"Fire! Keep firing... Blow up these damn boats... God, what kind of boats are these?" The battleship gunners ordered the cannons to fire, while watching in stunned silence the small boats that resisted swarming up.
The shells were fired as if they were free, and one small fishing boat after another was hit. But what was shocking was that those small boats were not blown to pieces as usual, but they could always explode into pieces with one cannon. of sand, and then slowly moved silently to the bottom of the sea.
"What are those ships carrying? It's dark and looks like big rocks..."
"No, big rocks are not that regular..."
"Look, some boats are tied to each other..."
The Ryukyu water ghosts moved forward bravely despite the gunfire of the Russian warships. Every time a small boat was bombed and sunk, the bosses and sailors of other ships became more violent and bloodthirsty.
"Third brother, please go away...you have become a god. You are eating incense in the Temple of War...remember to leave a message for me, brother!"
"Brothers, rush forward... sink the ship into the bay and block the east entrance of the strait... We will die like birds in the sky and we will not die for tens of millions of years! Fight with them..."
The fleet was getting closer and closer, and the sky in the east was getting brighter and brighter. When the fleet rushed to a distance of more than 500 meters, Hermansky finally saw clearly what was on board.
"Oh my God! These Chinese are going to block the exit of the strait. They want to trap us in the strait!"
Hermansky's horrified voice changed, and the most terrifying thing may have appeared in his mind: "These Chinese know the hydrological conditions here, they know everything below this sea area, and they are going to create artificial reefs to sink them." Our ship!"
"I've fallen into the trap! I've fallen into the trap! Fire, fire violently... The entire fleet speeds up and rushes out of the strait..."
Hermansky's mouth was full of bitterness. He was troubled by his previous judgment. He had ordered all the warships to hide in the strait, just to rely on the narrow three-kilometer strait mouth to block the Zhiyuan.
But who would have thought that Xiao Letian would not act according to common sense! How could he even think of creating an artificial reef? Isn't this too poisonous?
As a naval admiral, Hermansky knew that the hydrological information in each sea area was the top secret of each country. The domineering power of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets relied on the powerful Royal Navy, and the Royal Navy's brilliance lay in its ability to control the world's golden waterways. The key factor in controlling the golden waterway is not all about the strength of the ship and the power of the gun.
Chart! The hydrological conditions of various sea areas are important data for naval operations. Just like the Army needs to have military maps, understand the terrain heights, and know how to draw contour lines.
Maritime operations are more complicated. You have to know where there are hidden reefs, where there are open reefs, how deep the water is, the divisions and speed of the undercurrents in the sea... and, without joking, are there various legends in this sea area, such as those in Bermuda? Dangerous legends are all part of the information.
Naval operations are too complicated, not to mention that you have to understand the climate of this sea area, such as wind speed, typhoon season, whether there are heavy rains, etc... and all of this is top secret among the navies of various countries.
Xiao Letian has been operating the Western Pacific for several years. Those sail warships used to be training ships. What kind of training did they usually do? Hydrological exploration is an important part of training.
The depth of the water at various locations in the narrow strait of Amami Oshima, the number of light and dark reefs, and how the complex currents are distributed are all recorded in detail.
The garrison position chosen by Hermansky was originally an area with many reefs, and this type of sea area has a common feature that it is not too deep. After all, even the reefs can leak out. Other areas continue to have the same seabed topography, with an average The water depth is only twenty or thirty meters.
It would be absolutely impossible to block such a depth with two thousand small boats. Once those huge cement blocks with four claws enter the water, they will quickly tangle together to form a continuous artificial reef.
It was already too late. It took time for a behemoth like an armored battleship to move from stationary to high-speed cruising, and these Ryukyu water ghosts would never give them time.
The distance of five hundred meters passed by in a flash. Although the artillery shells sank one fishing boat and merchant ship after another, the huge base of more than two thousand could not be eliminated in a short time by seven warships. Soon the first batch of martyred ships were He rushed to the mouth of the strait, less than fifty meters away from the Svetlana.
The boat boss had a piece of flesh removed from his face by the shell, and blood flowed down like a waterfall, but he didn't seem to know the pain at all, and the corner of his mouth was knocked up instead, and he was still smiling.
"Light the dynamite! We're finally here...Grandpa, I'm the first!" The sailor on the deck lit the fuse, and the tongue of flame began to rustle and burn toward the bottom of the ship.
"Boss, let's go quickly... Our mission is completed!" After saying this, the sailor suddenly jumped into the sea and began to swim desperately to the safe waters on both sides.
The boss of the ship spat hard at the tall Russian fleet in front of him, "Bah! You're just waiting to be slaughtered..." After saying that, he jumped into the sea with flying steps, and rushed out five or six meters in one dive.
With a muffled bang, the explosives blasted a big hole in the bottom of the boat. Seawater rolled in, and the entire fishing boat made a tooth-breaking clicking sound, and then swayed and sank into the sea.
At this time, the two fishing boats next to the ship had also ignited explosives. The captain and the sailor carried livestock urine around their waists and began to swim desperately to safety.
The three ships were originally tied together with brown ropes. When they sank into the water, they were immediately entangled with each other and implicated everything. Dozens of huge cement blocks tied with iron chains and brown ropes began to collide with each other and soon crushed them. Countless deep-sea fish sprang up on the sand at the bottom of the sea.
"Blow up the ship! Everyone, blow up the ship!" The roars of the water ghosts on the sea came one after another, boom, boom, boom... the low explosions were heard in succession, and the sea was full of small whirlpools caused by sunken ships.
The sand at the bottom of the sea was rolled up, and the originally blue water suddenly became turbid. At the same time, Hermansky's eyes were also turbid. His eyes turned red and tears almost flowed out.
Hermansky watched helplessly as a frigate that had no time to slow down was crushed against the concrete block. The sound of scraping the bottom of the ship was extremely harsh. The officers and soldiers on the ship ran around in fear and even forgot to fire their guns.
The process of using wooden shells covered with iron armor is actually just a design for the transition from sail battleships to pure steel battleships. Although these battleship shells look majestic, there is no piece of iron armor protection under the ship.
The thick oak wood could not break the sharp concrete blocks, and soon the frigate's bottom tank began to flood with water.
Hermansky covered his head in pain and closed his eyes. "The entire fleet is in reverse... we can't break out from here. We move to the entrance of the strait to the west and tell the fleet commander that we have been tricked. Let's leave now... it's still too late!"
Before he finished speaking, the battleship's lookout hand suddenly pointed to the east and north and shouted, "The enemy has sent another fleet! Captain, look!"
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