"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Boom ......."

After a series of shelling, the warships of the Zhengjia Navy Division were hit with a bang, and the sailors on the ships were immediately killed and wounded.

Most of the Zheng family's warships are still old, even if they are specially equipped with heavy artillery, their artillery arrangements are only one eighteen-pounder cannon at the end and one at the end, and only dozens of falcon cannons under 1,000 catties are carried on both sides.

Cannons below 1,000 catties are considered small cannons, and the power of naval battles is touching, and they can only hit people, and it is very unrealistic to want to penetrate the warship from a long distance.

The largest warships of the Zheng Jiashui Division were only equipped with six to eight twelve-pounder or eighteen-pounder guns, and although their displacement was not worse than that of the ten large warships of the Jinghai Fleet, their guns and firepower were several times worse.

The firing range of artillery during this period was not very far, and the 24-pounder Hongyi cannon, which was equipped with the largest main warship of the Jinghai Fleet, had a firing range of up to 1,350 meters when the firing angle was four degrees, and 2,250 meters when the firing angle was raised to eight degrees.

At a distance of a hundred meters, a solid bullet fired from a twenty-four-pounder gun could penetrate twelve centimeters of oak.

The Jinghai Fleet and the Zheng Naval Division quickly launched a counter-bombardment at a horizontal firing angle within a distance of 200 meters, and neither of them was convinced, and the Zheng family relied on many warships, while the Jinghai Fleet relied on its powerful firepower and fast rate of fire.

Zhu Cihong knew that in real naval warfare, the rate of fire was much more important than the range, so he ordered the Ming Royal Navy to pay attention to the gunner's drill, and the gunner could fire two or three projectiles at a time, or solid bullets and shotguns in close combat, in order to achieve the greatest destructive effect.

Adhering to this principle, the Jinghai Fleet not only surpassed the Zhengjia Naval Division in terms of the number of artillery, but also used battle line tactics to match one artillery and two shells, and was even more ferocious and powerful in firepower.

In the face of the Jinghai Fleet's crazy firepower attack like a torrential rain, Zheng Zhibao and several other Zheng generals were completely stunned, they had never had such a strange naval combat style.

Ten years later, during the First Anglo-Dutch War, the British issued the "Maritime Combat Regulations" that clearly defined the column as the standard formation for naval combat: "All warships of each detachment must do their best to maintain a line of ...... with their detachment commanders."

The Zheng family is still using the old trick of jumping ship and boarding the ship, and naturally no one has ever seen such advanced naval combat tactics.

Zheng Lian asked blankly: "Uncle, are they using a long snake formation?" ”

Zheng Zhibao's face turned pale, and he shouted: "Shut up! Command the ships to use chain bombs to destroy their power! ”

In the era of sail battleships, solid bullets were still used, and in addition to the commonly used solid bullets, there were also several kinds of shotgun bullets and chain bullets.

Chain shells are two small shells smaller than the bore caliber of the cannon are connected together with chains, and after firing, one shell will drag the other shell centrifugally and fly out, mainly used to destroy the mast and sail of the enemy ship.

The Zheng Jiashui Division has participated in many naval battles and is quite skilled in dealing with them, and soon loaded the chain ammunition that had been prepared for a long time, and fired wildly at the Jinghai Fleet.

For a time, the whole sky was full of flying and flicking chain balls, and because of the distance, the hit rate was all dependent on Meng, and hundreds of chain bombs flew out, hitting only a dozen warships of the coastal fleet.

The whistling chain bombs tore a large hole in the sails, some tore the rigging, and a few who were lucky even tore off the mast, causing the ship to be paralyzed.

The sails were broken, the rigging masts were destroyed, and the sail-powered ships were paralyzed and their mobility was restricted.

"Ahh

A miserable scream sounded, and a naval soldier of the Jinghai Fleet was easily cut open by a rapidly rotating chain bullet, blood splattered, and his intestines flowed, and he lay on the ground and wailed in pain, the scene was extremely bloody.

The Jinghai Fleet was also unequivocal, and also fired chain bullets, as well as stick bullets with similar principles, and the stick bullets flew towards the Zheng family sailors like nunchucks flying at high speed, which also caused Zheng Jiajun to suffer heavy losses and paralyzed many warships.

Although chain bullets and stick bullets are terrifying, their greatest effect is reflected in the killing of masts and canvas, and the hit rate of hitting people is very low, and fools will use them to fight against sailors.

After the two sides exchanged shots a few times, with Zheng Zhibao's main warship as the vanguard, they adopted a two-way assault along the east wind, and the black tiger dug out the heart.

At the same time, the Zheng Jiashui division adopted the tactics they were best at, and among the nearly 200 warships, only 80 were gunboats equipped with artillery, and the remaining 100 or so small boats were all fireships.

"Rush up and burn them!"

With Zheng Zhibao's order, under the cover of the guns of the big ships, hundreds of fireships swarmed up to hook and ignite, and rushed to the Jinghai Fleet downwind.

"Dare to put out a long snake formation in front of Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu will let you all be buried in the fire!"

Zheng Zhibao's face trembled, and his heart was extremely free, the Ming version of the burning red cliff was coming!

However, the next moment, the horizontal flesh on his face twitched slightly.

"What's that?" Zheng Lian, who was beside him, pointed to a "meteor" in the sky and exclaimed.

The nearby sailors looked in the direction of Zheng Lian's finger, only to see countless "spears" with fire-breathing tails flying out of dozens of warships of the Jinghai Fleet, flying towards their side.

"What the hell is this?" When this thought just flashed in Zheng Zhibao's mind, the Dongfeng rocket launched by the Jinghai Fleet had already fallen into the dense fireships of the Zheng family's sailors.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Boom ......."

With a series of explosions, the iron sand iron sheets filled by the rocket and the grease flew out together in the Zheng family's sailor fire ship array, and many sailors were killed by the iron sand iron sheets, and many people were splashed with grease and ignited the fire, only to roll on the ship and scream.

"This is the Divine Fire Crow? It doesn't look like it! ”

In the face of the tragic lethality, even Zheng Hongkui, who had been silent and calm, couldn't help but change his color a little, and the performance of the Jinghai Fleet greatly exceeded his expectations, and all kinds of strange tactics and weapons emerged one after another.

Zheng Hongkui glanced at Zheng Zhibao, who was about to go crazy, and didn't know what he was thinking......

All the warships of the Jinghai Fleet were equipped with the new weapon of Dongfeng rockets, and they carefully controlled the Dongfeng rockets and fired wildly at the sweeping Zhengjia fireship.

Although the accuracy of the Dongfeng rocket is many times higher than that of the Divine Fire Crow, it is still a little worse when used in the windy sea, but fortunately, there are too many fireships in the Zheng family, and they are too dense, and the results of several waves are well received.

Seeing that there were still dozens of fireships coming, Shen Shouchong ordered: "All the shotguns!" ”

On the main warships of the Jinghai Fleet, sailors carried iron buckets to various gun emplacements, and this kind of small iron bucket was a special shotgun used by warships, which was filled with dozens of lead bullets.

With the sound of a cannon shot, the iron bucket flew out of the muzzle and instantly disintegrated, and dozens of lead bullets flew forward in a fan, brutally killing and injuring the enemy ship's personnel on the fireship.

Deputy Chief Soldier Huang Binqing shouted: "The fireboat is ready, rush up to stop them!" ”

According to the prior arrangement, the main warships of the Jinghai Fleet equipped with artillery all bombarded the big ships of the Zheng family naval division, and only used auxiliary small boats to deal with the swarming Zheng family fireboats.