Chapter 509 Bombardment of Manila Harbor Westerners all believe in gunboat diplomacy, and they all think that the truth is only within the range of naval guns.The strength of the two sides is very obvious, but unfortunately, the strength of the Spanish Philippine Governor's Office is far inferior to that of the Dutch.Their real plan was to escape back to the port of Manila and use the fixed batteries in the port to fight against the powerful Ming naval fleet.However, the regrettable problem is that at the first moment of Quanxu's attack, it was the four hunting submarines of the whole family army that rushed forward, not to mention the anti-aircraft guns that only had 37 mm.The maximum range of this anti-aircraft gun was 8,500 meters, and the rate of fire was 350 rounds per minute.The ship didn't even have time to fire back before it was cut in two.In less than a pillar of incense, the main Spanish warship sank to the bottom of the sea, and as the warship sank, a huge whirlpool was formed, sucking the surrounding Spanish sailors into the whirlpool.The other four Spanish ships were even more frightened, and they fled with their sails full.However, this escape is doomed to be in vain.The maximum speed of the submarine hunt is thirty-five knots, and in front of the submarine hunting, the Spanish warship is like a snail crawling on the sea.However, the submarine hunters did not continue to pursue these four Spanish warships, and they gave the opportunity to the main warships of the whole family army, that is, sixteen flying shark warships.You must know that these 16 new-type warships, since they were put into service, are still the first time to engage in actual combat, and no matter how well they study the theory and how accurately they fight at the shooting range, they are not as real as the actual combat on the battlefield."
Boom, boom, boom......" 130 mm 28 times the caliber of the breech-loading rifled guns began to bombard the fleeing Spanish ships, but it was not easy to hit the enemy's ships on the undulating seas.However, the accuracy of rifled guns is not comparable to that of smoothbore guns, let alone power.In the era when there were no high-explosive guns and incendiary bombs, it was not easy to sink a battleship, and a few pounds of solid lead ball seemed really small for a battleship of several hundred tons or thousands of tons.Like the oak warships built by the Spaniards and the Dutch, hitting twenty or thirty eight-pounder shells is like tickling, like twelve-pounder shells, and it is not a problem to hit a dozen or so shells, at most causing casualties.Even sixteen-pound shells can't kill a ship in a pound.The biggest threat to their main warships is the kind of thirty-two-pounder or forty-pounder guns, like the thirty-two-pounder guns, which have a caliber of 64 inches, which is equivalent to 16,255 mm.Take a two-point-and-five-pounder cannon with a maximum range of 1,500 yards.It is a pity that the accuracy is limited and it is necessary to reach the shooting, at a distance of four hundred meters, it is possible to penetrate the broadside deck of the main battleship.The problem is that such solid shells are only solid shells, and the one hundred and thirty-mm breech-loading rifled guns took flowering shells, and to deal with such wooden warships, sulfur flowering shells were used.Sixteen Flying Shark ships, each of which can fire a salvo of 12 or 14 guns.The 130-millimeter guns roared at the same time, and the black hole erupted a thunderstorm-like fire, and the entire battleship seemed to retreat.Twelve sulfur bombs swept through the air and smashed into the enemy ship 1,600 meters away.Two-thirds of the shells missed, stirring up high columns of water on the sea, but one shell hit the Spanish merchant ship directly, smashing a large hole in the hull.Jeon Wook was a little dissatisfied.Only one of the twelve shells in one salvo hit, and this hit rate was very low.However, for the Spaniards, this first round of shelling, one out of twelve shells hit directly, this hit rate was already very ideal, and it was impossible to change the best cannon of the Spaniards."
Ship 16 stops shelling!"
It was not that Quan Xu interfered with the command, but there was no need to continue the shelling, and after only a few seconds, the armed merchant ship rose into thick smoke, and soon converged into a black column of smoke and rose into the sky, the fire rushed from the bottom bilge of the battleship, climbed to the deck, the rigging and sails became the best ignitions, and the powder keg exploded one after another, emitting a huge roar one after another.The entire merchant ship was blown to pieces and large fireballs were thrown in all directions.The flames swept across the deck, all the way up to the top of the mast, and the huge sails turned into torches, and the light of the fire could be clearly seen twenty or thirty kilometers away!
The other Spaniards watched in amazement, and they couldn't believe that such a large ship had been destroyed with just a cannonball!
Mao Yuanyi took a breath of cool air and muttered, "Even if this ship is not sunk, it will be completely destroyed......
With such a fierce fire, who would dare to stay on it?
Terrible, terrible!
”"Fortunately, this is only an armed merchant ship, the gunpowder on the direct warship is several times or even more than ten times that of the armed merchant ship, and when the fire burns, the gunpowder in the gunpowder magazine is detonated, and the entire battleship will be blown to pieces!""
Fifteen ready!"
The generals of the whole family army are also overjoyed, with such a large caliber and such a high hit rate, they can complete the task assigned by Quan Xu.At this time, the naval soldiers on the Spanish warships were very desperate, and less than half an hour after the battle began, two of their main warships had already sunk.One is worse than the other.The warship that was directly cut in half, because there was no fire, most of the soldiers were drowned in the sea, such a death is a well-deserved death for professional soldiers like them.But the problem is that this kind of cannonball that burns the ship is so evil that many Spanish sailors who were burned to the ground let out a terrible scream, but the point is, it is just a cannonball.Of course, when the whole family army fought against the Zheng fleet, the more troublesome thing was the wolf pack tactics of the Zheng fleet, although their warships were smaller than the Spanish warships and had fewer artillery, but the problem was that there were too many of them.As the emerging hegemon of Europe, the Dutch who dared to directly challenge the suzerain, they could only spend money to buy peace in the face of Zheng Zhilong's threat, which is the best embodiment of the advantage of the sea of people.If you can't fight alone, you can fight in groups, and it is difficult to beat four hands with two fists, and a good tiger can't stand up to many wolves.However, the Spaniards did not have such confidence, they had fewer ships and fewer people, and they could not withstand such losses.Just as the fifteenth ship fired a salvo at the Spanish warship, the remaining three Spanish warships put away their naval guns and waved flags, telling the whole family and navy that they had surrendered.It's just a pity that the whole family of soldiers of the Spaniards couldn't understand the flag language, they continued to shell, and even some soldiers were still wondering: "Are these Spaniards stupid, how can they put away the cannons?"
”Something happened that made the Spaniards vomit blood, they put away their naval guns, put on their gun jackets, and prepared for a decent surrender.As a result, the 9th and 13th Sea Sharks and the 12th Sea Shark ships opened fire at the same time, and nearly forty sulfur bombs smashed into the Spanish ships.This time the fire was even more ferocious, the worst of which was the Spanish flagship, which was in front of it, and one of its masts was broken by a shell, and the mainsail fell with a bang, announcing that the battleship had lost power.Another shell hit the rudder, and the rudder was about to be shattered, and then it was a good thing, the whole battleship was a stranded whale, and it was definitely finished, and if it was on the battlefield, it would have been overwhelmed with artillery fire until it sank.It's just that because it was a sulfur bomb, in just a dozen seconds, a fire ignited, thick smoke billowed out, and in the blink of an eye, the fire rushed to the deck.The gunpowder barrel stored in one gun emplacement was ignited by sparks, and a violent explosion occurred, which was terrible, and the gunpowder of other gun emplacements exploded with a bang, and the explosion in the thick smoke flashed like lightning, and the hull structure was shattered in the violent explosion, and the deck fragments flew around, and in just ten seconds, the entire battleship was already a mess and became a fireship.The Spaniards don't know Chinese, otherwise they will roar at Quan Xu: "You don't play cards according to common sense!"
”…… When Colonel Vargas came to the Governor's Palace again, Coraqua looked at Vargas with a solemn expression and poured him a glass of wine."
Is the situation bad?"
Vargas nodded slowly: "That Eastern nobleman refused to negotiate with us!"
”"At this time, it's time for the navy to engage the Ming navy, right?""
It's over!""
The Ming Navy is still so vulnerable!"
In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch, with seven warships and more than 900 infantry, defeated the Ming naval division and sank more than 80 warships of the Ming navy.It's just that Nan Juyi, the governor of Fujian, led more than 10,000 Ming troops and more than 200 warships to besiege Penghu, and the Dutch had to withdraw from Penghu Island.What he feared most was that the infantry of the Ming army, not the navy of the Ming army, although the Dutch suffered a big loss at the hands of the Ming army's naval divisions, but he stubbornly believed that the Dutch were deliberately propagating false news, and their real purpose was to annex the island of Taiwan for monopoly."
Our navy is defeated!""
How is this possible?
Just with the small and broken warships of the Ming army?
”"Actually, we were wrong!"
Vargas said with a wry smile: "Our fleet in the Philippines has been completely destroyed, according to the battle report that came back, the Ming army has hundreds of powerful cannons, firing a Qingyi type of flowering shell, under one cannon, the landslide and the ground cracked, and the navy's warships were sunk by their cannons!"
”The "boom, boom, boom......" series of shelling caused the dust of the governor's palace to fall from the beams and roofs of the house, as if it were snow, and the dust was kicked one after another.Vargas looked desperate: "The Ming army has shelled the mouth of the alley, we have no time!"
”"No, we still have a chance!"
Coraqua said with a hideous face: "We, we still have the forts, we still have six strong forts!"
”"Bang bang bang!
An unfamiliar gunshot began to ring out in the city of Manila.