Super Emperor of the Late Qing Dynasty

Chapter 75: Desperate Gallic Fleet

You can search for the latest chapters in Baidu for "Super Emperors Search Novels of the Late Qing Dynasty (www.soxscc.com)"!At this time, the Gallic fleet was only left with Duwell, Baya, Victory, Fort Renault, "Champalan" and "La Perutz".

"Baya" and "Duwell" are indeed auspicious and brave, but there is still a gap between their 280MM artillery and 305MM artillery. Dingyuan shamelessly chose his 365MM armor to be tough. In the absence of many light cruisers and gunboats Under the circumstances, Gao Lujun had no choice but to take him for a while.

After the large-scale clearance of the "Guangwu", the armor of the Baya and the damage to the combat effectiveness of the other two light cruisers, the other warships maintained good combat effectiveness.

He thought that the First World War could no longer continue, so he immediately ordered the fleet to leave the battle.

Later generations disputed this order, and some believed that the French navy had been frightened by Dingyuan, and without the will to fight, it should leave.However, another part of the people believed that no matter what the result, Bayar and Duwell could safely evacuate, while other warships were difficult to escape. It would be better to continue fighting to weaken the Qing navy.

Lisby chose to use the speed of the Gaul fleet to get rid of the Qing navy.But he did not calculate that after such a big battle, many ships have been injured, such as ice in such a short period of time, it is difficult to coordinate the pace, and can not play their maximum speed.

"Victory" is a sister ship of the same level as Triumphal Caesar. Due to its heavy armor, its maximum speed is only 14 knots. It has been hit by Dingyuan’s 305MM artillery before. Although it has not lost its combat effectiveness, its hidden dangers have been buried. under.

Moreover, although the Qing Dynasty lost the two fastest cruisers "Super Brave" and "Yang Wei", the other two light cruisers were damaged and could not keep up.

But there are also "Yangwu" and "Kaiji" with speeds of 16 knots and 15 knots. On the vast sea, even if "Baya" and "Dowell" were broken like last time, they were not tender.

Because "Yangwu" and "Kaiji" only need to bypass them.Even once caught, the 13.5 knots Dingyuan catches up, it's not a joke.

What's more, there are "Guangyuan", "Caesar", and "Triumphant" three Chinese cruisers with a speed of 14 knots.

Especially the "Yangwu", its displacement reached 3,500 tons, and its speed was 16 knots.

He can catch up with most of the Gaul Army's battleships, and his artillery is 225MM caliber. Except for the little threat to Baya and Dowell, other battleships dare not resist.

The Victory was too wronged. His original speed of 14 knots was gradually reduced to 13 knots, and was soon overtaken by Yangwu and Kaiji. The two warships even kept parallel with him and used their guns against the victory. "To attack, it made him miserable.

The three warships behind Guangyuan were only 14 knots, and Dingyuan was only 13.5 knots, and could only approach slowly, unable to catch up for a while.

"Support Victory?"

Pierre couldn't bear to fall into the siege of Victory, and wanted to help the suffering brother, so he asked with a banner.

However, the Duval sank for a long time without responding, instead, she covered her head and moved forward.

"After Victory is broken! We can surrender when we go far!"

Lisby had already been scared and gave such an order directly.

In fact, after he returned, in order to cover up his command errors, he exaggerated the capabilities of the Dingyuan ship and bragged about the role of the cannon giant, which was also a driving force for the advent of the dreadnought era.Qiumo TXT www.qiumotxt.com

In fact, as long as he temporarily let go of Dingyuan at the beginning, give full play to their speed advantage, get rid of Dingyuan, which is only 13.5 knots, and deal with other Qing navies first, even without losing the Eastern Capital Fleet, it is very likely. To win, at least not to lose too badly.And his choice is indeed tough.

"You actually abandon us! You are not worthy to be soldiers of the Great Gaul Empire!" The captain of the "Victory" also knew that he had become an abandoned son.

The Gaul Far East fleet accelerated forward, and the "Victory" fought back at the beginning of despair.

"Don't pay attention to him! Yang Wu, Kaiji continues to pursue, Guangyuan keeps up with Victory, try to make him surrender! Other warships pursue the French fleet with all their strength!"

Ding Ruchang saw through Gaul's mind and decisively ordered.Now that the Victory is so scarred, Guangyuan is enough to deal with him.

"Damn Qing people! Too cunning!"

The Lisby navy was not fooled, but chose to continue pursuing, yelling with anger.

But he was not too worried, the slowest remaining warships in their fleet were all at fifteen knots.At most, only one warship can be left behind to escape to heaven.

It's just that he overlooked a very important issue. In addition to Baya and Dowell, the warships suffered from insufficient coal burning.

His fleet set off from Annan, and in order to achieve the purpose of concealment, it did not arrive or load coal in Luzon.

Originally, if this sea battle were to be won, coal would certainly be enough, but they failed.

Due to the change of formation in the naval battle, they are already in the east, and the west is the Qing fleet.

Naturally, the French ship could not go directly to the west, and could only sail to the southeast square, gradually changing its course, turning to Annan or Xiangjiang, and sailing hundreds of kilometers more at once.

The prolonged full-speed voyage has caused huge consumption of coal, and all ships can no longer maintain full speed due to lack of coal.

The Qing Dynasty started from Jianfu, so such problems naturally did not arise.

The Gallic warships in desperation were overtaken one by one, but Kaiji and Yang Wuzhi left one warship trembling, and when the reinforcements behind caught up, they continued to rush to the next target.

In this situation, the French ship did not dare to rescue at all, it was not enough to burn coal, and the collapsed army had already lost the will to fight.

You can only watch the compatriots behind them being sunk or captured one by one.

Finally, at four o'clock in the afternoon, Da Qing finally chose to stop pursuing. At this time, it was difficult for the navy to have the ability to fight in the field. If it was taken into a densely reef area, it would not be worth the loss.

Only Doweier, Baya, and Champaran fled the battlefield, and it was no different from the annihilation of the entire army..