Section 574 Hit Aceh (1)
The sea breeze gently blows the water, and the white clouds dot the clear sky, which is really a good day to fight.
"Be prepared to fight separately and focus on firepower! Be patient! Yan Changwu ordered from the flagship.
The signal officer played the flag according to his instructions, but in fact, before the engagement, the captains of each ship had a meeting on the flagship to understand the leader's combat intentions. ,
He learned from the experience of the last battle with the Acehnese, mainly because the southeastern army was too "brave", and some warships actually fought with the enemy, resulting in unnecessary losses.
Where you can send guns and bullets, don't get into anyone!
At about eleven o'clock in the morning, the Chinese fleet and the Acehnese fleet finally engaged, and immediately the cannon roared, shaking the heavens and the earth.
The Southeast Fleet formed three long formations, the first one was a battleship formation, and the last two were cruiser formations, each with eighteen battleships.
The eighty-five dragon boat boats of the Acehnese people are divided into two groups, the first group has 45 dragon boat boats, which is commanded by General Yahya, and the latter group has 40 dragon boat boats, which is commanded by General Redford.
The first group advanced at a constant pace, and the bow guns continued to fire at the southeast fleet.
Radically different from the tactics of the South-Eastern Fleet, they focus on broadside battles!
General Aceh is by no means a weak hand, since firearms are not as good as people, then they are not as good as firearms, everyone fights hand-to-hand PK!
To this end, they prepared ropes, steel forks, barbs to bind each other's ships, swords and shields, and poisoned bows and arrows and short spears, and each ship was full of men!
When approaching a hundred meters, the starboard guns of the southeastern battleship opened fire and fired a salvo.
However, the dragon boat ships came in the direction perpendicular to the southeast ship, and the cross-section of the attack was small, and the southeast army only won the price of injuring three dragon boat ships.
It's just that the Southeast Fleet didn't care about the number of enemy kills, and the starboard side was reloaded and opened fire in front of the dragon boat boat.
Columns of water rose into the sky and splashed the Acehnese.
The waves at sea are tumbling, and the speed of the Aceh ship slows down.
"Fifty meters away!" Mr. David shouted the distance he had personally estimated.
"Battleship formations change formation!" Yan Changwu ordered.
It was too late to raise the flag, and the flagship directly launched three fireworks into the sky!
Three red fireworks flew into the sky, and the captains of the southeast battleships hurriedly ordered: "Turn the sails, right rudder!" ”
The sailors were busy, and under the effect of the wind driving the sails and rudder effects, the bow of the battleship turned one after another, facing the direction of the dragon boat, and then accelerated forward.
In this way, the two warships went in opposite directions, intersected, and were mostly parallel, and only three dragon boat boats collided with the battleship, as a result of which the dragon boat bounced off, while the battleship with heavy tonnage continued to advance.
The bow of the Aceh dragon boat had a striking iron, but it failed to break through the battleship.
Parallel to each other, the approaching dragon boat ships threw rope steel forks and barbs at the southeast battleship, trying to connect with the battleship, but the battleship was silent and did not fire bullets.
All of a sudden, the sea seemed to fall into a terrible state of silence.
Then, the sky fell apart!
When the length of the hull of the southeast battleship and the dragon boat ship was close to the same, the battleship opened fire!
There is a dragon boat on the port side of Nanhai No. 1, so the port and port salvos are fired, and 70 guns are fired!
The heavy artillery smashed the bow of a dragon boat to pieces, killing and wounding all the people on board, and what was even more terrible was that the hull of the ship was cracked, a large amount of water entered, and the inclination reached 10 degrees.
Another dragon boat was also set, lying on the surface of the water unable to move.
Originally, it wanted to drive over to take on the broadside, but the artillery shells destroyed the bulwark, and sawdust and shell fragments erupted, seriously killing the oarsmen inside!
The other dragon boats were no better, under the attack of cannonballs, the hull was destroyed, the casualties were heavy----- the battleship's open-air deck guns and upper gun decks were full of shotguns, and the flying projectiles could not be prevented even by the Acehnese with shields, and some of them were beaten to the point that their bodies were riddled with holes, and blood flowed wildly into the sea.
Terrifying triangular fins began to appear on the surface of the sea! The sharks are ready to feast again.
Just one wave of fighting caused the sad end of more than 20 dragon boat boats covered in bruises!
The battleships cleaved the waves and advanced towards the rear group of the Acehnese, while the first group of dragon boats met the attack of the second squadron of the Southeast Fleet, that is, the cruiser fleet.
They set off artillery, musket volleys, and dropped bombs when some unconvinced dragon boats approached.
The first large group of Aceh dragon boats were disrupted, they could neither engage in broadside combat, nor did the bows and arrows and spears of the long-range attack do much use.
Some of the dragon boats that had been hit hard by heavy artillery could only wait for death!
This astonishing scene stunned Prince Yefa, who was watching the battle from afar, he didn't expect the Acehnese to be so vulnerable.
And Farid pointed out to him: "Your Highness, please look at the third formation of the Southeast Mansion, it has not moved!" ”
"What?" Prince Yefa, who was not familiar with the world, asked stupidly.
Farid said in a low voice, "They're guarding against us!" ”
What made the Johoreans even more unstable was that the latter group, which included four heavy "Gallias" warships, was also unpopular with the South-East Fleet when it was engaged.
At this time, Aceh General Redford was on a "Gallias-type" battleship, posing as if he was one of the others and had the chance of victory, but the bulwarks of the bulwarks attacked by the battleship burst out and collapsed in a large area!
Sinking amid the terrifying sound of explosions, chaos reigned on the ship!
He could no longer pose as a soldier, and fled in disarray under the protection of the guards, running to the dinghy that was being lowered.
Just as Redford was fleeing for his life, he saw another "Gallias-type" battleship next to him burst like a firecracker, which may have been detonated by the explosion of the powder magazine, and the hull of the ship was shrouded in thick smoke and fire and white water foam that fell one after another, and in just a few minutes, the two ships sank to the bottom of the sea one after another.
When Redford boarded another "Gallias" battleship, he saw a battleship carrying a tall Grim Reaper figure approaching him on his port side, and a battleship carrying a one-eyed pirate on the starboard side also approached.
"No!" Amid Redford's screams, his ship was flanked by the battleships commanded by Siresma and Cheng Yu, and the "Gallias-type" battleship was bombarded with cannonballs and muskets.
The last thing Redford saw was the tragic scene of the fourth "Gallias-type" battleship, which was broken in two by the dense shells of the battleship, and miraculously did not sink in either section, and the two southeastern battleships besieging it were interesting to watch, and they all stopped fighting!
Just like that, the second section of the hull was left floating uncontrollably on the water, and none of the passing southeast ships paid attention to them.
I can't sink if I want to! You can't even die if you want to!
The Johoreans in the distance watched in amazement as the Southeast Fleet galloped through the sea, showing off their skills, and it was effortless to beat the Acehnese.
It is a blessing that the Aceh ships are attacked, or sunk, or sunk, and it is a blessing to be killed by artillery fire, and those living Acehnese who fell into the sea are hunted by sharks, biting off their bodies, and devouring them alive!
Is this still the Aceh fleet that shocked Southeast Asia?!
The Southeast Fleet defeated the Aceh Fleet with a ridiculous figure of eight killed and seventy-two wounded, destroying 53 dragon boats in Aceh and nearly 10,000 Acehnese killed!