In the time and space that Tang Mo is familiar with, on November 27, 1853, a Turkish small fleet arrived at the port of Sinop. The Turkish fleet commander commanding this fleet ordered his men not to fire first.
Soon the Turkish fleet discovered six Russian battleships patrolling outside the harbor. He sent an urgent message requesting reinforcements, but these distress letters fell into silence.
These Russian battleships came from Sevastopol, a hundred miles away, and belonged to the Russian Black Sea Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.
On the morning of November 30, the Russian fleet entered Sinop Bay and asked the Turkish fleet to raise the white flag to surrender. The Turkish commander refused to surrender and ordered the gunfire. A few minutes later, the Russian battleship opened fire.
This was the last glory of the wooden sailing battleship and the last glory of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. This naval battle also went down in history as the last large-scale battle in the era of the sailing fleet.
It was during the Crimean War that steam-powered battleships were widely used by Britain and France, and the advantages of technological weapons were greatly reflected.
Russian warships used explosive bombs. This was the first time that explosive bombs were used on the naval battlefield, and the effect was amazing. Although the Russian army's artillery fire was not very accurate at that time, the new type of explosive shells exploded inside the ship after hitting the enemy ship, causing great damage to the wooden warship.
Half an hour after the war started, the outcome was doomed. An hour later, the Ottoman Turkish fleet was completely wiped out, and the warships burst into flames.
Nassimov then directed the fleet to turn its artillery fire to the Turkish coastal forts. Soon the coastal forts were also plunged into a sea of fire. The fire reflected the charred wreckage of the Turkish warship, and the water on the shore was full of corpses.
In this battle, the Russian army annihilated more than 3,000 Turkish troops at the cost of more than 200 casualties and captured 150 people, including the commander of the Turkish fleet Osman Pasha. Only a small steamship, the Taif, escaped and brought the tragic news back to Constantinople.
Then, things took a turn. In this battle, the Tsarist Russian Navy, which used explosive bombs to savage Turkey, was vulnerable to the British and French fleets that subsequently arrived, and was defeated by the opponent's steam-powered warships.
The times are advancing, and the importance of technology in war is vividly reflected in this war.
In the world Tang Mo lives in now, the armored battleships of Datang Group are almost using the technology of around 1890 to crush the battleships of 1750.
This was really not a battle, but a brutal massacre. When the commanders on the Talon Kingdom's first sailing battleship realized this, it was actually too late.
Their battleship exploded and broke in the middle. Water poured into the cabin like a beast, sucking the sailors who suffered heavy casualties into the whirlpool.
Seeing that the masts of the battleship began to break, the sails above twisted and fell. On the second warship that followed closely behind this warship, the sailors of the Talon Kingdom were so shocked that they could not speak at all.
Just as they were thinking about how to rescue friendly forces whose battleships fell into the water ahead, explosions and screams came from behind them.
The third battleship was also hit by a cannonball, and most of the entire side hull was blown off. Before the sailors above could recover from their sluggishness, the battleship began to roll.
Subsequently, the oncoming cannonballs baptized almost all the remaining sail warships of the Talon Kingdom. Before their fleet commander could figure out what was going on, four warships were sunk.
Among the remaining three warships, the commander of one warship was the smartest. He gave up the idea of fighting or escaping, and instead immediately rushed his warship towards Dragon Island.
Before being sunk, he commanded his battleship to run aground under a cliff, giving the sailors on his battleship a chance to escape to the shore for refuge.
The other two battleships resisted stubbornly, and the results can be imagined.
One of them is the flagship of this fleet, and the commander on it is the guy who dreamed of attacking Dragon City before.
His battleship was blown to pieces by artillery fire, and the explosive gunpowder blew up most of the battleship. Almost no sailors survived.
The last battleship tried to escape, but they were overtaken and sunk while turning, leaving only a mess of debris on the sea.
The entire naval battle took a total of 27 minutes, which was not sloppy at all. The Tarun Kingdom's fleet only had time to fire two cannons before they all lost their combat effectiveness.
One battleship ran aground and was scrapped, and the remaining six were sunk without exception. During the entire artillery battle, the closest distance between the two sides was more than 700 meters. This distance was far beyond the familiar combat distance of the Talon Kingdom warship commanders.
This is also an important reason why the battleship of the Kingdom of Talon only had time to fire two cannons before the battle ended - even these two hastily fired cannons, none of them hit the target.
Taking advantage of its own sight, the Bunas No. 4 battleship's hit rate reached an astonishing hit rate of more than 60% at a distance of about 800 meters.
A battle came and went as quickly as the wind, and until the end, it seemed to have a lingering flavor.
The raging waves crashed against the cliffs, roaring like thunder. It was like the crisp thunder on the sea just now was beating on the chest of the panicked person.
It's dull and heart-stopping.
A white wave rolled over the reef, leaving behind an embarrassed sailor as it receded. He struggled to a sitting position and poked his head out of the water before the next wave hit.
He breathed heavily, enjoying the opportunity to do it again that he finally had in his hands. After enjoying the joy of life, he suddenly turned around and saw the broken wreckage on the sea, as well as the terrifying black battleship in the wreckage.
It was not an ordinary ship, it was a beast lying on the sea. It breathed thunder and was so domineering, as if it were the ocean and it controlled the life and death of everything in the ocean.
"Heh...heh..." Breathing the air greedily, the sailor who was lucky enough to escape the disaster climbed up with lingering fear, stood on the reef, and let the sea water beat and roll under his feet.
Not far behind him was the cliff, and not far in front of him was the battleship Big Red Fish that had just run aground on the reef area and was blown into pieces by several shells.
Now only the fallen masts of the battleship are left, and the burning hull is still exposed on the water. From the burning firelight, you can still vaguely see the brown king's flag embroidered with the steering wheel.
Everything was over. A huge fleet, a total of 7 warships, was wiped out in an instant, with nothing left.
Thousands of sailors perished at sea, and now there may not even be single digits left. As a sailor, he still had no idea what he had gotten himself into.
"Help, help." At his feet, a sailor who was hit by the waves on the rocks shouted weakly. The sailor from the Talon Kingdom who was looking at the Bunas 4 battleship in a daze quickly lowered his head and looked for the voice. source.
Then he saw an injured sailor struggling in the sea, holding on to the rocks with one hand and another hand covered with blood.
In a panic, he pulled his comrade onto the rock, and then saw a wooden board stuck on the other's shoulder.
The sharp wooden board was inserted into the sailor's shoulder like shrapnel, and the blood on the other person's arm flowed from here.
"You're injured! I can't help you bandage it! There's nothing here! Just hold on! I'll think of a way..." The young sailor looked nervously at his injured companion.
At this moment, the injured unfortunate man only had the strength to breathe. After a long while, he regained some strength, then struggled, grabbed the young sailor's arm, and weakly warned: "Go back! Go back! Let them go quickly...go quickly..."
After saying that, his hand lost its strength and hung down on the rock. The young sailor raised his head in confusion and saw some sailors on the terrifying battleship, using long poles to salvage sailors floating on the sea.
"The other party doesn't want to eat them, does it?" This absurd idea appeared in the young sailor's mind, and then he was so frightened by this idea that he lay on the rock, not even daring to raise his head.
The salty seawater washed away the scratches on his face, and the stinging pain made him sober again. When he once again plucked up the courage to raise his head, the battleship on the sea had already sailed far away.
In front of him, there was only a cold corpse and some broken boards washed up by the sea.
Unlike the attack on Nanshui, this time the Datang Group's sailors did not kill them all, but picked up a few prisoners from the water.
Because Bunas 4 needs intelligence, it needs all the intelligence about this operation of the Talon Kingdom. Including the size of the fleet, the movement of the fleet, the size of the landing force, and the specific movements of the landing force, etc.
The sailors from the Talon Kingdom who had been fished out knelt on the deck, looking in horror at a pair of shiny black leather shoes walking back and forth in front of their knees under a pair of white trousers.
Immediately afterwards, a middle-aged man's voice rang out: "Whoever is willing to answer my questions will have food and can live... It doesn't matter if you don't cooperate, I will throw him back into the sea, you can Make your own choice..."
"I say! I know everything!" "I say first! We are sailors from the Kingdom of Talen!" "I am an officer! Let me say first!..." Several prisoners almost started a struggle until several Tang Dynasties The sailors of the group gave each of them a rifle butt, and then they became more honest.
"Since you are all willing to cooperate, then... I have a question..." The captain stopped pacing, looked down at the prisoner who just claimed to be an officer and asked: "How many ships do you have in total?"
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