side of the poor "Soni" in the explosion were completely torn apart, and a large hole about 6 meters long and 3 meters wide appeared.

Who will let go of such a good opportunity?Almost all the Daqing artillery nearby were aimed at the Soni, and he lost his armor protection and slowly sank under the baptism of artillery fire...

"Get closer to the commander!"

Seeing this scene, Pierre completely lost his courage and led the remaining two cruisers and three gunboats to the Hard Yang fleet.

During the transfer, the three gunboats were also buried in the sea to feed the fish.

"Asshole! Why is Pierre so useless!"

Seeing the sea fleet approaching so miserably, Lisbee shouted angrily.In fact, he also recognized his mistake of judgment and was ready to save the right-wing fleet.

It's just how you can admit your mistakes.

Suddenly the two sides joined forces, and the Qing fleet also rushed to start the war again.

It’s just that the balance of power at this time has completely changed, leaving the gunboats of the two sides aside, it doesn’t count. (In fact, the Gaul gunboats have been wiped out, and the Qing Dynasty is still a few old ships and seven or eight new gunboats). Only cruisers and ironclad ships will come. Count.

The Qing lost the two cruisers Chaoyong and Yang Wei, and the Guangwu temporarily lost its combat effectiveness.Although the others were all wounded, their combat effectiveness was still there. Gaul had already lost four old ships and two new cruisers. Here he was sunk by Dingyuan and another new cruiser, with two secondary guns. Destroyed by Dingyuan, the Victory was injured and its power was affected. Its maximum speed could only reach 13 knots.The situation in which the Gaul army was in the lead is now at an overall disadvantage.

"retreat!"

After a fierce artillery battle, the French ship lost another cruiser, Lisbee decisively issued the order...