Chapter 392 How did they do it In the blink of an eye, the rockets hit the Dutch battleships, and on the Dutch battleships that were hit, the decks, sails, and masts were all on fire, and the explosions were incessant.Obviously, there were only nine small wrecked ships, but the Exocet battleships fired a full hundreds of guns with the density and momentum of fire, the smoke and flames rolled, the flames soared into the sky, and the Dutch battleships that rushed up one after another burned in the violent explosion, and even turned into broken planks flying in the sky, and the losses of the Dutch combined fleet skyrocketed.Unlike ordinary artillery, artillery needs to be emptied of the breech, loaded with propellant, and then stuffed into the shell, but the rocket needs to be aimed at the enemy ship and the fuse can be ignited directly.After only a dozen breaths of 270 rocket launches, followed by 270 rockets, these two waves of meteor fires quickly ignited more than 20 warships of the Dutch fleet into fireballs.The gun bureau in southern Liaoning has a commonality, that is, if you invent good things, you can use them.For example, the rear-loading flowering shell, the explosive part of the shell, takes a lot of sulfur, which is very easy to ignite the fire.Of course, when the Shenhuo II Shenhuo Flying Raven was manufactured, there were not only high-explosive bombs, but also sulfur bombs that were easy to cause fires.In particular, the brimstone bomb is a weakened version of the incendiary bomb, and any one hit will set the battleship on fire, and the only thing the sailors can do is to abandon the ship while the fire is not burning, because with the equipment on their ship, it is impossible to extinguish such a fire.The Exocet battleships were slender and difficult to aim, and the Dutch guns almost missed their blows, and at this time, the superiority of the well-trained Dutch navy came into play, and they did not need to be ordered by Irwin, the commander, when they found that solid shells could not hit Exocet.The experienced Dutch sailors were equipped with shotguns, especially the Dutch battleships, which were equipped with a large number of broadside guns, which were usually fired to prevent the opponent from jumping into the gang.The function is almost the same as that of the close-in defense gun on the battleship of Mr.
Later Generations, this kind of cannon fires scattered shells within one or two hundred paces, and there are almost no dead angles, forming a large area of scattered shells.The "Boom ......" artillery shot at a straight trajectory and exploded more than 100 meters away from the target, and the steel balls flew out and hit them with their heads and faces, and the Flying Fish ships that were hit made a tooth-aching tuk sound, and the sailors who drove the ship let out a terrible scream, and they were all beaten to the point that they were not human.Four Exocets were ordered to scatter bombs and suffered heavy casualties."
Flying fish return to their nest quickly!"
Quan Xu knew that they had lost the possibility of attacking again, although the rocket was launched quickly, but the reloading was too slow, and the sky was bright and the line of sight was open, and if they continued to fight, the Flying Fish would no longer be able to take advantage."
All......
Handsome" A crying voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Fly......
Fish......
Number Five......
Finished. ”Through the footage transmitted by the drone, I saw corpses strewn all over the deck of Exocet 5, and only two soldiers survived, they did not jump into the sea or raise the white flag, but took torches and began to ignite Exocet V.The rudder of the Exocet 5 had been broken by the shelling, and they had only two surviving soldiers who could not replace the spare rudder, and the Exocet V, which had lost control, lost its ability to steer and spun in place.Several Dutch fleets spotted the Exocet 5 and began to fire at the Exocet V, and Elwin wanted to know how the Exocet fired the kind of guns that would fly and explode.At least one armed Dutch merchant ship threw hooks and hooked the Exocet 5, rope ladders were set up on the large Dutch ship, and Dutch sailors with fire guns boarded Exocet 5 to prepare to put out the fire.Jeon Wook sighed.Judging from the results of the battle, even if ten Exocets were exhausted, he would not have lost anything, more than 20 Dutch ships caught fire with rockets, and the losses of the entire military and naval division were almost negligible.Just when dozens of Dutch sailors boarded the Exocet 5, Exocet 5 began to explode from the cabin, because Exocet 5 still had more than 200 spare rockets, and these rockets were actually bombs, and rockets with a total weight of more than one ton exploded in the cabin, and Exocet 5 turned into a brilliant fireworks on the sea.A Dutch armed merchant ship close to the Exocet 5 was also affected by the explosion, and the huge armed merchant ship was blown into two pieces and there was no possibility of rescue.Quan Xu reconnoitred through the drone screen, looking at the thirty-three soldiers on the Flying Fish 5 dying in the sea, and his mood was a little heavy.That is, because Quan Xu can't go back now, otherwise he has a hundred ways to deal with this combined fleet of the Dutch.Fortunately, the other three Exocets barely escaped the effective range of the Dutch's naval guns.Although the losses of the Flying Fish fleet are far weaker than those of the Dutch and the Zheng fleet, the key is that the total number of Flying Fish at this time is only nine, and the No. 4 Flying Fish has been severely damaged in the battle with the Zheng fleet, and fortunately, it is night, and the line of sight is not enough, otherwise the No. 4 Flying Fish will not have time to withdraw from the battlefield.Now that the fifth Exocet has sunk, the No. 7 Exocet, the No. 9 Exocet, and the No. 2 Exocet have suffered heavy casualties, and now only five Exocet warships are still fighting."
Count you ruthless, you have a boat, Lao Tzu can't afford it with you!"
Quan Xu ordered indignantly: "Let's retreat, release the smoke, retreat!"
”Originally, releasing smoke was a standard tactic for naval retreat, but in this era, such a habit had not yet been formed, and the eight Exocets released smoke in unison, which was actually not considered a success, and did not completely cover the whereabouts of the eight Exocets.However, the Dutch were frightened by the rockets on the Exocet battleship, and thought that the smoke was the secret weapon of the family navy, or some kind of poisonous smoke.As a result, eight Exocets were successfully withdrawn from the battlefield, and the Dutch did not dare to chase them.Instead of retreating towards Lushun, Jeon Wook and Flying Fish retreated in the direction of Dengzhou, which made the Dutch Combined Fleet waste the best opportunity to pursue.The Royal Elephant Oak, Erwin knew that he had fallen for the evil of his family's army, and suffered extremely heavy losses, not to mention that they only sank one flying fish, even if they killed all nine flying fish, it would still be difficult to recover their losses.After counting, Erwin's face could not smile, as many as twenty-one ships of the Dutch Combined Fleet suffered serious losses, of which nearly seventeen had no chance to be rescued, two of them successfully extinguished the fire, but they lost their repair value, and the other two still had repair value, but in this war, they could not catch up.Erwin pretended to smile lightly and said, "Put smoke before retreating, these guys really have a lot of tricks, they must have learned from cuttlefish!"
”The generals burst into laughter, commanded the fleet to launch a fierce pursuit, and vowed to destroy the Liaodong Naval Division in one fell swoop!
The Exocet fleet seemed to be very embarrassed and did not dare to return fire at all, in fact, the Exocet ships were not equipped with artillery at all, and their only weapon was rocket artillery.In the process of chasing and fleeing, the eight Exocets completed the loading of rocket launchers one after another."
I really didn't expect that we would win!"
Mao Yuanyi was very excited, he danced happily: "Great, now the Dutch have suffered such a big loss, they should be honest for a while!"
”There was no joy of victory on Quan Xu's face: "Forty-nine of us died, more than 30 were seriously injured, and more than 40 were lightly injured!"
”"War naturally has casualties, and that's normal!""
I know, it's just uncomfortable!"
Although Quan Xu is not satisfied, in fact, he has already played a record of 1 to 30.Quan Xu decided to solve the problems of the future generations as soon as possible, if he still had the rich materials of the later generations, this battle would not need to be so hard, even if he bought some speedboats from the later generations, with the artillery technology of this era, it was impossible to hit.If he buys some Weichai diesel engines and installs them on the Flying Fish, he can also let the Flying Fish run to a high speed of thirty knots, but it's a pity......
There aren't so many ifs......
Nearly an hour later, Erwin finally came to his senses.These eight small wrecked ships are honored to rely on their own ships to move faster and faster, and to move forward in the direction that the Dutch fleet is getting farther and farther away: "It's a plan!"
”Erwin ordered: "All ships stop pursuing, turn around, target Port Arthur!"
”Tossed for an hour, and the round trip is two hours, Quan Xu knows.With the speed of the Dutch fleet, they would not be able to catch up with Arthur during the day anyway, and at night, they could attack them again.At noon, the Venetian battleships Explorer and Warrior arrived in the battled waters, but to Helena's great surprise, the Dutch fleet was less than thirty ships.They were salvaging the bodies and searching for survivors, and Helena looked at the recovered bodies, which were almost all Dutch, not Jeon Xu's fleet."
So they won?"
Helena was in disbelief, but the broken planks floating on the surface of the sea, as well as the mess, the oil stains, and the corpses, all pointed to a great defeat for the Dutch."
God, am I dreaming?""
Your Royal Highness, you are not dreaming!"
Aberg communicated with the Spaniards in the distance, and five of the Spaniards' warships cruised the sea, and they witnessed the battle of the family army against the Dutch and the Zheng fleet.Whether it was the Dutch or the Zheng fleet, in just one night, they lost at least fifty or sixty warships, large and small.The number of casualties is around three or four thousand."
How did they do it?"
Aberg shrugged: "I don't know, I'm afraid this secret can only be solved by His Excellency the Earl of Xiuwu!"
”"I've decided!"
Helena looked at Aberg seriously and said: "We not only have to buy cement, but also buy their new naval guns, their kind of flying fish ship, in fact, it is very simple, with the financial resources of our Venice city-state republic, we have no problem building a hundred, if this kind of flying fish is really so powerful, a hundred flying fish, it is enough to protect the safety of Venice!"
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