In a close-range duel between two warships that are twice as big as each other, according to the consistent experience of the coalition forces, it is a big victory over a small one.
The fire from more than fifty cannons on a 500-ton warship can submerge a 200-ton warship.
The other party is absolutely unlucky.
But what they saw in front of them made all the coalition sailors and captains stunned.
Both ships were harmed, and the war ship was even more severely damaged.
This shows that the Ming army's warships are invincible in close combat and must not be destroyed together.
The Japanese navy is fighting in close combat.
Several warships behind these two warships immediately turned to the southeast, trying to stay as far away from these pagan warships as possible.
At this time, Lan San's Li Daozong followed the patrol ship and entered the coalition's formation.
Behind Li Daozong, Tang-class battleships such as Hou Junji, Gao Xianzhi, and Zhang Yichao, as well as Song-class battleships such as Wu Lin, filed in. enter.
Next to them were some old-fashioned Galen ships and some lucky ships Haicang accompanying them on the voyage.
The navy of the Polu Army was like a sharp sword, cutting through the two sections of the coalition's long snake formation, breaking through the formation of dozens of coalition fleets in the front formation.
Then a large group of Akito battleships rushed into this large gap.
Sanders and Van Penny, who had already caught up, realized at this time that if Mingren were allowed to rush in, Mingren would soon arrive at Anping Bay, and then the siege and reinforcements would lose any meaning.
Akito will not be in a hurry then, but they will be anxious when they are far away from the rear.
The coalition is a loose alliance.
Facing difficulties and delays, if it fails, it will be in danger of collapse.
In the future, such a huge fleet will be gathered to fight the Akito decisively.
It is impossible.
Sanders and Van Penny raised their flags and asked the allied warships from the north, south and the west to fight to the death with the Ming people.
They would definitely entangle the Ming people and give the more than 700 Zheng Zhilong warships that were coming from behind a chance. , this is their only hope, otherwise the Polu army broke into Anping to relieve the siege.
Zhang Huan's Wang Jian followed Li Hu's flagship Yue Fei into the enemy's formation.
To his left were two English warships, one large and one small, rushing over.
Their shorter and thinner bodies were completely different from those of the Dutch and Spanish warships.
They were turning and approaching, approaching only one mile to the left of the Wang Jian.
At this time, they could no longer care about the power of the Polu army in close combat.
Now they only had close combat to entangle Mingren's warship.
Wang Qiang looked through the gun window on the side at the approaching coalition warship that had passed sideways.
He estimated that it was better to get closer, but he could also start bombarding.
After all, there were more than a dozen twenty-four guns on the artillery deck. 36-pound, 36-pound, and 48-pound long-barreled guns.
Their range is sufficient.
Of course, this depends on Captain Zhang's decision.
There was a sound on the wooden gangway, and the first mate stuck his head out, "Wang Qiang, open fire and beat them red hairs."
Wang Qiang nodded fiercely.
He had been waiting for a long time.
All the pellet bags have been packed, and Wang Qiang's order is required.
Wang Qiang shouted to the left and right, "Fire."
As soon as Wang Qiang's words were spoken, there was a muffled sound and it turned out that the 500-ton English warship opposite opened fire first.
The smoke completely shrouded it, and for a while you couldn't see its shadow at all, but the long-barreled guns on the deck of the Wang Jian had already adjusted their muzzles.
They made a huge sound, and the pungent fireworks filled the air.
The entire artillery deck was completely invisible.
The huge recoil pushed the ship back hard, and everyone paused.
At this moment, I heard a muffled bang outside, and even faintly heard the howling of sailors.
Then with a bang, a projectile hit a gun porthole, immediately shattering the porthole, but the projectile also lost power and fell into the sea.
There was a louder bang, some wood chips flew from the side of the gun deck, and a gunner shouted loudly.
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His right shoulder was hit by two pieces of wood and bleeding profusely.
He covered his shoulder and shouted in pain.
Some other wood chips did not injure other gunners, but a bowl-sized gap appeared on the side where the bullet was shot, and the sunlight from outside shone in from there.
Wang Qiang breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately in misfortune.
Zhang Huan was observing his own results with a telescope at this time.
I saw four large holes in the side of the English warship opposite, two of which were particularly shocking.
They were obviously the results of the forty-eight-pounder cannon.
These two holes were irregularly huge.
The only pity was that they were both located on the upper part of the deck. .
It doesn't seem to be the artillery deck, Zhang Huan grinned sadly.
Sure enough, the opponent suddenly made a huge roar after a short pause.
Large plumes of smoke and fire spewed out.
At this time, the Wang Jian also shook, and a lot of gunpowder smoke floated up from below.
There was a constant hissing sound, which was the sound of projectiles flying.
Puffing, puffing, and making several loud noises in succession, Wang Jian's huge body began to shake.
The Wang Jian was hit five times in succession.
Two projectiles hit the gun deck, and one of the projectiles broke through the ship's plate, but instead of breaking into the ship, it fired dozens of fragments and injured two Polu gunners.
But a huge thirty-six-pounder shot broke into the ship's plank.
It hit a twenty-four-pounder long-barreled gun, destroyed its muzzle, and then hit a nearby thirty-six-pounder short-barreled gun.
The cannon finally hit a Polu gunner, killing him on the spot, and the rain of debris it caused caused minor injuries to three Polu gunners.
Wang Qiang immediately ordered the soldiers to help the injured gunner down, bandage his wounds, and carry the body of the dead gunner down.
Then he ordered the soldiers to resume the attack immediately.
The blood debt must be repaid with blood.
A projectile on the upper deck hit the rear mainmast.
The rear mainmast made a loud noise and was teetering on the verge of falling.
However, the mainmast stood stubbornly.
Although it was obvious that it could not support it for much longer, this gave the mainmast confidence.
When the three robber sailors on the mast escaped, they adjusted the direction of the sail on the mainmast and stayed there.
Zhang Huan didn't pay attention to this at this time.
He used a telescope to look at the enemy on the opposite side.
Three large holes suddenly appeared in the telescope lens, two of which were extremely huge and almost connected together, like a huge side door for the enemy ship.
Even part of the artillery inside was exposed, and in the sunlight There was a metallic luster underneath.
Zhang Huan returned his hand vigorously.
He knew how huge the damage caused by two 36-pounder or 48-pounder projectiles.
The enemy's artillery deck must be in a mess.
I am afraid that these few guns can kill more than half of the gunners and greatly reduce the opponent's combat effectiveness.
At this time, Zhang Huan heard the whining sound on his deck.
He looked up and saw that the mainmast was swaying.
Zhang Huan frowned.
Losing one of the four mainmasts would slow down the ship.
After all, such a large hull is pulled by eight huge sails and four topsails on the four mainmasts.
Other gaff jibs are mainly used to adjust the angle and heading.
This means losing a quarter of the power.
Fortunately, today's impact was accompanied by Fu Chuan and Haicang.
The speed of the boat was not too fast and was still within Zhang Huan's acceptable range.
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Next, Zhang Huan's guess became a reality.
Only about half of the opponent's artillery roared, and the other artillery was silent.
Only a few of these artillery pieces were 24-pounders, the others were 18- or 12-pounders, which did little damage to the Wang Jian, and the only two 36-pounders had gone silent. .
Wang Qiang ordered the gunners to fire a third salvo.
Standing behind the gun window, he could clearly see that four more holes had been drilled into the side of the opponent.
The side of the 500-ton warship had been torn apart.
There are holes everywhere.
Wang Qiang was convinced.
He firmly believed in the power of Tiago's can opener, and the opponent had only a few cannons left.
Sure enough, just for a moment, the ship began to turn eastward, and its cannons no longer made any sound, only the stern guns fired back feebly.
The gun deck was filled with joy.
At this time, many people were waving their arms excitedly.
They had suffered casualties.
Only seeing the blood and defeat of the enemy with one's own eyes was the most satisfying thing.
Zhang Huan waved his right arm fiercely on the upper deck.
It was so refreshing.
As a captain, is there anything more satisfying than seeing the enemy retreat in haste and licking their wounds?
The answer was yes, and a series of explosions were heard.
Zhang Huan hurriedly turned his head and saw that the gun deck of the more than 200-ton English warship continued to explode, the hull was torn apart, fire and thick smoke poured out from inside, and even the upper deck began to collapse.
Three The mainmast lurched this way and that, and the sailors above howled and fell from the mainmast rope ladder into the fire and smoke below.
There are also gunners covered in fireworks who jumped from the gun deck with many large holes to escape.
The gun deck is now a crematorium, devouring the bodies of the dead and wounded.
This is not surprising at all, because its opponent is the huge ship Yue Fei with 800 tons and 66 cannons, including more than ten 48-pound cannons.
This is simply a showdown between heavyweights and bantamweights, an exhibition match of abuse and abuse.
The largest gun of this English warship is the 18-pounder, and the others are 12-pounder and 9-pounder.
These projectiles are like tickling the Yue Fei and can hardly damage the Yue Fei.
But the more than thirty cannons on the side of the Yue Fei were like hammers smashing walnuts.
The six projectiles in the first round almost destroyed the gun deck of the warship, and the remaining two bombardments only made it a minor hit. , can only endure hard.
The second bombardment ignited the ammunition bag on the gun deck, followed by a series of big explosions, and it slowly sank with smoke and fire.
It seems that the warships flying the English flag are not very lucky today.
Zhang Huan shook his head.
Alas, looking at the record of the Yue Fei, the record of the Wang Jian was not worth mentioning.
He just didn't think that his opponent was a large battleship of more than 500 tons, not the little Douding opposite the Yue Fei
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