Pressurized and strong ventilation is the method of squeezing the last ray of power of the steam engine. This method can easily cause the boiler to overheat and lose the life of the boiler. In more serious cases, boiler explosions may occur. But now, the "Queen Elizabeth" no longer needs any boiler life. Even if everything goes well, it successfully sank the "Embelador", and she will definitely be done. In this case, the life of the boiler is meaningless.

As for boiler explosions, the distance between the two sides is only a little over a thousand meters. At such a distance, the chance of such a thing happening is not high. At least, it is lower than the chance of a shell hitting the ammunition depot.

But the acceleration of warships is not like a liter motorcycle. When the accelerator is twisted and then blinks, the speed will exceed one hundred. The acceleration of warships and other things is quite slow, so slow that many times, if you are not careful, you will even feel nothing at all.

However, the French cannons reacted much faster. The 150 cannons on the "Embelador", the 150 cannons on the "Caesar", and the 100 cannons on other cruisers all rushed towards the "Queen Elizabeth". A 150 shell hit the port side and penetrated the armor and exploded in the internal freshwater tank, causing no casualties. Another 150 shell hit and exploded near the water line on the port side, tearing a hole there, causing the sea water to surge in. However, the hole was not big, so no one was in charge of the damage and the staff had already suffered two-thirds of the casualties. This minor problem could not be taken care of at all.

However, the distance is already very close, and the water inlet is no longer important. As long as the ship is not sinking when it hits.

As for the 100-air shells, there were more hits. These shells had no possibility of breaking through the armor of the Queen Elizabeth, but they completely washed the entire superstructure of the Queen Elizabeth. In fact, if we consider the effect of that near-lost bomb, in today's battle, at least so far, the one that caused the greatest damage to the Queen Elizabeth was not actually the 150mm cannon on the French battleship, but the 100mm cannon from the French armored cruiser.

"Order, immediately fill all ammunition compartments. All soldiers are ready to abandon the ship." Seeing the enemy ships getting closer and closer, and more shells kept hitting the warships, Nelson issued another order.

Filling the ammunition compartment means that after the warship's large and small artillery was fired and had been moved into the turret and was ready to be fired, there would be no more shells to be fired. But this order also ensured that before the "Queen Elizabeth" hit the enemy ship, even if a French shell penetrated the ammunition compartment, the entire ammunition compartment would not explode, and the whole battleship would be blown away.

In fact, this order was very timely, because just two minutes after the order was issued, a shell shot from the "Embelador" penetrated the armor of the ammunition depot of the former main gun. Now the distance between the two sides is very close, which makes the armor that was impossible to penetrate before becoming easily penetrated. If it had not poured water into the ammunition compartment in advance, the shell would have probably directly claimed the life of the "Queen Elizabeth".

On the "Engel-Berrado", Marshal Treville had already understood the British's thoughts. He knew that the British were trying to attack him by impact. At this time, he had two choices. One was to keep the current course unchanged, which would be most conducive to the artillery's strike against the enemy. Then use the advantage of firepower to destroy the enemy with artillery fire before the enemy crashed. Or he could also turn the warships and turn to the same direction as the enemy ship. In this way, he could only use the tail cannon to attack the enemy, but doing so could increase the time for the enemy to catch up with him. Moreover, when the enemy chased him, he could only use the bow of the ship to hit the stern of the "Engel-Berrado". Although it was not nice to say that it was blown by someone, the chance of hitting the warship from that angle was much smaller. It was even basically impossible.

If Napoleon made the decision at this time, he would definitely choose the plan without hesitation. Don’t be afraid, just do it! See if you hit me to death, or I will hammer you to death first, the west wind blows and the war drums beat, who is afraid of who in this world?

If Joseph made the decision at this time, he would definitely choose Plan 2 without hesitation and turn quickly. Saving his life is the first priority. Anyway, even if someone pushes his butt, he will not die. Now it is a situation of victory, so there is no need to take risks. In addition, if it is Joseph, he would definitely not let himself appear on the battlefield.

But the Marshal Treville was neither Napoleon nor Joseph. So, well, at the beginning he was determined to adopt the Napoleon plan. However, as more shells hit the enemy ships, the enemy ships not only did not explode and sink, but instead increased their speed and the distance was getting closer and closer, the Marshal Treville hesitated again. He felt that it was difficult to stop the enemy ship from colliding with such a short distance, so he ordered the warship to turn. This order was considered an important reason for the great losses of the "Englando" and finally had to abandon the ship.

Marshal Treville and Captain Morau both had insufficient estimates of the losses caused by the warship's steering ability after losing the bow. Therefore, when the British "Queen Elizabeth" approached only four hundred meters, the "Embelador" began to turn clumsyly avoid it.

However, the speed of the "Elizabeth" was so slow that it was beyond everyone's expectations. After a long time, it took forty-five degrees, and then the "Queen Elizabeth" hit the head with a burning flame.

If the "Englando" has completed the steering, at most it will be damaged in the rear several cabins. If the propeller is finished, there will be no big deal if it needs to be dragged away from behind. If it is back for overhaul, it may be useful.

If you don't turn at all and are hit by the "Queen Elizabeth" in the middle, the loss will definitely be very serious. The series of cabins in the center will definitely be over. However, if the cabins are damaged, they will most likely not sink. As long as there is no problem with the keel, they will be dragged back for repair. At least they can be sold to the Turks by backhand.

However, when hit by the forty-five degrees, the situation was completely different. The bow of the Queen Elizabeth rowed along the port side of the "Embelador", almost cutting open all the watertight tanks on the left.

The surging sea water suddenly poured into the cabin. Even though the "Engel-Berrado" had relatively neat damage management personnel, in the face of such a situation, there was still no way to do so. In order to avoid the sinking of the warship, the French could only urgently lock the doors of all the watertight cabins on the port side. Because of this action alone, as many as 110 drowned naval soldiers.

Because the port side quickly entered water, the "Engelodor" began to tilt to the left quickly. In order to avoid the ship's retract, rescuers had to inject water into some cabins on the starboard side to seek balance. However, there were too many damaged cabins on the port side. If the balance was really to be restored, the "Engelodor" would directly become a submarine.

Fortunately, when the Navy designed this warship, Joseph's insistence, he adopted a relatively small compartment, and not only divided multiple compartments horizontally, but also divided multiple compartments vertically. This design provided the "Engelato" with very good sink resistance. So after such action, the "Engelato" actually floated barely on the water surface and did not sink. However, the ship was leaning to nearly thirty degrees, and people could no longer stand on the deck, and the steam engines and so on were naturally shut down.

Of course, the "Queen Elizabeth" was not much better. She had already entered a lot of water. The head of her ship was also crushed and the sea water poured in quickly from here. The "Queen Elizabeth" adopted a large compartment design, and the damage staff suffered heavy losses and could not control the situation at all. So her bow first sank, and the stern of the ship was raised high, and the copper propeller, the red painted bottom, and the barnacles attached to the bottom of the ship were exposed. Some sailors were holding various floating objects, jumping into the sea, and swam hard to move towards the distance. They all knew that the ship was about to sink. If they could not swim far before the ship sank, they would be pulled into the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool formed when the ship sank.

Because there was also a large amount of sea water in the cabin at the tail, the sea water pressed down, causing the keel of the "Queen Elizabeth" to rattle. At the same time, the sea water poured into the cabin, and the compressed air gushed out from various gaps, making a whistle sound like a whistle, which was so exciting. In the end, the keel of the "Queen Elizabeth" could no longer bear such pressure, and it broke into two pieces in a loud bang. The stern of the ship hit the water surface hard, splashing huge waves. Then the broken warship quickly sank into the sea, leaving only a large whirlpool on the sea surface. Many soldiers who jumped into the sea before they had time to swim far away, were also caught by the whirlpool when the ship sank and sank into the sea bottom.

According to post-war statistics, only six of the more than 600 officers and soldiers on the "Queen Elizabeth" were rescued in the end. Others, including General Nelson, the commander of the fleet, sank with the ship.

The battle behind was completely one-sided. Although the French battleship "Elizabeth" had lost its combat effectiveness, the second detachment was already in place. Under the attack of the cross fire of the French fleet, any British warship that was still on the battlefield was seriously damaged. Just when the "Queen Elizabeth" launched an attack on the "Elizabeth", three British cruisers were slowly sinking.

When the "Queen Elizabeth" sank, the French transferred the firepower that had been pressed on the "Queen Elizabeth", so the situation of these remaining British warships became even more difficult. Although the British navy was indeed worthy of the Z-flag raised by General Nelson and the order that "England requires everyone to perform their duties". However, the situation of the war was not always evacuated. Just half an hour later, all the British warships had either sunk or were sinking. The French had stopped shooting and sent small boats to salvage British soldiers who fell into the water.

On the other hand, Admiral Treville had already boarded a small boat and moved to the battleship "Caesar". Most of the crew also left the battleship "Engbelado". Of course, except for those sailors who were sealed in watertight cabins and were still hitting the deck with wrenches and other things.

The French cruiser "Lyon" approached the battleship "Engbelado" and dragged it with a cable to try to drag it back to France. The keel of the ship was not broken, and it was dragged back for repair. Maybe it could be sold to the Turks for money.

However, in the evening, wind began to rush on the sea and the waves became higher and higher. The condition of the "Embelado" deteriorated rapidly, and the degree of rolling quickly increased to about 40 degrees and continued to expand. At around 8 o'clock in the evening, the entire boat suddenly turned back and began to sink gradually.

Under the order of the Admiral Treville, the "Lyon" untied the cable that was dragging the "Engelodor". At 9:15 that night, under the watch of the entire fleet, the "Engelodor" sank into the cold North Atlantic Ocean.

By this time, the results of the entire battle were completely out. The British lost the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" and two super cruisers and six armored cruisers, and only the super cruiser "Yorkshire" successfully broke through. In this way, the British Navy has now lost all her new battleships except for the other "Queen Elizabeth" warships of the same class that had only been built on the ship platform. She now has only four super cruisers and ten armored cruisers left. Although this number is still good compared to other countries, it is impossible for them to compete with the French for sea control with these forces alone. Today's British Navy can only act as a shore defense force under the cover of coastal artillery and mines to prevent the possible landing wars of the French.
Chapter completed!