"General, aren't you going to let the ironclad ships be dispatched now?"

The Western Tu fleet came from three directions. Seeing that it was about to encircle the Dasong fleet in the middle, Song Xiang couldn't help asking.

Although the warships in Xitu were much worse than them, they would not feel good if they all rushed up at once.

This is contrary to their purpose of annihilation of the Western Turkish fleet at the lowest cost.

"Don't worry, let other warships play with them first." Zhou Yi chuckled softly, "Why, do you lack confidence in our judgment?"

"No!" Song Xiang's face turned red immediately, "I just worried that I would suffer indifferent losses if I act too late."

Zhou Yi's smile became stronger. Compared to Gong Ying, Song Xiang was very serious.

He was just joking about it casually just now...

Then he patted Song Xiang on the shoulder, "If the ironclad ship is exposed too early, the enemy will be scared away by us. When they enter the opponent's range and they turn the bow of the ship, our ironclad ship will attack again."

The sailing warship has changed from the forward state to the shooting state, and needs to turn around and face the enemy sideways.

This action conversion takes time.

For Zhou Yi, this is the best time for them to attack.

Because it will take a lot of time to go from the coalition navy to realize something is wrong and then to the transition from the shooting state to the escape state.

It was too late for the coalition navy at that time.

After saying that, Song Xiang continued to observe the situation of the Western Tu Fleet.

According to Zhou Yi's plan, after the Western Tu fleet entered the range of the Dasong battleship, the sailing warships on the periphery began to shell the shelling.

Conical shells flew out like thunder and rushed towards the Western Tu warship that was rushing towards them.

"Boom boom boom..."

The rifled guns on the Dasong Windscar are more accurate than smoothbore guns.

The shells fell into the huge group of Western-Turkish warships, and the Western-Turkish warships were immediately hit.

Amid the explosion of shells, more than ten Western Tu warships were blown out with huge gaps, and sea water poured into the warships, submerging the Western Tu soldiers in the cabin, and then the warships slowly sank.

"Don't look back, move forward with all your might, let the other party enter the range of our naval gun!" The screams of the navy soldiers came from his ears, and Malfoy's face was gloomy.

He expected such a result before the war.

He reminded many naval officers.

This time their tactics are to hurt the enemy by 800 and to hurt one thousand of them.

Even if their nearly 500 warships sink, as long as they win, everything makes sense.

Like Malfoy, other Western Turkish officers gradually calmed down after their initial palpitations.

They avoided the sinking warships and still headed towards the Dasong fleet.

Now, they are about eight kilometers away from the Dasong fleet and need to travel four kilometers.

Only their naval guns can bring the Da Song fleet.

But this short four kilometers is so long for the Western Tu officers.

On the way of sailing, one coalition warship after another sank.

Some warships were even hit with ammunition, the entire ship exploded, and some warships even burned and turned into a fireball.

The coalition soldiers who fell to the bottom of the sea kept calling for help, begging other warships to fish them up, but none of them stopped and just passed by them and allowed them to be swallowed by the sea.

Because as long as the warship stops, it will not only affect the speed of the entire fleet, but will also become a living target.

In such a tragic progress, the Western Tu Fleet approached step by step, and finally reached four kilometers of the Dasong Fleet.

At this time, hundreds of warships had been lost in the three directions.

But no matter what, they achieved their strategic goals.

Under Malfoy's order, the main force of the Xitu Fleet in the east stopped and began to turn the bow of the ship, facing the Dasong battleship sideways.

"You lowly natives in the East, now I will kill you all."

On the deck of the flagship, Malfoy held the railing tightly and leaned forward, as if he was about to fly over a four-kilometer distance to eat General Dasong on the opposite side.

After enduring so many casualties, he now wants to get his blood debt back.

The naval officers on other warships were extremely angry, and the pleasure of revenge rose in their hearts.

In their opinion, this Da Song fleet will undoubtedly die.

They still have more than 300 warships, while the other side has only sixty warships.

More importantly, Dasong's fleet is all within their range.

Five times the opponent's firepower, they cannot lose.

At the Kolkata port, Bolt also stood up from his chair.

"Hahaha, Malfoy, you will be remembered by history. When you return to the British, everyone will shout your name." He stared at the sea and smiled wildly.

Although the silence of the sixty warships in the port made him feel distressed, they finally achieved their goals.

This time they were finally able to destroy the Da Song fleet in one fell swoop.

As long as they re-control the ocean, they can use their naval mobility to attack around the coast of Dasong.

At that time, even if the muskets and cannons of the Da Song army are stronger than theirs, they will have to run away.

"General, the time is here!" Song Xiang said to Zhou Yi when Malfoy and Bolt were extremely excited.

They practiced this situation before the war and knew how to arrange troops to deal with it.

"It's time for the ironclad ship to see the blood!" Zhou Yi narrowed his eyes when he heard this.

When the Western Turkish fleet approached, he did not do anything, but arranged the next attack method.

Under his command, the queue of the Dasong fleet began to change.

The previous queues of sail warships and steamships shielded ironclad ships became arrays of ironclad ships outside, sail warships and steamships.

The purpose of this array is to use ironclad ships as shields to protect the fragile sailing warships and steamships on the inside, and then attack the opponent's warships with the firepower in front of the ironclad ships.

At almost the same time, the Dasong Fleet and the Xitu Fleet completed the formation change.

At this time, the Western Turkish fleet could not wait to fire at the Dasong fleet.

Ball-shaped flowering bullets flew out from the muzzle of the smoothbore gun and rushed towards the ironclad ship located outside the fleet.

"Boom boom boom..." Many shells immediately exploded near the ironclad ship.

However, most of them fell into the sea, and some shells hit the iron armor and fell into the seabed.

A few shells exploded on the iron armor on the outside of the warship, and could not shake the heavy iron armor on the iron armor.

After all, the thickness of the iron armor on the side of the iron armor is 350 mm, and even the iron armor on the deck is 100 mm.

"What's going on?" Seeing that many shells hit Dasong's warship.

But the Dasong battleship was still unscathed, and Malfoy frowned slightly.

After thinking about it, he continued, "Let the warships behind continue to move forward and get closer."

He believed that because the Dasong fleet was at the limit of their shooting, the shells could not penetrate the side of the Dasong battleship.
Chapter completed!