With the blazing tropical sun, strong sea breeze, and clear and transparent water, the 10 sailors on the Yuandou were shooting at the Galen ship under the blue sky and white clouds.

In order to avoid the smoke of free fire, as well as the loss of accuracy caused by the undulation of the hull, the 10-man firing squad now fired at the same time, and only at the moment when the hull shook to the highest point, the squad leader gave the order to fire.

Therefore, the current situation on the sea is that every half minute or so, a row of white smoke will be neatly emitted from the side of the sand boat, and after half a minute, the smoke has already been blown away by the sea breeze, and then the sound of gunfire will start again, and so on.

The only drawback of this approach is a reduced rate of fire. Originally able to shoot 8-10 rounds of lead bullets per minute, the 28 big cover can now only shoot 1-2 rounds at turtle speed.

However, the Spaniards on the Alicante did not think so.

In 5 minutes, it only took 5 minutes for the strange ship possessed by the devil on the opposite side to shoot a crazy 10 rounds of lead bullet. These terrifying bullets crossed a distance of 400 meters and sent four sailors to the western sky one after another...... Wrong, it's heaven.

And the guns fired urgently by the Galen ship in a panic, after the temporary replenishment, even the gunners did not know where the iron ball flew.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Second Lieutenant Sandova once ordered the ship to approach the opponent, but the strange ship, which occasionally emitted a puff of green smoke from the stern, soon reopened the distance between the two sides and widened the gap to 450 meters by virtue of its strange speed and the advantage of the hard sail.

Traditional Chinese boats have the advantage of maneuvering in turbulent areas, but due to the limitation of the total area of the hard sail and the dead weight, the speed of the boat is hard. However, the Yuandou, a devil's ship that took into account both dexterity and speed, made Second Lieutenant Sandova feel powerless and at a loss.

Faced with this strange and unprecedentedly strange mode of battle, the ensign in a hurry gave an ostrich order: everyone hid behind the deck, and the ship moved on.

The clever ensign saw the weakness of his opponents: they relied on the speed and range of the ship, and were reluctant to engage the Alicante, with its eight-pounder gun, in hand-to-hand combat.

In that case, let's keep the status quo: the Galen ship is now sailing with full sails, and buckshot can't penetrate the deck, so shoot it casually, it's a big deal to add a few more holes in the canvas......

The second lieutenant's order quickly worked. Faced with the seemingly empty situation on the deck, the opponent stopped the "bird gun" shooting.

The next moment, a loud "dong dong" sound suddenly sounded from the sea. The M2HB heavy machine gun, with the flame suppressor removed, still spewed out high-brightness gun flames and fiery tracer bullets even in the harsh midday sun.

The Spaniards, with half their heads sticking out of the side of the ship, easily saw the trajectory of the tracer bullet - before they could understand what it meant, the 12.7mm armor-piercing incendiary bomb plunged headlong into the stern of the Galen.

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In later generations familiar movie clips, there are always some cool pirate captains, drinking rum, while turning the rudder in front of him, steering the sailboat.

However, this kind of picture did not exist before the 18th century.

Before the 18th century, the helmsman controlled the course of a sailboat by operating a transverse tiller attached to the rudder bar. The whole system is a simple horizontal wrench shape of a "7", the helmsman operates the horizontal of the 7, and the tail rudder and rudder rod are the vertical.

This system is primitive, and in bad weather, sometimes it takes 4 people to withstand the pressure of the crossshank. And this rudder is placed on the semi-through deck in the stern, unlike the roulette rudder in the movie, which is directly on the open deck.

It only takes a little bit of the position to lie on the stern of the Yuandou, and the thunder sword lying on the stern of the Yuandou can clearly see the position of the tiller in the stern of the Galen: because only the tail of this layer is open.

Therefore, the machine gun bullets that were fired incessantly with short bursts quickly reached the tail rudder layer.

When Thunder Sword used to be in Africa, AK was often played. Later, in the training stage before the crossing, the ignorant and fearless Lei Jian beat all kinds of machine guns enough, and then after the crossing, he learned the sinister intentions of a certain chairman who invited him to play machine guns for free......

At a distance of 450 meters, the 12.7 mm warhead shattered the deck like tofu, and the next moment, the sawdust fragments and warheads carried by energy knocked down the sailors in the helm cabin.

The Alicante then made a turn in the sea with a speed visible to the naked eye.

The gunfire soon stopped, and less than 30 rounds were shared.

And after seeing the trajectory of the tracer bullet on the sea, Second Lieutenant Sandova, who almost subconsciously bent down and ran into the stern compartment, was stunned in front of the tragic situation at this moment.

Human parts and internal organs all over the ground, large patches of blood, and warriors who still insist on crawling forward after losing the lower half......

Stopping the sailors who ran in after him, the second lieutenant had an epiphany at this moment: "Stop the ship, lower the sails, show the white flag, we surrender." ”

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One hour later, the Alicante set sail again.

The exploration team set sail this time, and naturally brought enough translators. Not only did they have a Spanish translator, but they also had two small Fujian businessmen who had dealt with the natives of Taipei before.

When the interpreter who came to the Galen ship in a small boat told Second Lieutenant Sandova about the origin of the Yuandou and the request of the exploration captain Pan Mingzhong, the Spaniard looked at the broken corpse on the ground and had no choice but to bow his head and comply.

So, the Alicante re-anchored and set sail for the Grand Guard, and the Yuan Dou naturally followed behind and began the journey of escorting the prisoners.

At this time, there is no need to turn on the wood gas power system, and in fact, the Yuandou can no longer play - the energy density of wood is much smaller than that of diesel and coal, and after more than 3 hours of chasing, the little fuel stored in the cabin has bottomed out.

Then came the scene where the policeman's uncle arrived: two soft-sail schooners with the number 301 and 302 arrived at a gallop shortly after the Galen boat turned north from Cape Kenting.

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Both police boats are based on 17th-century brigs and recalculated by a later ship design company.

According to the naming rules of the Navy, the two new sailing ships, because of their small tonnage, fell to the level of third-class destroyers: the number at the beginning of the board number was 3. As for when the cruisers of the second rank and the battleships of the first class, which have a greater tonnage, will be installed, this is out of the question.

Project 301 is 30 meters long and has a displacement of 150 tons, and its streamlined hull gives it the ability to travel at high speeds across the sea.

From the 17th to the 18th centuries, Western sailing ships increased their speed, mainly due to the increase in sail area, more and more sails, and higher and higher masts...... The design of the waterline was very slow, and the appearance of the flying shear was a matter of the 19th century.

The two new Verification Destroyers built by the Traverser, the part below the waterline, has been optimized by computer simulations of later generations. Although it does not have a keel tilt like a clipper, the new ship still has a high speed and can reach a speed of 13 knots per hour without a full sail downwind without a gas power system.

In addition, the sails of the two destroyers have been changed: the mainsails on the fore and aft masts are similar to the diagonal truss sails of Chinese ships, except that the hard sails have been replaced with soft white canvas sails.

The top sail above the mainsail, whether it is a crosssail or a spinnaker, is cancelled.

Europeans needed to increase the sail area as much as possible to gain speed, but crossing the crowd did not. The speed gains from trimming and increasing auxiliary power far outweigh those of complex ropes and top sails.

So, instead of installing clumsy sails that were clumsy and suitable only for sails with a tailwind, the newly baked cruisers were fitted with flexible and changeable jigsaw sails on the mainmast. In addition, the destroyer's sword-like long bow mast is hung with a spinnaker suitable for traveling against the wind.

This simplified sail fitting, coupled with the use of pulley blocks, made the destroyer not only flexible and fast, but also had a small crew: 9 combatants + 1 engineer crew, which could meet all the needs of sailing. Even with the addition of two teams of artillery crews, 20 people will be full.

As for the armament of the destroyer, it was two imitation Napoleonic guns mounted on the fore and aft decks with rotating gun mounts and auxiliary sighting equipment. One is a 12-pound caliber and one is a 6-pound caliber.

Pitting a 19th-century smoothbore cannon against a 17th-century redcoat cannon is well, it's bullying, and it's a good fit for the crowd.

The Napoleonic cannon, like the prototype gun Sharps of the 28 Gai, is at the pinnacle of its field.

A standard 12-pound smoothbore Napoleon gun, weighing 556 kilograms, can accurately project a 12-pound iron ball at a distance of 1,500 meters with a 5-degree angle of fire. If the firing angle is increased to 10 degrees, the distance can reach 1900 meters.

At a firing distance of 1500 meters, the shells of Napoleonic guns could accurately hit the opponent's artillery, and in the Civil War, there were many examples of hitting the opposing soldiers.

The rate of fire of the Napoleonic cannon was fast, and a skilled gun crew could fire 4 shells per minute – more than all the indigenous artillery and firearms of the 17th century.

Therefore, the Napoleonic cannon was a highly mobile, ferocious weapon, and extremely simple and effective to manufacture and use. Compared with these primitive snake guns and red-coated cannons in the 17th century, after 200 years of development, the Napoleonic cannon, which is perfectly combined in all aspects, can easily beat the old-timers.

Even if it is through the crowd, it can only make a fuss about metal smelting now, and there is no way to change the appearance of Napoleon's cannon. In fact, the performance of the first cast iron cannons produced in the kiln area is not comparable to that of bronze Napoleonic cannons, and it can only be said that they are a little more high-end than the cast iron cannons of the 19th century.

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Naval battles of this era, including those over 24 pounds, could not have been used for more than 700 yards.

Although many large-caliber guns can have a maximum range of more than 3,000 yards, at a distance of more than 700 yards, especially in naval battles, the ships of both sides are in their own movements, and the hit rate is terrible.

If a barely passable hit rate was to be achieved on undulating seas, the captains would have to reduce the engagement distance to within 400 or even 300 yards.

In fact, later captains of the British Empire were more inclined to engage at a distance of 150 yards, at which even the brown bes could exert their power, and some captains shouted: shoot the muzzle of the cannon in the enemy's face!

Therefore, the Napoleonic guns that the traversers now have, both the rate of fire and the accuracy, and at a distance of 1,000 meters, the destroyer gun crew, which has optical sighting equipment, can preemptively strike and use a large number of shots to make up for the hit rate and bury the opponent's ships.

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At noon the next day, the exploration ship Yuandou, which represented the first time that the crossing forces had intervened on the shores of Taiwan's outer islands, caught a small fish and came back.