Chapter 1206: Battle against the Ironclad Ship
The Unsullied had just secured the bronze door when a whistle suddenly sounded in the distance.
Everyone looked up and found a dark cloud .
Looking closely, I realized that it was not a black cloud at all, but billowing black smoke.
Beneath the black cloud formed by black smoke is a huge steel fleet.
All the warships were painted black and lined up in a row, as dark as a mountain.
"So many steel battleships? The fleet of the Imperial Royal Navy? What are they doing here?"
Zhang Tuohai stared at the huge fleet.
He was no longer too worried about seeing a fleet of this level.
With 12 flying battleships as his trump card, he is not really afraid of this kind of ironclad ship.
Whether it is precision-guided bombs or rockets, they are the nemesis of this type of ironclad ship.
Even a single thermobaric bomb could destroy an entire fleet.
Therefore, he was not worried about encountering the armored fleet, but was looking forward to it.
"Catch a few tongues and ask them about the Empire's recent movements. The commander of such a fleet should be able to contact the top brass of the Empire, right?"
Zhang Tuohai analyzed.
Zhang Tuohai adjusted the direction of the White Bird and rushed towards the armored fleet.
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As an imperial earl and admiral of the Royal Navy, Vincent could just stay in the officers' club every day, drinking tea and playing cards.
What pulled him out from the warm fireplace was a letter from the Emperor of the Empire.
"The empire is at peace everywhere, why do we need to send a fleet to patrol? It's really unnecessary."
Vincent was unhappy with the assignment.
If it wasn't for the emperor's order, who would be willing to leave the stripper's arms and run to the sea to be exposed to the wind and rain?
Moreover, Mr. Vincent, who was used to sailing warships, hated the smell of coal smoke from ironclad ships.
The thick coal smoke reminded him of the bad air in the imperial capital.
What he wanted to do most now was to find a port to stop at, then take a good bath to get rid of the smell on his body.
"What's ahead?" Vincent asked, raising his telescope.
"Mr. Count, the Golden Oak Island is ahead." said an adjutant.
"Golden Oak Island? I remember there is a tall golden oak tree there, why can't I see it?" Vincent looked through the telescope for a long time but couldn't find the tall golden oak tree in his memory.
"Are we lost?" the adjutant guessed.
"No, I have walked this route for decades and I will definitely not be wrong. I can swear on my life." The navigator said quickly.
"But why can't I see the golden oak tree?"
Vincent asked coldly.
"There's a ship over there. How about we capture the captain and ask him what's going on?"
The adjutant's eyes lit up and he pointed to a three-masted sailing ship not far away.
"Well, send a ship over." Vincent nodded.
"Yes!" The adjutant received the order and was about to leave.
Suddenly, the navigator shouted: "Look, what is that?"
Several people looked in the direction of his finger and saw twelve steel ships slowly flying towards them from the sky.
"What is that? How can there be a ship flying in the sky?"
the navigator asked in astonishment.
"It's a mirage, isn't it? It's a common sight at sea. What's the big deal?"
The adjutant said nonchalantly.
"But there have never been mirages here."
The navigator argued.
"It has never appeared before, so it will never appear again in the future?"
the adjutant retorted.
"Why is there no royal emblem on this ship?"
Vincent frowned as he looked at the ships.
The newly built ironclad ships of the empire were very exquisite, and the emblem symbolizing the royal family would be hung in the position of the figurehead.
These are the rules of the Imperial Navy.
However, these warships did not have any emblems.
This is definitely not an Imperial ship.
"Could it be that a certain force can also build ironclad ships? Impossible. No city-state in the empire can build enough steel mills. It is also impossible to coordinate 100 industrial departments and tens of thousands of experienced and skilled construction workers."
"Whose warships are these?"
"It seems that the Empire really needs to inspect its borders. The Empire has been too peaceful over the years, causing these barbarians to forget the Empire's majesty."
Vincent frowned and decided that when he arrived at Golden Oak Island, he would send someone to find out who had the technology to build ironclad ships.
This is the foundation of the empire.
He would never allow this to happen!
At this moment, the flying warships arrived above the ironclad ship, and then the bomb bay slowly opened, revealing the black-painted bombs inside.
"Something seems wrong. This doesn't seem to be a mirage."
The more Vincent looked at it, the more real it felt. His back gradually felt cold and a bad feeling rose in his heart.
"This can't be true?"
Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—
The precision-guided bomb had the whistle installed on the iron bomb removed. When it was dropped, there was no sharp whistling sound, only the sound of friction with the air.
The noise is much weaker than that of an iron bomb, but the accuracy has been qualitatively improved.
The first precision-guided bomb accurately hit the open turret of the ironclad ship.
Boom!
An orange-red fireball rose from the turret.
Then, the turret flew out, and a large hole with a diameter of more than ten meters was torn on the deck.
Immediately afterwards, the second precision-guided bomb was thrown through the big hole and fell into the magazine under the turret.
Boom!
A cloud of huge explosion rose from the cabin, and the bow of the ship was directly blew up. A large amount of sea water poured into the hull, the stern was pressed up, and the hull began to capsize.
"The flagship is under attack!"
Only then did the people on the ship realize that the invincible ironclad fleet, the great Royal Navy, had actually been attacked.
Moreover, it was an attack from the sky.
During their two years of training, they started by helping their superiors shine shoes and learned all the skills on the ship, but the only thing they did not learn was how to deal with enemies in the sky.
The worst part was that the boat now began to sink and everyone was in chaos.
Some people wanted to return to their jobs, some wanted to escape, some wanted to jump into the sea, some wanted to grab the lifeboat, and some wanted to save Vincent and perform the feat of rescuing him so that they could become successful when they returned to land.
Everyone was running around like headless flies.
The grassroots commander's whistle was no longer effective and the ship was in chaos.
The ironclad ships around the flagship wanted to come to the rescue.
But they were also attacked by flying battleships.
After the first flying battleship's attack example, the remaining flying battleships followed suit and launched attacks on those open turrets.
Orange-red fireballs rose up in the armored fleet.
One ironclad ship after another sank into the icy ocean.
