In the Lunva waterway, in the commander tower of the Dingyuan ironclad ship, when General Yang De received Chen Shaoyi's order to return, he learned that Chen Shaoyi had opened the water radium area and the main fleet was safe, General Yang De was very happy and let down a big rock in his heart. Finally, he breathed a sigh of relief. However, when he saw Chen Shaoyi plan to use the "Matt tactic" to retaliate against the British Navy's main fleet, Yang De's eyes lit up. He finally knew the gap between him and Chen Shaoyi.

"Chen Shaoyi, you little bastard, what do you mean by saying this? You are so stupid that I will not retreat!"

Yang De almost laughed and cursed with tears in his eyes, because there was smoke in the commander's tower and was choked. He scolded because he found that Chen Shaoyi was not a thing. The last sentence was clearly stimulating and tempting him. Yang De. What does it mean to wipe out or severely damage the main force of the British Navy without retreating? It doesn't blame you for retreating? This sounds very harsh.

General Yang De couldn't help others saying that he was not good, and he was also the easiest to be agitated. Obviously, Chen Shaoyi knew Yang De's character very well.

However, Yang De laughed and scolded. Why did he laugh? Naturally, he wouldn't be a bitter smile, because Yang De didn't care about his life and death at all. He was always known for his bravery and fearlessness in wars. His parents died tragically in the first Yabo War, so he wanted to abuse the British Navy.

Now that Chen Shaoyi has given him this opportunity, how could he be unhappy? He even has to thank Chen Shaoyi for helping him.

"Bang!"

With an explosion, the warship trembled violently, bringing General Yang De back to reality from his dream.

Faced with the crazy attack of the British Navy, the Fourth Squadron had lost all its lightning strike ships and frigates. In order to protect the three Dingyuan-class iron armored cruisers from being attacked by the British Navy's fish and radial boats, the three ships were intercepted in artillery fire. At this time, all the ships were already scarred.

The situation is still very serious. While Yang De is calmly commanding the battle, he is thinking about how to delay time.

"How much water radium is arranged behind?"

"Report to General, it has been arranged for a depth of 1,000 meters. According to your requirements, the density is very high!"

"Very good. Tell the Bu Lei team to let them arrange as much water and radium as possible!"

"General, I forgot to tell you that our squadron carries a limited amount of water and radium. It has been used up!"

Yang Defried immediately and said quickly: "Let everyone in the Bu Lai Brigade go to the shore to get big stones, use all the Bu Lai boats, including tugboats, supply boats, and hospital ships to transport stones, and concentrate on blocking the waterway. Once we find that we can't stop it, they must fill all the ships with stones and sink them on the waterway. Even if the British cleared the water and radium area, they would not let him go."

"But in this way, how can we retreat, General!"

"retreat?"

Yang De snorted coldly, waved his hand, and said, "I will not retreat, I will drag the main force of the British Navy to death!"

The staff officers around were silent. Not everyone could make such a decision as General Yang De, but since General Yang De made the decision, they did not object, because they were always the navy of the Chinese Empire. Since ancient times, Wen and Wu were willing to fight to the death, they had been mentally prepared, but they didn't expect that this day would come so quickly.

At this time, General Yang De turned to his guard Deng Shichang and asked, "Xiao Deng, are you afraid?"

"Report to the general, don't be afraid!" Deng Shichang replied firmly.

Yang De nodded and said, "I originally planned to train you well, but unfortunately I don't have time!"

After a pause, Yang De said again: "In this way, Xiao Deng, go to Bu Lei Brigade to find Lei Qinqing, cooperate with him in his work, and wait for the shipwreck to take the personnel of our Fourth Squadron to the surrounding islands to hide, and wait for the main fleet to come back."

The officers around him immediately cast envious eyes at Deng Shichang. Undoubtedly, everyone guessed that General Yang De's intention to do so was to keep Deng Shichang alive. If he stayed on the warship, he would undoubtedly die.

"General's direction, I promise to complete the task!" Deng Shichang was still very young at this moment, so naturally he could not guess General Yang De's good intentions, so he immediately took the order.

Yang De nodded and soon ordered someone to take a brocade box from his rest warehouse, which contained all the glory of the Fourth Squadron and solemnly handed it over to Deng Shichang.

"I must protect the things in it. If something goes wrong, I will not let you go if I become a ghost!"

"Don't worry, General, I will protect this box and give it to the general in full after the battle!"

Yang De rolled his eyes, cursed a fool in his heart, nodded, and asked Deng Shichang to leave.

The battle was in full swing, and the British Navy continued to rotate the main ships to attack. Although Dingyuan, Zhenyuan and Zhiyuan were also fighting back fiercely, they were constantly suffering heavy damage. More than half of the superstructure was damaged, with fire flying and thick smoke rolling.

The British Navy's tactics are still very rigid. Most artillery uses armor-piercing shells to focus on attacking the hull. For the three ships Dingyuan, Zhenyuan and Zhiyuan, the hull is 300 mm thick wrought iron armor, which is difficult to penetrate. Even if it is penetrated, the shells will lose their energy and damage the inside of the hull is very weak.

Conversely, when the Chinese Empire Navy ships bombarded British ships, they no longer focused on using armor-piercing bombs to attack the hulls of enemy ships, but used blasting bombs to attack the superstructure of British ships. A 305mm blasting bomb could destroy a large superstructure and kill a large number of British sailors.

Before, fifteen British ironclad ships took turns to fight, and all suffered great losses. The superstructure of the hull was damaged and many people were killed or injured.

But gradually, this kind of damage became less and less, because the high-intensity naval battles drastically consumed the blasting bombs of the Imperial Navy.

After two hours of fierce fighting between the two sides, the blasting bombs of Dingyuan, Zhenyuan and Zhiyuan were exhausted and they could only use armor-piercing bombs to fight back. After another hour, the armor-piercing bombs were basically exhausted.

At 11:55 am, the Hairong Dome Armored Cruise was penetrated by a 12-inch armor-piercing projectile and was already severely damaged. The internal drainage pump of Hairong, which had inflows from many places, was no longer enough, and could not stop the large amount of sea water from pouring backwards. It finally sank eight minutes later.

This was the first cruise ship to sink in the first battle in the history of the Chinese Empire's naval history, causing considerable shock to the morale of the Fourth Squadron.

At the last moment, General Yang De urgently ordered the Hairong to sail towards the main channel. Even if the war sinks, he must sink on the channel and block the British Navy's advance.

It was precisely because of Yang De's order that many officers and soldiers on the Hairong, especially those responsible for sailing the ship to the main channel, were sucked into the seabed by the sea water before they could escape from the warships. They died heroically.

However, the act of the Hairong number sinking on the main channel shocked Toms, the acting commander of the British Navy.

He was originally preparing to implement a fish-radium attack plan on various ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, but was immediately stopped by Toms.

"You can't use fish radium to attack them. These damn Chinese navy will even sink the warships on the waterway even if they die, and stop us from passing!"

"But your commander, you don't need to attack Yu Ra, when can we sink the enemy ships?"

"Yes. Their warships are too slim. If we don't use fish radium to attack, we will have to at least half an hour to sink them."

"Your Excellency Commander, whether we use fish or not, they will probably choose to sink on the main channel in the end. You cannot stop them unless they surrender, or we carry out parachute battles to control the enemy's warships, but that is obviously not practical."

Toms was very confused, and in the end he adopted the advice of his subordinates and launched a new fish radium attack.

Soon, more than a dozen British frigates and fish radial boats rushed over at high speed and prepared to launch fish radial attacks on Dingyuan, Zhenyuan and Zhiyuan.

General Yang De had no choice but to let the scarred Haiyue and Haidai fight immediately to prevent the British fleet from approaching its main battleship.

The two ships Haiyue and Haidai have actually not much ammunition. In addition to the main gun, they can also fire, and almost all the secondary guns and rapid-fire guns were damaged. The hull was seriously damaged. Many previous fire points have not been extinguished. After the new battle began, it quickly turned into a prairie fire and became a big fire.

At 12:09, the Haiyue tried to intercept the British ship Pas, but unexpectedly, two British fish radial boats rushed over from the other side. The Haiyue port rapid-fire gun exploded one of them, but failed to stop the other ship from launching the fish radial.

Ten seconds later, accompanied by a loud bang, the Haiyue was thundered and the sea water poured backwards. The captain ordered the crew to dive and drove the warship to the main channel. Three minutes later, the battle sank.

At twelve thirteen, the Haidai avoided the attack of the British ship Yu Ra and accidentally encountered a reef. Water entered the bottom of the ship. Two minutes later, the warship was grounded and failed to complete the task of sinking on the main channel.

However, in this way, the Haidai became an unsinkable warship, and the main gun continued to fire, attacking the British frigates and fish rafts that were trying to approach the main battleship.

General Yang De once thought about driving three ironclad ships to the shallows of reefs and stranding them, turning them into unsinkable warships to fight against the enemy. But in that case, it would become a situation where Ma Su lost Jieting, and the British ship could ignore him and pass directly from the main channel.

But on the other hand, thinking that even if the three ironclad ships were sunk, the British army could blow up the shipwreck and open up the channel, and the delay time was limited.

Nowadays, a large amount of water and radium have been blocked by ships. The British ship cannot pass in a short time. If the British ships discharge radium, then after the three ironclad ships are stranded on the beach, they can be restrained. This effect is better than sinking in the channel.

All battles are not to win and repel the enemy, but to restrain the enemy and delay time and wait for the main fleet to counter-encircle the enemy fleet.

After understanding this key question, Yang De was full of fighting spirit again.

At this time, a large number of frigates and fish radial boats rushed over, preparing to release fish radial to attack Dingyuan, Zhenyuan and Zhiyuan three ironclad ships.

General Yang De immediately ordered the warship to speed up the evasion, and at the same time sailed to the shallow be stranded next to it.

The sudden beaching of the three ironclad ships of Emperor China's Emperor made British commander Toms mixed joys and sorrows. What was happy was that the three ironclad ships did not sink to the channel, saving the trouble of the British army from clearing the channel. But what was worried was that these three ironclad ships were stranded and could not sink. It would probably take longer to completely destroy these three ironclad ships.

What made Toms most angry was that as various auxiliary ships of the Imperial Navy dumped a large number of stones into the channel and blocked the channel, Toms wanted to send warships to stop it, but was blocked by a large area of ​​water and radium.

"Farke!" Thoms was furious. Matt's tactics used to deal with the Chinese Empire's Navy were actually dealt with by the Chinese Empire Navy. Should retribution be so quickly?

Toms immediately sent a radium sweep ship to clean up the water, but next to it were three ironclad ships of the Imperial Navy that were stranded on the beach, constantly firing artillery to attack the British radium sweep ship, forcing the British radium sweep ship to avoid and it was difficult to dislodge radium.

"So that's how it is!"

Thoms saw through General Yang De's abacus, so he had to mobilize more warships to launch a fierce attack on the three ironclad ships.

"Blow these three broken ships to ashes!"

Toms roared. He had been delaying here for almost three hours. He was a little uneasy. He hoped to solve the three thorns in front of him as quickly as possible.

Dongdongdongdongdongdong!

The artillery fire was fierce and the two sides fought fiercely.

After the beach was stranded, the three ships Zhenyuan and Zhiyuan burst out with fierce counterattack ability again. There is no need to worry about being sunk or warships shaking in the waves. The gunners lack many influencing factors and can shoot shells more accurately. The 305mm armor-piercing shells were shot from the 50 times the main gun muzzle, and it was unparalleled. Within 5,000 meters, it could easily tear open the armor protection of the British Navy's Revenge Class Iron Armored Ship, and many British ships were severely damaged. They were forced not to get too close.

On the other hand, the number of British ships was too large, and countless shells were densely hitting three iron armored ships, causing huge damage. However, when the Dingyuan-class iron armored ship was designed and built, it provided all-round protection for key parts such as command towers and turrets, especially command towers and turrets. The armor protection is the same as the hull armor. It is difficult for the British 12-inch shells to penetrate directly.

However, Dingyuan class is an iron armored ship after all. It is a matter of time before the wrought iron armor is constantly hit by large-caliber shells. It is a matter of time before it is broken. After all, there are too many British ships. Although the three iron armored ships are stranded and sit on the beach, they cannot move, and become fixed targets in the eyes of the enemy. The hit rate of the enemy ship is also greatly increasing.

Half an hour later, the entire superstructure of the three ships Dingyuan, Zhenyuan and Zhiyuan had been razed to the ground, with blazing fire and blazing smoke, leaving only the commander tower, the main turret and the single-mounted artillery inside the ear platform. Any other parts without armor protection in the open air were beaten to pieces.

The commander tower, main turret, hull and other armor of the three ships were also covered with dense bullet marks and bullet craters.

But what is interesting is that such armor was not penetrated by shells. It was not until the end of the war that military experts of the Chinese Empire discovered after research that the 12-inch armor-piercing bombs fired by the British army were steel warheads, most of which were left inside 300 mm wrought iron armor, but instead became part of the armor. When they were hit, the previous steel warheads turned into steel armor, which was easier to block the attack. This conclusion made the Chinese Empire laugh and made the British red in their old faces, and said angrily that this was the only transportation of the three Dingyuan-class iron armored ships.

However, under the circumstances at that time, the Chinese Empire naval officers and soldiers who stayed in the commander's tower were worried. They all knew that the next moment might be fried into meat sauce.

"Put fish!"

The British ship quickly shot out fish radium, and quickly hit the three ships of Dingyuan, Zhiyuan and Zhenyuan. The 300-mm armor could not stop the British army's fish radium attack. It was blown open one by one and a black hole was emitted, and black smoke came out.

Fortunately, the British army's fish radium uses Hey Ou medicine. If it is replaced with the T Entire high-explosive fish radium warhead used by the Imperial Navy, there is no need for more, and four fish radium will blow the ironclad ship to pieces.

General Yang De was shocked by Yu Lei's explosion in the commander's tower and his facial features were bleeding. After all, he was old and was not as resistant as a young man. After this high-intensity naval battle, he was almost exhausted.

“How long have we been persisting?”

"Report to General, we have been persisting for a full 4 hours, half an hour longer than originally planned. The British army has not opened the Water Radiation Zone. Behind the Water Radiation Zone, there are a large number of shipwrecks blocking the water Radiation Channel. Without 12 hours, the British army could not open the water Radiation Channel at all."

"Okay, okay!" General Yang De was very happy.

"We have exceeded the task, and now we will see General Chen's side!"

"General Chen will definitely arrive on time, he will definitely!"

"Yes, you must beat the British out of shit, otherwise I'm sorry for so many brothers who died in our Fourth Fleet!"

When the battle reached this level, Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Zhiyuan, and Haidai had no shells, and everyone was ready for the final sacrifice.

However, death did not come, but the British were in chaos.

"What's going on?"
Chapter completed!