Chapter 75: Savage Clash
Dutch Rear Admiral Segel faithfully carried out the order of turning and encirclement issued by George Ruk. Not only that, he also put on a half-body armor to prepare the soldiers for the battle. As it turned out, this move was very prescient. Major General Segel was on the Agatha of the No. 4 position at the beginning of the battle, which was actually the previous ship of the Britannia, which was caused by accident. But this allowed Segel to see with his own eyes that the Britannia was covered in fire and the explosion was constantly tragic. He stood in the stern building and saw that the shells fired by the Britannia were bounced away by the Iron Wall, leaving only a little spot.
All this led to the idea of Sigail's desire to fight against the enemy with hand-to-hand combat. When he turned, he issued an order as the commander of the former guard fleet - to turn by himself.
If the vanguards all followed the pilot ship North Holland, then for at least twenty minutes, Agatha could not get close to the opponent at all, and turned by itself, Agatha, who was in front of the Iron Wall, would take the first ship to join the opponent. Sigael did not lack courage, but in fact, he had too much courage.
Su Jing immediately discovered the abnormal movement of the Dutch fleet. In fact, the opponent's response was within his expectations, but he did not expect the opponent to turn on his own. However, the ironclad ship was still quite agile. After discovering the abnormal movement, Su Jing sent a sailor team to drive the sail and immediately ordered a right turn to stop chasing the Britannia. The twelve-man sailor team operated the inclined sail on the rear mast under the command of the sailor, and then raised several sails. These sails could speed up their own steering speed when turning with the wind.
This order was very critical. The direct result was that the Iron Wall avoided the Segel aimed at him and his ship Agatha, and the two ships did not collided. However, this order also had quite a disadvantage. The result was that when avoiding Agatha, when turning left to avoid Ahron, the steering was not effective due to the yaw force on the sail, and it directly collided with Ahron.
But this did not cause any disaster, because the Allen had completed the steering. The Iron Wall and the Allen were like two vehicles facing each other. The Iron Wall hit the rear wheel position of Aron. The impact angle was not large. The Iron Wall hid the impact angle and broke through several ribs of Aron. However, under the opposite force of both sides, the Iron Wall hit the butt of Aron like a crowbar. It pried open a huge gap less than six meters from the stern of the ship. The uncalculable sea water poured in, causing the Allen roll and tail tilt within two minutes.
By 11:14, the bow of the Allen was raised high, and at least one-third of the hull was immersed in the water, and the wooden keel could not bear it at all. The mass of the hundreds of tons of the raised hull was directly broken. At 11:17, the Allen had completely sunk.
Chapter completed!