Chapter 1116 Four Kilometers

"General, why don't you send out the ironclad ships now?"

The Western Tu fleet came from three directions, and seeing that they were about to besiege the Dasong fleet in the middle, Song Xiang couldn't help asking.

Although the Western Tu warships were much worse than theirs, they would not be in a good situation if they were all attacked by them at once.

This was contrary to their goal of destroying the Western Tu fleet at the lowest cost.

"No hurry, let other warships play with them first." Zhou Yi smiled lightly, "Why, you don't have enough confidence in my judgment?"

"No!" Song Xiang blushed immediately, "I'm just worried that if we act too late, we will suffer insignificant losses."

Zhou Yi's smile became stronger. Compared with Gong Ying, Song Xiang was very serious.

He was just joking just now. .

Then he patted Song Xiang on the shoulder, "If we expose the ironclad ship too early, the enemy will be scared away by us. When we enter the enemy's range and they turn their bows, our ironclad ship will attack again."

The sailing warship needs to turn around and aim the side at the enemy when it changes from the forward state to the shooting state.

This action conversion takes time.

For Zhou Yi, this is the best time for them to attack.

Because by then, it will take a lot of time for the coalition navy to realize that something is wrong and then change from the shooting state to the escape state.

It will be too late for the coalition navy by then.

Song Xiang responded yes and continued to observe the situation of the Western Turkish fleet.

According to Zhou Yi's plan, after the Western Turkish fleet entered the range of the Dasong warship, the outer sailing warships began to bombard.

One by one, the conical shells flew out like thunder and rushed towards the Western Turkish warships that rushed over.

"Boom boom boom..."

The rifled guns on the Dasong sailing warships are more accurate than smoothbore guns.

The shells fell into the huge fleet of Western warships, and some of them were hit immediately.

Amid the explosion of the shells, more than a dozen Western warships were blown into huge gaps, and seawater poured into the warships, drowning the Western soldiers in the cabins, and then the warships slowly sank.

"Don't look back, go all out and let the other side enter the range of our naval guns!" Malfoy heard the screams of the navy soldiers, and his face was gloomy.

He had expected such a result before the war.

He reminded many naval officers.

This time their tactics were to hurt the enemy 800 and lose 1,000.

Even if all of their nearly 500 warships sank, as long as they won, everything would be meaningful.

Like Malfoy, other Western officers gradually calmed down after the initial palpitations.

They avoided the sinking warships and continued to head towards the Dasong fleet.

Now, they are about eight kilometers away from the Dasong fleet and need to travel another four kilometers.

Their naval guns can only reach the Dasong fleet.

But this short four kilometers seemed so long to the Western Turkish officers.

On the way, one after another of the coalition warships sank.

Some warships were even hit by ammunition, and the whole ship exploded. Some warships burned and turned into a fireball.

The coalition soldiers who fell to the bottom of the sea kept calling for help, begging other warships to pull them up, but no warship stopped, just passed by them and let them be swallowed by the sea.

Because as long as the warship stopped, it would not only affect the speed of the entire fleet, but also become a live target.

In such a tragic process, the Western Turkish fleet approached step by step, and finally approached the position of four kilometers from the Dasong fleet.

At this time, hundreds of warships had been lost in three directions.

But anyway, they achieved their strategic goal.

Under Malfoy's order, the main force of the Western Turkish fleet in the east stopped, began to turn the bow, and aimed the side at the Dasong warship.

"You bunch of lowly Eastern natives, I'm going to kill you all now."

On the flagship deck, Malfoy held the railing tightly, leaning forward, as if he was going to fly over a distance of four kilometers and eat the opposite Dasong General.

After enduring so many casualties, he now wants to get back his blood debt.

The naval officers on other warships were extremely angry, and at the same time, they felt the pleasure of revenge.

In their view, this Dasong fleet was doomed.

They still had more than 300 warships, while the other side had only 60 warships.

More importantly, the Dasong fleet was all within their range.

With five times the firepower of the other side, they couldn't lose.

At the port of Calcutta, Bolt also stood up from his chair.

"Hahaha, Malfoy, you will be remembered by history. When you return to the British, everyone will shout your name." He stared at the sea and laughed wildly.

The silence of the 60 warships in the port certainly made him feel distressed, but they finally achieved their goal.

This time they were finally able to destroy the Dasong fleet in one fell swoop.

As long as they regained control of the ocean, they could use the mobility of the navy to attack all along the coast of Dasong.

At that time, even if the Dasong army's muskets and artillery were better than theirs, they would have to run around in a hurry.

"General, the time has come!" When Malfoy and Bolt were extremely excited, Song Xiang said to Zhou Yi with a calm expression.

They had practiced this situation before the war and knew how to deploy troops to deal with it.

"It's time to let the ironclad ships see blood!" Zhou Yi narrowed his eyes when he heard this.

When the Western Tu fleet approached, he did not do nothing, but arranged the next attack method.

Under his order, the formation of the Dasong Fleet began to change.

The formation in which sailing warships and steamships shielded ironclad ships was changed to an array with ironclad ships outside and sailing warships and steamships inside.

The purpose of this array was to use the ironclad ships as shields to protect the fragile sailing warships and steamships inside, and then use the firepower of the ironclad ships to attack the opponent's warships.

Almost at the same time, the Dasong Fleet and the Western Earth Fleet both completed the change of formation.

At this time, the Western Earth Fleet could not wait to fire at the Dasong Fleet.

One after another, spherical shrapnel flew out of the muzzle of the smoothbore gun and rushed towards the ironclad ships located outside the fleet.

"Boom boom boom..." Many shells exploded immediately near the ironclad ships.

However, most of them fell into the sea, and some shells hit the ironclad and fell to the bottom of the sea.

A few shells exploded on the ironclad outside the warship, and could not shake the heavy ironclad of the ironclad ship at all.

After all, the thickness of the iron armor on the side of the ironclad ship is 350 mm, and even the iron armor on the deck is 100 mm.

"What's going on?" Seeing that many shells hit the Dasong warship.

But the Dasong warship was still intact, Malfoy frowned slightly.

After thinking for a while, he continued, "Let the warships behind continue to move forward and get closer."

He thought that it was because the Dasong fleet was at the limit of their shooting, so the shells could not penetrate the side of the Dasong warship.

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