C2741 Frisian naval warfare (2/2)
”My God! It was a warship! Someone has fired a shot at us! ”
Following the faint sound of muffled thunder, something else in the sky was rubbing against the air and letting out a strange screech!
At 11: 25 P.M., the Zhiyuan Warship, after discovering the enemy's attempt to change formation, took the lead in firing from a distance of seven kilometers.
The Glory's lookout hand was dumbfounded. This was the first time he felt the death god was so close to him, and he didn't even know what had happened. She just felt a strong gust of wind pass by him in the air which was more than ten meters away.
The Zhiyuan Warship's cannonball did not hit the flagship Glory, but instead flew past the mast and back!
The most unfortunate one was the battleship Pyrenees s. This battleship had just left its shooting position and attempted to go to the northwest to block the attack, but it was directly shot by this cannonball.
Boom … With a loud bang, the Pyrenees exploded into a ball of flames. The high explosive projectile's wind swept across the entire bow of the ship, and the sailor's corpse was thrown into the air in the flames, rolling onto the ground and falling into the sea.
”My God! That accurate? Is it that powerful? ” All the Frenchmen present were stunned by this shot!
The British Fleet was also stunned, the sudden turn of events also made them at a loss of what to do, in the end it was the Duke of Newcastle who reacted first.
He excitedly shouted in the command cabin: ”It's Xiao Letian's battleship, it must be that Legendary Beast!”
”The Prussian navy doesn't have cannons with such a high level of power, and they don't have the courage to fight the French!”
”God has given us such a good opportunity, we can finally see the performance of this warship with our own eyes! Come closer and watch the entire fight! ”
The sudden attack made all the British excited, but the French were completely enraged. Seeing the fire on the Pyrenees and how the remaining five battleships started to change their formations, they no longer cared about the British.
Right now, Huo Fu had no choice but to fight against the battleship that was firing its cannons, or the British who were unknown to him.
”Leave the British alone!” The entire fleet is moving clockwise with Left side facing the enemy! ”
At this moment, the French Fleet and the Zhiyuan Warship were in a battleship position, looking down from the sky, it was a one-word formation!
This was not good for the French to unleash their firepower from the side. If they wanted to launch a barrage covering, they would have to change the formation to let the T-line turn.
The situation of the fleet from the northwest to the southeast changed from the southwest to the northeast. Only then would they be able to use the entire side firepower of the fleet to fire cannons at the enemy!
Unfortunately, they had really underestimated the speed of the Zhiyuan Warship. The speed of the 18 knots of speed had allowed the Zhiyuan Warship to rush towards the wind at a speed that far exceeded that of the Frenchman's.
Before the battleships could finish turning around, two balls of fire lit up in the night, following that, the Glory's ship exploded into a huge wave.
As for the other shell, it exploded right above the Glory's mast. The French sailors who found the Zhiyuan Warship let out a blood-curdling scream as hundreds of shell fragments pierced her body, turning him into a sieve!
”Damn it!” What kind of battleship was it? How could you hit so accurately! ”
With Huo Fu's roar, a long and slender Iron-armored battleship finally appeared in everyone's line of sight.