"Yes, General."

The adjutant beside Malfoy immediately passed on Malfoy's orders through the changes in the flag on the battleship.

After receiving the order, the reserve warship on the back side approached the Dasong fleet through the gaps of the warship on the front side under the drag of the steamship.

When the Western Turkish fleet launches an attack, the ironclad ship will naturally not be beaten in vain.

The Dasong ironclad ship has two rotating turrets in front and behind each, and the side artillery design of the sail warship is still retained on the side to ensure the firepower of the warship.

And it is different from the naval guns on sail warships.

The things on the ironclad ship are all the most advanced ones in Dasong..

The same is true for naval guns, after the rear-load guns are installed in the army.

The naval guns on the ironclad ships also use the rear-mounting method.

Faced with the artillery fire of the coalition warships, the ironclad ship immediately began to counterattack, and the side artillery and the rotating turret in front fired at the same time.

Since the Dasong Navy's naval guns all use rifled guns, the Western Turkish Navy is still using smoothbore guns.

And the quality of naval guns is no longer the same level.

In previous naval battles, the Dasong Navy's naval guns were basically hung on the Western Tu Navy's naval guns.

At this moment, at a distance of four kilometers, the shells fired from the Dasong Navy's naval guns were undoubtedly even more powerful.

Therefore, when the first round of shooting was fired, the Dasong fleet was unscathed, while the Western Tu Fleet had six warships directly penetrated by shells, and a big hole was instantly blown out.

"General, the Xitu Navy has indeed sent warships to approach."

The mutual shelling began, Song Xiang and Zhou Yi entered the cockpit of the ironclad ship.

Noting the situation of the Western Tu Fleet, Song Xiang said to Zhou Yi.

"Hmph, the closer they are, the better." Zhou Yi snorted coldly.

There is no doubt that the Western natives had never seen ironclad ships, and they didn't even have this concept.

They are still only in the era of sail warships.

Therefore, when they see that their shelling is useless to the ironclad ship, the opponent's officer will inevitably have doubts and ask the warships to continue to shoot close to each other to prevent the shells from being ineffective due to the distance being too far.

And this is exactly what Zhou Yi wants.

The Western Tu Navy clearly wanted to eat them in one bite.

Why don’t they want this?

"Boom boom boom..."

In the next half hour, the two sides were going back and forth on the sea, bombarding each other.

The ironclad ship's rear-mounted rifled gun fire rate was very fast, and the Western Turkish Navy had warships silenced one after another.

Although the ironclad ship is constantly bombarded by the opponent's shells, it is still strong.

It was just that some of the masts on the deck were blown off.

But this is not a critical damage to the ironclad ship.

After all, the mast is just to save raw materials when the ironclad ship sails long-range navigation, not power sources.

Seeing that his own warships were constantly losing, while the warships of the Dasong fleet were still able to fight back, Malfoy kept sweating from his forehead.

But until now, he still couldn't imagine that the opponent's warship had iron-cast plate armor, and believed that the wood of the Dasong warship might be better.

Therefore, he made the warships approach and get closer, so that the distance between the warships on both sides seemed to shrink to one kilometer.

However, at this moment, he found that the Dasong Navy's queue suddenly began to change.

The twelve warships on the periphery turned the bow and rushed towards them in three directions.

This is exactly Zhou Yi's heart command.

Seeing that the Western Tu Navy had completely fallen into his trap, he was about to finish it.

From the unilateral shelling at the beginning to the mutual shelling, the Western Turkish Navy lost about 150 warships.

Adding to the warships destroyed by Gong Ying, it reached half of the coalition navy.

For the remaining half, he is ready to take a more swift attack to end the naval battle.

After his order, six ironclad ships were heading towards the main force of the Xitu fleet to the east.

Thirty-six steamboats dragged sailing warships behind the ironclad ship.

There were three ironclad ships on the south and west sides, each with twelve steamships and sail warships following the ironclad ships.

These battleships include Gong Ying's battleship that he had just attacked.

"Boom boom boom..."

When the Dasong fleet changed its formation, many Western-style sailing warships kept firing at the Dasong fleet, and the flames flashed, and ball-shaped flowering bullets roared.

In order to prevent the sailing warships and steamships behind them from being hit by shells.

The ironclad ship tried its best to adopt a protective formation.

When driving, the ironclad fleet is in the shape of a "man".

Many sailing warships hid behind the formation.

However, because the Western Turkish fleet was too close and the number of artillery was large, many shells were still passing through the gap and landing on sail warships and steamships.

Fortunately, the opponent's ball shell did not penetrate enough and it was difficult to penetrate the deck.

But even so, the shells fell on the sail warship, which caused considerable damage to the sail warship.

When rushing to the coalition warships, the masts of the sail warships were constantly blown off, or the wooden structures on the deck were ignited during the explosion, and soldiers also suffered casualties.

On the flagship, Zhou Yi observed these situations.

Although he regretted it, he understood that this was war.

Turning back, he stared at the Western Land warships ahead.

On the deck, two rotating turrets kept bombarding the Western Turkish warships in front.

As the distance gets closer, the rotating turret will win almost every shot.

Western-Turkish warships were constantly sunk.

At this time, the Western Tu Navy seemed to finally realize that something was wrong.

They turned around collectively, but they were not running away, but rushed straight towards them like them.

Zhou Yi immediately realized that the other party must have thought that the artillery battle could not be won, and that was the preparation for the bayonet to be successful.
Chapter completed!