Chapter 361 Danger under the water--
The strong explosion pushed the sea, like a powerful giant carrying the head of the three-masqueen warship high, and then fell fiercely on the sea. Before the head of the ship entered the water, a ferocious hole directly more than two meters appeared under the head.
When the head of the warship fell on the surface of the water and the turbulent waves splashed high all around, almost all the people in the British colonial fleet subconsciously turned their heads and looked in the direction of the carp gate.
"Battleship turn, turn! Damn, what the hell happened? Major General Ford's eyes widened, gave orders loudly, and even sprayed saliva on the first mate's face without caring about his gaffe.
"Heavy cannon? Is it a heavy gun? It's impossible. We have just sent infantry to patrol ashore on both sides of Liyumen. If there are heavy artillery, they will definitely send us a signal. Colonel Henry's face twisted into a bitter gourd that made people trample, and his voice was as sharp as a shrew scolding the street.
"It's not a heavy gun. If it's a heavy gun, the sound should first sound from both sides." Major General Ford's first mate Major General Barton shook his head, and the warships drew standard round white lines on the calm sea of George III Bay. The high mast sails were all unfolded, and the roaring wind allowed the warships to turn at full speed and rushed to the carp gate where they came from.
Just finished turning, from their right side, that is, the side of Hong Kong Island, there was a fierce roar of artillery, and Major General Ford's expression changed again. Who dares to attack our squadron? Is it French? Or is it Dutch?" Major General Ford's brain rotated rapidly, thinking about who dared to attack his squadron. However, he did not think about the sailors or pirates of the Qing Dynasty. After all, the dense sound of artillery would never be what the warships of the Qing Dynasty could have.
"At full speed, let's see how... my God!" Major General Ford's eyes almost stared out of his eyes, took his collar with both hands, and exclaimed.
He saw the carp gate in front of him. The stern of Lieutenant Colonel Green's warship pointed straight to the sky. The head of the warship and the middle of the warship had been diagonally inserted into the sea, and the whole warship was slid down to the sea at a fairly fast speed.
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The sailors screamed and lay on the ship of the battleship. Some clever people had jumped into the water and swam to the distance for fear that they would be stirred into the bottom of the sea by the vortex of the sinking of the warship.
An explosion turned a three-mast warship into a dead fish about to sleep on the bottom of the sea. This experience really hit the hearts of the British present. Even the dense gunfire on the side of Hong Kong Island did not seem to interest them. All the people were like a lifelike wax figure, staringly watching the three-mast warship disappear from their sight.
Standing on the coast of the carp gate, the British army soldiers who were on reconnaissance and patrol missions also maintained the same shock. Some people even drew a cross on their chests. They didn't know whether he was praying for his unlucky naval colleagues or wanted to relieve the shock they had received.
Several fast gunboats converted by British armed merchant ships rushed to the front, and they soon rushed near the silent warship. He extended a helping hand to the companions who were floating and struggling on the sea, and loudly asked the frightened sailors what had happened.
"I don't know, I really don't know what's going on. Our warships are chasing the pirates of the Qing Kingdom to the east at a very high speed. However, when they just caught up with the sea around the black iron balls, the strong explosion almost turned my warship upside down. God, that It's like the enemy buried a gunpowder under my ship. Lieutenant Colonel Green, who was all over [***], was sent to the deck of the flagship Lion in the shortest time. He was a little blue in shock. Since he poured a large glass of brandy, his face still failed to return to normal. The trembling gums made his tone look so panicked.
"That's enough. First, take the lieutenant colonel down to change his clothes, give him some wine and bread, and let him come to me when he regains his senses." Major General Ford rubbed his eyebrows with a headache, signaling for the sailor to take the seemingly frightened lieutenant colonel down to rest.
A fast gunboat was slowly approaching the location of the sunken ship. The sailors on the deck shouted loudly and ran fast, throwing cables into the distance, so that those companions who were still struggling on the sea could be rescued as soon as possible.
No one noticed that in the quiet sea water, a black iron ball not much smaller than a bucket was floating in the blue water about two meters away from the water. Perhaps the explosion just now scared the creatures in the sea, and the swimming fish panicked around in the sea.
But the black iron ball floated quietly there and waited quietly. The fast gunboat approached slowly, and the wooden stripes on the bottom of the ship were clearly visible. On it, there were a lot of shells and conch attached to it. Some dexterous swimming fish were shuttling through the bottom of the ship, using their shells and conch at the bottom of the ship from time to time. Looking for their food.
The sound looked so dull and gloomy in the sea. The bottom of the ship was getting closer and closer to the black iron ball gently swinging in the sea in the surging of the sea. Finally, a shell on the bottom of the ship gently hit the convex tentacles on the black iron ball, and heard a sound in the sea. The edge seemed to be very crisp, just like the sound of iron sheet hitting each other in the air.
The black iron ball seemed to suddenly stop swinging, and then, countless cracks appeared on the surface of the black iron ball in an instant. A swarm of flame gushed out of those cracks. The violent shock wave even made the swimming fish in the distance feel as if they had been slapped by something, and the action solidified in an instant. After that, it slowly floated to the surface of the water like a dead object.
This time, the British naval soldiers and the mercenaries who rushed to the deck to watch the bustle, the British army were all frightened by the nearby explosion.
Still wondering what happened just now, Major General Ford and others who let a solid three-masted warship sink to the bottom of the sea in a very short time were also scared by the sudden explosion. They looked neatly at the direction of the explosion. It was next to a three-masted warship that had just sunk that a fast gunboat broke fragilely from the middle, or it should be said that a column of water mixed with flames and black smoke collided with the hull of the fast gunboat and rushed directly into the air from below.
Many things on the disconnected fast gunboat have been lifted into the sky, even some sailors and mutilated human bodies. Roughly, the column of water wrapped in flames and gunpowder rushed high into the sky, bursting around, and the sea scattered to the surrounding sea, as well as the bodies and faces of the stunned British.
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The flame soon dissipated without a trace, but the rising gunpowder smoke was slowly rolling up and forming. After the filter of the sea water, the color of the gunpowder smoke seemed to become whiter, like the dead, pale faces twisted and deformed illusoryly in the sky.
The muscles on Macartney's face were twitching, and the corners of his eyes were diligently **, just like a precursor to the recurrence of the stroke hemiplegia. His fingers tightly grasped the beautiful white tassel lace at the collar of his shirt, and even the tassel lace had been caught by him from his collar.
Standong grasped the side of the ship tightly, and his mouth opened like a hippo preparing for tooth extraction under the shadowless lamp. Even the disgusting wormhole on his back alveolar teeth saw the light of the sun.
The violent explosion swept over Hong Kong Island again, quickly passed through the air, and then easily got into the ears of the British naval soldiers of the squadron who were in trouble and desperately resisted the hope of receiving assistance.
However, they no longer have the care to distinguish where the explosion came from, because they have been completely surrounded. Yes, the other party seems to have planned it for a long time. When the squadron had just passed the jute horn in the southernmost part of the peninsula of Stanley on Hong Kong Island, they were almost shocked. On the chin, on the west side of the jute horn, dozens of three-mast warships that had lined up the shooting array opened fire together. Yes, they were dozens of them. At that time, they directly scared many strong-willed British sailors to almost go crazy.
The shell is like an unstoppable storm, pouring on their hulls quickly and fiercely. The five warships that were still in astonishment and had no time to react were hit hard.
Yes, the starboard body of the battleship Mali, which was sailing in the center of the squadron, was almost completely broken, and the ferocious wounds soon swallowed the surging sea water quickly. With only one round of gunfire, a three-masted warship sank desperately towards the sea.
The British navy fought hard, but during the period when their open combatants rushed to the battle position, loaded ammunition, and opened the gun windows, the second round of gun rain had once again hit their heads. It's like a sudden torrential rain in the hot summer, but the word "storm" has been replaced with bullet characters.
(to be continued)