This naval battle, which was called "Iquik's torture" by later military fans, was defined by historians as the first show of the ironclad ship on the historical stage.

A single battleship against twenty warships seems to be an incredible victory, but in the eyes of military experts, it is a necessity.

First of all, the iron armor of both sides is not of the same specification. Peruvian not counts the number of wooden warships, the average thickness of the iron armor of the remaining warships has not exceeded three centimeters, and the iron armor is an ordinary oak hull.

The Zhiyuan is a pure iron armored warship, with a steel plate thickness of four inches, which is more than 100 mm. The three-fold gap makes the Zhiyuan have an invincible shield in this naval battle.

The second is the power system. The 2-seater horizontal 3-cylinder reciprocating steam engine and the 4-seater high-type coal-fired boiler were designed by dozens of Prussian engineers and carefully crafted by countless senior craftsmen. It is no exaggeration to say that this already represents the top level of turbine craftsmanship at that time.

What's even more amazing is that Zhiyuan also has the design concept of strong wind and pressurization. In theory, the strongest power can reach 7,500 horsepower. Such a strong heart can increase the speed of Zhiyuan to a 18-knot, which is almost approaching the speed of the flying scissors.

Looking at the caliber of the cannon, the difference between the 210 cannon and the 148 cannon is not a little bit. The Zhiyuan is like being caught with one or two cannons, and the enemy's thin skin and big stuffing dumplings make the 210 cannonball poke a hole.

What remains is the quality of the military source. In the 19th century gunners, especially naval gunners, were already considered high-tech troops.

First of all, you must understand ballistics, trigonometric functions, primary aerodynamics, and mathematical levels, so that you can be qualified to manipulate the main gun of a warship.

It is not enough to have these basic knowledge. You still have to have a lot of live-fire training. This is very simple. The cost of a 210 main gun is 2,000 taels of silver at a time. Don’t think it’s expensive. This integrated bullet has no assembly line at all. It is completely semi-handed and you have to endure the price.

Didn't you see if the main guns on the Peruvian Navy had to calculate the amount of medicine before firing? Their artillery fires are separated from the warheads and the launching drugs. The gunners calculate the distance angle and then calculate how many pounds of gunpowder are needed before loading them. It is impossible to fast this launch mode.

The Zhiyuan main gun was extremely hot and chose an integrated ammunition. It was easy to use, but this thing was really expensive! Only Xiao Letian, a time traveler, knew where the trend was in the future, so he seldom tried to spend money like soil.

From the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, the price of machine gun shells of various types consumed by Zhiyuan light has approached 500,000 taels of silver. If it weren't for robbing some money from the French in Dakar, this trip back to China would have really become a loser.

Based on the analysis of various factors, it is not surprising that Zhiyuan's victory is not a surprise. The 20-year difference in the era is really not a bragging thing.

The sound of cannons rumbling at sea, and the Zhiyuan S-shaped maneuvered, always maintaining a T-shaped shooting situation with the enemy. Moreover, the distance between the fleets has always been between four and three thousand meters. At this distance, the Zhiyuan can maintain a high shooting accuracy, but the Peruvian Navy's artillery can only take a chance.

Xiang Ying knew that the final victory must belong to him. He deliberately asked the Zhiyuan to move from the southwest waters to the northwest waters. What he was guarding against was the fleet to escape. He wanted to eat the fleet in one bite, and no one left.

Boom boom boom... The sea was blown up, one Peruvian naval warship after another was blown into torches, and some warships even had a chain reaction and directly exploded and disintegrated.

After an hour of hard battle, the Peruvian Navy had only fifteen warships left. Then look at the Zhiyuan in the distance, it was alive without any fatigue.

The flagship Lima was desperate, and the commander burst into tears. Today's entire battle was really ups and downs. He watched the warships sink, but he had no choice but to do anything. In the end, he took out his pistol and wanted to commit suicide by drinking.

"No... the general cannot!" A group of people rushed over and snatched the pistol. "This is not your fault. The warship was completely beyond our expectations. It should be a European country that intervened. This is a diplomatic failure, not a failure of our soldiers!"

"That kind of warship is not something we can deal with. Please order a breakout... You can't hesitate to break out in dispersed ways!"

As he spoke, there was a loud bang and another small ironclad ship was shot and fired. Until now, the Peruvian Navy could only recognize the reality. The order to break through was issued, and the retreating flag slowly rose.

But at this moment, the Zhiyuan had already suppressed the northwest corner of the battlefield. The Peruvian fleet did not dare to break through to the north at all. They could only make a large detour to the southwest and had to sail in a dispersed manner.

But unexpectedly, the remaining Chilean naval warships that had already escaped appeared again on the southern sea surface and were approaching them quickly.

The helpless Peruvian navy could only rush to the southwest, while the Zhiyuan and the Chilean navy were attacking the north and south in a strait.

One warship after another caught fire, countless sailors fell into the water and struggled in pain. At the end of the battlefield, there was only one voice, "What kind of ship is it? Which country's warship is it? If you don't understand it, we will die with our eyes!"

Unfortunately, in the end, the Zhiyuan did not cast any flag with a sign, and the sailors on the deck were also vague and indistinguishable. There was only one memory that the survivors of the war would never forget for their lifetime.

"The warship has two very strange heads with its head, which are full of golden light. We thought it was a flying dragon but had no wings. We thought it was a sea snake but had scales and golden light... It was not until a long time later that we knew that it was the Chinese totem, which was called a dragon!"

The massacre on the sea shocked the soldiers on the land. The veterans of the heavens rushed towards the Iquik city in a dark way. They bypassed the firepower range of the last three forts and launched an attack from the safe area to the dock fort.

There were only 2,000 defenders in the Iquik Fort, and five or six hundred were killed in the previous battle. The remaining soldiers were not enough to be stuck in the gap. The assault turret fell in just one time.

All soldiers who did not surrender had their heads cut off. The surrendered knelt in the corner and were tied up tightly with ropes and locked in an empty house. Then the veterans began to use small-caliber artillery to shell the fortress.

Tietoutuo's hand holding the telescope was already trembling. He choked and said to Chen Yonglu, "Look, look! That is the warship sent by the Prime Minister, that is the warship of our Chinese... invincible!"

A roar like a tsunami suddenly erupted from the dock, "Invincible! Our invincible battleship! Invincible..." Mobile users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net
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