The barrel of the twin-mounted main gun had turned red, and heavy rain poured down on it, creating bursts of white smoke. The shells flew out of the muzzle and flew straight to the Banshee twenty meters away.
Boom boom... After two loud noises, the air waves from the explosion engulfed the waterline of the Banshee's belly. In the end, the two-inch-thick steel plate could not withstand the huge power of the 210-caliber shell!
A large hole was torn open in the Banshee's boiler room. The shock wave and debris from the explosion directly killed all the sailors in the cabin. The outermost of the twin boilers was directly blown up!
The shock wave and air wave rolled up the red coal and sprayed it everywhere. From a distance, it looked like a soldier had been stabbed through an artery with a bayonet, and blood poured out like a fountain.
Hof's eyes were filled with this bloody scene, and all the French troops present were dumbfounded. The Banshee's belly had been dug open, and the exploding boiler kept spraying red coals out.
Suddenly there was a cloud of white smoke on the sea, and the burning coals falling into the sea were replaced by bursts of hissing sounds. Heavy rain and fire rain intertwined in the sky, and the white mist filled the air.
While you are sick, I will kill you!
The Zhiyuan's stern main gun began to rotate, and the hydraulic power-assist system began to work. The heavy hinges and gear sets pushed the main gun to rotate. The black muzzle was already aimed at the Banshee's bleeding wound.
"Fire! Blow the fuck up!"
From the beginning of the entire naval battle to the present, this was the first time the ship's tail gun fired. The gunners of the tail gun had long been itchy and couldn't hold it anymore.
Boom... there was a loud noise, and the artillery shell penetrated directly into the boiler room whose armor had just been torn off. The last boiler could not escape the disaster, and turned into a firework soaring into the sky in the violent explosion.
The power of the explosion was so great that the Banshee's boiler room had turned into a huge hole of more than ten square meters. The sea water was not poured in, but was directly shot in.
The entire battleship suddenly tilted, and hundreds of tons of seawater poured in crazily, submerging all the bottom compartments of the Banshee in just one minute!
The scene of doomsday appeared in front of people. The Banshee completely lost its combat capability, and the deck was full of soldiers fleeing in panic!
They screamed and scrambled for life-saving supplies. The sea was full of floating rags, corpses rolled in the waves, and the blood was thick and pungent!
At this moment, the Banshee had tilted 25 degrees to the left, and it continued to tilt at a speed visible to the naked eye. Everything on the deck that was not fastened fell down with a crackle!
Those French soldiers looked at the Zhiyuan so close at hand, and at the murderous Gatling heavy machine guns and small-caliber rapid-fire cannons on it, they all closed their eyes in despair.
"Oh God! The carnage has begun!"
The hull of the Banshee capsized, and the sailors on it could not even prepare to launch a desperate attack on the Zhiyuan before they died. All the cannon muzzles were pointed at the sea, and the battleship was about to capsize.
But they never expected that the Zhiyuan would eventually wipe away the body of the Banshee and fly away. These proud Chinese sailors did not pull the trigger of the heavy machine gun in the end.
Those French sailors who were dying in the sea and on the Banshee could easily kill them by pulling the trigger, but in the end the Chinese soldiers didn't even look at them!
Xiang Ying glanced at the sea at his feet with disdain, "Trash and weak chickens are not worth my bullets! You can fend for yourself!"
At this moment, the wind and waves on the sea have reached a height of two meters. Even the warships are in danger of survival in the storm, let alone the French sailors soaked in the sea water!
Xiang Ying is not kind-hearted. He just wants to save his limited ammunition for more important targets. As for these garbage, let the Poseidon kill them!
"Knight! This is the true spirit of chivalry! The performance of these Chinese people once again impressed me!"
Seeing the Chinese people's righteous deeds, even the Duke of Newcastle, who was watching the battle from a distance, was moved. He found that the more he came into contact with these Chinese people, the more respectable they felt!
All the black propaganda against the Chinese in the past has been unfairly dispelled now. Being able to maintain such a demeanor on the battlefield is something that even countless European armies cannot do!
The Duke of Newcastle looked at the stunned naval elite around him, "Gentlemen! Remember everything that happened before you! The Chinese navy taught us the most valuable lesson today!"
"I think from now on, those domestic quarrelsome shipbuilding designers and those politicians full of nonsense should shut up!"
"Standard! This is the standard! Xiao Letian has found the development direction of battleships for the next hundred years!"
"Although I don't want to let this crown of glory fall on Xiao Letian's head, it's okay not to be convinced! Facts speak louder than words!"
"After this naval battle, I will independently submit a proposal to the Prime Minister and the Queen. Will you also sign on?"
What can be said at this time, the super combat power of the Zhiyuan has completely conquered these naval officers and convinced those confused elites.
"Yes, Your Excellency, of course we are willing to sign together. If we can't learn something from today's battle, then we are not worthy of becoming members of the glorious Royal Navy!"
"Very good! As long as we, the British Empire, unite our minds, our super productivity will explode!"
"I wonder who in this world can be as productive as our British Empire!"
It may be that the record of the Zhiyuan stimulated the Duke's pride, and the subtext in his words was to cheer him up, but at this time the captain beside him suddenly spoke.
"Look! The Reach has left the Banshee behind, and he is about to pierce the French formation! What does he want to do..."
"There is a dead end on the other side! The Zhiyuan has already sunk two battleships, why don't we leave? Aren't you satisfied with such a great result?"
In the eyes of these British officers, the Zhiyuan has done a good enough job at this moment. It can single-handedly fight an entire French task force and sink one ship and seriously damage another. This is already a miracle!
If you don't break away from the battle now, why do you keep charging forward? Is he really seeking death?
The Duke of Newcastle nervously looked into the distance with his telescope, "Can we get closer? Can we get closer..."
At the Duke's urging, the British fleet once again moved closer to the core battlefield, and this time the Duke saw a scene that absolutely horrified him!
"There are lights on the armored conning tower! The armored conning tower of the Reach is in use!"
"Look... is that the legendary Chinese decisive battle flag?"
