On the deck of the Ming army, the medical guards lifted the wounded soldiers who fell in pools of blood to the side and bandaged their wounds.
The gunners quickly cleared and reloaded, and then worked together to push the cannon out of the blast window.All of a sudden, I saw the gunboats, the side gun windows, and the guns of one door stretched out one after another, and the muzzles were aimed at the enemy fleet, which was already close to one and a half miles.At this time, on the opposite battleship, the sailors and artillerymen felt that the Ming army was about to start the next round of shelling, and there was a shout of Xiyi on the deck, as well as screams."
Fire!"
Zheng Chenggong shook his fist and roared."
Put!"
The officers on deck roared and roared.The gunners hurriedly dropped the torch, and the entire gunboat trembled under a series of loud noises.Fifteen gunboats of the Ming army once again threw nearly 500 shells at the enemy ships.Most of the Ming artillery shells were firing shells, combined with a small number of chain shells and solid shells, and smashed into enemy ships.Thirteen enemy battleships splashed around them, countless water columns from conflicts, cannonballs hit the side of the enemy ships, and suddenly exploded, and a Dutch battleship appeared a black hole on the side of the ship, rising thick black smoke.The badly damaged Dutch battleship immediately reduced its speed, adjusted its sails, and sailed northwest, becoming the first enemy ship to break away from naval battle."
Good!"
Zheng Chenggong smashed his fist on the helm tower and praised loudly, "The Dutch ship is fast, but the hull is fragile, and we have an obvious advantage without fighting!"
”The Dutch, as second-hand dealers and sea coachmen, sacrificed the stability of the ship in order to load more cargo each time and expand the cargo capacity of the ship, so the hull strength of the ship was not good.The Dutch ship, which rushed the fastest, suffered a concentrated fire, and its side was blown open by flowering shells, and it could only withdraw from the battlefield.In contrast, the French and British ships were much stronger, especially the British ships, one of which was supposed to be made of American oak, and the side side obviously ate a few shots, but did not cause much damage.Just when the Ming army was rejoicing in seriously injuring an enemy ship, the enemy ships also launched a counterattack.The sailors of the Ming army saw the side of the battleship opposite, the cannon flame flickered, and countless shells whistled again.The gunners on the deck exclaimed, and hurriedly crouched down, and at this moment, the ship's side exploded, and the cannonball swept across a section of the deck in an instant, and a chain bullet broke the sail lock, tore the sail, and the ship suddenly creaked and changed course.On the Weiyuan Wangdou, the soldiers who looked at the watch suddenly shouted urgently, "The Chaoyong sailline is destroyed, the Yangyong mainmast is broken, and the speed of the two ships has slowed down." ”"Your Highness!
Xiyi wants to use chain bullets to disrupt our formation!
”Yang Geng said urgently.At the tail of the Ming fleet, the two battleships, because the sail system was destroyed by chain bombs, slowed down and gradually fell behind.Zheng Chenggong understood Xiyi's intentions, and the other party wanted to destroy the sail rope of the Ming army's tail warship and force the Ming army's tail ships to fall behind, so as to change the numerical superiority of the Ming army's fleet on the warship.At this time, if Zheng Chenggong slows down and waits for the fallen battleship, then the Xiyi warship can rely on its speed to seize the "T" head.Once the "T" head is seized in a naval battle, then the fleet with the head "one" line can use the side guns to concentrate fire on the head of the "丨" formation.In this way, the opposing multiple gunboats will fire at the same time on the side of the ship, and only the bow of the ship on their own side can fire their guns, and they will inevitably be severely damaged by the salvo of concentrated fire.Therefore, Zheng Chenggong must not slow down, must remain parallel to the enemy fleet, always face each other on the side side, and must not let the enemy ship seize the "T" head.In this way, the battleship with the sail destroyed behind it will be thrown out of the wargroup because the speed cannot keep up."
Reload!
Continue to concentrate fire on the enemy's vanguard battleships.The whole ship accelerates forward!
”Zheng Chenggong made a decision in a moment, regardless of Chaoyong and Yangyong, there were thirteen ships left, moving forward at full speed.At this time, the Ming gunners completed the loading again, and the fleets of the two sides had already closed the distance in the incessant artillery bombardment, and the fleets were close to a mile apart, and the panicked figures on the other deck could be seen."
Fire!"
The Ming officer roared again.The side volley, the Ming battleship, sprayed a long cannon flame, the battleship through the smoke of gunpowder, continued to ride the wind and waves forward.The Xiyi combined fleet bombarded the tail of the Ming army, and the Ming army slammed the head of Xiyi, and this time, the Dutch warship, which was faster and had a bloody feud with the Ming army, suffered heavy losses again.In the sound of "boom" cannons, the Dutch battleship that rushed to the front was hit by the Ming artillery shells one after another, and the explosion almost blew up the hull, and in the loud sound of "boom", the flowering bomb detonated the powder keg on the Dutch battleship, and the entire battleship broke into two halves in the huge explosion, and the head and tail were raised high and sank into the sea.Due to the distance of nearly one mile, the accuracy of the Ming artillery bombardment was greatly improved, and while sinking a Dutch battleship, the number of shells was missing, and the British flagship was hit again.With a loud bang, the flowering bomb that hit the side of the ship was actually bounced off the side of the ship and exploded in the air.Seeing this, Zheng Chenggong felt a burst of surprise and couldn't help but widen his eyes.In the last round of artillery bombardment, the British flagship was taken care of, and the losses were very small, even though it was hit by several guns.At that time, the distance was too far for Zheng Chenggong to see really, but now that the distance was close, he found that half of the shells were bounced off by the British ship."
It's an ironclad ship!"
Zheng Chenggong knew that Zhao Ming was studying this kind of warship.However, solid shells, which smashed on the British ship, still had shells that smashed the side of the British ship.In fact, this is a British ship made of a tough oak wood, which is close to the hardness of a battleship wrapped in iron.In the next ten years, a fierce battle will break out between the Russian fleet and the Ottoman Turkish fleet on the Sea of Azov.Both sides were wooden battleships, and the Ottoman Turkish fleet concentrated all its artillery and bombarded the Russian fleet fiercely, but as soon as the shells touched the hull of the Russian battleship, they bounced out and fell into the water.This took the Ottoman Turkish navy by surprise, and before they could wake up, they were defeated by the counter-attacking Russian warships and suffered a huge defeat.The naval battle made the Russian navy intimidating Europe, and the reason why their wooden warships were able to withstand artillery bombardment was because the battleships were made of a sacred wood from Voronezh, and this sacred wood was a thorny oak tree.Zheng Chenggong reacted, this is just a relatively hard wood, and at this moment, the opposite fleet suddenly roared loudly, and a black iron ball rushed out of white smoke and flew rapidly in the direction of Weiyuan.There was a loud "bang", not far from the helm tower, the ship's side suddenly exploded, and a cannonball wrapped in countless pieces of wood rushed into the side side, and then with a loud "boom", it exploded violently, and the air wave instantly overturned several gunners.After the explosion, the deck was in shambles, and the wounded sailors and artillerymen began to scream, they were nailed by broken wood and shrapnel, and one by one they were bleeding profusely, and they fell to the ground screaming loudly, and their bodies were shaking and spasming violently in severe pain.()