Chapter 862 The number of desperate mines is actually not much, this is the experience summed up by the Ming Royal Navy in the battle with the Ottoman Empire's navy.The main warships of the Ming Royal Navy were faster than those of the Ottoman Empire, and their guns had a longer range and greater power.The Ming Royal Navy grew very rapidly in actual combat, and they adopted the tactics of mangu at sea.To put it simply, it is to use the advantage of speed to widen the distance between fleets and fleets, and use flexible and mobile methods to destroy enemy warships remotely.In this kind of battle, the Ottoman navy was beaten to a temper, and once in an accident, a transport ship was hit by the Ottoman artillery at an ultra-long distance to hit the auxiliary mast, the speed was two or three knots slower, in order to reduce the weight, the ship's mines, thrown into the sea.As a result, unexpected results were achieved, a transport ship was set and the result of sinking twenty-three warships of the Ottoman Empire with mines was created.Therefore, in the course of this sortie, the Daming Expedition to India Combined Fleet led by Hua An was equipped with mines on the main battleship, the Exocet battleship, which could carry 132 mines when fully loaded, and the Exocet battleship could carry 84.These mines of the Ganning were awakened and directly used to deal with these red-bearded pirates, and the power of the thunder was terrifying, stirring up thick and large columns of water, and the rumbling sound was deafening.The hit rate of this round of mines was not high, and most of the sixty-four mines did not hit the target, but there were still two Arab pirate ships that were hit by mines, and now, the Ganning did not fire a shot, and Redbeard lost six warships.At this time, Redbeard was a little panicked, and taking advantage of the opportunity of panic, he woke up and ordered: "Bow gun, prepare!"
”"Ready, aim for the seventh booking target!""
Fire!"
The 130 mm and 28 times diameter long-barreled naval guns of the "Boom ......" suddenly fired, and a large cloud of blazing smoke erupted from the muzzle, and the air waves swelled, and the rumbling sound was like rolling thunder, tearing the sky.The Arab sailors who were staring nervously at the sea and avoiding the mines were shocked to see a large cloud of white smoke and flames rising from the bow of the Ming warship, and a terrible whistling sound came from the air, and a fire meteor with sparks smashed almost straight towards them!
The high-speed cannonballs easily smashed through the hull of the ship, burrowed into the battleship and exploded, and the Arab pirates, who were relatively close to the explosion point, only felt as if a small sun was expanding in front of their eyes, and then their consciousness was wiped out.The power of the 130 mm high-explosive shells was undoubtedly terrifying, the blast wave spread overwhelmingly, the wooden hull was torn to pieces, countless wooden spikes mixed with shrapnel were fired in all directions at the speed of explosion, and the swept Arab sailors became oversized hedgehogs when they boarded, and were even torn to pieces, and the limbs, broken flesh, bones, and internal organs were splashed everywhere in the form of sprays.Rao Arabian pirates are all ruthless and bloody characters, and when they see this scene, they can't help but tremble, and a hot, smelly liquid gushes out from the roots of their descendants!
After the explosion, there is a fire, and the most disgusting thing about picric acid explosives is that not only the explosion is powerful, but also has a violent combustion effect, which can't kill you and burn you!
For sailboats, this thing is a nightmare, the whole ship is the best fuel, the wooden hull, waterproof asphalt, ropes piled up in the cabin, paint applied to the hull These things once they catch fire is the adulterer's encounter, out of control, the fire spread quickly, and the warship that was shot was in chaos.Redbeard exclaimed in shock, "What kind of cannon is this, so powerful?"
”Ahmad exclaimed in the same shock: "It's a bit like the heavy naval guns of the Venetians!"
I heard from the navy that the Venetians were equipped with a kind of heavy fleet, which was issued to fire a kind of cannonball that could drill into the inside of the battleship and explode, which was huge, and after the explosion, it would cause a fire, which was very terrifying. ”Actually, this answer is very close to the real yes.Quan Xu did sell a front-loading smoothbore gun to Helena, the number was not much, and it was all because the hydraulic lathe technology at that time was not up to par, and when the barrel rifling, there was a mistake, so the barrel had to be milled flat.The barrel of such an artillery is far less than the barrel life of the artillery in service in the Ming army, and although the power is good, the explosives of the shells are mainly sulfur incendiary bombs, although the power of this sulfur incendiary bombs is good, it is far less than picric acid explosives.It's okay not to say it, but this said, many Arab pirates changed their faces on the spot.The Venetian navy is a fierce enemy of the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottoman navy has suffered a lot in the Mediterranean, many of them have fought against the Venetian navy, and have been beaten all over the ground to find teeth, if this mercenary army is really Venetian, then they can be regarded as a game of ironclad!"
Boom ......" didn't have time to think about it, after an interval of ten seconds, the second shelling of the Ming battleship smashed over, and Su Xing never ordered to open the cannon to intercept, that is, to wait until the other party came to a distance of only three or two hundred meters away from him, and turned the rudder to show the gunwald, at this time the battleship was the largest bomb surface, with the Ming Navy soldiers' gunnery and rifled gun accuracy, it was almost a miss!
The heavy thunder rolled by, the sky collapsed, and another pirate warship was accurately hit, many pirates rose into the air together with the deck fragments, flying all over the sky, and the pirate ship that was shot one after another ignited a fire, and there was a violent explosion, many pirates were full of fire and rushed wildly, and the fire burned wherever it hit.This time the fire became more intense, the smoke in the cabin was a sea of fire, and the pirate captain commanded everyone to carry water with buckets to put out the fire, but the pungent smoke made it difficult to open people's eyes, and there was no way to put out the fire!
The mines hit six ships, and the ship's guns hit all two shots, and this kind of artillery accuracy made the pirates retreat, and such an enemy still had a fart.In front of the Ottoman Empire, the Venetian city-state republic was simply a disparity between ants and elephants, both in terms of population and territory, but as a result, the Ottoman navy was beaten to the point that it had no temper at all.The guns of the "Boom Boom Boom ......" pirate ships also launched an attack on the Ming army, and more than 100 cannons let out an earth-shattering roar, and the solid lead ball smashed over like hailstones, smashing up clusters of water columns in front and behind the Ming fleet.It can't be said that the red-bearded pirates are too weak, this is the normal level of play of the navy in this era, in fact, in the European naval war, the artillery is earth-shattering, and the shelling for several hours may have been a lonely battle.Even if the battleships and guns of the First World War were bombarded, it was possible to be empty for several hours, not to mention the naval guns of such a period, the sea was not as good as the land, the battleships had ups and downs, and where the shells could hit, it could only depend on fate.Only Quan Xu, a person of later generations, only knows what is called advance and what is called presight, Gan Ning is very simple, in fact, when their first shot began to bombard, they had already distanced themselves from the pirates at full speed, although the third shot did not hit the target, and it was also a lonely fight.The gunners of the Ganning didn't care what the result was, they just reloaded and opened fire at the fastest rate of fire!
They all graciously spared the pirate ships that had been shot and caught fire, and aimed their guns at the ones that had not been shot.As the pirates frantically turned their rudder to launch a second round of attacks with their starboard guns, the shells landed on their heads.Immediately, another pirate ship was shot, this one was very unlucky to hit the powder keg, the explosion of the cannonball and the blast wave of gunpowder swept away several pirates who were exposed outside the deck, and the powder keg of the nearby gun emplacements exploded with it, and the battleship was a flash of lightning, and the loud noise was as dense and terrifying as a thunderstorm, and the souls of the people were scattered!
The Ganning had already completed its turn, and the pirates on the port side, the six guns on the port side finally had their turn to launch the first salvo.The Arabian pirates were desperate to find that this fleet was like hedgehogs, with powerful guns on both sides of the bow and stern, and they would hit the muzzles of the guns no matter which direction they attacked!
They can only reload and launch at the fastest rate of fire, and smash the large and small solid lead balls at the Ming battleship, which can be seen with the naked eye, the Ming Ganning has suffered a lot of shells under their intensive firepower, but it is useless, for a warship with a displacement of 13400 tons, the damage caused by the three or four pounds of lead balls is simply insignificant!
And the naval guns of the Ming army are basically one shot into the soul of the pirate ship, and if they take one shot, they will not die or be half-defeated!
Looking at the Ming warships with their guns constantly spewing smoke and flames, and then looking at their own warships that were constantly being shot and on fire, the pirates had 10,000 grass and mud horses roaring past at six times the speed of sound.They didn't know that more than 300 years later, there would be a group of fools like them, driving Peewee to challenge the Stalin-2 heavy tank, how angry and angry, how frustrated and frustrated, this battle would not be able to be fought at all!
It seems that the fight is not lively enough, the sailors of the Ganning adjusted the sub-rocket launcher, moved the rockets out, fixed them, and then aimed and launched, and immediately, countless fire dragons screamed from the deck of the Ming Army Ganning and rose into the sky, pulling out dazzling arcs in the air, aiming at the pirate ship and plunging headlong!
Then there were more dense explosions, more fierce fires, and the pirates felt as if the sky was cracking, and the rain of fire was pouring down, and to turn them to ashes Redbeard took the lead in giving the order to slip away, this kind of battle could not be fought at all, he must have been blind, and he would have the idea of robbing a warship with such powerful weapons!
Redbeard was very sure that they had encountered the mighty Venetian navy, and if it weren't for the Venetian navy, how could there be such a powerful navy in the world?
You must know that the Ottoman navy is dozens of times that of the Venetian navy, however, the air has a numerical advantage of dozens of times, but it has been pressed by the Venetians in the Mediterranean.Not long after Redbeard set sail, he was surprised to find a series of warships in front of him, also flying black battle flags, and these warships raised their black holes in their muzzles.