C1951 Xiao Letians lynching (1/2)

The Navy's blood flag began to slowly descend from the mast, the Zhiyuan Warship stopped pressuring the wind, and the pressure from the boiler also gradually decreased. The engineers accompanying them quickly brought the technicians to check the system of the Zhiyuan Warship, and the force of the river caused the technicians to break out in a cold sweat.

Xiang Ying's hands were already bandaged, and he was slowly heading towards the ocean. There were already no longer so many battleships parked at the dock, so the alliance fleet had to anchor at the ocean for a short period of time to rest.

Seeing the battleships coming out of the canal, one after another, the Port Said's French army finally accepted their fate. Even after the shore defense cannons on the port turret had been chased down, they still did not dare to fire, even though the cannons had been opened and the medicine bags were all prepared, but at the last moment, they still retreated.

”I feel a little like a lion fighting a rabbit, I used too much strength …” Xiang Ying looked at the standard-bearer and the blood flag that were folded in the middle, and suddenly spoke.

Of course Cai Bixia could understand the intention behind her words, she laughed bitterly: ”Yes, if only we knew that the French battleship was so weak, we would not have taken out this flag.”

Below the blood flag, there was no retreat, there was no retreat!

This was supposed to be the final killing move of a life-and-death battle to boost morale, but it felt a little wasteful to use it here today.

This world had underestimated the Zhiyuan Warship, and even the Chinese themselves had underestimated the advance of the Zhiyuan Warship. In Xiang Ying's eyes, the Zhiyuan Warship was bound to win, but after this violent clash, the Zhiyuan Warship itself was bound to be injured, and it even needed quite a bit of repair.

Before the collision, almost everyone thought that they had suffered a disastrous victory. Even Xiao Letian himself was extremely worried, but he did not express the usual strong self-confidence.

It was because people's hearts were filled with these pessimistic speculations, that such deafening roars of jade could be heard, and blood flag could be seen flying in the wind.

However, what happened afterwards gave these young people a big joke. They thought that the iron hammer would hit the red-colored anvil mountain and cause sparks to fly in all directions, but they didn't expect that it would directly hit the egg, causing them all to feel awkward.

Xiang Ying looked at the gauze in his hand and shook his head helplessly, ”I used too much strength! Failure, really failure! ”

This unexpected impact was undoubtedly a huge blow to the design community of the European Navy. Those arrogant and conservative ship design masters all shut their mouths, beginning to ponder whether their previous judgment was correct or not.

Before this, the naval design community had never thought highly of the rebellious design philosophy of the Zhiyuan Warship. Their consciousness still rested on the design philosophy of the Sail battleship era, which was the size of ships, had many cannons, and had two sides simultaneously shot at each other.

In their hearts, the Zhiyuan Warship had countless flaws.

First of all, the construction cost was too high, one ship was enough to build three sail battleship, the British Navy would even have a headache facing such a construction price.

Secondly, the cost of maintenance for Steel battleship was too high and it was very troublesome. As long as the wooden Sail battleship was kept properly, it would not be a problem for it to be used normally. It might even be able to be used for two to three hundred years without any problems.

But the Steel battleship? Even if it was maintained well, fifty to sixty years would be the limit. At that time, the navy would have to build a new ship to fill in the gap.

Third, this kind of battleship that was purely made of steam power, needed a lot of supplies, and it was impossible to make a long journey like this. If they wanted to circle the Earth once, they would need countless ports that could supply coal.