Instead of answering directly, the Captain said, "Captain, the Moro shells are so strange, you should hurry up and take a look." ”

Captain Diegor rushed out of the command room in a few steps, came to the place where the shell exploded, looked down, and saw that the deck had been blown open a large hole, and the surrounding steel plates were twisted into a mess, and then looked at the chimney, only to see that the root of the chimney had been blown into a large depression.

Captain Diegor's heart trembled and asked, "Can the chimney still be used like this?" ”

"I don't know, the officer in charge of the steam engine said he had never encountered this situation and didn't know what to do. ”

Captain Diegor's brows furrowed, and the captain said, "Captain, what the hell is going on with the fact that the Moro cannonballs can blow up our warship like this, and its explosion power far exceeds that of our cannonballs?" ”

The Spaniards' shells were filled with black powder, while Lin Fei's shells were filled with trinitrotoluene, which was naturally much more powerful than black powder, but Captain Diegor didn't know this, and he couldn't think of a reason, and he felt confused for a while.

At this moment, only the terrible sound of cannonballs breaking through the air was heard overhead, and the chief of the damage management shouted: "Be careful! With a single arm on Captain Diegor's shoulders, he threw him down on the deck, and at the same time, a loud "boom" was heard from the mast, and Captain Diegor looked up at the mast, only to see a thick cloud of black smoke enveloping the mast, apparently a cannonball had hit the mast.

The battleship was moving at high speed, and soon the wind blew away the smoke near the mast, and I saw that the watchtower of the mast was blown to pieces.

Captain Diegor couldn't help but scream when he saw the mast smashed into the water, because the mast has a cabin on the mast that is used for long-distance observation on the warship, and without the mast, it is equivalent to the warship being gouged out of its eyes!

Captain Diegor stood up, rushed into the command room, and shouted, "Fire, shoot me, sink those sons of bitches." ”

The chief of staff of Heradis hurriedly said: "Captain, calm down, now we are 2,000 meters away from the battleship on the opposite side, and we can't hit them with our guns." ”

Captain Diegor stomped his foot heavily and said angrily, "Can we only be beaten by them, but not by them?" ”

Chief of Staff Heradis smiled bitterly and said, "Now it seems like this. ”

While Captain Diegor and Chief of Staff Heradis were talking, two more shells fell on the Columbus, one of which actually hit the bow turret, and the huge explosion force actually lifted the turret directly, fortunately the Columbus ship did not transport the shells out of the ammunition bay and put them on the side of the turret, otherwise this one would blow the bow away.

The explosion of the shells also caused a large fire, billowing black smoke rose from the Columbus, and the chief of staff of Heradis whispered to Captain Diegor: "Captain, we should retreat now......"

Captain Diegor frowned, shook his head and said, "I'm really unwilling, but there's no way." ”

Captain Diegor said aloud: "The right rudder is full, and the ship is back!" ”

The Columbus ship drew a large arc on the sea to turn the direction, Lin Fei could see it at a glance, he picked up the microphone and said loudly: "All gun positions, change to the armor-piercing shell of the cap, attack!" ”

At the sound of the order, the four gun emplacements loaded the cap-piercing shells into the breech, which was also the first time in human history that the cap-piercing shells were used in combat.

Due to the different shapes of the cap-piercing shells and the high-explosive shells, the ballistic characteristics were also different, so the gunners adjusted the direction of the muzzles, and then pressed the firing button, and the four armor-piercing shells flew towards the Columbus ship one after another.

These four armor-piercing shells all landed on the front side of the Columbus ship, Lin Fei adjusted the distance change rate, and the gunners on the four gun positions adjusted accordingly, and fired again, this time the shells flew straight towards the Columbus ship.

An armor-piercing projectile entered the water more than five meters away from the Columbus, the shell slowed down slightly under the resistance of the water, and then hit the broadside deck below the waterline, and the heavy impact shattered the cap in front of the shell.

The Columbus ship was just a gunboat, there was no armor on the side at all, only a thick steel deck, the shells pierced the deck and shot into the hull, which happened to be the transmission compartment, and the shells flew in and directly broke the transmission rod of the propellers, and the two propellers stopped suddenly.

The warship is propelled by propellers, and as soon as the propellers stop, the warship stops. The rudder used to steer on a warship can only be effective when the warship has a certain speed, and the rudder will naturally fail as soon as the warship stops, so the Columbus ship is not only unable to move forward, but also impossible to turn, and can only float on the surface of the sea, swaying with the waves.

As soon as the Columbus ship stopped, it completely became the target of the Nuwa ship, Lin Fei said loudly: "The enemy ship has lost power, get close to the enemy ship, use the cap-piercing shell, and sink it!" ”

The Nuwa ship immediately headed for the Columbus, and Captain Diegor and the crew felt an unprecedented fear, and Captain Diegor commanded in a loud voice: "Use the stern main gun to return fire." ”

The gunners immediately ran to the vicinity of the stern main gun, and were surprised to find that when the mast collapsed just now, the steel frame fell down and smashed the sights of the stern main gun, and the stern main gun was completely blind at this time!

The sailors on the Columbus saw that the stern main gun could not be used, and felt that the last glimmer of hope for survival was also deprived, the breath of despair spread, everyone panicked, in a desperate and panic, the Nuwa ship was like a death from the sky, approaching the distance of 1000 meters away from the Columbus ship, and the hit rate of the armor-piercing bullets at this distance was already quite high.

Four armor-piercing shells were fired from the Nuwa, one of which hit the starboard side of the Columbus, opening a large hole in the side of the ship, and a large amount of seawater poured into the hull.

But before the martyrdom broke out, a large amount of seawater poured into the hull from the hole, the Columbus ship's anti-sinking resistance was very poor, the number of watertight compartments was very small, the sealing rubber of the watertight compartments was still aging, and it could not block the seawater at all, and in the case of the starboard side being hit one after another, the hull tilted to the right more than 20 degrees, and finally rolled over in the water.

The Columbus ship overturned on its side so fast that the people on the ship did not have time to put the lifeboat into the water, and the Spanish sailors fell into the water one after another, they swam out of the whirlpool formed by the sinking of the Columbus ship, fluttering on the water, Lin Fei ordered loudly: "Send out the lifeboat, catch it alive!" ”

The Nuwa ship immediately lowered the lifeboat, and Zhang Chuang led the sniper team to get on the dinghy and sail towards the waters where the Columbus ship sank.

Zhang Chuang looked at these Spaniards with disdain, and thought to himself: "What a bunch of soft bones!" Despite his thoughts, he led people to rescue the Spaniards one by one.

Among these Spaniards who fell overboard, Captain Diegor and Chief of Staff Heradis were among them, although the Western Navy has a habit of captains sinking with warships, but Captain Diegor is obviously not that kind of captain.

Zhang Chuang brought the captured forty Spanish sailors back to the Nuwa ship, Lin Fei looked at the prisoners of war for a while, and found that many of them had already taken off their coats and could not recognize their identities from their clothes, so he sneered: "Which of you is the captain?" ”

No one spoke, Zhang Chuang whispered on the side: "I think the older ones may be the captain." ”

Lin Fei nodded and said, "Yes, but there are also older sailors, and it is not reliable to look at age." ”

Zhang Chuang pointed at everyone and said: "You see that they have taken off their outer clothes, the clothes inside are almost the same, and they definitely can't see their identity from the clothes, what else can you do?" ”

Lin Fei smiled confidently and said, "Of course I have a way, you can just see." ”

After Lin Fei finished speaking, he turned his head to look at the prisoners of war and shouted, "Stretch out your hands." ”

The prisoners of war obediently stretched out their hands, Lin Fei looked at them one by one, and suddenly found a pair of delicate hands, the captain didn't have to do any rough work, the hands must be more delicate than the sailors, Lin Fei guessed that this person was the captain, and when he looked up, the owner of these hands was an elderly middle-aged man, and the captains were all middle-aged people, so Lin Fei thought that he was very likely to be the captain!

Lin Fei asked in a cold voice, "Are you the captain?" ”

The middle-aged man snorted coldly and didn't speak, Lin Fei pointed to the back with his hand, and said to Zhang Chuang, "Take him to the back." ”

Zhang Chuang rushed to the man, reached out and grabbed the middle-aged man's neckline, and dragged the middle-aged man back like a dead dog, the middle-aged man reached out and grabbed Zhang Chuang's hand, and scolded loudly: "Hua Zhu, let me go!" ”

Lin Fei heard the middle-aged man shouting and scolding "Hua Zhu", flew up and kicked the man's waist, and said angrily: "What did you say? ”

The man fell to the ground, clutching his waist, unable to speak in pain, when a loud voice suddenly came from the group of prisoners of war: "We have surrendered, you can't beat us!" ”

Lin Fei followed the voice and saw a middle-aged man with thin eyebrows walking out and saying to himself: "I am the captain of the Columbus, Diegor, you can't beat my subordinates." ”

Lin Fei sneered and said to Diegor, "You are the captain?" That's great! ”

Diegor frowned and said angrily, "What do you want to do?" ”

Lin Fei smiled: "I want to ask about something, and I hope you can tell me honestly." ”

Diegor shook his head and said, "You want me to tell our military secrets?" It's impossible! ”

Lin Fei laughed and said, "Okay, I won't ask about military secrets first, ask something else, a Chinese merchant ship was looted yesterday, do you know who did it?" ”

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