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From the moment the Zhiyuan Warship appeared on the battlefield, not a single officer in the ship thought of returning alive. From the beginning to the end, they only had one goal, and that was to kill as many enemies as possible before they died in battle!

From the beginning to end, the Zhiyuan Warship's navigation path had not been adjusted at all. He appeared from the northwest direction of the battlefield and rushed towards the southeast, walking in a straight line.

On the way, he bombarded twenty-four rounds in a row, sinking two heavily wounded French battleships and successfully piercing through the French 'head fire.

At this time, the Zhiyuan Warship had no intention of changing its course. Instead, it kept moving forward, even charging towards the cruiser without slowing down.

Could it be that Xiang Ying's goal was those cruisers with sails and wooden shells that were covered with a thin layer of iron? But why was it that when all twenty cruisers had surrounded him, he didn't fire a single shot?

Why was this Zhiyuan like a silent bull facing the chorus of the French Fleet's cannons, continuing to rush towards the southeast direction? One must know that the southeast direction was the Spic Island's beach, and this was already the continental Europe's coastline.

Could it be that you, Zhiyuan Warship, are an amphibious battleship? You can run as fast as a train on the coast?

No one understood the Chinese strategy. What was this suicidal strategy trying to do?

Tens of thousands of cannons shot out simultaneously, the Zhiyuan Warship s were in a complete mess. The artillery shells exploded the entire Distant Steel Plate into nothing, and the thick teak deck of the battleship had long been torn into smithereens under this chaotic bombardment.

If the soldiers were to run on the disorderly deck, even the slightest mistake, they would be pierced through by the sharp wooden spikes!

Even the smoke pipe that was emitting black smoke had a hole blown out, rolling black smoke came out from both sides and the top. The black smoke had even affected Xiang Ying's line of sight.

However, all of these things did not stop the Zhiyuan Warship from advancing. Even the gunner did not know what kind of orders they had received, but ever since they entered the encirclement, they had not fired a single shot.

The cannon within the encirclement rumbled, causing the water in the sea to shoot up into the sky, the smoke and dust filling the air mixed with the Zhiyuan Warship's smoke and dust!

"What's going on? Why didn't these Chinese fight back? "What are they waiting for …"

"Look, they're still charging forward. They're charging towards Nanxi and Moselle!"

"Are these Chinese crazy? They're about to reach the shallow water. They'll run aground! "

Just as the French Army was crying out in alarm, the Zhiyuan Warship had already reached the closest point between the cruiser Nan Xi and Moselle. At this point, Lin Zhen was no longer silent, he suddenly ordered the main cannons to open fire.

Three sets of 210 naval gun s spewed out flames at the same time. The cannons penetrated the iron armor of two cruisers at the closest distance and the huge explosion wreaked havoc in the weak ship's body!

With a shot from the tail end of the Nanxi, the propeller and power system were completely destroyed. Rumbling seawater poured into the hole.

The main mast of the Moselle was blown off, the heavy mast smashed onto the deck, overturning two fixed cannons. The remaining artillery shell hit the command room of the Captain, and even the helmsman and Captain went to hell.

Even pure Iron-armored battleship s were not a match for the Zhiyuan Warship's main cannon, let alone these wooden shells that were wrapped in a thin layer of iron.

There was no need for armor bullets, just ordinary high explosive projectile could easily tear apart this layer of metal!

The structure of the wooden hull simply could not withstand the raging flames. Very soon, the insides of the two warships were engulfed by the raging flames!

The French were so angry that their noses were about to turn crooked from the dryness of the two cruisers, but they did not understand why the Zhiyuan Warship still had not slowed down. How did he get through the gap between the two cruisers?

"Why are these Chinese still charging forward? "It's going to run aground, it's going to run into a reef …"

Just then, an ordinary major of the British Navy's spectating group suddenly shouted in surprise, "Could it be? Could it be … "Could it be that these Chinese aren't after these warships at all?"

"Their ultimate goal is the thirty thousand French Army on the beach?"

"My God! Are they really going to die together? "

What he said was not wrong at all, the target that the Zhiyuan Warship were going to deal with today was actually the thirty odd armed merchant ship and nearly thirty thousand French Army!

Xiang Ying's plan was very clear. It was to perish together with the enemy, to maximize the number of casualties, and to have a political impact!

Immersing the enemy's battleship is obviously not a bad choice, but even if you were to sink all the battleships in the entire French Fleet, how many enemies can you kill?

In this period of time, the total number of soldiers on one Iron-armored battleship was no more than 500, and the number of cruisers was even less than 300!

New type of battleship like the Zhiyuan Warship, actually only had 210 crew members. In other words, more than 200 of them could control this battleship to fight.

However, Xiao Letian wanted to train his troops, so he said that the number of crew members of the Zhiyuan Warship had increased to 400, and half of them were actually interns!

Immersing a warship would only kill a few hundred enemies, but a armed merchant ship could carry at least eight hundred soldiers!

And these so called armed merchant ship s, were all used against pirates. Four or five small caliber cannons were only used to scare off those backward barbarians, they were not enough to deal with a kind of toothpick shell like Zhiyuan Warship s!

Most importantly, armed merchant ship did not have the protection of iron armor, they were completely made up of eighteenth-century wooden shell ships. This kind of wooden shell ships did not even need main cannons to fire, on the side, those small caliber rapid fire gun were enough to sink these defenseless troop carrier!

The Zhiyuan Warship's plan was finally guessed by everyone present. Huo Fu yelled, "Oh my god! The Imperial Guard! The Chinese are going to slaughter our army! "

Boom! Boom! Boom! At that moment, the Zhiyuan Warship finally turned around and headed north at the sea area closest to the enemy transport ship. The starboard side of the ship fired thousands of cannons, the firepower from all kinds of rapid fire weapons rained down on the French Landing forces, exploding into smoke and blood on the shore.

The 57 to 37 caliber rapid fire gun shot quickly and accurately. The cannonball drilled into the tungsten wood vessel like cutting through tofu, and the flames from within the explosion ignited into a raging inferno.

A fire dragon with a long trajectory started to shoot towards the troops that were gathered on the shore. The French Army that had yet to gain a foothold were all swept down like wheat being cut.

Boom! Boom! Boom! In just a single exchange, the two transport ships were riddled with holes. The inside was thoroughly burnt out by the flames. At this moment, half of the soldiers on the transport ship had disembarked, while hundreds of soldiers were burnt alive in their cabins!