C1046 Ikeks Massacre (1/2)

This sea battle, which was called 'the torturous killing of the Ikek' by the military fans of the later generations, was defined by the Historian as the first show for Iron-armored Ship to step onto the stage of history.

Fighting twenty warships one on one seemed like an unbelievable victory, but in the eyes of the Military experts, it was inevitable.

First of all, the armor on both sides was not of the same type. For the Peru, excluding the few wooden battleships, the average thickness of the remaining battleships did not even exceed three centimeters. Inside the armor, there was the normal oak hull.

The Zhiyuan Warship, on the other hand, was a pure Iron-armored battleship. The thickness of the steel plate was four inches or more, which was more than 100 mm.

The second was the power system. The two horizontal 3-cylinder reciprocating steam engines and the four high coal-fired boilers were designed and built by dozens of engineers in Prussia. They were carefully crafted by countless skilled craftsmen.

In theory, the strongest power could reach 7,500 horsepower. With such a strong heart, the Zhiyuan Warship could increase its speed to 18 times that of the heaven defying level, which was almost close to the speed of the scissor boat.

Looking at the caliber of the cannons, the gap between 210 cannons and 148 cannons was not small at all. A single shot and two shots from Zhiyuan Warship would be as if nothing had happened to the enemy.

What was left was the quality of the troops. In the nineteenth century, especially in the navy, they could already be considered as high-technology soldiers.

First of all, you have to understand ballistics, trigonometric functions, elementary aerodynamics, and mathematical proficiency. Only then can you have the qualification to operate the battleship's main cannon.

Having this basic knowledge is not enough, you still need to have a large amount of live ammunition to train with. This may sound simple, but the cost of one shot from the 210 main cannon is 2000 taels of silver. Don't think that it's too expensive.

Didn't you see that the Peruvian Navy still had to calculate the quantity of the gunpowder before firing the main cannon? Their cannons were shot from warheads and the gunpowder. gunner calculated the distance between them and then calculated how much gunpowder was needed before filling them up. It was impossible to be fast in this launch mode.

On the other hand, the Zhiyuan Warship main cannon had chosen to use its ammunition as a whole. It was very easy to use, but this thing was very expensive! Only Xiao Letian, this teleporter, knew where the tide would be in the future, so he mustered his courage and went to spend as much money as he could.

From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, the price of the various types of artillery shells and machine gun ammunition used by Zhiyuan Warship was already close to five hundred thousand silver. If not for the fact that they stole some money from the French in Dakar, their journey back home would have been a wasted trip.

If he analyzed the various factors together, then the Zhiyuan Warship's victory was not surprising. Twenty years of difference in era was not an exaggeration.

Furthermore, the distance between the fleet had always been maintained between four to three thousand meters. At this distance, the Zhiyuan Warship could still maintain a high shooting accuracy, but the Peruvian Navy's artillery could only use luck.

Xiang Ying knew that the final victory would definitely belong to him. He purposely let the Zhiyuan Warship move from the Southwest Ocean, just in case this fleet escaped. He wanted to eat this fleet whole without leaving anything behind.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The sea exploded as one Peruvian Navy battleship after another was turned into torches. Some of the battleships even had a chain reaction with the gunpowder depot within and immediately exploded into smithereens.