C1046 Ikek's Massacre

This sea battle, which was called 'the torturous killing of the Ikek' by the military fans of the later generations, was defined by the Historian as the first show for Iron-armored Ship to step onto the stage of history.

Fighting twenty warships one on one seemed like an unbelievable victory, but in the eyes of the Military experts, it was inevitable.

First of all, the armor on both sides was not of the same type. For the Peru, excluding the few wooden battleships, the average thickness of the remaining battleships did not even exceed three centimeters. Inside the armor, there was the normal oak hull.

The Zhiyuan Warship, on the other hand, was a pure Iron-armored battleship. The thickness of the steel plate was four inches or more, which was more than 100 mm.

The second was the power system. The two horizontal 3-cylinder reciprocating steam engines and the four high coal-fired boilers were designed and built by dozens of engineers in Prussia. They were carefully crafted by countless skilled craftsmen.

In theory, the strongest power could reach 7,500 horsepower. With such a strong heart, the Zhiyuan Warship could increase its speed to 18 times that of the heaven defying level, which was almost close to the speed of the scissor boat.

Looking at the caliber of the cannons, the gap between 210 cannons and 148 cannons was not small at all. A single shot and two shots from Zhiyuan Warship would be as if nothing had happened to the enemy.

What was left was the quality of the troops. In the nineteenth century, especially in the navy, they could already be considered as high-technology soldiers.

First of all, you have to understand ballistics, trigonometric functions, elementary aerodynamics, and mathematical proficiency. Only then can you have the qualification to operate the battleship's main cannon.

Having this basic knowledge is not enough, you still need to have a large amount of live ammunition to train with. This may sound simple, but the cost of one shot from the 210 main cannon is 2000 taels of silver. Don't think that it's too expensive.

Didn't you see that the Peruvian Navy still had to calculate the quantity of the gunpowder before firing the main cannon? Their cannons were shot from warheads and the gunpowder. gunner calculated the distance between them and then calculated how much gunpowder was needed before filling them up. It was impossible to be fast in this launch mode.

On the other hand, the Zhiyuan Warship main cannon had chosen to use its ammunition as a whole. It was very easy to use, but this thing was very expensive! Only Xiao Letian, this teleporter, knew where the tide would be in the future, so he mustered his courage and went to spend as much money as he could.

From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, the price of the various types of artillery shells and machine gun ammunition used by Zhiyuan Warship was already close to five hundred thousand silver. If not for the fact that they stole some money from the French in Dakar, their journey back home would have been a wasted trip.

If he analyzed the various factors together, then the Zhiyuan Warship's victory was not surprising. Twenty years of difference in era was not an exaggeration.

Furthermore, the distance between the fleet had always been maintained between four to three thousand meters. At this distance, the Zhiyuan Warship could still maintain a high shooting accuracy, but the Peruvian Navy's artillery could only use luck.

Xiang Ying knew that the final victory would definitely belong to him. He purposely let the Zhiyuan Warship move from the Southwest Ocean, just in case this fleet escaped. He wanted to eat this fleet whole without leaving anything behind.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The sea exploded as one Peruvian Navy battleship after another was turned into torches. Some of the battleships even had a chain reaction with the gunpowder depot within and immediately exploded into smithereens.

After an hour of bitter fighting, there were only fifteen battleships left in Peruvian Navy, and looking back, the Zhiyuan Warship in the distance was still full of energy, without even a little bit of fatigue.

The flagship Lima was in despair, and the commander's tears fell like rain. Today's battle was truly unbearable. He watched the battleships sink one by one, but there was nothing he could do. Finally, in a daze, he took out his gun and was about to shoot himself.

"No …" General, you can't! " A group of people rushed forward to grab the pistol, "This is not your fault. That battleship was completely unexpected. It should have been interfered by some European country. This is a diplomatic failure, not us soldiers!"

"That type of battleship isn't something we can deal with. Give the order to break out …" Disperse the encirclement and stop hesitating! "

As he spoke, another small Iron-armored Ship was hit by the bullet and ignited into a huge fire. At this point in time, Peruvian Navy could only recognize the reality around him and give the order to disperse and break out of the encirclement. The flag of retreat was slowly raised.

However, the Zhiyuan Warship had already suppressed the northwest corner of the battlefield, causing the Peru's fleet to not dare to break through the encirclement. They could only make a detour to the southwest, and furthermore, had to sail in a scattered manner.

However, they did not expect that the remnants of the Chile's navy would appear on the southern seas once again, quickly closing in on them.

The helpless Peruvian Navy could only charge towards the southwest while the Zhiyuan Warship and the Chile's Navy could only attack the group of homeless dogs from the north and south.

One after another, the battleships caught fire, countless sailors struggled in the water, and in the end, there was only one sound on the battlefield, "What ship is that?" Which country's battleship is that? If we don't understand it now, we won't be able to rest in peace even in death! "

In the end, the Zhiyuan Warship did not manage to release any flags with symbols, and the sailors on the deck were barely able to make out their faces. There was only one memory left for the survivors after the war, and that was a memory that they would never forget.

"That battleship, there are two very strange battleship heads at the bow. They sparkle with golden light and look extremely domineering. We thought they were wyverns but didn't have wings. We thought they were sea serpents but they had golden scales …" It was not until much later that we learned that it was the totem of the Chinese people, and that it was called a dragon! "

The massacre on the sea shocked the soldiers on the ground. Heaven veterans pounced towards Ikek city in a dense mass, they went around the firepower range of the last three fortresses and started attacking the fort from the safe zone.

There were a total of 2000 troops defending the Ikek's cannon emplacement. In the previous battle, another 500 to 600 people were killed by the explosion, and the remaining soldiers were not even enough to fill the gaps between their teeth.

The soldiers who refused to surrender were beheaded, they kneeled in the corner, tied up with ropes and locked up in the empty house. Following that, the older soldiers started to control their small caliber cannons to attack the fort.

Tie Toutuo's hand that was holding onto the telescope was already trembling, he choked with emotions and said to Chen Yonglu: "Look, look! That's the battleship sent by the Prime Minister, that's our Chinese battleship... Invincible! "

A tsunami like roar "Invincible!" exploded at the dock. Our invincible battleship! "Invincible …"