Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

"Turn on the tap!!"

"Damn it! Damn it, these fumes are poisonous!"

"Save people! Hurry up and save people!"

Aboard the British Fleet Roar-class cruiser HMS Max.

The head of Major Sterling, the damage control captain, had blossomed.

It was caused by the shock wave generated after a shell hit the deck.

Now his handsome face is dripping with blood, but now the more critical wounded are obviously not just Sterling with a broken scalp, but many wounded who have turned blue after inhaling poisonous gas!

In fact.

British naval officers also know the characteristics of the "deck washing flow" of the Ming Empire Navy - the intelligence departments of both sides are not good at it.

and so.

The ironclad ships of the British Empire did not have as many superstructures as the battleships of later generations, and the deck structure was relatively simple.

Moreover, 90mm and 120mm artillery shells are really nothing compared to armor that is often hundreds of millimeters thick.

But who would have thought.

The navy of the Ming Empire was so ungrateful that they filled the cannonballs with a lot of poison gas!

There are no gas masks on board the British Imperial Navy ships, nor are there any precautions against the enemy's poison gas attacks, nor have any anti-gas warfare exercises been conducted.

Several cannonballs fell on the deck, and the explosion was extremely powerful.

It just happens that it can also release poisonous gas!
This is simply too ungrateful.

and.

Those seemingly small Wei-class frigates are equipped with a large number of rapid-fire guns.

The 16 Wei-class cruisers have a total of 240 90mm rapid-fire guns.

These shells were all aimed at the Mekes.

Almost every ten seconds, there is a volley!
Every volley fired.

There's always a shell or two that hits!

This really caused the workload of damage control captain Sterling to suddenly increase to a level that he no longer had control over.

The Mekes was attacked at every turn.

The poisonous gas and the flames caused by the explosion plunged the Mekes into chaos.

Especially when a shell hit the side of the fort.

Sterling's heart was twitching - there was an ammunition depot below the deck!

Fortunately.

This area is also a key area for prevention.

Water dragons spurted out, extinguishing the flames.

Sterling then breathed a sigh of relief.

"God bless."

He crossed himself.

Then grab a soldier next to you.

"Go and report to the command room. The fire in the No. 9 turret is under control, but [-] members of the gun crew died from inhalation of poison gas, and the rest of the gun crew also showed signs of poisoning to varying degrees!"

no way.

The turrets of British Empire warships are not closed turrets. Although there is armor around them, these armors withstand the shock wave of the explosion, but cannot seal the penetration of poisonous gas.
So ever.

A small 90mm poison gas bomb caused the turret of one of the Mex's main guns to misfire!

But fortunately.

The fire caused by the shell did not spread to the ammunition magazine.

Otherwise, the entire warship will be in tragedy.

"Brigadier General, the gun crew of No. [-] Battery is unable to continue fighting!"

The first mate of the USS Mekes loudly reported to Captain Ward Colville of the USS Mekes who was looking out with a telescope in the command room.

The officers in the command room just breathed a sigh of relief.

boom!
A huge explosion caused everyone in the command room to stagger.

The entire command room was shaking violently.

It seemed like there was a huge earthquake.

Many people were knocked to the ground directly.

Some unlucky officers hit their heads on some protrusions in the cabin when they fell. They were bleeding profusely for a while, and they didn't know whether they could survive.

Ward Colville was only lucky enough to grab the handrail and could barely stabilize his body.

He turned around and looked through the window of the conning tower. He saw a huge explosion in the two torpedo tubes behind the Mekes! !
A shell hit the torpedo tube without missing a beat, exploding the torpedo inside.

The stern turret on the other side was also completely submerged by the cargo.

"damn it!"

Colville's scalp tingled.He now only had one last turret left to use.

A cruiser with a displacement of [-] tons.

Less than an hour after the war started.

Disarmed by a dozen small frigates with a displacement of [-] tons!

"Brigadier General, we have lost our combat effectiveness. Do you want to withdraw from the battle?"

the mate asked.

"No! We must persist!"

Colville shouted.

"Their firepower is not enough to sink us. Even if we are floating on the sea, we can still be a living target and attract the Chinese firepower!!"

The voice just fell
boom!
Another bang!
"Commodore! The torpedo in the torpedo tube at the stern of the ship exploded again!"

"Torpedoes! Torpedoes! Damn torpedoes!!"

Colville hammered the armbar hard.

"We don't need torpedoes! Throw away all the torpedoes! These things are useless!" he roared angrily, "Those people in the equipment department should be hanged! Damn it, if we lose this war, They are the culprits!”

There is indeed nothing wrong with what he said.

In the British Navy, many officers dislike torpedoes.

Because in this era, the range of torpedoes is too short.

The distance between the artillery battles between both sides is now about 5000 meters and 6000 meters.

The torpedo's range of only a few hundred meters is completely inadequate.

Moreover, the torpedoes of this era had no guidance function, their speed was slow, and their accuracy was extremely low.

These are stuffed with dozens of kilograms of explosives.

Except for suicide.

There seems to be no other use.

Colville took a deep breath.

Fortunately, there was no problem with the Mekes' power system, and she could still serve as the flagship of the cruiser squadron to attract firepower.

"They don't have the means to sink us!"

Colville shouted encouragement to his men.

"Our sacrifice will give friendly ships the opportunity to sink enemy ships!"

boom! !

Compared with the Mekes opposite.

The situation of the Hong Liehao here is actually not much better.

Almost all the firepower of the British fleet was concentrated on the Hong Lie.

One of the 200mm armor-piercing projectiles directly penetrated the side armor amidships and penetrated directly into the boiler room.

If this armor-piercing bomb is not a solid bomb, but a bomb filled with explosives.

Then the Hong Liehao is probably in bad shape now.

But Hong Liehao is not much better now.

A boiler was destroyed.

Directly losing half of the power.

Now the Hong Lie will definitely not be able to maintain a speed of 16 knots.

"Colonel, do we need to exit the order of battle?"

Yunori Ito asked.

"No! We can still fight!"

Deng Huanzhuang said.

"We can't quit now!"

He held up his binoculars and stared at the smoking Mekes ahead.

I was silently counting in my mind how many shells the Z and the Max had withstood.

Hong Lie was hit five times.

The Mekes was hit by at least thirty shells!

With both sides shelling the flagship at the front of the other side's column.

The number of hits on the Mekes was six times that of the Hong Lie!
A six-fold difference in vitality - even excluding the difference in caliber, the Ming Empire Navy was confident of projecting more explosives onto the decks of British ships!

"The Mekes has been scrapped! Our next target is the Tulip!"

His eyes moved to that giant-class battleship!

The most powerful battleship in the legend!
If it is defeated by four cruisers and sixteen frigates.
Then this most powerful battleship has become a joke! (End of chapter)