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Chapter 1646 Searchlights and Sea Monsters

"What monster is that!"

"It has two bright eyes, as bright as torches, sea monster!"

The Turkish sailors in the dark night saw that a huge monster had overtaken them and knocked over a Turkish galley like a sea monster. The hard ramming angle destroyed the not-so-strong hull of the galley!
With the blessing of steel rams, steel hulls, and steam power, ironclads don't even need cannons, and they are a terrible weapon in themselves!

What frightened the Turkish sailors the most was not only the artillery of the chasing steel sea monster, but also two beams of searchlights projected from the sea monster to search for Turkish warships.

Usually spotted by the "eyes" of the Iron Kraken, may be hit by the Kraken or hit by its artillery!
"I didn't expect that the generator on our ironclad ship Weiqing would play an important role in this battle." Nelson was on the deck, seeing the strong searchlights that made the nearby Turkish fleet nowhere to hide in the dark. Can't help feeling the unimaginable benefits brought by technological progress.

He lived in the most glorious era of sailing battleships. Now the fleet of the Kyushu Army has begun to arm ironclad ships, and the two sister ships Huo Qubing and Weiqing are equipped with generators to provide lighting for the cabin when necessary.

This is a technology far beyond this era. No one except China knows what "electricity" is, let alone apply it.

The ironclad ship Weiqing has two searchlights. This is a very rare technology. Even the local people in China do not have this kind of technology. Instead, it was first used on the two most advanced ironclad ships Huo Qubing and Weiqing!
Ironclad ships represent the most advanced technology!
The use of searchlights terrified the Turkish crew and sailors who had never seen such a thing. Many people even believed that it was a sea monster in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. Otherwise, why could the light from its eyes reach hundreds of meters away?

Just like the original aborigines were illuminated by a beam of dazzling light, the Turkish sailors were extremely afraid of the searchlights, their fleet formation was in chaos, and the Turkish ships instinctively wanted to hide in the darkness to avoid the searchlights.

"That beam of light is like the light of a lighthouse. They don't seem to use a lighthouse-like device to illuminate it? But how did they do it?"

Not only the Turks, but even the English and Venetians of the alliance were the first to see a "weapon" like a searchlight, which was not considered a weapon, and it shocked them even more than the heavy artillery installed on the Weiqing.

At this time, the Weiqing is like a sea fortress with its own lighthouse!

The night battle in the Mediterranean lasted for a while, and the Royal Fleet and the Venetian Fleet that followed were less ferocious than the ironclad ships, and they were more keen to capture the Turks' ships as trophies.

When the east was clear, 70 ships of the Turkish fleet composed of 10 sailing ships and galleys were captured by the coalition forces, and several ships were sunk or sunk by artillery during the night battle.

More than half of the Turkish ships escaped the attack, and the coalition fleet did not give up the pursuit, they continued to follow behind like ghosts!
The unlucky Turkish fleet was slaughtered by sea monsters last night, and they were still in shock. They didn't care to join the Rhodes Island fleet.They began to flee in two fleets, all the way south and all the way east, in order to have a fleet that could escape the pursuit of the sea monster.

The coalition forces soon divided into two fleets. Nelson led the Zhili Fleet and the Royal Fleet to pursue the fleet that fled south, while Capello led the Venetian fleet to pursue the fleet that fled east.

The fleet fleeing south fled all the way to Rhodes Island. The sailing warships such as the Constitution formed a huge net and began to outflank the fleet.The poor Turkish fleet had no choice. They got closer and closer to the shore of Rhodes Island, and finally they were all forced to run aground.

The panicked Turkish soldiers and sailors abandoned their warships and waded ashore with their personal gold and silver treasures. Behind them was the steam ironclad Weiqing, which they regarded as sea monsters, and more sailing warships behind them. .

These stranded ships were captured. Among them, the severely damaged ships were burned by the coalition forces, while the intact or only slightly injured ships became trophies.

The soldiers of the Ottoman fleet were on the beach of Rhode Island, watching the enemy tow away the stranded ships. They had no ships and lost the qualification to fight in the raging sea.

This fleet hidden on Chios Island can be said to be extremely unlucky. It was first discovered by the squadron led by Zheng Zhihu, Black and others, and then tragically encountered the main force of the coalition fleet. I am afraid that less than 10 ships can survive. ship.

"Is that black-smoky ship the sea monster we saw at night?" A Turkish sailor discovered the steam ironclad ship Weiqing.

When they encountered the main force of the United Fleet before, they did not have time to carefully observe the steam ironclad ship, a strange ship that had never been seen in the Mediterranean Sea before.

Now when they went ashore, they found that the ironclad ship Wei Qing was calmly staying in the waters outside Rhodes Island, waiting for the English and Venetians to pull away the stranded Turkish ships.

After being reminded by the Turkish sailor, other Ottoman officers and soldiers realized that the Weiqing, which was calm at this time, looked a bit like a Mediterranean sea monster that killed all directions in the night battle.

"With such a long hull, the sea monster we fought with is really similar to it, hiss...is this such a ship? Or is it that the Chinese turned the sea monster into a huge ship? It turns into a sea monster at night? How else would it make sense that its eyes would shine like lighthouses?"

The soldiers of the Ottoman Empire were puzzled. Anyway, they had no ships. This force was worse than the Rhode Island defenders. They simply quarreled on the beach. The focus was whether the steam ironclad Weiqing appeared at night. Mediterranean sea monster.

The Pasha of the Ottoman Empire who led this Turkish fleet was not only afraid of the sea monster in the Mediterranean Sea, but also had one thing that lingered in his mind.

The Turkish fleet he led was almost wiped out, with half the ships destroyed and half captured.

The price of the defeated was very heavy in the Ottoman Empire, a country that valued the military and the emperor's will. The defeated nobles were often executed because of the personal anger of the Ottoman Emperor.

The Grand Vizier who led the Imperial Fleet in the First Mediterranean War and the Prime Minister of the Empire were all executed because of their failures, and his Pasha is probably no exception.

"Instead of being executed by the emperor, I hope that these people can really capture Constantinople, so that I can survive." The unlucky Pasha muttered to himself.

(End of this chapter)