The shelling at the port of Iquique has never stopped. After leading the Chilean main fleet to disperse the Peruvian Navy, the Esmedale has been cruising on the coast of Iquique and suppressing the enemy with artillery on the other side of the shore.

In naval battles, generally speaking, warships and roadbed turrets are bombarded, and the warship side always suffers a loss. Because the roadbed turret is directly installed on a solid turret, it is not afraid of recoil, so it can install larger caliber artillery, and its power is not something that warship artillery can compete.

Moreover, the Yonggu Fortress has been built with heavy fortifications. The more modern ones are made of reinforced concrete, and the more primitive stone turrets have very good defense performance. The small-caliber cannons of the warship are really scratching and scratching, while the ammunition fired by the turret is blown on the warship, and the iron armor of twenty or thirty millimeters thick is really hard to defend against.

Fortunately, the strategic intention of the Chilean Navy in this battle was to harass and suppress, and did not consider using warships to solve these turrets, so the fleet has been cruising and firing at the edge of the farthest range. Although the accuracy is insufficient, the accuracy of the turret shooting has also been greatly reduced. The two sides bombed each other for several hours, and hundreds of shells were fired, but there was no serious result.

Compared with the navy, the army is in full swing. The sailors of the fleet were excited to see the fierce war scenes on the shore and sighed, "God, it seems that we will not get any contribution until the end of this war. The army is so lucky..."

But how could the God of War ignore the prayers of these soldiers? Shortly after the general attack order on land was issued, a mysterious fleet suddenly arrived from the Pacific Ocean in the northwest.

"Report to the sir... a huge fleet was found in the northwest and was heading towards us at high speed..."

"What? Fleet! Is it the main force of the Peruvian Navy? They are going to fight us desperately? Young men, the military achievements you are looking forward to are right in front of you, change your formation and prepare to face the enemy... The lookout hand can report the situation at any time!"

One by one, the orders were issued from the flagship Aesmedale. The flagship bearers began to communicate. Soon the fleet broke out from the firepower range of the shore defense turret, and all their attention was placed on the Pacific Ocean.

"The report chief...has confirmed the identity of the enemy warship...the Peruvian naval flagship Huasca...the Peruvian navy has come out in full swing..."

"Wait! The quantity is wrong! Sir, the quantity is wrong..."

The lookout hand put down the telescope, rubbed his eyes, then raised it up and observed carefully "One, two, three...7**...15, sixteen, seventeen..."

"Twenty-three, twenty-five...twenty-eight, twenty-nine...my God, the Peruvian Navy fleet sent twenty-nine warships? How could there be so many!"

The officers of each ship climbed on the side and looked around with telescopes, all of whom were full of incredible expressions, "No, you said it is wrong! You must have read it wrong. The number of all the navy in Peru combined is only twelve ironclad ships. When did it become twenty-nine? Wait, there are actually wooden sail warships behind the fleet?"

"Damn it, there are really twenty-nine ships, of which the number of ironclad ships has increased to twenty, and the remaining nine are wooden sail warships. Where did they come from reinforcements?"

There was no time for Hu Silian to take classes on the battlefield, and soon the two fleets were close to the effective range of both sides. The effective range of two kilometers could completely allow the maximum caliber 24-pound cannons on both sides to exert their power.

"Prepare for combat... The gunner loads... Flowering bullets are ready... Aim at the enemy's flagship and release!"

Almost at the same time, both fleets opened fire at the other side. The 24-pound gun was 148 mm in diameter. At that time, such artillery was already the main force in heavy artillery.

The new rifled gun makes the artillery ballistics more stable and farther. In the past, the situation where both sides approached close shooting for hundreds of meters was no longer there, and the confrontation between two or three thousand meters gradually became the mainstream.

The sound of cannons rumbled at the sea and black smoke filled the air. In the era when nitrosized cotton explosives were not popular, most of the black smoke and dust that were ventilated on the battlefield were like this.

Boom boom boom... The explosion caused waves soaring into the sky, and some of the armor was distorted and deformed by the explosion were even directly penetrated. There were always figures thrown into the air in the flames, and the wreckage fell like rain.

The sudden naval battle on the sea shocked Sirapizo. "The Peruvian Navy dared to take action? How dare they fight to the decisive battle with their little warship strength? Damn, what's going on?"

Before the war started, he once patted his chest and promised that the Peruvian Navy would never dare to act rashly. It was after eliminating the threat from the sea that Tietou and him developed such an adventurous plan to surround the point and attack.

But now the situation has suddenly reversed. If the Peruvian Navy defeats the Chilean Navy, the sea to the west of Iquik will become the enemy's artillery position, and even if the city is captured, it will be ruthlessly bombed.

If artillery on the sea and artillery in fortresses were joined together to cross-bomb the army, then it would be useless to rely on our own field artillery at that time.

Just when Silapizzo was at a loss, Tang Lei ran back angrily, "What's going on? General, what's your promise? Didn't you say that the Peruvian Navy absolutely does not have the courage to fight? So what is on the sea?"

"No, no, no...I really don't know that such a thing will happen. There is no such fleet in our intelligence at all. When did Peru get so many ships?"

The battle situation has reached such a situation, and complaining to each other has no effect at all. Tang Lei stomped his feet angrily, "There is no way. The brave ones win when they meet on a narrow road. Now they can only fight to the death and use their lives to pile up. Before the enemy's fleet controls the sea, we must pull out these fortresses, at least we have to control the shore defense fortresses!"

"Please send a decisive battle, a death battle, or even a death to the fleet, so that they must block the enemy and absolutely protect our flanks..."

"It's time to fight to the death. Now any strategy is no longer effective. Take out your courage! Fill this city with your life!"

Silapizo looked at Tang Lei who was leaving resolutely, and a flame was burning in his heart. He pulled out his sword and roared, "Start from me, the command center moves forward, we must follow the footsteps of the charge soldiers! Go forward!"

"Send a signal to the Esmedale, tell him that I, Silapizo, have personally come to the front line to launch a decisive battle against the enemy! Let them remember the glory of the navy! Even if they die together, they must guard the sea!"

"The brave Chilean army...victory!"
Chapter completed!