Bang bang bang... Three bright red fireworks exploded in the sky. For the entire Iquique battlefield, these fireworks could not attract people's attention at all.
Those who cheered were still cheering, and those who ran away were still running away. The battle situation on the land had not changed at all, and no one was willing to look up and see the abnormalities in the sky.
Only Tang Lei and Tietoutuo, who had received strict training from the CIA, were unusually sensitive to this sound. They almost subconsciously turned their heads to watch "Holy shit... the charging fireworks of the decisive battle? Are my eyes dazzled? Have you all seen it?" ?Is that our Ryukyu signal flare?"
More subordinates sent by the CIA around were jumping excitedly and shouting, "Nonsense...that's our signal fireworks...I can't see it wrong even if I close my eyes..."
"Fuck...you have opened your eyes? You can see it even if you close your eyes..." Just as the three fireworks gradually extinguished, suddenly three more fireworks rushed into the sky, and they were still three bright red ones. The signal flare for the decisive battle.
"Reinforcements! Our reinforcements must be coming! Where are they? Where are they?" People looked around, and only then did they realize that the sound of artillery deep in the sea had become intense again.
Now the Zhiyuan is five kilometers away from the coast, and the coast is still about four kilometers away from the main force of the Taiping Army. It is impossible to see what is happening from such a distance. Even those signal fireworks are the result of the Zhiyuan increasing the amount of medicine and tilting it diagonally. They were fired over Iquique City, otherwise Tang Lei and the others wouldn't be able to see these flares at all.
Tang Lei and Tietoutuo were excited. Almost at the same time, a thought flashed through their minds, and the most secret intelligence shadow of the CIA's legend suddenly surfaced.
"Prussia...our battleship? How is this possible..." the two said in unison, "Even if it is successfully built, it cannot go here? What happened?"
Based on Tang Lei and Tietoutuo's level, they knew that Prussia was building warships for Ryukyu, but they didn't know the specific details.
The appearance, parameters, construction schedule, and list of future pilots of the new warships...these are Ryukyu's top secrets.
But such a shadow of intelligence was enough. Today's sudden chaos in the Peruvian Navy, coupled with the familiar signal flares, forced them to choose this answer.
Chen Yonglu was furious, "What is it? What kind of battleship? You two, stop being so pretentious, I don't understand!"
"Old Chen... maybe we don't have to cross the sand sea anymore. I think we can have dinner in Iquique tonight!" Tang Lei rode his horse like crazy and ran among the soldiers.
"Brothers, don't withdraw. Our reinforcements have arrived. The Peruvian warships on the sea will be destroyed. They can no longer provide fire support..."
"The bravest soldiers, let's charge for the last time... We don't have to attack those three fortresses, let's go around them, let's capture the fort on the pier!"
"We must not let the fort harm our battleship! Hahaha... That's our battleship. He finally doesn't have to be beaten like a wimp! Grandma, come with me..."
As soon as they heard that there were reinforcements, the Peruvian warships on the sea turned around. Now the entire Heavenly Kingdom Corps was in a state of shock. As long as there was no bombing from the armored ships, they would be afraid of nothing.
"Kill them... follow your master to capture the pier, and hack all the fort defenders to death... kill them!"
More than 10,000 Taiping troops turned around and launched another charge. This scene frightened the Peruvian army defending the city and the retreating Sirapizo in the south.
"The Chinese are crazy? Is this suicide? Look...there is something abnormal in the sea!"
There were more than just abnormalities on the sea, it was simply a one-sided massacre. After the Zhiyuan easily beheaded the Sun and Huascaran with two cannons, the boiler continued to pressurize and rush towards the fleet of more than 20 warships in the distance.
An ironclad ship wants to challenge a mixed fleet of more than 20 ships. This can no longer be described as bold, this is like a madman's behavior.
"The boiler continues to pressurize... Mr. Kevin, I think our speed should be able to increase a little more, what do you think?"
In the captain's room, Kevin's journey through wind, rain, and blood had already dissipated a lot of the scholar's air from this engineer. The unshaven man held a cigar in his mouth and actually brought out a certain ruffian air: As you wish, my captain...the engine crew is ready...pressure ventilation to increase the horsepower...let those broken tin cans see the real industrial power of Prussia!"
The turbine unit suddenly became busy, the forced ventilation damper was opened, and the blower increased the pressure of fresh air into the boiler. The flames in the furnace turned blue under the whistling wind.
The sailors loading the coal suddenly felt the temperature in front of them rise sharply. The heat wave made them sweat all over. Since there would be no women coming or going here anyway, these sailors stripped naked and worked hard to fill the coal in the third shift.
The 6,000 horsepower was gradually increased to 7,000 horsepower within three minutes. Smoke suddenly rose from the chimney of the Zhiyuan, and the entire hull shook, just like the excitement of a war horse before charging.
"The left rudder of the Zhiyuan is full...the starboard side is facing the enemy...the main gun is free to fire! Lin Zhen, let me see how accurate the artilleryman you have trained along the way is! Don't waste this rare target practice opportunity!"
Lin Zhen smiled and made an OK gesture towards the command room, and then the three main guns at the front and rear began to rotate, and the Zhiyuan also drew a beautiful arc on the sea.
"T-tactics? The enemy is facing the enemy on the side. Are they going to use T-tactics to bomb us?" The Peruvian officers were stunned, and they couldn't believe their eyes.
The T-shaped tactic is a very common artillery attack tactic in naval battles. Whoever the enemy and we form the horizontal formation above the T-shaped figure first will be the first to have the advantage of firing a salvo of artillery, and the lagging side will naturally be the one under the T-shaped figure. Naturally, at that level, the artillery's advantages could not be used, and it could only be beaten passively.
But this is obviously a tactic that only fleets use? There's only one ship on the opposite side, okay? A battleship forms a horizontal formation and wants to bombard the entire fleet? Is this a lunatic or an idiot!
It's a pity that they will never be able to appreciate the powerful power provided by two horizontal 3-cylinder reciprocating steam engines and four high-rise coal-fired boilers, and they can't even understand what it is like to install a 210 main gun on a battleship.
By the time they can understand all this, I'm afraid the God of Death has already held his little hand.
Boom boom boom... Zhiyuan's three main guns had already opened fire at a distance of four thousand meters. The precise gunnery skills practiced on innocent merchant ships in the Atlantic once again showed off their power. Three consecutive shots actually hit two of them. The bow of the wooden-hulled sail battleship was directly blown off, while the bridge of another small ironclad ship of more than 800 tons was directly blown off.
"My God, how can you be so accurate! Speed up... rush forward and sink him!" The Peruvian officers spoke with tears in their voices.
