Chapter 1118: Pursuit!

"How can this be! How can this be!"

At the port of Calcutta, the expression of triumph Bolt originally wore had turned into terror.

In his pupils, the surface of the sea was filled with burning warships.

The flags hanging from these warships were all those of the various nations of the Western Lands.

Amidst the mutual bombardment, after the Coalition navy lost half its strength, the boarding tactics adopted by Maluofu also met with total failure.

Now, the warships led by Da Song were charging recklessly through the Coalition fleet, while the Da Song Sailing Warships following behind them took advantage of the chaos to sink their warships one by one.

In a very short time, the Coalition fleets in all three directions had suffered heavy damage; defeat was already unavoidable.

Like Ma Fu'er, Bolt also realized at this moment the significance of those twelve special warships of Da Song.

These warships, resembling both Steamships and Sailing Warships, had dominated the entire naval battle from the moment the mutual bombardment began.

What was hateful was that they only came to their senses when these warships cut through the Coalition warships like sharp blades.

Clearly, an ordinary Sailing Warship could not so easily cut through another Sailing Warship.

To achieve this goal, there was only one possibility: the warship itself had to be much harder than the opponent's.

Although he understood this point, he could not comprehend how Da Song had managed it.

"It's over! Everything is over!" Bolt suddenly slumped to the ground, disregarding his status as Governor of Tianzhu.

Like him, the many officials and generals stationed in Tianzhu at the port all had desperate looks in their eyes, and quite a few even began to wail.

Maluofu's Flagship had been smashed directly, and now Maluofu's life or death was unknown.

Having lost the command of this Admiral, the remnants of the Coalition fleet were in an even worse plight.

In fact, this was indeed the case.

Not only Maluofu, but no Coalition naval officer had imagined that Da Song's warships would easily smash their warships to pieces.

This caused their boarding tactics to fail.

Added to this, amidst the chaos, they were bombarded by other Da Song warships, and one warship after another was blown into the sky; the fleet naturally fell into total chaos.

"Retreat! Full retreat, let them retreat into the inner river, quick, quick, quick!" Seeming to suddenly think of something, Bolt suddenly scrambled up, grabbed a naval officer's clothing tightly, and gave him the order.

The naval battle was destined to fail; now the only thing they could do was to preserve their warships as much as possible.

The naval officer hurriedly had soldiers fetch the flags used for naval signaling and waved them constantly at the port, hoping that some warships would see them and choose to retreat immediately.

However, the only response they received was the roar of Artillery.

Few of the naval forces on both sides fighting in the chaos could notice the situation at the port.

At the same time.

The fighting on the sea became increasingly intense.

The power of the Ironclad Warship was, after all, limited.

After ramming the first warship, the Ironclad Warship's speed slowed down due to the obstacles in front.

When the Ironclad Warship rammed multiple Coalition Sailing Warships in succession, it finally stopped moving.

And behind the Ironclad Warship, other Da Song warships followed closely; they did not have enough distance to retreat and accelerate for another ramming.

Just at this moment, the Coalition warships stopped rocking, and the Western Lands naval soldiers were all able to steady their bodies.

Enraged by the ramming, they charged toward the Da Song Ironclad Warship with bloodshot eyes, just like bloodthirsty pirates.

A portion of the Coalition soldiers picked up grappling hooks and threw them one after another toward the Da Song warship, then tied one end of the ropes to the Masts of their own warships.

Another portion of the soldiers took the opportunity to climb onto the bow of the Ironclad Warship, charging toward the Da Song soldiers on the Ironclad Warship while holding Rifled Muskets with Bayonets, letting out bursts of roars.

At this time, the Da Song soldiers on the Ironclad Warship had also steadied their bodies.

Seeing the Western Lands soldiers board the Ironclad Warship, they crouched halfway on the ground and fired at them, and Coalition soldiers fell on the bow one by one.

However, because the Jinling Ironclad Warship had rammed a path through the group of Coalition warships.

This resulted in the Ironclad Warship being surrounded on three sides by Western Lands warships that had been rammed into disarray.

And the uniqueness of the Jinling also drew even more hatred from the Coalition soldiers.

The Western Lands soldiers on the nearby warships all slaughtered their way toward the Jinling.

Those whose ships were touching climbed directly onto the Ironclad Warship, and those at a slightly greater distance climbed onto the Ironclad Warship via the ropes between the grappling hooks and the Masts.

For a time, the Jinling Ironclad Warship felt as if it were facing an ambush from all sides.

But this unfavorable situation changed immediately.

In the cockpit, seeing the Coalition soldiers pouring onto the Jinling, Zhou Yi gave the order to fire.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Instantly, the Artillery on the sides of the Jinling and the Rotating Turrets at the front and back fired simultaneously.

The Coalition warships on three sides of the Ironclad Warship exploded instantly in the bombardment.

The Coalition soldiers who had climbed onto the Ironclad Warship lost their support and were soon all shot and killed by the Da Song soldiers.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

After the first round of bombardment, the Ironclad Warship immediately conducted a second round.

The soldiers inside the Rotating Turrets utilized the advantage of rotation to continuously fire at the surrounding Coalition warships.

Before long, only a field of burning warship wreckage remained around the Jinling.

Of course, while the Ironclad Warship was bombarding, the Coalition warships also bombarded the Jinling.

But their Cannonballs, aside from causing some damage to the deck and causing casualties among the soldiers, still could not shake the Ironclad Warship from the sides.

And as long as the sides were not breached, the warship's power system could be protected, the ship would not leak, and the Naval Cannons could continue to be used.

Such a warship could continue to fight.

"Continue forward!" Having forcefully used Artillery to blast out a path filled with warship wreckage, Zhou Yi ordered them to continue forward.

There were too many Coalition warships, and even after they had destroyed many, they still numbered two or three times their own.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The naval battle was still continuing, but after the Jinling had forcibly carved a path to survival out of a dead end, the Coalition navy seemed to have finally fallen into despair.

Even the most furious Coalition naval commanders calmed down.

They could not win in a collision, and as for shelling, only they were being sunk while the opponent remained completely unscathed.

This battle could not possibly continue any further.

Seeing the Jinling charging over, one Coalition Warship after another busied themselves with turning around to flee.

Some noticed the orders from the port of Calcutta and immediately headed toward the inland river.

Zhou Yi keenly noticed the new movements of the Coalition fleet.

Feeling slightly relieved, he understood that the Dasong fleet had won this naval battle.

What followed was merely cleaning up the aftermath.

He therefore immediately gave the order for free engagement.

However, he still required the other Sailing Warships to sail around the Ironclad Warships and not stray too far away.

After all, the Coalition's Sailing Warships possessed the ability to destroy their own Sailing Warships at such close range.

Or, if a Sailing Warship were to be surrounded, it would not be as easy to escape as an Ironclad Warship.

By staying around the Ironclad Warships, they could be rescued in time should any situation arise.

As Zhou Yi's order was passed down, the Dasong Sailing Warships, with the twelve Ironclad Warships as the core and the four Sailing Warships as support, began their pursuit of the Coalition Warships on the sea!

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