Section 86 Battle of Dingding (1)
Once the battle line was formed, the Southeast Fleet bombarded the much smaller warships of the Ming army with a row of artillery.
The training was successful, and the artillery bombardment was powerful enough!
The ships of the Ming army were beaten to a pulp, and they used their bow guns to counterattack, but they were not worth mentioning like tickling.
Because there are too few, there are only one front and one front for one boat, and only one hundred for one hundred boats, while Yan Changwu's artillery has hundreds of guns on one side.
The guns on the battle line roared, and the ships of the Ming army struggled to break through, striving to break through this chain of fire and blood, and suddenly, the Ming ships slowed down, because the third-level battleship of the "Southeast Province" opened all its sails, and drove quickly with the wind, and arrived in front of the Ming warship in a blink of an eye, and then it showed its firepower!
The stern gave the order to open fire, "the gun hull is flattened...... Pull open the plug...... Reloading ...... Sticking out the muzzle...... Aim...... Ignition and fire! Deputy Captain Yan Donglai said calmly in the gun compartment.
In an instant, the sound of the cannon was fired at intervals of a second like a huge hammer hitting a stone, and a long spiral of gunpowder smoke drifted out of the cabin, which was a burst of guns from the starboard gun, and the fierce muzzle wave made the water ripple.
The fight was very accurate, and the two ships that bore the brunt of the attack were immediately "dismantled" to pieces, and when the Dongnanfu moved away, the successive shelling of the Taiwan sent these two ships into the sea.
When the big ship opened fire, many captains and observers on the battle line of the Southeast Fleet stretched their necks one by one, watching the big ship fire with envy, fighting hard enough!
Either be a captain on such a big ship, or be a gunner!
The guns decks of the two large ships were noisy, but well organized and methodical, and the gunners worked carefully on their gun positions, either hurriedly pushing the bulky guns back into position, or rudely stabbing them back and forth with their gun wipes.
Step-by-step, coordinated movements, as efficient as changing tires in an F1 car!
Stick out the muzzle of the cannon and light the fuse, "Fire! ”
It's not the Han people who say nonsense, but the ghosts who tell nonsense, it's the deputy captain of the Kaohsiung 16, the Englishman Kim Rooker is giving orders, he yells excitedly, shouting in half-baked Chinese, and popping out a few nonsense words from time to time... He is CET-4 and can speak Chinese.
In the southeast province, the number of ghosts is gradually increasing, and these foreigners who come to China to help the war seem to have smoothly integrated into the society of the southeast province, using chopsticks very smoothly, drinking country rice wine instead of wine, and generally speaking Chinese (there is a silver subsidy to speak, why can't you get along with silver?). There are a lot of believers in Xiaoye, but there are actually British Yankees who believe in Mazu... The boss of Guy Southeast Mansion came from an era when people of all ethnic groups in the world were big river crabs, and he knew what the ghost guy was, and he didn't discriminate against the ghost guy at all, and of course he didn't look up to him.
Led by him, the gunners on the gun deck fired bravely, the gunners continued to fire, fast and continuous, the smoke flashed with purple tongues of fire, the gunpowder loaders walked like flying, running back and forth on the deck, sending ammunition to one gun position after another, the gunners gasped for breath, the fuses were bright and dark, and everything was going according to order.
Kim Rooker happily announced: "Boys, our shelling speed is an average of 2 minutes and 28 seconds, 2 minutes and 28 seconds, breaking the previous record, well done!" Shoot more cannons, shoot good cannons, and send the enemy to meet their Sea Dragon King! ”
He was extremely satisfied, Kaohsiung No. 16 was a new ship, and the gunners were also newly formed, and at first they were also very clumsy, reckless, and careless, and they fought together like blind people without looking at the target.
Not only the Kaohsiung No. 16 ship, the crew of the Kaohsiung No. 16 ship, which has undergone the training of "moon, moon, fire, water, wood, gold, and gold", is all very good; when they move the cannon back and forth when they shoot the gun, they don't think about anything, pull the pulley chain, clean the gun barrel, and load the gunpowder, all of which have become mechanical movements, and the vast majority of the gunners are good, and the officers are very pleased!
Kim Rooker felt very deeply, and he still remembered that when he took these gunners to train, they were shy, stupid, and they didn't know where to put their hands, but they suffered and were very studious, and after they were trained, they were very good at shelling.
"Maybe in the future, the gunners I trained will fight against our British, and we will lose!" A thought suddenly popped into Kim Rooker's mind, but he himself thought it was funny, the current Britain has not yet risen, there are Spain and the Netherlands in the front, and France in the back, they are fighting openly and secretly in Europa, and it is difficult for Britain to have the main force to put in the Far East.
As for Britain's main overseas colony, it is in India, but the southeast province is only a few places now, how can it be possible to go to India to fight with us British! ”
Soon he put this thought aside, because the artillery battle was fierce, and the fighting was very happy.
The Ming Naval Division Qianhu Ma Sheng roared, and the general Chen Wenlian and Hong Yingdou led the ships to attack the battle line of the Southeast Mansion, as long as the Southeast Mansion still maintained the battle line and there was no melee, their Ming army had no possibility of fishing in the waters, and the artillery battle was definitely not the opponent of the Southeast Mansion.
The ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, the ships of the Southeast Province have maintained terrible obedience, and none of the battleships have left the battle line, even if the Ming army rushed through the battle line and attacked the Southeast Fleet on two fronts, but the two guns of the southeast ship fired a salvo, and the Ming Naval Division without artillery was extremely miserable!
However, they fought desperately to hold back the capital ships of the Southeast Mansion, and Yu Zhihao led the main army to rush towards the Third Strike Group of the Southeast Mansion that was blocking in front of them!
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The southeast province prefers plywood ships, as the main force of the third strike group is the second-hand Spanish galleon, which was originally transported to the South Seas for trade, and now the two armies are fighting, and the temporary cameo gunboats, but they can also overwhelm the small ships of the Ming army!
The Spanish galleons went fast downwind, and the maneuverability was poor when headwind and turning, but the masts were towering, and the bulwarks were like castles, which looked very imposing, and the cannon holes on them were dense, and the southeast government used them as artillery forts.
Daifuku ships were also converted into gunboats, but they were equipped with guns on the open deck, ten on each side, and there were no eyes on the side of the ship, so as not to damage the hull structure.
In addition, there were many guns on other sailing ships, in fact, in order to win this battle, the southeast province got all the guns in stock on the ship, all the gunpowder was loaded on the ship, and even the heavy guns for shore defense (obtained from the Netherlands) were moved to the Spanish galleon.
"TA MA DE" YU Shihao swallowed a mouthful of saliva, thinking that there were so many cannons in the southeast mansion.
Although there were more ships and more ships in the southeast province, Yu Shihao was on the battlefield and was not afraid.
At his command, twenty arsonist boats ignited and rushed downwind to the southeast ship formation.
As long as he succeeds, there will be a repeat of the history of burning Chibi!