"Fire, for the sake of the God Emperor!"

On the deck of the Qi Jiguang battlecruiser, the captain Qi Fei roared excitedly.

Suddenly, there was a piercing whistling.

Then a thirty-two-pound solid bullet struck him not far away, and although it bounced off in an instant due to the angle, it still left a deep scratch on the deck like a plough on the ground, and the pieces of wood that it brought up shot like a scattered bullet, and one of them flew less than a foot away from him, and then flew directly out of the deck.

His slightly beautiful masculine face showed a smile that would probably make a girl scream.

Obviously, he liked this feeling of brushing shoulders with death, and then he roared and personally pulled the gun rope, and with his roar, the huge six-inch cannon steel cannon body beside him retreated fiercely, and then was pulled by the spring and slope gun carriage, and in the deafening cannon sound, the cannonball flew out with flames, fiercely pierced the air and flew over a thousand yards of sea in an instant, and slammed into the port side of the third class ship of Devonshire on the opposite side, and the ninety-pound cannonball flying at supersonic speed also penetrated the thick oak in an instant......

The flames of the explosion shone aboard the Devonshire.

On the port side of the 74-gun ship, which was built thirty years ago, countless pieces of wood spewed out along with flames, and then a huge hole in smoke appeared.

But at this time, with the fire from the port side of another battleship of the same type not far away, the port side of the Wellington, a 32-pound solid bullet also hit the starboard side of the Qi Jiguang, and the shell that hit the direct hit pierced the not thick shell of the battlecruiser at once, and the broken wood and shells swept across the internal gun deck, and a four-inch gun that was about to fire was in a mess. However, because of the design of the compartment, the other gun emplacements were not affected in the slightest, and then nineteen four-inch guns sprayed flames one after another at a very fast speed, and two four-inch shells also fiercely hit the port side of the Wellington, and the forty-pound solid shells also chiseled through the oak of the Wellington at this distance, and the shells continued to strike in the cabin to destroy all the wooden structures that stood in their way, and at the same time made countless pieces of wood more ferocious than bullets, and even overturned a twenty-four-pounder cannon that was firing.

But the muzzles on the Wellington's other gun emplacements were still spewing flames.

At this time, the six-inch cannon at the stern of the Qi Jiguang roared, as if a miracle, the cannon also hit the Devonshire.

It's just a hit.

The huge cannonball pierced the tail tower like a ferocious monster, and the next moment the flames accompanied by the explosion erupted from the top deck of the tail tower, and the rear mast of the Devonshire suddenly trembled, like a tree that had been broken off its roots, and slowly fell forward with a terrible loud noise, and finally pressed against the mainmast in the center, and as the sail boom broke and the originally bulging sails fell, the speed of the battleship, which was racing at nine knots, suddenly began to slow down.

The Wellington in the back did not hesitate to step forward.

However, all the four-inch guns on the starboard side of the Qi Jiguang fired a salvo again, and a solid bullet also hit the stern of the Wellington, but the salvo of the Wellington also made a 32-pound cannonball hit the Qi Jiguang, and even the shell of an eighteen-pound gun on its deck hit the front main gun of the Qi Jiguang like a sky, but it was directly bounced away by the steel-faced wrought iron shield in front of this cannon, and even the cannonball was smashed on the shield, and the huge impact sound was like a bell, which shocked the busy artillerymen behind the shield......

"Bloody battle to the end, the God Emperor is with us!"

Qi Fei roared.

Then he pulled the cannon rope again......

And at this moment, the entire sea is full of this kind of close-range combat that can be called fist-to-flesh.

It must be explained that in this big battle, the Ming army actually did not have an advantage, at least not an absolute advantage, although the Ming army's rifled guns had a long range, high accuracy and greater power, but on the undulating sea, relying on almost completely human character aiming technology, if you want to effectively attack the target, you still have to close the distance and make a face.

And if you close the distance, the British army's 32-pounder and 68-pounder guns, and even 24-pounder guns, are not vegetarians.

Don't underestimate this thing.

The British had previously tested the system, and the eighteen-pounder cannon could penetrate a foot-thick pine at a distance of 1,000 yards, the four-hundred-yard standard engagement distance could penetrate two-foot-thick oak, the twenty-four-pounder cannon could even penetrate a three-inch wrought iron armor at a distance of 100 yards, and the cannonballs could even penetrate the entire target ship and hit the planks on the other side when testing the 32-pounder gun, and within the standard engagement distance of 400 yards for the 68-pounder gun, the cast steel solid bullet could even penetrate the ironclad ship Richelieu, which was commissioned in 1875. Armor of all French ironclads.

And Richelieu's iron armor was two hundred millimeters.

The breech gun was as ferocious as the extreme.

Therefore, at a distance of 1,000 yards, even the Ming battleships could not stop the 32-pounder gun.

Just like the British battleships couldn't stop the four-inch guns.

Beyond this distance, although the artillery of the Ming army has high accuracy, it is not equipped with stabilizers, or centralized fire control, or a large number of staff officers use mechanical computers to calculate ballistics, and even have a rangefinder of the Yoshino level, purely relying on the character of the gunner, it is difficult to hit the target on the constantly shaking battleship.

What's more, the British army was desperate at this time, and all the battleships were constantly closing the distance.

In particular, the Ming army also had six battle cruisers.

The level of protection of the latter was not of the same level as that of the battleship, and at such a distance even the eighteen-pounder guns of the British army could not withstand it.

In the end, the battle between the two sides evolved into this kind of hand-to-hand combat.

The artillery of both sides desperately poured shells at each other at a distance where they could penetrate each other, especially the 68-pounder guns of the British army and the six-inch guns of the Ming army, all of which used flowering shells to bombard, and every shell that hit the target could cause great damage. However, this is an absolute disadvantage of the British army, they actually only have two first-class ships that can install this, after all, the recoil of their cannons must be borne by the planks, and it is impossible to install too much of this, and the cannons of the Ming army are all on the steel skeleton, the recoil is borne by steel, and there are also primary buffer devices, so the two first-class ships of the British army only have a total of four 68-pound guns, and in fact, because there are only two guns that can be used in the firing range, but the Ming army has a full twenty-two six-inch guns, and the rotating gun carriage can point to the side at the same time.

There was an absolute advantage in the number of main guns, and the 90-pound shell also had an absolute advantage over the 68-pound shell in terms of charge.

Another is the accuracy advantage of rifled guns.

After all, such a distance is not the four-hundred-yard paste-faced that the British are accustomed to, and there is a qualitative gap between the accuracy of the smoothbore cannon and the rifled gun at a distance of one thousand yards, although the former has an absolute superiority in numbers, but the number of shells hit is not even as many as that of the Ming army.

This guaranteed the victory of the Ming army.

On the battleships and battle cruisers, the artillerymen behind the shields, sweating and desperately repeating the process of loading and firing, huge shells continued to shoot at the enemy, and on the second-tier artillery deck under their feet, those artillerymen with enemy shells were also operating their four-inch guns, constantly attacking targets with solid shells, although the casualties were also increasing, but these soldiers were not afraid, with their belief in the God Emperor, and even with the death for the God Emperor, Then ascend to the heavenly realm with the desire to be immortal with the gods, and fight feverishly in blood and fire.

Fortunately, although all the battleships were shot, they were only slightly wounded, which did not affect the battle in the slightest.

But the British army was different.

Under the bombardment of those terrifying six-inch guns of the Ming army, four third-class ships soon lost their combat effectiveness, and in the end, the power of the ninety-pound flowering bomb was also extremely ferocious, not to mention the naval combat pawns of the Invincible Armada class or the Avenger class, and even the first-class ships like the St. George could not withstand it.

This giant ship of the same type as the Trafalgar, which is actually the lead ship of the St. George-class, singled out the Ming Army's Pingyuan battleship, although it destroyed one of the boilers of the Pingyuan with a 68-pound cannon shell, but the Pingyuan, which has six boilers, was not greatly affected, but immediately followed up with a six-inch flowering bullet, and the explosion of 20 catties of black powder made the St. George lose four 32-pounder guns at once, and it was still smoking at this time, and even the rigging of the mainmast was seriously damaged, and the original full mainmast sail had been deflated......

"The St. George can't keep up!"

The captain of the Trafalgar looked behind him and said.

"God forbid!"

Yilu said expressionlessly.

The giant ship under their feet has also been shot in many places, and although the battleship of the Ming Army Zhiyuan on the opposite side has also suffered many shells, it has not even slowed down, and the two one-on-one battleships are diagonally inserted into the waterway south of Carimon Island, although this waterway is narrow and dangerous, but Yilu has only one choice left.

As for him, the battlefield has been disrupted.

Those British battleships were fighting almost against the capital ships of the Ming army, except for the Zhiyuan and Jingyuan of the Trafalgar and the St. George, the remaining twelve Ming capital ships against twelve British third-class ships, at this time, the whole sea was filled with gunsmoke, and the sound of artillery shook the sky, and the whirring of shells in the two battleships flew into wood and blood and flesh. But with the advantage of artillery power and accuracy, the Ming army clearly firmly held the upper hand, even the smaller Dingzhenwei three ships, with the new replacement of all four-inch guns, were also pressing their opponents, and in the north of the battlefield, the Ming cruisers had already started a melee with the remnants of the British cruisers and gunboats, and even the six cruisers that originally stayed in Singapore to provide cover for the marines also joined the battlefield, and the power of these four-inch and three-inch naval guns was also superior.

In fact, at this time, all the British officers and soldiers knew very well that they would not be able to escape from this huge pocket without a miracle, but the dignity of being the supremacy of the sea made them unable to accept defeat, and the Royal Navy was invincible for more than a hundred years, and they firmly believed that they could still withstand the test this time.

But what is surprising is that the monster under the water no longer appears.

The latter sank a total of ten cruisers and gunboats, but after the sinking of the tenth British battleship, he mysteriously disappeared and never continued to plague the poor Royal Navy.

Of course, it was a disaster to change his men.

"What does he want to do?"

The captain of the Trafalgar said suspiciously.

"He couldn't have been killed by a stray bullet, would he?"

Then he added.

But he himself knew it was a bit of a fantasy.

"Hmph, we are the rats that the old cat plays with the kitten, he is not in a hurry to solve us, but to use his soldiers as sparring partners, he is using us to train soldiers, his soldiers are not like us, they have experienced countless wars and have accumulated hundreds of years of experience, and their opponents before were the Tatars, the latter could not let them learn real sea war, and this naval battle is the success of his navy."

Yilu said with a sneer.

He guessed correctly, Yang Feng planned it this way.

At this moment, His Majesty the God Emperor is lying leisurely on a very small reef, just like those legendary mermaids, the lower half of the body is soaked in the sea water, the upper body is exposed to the water, and from time to time he slaps the sea water with his legs, and then leisurely looks at the battlefield filled with gunpowder in the distance, and his built-in sound system is still playing the Sue Ei March, the majestic and passionate music is stirring high-pitched on the sea, and the roar of the cannon in the music is like a harmony, His Majesty the God Emperor is nostalgic for his youth that has long been gone hundreds of years ago in this strange music, Watch your men fight against the British fleet......

In other words, he is here for military training.

Although he does have the ability to sink all the British warships underwater alone, this is of no use to improve the combat effectiveness of his army, what he wants is a powerful fleet that can really sail out and run rampant across the ocean, not a group of troops who are used to being under the care of the God Emperor and have not experienced real bloody battles cannot really grow, after all, they will often have to go on expeditions to Europe without the God Emperor in the future, so they must grow up as soon as possible to take over the burden of the God Emperor. His army is no problem, even if the opponent is the Qing army, after so many years of continuous war, it has grown up enough, and his navy has not experienced a real bloody battle, Yilu's fleet is the best whetstone, all he needs to do is to mobilize morale, even if he has to lose a certain number of warships, he has to let the Ming army fight this bloody battle.

As for casualties......

This doesn't matter, in fact, the soldiers of the Ming army don't care about casualties, for them, dying for the God Emperor is a ladder to the heavenly realm.

It is said that this is the eighth year of the Divine Emperor's descent into the world, and his godhead has been stabilized, especially these naval soldiers who are mainly in Nanyang and Liangguang, who are all the most fanatical believers, and themselves, their families, and even all their relatives, friends, and neighbors will be glorified by their death for the country and the Divine Emperor.

That's the power of faith.

"It's time to finish!"

The God Emperor, who was lying on the reef, looked at the Zhiyuan and Trafalgar that were approaching while fighting in the distance, and said with a satisfied smile.

Then he stepped back, and instantly submerged into the sea.