Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 237 237 I Asked a Question

In the time and space familiar to Tang Mo, on November 1853, 11, a small Turkish fleet arrived at Sinop Port. The commander of the Turkish fleet commanding the fleet ordered his subordinates not to open fire first.

Soon the Turkish fleet found six Russian battleships cruising outside the port, and he sent an urgent request for reinforcements, but all of these distress letters fell into the sea.

Arriving from Sevastopol, a hundred miles away, the Russian battleships belonged to the Russian Black Sea Fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.

On the morning of November 11, the Russian fleet entered Sinop Bay and demanded that the Turkish fleet raise a white flag to surrender. The Turkish commander refused to surrender and ordered to fire. A few minutes later, the Russian battleship fired.

This is the last glory of the wooden sail battleship and the last glory of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. This naval battle is also recorded in the annals of history as the last large-scale battle in the era of the sailing fleet.

It was during the Crimean War that steam-powered warships were widely used by Britain and France, and the advantages of technical weapons were greatly reflected.

Russian warships use flowering ammunition. This is the first time that flowering ammunition has been used on a naval battlefield, and the effect is amazing.Although the artillery fire of the Russian army was not very accurate at that time, the new type of flowering ammunition exploded inside the ship after hitting the enemy ship, causing great damage to the wooden warship.

Half an hour after the start of the battle, the outcome was doomed. An hour later, the Ottoman Turkish fleet was completely wiped out, and the warship ignited a fire.

Then Nasimov commanded the fleet to turn the artillery fire to the Turkish coastal fort, and soon the coastal fort was also caught in a sea of ​​flames. The fire reflected the charred wreckage of the Turkish warship, and corpses were everywhere in the water on the shore.

At the cost of more than 200 casualties, the Russian army annihilated more than 3 Turkish troops and captured 000 people, including Osman Pasha, commander of the Turkish fleet.Only one small steamer, the Taif, escaped and brought the tragic news back to Constantinople.

Then, the feng shui took turns. In this battle, the Tsarist Russian navy, which used its bombs and blood to abuse Turkey, was vulnerable to the British and French fleets that came later, and was beaten by the opponent's steam-powered warships.

The times are advancing, and the importance of technology in war is fully reflected in this war.

In the world where Tang Mo is now, the iron-clad warships of the Datang Group are almost using the technology around 1890 to crush the warships of 1750.

This is really not a battle, but a brutal massacre.When the commanders on the first sailing warship of the Tarun Kingdom realized this, it was actually too late.

Their battleship exploded and broke in the middle, and the sea water poured into the cabin like a beast, and the sailors were killed and wounded in the whirlpool.

Seeing that the mast of the battleship began to break, the sails on it twisted and fell.On the second battleship that followed closely behind this battleship, the sailors of Tarun Kingdom were so shocked that they couldn't speak at all.

Just as they were thinking about how to rescue the friendly forces whose warships fell into the water ahead, there were explosions and screams behind them.

The third battleship was also hit by shells, and most of the hull of the entire side was blown away.Before the sailors on board recovered from their sluggishness, the warship began to roll.

Afterwards, the oncoming shells baptized almost all the remaining sailing warships of the Tarun Kingdom. Before their fleet commanders could figure out what was going on, four warships were sunk.

Of the remaining three battleships, the commander of one battleship was the smartest. He gave up thinking about fighting or fleeing, but immediately let his battleship rush towards Long Island.

Before being sunk, he commanded his battleship to run aground under the cliff, giving the sailors on his battleship a chance to escape to the shore for refuge.

The other two battleships fought stubbornly, and the result 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 blasted to pieces by the artillery fire, and the gunpowder from the explosion blew up most of the battleship, and almost no sailors survived.

The last battleship tried to escape, but they were caught up and sunk as they turned, leaving only a mess of debris on the sea.

The entire naval battle took a total of 27 minutes, and it was not muddy at all.The Tarun Kingdom's fleet even had time to fire two shots before all of them lost their combat effectiveness.

One battleship was stranded and scrapped, and the remaining six were all sunk without exception.And the distance between the two sides of the entire artillery battle was more than 700 meters at the closest time, which was far beyond the familiar combat distance of the warship commanders of the Tarun Kingdom.

This is also an important reason why the warships of the Tarun Kingdom only had time to fire two shots, and the battle ended - even the two hastily fired shots did not hit the target.

Taking advantage of its own sight, the hit rate of the Battleship Bunas 4 reached an astonishing 800% hit rate at a distance of about 60.00 meters.

A battle comes and goes like the wind, and it comes and goes quickly, until the end, it seems that there is still an unfinished taste.

The raging waves beat against the cliffs, roaring like thunder.It was as if on the sea just now, the crisp thunder was beating on the chest of the panicked person.

Dull and palpitating.

A white spray rolls over the reef, leaving behind a bewildered sailor as it recedes.He struggled to sit up and poked his head out of the water before the next break hit.

He took a big mouthful of breath, enjoying the chance to do it all over again that he held in his hands with great difficulty.After enjoying the joy of life, he suddenly turned his head and saw the broken wreckage on the sea surface, as well as the terrifying black battleship in the wreckage.

It was not an ordinary ship, it was a wild beast lying on the sea, spouting thunder, full of domineering, as if it was 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 catastrophe, 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 and was blasted to pieces by several shells.

Now only the fallen mast of the warship remains, and the burning hull is still exposed on the water.From the burning flames, the brown king's flag with the steering wheel embroidered can still be vaguely seen.

Everything was over, a huge fleet, a total of 7 warships, were wiped out in an instant, and there was nothing left.

Thousands of sailors died in the sea, and the remaining ones may not even have single digits.As a sailor, he still didn't know what he had messed with.

"Help, help." At the foot, a sailor who was beaten to the rock by the waves yelled weakly. The sailor of the Tarun Kingdom, who was staring at the battleship Bunas 4 in a daze, quickly lowered his head, looking for the voice. source.

Then he saw a wounded sailor struggling in the sea, clutching the reef with one hand and blood on the other.

In a panic, he pulled the comrade-in-arms to the reef, and then saw a wooden plank stuck on the opponent's shoulder.

The sharp wooden board was inserted into the sailor's shoulder like shrapnel, and the blood on the opponent's arm flowed from here.

"You're injured! I can't help you bandage it! There's nothing here! Hold on! I'll find a way..." The young sailor looked nervously at his wounded companion.

And at this moment, the injured hapless bastard only had the strength left to breathe.After a while, he regained some strength, and then struggled, grabbed the young sailor's arm, and said weakly, "Go back! Go back! Let them go... hurry..."

After finishing speaking, his hand lost strength and hung on the reef.And this young sailor raised his head in a daze, and saw some sailors on the battleship with terrifying combat power, using long poles to salvage the sailors floating on the sea surface.

"The other party wants to eat them, right?" The young sailor had this absurd idea in his mind, and then he was so frightened by this idea that he lay down on the rock, not even daring to lift his head.

The salty sea water washed over the scratches on his face, and the stinging pain made him wake up a bit. When he once again mustered up the courage to raise his head, the battleship on the sea had already sailed a long way.

In front of him, there was only a cold corpse and some broken planks washed up by the sea.

Unlike attacking Nanshui, this time the sailors of the Datang Group did not kill them all, but picked up a few prisoners from the water.

Because Burnas 4 needs information, it needs all the information about this operation of Tarun 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 of Tarun Kingdom who had been scooped up knelt on the deck, looking in shock at a pair of shiny black leather shoes walking around in front of their knees under a pair of white trousers.

Immediately afterwards, a middle-aged man's voice sounded: "Anyone who is willing to answer my question will have something to eat and can live... It doesn't matter if you don't cooperate, I will throw him back into the sea, you can Choose yourself..."

"I'll tell you! I know everything!" "Let me speak first! We are sailors of the Kingdom of Tarun!" The sailors of the group gave each of them a gun butt, and then they calmed down.

"Since you are all willing to cooperate, then... let me ask you a question..." The captain stopped pacing, looked down at the captive who claimed to be an officer and asked, "How many ships do you have in total?"

(End of this chapter)