Chapter 059 Iron Armored Giant Ship

"Guo Er pole!" Zhou Charter shouted.

On the gunboat, not only did not hear Guo Erjian's answer, but also the voices of the sailors, only the sound of monotonous waves echoed around.

Zhou Charter shouted secretly and ran along the passage of the deck to the cabin, where Guo Erpao should drink with the officers and soldiers of Zhenbei.

The door of the cabin is open, and it is also quiet inside.

Zhou Charter rushed into the cabin and saw that the cups and plates inside were in a mess. Guo Erjian lay on the table and slept soundly. There was no one else except Guo Er pole.

Zhou Charter grabbed Guo Erpole: "Guo Erpole!"

"Okay, okay, good wine..." Guo Erpa closed his eyes, grabbed his hands on the table, touched a wine glass, and shook it up: "Drink..."

Zhou Charter grabbed a kettle and covered his face with cold water. Guo Ershud and opened his eyes: "Brother, you also come to drink."

"What about people?" Zhou Charter scolded.

Only then did Guo Erchuan find that there were only two of them left in the cabin and hurriedly said, "These son of a bitch can't beat me. They all ran away."

"I think your soul has run away!" Zhou Charter said, regardless of Guo Er pole, and got up and left.

Guo Erzao also noticed that something was wrong. The sound of the engine was gone and the ship stopped! He hurriedly followed Zhou Charter out of the cabin.

The two ran all over the corners of the gunboat without seeing a single person.

Lv Tianqing and his subordinates seemed to have penetrated into the sea and disappeared.

Guo Erpole looked confused: "No, without a boat, where can these people go?"

Zhou Charter's heart thumped and hurried to the back deck, where there should be a lifeboat.

The place where the lifeboat was originally parked was empty.

Guo Erba cursed: "Damn Lv Tianqing, he actually left us and ran away in a lifeboat. I returned to Lushun to see how I dealt with him! I'm a guard of Lushun, and Lv Tianqing is a small pipe belt. He has to listen to me!"

"I'm afraid we can't go back to Lushun!" Zhou Charter said.

"Brother, what do you mean?" Guo Er pole hasn't reacted yet.

Zhou Charter ignored Guo Erpa and turned around and ran to the engine room.

In the turbine room, the rudder was smashed and scattered on the ground, which was no longer controllable. Only the compass indicating the direction was intact. It seemed that Lv Tianqing and his group smashed the helmsman and did not have time to smash the compass.

"Lv Tianqing, this bastard!" Guo Er pole finally understood: "He is going to leave us in the sea to feed bastards! Damn, it's not that easy! I can also swim to Anzhou!"

Zhou Charter looked at the compass and said, "I'm afraid we can't go to Anzhou."

"Why?"

"We drifted to the southern sea of the Yellow Sea, which should be near the Zhoushan Islands, at least 800 kilometers away from Anzhou!"

"Damn, they got me drunk and changed their course behind our backs!" Guo Erpole said angrily, "It doesn't matter, brother, as long as there is an island near here, I won't be afraid!" Brother, it's just that I can't figure it out. We have no grudges with Lv Tianqing. Why does this boy want to hurt us?

Zhou Charter said, "The one who wants to harm us is the Empress Dowager!"

Zhou Charter remembered the letter left by Minxiu.

Minxiu had already reminded him that the Empress Dowager Buddha would never let him go!

However, Zhou Charter never thought that the Empress Dowager would do it so quickly! He always thought that the Empress Dowager Cixi would wait for him to return to the capital and then slowly find an opportunity to attack him.

The matter is clear at a glance. This is a well-designed trap. The Empress Dowager Cixi is behind the scenes, Prince Duan is the commander, and Lv Tianqing is the specific implementer. They lured Zhou Charter and Guo Er pole to the East China Sea far away from Lushun and North Korea, so that they would die unconsciously!

Guo Erba nodded: "This must have been done by Prince Duan!" Damn, he came to Lushun on this gunboat. This son of a bitch, Lu Tianqing must have got the benefits of Prince Duan.

"It's more than Lu Tianqing!" Zhou Charter said hatefully, "Ding Ruchang must have participated in this matter and exchanged a gunboat for Zhou Charter's life. They praised me too much!"

Guo Erpaan laughed and said, "His empress dowager Buddha wants our lives. God can't stand it anymore. Brother, look, there's a boat coming!"

Zhou Charter looked in the direction of Guo Er pole's finger and saw a black spot on the sea in the west.

The black spot is getting bigger and bigger, but there is no national flag on the mast. I don't know which country's ship it is.

Zhou Charter's face was cold: "This boat doesn't seem to be right."

"There's something wrong with him." Guo Er pole said, "Brother, you are now Admiral Huguang, an anti-Japanese meritorious minister. Let's get on the boat. I see which bastard dares to fool."

Guo Erpa waved his arm at the boat and shouted: "Hey... Come here, I'm Lushun guard Guo Erpa..."

Zhou Charter suddenly took Guo Erba's arm and pressed Guo Erba down on the deck.

On the opposite ship, the fire flashed and a shell broke through the air and landed on the side of the Zhenbei. In the violent explosion, a column of water rushed up, and the Zhenbei, which had already lost its power, shook violently.

Then, several shells flew over. One shell hit the port of Zhenbei. One shell directly hit the mast. The huge mast fell down and hit Zhou Charter and Guo Er pole on the deck. Zhou Charter held Guo Er pole and rolled to the stern. The collapsed mast smashed a big hole in the deck. The fire rose in the sky, and the whole town north fell into a sea of fire.

In the firelight, Guo Er's eyes turned red: "Bastard! If I die, I will become a fierce ghost and smash you into ten thousand pieces!"

The outline of the ship of unknown nationality is becoming clearer and clearer. On the not far away, it shows a huge outline, spitting out flames all over the body, like a ghost full of knife tips.

"Dingyuan!" Zhou Charter muttered.

Zhou Charter has never seen the Dingyuan ship, but the huge thing that appeared in front of him can only be Dingyuan, the iron-clad cruiser of the Beiyang Marine Division!

Because in Asia, the displacement of more than 7,000 tons is only Dingyuan, and the Matsushima, the largest warship and flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet, has a displacement of only 4,000 tons. Even in the whole world's navy, there are only a few warships with a tonnage of 7,000 tons.

The Dingyuan ship is equipped with 30cm cannons, countless guns of various calibers and torpedo tubes.

Compared with Dingyuan, Zhenbei is just a small sam! Zhenbei not only has a small tonnage, but also has an iron-bone veneer, which can only be used for offshore support, with extremely weak combat effectiveness and defense capabilities.

In fact, there is no need for a huge warship like Dingyuan to destroy the Zhenbei. A small gunboat with a displacement of 1,000 tons is enough.

Perhaps, in the eyes of Empress Dowager Cixi, Zhou Charter is an iron-clad giant ship!

The wooden hull ignited a raging fire, and the sea poured into the cabin, meeting with the fire, and bursting water smoke.

"Brother! The ship is going to sink, jump into the sea!" Guo Erpole shouted.

The sun sank in the west, and the Dingyuan ship in the afterglow, like a huge shadow, covered the Zhenbei ship.

The Dingyuan ship made a dull roar, and a water line suddenly appeared on the sea, like a python splitting the waves, rushing towards the burning Zhenbei.

Dingyuan launched a torpedo, and they wanted to completely turn the Zhenbei into powder and disappear forever without leaving a trace.

The torpedo hit the starboard of Zhenbei, and the Zhenbei collapsed in the violent explosion.

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In the command module of the Dingyuan ship, Ding Ruchang stood behind the porthole, holding a telescope and looking at the empty sea.

The place where the fire exploded in the north of the town is already quiet. The sunset is dark, the sky is dark, and the waves on the sea are calm.

"Send a war report to Beijing, and the Beiyang Marine Division sank a Japanese gunboat stranded in our waters. This Japanese gunboat openly violated the armistice agreement and took the lead in firing fire at the Dingyuan ship of our Beiyang Marine Division. Dingyuan had no choice but to fire in self-defense!" Ding Ruchang said in a low voice.

Behind him, the Zhenbei tube took Lv Tianqing with a smile: "Admiral Ding is brave and invincible. In less than half an hour, he wiped out the enemies who dared to offend the tiger power of the Qing Dynasty! Admiral Ding deserves to be the Great Wall of the Qing Dynasty! Prince Duan said that Admiral Ding's great work is greater than sinking Songdo, the flagship of the joint fleet. After returning to the capital, he will definitely protect Admiral Ding in front of the Empress Dowager. Admiral Ding's future is unlimited!"

Ding Ruchang shook his head and said, "In fact, there is no need for Prince Duan to come forward. As long as Lord Lu can say a few words for the empress dowager, the subordinate will be very grateful."

Lv Tianqing's public identity is Zhenbei's pipe belt. In fact, like Lai Chuanwu, he is the Empress Dowager Cixi and the eyeliner of Cixi'an in the Beiyang Marine! He is the one who can talk directly to the Empress Dowager Buddha.

After the armistice agreement officially took effect and the complete armistice between the Qing army and the Japanese army, the Empress Dowager Cixi made up her mind that she must immediately get rid of Zhou Charter and not let him enter Beijing alive.

In the past, the Empress Dowager Cixi tried her best to destroy Zhang Jun in order to cut off an arm of Emperor Guangxu. Now, the Empress Dowager Cixi wants to kill Zhou Charter purely because Zhou Charter himself directly threatens her position.

In the late war, Empress Dowager Cixi ordered Ye Zhichao to brazenly go to war with Zhang Jun. The court whitewashed this matter, saying that it was a misunderstanding, but on the surface it was a fool. However, Cixi knew that Zhou Charter and his subordinates knew exactly what was going on. They hated the court and the Empress Dowager Cixi. Zhang Jun and Cixi's Liang Zi will never be so easy to untie.

Especially now, although Zhang Jun is fragmented, the backbone of Zhang Jun is still there and still maintains a strong combat effectiveness. As long as Zhou Charter is alive, Zhang Jun can reconsolidate into a whole at any time. As long as Zhou Charter cheers up, his hardcore brothers will rejoin under the banner of Zhou Charter and work hard for Zhou Charter.

The most urgent thing is to get rid of Zhou Charter from the body!