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If a battleship wants to start fighting, it takes a lot of time to prepare. It is far from the battleships of later generations that can be regarded as almost ready to fight at any time.

The so-called battle preparation is to first extinguish all the stove fires in the battleship's galley. Of course, an experienced commander will make his subordinates eat and drink well in advance.

After eating, there will be some time for all the soldiers to clean up the 'clutter' inside.

Subsequently, the battleship will perform a "station cleaning" work, and all wooden partitions, sailor boxes or other items not related to the battle on the deck will be transferred to the cabin.

This will clear a series of pathways that run the entire length of the deck and are free of obstructions.

The lifeboat on the battleship will be lowered and tied near the stern of the ship to facilitate escape or rescue.

The protective net on the ship is also opened on the deck, which can provide a certain degree of protection for downed rigging and soldiers falling after a firefight.

After watching the scene in the movie "Fighting Sea", you should be able to know what the rope nets on the side of the ship are used for.

The deck will then be sprinkled with sand or other adsorbent materials to increase friction. The blood on the floor during the battle will make the deck slippery.

In addition, a blanket soaked in water should be hung at the entrance of the gunpowder magazine, fire buckets should be filled with water, and water pumps should be on standby at any time.

The artillery shells are moved next to each gun emplacement, and the gunners and ammunition feeders on the battleship will be ready to continuously provide artillery shells for the gun emplacements.

At the same time, the most critical point is that the ship's doctors and assistants enter the medical room in the battleship to prepare for surgery.

After all this is done, the two sides will start fighting.

It may seem troublesome, but in fact these are necessary preparations. (The information I learned is much more troublesome than this...)

Despite all the preparations, something unexpected happened after the artillery battle began.

The battleship led by Ying did not continue to sail as expected, but also began to turn and turn the ship sideways.

Their move stunned the gunners who had predicted the shooting. All the shells in the first round hit the sea a long way away from the opponent.

Not only that, when the two sides entered the shooting stage from the second round, Song He unexpectedly discovered that the range of the opponent's naval guns was almost comparable to the range of the Xinming Empire's naval guns.

The warships of both sides started shooting at each other from a distance of more than 3,000 meters. The hit rate at such a long distance can be imagined.

Twenty or thirty shells can be considered accurate if they can hit a few hits.

It depends on the performance of both sides' naval guns and the accuracy of shooting Zhuyuan.

Song He thought it was a waste of time for the two sides to exchange shots at each other from such a distance.

His initial plan was to take advantage of the gap where the opponent's warship had to move towards his own warship in order to enter the artillery range, and fire a few rounds of artillery shells.

But now the opponent also stopped in the distance and started bombarding, which disrupted Song He's arrangement and brought the battle into the current 'garbage time'.

"Turn right. Since the other party isn't coming, let's go over there!"

Under Song He's order, a large amount of thick smoke was emitted from the chimneys of the two ironclad ships, and the speed of the battleships suddenly accelerated a lot.

A huge arc was drawn on the sea, moving quickly in the direction of the British battleship.

"Watfalk, why are those Eastern warships so fast?"

On the deck, the commander of the British fleet stared blankly at the Oriental warship that was rapidly approaching him with thick smoke. He couldn't understand why the opponent's speed suddenly increased so much.

But as an excellent battleship commander, he quickly got over the shock.

"Quick, we have to turn right too, don't let those damn Eastern fleets hit us!"

Following his order, the battleship led by Ying also began to turn.

For British warships that do not have walkie-talkies and can only rely on semaphores to communicate with each other, it is not easy to get the entire fleet to make changes in time.

Except for one battleship, the captain relied on his rich experience and made a steering action in advance to barely maintain the battle formation with the flagship.

The remaining warship slowed down a beat, and after Song He's warship had already approached, the British warship had only completed half of its turning movement.

When encountering such a situation, Song He's two warships were not polite and directly attacked the warship that was facing them diagonally.

Generally, it takes a long time to sink a warship, but two warships firing at the British warship at the same time greatly shortens this time.

Along with the explosion, the first thing that couldn't withstand it was the second artillery deck at the bow of the ship. It was blown open by a huge hole under the bombardment of the Song He battleship.

Although no sea water came in, there were few living people in the gun deck after the explosion.

Two cannons with strange shapes broke free from their fixed ropes and fell into the sea as the battleship rose and fell.

After seeing this weird-looking gangster, Song He took the news to heart.

If he faced off against the battleship Dai Ying again in the future, he would definitely not think about having to carry out overloaded maneuvers at the risk of damaging the boiler.

Then the cabin near the waterline was penetrated by the armor-piercing projectile from the Song He battleship. It is unclear whether it penetrated the bottom of the ship.

The artillerymen on armored battleships are already very skilled in this tactic of lowering the muzzle of the gun and firing armor-piercing projectiles at an angle at close range.

Two special naval gun bases were even specially customized so that the muzzles could be adjusted to be more tilted.

In the end, the British battleship was finally ignited by the armored warship's cannon fire, and the sails were smashed into sieves by the modified rapid-fire cannon on the armored warship's deck.

After confirming that there was no threat to the Ying Ying warship, Song He led the armored warships and cut into the remaining two Ying Ying warships that were aiming their guns at his flagship.

There was a hit exchange ratio of 0 for nearly 100 just now, and now all the naval soldiers are very inflated.

Prepare to rely on your own iron shell to withstand the opponent's attack and replicate the results of the previous battle.

But reality gave these soldiers a heavy slap in the face.

Because after taking a few shells, the naval soldiers discovered that their armor had been dented by the opponent's shells.

And as more and more locations are hit, part of the armor has collapsed, and many other locations have begun to fall off.

Fortunately, before the armor of the Xin Ming Empire's iron-clad battleships was shattered, Daiying's battleships had already lost the ability to resist.

Ignoring the Daiying naval soldiers who were rowing their boats desperately on the sea, Song He just stared silently at the two Daiying warships that slowly sank to the bottom of the sea together with their captains.

Sighing, Song He walked back to his captain's cabin and began to record the various problems discovered during this battle.

At a lower level, the idea of ​​underestimating the enemy has begun to appear in the navy.

These people include the main gunners who have full confidence in the defense capabilities of their battleships.

In pursuit of hit rate, these guys actually chose to wait for the opportunity, which caused the iron-clad warships of the Xinming Empire to suffer more than twice as many attacks as the British warships.

The second is that the secondary gunners who were responsible for clearing the local deck of enemies did not attack the local area immediately.

Secondly, some of the soldiers who were supposed to be on guard against the enemy at all times even went to help carry the artillery shells.

After recording everything, Song He sighed.

He was a pirate and had no special and systematic study of naval warfare. After defeating the Peruvian navy, he spent less time studying the books on naval warfare given by Li Mingqi.

When he returned to the deck, the Xinming Royal Fleet had already begun a blockade of Victoria Freeport.

Next, as long as the opponent's forts are removed, the free port can be directly occupied. At that time, whether to directly burn Victoria Harbor or sink all merchant ships can be studied slowly.

However, the defenders of Victoria Freeport did not give him this opportunity. The commander of the defenders who witnessed the whole naval battle asked someone to shout to Song He in flag language, saying that there might be some misunderstandings between the two sides that needed to be clarified through interviews.

Victoria Freeport was upgraded to a city in 1862, not long ago, and its current chief executive is the mayor.

After his lobbying, the defending officers reluctantly agreed to peace talks.

As for the nonsense the mayor said about surrender and the like, the garrison officers just thought the other party was farting.

If he surrendered directly, then he, the commander in charge of the coastal defense fort, would definitely use this flaw to attack and accuse him afterwards.

Therefore, surrender turned into peace talks, and the Xinming Empire still needed to send people into the Victoria Freeport to hold peace talks.

However, after Song He ordered the bombardment of several warehouses in the port area, the garrison officers wisely changed their request for the Xinming Empire to send people to negotiate, into a request for the Xinming Empire to send people to discuss the issue of neutrality in the free port.

meeting.

"Then it's up to you. My request is that this place must obey the jurisdiction of the Xinming Empire from now on."

Patting Chen Hong on the shoulder, Song He told him his bottom line.

After taking a deep breath, Chen Hong tidied up the military uniform he was wearing that was imitated from the navy in the honor guard of the three armed forces in later generations.

After giving a very solemn military salute to Song He, Chen Hong, accompanied by more than a dozen marines, rode an armored gunboat and sailed towards the Victoria Free Port.

He knew that this peace talk was actually an opportunity that Song He had given him. If he could seize it this time, it would definitely come into Li Mingqi's sight afterwards.

Song He even told him that the Xin Ming Empire was in urgent need of diplomats, and told him the difficulties of Li Mingqi's desperation in hiring several foreigners to serve as diplomats in the Xin Ming Empire.

So with excitement, anxiety, uneasiness, pride and other emotions, Chen Hong set foot on the dock of Victoria Freeport.

The battle here in Songhe is basically over, but the battle on the border is still going on.

Although General Aubrey, the top commander of the British army, was captured alive, he now had no way to make the fleeing troops wait in place and be captured by the Xinming Empire.

Therefore, the British soldiers who had just participated in the attack on Cao Qing and others were now running towards the way they came.

Just now, these British soldiers who were still unwilling to give up launched two counterattacks against the mountain troops led by Sun Changying.

However, the soldiers relied on the parapet built by the British soldiers on the slope and used submachine guns, grenades, and Molotov cocktails to fight back.

The remaining soldiers saw that there was little chance of defeating these Easterners and ran away.

In fact, these British soldiers who have only collapsed now can be considered elites.

After all, these two attacks were too sudden, especially Cao Qing's tenacious fighting, which caused huge casualties to the British soldiers.

In the end, if it weren't for the fact that these British soldiers barely occupied the trenches and restored morale, the mountain troops would probably have collapsed when they first launched the raid.

This is also caused by the lack of tacit cooperation between the mountain troops and Cao Qing's defensive troops.

But no one can blame them, after all, this is the first time such a special operation has been carried out.

Although there are many mistakes and huge sacrifices, this is also an important step for the growth of the army.

There is no special force that can perform those difficult tasks after a period of training.

If there is, it can only mean that the opponent's commander is a genius, an unparalleled 'super genius'.

The battle on the hillside has ended, but the battle between the Wehrmacht and the British line infantry continues.

How could a battle involving tens of thousands of people be fought in a short time?

And now the line infantrymen in the front no longer have time to care about what is happening in the rear.

Because they have already encountered bigger troubles.