When he found that the propeller driven by the 300-horsepower steam engine installed on his Sea Shark class could not catch up with the enemy ship with a tailwind, Kan Shu had no choice but to order the sail to be raised and let the steam boiler depressurize and standby. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Kanshu has decided to use the original sail power in a downwind situation to start this potentially long sea chase.

After Kan Shu gave the order, the first mate and several officers, as if they were about to encounter something exciting, all showed excited looks, and when the order reached the whole ship, this atmosphere also spread to everyone.

Kan Shu looked at Peter's fleet, which was fleeing farther and farther ahead, narrowed his eyes slightly, and sneered, "It's a pipe dream to get rid of us, the Sea Shark class didn't impress everyone in the navy at the beginning, it wasn't a steam drive." ”

Indeed, when Kanshu stood out from a dozen captains and became the captain of the first Sea Shark-class battleship, he was not equipped with a steam engine.

Moreover, before the Sea Shark class was delivered to the Navy for sea trials, it went to watch the test with the thought that "this is not the warship we need".

However, the final result was that the Navy recognized this type of warship, and separated it from the improved model of the fast crab and gave it a separate number.

What changed the Navy's original decision was the high speed of up to 19 knots when the Sea Shark class was downwind.

You know, in the era of tens of thousands of horsepower steam turbines a few hundred years later, those huge steel fleets will only be able to sail at this level.

When the deck sailors complied with the order and used the steam engine to drive the linkage to raise the sails in a minute, dozens of sails, up to 40 meters wide and more than the width of the sea shark's hull, slowly swelled.

When the engine room received the news that the deck sails had been fully raised, it slowly began to depressurize the steam engine and reduce the flames.

However, for the time being, it is not possible to completely extinguish the fire, because it is now a battle, and I don't know when, it is necessary to reactivate the steam engine, and it is a wise choice to use a small fire that is now very economical and maintain a certain pressure.

The overall speed of the 101 formation is slowly increasing and improving.

"Oh my God, they're catching up."

"What? No way. ”

"Damn Peter, he didn't say that Xuan Jun has such a powerful battleship. How many ships have we all lost. ”

"We've already lost several ships, we can't go on like this, damn it."

"Fight with them."

"How to fight, what level is their flowering bomb, you also saw it, what are we going to do?"

"What then?"

"Let's just run alone."

"What are you kidding, don't you see the terrible speed of these murderous devils? To run alone is to die. ”

On Peter's ship, the captain was also questioning Peter, "Mr. Peter, didn't you promise that Xuanjun's method of increasing the speed of the ship could not be used on a big ship?" What's going on now? We've all been hurt by you. ”

Just when Peter's fleet in front was panicked and in a mess, the 101st formation was already three times faster than the other party, slowly approaching, and the distance between the two sides slowly became less than 1,000 meters.

・・・・・・After several consecutive cannon shots, the naval gunners of the three Sea Shark classes were embarrassed, and none of them hit a single hit.

Peter's fleet saw that the accuracy of the artillery fire of the Xuan army had dropped a lot, and they also recovered from the panic just now, and began to discuss the strategy.

The speed of the three Sea Shark-class ships was too fast, and they approached the enemy ship about 800 meters in a short time, but at this time, the tactical principle of giving full play to the range advantage of their own artillery was still firmly adhered to by several captains.

So, feeling that they were too fast, the 101 formation drew an arc, ran to the side and rear of the enemy ship, stabilized at a distance of 1200 meters from the enemy fleet, and then lowered a few sails to let the speed drop and not get too close to the enemy ship.

Seeing this, Peter's fleet was still willing to stay there, and there was no need to negotiate, and the decision to escape was made collectively.

They kept adjusting this direction, and with the wind, they began to flee with all their might.

At this angle and distance, the 101 formation was already able to exert the power of the artillery of the full side chord.

So, by order of the gunner, three ships began rapid-fire.

However, when the smoke cleared, I looked at the opposite side with a telescope, but none of them hit the target.

The gunner shouted like thunder, "Is this how you fight? I didn't hit a single shot, where is the awesome energy in my usual training, ah? How did they all turn into soft-footed shrimp on the battlefield? One more time. Re-aim. ”

However, the next few rounds of fire failed to hit the enemy's fleet.

Hearing the sound of artillery coming from here, the fast crab formation on guard on the periphery began to think about gathering in this direction.

And directly in front of the enemy, the formation of two fast crabs rushed straight towards Peter's fleet, probably thinking about buying time for the 101 formation pursuing behind and blocking the escape speed of Peter's fleet.

Seeing that the enemy's fleet broke through the defense line formed by the two fast crabs on the perimeter, and fired at the two fast crabs at close range, Kan Shu's face as the commander-in-chief also changed.

The heroic actions of the two Coast Guard Fast Crabs did not make much difference, after all, they were only two 200-ton boats, only equipped with 20 smoothbore guns.

The enemy very cunningly used the three professional warships as the first ships, each of which carried dozens of cannons, and several long-range shots that threatened the Xuanjun warships were sent from these three ships.

Although the two fast crabs relied on the advantage of concentrated fire to cripple the first enemy ship that tried to pass through the blockade line.

However, the first search ship was not a weak chicken, the number of artillery was much more than that of the fast crab, and the upper layer of the tall hull, which was not hit by the fast crab, sent out a fierce counterattack, severely damaging a fast crab.

Later, more than a dozen enemy ships rushed over, and under the fierce fire of hundreds of guns, the two fast crabs suffered very heavy losses, especially the 24-pounder guns carried by the three warships, and even the 36-pounder guns fired at close range, which was simply a devastating blow to the fast crabs.

This 200-ton fast crab against more than a dozen 600-ton ships quickly ended in less than 2 minutes.

The 101st Formation was left behind because it had to carry out the tactical strategy of exploiting the superiority of its own artillery, and they did not have time to make a difference when they wanted to make a difference.

They watched as this tragic and short battle ended, and it didn't work at all.

Even, for fear of accidental injury, even the artillery that was constantly emptying just now stopped firing.

Now, in the binoculars, the two fast crabs in the distance, the side chords have completely rotted, and the whole ship seems to be a ghost ship that has lost its mobility, floating quietly on the sea.