After just one encounter, the Pyrenees had lost its combat effectiveness in less than half an hour. The pure iron armored battleship was not shot in the entire battle, and was tortured to death by the Zhiyuan.

The warship had already tilted a little in the wind and waves, and the final power led the warship to escape from the battlefield and fled to the Spicke Island not far away, but the so-called not far was also five kilometers away. God knows whether it would be stranded in advance.

The remaining five battleships had completely gone wild. These French sailors turned all their anger into dense shells and began bombarding the Zhiyuan.

Although the design style of the iron armored battleships of this era has changed, the overall strategy and tactics are no different from the sail battleships in the past.

This is an era of alternation between old and new, and this is an era of excessive upgrading of sail warships to armored giant ships. On this difficult road to upgrading, traditional power is still very powerful.

Countless designers will still subconsciously follow the mature design schemes of the past, such as the arrangement of the side of the artillery, and try to increase the number of artillery as much as possible.

It’s not that no one has studied those rotatable turrets, but how to rotate? How much angle is it? Is it arranged the central axis or left and right? There is no unified standard for these issues.

Because there is no unified idea, countless designers can only choose the old one, because this kind of plan will at least ensure that it will not make much mistakes.

For example, the Glory, except for the 120mm caliber rotatable main gun on the bow and the stern of the ship, all the remaining cannons are divided into two sides, with 18 150mm caliber cannons on the left and right.

This design actually completely continues the design idea of ​​the sail battleship. If you want to fully exert your combat effectiveness, you have to light up the side of the battleship and fire 18 artillery pieces to increase firepower and improve accuracy.

But it is precisely this design that makes this battleship extremely fragile during the process of changing the formation. The tragedy of the Pyrenees happened during the entire battle formation transformation process.

You should know that the main gun of Zhiyuan is arranged completely along the central axis, and can shoot freely at 180 degrees on the left and right. Although the head of the ship rushed straight to the enemy formation just now, the main gun of the warship's stern cannot play a role, but the 210 main gun with the head of the ship is enough for the enemy to drink a pot.

Taking advantage of the chaotic situation of the enemy's formation and the inability to fire, Zhiyuan seized the opportunity to shoot continuously, and boldly used it at long distances, which won a good start and a lot of luck!

But before Lin Zhen and others could cheer, the enemy's revenge bombs hit the head and face.

"Be careful... squat down quickly..." Lin Zhen saw a line of fire flashing in the distance and knew it was not good. He subconsciously roared, then pressed the soldiers beside him and squatted on the ground.

Almost at the same time, shells hit the bow of the Zhiyuan and the sea on both sides like hail.

Boom boom boom... Explosions came one after another, and the bow of the entire Zhiyuan ship was shrouded in flames. Of course, more shells hit the sea. The water columns caused by the explosion rushed straight into the sky, and the waves even splashed Xiang Ying.

At that moment, Xiang Ying also squatted down and hid his body in the armored commander's tower. There was a jingle sound, and the explosion of shells hit the armor outside the commander's tower.

The commander tower's armor is two inches thick, so of course I'm not afraid of these fragments, but what Xiang Ying is worried about is the combat sailors on the head of the ship!

After a round of explosion, while the Chinese were loading again, Xiang Ying stood up and lay on the armored iron plate and looked down.

"Lin Zhen! Are you dead? How are your brothers casualties? Are there any breathing..."

The voice came to an abrupt end! The scene at the bow of the ship made him extremely calm, and Xiang Ying's breathing became heavier!

It is impossible to describe his mood at this moment. The two completely opposite emotions, sadness and joy, were strangely combined!

Since Zhiyuan has always rushed straight to the enemy's formation with the head of the ship, all the enemy's bullets were poured into the head of the ship.

After all, the warship is long and narrow, with a small bolt, so the bullet surface is relatively small. Just now, the French fired at least ninety shells hit the head of the ship. Although most of them were blown into the sea, ten shells also exploded on the head of the ship of the Zhiyuan.

Ten high-explosion shells exploded at the bow of the ship, and even the French army that was rushing to land on the beach could see it. The soldiers were cheering excitedly, as if they could see the sinking of the Zhiyuan in the next second!

Is Zhiyuan miserable? The answer is yes. The explosion of these ten shells blew the bow of the ship into a mess. More than 20 sailors who had just fought at the bow of the ship are now gone.

Among them, there were those who were directly thrown into the sea by the air waves, and some were blown to pieces. Xiang Ying even saw several brothers hitting the bridge, covered in blood and was about to lose weight!

All the glass in the command cabin was blown up, and the fragments of ammunition flew in and nailed to the chart on the wall!

The tragic scene is unbearable to look at!

Such a tragic scene made Xiang Ying extremely sad, but the next second his emotions were replaced by a stream of ecstasy from the bottom of his heart!

"Hahaha, my god! These old-fashioned Prussians who don't know how to adapt have actually created a miracle! My god! My god!"

The layman can only watch the excitement, but the expert is watching the trick! In such a round of artillery attacks, although the Zhiyuan corpse was everywhere, the most incredible miracle is that the entire bow of the ship was completely unscathed!

That’s right! The entire ship structure of the Zhiyuan is completely unscathed!

The burning had already made the bow of the ship so dark. The shells that hit the iron armor plates blew up more than an inch deep!

But whether it is blackened or sunken, the structure of Zhiyuan has not been destroyed, and there is not even a penetration of a steel plate!

The double-equipped turret had a protective steel plate. Lin Zhen stood up from the three-inch thick steel plate, his ears were almost deaf, and the whole world was buzzing at him.

"Bao, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, is quite powerful? What did you say... louder... I didn't eat, I'll let you louder..."

Lin Zhen roared for a long time before the dizziness in his head gradually dissipated. When he turned around and looked at the tragic bodies of the brothers who died tragically, the angry flames in his eyes sprayed out.

"Damn it! Is it bullying me with more cannons? Release the bullet! Double high explosion... Go to the fucking flagship!"

"Double high explosion! Recharge... the medicine package is fifty by two... rapid fire!"

Boom... The Zhiyuan, whose head was blackened, ejected an angry flame again after a brief dizziness! https:
Chapter completed!