C2741 Frisian naval warfare

Xiang Ying was not in the command cabin now, he was at the highest point of the Zhiyuan Warship, which was the armoured commander tower at the top of the mast.

This was a podium surrounded by three inch thick steel plates, it was the highest position of the Zhiyuan Warship and Xiang Ying could see the entire battlefield from here.

In front of Xiang Ying was a row of microphones. The fine and sturdy copper pipe was directly connected to the bottom, and could accurately send his orders to the command cabin!

In the battle of the seas, once someone reached the stage where the Captain himself wanted to personally command the Armored Commander Tower, that would mean that the battle at sea had already reached the point of death.

It could be seen that Xiang Ying had truly made up his mind.

His two hands tightly gripped onto the steel plate, he stared at the battleship in the distance, and prayed in his heart, "If only there was a spirit in the heavens!" "If our destiny is still there!"

"Divine gods and ancestors, please bless me so that I will still be alive after this battle!"

"I'm not afraid of death. I just believe from the bottom of my heart that … "I firmly believe that the destiny of our China has not gone extinct. I firmly believe that the Hanjiajiang will once again shine!"

"As long as this destiny remains, as long as I am fighting for it!" Then the land that the ancestors and gods have protected will definitely protect me! "

"The Head of State is right! I've been through countless difficulties during my time in China's five thousand years of civilization... The Old Ancestor has endured it all, so why should we die and become extinct in this lifetime? "

"I don't believe it! I don't believe this! "

"Zuo Manduo! The Zhiyuan Warship had stabbed into the right side of the enemy! Free shooting! "Quickly shoot!"

The Zhiyuan Warship was still eight kilometers away from the French Fleet when Xiang Ying finally gave the order to fight. At this moment, the French Fleet still did not know that such a killing god had arrived from the northwest!

The first one to discover the Zhiyuan Warship was the lookout hand of the French battleship, so it was rather strange. This lookout hand didn't rely on his eyes to discover the enemy ship, but on his nose.

Today, the wind in the North Sea was the west wind. At first, the wind was only level 3 or 4. However, by midnight, the wind had risen to level 6. The waves on the sea were also more than 1 meter tall.

The sky was covered by dark clouds, and the stars that filled the sky were all covered up!

This kind of environment was extremely suitable for Zhiyuan Warship's sneak attack, especially when Xiang Ying had even ordered for light control. However, no one expected that the Zhiyuan Warship would spit out a large amount of black smoke after the strong wind pressurized it, and the black smoke betrayed his actions.

The of the Glory twitched her nose a few times, he suddenly smelt a faint smell of smoke. This lookout hand was a veteran who had been on the battlefield for a long time, he had an unexplainable intuition, and subconsciously looked towards the northwest.

"The smell of soot? Why does it feel so different from the smell of our soot? "It seems a little more fragrant …"

"My God! There was a black shadow in the northwest direction! There was something strange in the northwest direction! Captain... Captain, there's something strange in the northwest direction! "

At this time, the entire Glory was in a mess, everyone's attention was still focused on the English in the southwest. Who would have thought that there would be another uninvited guest in the northwest direction.

Huo Fu quickly turned his binoculars to look towards the northwest direction and saw a black shadow rushing towards him. He could guess that it was a boat, but he was unable to determine what boat it was.

"Damn it!" Banshee, Pyrenees … "Get out of the shooting-range and head towards the north to block that damned thing. If you discover anything wrong, you can open fire at will …"

However, before he could finish his sentence, a clump of light burst out from the telescope. It was as if a match had been struck in the distance by a sea god!

"My God! It was a warship! Someone has fired a shot at us! "

Following the faint sound of muffled thunder, something else in the sky was rubbing against the air and letting out a strange screech!

At 11: 25 P.M., the Zhiyuan Warship, after discovering the enemy's attempt to change formation, took the lead in firing from a distance of seven kilometers.

The Glory's lookout hand was dumbfounded. This was the first time he felt the death god was so close to him, and he didn't even know what had happened. She just felt a strong gust of wind pass by him in the air which was more than ten meters away.

The Zhiyuan Warship's cannonball did not hit the flagship Glory, but instead flew past the mast and back!

The most unfortunate one was the battleship Pyrenees s. This battleship had just left its shooting position and attempted to go to the northwest to block the attack, but it was directly shot by this cannonball.

Boom … With a loud bang, the Pyrenees exploded into a ball of flames. The high explosive projectile's wind swept across the entire bow of the ship, and the sailor's corpse was thrown into the air in the flames, rolling onto the ground and falling into the sea.

"My God! That accurate? Is it that powerful? " All the Frenchmen present were stunned by this shot!

The British Fleet was also stunned, the sudden turn of events also made them at a loss of what to do, in the end it was the Duke of Newcastle who reacted first.

He excitedly shouted in the command cabin: "It's Xiao Letian's battleship, it must be that Legendary Beast!"

"The Prussian navy doesn't have cannons with such a high level of power, and they don't have the courage to fight the French!"

"God has given us such a good opportunity, we can finally see the performance of this warship with our own eyes! Come closer and watch the entire fight! "

The sudden attack made all the British excited, but the French were completely enraged. Seeing the fire on the Pyrenees and how the remaining five battleships started to change their formations, they no longer cared about the British.

Right now, Huo Fu had no choice but to fight against the battleship that was firing its cannons, or the British who were unknown to him.

"Leave the British alone!" The entire fleet is moving clockwise with Left side facing the enemy! "

At this moment, the French Fleet and the Zhiyuan Warship were in a battleship position, looking down from the sky, it was a one-word formation!

This was not good for the French to unleash their firepower from the side. If they wanted to launch a barrage covering, they would have to change the formation to let the T-line turn.

The situation of the fleet from the northwest to the southeast changed from the southwest to the northeast. Only then would they be able to use the entire side firepower of the fleet to fire cannons at the enemy!

Unfortunately, they had really underestimated the speed of the Zhiyuan Warship. The speed of the 18 knots of speed had allowed the Zhiyuan Warship to rush towards the wind at a speed that far exceeded that of the Frenchman's.

Before the battleships could finish turning around, two balls of fire lit up in the night, following that, the Glory's ship exploded into a huge wave.

As for the other shell, it exploded right above the Glory's mast. The French sailors who found the Zhiyuan Warship let out a blood-curdling scream as hundreds of shell fragments pierced her body, turning him into a sieve!

"Damn it!" What kind of battleship was it? How could you hit so accurately! "

With Huo Fu's roar, a long and slender Iron-armored battleship finally appeared in everyone's line of sight.