Become a feudal king from today

"Yes, Admiral."

The adjutant beside Malfoy immediately conveyed Malfoy's order through the change of flags on the battleship.

After receiving the order, the reserve battleships on the rear side were towed by the steamship, passed through the gap between the battleships on the front side, and approached the Dasong fleet.

When the Western-Turkish fleet launched an attack, the armored ships would not be beaten in vain.

Dasong's ironclad ship has two rotating turrets at the front and rear, and the side artillery design of the sail battleship is still retained to ensure the firepower of the battleship.

And it is different from the naval guns on the sail battleship.

Everything on the ironclad ship is the most advanced in Dasong. .

The same goes for naval guns, naturally, after the breech-loading guns are installed in the army.

All the naval guns on the ironclad ships also use the rear-loading method.

Facing the artillery fire from the coalition warships, the ironclad ship immediately began to counterattack, firing its side guns and front rotating turret at the same time.

Since all the guns of the Dasong Navy use rifled guns, the Western Turk Navy still uses smoothbore guns.

And the quality of naval guns is no longer at the same level.

In previous naval battles, the naval guns of the Dasong Navy basically defeated the naval guns of the Western and Turkish Navy.

At this moment, at a distance of four kilometers, the shells fired by the Dasong naval gun were undoubtedly more powerful.

Therefore, in the first round of shooting, the Dasong fleet was unscathed, but six battleships of the Xitu fleet were directly penetrated by the shells, and a large hole was instantly blown out.

"General, the Western Turk Navy has indeed sent warships to approach."

The mutual shelling began, and Song Xiang and Zhou Yi entered the cockpit of the ironclad ship.

Noting the situation of the Xitu Fleet, Song Xiang said to Zhou Yi.

"Hmph, the closer they are, the better." Zhou Yi snorted coldly.

There is no doubt that the Westerners have never seen an ironclad ship, or even have this concept.

They are still only in the age of sailing battleships.

Therefore, after seeing that their bombardment was useless against the ironclads, the other party's officers would inevitably have doubts and order the warships to continue shooting at close range to prevent the shells from being insufficient because the distance was too far.

And this is exactly what Zhou Yi wants.

The Western Navy made it clear that they wanted to eat them up.

Why don't they want this?

"Boom boom boom..."

For the next half hour, the two sides went back and forth on the sea, bombarding each other.

The armored ship's breech-mounted rifled gun fired very quickly, and one after another in the Western Turk Navy, warships fell silent.

Although the ironclad ship was constantly bombarded by the opponent's artillery shells, it remained strong.

Only the masts on some decks were blown off.

But this was not critical damage to the ironclad.

After all, the mast is only to save raw materials when the ironclad ship sails long distances, not a power source.

Seeing that his own warships were constantly damaged, but the warships of the Great Song Fleet were still able to fight back, cold sweat continued to break out on Malfoy's forehead.

But until now, he still couldn't imagine that the opponent's warship had iron plate armor, and thought that the wood of the Dasong warship might be better.

Therefore, he brought the warships closer and closer, so that the distance between the warships on both sides seemed to be reduced to one kilometer.

However, at this moment, he discovered that the formation of the Dasong Navy suddenly began to change.

The twelve warships on the periphery turned around and rushed towards them in three directions.

This is exactly Zhou Yi's inner command.

Seeing that the Xitu Navy had completely fallen into his trap, he was ready to put an end to it.

From the initial unilateral bombardment to mutual bombardment, the Western-Turkish Navy lost about 150 warships.

Including the warships destroyed by Gong Ying, it reached half of the coalition navy.

For the remaining half, he prepared to adopt a more rapid attack method to end this naval battle.

Upon his command, the six ironclad ships headed east to the main force of the Western-Turkish Fleet.

Thirty-six steamships followed the ironclads, towing the sailing ships.

There were three ironclads on the south and west sides, and twelve steamships and sailing warships on each side followed the ironclads.

These warships include Gong Ying's warship that just sorted out.

"Boom boom boom..."

When the Dasong fleet was changing formations, numerous Western sail warships kept firing at the Dasong fleet. The firelight flickered and spherical bombs roared towards them.

In order to avoid the sail battleships and steamships behind them being hit by cannonballs.

The ironclads adopted a protective formation as much as possible.

When moving, the armored fleet formed a "human" shape.

Many sail warships are hiding behind the formation.

However, due to the Western-Turkish fleet being too close and the large number of artillery pieces, many shells still passed through the gaps and landed on the sail battleships and steamships.

But fortunately, the opponent's spherical shells did not penetrate enough and it was difficult to penetrate the deck.

But even so, the cannonballs falling on the sailing battleship also caused considerable damage to the sailing battleship.

When rushing towards the coalition warships, the Dasong Navy continued to have the masts of sailing warships blown off, or the wooden structures on the decks were ignited in the explosion, and soldiers also suffered casualties.

On the flagship, Zhou Yi observed these situations.

Although he regretted it, he understood that this was war.

Turning back, he stared intently at the Xitu battleship ahead.

On the deck, two rotating turrets continuously bombarded the Xitu warship ahead.

As the distance gets closer, almost every shot from the rotating turret is sure to hit.

Western-Turkish warships continued to be sunk.

At this time, the Western Turk Navy seemed to finally realize that something was wrong.

They all turned around, but instead of running away, they headed straight towards them just like them.

Zhou Yi immediately realized that the opponent must think that the artillery battle could not be won, and he was preparing to see red with his bayonet.

Want to rely on the advantage of numbers to fight the last battle, and fight a boarding battle!

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