The other two ships of the Dutch fleet, the North Holland and the Udrecht Blade, also came to support under the order of Segel, instead of entangling with the Iron Wall. Before the two ships arrived, Segel arranged two blasts, one blasting the chimney and the other blasting the artillery deck, but the latter had no result, but a few holes were broken. In fact, this time it was almost successful, but Segel chose the wrong position, which was the ammunition deck reinforced by the wrought iron deck. After discovering that it was about to be blasted, Wei Yunfan ordered people to open the sea valve leading to the ammunition deck.

The North Holland and the Utrecht Blade quickly turned and rushed forward. Sigail ordered the Utrecht Blade to come first, put the gunpowder on the boat, ignited the Rock from outside the side of the ship. The North Holland originally wanted to do this, but was temporarily stopped by the captain of Agatha. Agatha and the Rock and the subsequent hand-to-hand combat resulted in more than 20 wounded people. At this time, the captain had seen the keel broken and the hull was infiltrated, and asked to transfer the wounded people to the North Holland first. It was also being transported that the Iron Wall rushed up.

Zhang Boqian lost his last cup of black tea and was very angry. Su Jing was eager to rescue the Panshi. Therefore, after restoring his power, he immediately turned to approach the Panshi. In order to quickly defeat the enemy, Su Jing did not arrange a shelling, but chose to impact.

In the Quebi incident, the pair of Su Jing and Wei Yunfan had already summarized the impact skills. When dealing with Quebi, Wei Yunfan tried to use the impact angle to break the rudder of Quebi, so that it could not turn and then attack. Facts proved that this operation was undoubtedly dancing on the tip of the knife. The Panshi did not control the strength of the Quebi, and pierced the buttocks of the Quebi, and unexpectedly found that the front and back of the European Sail Battleship at this time were not reinforced, making it easier to hit.

The Iron Wall rushed straight to the stern of the North Holland. After being discovered by the North Holland, it immediately stopped its operation and fled with sails. But it was too late. When the two warships were less than ten meters away, the 166-pound bow heavy artillery on the Iron Wall fired a shelling. This was a shelling controlled by Zhang Boqian himself. The loaded inside was double grape bullets. This large ammunition had strong destructive power. Zhang Boqian's intention was to use the grape bullets to destroy the servo of the enemy ship first, and then hit the enemy's ship while the steering was not effective.

Facts have proved that this kind of war has worked exceptionally well. For the old ship of the North Holland, which has been built for more than 28 years, the most recent reconstruction was also eight years ago. The 166-pound cannon, even with grape bombs, is unbearable at close range. Not only was the rudder broken, but even the mechanism inside the hull was broken. The North Holland had just recovered its power and did not have much rudder effect to turn the rudder. The Iron Wall used its ugly bow that became an impact and hit hard, directly knocking the entire stern building of the North Holland into a depression, and a big hole was knocked out below the waterline.

Before the second round of artillery prepared by Zhang Boqian was loading, the North Holland fell down due to a large amount of water. The Dutch had already seen the sinking of the Allen and immediately began to dive and flee. Without anyone counterattacking, the Iron Wall turned around on the sea and prepared to hit it again, but for some reason, the explosion on the North Holland even flew with its masts, which was obviously the gunpowder depot exploded.

The two sides had different explanations for the sinking of the North Holland after the war. The Imperial Navy's history has always described it as an accident and explosion caused by the Dutch abandoning warships in a daze. A Dutch Navy emphasized that it was to prevent this warship with a long history from falling into the hands of the Chinese.

Although it was sunk by collision, in the eyes of the British and Dutch fleet, especially in the distance, the North Holland was sunk by the Iron Wall, especially George Ruk. He believed that the Chinese must have some secret weapons, so he immediately stopped a cruise ship nearby, and after boarding the ship, he ordered the battle line to be disbanded and retreated in dispersed ways.

Also because of the sinking of the North Holland, the captain of the Udrecht Blade was worried that he would be the next one, so he did not have time to complete Sgael's order, detonated the gunpowder that had been lifted down, and hurriedly lifted the sail away, and even the friendly forces on the Rock and Agatha had no time to rescue them.

The battle between the warships ended at 12:15. George Ruk, the commander of the British and Dutch fleet, issued the scattered retreat flags, but the battle on the Stone continued until three o'clock in the afternoon. At that time, the Iron Wall, three cruisers and some warships that had already left the Bantry Bay had begun to hunt down the fleeing British and Dutch warships, but the two armed merchant ships who stayed to help the Stone were somewhat afraid of throwing their weapons.

The people on the two ships could not contact Wei Yunfan who was stuck on the Rock, and Sigael still did not give up. The helmsmen, crew members of the two armed merchant ships, such as the turbines, were temporarily requisitioned. The captain was not the ship commander, but a major sailing arranged by the expeditionary fleet was responsible for commanding the ship's maneuver, and the combat power was in the hands of the Marine Corps officers stationed in the ship.

At first, these marine officers wanted to completely sink Agatha first and then board the ship to rescue the Rock, but found that the two ships were entangled and could not be separated, and the bow of the Rock had been smashed, and even several cabins had water in. The Marines were worried that the sinking of Agatha would involve the Rock. Therefore, they could only land on Agatha. More than 300 Marines on the two armed merchant ships completed the landing under the cover of artillery fire, cutting off the ropes and chains tied between the two ships. After that, the two ships dragged the Rock away from the sinking Agatha.

It was much easier to clean up the enemies on the Stone. Shotball swept across the open deck, and after landing, the grenades were thrown into the artillery deck from various cabins. There was no casualties, which prompted the Dutch to surrender. The brave General Sigael originally wanted to commit suicide, but Wei Yunfan personally came forward to persuade him to surrender, ensuring that the expeditionary fleet would ensure that General Sigael's safety and honor would not be damaged.

Sigail eventually chose to surrender and was under house arrest for a long time on the Stone for a year. This made it understand the structure of the ironclad ship, and some of the data provided a basis for European countries to build their own ironclad ships.

The main force of the Expeditionary Fleet had not yet completely left the Bay of Bantry, and the battle outside the sea had come to an end, but this naval battle cannot be called the Battle of Bantry, because outside the Bay of Bantry, the only British and Dutch fleets were North Holland, Agatha and Aron sank. In the subsequent pursuit battle, Britannia, Victory, Elizabeth and two cruise ships sank or were captured one after another.

The Britannia was the most severely damaged in the early battles. Even though it did not suffer many crew members, the fire caused by lava shells almost burned through the first layer of artillery deck, and the front mast and the main mast had been burned, which caused the British Navy to even dare to hang the main sail for the warship. The two heavy patrols of Zhiyuan and Weiyuan surrounded the Britannia, which had escaped less than ten kilometers, and demanded that it surrender, but was rejected. When leaving the ship, George Ruk warned his captain not to allow Britannia to be captured no matter what.

Captain Anthony first pretended to surrender and handed over the armed sailors and Marines to the expeditionary fleet. Then he ignited the gunpowder depot and buried it in the sea with the warship.

Another first-class battleship, Victory, suffered the most heavy losses. This battleship suffered serious damage in the battle with the Panshi, with a large number of casualties and continuous water flow. It was stopped by the heavy cruisers Dabaishan and Suiyuan at 18 kilometers away from the battlefield. After that, two armed ships from Dayuan and Dali also dragged the Panshi to the battlefield. Five warships bombarded it. The captain of the Victory and all crew members saw the explosion of Britannia with their own eyes. They thought it was a massacre. The Chinese killed all the soldiers in the ship, so they insisted not to surrender.

In the end, the Victory was hit by various artillery more than 300 times, and the Victory was eventually burned by lava shells.

The seventy-fire battleship Elizabeth was unscathed in the early battle, but after disbanding the battle line, it became the pursuit target of the Iron Wall. Under the command of Zhang Boqian, the Iron Wall hit the collision tactics against the North Holland (Su Jing was in a coma for seventeen hours because of his first impact and his thigh was scratched). The Iron Wall's bow gun destroyed the rudder of the Elizabeth, and then was directly exposed to his chrysanthemum. Although it was repaired and not sunk, the captain had chosen to surrender, so Elizabeth was immediately captured by the tycoon who was caught up and two armed merchant ships of Chase.

The Duchess battleship became the only lucky person in this naval battle and the only military achievements of the British and Dutch fleet. Like Elizabeth, the warship was against an armed merchant ship in the early stage, and was not damaged at all, but chose to break through the St. George Strait (the strait between Scotland and the British Isles). Therefore, it was besieged by six cruisers. Both sides chased each other and did not catch up until five o'clock in the afternoon. The boarding battle was soon launched. At that time, the Duchess was shot more than two hundred times, but only four people died and twenty-five were injured. However, the captain of the Duchess announced his surrender, but the captains of the six cruise ships had no superior-level relationship with each other and did not make reasonable treatment.

At that time, all the guns and weapons were confiscated, and the artillery fire gates were nailed to death, and the Marines and officers were captured on other ships. Twenty Marines were sent to escort the ship. Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, the Duchess' sailor, doctor, and carpenter launched a raid, controlled the Marines, and fled at night. The duty personnel on the six cruise ships always thought that the ship beside them was the Duchess, and they did not discover it until dawn. The Duchess did not go to St. George's Strait, but went to London.

The Iron Wall pursued the two cruise ships for two days until the coal on the ship was burned out, and the two cruise ships fleeing to the St. George's Strait were successfully sunk, winning the final victory. Major General George Ruke chose to take the ship to the west of Scotland from the beginning and survived.

This victory was finally won by the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, but no one expected that two ironclad ships could achieve such a result and gain an overwhelming advantage against first-class battleships. It was this naval battle that prompted the Empire and European navies to recognize the ironclad ships and quickly abandon the sail battleships.

The area of ​​the naval battle was fought from the Bay of Bantry on the Ireland Island to the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland. Considering that at the beginning of the Great Alliance War, the British fleet and the French fleet fought a battle in the Bay of Bantry. In order to avoid the decisive naval battle being named the Second Battle of Bantry Bay, the Imperial Navy took the initiative to name it the Battle of Ireland.

The impact of the Irish naval battle is far-reaching. From a military perspective, the Irish naval battle proved that the ironclad ships had a huge advantage over the sail battleships. Whether it was a head-on decisive or a pursuit operation, this allowed European naval powers to devote a lot of resources and energy to the construction of the ironclad ship. The most critical and most technical technology of the ironclad ship is undoubtedly steam power. This is an insurmountable gap for Europe, which has just reached the WATTER improved technology. In fact, it was not until the 35th year of the empire that the British Navy had the first steam-powered warship, and the steam power used by this warship was obtained on a crashed merchant ship accidentally obtained in the Eastern Mediterranean.

However, the European navies did not give up the ironclad ships because of this. In the next fifteen years, the navies of European countries embarked on the path of sail-powered ironclad ships.

From a geopolitical perspective, the impact of the Irish naval war is also far-reaching enough. After the naval war, countries received news one after another, and the news they received is not entirely true. For example, the judgment of the strength of the expeditionary fleet is a problem, because during the naval war, Yuan Lihengtong had no direct contact with the other three steam-powered merchant ships, so European countries believe that the expeditionary fleet has nine ironclad ships, not two. Obviously, they also regard the steam-powered military auxiliary ships in the fleet as ironclad ships.

Britain, United Provinces, Spain and France all responded one after another. The first one to react was United Provinces. Heinsius in London received news about the defeat of the Irish Naval Battle. The Dutch fleet was involved for some reason and immediately left without saying goodbye and returned to The Hague to convene a third-level parliament. The third-level parliament passed a case of distrust against Prince Orange and the ruler of United Province William III. Although there was no evidence, the members of the third-level parliament unanimously agreed that the Dutch fleet accidentally participated in the Irish Naval Battle was a conspiracy of the British, and William III might also know it.

Therefore, based on the case of distrust, the third-level parliament demanded that the diplomatic authority of the United Province be transferred from the ruling William to a Foreign Affairs Committee led by Speaker Heinsius. It also directly deprived William III of the right to war, that is, William III's declaration of war and peace on the outside must be approved by the absolute majority of the third-level parliament to be effective.
Chapter completed!