New Ming Empire mixed in America

After receiving the semaphore, the officers on the other battleships were stunned for a while.

This was not the result they imagined. They just wanted to find a sense of presence and pass the blame. Now that it was serious, they were dumbfounded.

"Of course we also want to fight the Easterners, but the boys in the battleship are not ready yet."

A captain expressed his "helplessness" to his first mate. The look of unfulfilled ambition on his face moved the first mate very much, and he couldn't help but echoed:

"Now I can't wait to control the naval gun myself and give the Orientals a hard blow, but I still have my own responsibilities, and we can't leave my post..."

The boatswain next to him couldn't help but rolled his eyes. The soldiers on the battleship were not as miserable as they thought.

If the junior officers hadn't stopped them, those soldiers might have opened fire long ago.

But now that they are in the same camp, he cannot tear down his leadership, and he does not want to seek death.

It was not only Tsarist Russia's own warships that saw the semaphore, but the fleet led by Song He also discovered the opponent's semaphore.

In an instant, the guns of all the battleships raised their angles and aimed at the Tsarist Russian fleet.

The scattered armored gunboats also moved closer and directly surrounded the supply ship in the Tsarist Russian fleet from a distance.

The airship also dropped some altitude again, and the rotating machine gun on the pod also began to idling.

Now we wait for the Tsarist Russian fleet to launch an attack as soon as there is any abnormality.

In this strange atmosphere, the Tsarist Russian fleet did not make any drastic moves in the end.

Apart from the loud protests by some Tsarist Russian naval soldiers, it can be said that there was nothing else out of the ordinary.

However, just when Song He was about to give the order to continue the exercise, a Tsarist Russian supply ship actually signaled a collision order.

It began to move slowly, and began to turn the bow of the ship. It seemed that it was preparing to pass over the nearby armored gunboat and ram into Song He's flagship.

Seeing this scene, the Tsarist Russian officers on the surrounding battleships could not help but curse.

But along with their curses, the Tsarist Russian naval soldiers on the battleship cheered loudly.

The sound of 'hurrah, hurrah...' spread across the deck.

However, it is a pity that their shouts were soon interrupted.

Because the airship started dropping bombs.

Yes, and when Song He ordered the attack, he saw that the large oil barrel bomb with the number 102 written on it was dropped from the airship.

This time, the area of ​​the drag chute was reduced, and the length of the delay fuse was changed. (It is not a fuse, but a delay charge.)

Because the oil barrel bombs fell too slowly when they bombed the Mexican camp last time, observers believed that they would be easily hit and detonated by firearms.

Therefore, adjustments were deliberately made this time, but in Li Mingqi's view, this bomb was just a transition.

It can also bully countries that do not yet have anti-aircraft firepower.

If smokeless gunpowder had become popular, Li Mingqi would never have approved such a large bomb.

It is estimated that later smaller bombs will also be used to bombard the ground in a blanket manner.

There is no anti-air firepower now, so it doesn't matter if the bombs are bigger. They are incendiary anyway, so it doesn't matter if they are bigger.

He even thought about getting out the explosive packets used by the heartless cannon, putting a delay device on them and letting the airship try to throw them.

It was so powerful that it was equivalent to the large-caliber artillery during World War II.

However, due to various reasons such as clouds and mist in the sky easily making explosive packets wet, this idea is still under study.

But the current incendiary barrels are very effective. Only six of them successfully hit the slowly moving supply ship.

The power of the flames frightened everyone, not just the soldiers and officers in the Tsarist Russian fleet.

Even Song He couldn't help but open his mouth when he saw the live bombing for the first time.

Only one of the six oil barrel bombs hit, turning the stern of the supply ship into a sea of ​​flames.

The navy soldiers who had no time to escape wailed and were burned to death on the deck.

The remaining Tsarist Russian soldiers who were lucky enough to be on the edge of the ship jumped into the sea nearby. Unfortunately, the flames touched their bodies and would not be extinguished immediately in the sea unless they were washed away by the sea.

Instead, it continued to burn. After the seawater washed away the oil mixture on the soldiers, the Tsarist Russian soldiers had already been burned to death in the water.

The supply ship, which was still moving slowly, slowly lost power, and dozens of naval soldiers who were too late to put down the lifeboats jumped into the sea.

They slid their arms desperately, trying to get away from the ship they were working on.

When the supply ship sinks, if you don't stay away from the supply ship, you may be pulled into the seabed by the whirlpool caused by the sinking of the supply ship.

But now the surrounding sea is full of flames, and except for the one that hit, the rest of the oil barrel bombs exploded nearby.

And it exploded four or five meters away from the sea, so the area was quite large.

The same goes for the one that hits the supply ship. It explodes in the air, otherwise the entire stern of the supply ship would not be set on fire.

It is foreseeable that the fate of these soldiers who jumped into the sea will not be good. Unless the flames are extinguished by themselves, the remaining ships of the Tsarist Russian fleet will not put down lifeboats to rescue them.

"I think we are really going to fight back this time. Our fleet has been attacked this time, so..."

But before Leonid could finish speaking, an officer beside him shouted loudly.

"Damn it, I told the soldiers to take fire prevention measures, but now you see, there is still a problem."

"A supply ship, more than a hundred naval soldiers on board died in vain on the sea because of the negligence of the captain of the supply ship!"

After the other officer heard this, he froze on the spot for a long time before he remembered to answer.

"I propose to severely punish the captain of this supply ship, and propose to the Ministry of War to deprive this captain of all military ranks and benefits. He is irresponsible for all our warships in Tsarist Russia!"

When he said the last sentence, there was still a hint of fear in his voice.

If this supply ship really succeeded, then they wouldn't have to go back.

Look at the flames on the sea. Although the supply ship is not as huge as the battleship, the difference is not too far away.

Just being slightly affected by the attack just now, the supply ship was doomed.

He looked around at the wooden objects around his battleship. He didn't think this battleship would be any better than the supply ship after being hit.

The warships in the Tsarist Russian fleet today are not the armored ships they were when they were violently beaten by the Japanese.

They still used wooden sail warships. Although they severely beat the Ottoman Empire's navy in the Crimean War, they only had to take a beating after encountering the navy dispatched by the Six-Nation Alliance.

Because their warships are too lazy to pack more iron sheets due to the backwardness of domestic industrialization, so it is normal for them to be beaten.

What's more, the floating turret of Nasan was a bit exaggerated in the environment at that time. (The mobile turret is similar to the state of the iron-clad battleships of the New Ming Empire without the steam turbine.)

In other words, now that the Siberian Fleet has not been renamed the Pacific Fleet, the warships of Tsarist Russia are not worth mentioning.

After Tsarist Russia's broadside gunport ironclads were launched one after another, Tsarist Russia's navy became more respectable.

But later, everyone knew that the Japanese country took advantage of them and exported them, which directly caused the Tsarist Russia's navy to lose its master.