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- The battle between Chelsea and Galliford actually has no suspense at all.
With its fast speed and double the range of its artillery, Galliford's failure was already doomed from the beginning.
It¡¯s just that due to the special nature of the naval battle, it cannot end as quickly as the army battle.
Therefore, the naval battle between Chelsea and Galliford continued until midnight.
While the battle was still going on, the burning warships ignited the night sky, and the continuously firing cannons emitted bursts of light, like tongues of fire.
The loud sound of cannons made the entire sea area feel like thunder.
This battle started in the morning, and as many as thirty-four of Galliford's warships have been destroyed.
But the Galliford fleet is still struggling to support itself.
It¡¯s not that they don¡¯t want to escape, it¡¯s that they simply can¡¯t escape in this situation.
The warships under the Chelsea Fleet are fast, this is something Galliford and the others have learned very well after a day of fighting.
Therefore, even if they turn around and run away, they will be hunted down by the enemy and then massacred and sunk.
You can imagine this even if you think about it with your buttocks.
Therefore, instead of running away and being chased by the enemy, it is better for the poor to take a look now.
It is with this idea in mind that the warships under the Galliford Fleet have been supported until now.
But even so, the heavy losses are unacceptable to them.
This is simply a one-sided massacre.
Yes, they have no power to fight back at all.
None of the warships in the Chelsea fleet have been sunk by Galliford, and because they have sunk so many warships in Galliford, their numbers have in turn gained an advantage.
The situation is extremely bad for Galliford now.
"My lord, the Banshee seems to have turned around and escaped!"
At this time, something happened that made Galliford even more depressed.
During the melee, a warship outside his flagship actually ran away at this time.
"Asshole! Doesn't he know that he can't run away at all?"
Galliford cursed angrily.
But no matter how viciously he cursed, it would not help.
But it¡¯s normal to think about it. Everyone has been persisting until now, and everyone¡¯s spirits are highly tense.
What matters now is who can¡¯t tighten the string first, then an accident will happen.
But Galliford never imagined that something would happen at such a time.
Galliford immediately thought of the worse situation, that is, whether this guy's escape would cause a chain reaction and cause a big collapse.
Yes, such a thing is not impossible to happen.
It is still in the middle of the night. I think that guy must have wanted to take advantage of the darkness, so he ran away.
Does he think that the Song Empire's warships can't catch up with him at night?
After thinking of this terrible consequence, Galliford's expression changed drastically.
But precisely because it was at night, he had no control over it.
I wanted to have the flag bearer send signals to the surrounding warships, but the problem is that at night, the surrounding warships cannot be seen.
Although oil lamps can also be used to send signals at night, now that everyone is in a fierce war, who has the energy to pay attention to this matter.
Bastard, bastard, damn it.
Just as Galliford was thinking about countermeasures, the thing he feared most happened.
The escape of the Deep Sea Banshee caused a series of adverse consequences.
Originally everyone was fighting, why did you run?
Since someone ran away, he must also run away.
Although everyone had planned to fight the Song Empire's fleet earlier, after a half day and half a night of fighting, it was obvious that this was not a fight but a death blow.
Now that someone has finally taken the lead in escaping, it won¡¯t have anything to do with him even if he says it out in the future, right?
At that time, everything can be completely blamed on the captain of the Deep Sea Banshee.
Of course, the premise is that he must escape the pursuit of the Song Empire warships and survive.
For a time, the remaining warships of the Galliford fleet began to rush?Turn around, then vigorously open the sails and start sailing backwards at full speed without looking at the direction.
The battle has reached this point, even if Galliford is the son of God, there is nothing he can do.
"Sir, what should we do now?"
The adjutant asked anxiously.
"Retreat, what else can we do? We have already lost this battle, and there is absolutely no room for recovery."
After Galliford let out a long sigh, he gave the order to retreat.
At the same time, Galliford prayed secretly in his heart, hoping that he could take advantage of the cover of night to successfully escape the pursuit of the Song Empire fleet.
Although he thought it was unlikely to happen in his heart, he couldn't care less about it at this time.
At this point, Galliford's fleet, with the Banshee taking the lead in absconding, caused a series of consequences.
The Galliford fleet, which had been struggling to support itself, now began to retreat.
"Sir, the enemy seems to be retreating, should we pursue him?"
Chelsea have been paying attention to the situation of the Galliford fleet.
If there is any trouble on his side, it is impossible to hide it from Chelsea and the others.
Hearing this, Chelsea smiled and said loudly: "Of course! We can't let them go. Since they have the guts to come, they must bear the consequences!"
With these words from Chelsea, everything becomes simple.
The fleets of the Song Empire also began to turn around and began to pursue Galliford's retreating fleet at full speed.
Now that the victory is basically determined, the next thing Chelsea and the others have to do is to catch up and sink the enemy.
Now the enemy's massive retreat has completely thrown its battleship formation into chaos, without any organization at all.
Basically, they are taking care of themselves and completely ignore the formation issues.
Since this is the case, why should Chelsea be so polite?
The warships of the Song Empire launched a one-on-one pursuit.
Around Chelsea¡¯s flagship, there were still a dozen warships that came steadily closer, surrounding the flagship in the center.
The warships on Galliford's side went in any direction when they fled.
For a moment, it was like a flower blooming.
At this time, if there is wind and the wind direction is correct, the speed of the Dutch warship is basically around ten knots.
But this has a prerequisite, and that is tailwind.
But the wind was very light tonight, and it was still southwesterly, so the situation encountered by the Galliford fleet was really very troublesome.
On the other hand, the fleet of the Song Empire, because its warships have been modified to accept wind from all directions to provide power, and the hull has been very scientifically improved, so its speed can be maintained at about 21 knots.
Even when the wind is very light or against the wind, its speed can be maintained at nine knots.
But the Dutch battleships can't.
Now that the Dutch are retreating, the highest speed of their warships is only six knots.
But the speed of the Song Empire fleet¡¯s pursuit warship reached thirteen knots.
?That is to say, this is more than double the speed of the Dutch.
The original distance above was only about six nautical miles, because Chelsea and the others had been controlling the rhythm of the battle and the range of the artillery.
In this way, the Dutch became a cup again.
It¡¯s good to run away.
You don¡¯t have to worry about running away anymore.
You no longer have to face the roaring artillery.
No longer do you have to see cannonballs bombarding the ship, scattering the flesh and blood of your companions.
This was the thought of all the sailors on the Dutch warships.
But this is just their wishful thinking.
What is the reality?
The fact is that they had absolutely no way to avoid the artillery fire of the Song Empire's warships, because they were escaping in front, but the Song Empire's warships were following behind and kept firing at them.
But it¡¯s much better than before.
After all, there can only be one cannon placed on the bow.
But the speed of the warships of the Song Empire was really too fast
It was exactly ten minutes after midnight when the Dutch retreated.
Wait until the sun just rises in the morning and appears on the sea levelWhen they met, after six hours of chasing the Song Empire's warships, they finally caught up with the retreating Dutch warships.
"Prepare the rocket launcher!"
When the two ships were still more than a hundred meters apart, all the Dutch people rushed onto the deck, because according to the usual situation, the next step should be a boarding battle.
In other words, the Song Empire¡¯s fleet will definitely approach and start boarding the ship for hand-to-hand combat.
Of course, first of all, when the two ships passed by, they would start talking about the artillery bombardment from the side.
But the problem is that the warships of the Song Empire are now a bit incomprehensible.
"Obviously they could catch up, and then the two ships would go parallel, exchange artillery fire, and then land and engage in hand-to-hand combat, but they maintained their speed and never accelerated again.
At the same time, while maintaining speed, several sailors appeared on the bow of the ship carrying a black object on their shoulders.
"put!"
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I saw a stream of white smoke and fire coming out from behind the object on the opponent's sailor's shoulder, and then a long flame rushed out, heading straight towards the rear of the own battleship.
What the hell is this!
When the Dutchmen on the record deck saw this scene, they all widened their eyes and shouted in their hearts at the same time.
Boom!
Boom boom!
The copycat rocket launchers hit their targets one after another, all hitting the bottom of the battleship's tail, blowing a big hole in it.
In an instant, seawater began to pour in from the gap, and the entire ship began to slowly tilt up.
This is a weapon!
It was only at this time that the Dutch reacted.
That thing is the weapon of the Song Empire.
But what the Dutch can't understand is why that weapon is so powerful.
The Dutch on the battleship began to panic.
The leakage of battleships was a big deal in this era even in later generations.
Therefore, the morale of the Dutch suddenly fell to the bottom.
This is just one of the things that happened in a one-on-one chase.
But the same situation is still happening in other sea areas.
Basically, after catching up with the Dutch's fleeing warships, the Song Empire's warships would maintain their speed and not speed up.
At the same time, in order to avoid an artillery battle with the other party, they just followed the other's ship and did not go parallel to it.
Galliford's flagship also encountered such a situation, and was also destroyed in the stern, revealing a large gap and seawater began to pour into the cabin.
At this time, his flagship had begun to tilt slightly due to the intrusion of sea water.
Thinking about it, it wouldn¡¯t take long for the entire ship to reverse and sink due to the water pouring into the cabin.
"Raise the white flag! Surrender!"
At this point, although Galliford was very unwilling, he had no other choice.
Therefore, he could only grit his teeth and issue the order to surrender.
"Sir, the other party has raised a white flag and wants the title."
At this time, the captain of the Song Empire battleship, who had been following Galliford, received a report from his subordinates.
This is a captain of Chinese origin. He is very young. He is only in his early twenties.
Hearing this, the captain frowned slightly, his expression extremely impatient.
"**, why are you surrendering? I don't want to accept their surrender. If these shits really wanted to surrender, they just came to make trouble with us when we were heading to Cayenne, and they even escaped most of the night."
It was obvious from the tone that the genetic man captain did not want to accept Galliford's surrender at all.
"Captain, since you don't want to accept surrender, then just sink the opponent. Even if these people fall into the sea, they won't survive, because it's still hundreds of nautical miles away from the land."
The adjutant saw that his captain did not want to accept surrender, so he suggested with a smile.
After listening to the adjutant¡¯s suggestion, the Chinese captain finally looked better.
"Well, I just don't accept their surrender. Why!"
"Subsequently, he gave the order to fire.
The battleship began to accelerate and passed by Galliford's battleship.
At the same time, all the gun ports on the side of the ship were opened, and the fifty-two cannons were all aimed at Galliford's battleship.
Galliford also didn¡¯t expect that the opponent would not play according to the routine, and would even?Get your hands dirty.
This is simply incredible.
You know, in this era of Europe, or in the battle at sea.
Whenever one side raises a white flag, its enemy must show chivalry to accept surrender.
Galliford has never seen anyone like Song Empire who doesn't follow the rules.
In fact, this is not Galliford¡¯s fault, it¡¯s just that his ideas are a bit too rigid.
He didn¡¯t want to think about it, the Song Empire was not a European country.
So, why do people abide by this rule that is popular on the European continent?
You must understand that in the eyes of these people in the Song Empire, this kind of rule is very stupid.
"There is no such thing as chivalry on the battlefield, that's nonsense.
The two ships passed each other at close range, and Galliford saw the other side's artillery muzzles fully opened, as well as the malicious smiles on the faces of the black-haired and black-eyed guys crowded on the deck.
In an instant, he understood!
Fire!
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