Peru, including Chile, are countries without a complete industrial base. All their armored warships are purchased from Western shipyards. It is conceivable how those arms profiteers can give them the best goods.
In fact, even if we give them the best warships, these poor countries cannot afford them. Moreover, the West now has the awareness to use third countries’ money to test weapons and equipment for itself.
The low price is a deep trap. The average thickness of the armor is only about three centimeters. It can at most protect against heavy machine gun bullets and solid projectiles in the past. For 210-caliber explosive bullets, this layer of iron is just a piece of paper.
People are poor and their ambitions are short, but their horses are skinny and their hair is long. Poor and weak countries can only rely on others. The wooden-hulled warships eliminated by the Western powers themselves were internally modified, covered with a layer of iron armor, and then sold to these small countries as armored ships, and the price was not low.
What? You do not want? Haha, that's okay. If you don't even like such good British and French products, then be more ambitious and make your own.
Obviously not that country can hold back its ambitions, and they can only bow their heads in the face of reality.
In each arms deal, the European powers made real money, and those wooden-hulled warships that had to be refitted sooner or later also had a place to go. More importantly, in this arms transformation, their engineers were trained, and they had a better understanding of ironclad ships. We have more experience in design and production.
If one or two naval battles break out in these small countries, that will be the happiest thing for Western military strategists. After the war, they will collect all the data on the battlefield for analysis and adjust their future naval strategies. This kind of use of other countries It's a great deal to sacrifice one's life to test one's weapons.
The navies of Chile and Peru are the product of this strategic thinking. To use a common saying in Sijiu City, warships of this kind are "silver guns with wax-like heads" but they are not useful.
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The explosion of the Huascaran immediately shocked the entire sea. The troops on land did not know what was happening at sea because they were too far away, but the main Peruvian fleet was dumbfounded at this moment.
The thick smoke and fire caused by the explosion swallowed up a third of the Huascaran. Screams resounded in the sky, and the sailors covered in fire fell down, and the interior of the battleship was suddenly filled with thick smoke.
This battleship has been destroyed. The commander was directly stabbed to death by the broken glass. The continuous flames cannot be saved at all. It is only a matter of time before the entire battleship is burned down.
"Right full rudder... don't worry about the range, fire for me!" The captain of the Sun's voice trembled. He couldn't understand what kind of warship it was.
"There is no flag, and I have no idea which country's warship this is? Could it be that Westerners directly intervened in this war? So which country is it?"
There was no room for anyone to be distracted on the battlefield. Just as he was engaged in a tense battle between the two forces, the Sun had completed a full right rudder turn, and the two 148-caliber main guns on the side aimed at the steel monster ahead and fired two shots.
At this moment, the mysterious battleship sailing at high speed has rushed to a distance of more than a thousand meters from the Sun. The accuracy of this short-range shooting is already very high.
Boom boom... After two loud noises, one shell exploded on the side of the mysterious battleship, and the other directly hit the port side deck of the enemy ship.
"Well done! God bless! The first hit! Keep loading..." There was joy on the Sun, but before they had time to load the second shell, the lookout was horrified to find two long guns in the explosion smoke of the mysterious battleship. The barrel of the gun has rotated and cut through the black smoke.
Boom... With a monotonous loud noise, the 210-caliber artillery accurately hit the side of the Sun near the waterline within a range of one thousand meters. The huge explosion shook the Sun's entire hull, and then it poured rapidly at a speed visible to everyone's naked eyes. A huge gap with a diameter of two meters was torn open in the iron armor and wooden hull of the waterline, and tons of sea water were released. of pouring in.
Two shots, only two shots were used! The mysterious warship directly sank two Peruvian ironclads, with a total tonnage of 2,200 tons.
The two battleships that were about to sink became burning torches. The sailors struggling to survive in the sea swam away in terror holding the floating objects. Many people could not forget that horrific scene.
In the billowing black smoke, a huge green iron-clad ship, carrying an invincible and domineering momentum, moved unruly through the wreckage of the two ships.
The huge gun barrel is as thick as a bucket, and the densely packed light and heavy weapons on both sides are too lazy to fire a single shot into the sea. At this moment, these Peruvian navy feel like proud medieval knights passing through a group of peasant soldiers who are surrendering and kneeling. The same kind of pride that comes from the bottom of their bones makes their hearts ache.
The deepest impression is the shining golden bow image on the bow of the ship. Does everyone know what that weird snake-like creature is, a dragon? But it has no wings, the legendary sea snake? The sea snake does not have such a noble temperament at all.
That was the deepest impression left by the mysterious battleship in South America. It was lonely, cold, proud... and unparalleled in its dominance.
The Peruvian flagship Lima has collapsed at this moment! The fleet commander roared and ordered all the warships to change their formations. They were going to attack this damn heavy armored ship. If they lost again in twenty-one fight, then they would all have to go to court martial.
"Surround him... no matter the cost, sink him... no, no, no, find a way to capture him, we want this battleship, my God, what on earth is this? Why do I never have such a memory in my intelligence library? …”
"Fire...don't skimp on ammunition, keep firing!"
On the arrogant battleship in the distance, a young captain had a smile on his face. He put down his telescope and said with a sneer, "The Prime Minister once told me that the most enjoyable thing in war is to use technological differences and era differences to bully. opponent!"
"The Zhiyuan is already at least 20 years ahead of European ironclads, so how many years are you behind the entry-level pseudo-ironclads?"
"Haha... Thank you for providing me with so many mobile target ships! Okay, brothers, our feast has begun, and the folks in Iquique are waiting for our support! Send fireworks signals to the land to let friendly forces immediately Counterattack!"
"We have escaped from the strangulation net of the Atlantic Ocean! This is the Pacific Ocean, and this will eventually be the inland sea of us Chinese! There is no need to pretend now, this is not the territory of the British..."
"From now on, we have the final say in this sea!"
Asia's first ironclad warship, Ryukyu's first naval flagship, Xiao Letian provided design drawings, and Prussian engineers finally finalized and produced the epoch-making warship... Zhiyuan! Officially join the Iquique naval battle sequence!
