Chapter Seventy-Two: Gains and Losses "That's right, maybe the subordinates are too worried, right?
The subordinates are guilty and ask His Highness for forgiveness.
When Li Ergou heard this, he thought about it carefully in his heart, and he saw the power of torpedoes and incendiary bombs just now.
If you go down with a torpedo, it doesn't matter how big your ship is, even if it is a warship of the Tang Dynasty, it can be turned into fragments directly, and you can't even find a piece of wreckage.
And the power of the incendiary bomb is not far behind, a single incendiary bomb can burn a ship, and the speed of the thief is fast, dozens of breaths can cover a ship with flames, it is really terrible - these two weapons are simply supreme killing weapons, but also from hell Soul Hook Demon, as long as the enemy is still a demon at sea, as long as the enemy still dares to use a warship, then they will definitely not be the opponent of these two sharp weapons, with these two sharp weapons in hand, what are you worried about the enemy's attack?
It must be that the enemy is worried that we will fight us.
"Your Highness, my subordinates are back, fortunately, the enemy is all finished, and we have won a great victory."
Another hour passed, and Cheng Chuliang finally cleaned up the enemy and came back to report to Li Zhen - don't dislike him for his inefficiency, because this was the case when cleaning up the remnants of the enemy, although the number of enemies was not large, but because they were too scattered, it was very difficult to clear them, and it took an hour to send the last enemy ship into the sea.
Li Zhen saw Cheng Chuliang and hurriedly asked, "How is it?"
How many ships have you destroyed, and how many losses have we had?
What's the catch?
Let's talk to Hongu in detail. ” "Yes."
Cheng Chuliang took out a report and began to report to Li Zhen the results of this operation: "Our results in this battle are still very great: we destroyed a total of 245 enemy ships, of which 90 were torpedoes, 40 were burned by incendiary bombs, and 52 were burned by our Spitfires, and the rest were sunk by our ship guns.
The subordinates suggested that after returning home, we should ban our small-caliber naval guns, which are of no use at all, and the subordinates are really fed up, even the smallest ships cannot be fatal with one hit, at most they can only be hit hard, and they have no effect, and it is better to add a few more cannons of more than 100 mm with this load capacity. ” Speaking of small-caliber naval guns, Cheng Chuliang is full of complaints, obviously fed up with the lack of power.
Li Zhen nodded in understanding, small-caliber naval guns should indeed be banned, the original intention of designing the 75-mm naval guns was to attack the enemy in the near future, but after several artillery battles, Li Zhen found that the enemy would not be able to reach the vicinity of his own warship and would be sunk, so the 75-mm naval gun became a chicken rib - it is not needed for close-range targets, and it can't hit long-distance targets, and even if it hits, it can't be killed with one hit, which is really a chicken rib.
Seeing that Li Zhen agreed to his request, Cheng Chuliang suddenly lifted his spirits, continued to pick up the report, and began to report his own losses: "As for our losses, it is not big, but in the previous artillery battle, two destroyers and one cruiser were seriously damaged, and the original subordinates felt that they might have to give up, and now it seems that there should be hope for repair......
In addition, in the chase just now, a destroyer and a cruiser were directly sunk, but the crew had all been rescued, and there was also a battleship Yuzhou that was hit by a shell from the enemy's counterattack and hit the keel, fortunately, it was a dud bomb and did not sink, but the keel was also damaged because of the impact of the shell, although it can still be navigated, but it is likely to hide any potential threat, and because it is the keel that is injured, it is very difficult to repair, and it is no longer capable of fighting, The subordinates suggested that after going back, they should dismantle or retire it for the use of the Naval Academy. ” "As for our harvest ......"
Speaking of the harvest, Cheng Chuliang couldn't help but show a wry smile on his face: "Your Highness, don't think about this, this time the attack on us is all dead, until the last ship, none of us surrendered, none of our ships were captured, and there were not even a few fragments." ” "That's it, forget it."
Li Zhen was a little disappointed.
"But Your Highness doesn't need to be discouraged, when it comes to harvest, in fact, we still have a little, but it's not a real thing."
Seeing this, Cheng Chuliang hurriedly said: "That is the group of warships that came to support the enemy at the end, the model is actually the same as our warships, and they are all third-class battleships, and the cannons on them are also more than 150 mm......
The destroyer, the cruiser, and the badly wounded Yuzhou were all hit by the enemy's 150-millimeter guns......
Your Highness, this must be an internal ghost in our shipyard, otherwise the enemy will definitely not be able to get the ...... of our warship" "This is impossible, there has been no information from the shipyard that the data has been stolen recently."
Li Zhen categorically vetoed, and his face became extremely gloomy: "And every warship that comes out of the shipyard is recorded, there are overseers sent by the imperial court and us, with such a big target as a battleship, which shipyard can quietly build it and then secretly transport it out?"
Not to mention a dozen of them?
This is simply not possible. ” "Then His Highness means ......"
"This is certainly the ...... of the nearby naval fleet" "It can't be."
Cheng Chuliang's reaction was greater than Li Zhen's, and he jumped up before Li Zhen finished speaking: "Your Highness, don't talk nonsense, the imperial court of these fleets and you are all grateful, how could they betray you?"
” "Why not?"
Li Zhen asked rhetorically.
"Because ......"
Cheng Chuliang suddenly got stuck, because he suddenly thought of Hou Junji.
How trusted by the imperial court was the original Hou Junji, the emperor not only let him lead 100,000 troops, but also let him control millions of square kilometers of land in the South Seas.
But what is the final result of Hou Junji?
He actually rebelled, you must know that the court has never persecuted him, not only did it not persecute him, but it was so kind to him, it was unbelievable that he would rebel, and in the end, Cheng Chuliang could only blame a sentence of greed and swallowing elephants.
Not only was his family punished for rebelling, but he also brought hundreds of thousands of natives from the Nanyang jungle to the big bad luck - they were not even qualified to be slaves, and the end was the same as that of the planners, the real Miao descendants were cut off, and the dead people were exterminated.