C2756 History will not repeat

In this battle, Zhiyuan Warship had completely become a legend in the history of the human navy. There were even many scholars who said that this warship was blessed by the gods!

However, Xiao Letian did not agree with him. In the leader's eyes, Zhiyuan Warship's achievements were not really a legend, and there was nothing to be proud of.

In Xiao Letian's memories, the Iron-armored battleship was a military ruler level weapon that was well-deserved before aviation weapons appeared. It was a weapon that completely belonged to the strategic class of the nation and was far from something that ordinary conventional weapons could face.

During the Great Eastern Valley War, the achievements of the two battleships, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, had explained everything. After the navy entered the era of the Iron-armored Ship, the giant cannons were the main force, and their high defense attributes were even higher than their firepower attributes!

Another example worth mentioning was after the second world war. When the million strong army was about to cross the Yangtze River, the British battleship Amethyst Quartz disregarded the warning and brazenly broke into the waters of the Yangtze River.

At that time, the Purple Quartz was only a frigate, and what he was fighting against was a cannon of the eighth legion!

The bombardment lasted for more than ten minutes, but the Amethyst was riddled with wounds and eventually ran aground. It was forced to issue a white flag to request a truce.

However, the British white flag was just a strategy to slow the enemy's advance. Then, the companion frigate stationed in Nanjing came to the rescue of the Amethyst Stone, and the artillery battle broke out once again.

Under the bombardment of the powerful artillery, the companion ship was rendered useless! This was immediately followed by the heavy cruiser London from Hong Kong, the frigate Black Swan, and the escaped companion. The three starships once again attempted to rescue the Amethyst Quartz.

But this rescue also did not work. Even the Captain of the London Cruiser was severely injured from this artillery attack!

In the end, the British could only use diplomatic efforts to rescue the battleship. However, the cunning Amethyst eventually managed to escape the Yangtze River under the cover of a civilian ship.

The Amethyst, which had escaped from the Yangtze Estuary, sailed all the way to Hong Kong, where it underwent simple repairs and then returned to Britain for major repairs.

This conflict was undoubtedly provoked by the British, and the responsibility for the war was not on our side, but the point was that the Amethyst was bombarded by a battery of gunnery, and in the end was riddled with wounds, but she was still able to sail and break through the Yangtze line, and then she could go back to Hong Kong on her own.

From this, it could be seen that Iron-armored battleship s were not even on the same level of existence to the conventional weapons in the army!

At that time, most of the cannons used by the Eighth Regiment had been seized during the Second World War. Most of them were 75-mm and 105-mm, and most were Japanese, with only a fraction of the 105-caliber US howitzers.

As for the Amethyst Quartz, its main cannon's caliber was 205. The disparity between them could be imagined!

The Iron-armored Ship was a signature product of all the techniques in the Second Industrial Revolution. Its powerful fighting strength completely crushed old weapons.

Most of the time, the result of a war at sea was not how many warships were sunk. In the final battle of the Iron-armored Ship, most of them were injured, and as long as a country's industry was strong enough, these wounded warships could continue to fight after they were repaired.

Zhiyuan Warship s were designed according to the standards of this type of naval warfare. A four-and-a-half-inch armor against these 140-and 150-caliber cannons had no pressure at all.

Although the Zhiyuan Warship had been blown full of holes, its vital points were still reliable. The structure of the battleship was not destroyed! As long as they could successfully leave the battlefield, after a few months of maintenance, the Zhiyuan Warship would still be a good man!

But they never would have thought that Xiang Ying's order was for them to fight to the death. They never thought of going back alive!

Where is the legend and myth in life? In fact, it was just a group of people fighting with their lives on the line. They had done something that ordinary people would not dare to think about. It was called a miracle!

At this moment, the Zhiyuan Warship had given up on retaliating against the French Fleet. All of its firepower was focused on the Spic Island.

After the battle, when Xiao Letian saw that Xiang Ying's report was still stained with blood, he sighed in his heart.

The leader's thoughts floated back to his previous life. The scene of the Zhiyuan Warship bullying the French Army, why was it so similar to the memories of his previous life?

What was it? Right … Thinking about it, Xiao Letian finally remembered that familiar but sad history!

It was the Wusong Shanghai Conference. The Japanese naval and land allied forces had launched an attack from Shanghai, and the main force of the national army was engaged in a bloody battle. Over a million troops from both sides had been killed together.

To be honest, this time the Battle Team was really tenacious. It could even be said that they had lost an inch of their blood! Throughout the battle, the Japanese army was repeatedly defeated, and the positions were crisscrossed, changing hands very frequently.

Usually the Japanese had just taken over a building, but three hours later the soldiers had snatched it back and the Japanese had attacked again, changing the building.

Sometimes, during that battle, both sides competed for an inch of land!

Was the Japanese army truly invincible? In fact, in that battle, the elites of the national army did not fall behind just by competing with the army. On the contrary, they had even fought many beautiful battles!

However, the most grievous thing was that the Japanese army had to rely on the combined forces of the three armies to fight, while the national army had to rely on the army to survive!

Many times, a battalion of troops had sacrificed a great deal to break through a Japanese defensive line and had just built a defensive system in two or three buildings.

At this time, the Japanese warships on the Huangpu River began to fire their cannons. The Navy's large caliber and naval gun s were not any weaker than aerial bombs at all.

The battle gains of hundreds of warriors could not even hold up against one of the enemy's cannonballs!

Sighs! How sad! This was the peak essence of Japanese's Second Industrial Revolution. He wanted to fight against the Chinese, who were not even qualified to become Industrial Revolution!

To put it bluntly, it was just an industrial civilization completely crushing the farming civilization!

To put it bluntly, the firepower of a heavy cruiser during the Second World War was already more ferocious than all the cannons of a standing division!

In the end, war was still about power!

The painful history of Xiao Letian's previous life would not be repeated today. In this new world, the Chinese people had become the strongest warriors of this era!

Today's Zhiyuan Warship, was using the most brutal bombing to tell the world a truth! That was the power of fire!

Boom … Boom … Boom …

The 210-caliber cannons continued to fire steadily. Its range was enough to cover the entire Spic Island!

Every shell could blow up a huge cloud of dust more than ten meters high on the beach. Usually, a single shell could blow up an area of more than two hundred square meters, and not even a blade of grass grew.

French Army was completely stunned, everyone watched in shock as the sky shook and the ground shook, and the two companies that had just formed instantly disappeared!

The soldiers at the center of the explosion were completely vaporized, and the soldiers at the edges of the perimeter were blown to bits. The earth fell from the sky, mixing with the rain and splashing onto the survivors.

Ugh … Ugh …

Countless French soldiers were kneeling on the ground retching, this hell-like scene had completely broken his courage!