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The displacement of the Fu-class armored cruiser is 6,676 tons. Main equipment: 6 162mm can be said to be that it cannot take any advantage in the Chinese fleet with a large number of main guns and extremely fast fire speeds of secondary guns. Too few main guns and secondary guns affected his power.

In contrast, the 7350-ton Chinese cruiser has a CMM triple artillery and an 8152mm rapid-fire cannon. The French, who were originally a naval power, have lagged far behind the development of the times after 20 years of dream of a Green Water Fleet, and can only create such a bad warship.

(Note: In 1884, the young French Navy sent representatives ~8226; Admiral Aubu served as the French Navy Minister. He believed that the emerging maritime power torpedoes were the magic weapon to defeat the enemy. Once France had 100 lightning strike ships, it would be the biggest threat to the British Navy. Moreover, the construction of torpedo ships was insignificant compared to the main battleships. Therefore, after he came to power, he immediately ordered the cancellation of all battleship construction plans. This practice was undoubtedly another fatal blow to the already defeated French Navy. The French entered 90 until the French entered the French 90th.

The Chinese realized this mistake and quickly picked up three "Marso" class ships that had been delayed for almost 7 years. By the time they were completed, they seemed old. The design and construction of the "Charles Martel" class, the 3 "Charlemma" class, etc. could not support the French navy's arsenal. By the end of the 19th century, the French naval fleet had long been far behind and became an irrelevant force. However, the proud French never realized this. They always thought that their fleet was in the second place in the world, although from the perspective of tonnage, this is correct.)

What's even more sad is that the French cruiser speed was actually lower than that of China's second-class battleships, and only slightly higher than that of the first-class battleships, so they were basically in an embarrassing situation of nowhere to escape. Jean Valjean, a sailor in Frankfurt, recalled: "We tried our best to shoot the enemy ships, but in front of the enemy's powerful volley, our shooting seemed like a small harassment. Then I saw a batch of shells starting to fall. Fortunately, these shells hit the water at a distance of fifty meters and then exploded. Before I could blink, I heard the sound of Ding Dangdang coming from the side of the side. Then I felt pain. Finally, when I raised my hand, I realized that my right hand was gone, and I screamed. There was blood on the deck."

At 1245 minutes, Frankfurt was hit by more than a dozen 152mm shells. Because the shell was filled with Xiase gunpowder, the fire was immediately ignited. This was based on Zhao Gang's instructions. The romance of the French killed them. No country was as romantic as France, and hung a large number of wooden murals in the room.

When someone suggested throwing these murals into the sea before the war, the French generals raised their beards contemptuously. Basically, there is no need to say more. In front of a French nobleman with a temperament that is more petty and elegant than an emperor, this kind of suggestion is not to be mentioned on the table, as this will damage his aristocratic demeanor, and this consequence is much more important than winning the war.

However, in war, shells will not have eyes. A mural worth one hundred dollars brings far less protection than steel worth one dollar. But if it is compared to the speed of burning ground, then the speed of the mural is tens of millions of times that of steel and the damage it brings is tens of millions of times.

After the 152-meter shell exploded, the gunpowder of Shise burned sharply, and the head of the ship with a large number of wooden components and furniture immediately appeared in a fire. The raging fire swallowed up all the items that could be ignited in the room at an extremely fast speed. The raging flames spread rapidly from the bullet holes and the stairway hatch inside the ship with scorching high temperatures. Soon a fire broke out on the first floor and on the main deck.

According to records, even the spare cable stored in the cabinet in the first floor was ignited. What's more serious is that the yellow toxic smoke that spread out when the gunpowder burned and the black smoke ignited from the wooden components in the ship completely enveloped the entire front of the "Frankfurt" ship, which was indistinguishable from the distance. All finger weapons, including the 2193-meter main gun, could not be aimed and fired, and the "Frankfurt" artillery fire was forced to stop.

"The enemy ship 'Frankfurt' was also shot through the abdomen of the ship by our army and caught fire. The flames spurted out from the hole where the shells exploded. The hole was like a fire spitting mouth, and the fire was extremely fierce" (Los Angeles Naval Battle Record)

For a time, the warships located in the middle of the battlefield could clearly see that the "Frankfurt" ship was almost completely surrounded by thick smoke, and the head of the ship was still bursting out with fire, as if the Canglong struggling in the fire. For the French cruiser, this was really a terrible scene. Once the fire that "can ignite steel" caused by gunpowder was uncontrollable and spread to the ammunition depot, the consequences would be unpredictable.

A fire broke out in the Frankfurt ship, and flames filled half of the sky. The personnel on the Frankfurt ship stopped firing artillery and concentrated their efforts to put out the fire. However, the fire was fierce and there was no sign of being extinguished..." After the fire broke out, the French chivalrous spirit appeared.

Armstrong, an artillery consultant who had been deaf in the previous artillery battle, immediately rushed to the top deck of the most dangerous first floor, emitting toxic smoke and flying shrapnel, and set up a fire pump to put out the fire together.

Faniglus, who was originally fighting on the main turret, also arrived here quickly and joined the firefighting team regardless of his own efforts. On the deck of the top floor where the shells were concentrated, Niglus was unfortunately hit by shrapnel and lying on the ground. He knew that he was too seriously injured and bleeding profusely, and he was determined not to enter the rescue site to bandage it, and asked to stay on the deck with his comrades.

When life was about to die, Niglus remembered his beloved daughter far away in his hometown of France. However, the joy of family reunion could only be a dream. After silently dictating his sincere expectations for his daughter to his fellow villager Charles de Gaulle, the loyal gunner died in peace.

In order to rescue his compatriots who are in trouble and give "Frankfurt", who is busy extinguishing fires and self-rescue, a breathing time, the Wiesbaden resolutely set off and sailed out in front of "Frankfurt". "Watching the French performing bravely, the Chinese fleet commander Tan Fenglin couldn't help but sigh in his mouth.

"brave!"

With the help of "Wisbaden" and his life, the officers and soldiers who fought with the fire demon were rewarded.

Gong. On the deck of the top deck of the first floor with shrapnel flying and poisonous smoke, the soldiers were fearless and constantly pumped the sea water at the bottom of the ship with a water pump, and then poured it into the cabin below through the stairway hatch. When the warship was almost about to turn it into a submarine, the fire was finally put out.

The "Frankfurt" ship was fortunately escaped a disaster. "The damage preventer stood in the rain of bullets with his personal exemplary action, and activated the water pump to extinguish the fire. Until he almost filled that room", saving the "Frankfurt" that might have been "completely destroyed or seriously lost its combat capability."

Frankfurt was in danger, but the Wiesbaden ship paid too much for it. Like Frankfurt, the Wiesbaden ship did not have such strong protection. In order to cover the flagship and compete with the Chinese fleet's warship artillery fire, the process of "Wesbaden" ship was tantamount to the rapid loss of life.

The hull of the "Wisbaden" has been penetrated in many places, and some of the wounds appeared near the waterline, and the seawater poured into the ship in large quantities. The slope of the dome deck intersected with the hull plate to form a "v"-shaped sink has accumulated. The damage managers in the "Wisbaden" ship are using all tools to drain the water outward, but the hull is still irreversible.

Looking at the tragic situation of the French warship with satisfaction, Tan Fenglin ordered the fleet to concentrate on shooting the Elping. In view of the Chinese fleet, warships that have lost their combat effectiveness are not worth concentrated on shooting. This is exactly the opposite of other countries. As long as other countries can sink one, they will give up more important targets.

Wiesbaden, who was temporarily abandoned, made a decision that made the entire battlefield amazed: he rushed towards the Chinese fleet that was sailing out of his port side. He faced the rain of smoke and bombs. He continued to accelerate, accelerate, and turned his head to rush towards the Chinese fleet fearlessly...

Looking at the opponent who was coming from the fire, Tan Fenglin was moved and then ordered

"You have shown your courage when playing flags. Please give up the meaningless battle. I am very happy to have lunch with your captain."

The French answered quickly. However, this answer was not friendly.

"shit!"

"I'm sorry, concentrate on shooting Wiesbaden"

With this order, the "Wisbaden" was covered by countless shells, an explosion occurred in the middle of the ship's hull, and a huge fireball was vented. The head of the "Wisbaden" began to sink first, the stern of the ship was erected high in the air, and the propeller was still rotating rapidly... In less than 10 minutes, the warship disappeared from people's vision, the first warship lost by the French.

After a roulette of gunfire attacks by the Chinese fleet, the "Elpin", which had been damaged in the previous battle, suffered an unexpected heavy blow. The first shell fired by "Zhili" may be an armor-piercing shell, which did not cause an explosion effect. This shell that would not explode penetrated from the fourth rapid-fire gun position (from the second gun at the head of the port of the port), and then swept across the entire artillery corridor and penetrated upwards from the right side, leaving a terrifying hole on the main deck of the "Elpin" ship. The hull that suddenly hit the giant bomb trembled, but this was just the beginning of the disaster. Before the Japanese officers and soldiers could react from the panic caused by this hit, another 280mm shell followed one after another.

The 280 bomb that followed was hit by the position of the previous shell, and it was still in the No. 4 gun position, but the power of this shell was greater than the armor-piercing shell that could not explode just now (because the crop thickness was not enough). The giant bomb directly hit the gun shield of the fourth 162-meter rapid-fire gun on the port side of the "Elpin". The fuse that was hit immediately started working. The gunpowder filled in the warhead quickly ignited the gun, and the shell exploded on the No. 4 gun position.

The huge impact airflow and fragments generated by the explosion made the gun shield appear vulnerable and instantly became scattered steel fragments. The 162-meter rapid-fire cannon, which was originally covered by the gun shield, was also attacked, but the entire gun body was shaken away, and then it was smashed heavily. The 162mm caliber steel cannon barrel was twisted into an incredible crescent shape.

Even more terrifying things happened soon. In order to ensure the supply of ammunition for rapid-fire guns during wartime, a large number of 162-meter rapid-fire gun shells were piled up on the gun deck under the main deck of the "Elpin" ship. The rapid-fire guns on the dense side became the best weapon to attack the Chinese fleet.

However, at this time, these ammunitions became huge rapid-fire cannons that fell down and hit the ammunition pile. The sensitive gunpowder immediately reacted after suffering a heavy blow.

"At 13:10, the 280mm caliber cannon of the Zhili ship fired two shells, hitting the Elping ship. One hit the fourth cannon on the port deck of the Elping, and then turned to break the upper deck on the starboard side. The other hit the fourth cannon, the steel shield of the fourth cannon broke, the shield and the debris of the vehicle platform flew, the cannon body bent and fell, and took advantage of the opportunity to detonate the nearby medicine shell."

A large number of lower gunpowder shells and vulcanized cotton firing drugs piled up near the No. 4 162-meter rapid-fire gun position were detonated! The "Elpin" ship made continuous huge explosions, and the choking yellow poisonous mist immediately spread inside the ship. The impact force generated by the explosion of Xiase's gunpowder broke the larger hole on the port side of the "Elpin", and the other roared through and rushed to the main deck, leaving 2 huge holes on both sides of the main deck.

The side panels of the first layer were blasted, one-third long, and there was more than one passing through the huge holes in the deck, and broke the iron piles and iron beams on the upper deck. Three or four square holes appeared on the left and right sides of the upper deck, causing the hull to lose balance. The hull was tilted and the sea water poured in, which quickly damaged several parts of the ship."

"Elpin" was hit one after another while explosions occurred, and the hull began to tilt, as if it was about to sink. The Chinese navy soldiers faced the joy of another major battle. However, this was not worthy of celebration for the Chinese fleet that had repeatedly sunk enemy ships since the war started.

13:15,
Chapter completed!