A huge fireball suddenly jumped up on the deck of the Wuhan Fu, and then turned into a cloud of black smoke and soared into the sky!

This is the scene of the explosion of a 40-pound flowering bomb, in addition to the scene is terrifying, the lethality is also amazing, directly in the deck of the Wuhan Mansion blasted a large hole, the two gun bays below all destroyed, and all kinds of fragments were swept across the flat deck by the shock wave of the explosion, cutting down the Ming officers and soldiers on the deck in groups, like ripe wheat.

Liu Guoxuan and Zheng Jing were lucky, they both shrunk in the command platform surrounded by sandbags, so they escaped the catastrophe - sandbags are now on the deck of the battleship, it's a bit incredible to think about it!

However, the Wooden Shell and its improved nail head Shell are incredible things, and they have appeared very well in the original history - the Flowering Bomb has been around for a long time, and in the 17th century, the navies of the Western powers had light gunboats that could be equipped with large-caliber mortars. However, because there were no woodpipe fuses and wooden cartridges, the flowering bomb was very unsafe, so it could not be used on the battleship. A small gunboat will blow up, anyway, human life in the 17th century is not worth much, but how expensive is a battleship, if it is blown up because of the martyrdom of the flowering shell, the commander of the navy must not be sent to a military court?

So it was in the 19th century that the battleship was launched, and it was the Russians who were the first to get it up and put it into real combat......

Now, thanks to three key inventions, the wood-pipe fuse, the wooden butt, and the pointed cannonball (nail-head shell), the flowering shell has become a weapon that completely disrupts the rules of the naval game.

At the same time, armor is too expensive and technically difficult. How can a sail battleship be built with steel with a displacement of at least a thousand tons? Steel, it's not pig iron, at least wrought iron, right? How much is the output? How is it possible to take out hundreds or thousands of tons to build a battleship? And I can't make enough wrought iron plates these days! If you use too many small pieces of iron plate splicing, the interface part is difficult to handle, if the splicing part is not handled firmly enough, the shell will still be broken!

So steel armor will not be able to be built in the foreseeable era.

There was no armor, but there were reliable flowering shells...... The hard days of the officers and men of the Navy are really endless!

When Liu Guoxuan and Zheng Jing shrank behind sandbags with their heads in their hands to avoid death, the Dutch were not having a good time, the New Hertok was finished, all five gun bays were blown up, and a fire broke out in the stern of the ship, floating on the sea like a floating torch.

The ship has been completely abandoned, and now it is just floating aimlessly along the current, waiting for its end!

Along with the New Hertok, there were five other Dutch warships and three Ming Senhosuo-class ships - Trop's partition plan was still successful, but the price paid was more than he imagined.

When the Seven Provincial Councils were carrying out the task of division, they were bombarded at close range by a military guard-class and a Qianhusuo-class concentrated artillery fire, and were hit by 14 shots, nine of which successfully exploded, destroying the stern and five gun compartments of the Seven Provinces, and also triggered at least three explosions, and a 15-pound shell hit the command platform, which was full of dead bodies, and the captain and first mate of the Seven Provinces were also killed on the spot, which was really miserable!

In the end, the fire spread on the Seven Provincial Councils and was completely impossible to extinguish, and the surviving crews had to abandon their battleship......

The fact that two medium and light battleships actually destroyed a huge battleship in a close artillery battle (not without a price, the Guard-class that participated in the battle was also beaten into torches and finally completely burned out), which was unimaginable in the past!

But now, before the terrible flowering bombs, all wooden-hulled battleships are equal cannon fodder, no matter how thick the wooden shells are, they can't stop the nail-headed flowering shells...... So the difference is just the size of the cannon fodder!

The battleships that are still fighting are not in good shape, either they have been blown out of their holes, or they are burning somewhere!

The worst of these was the Takayama, a three-hundred-ton two-masted gunboat and three sister ships that had been caught between two Dutch formations, and the guard class was finished, burning like torches, and the surviving sailors on board were now fluttering in the sea. Only the Takayama broke out of the encirclement, but it was hit by one 40-pound flowering shell, three 36-pound flowering shells, and four 30-pound flowering shells, all five gun bays were blown up, and half of the ship's butt was blown up, but fortunately the two masts and foremast were intact, so it was able to escape at full speed. Most of the officers and men on the ship were killed and wounded, the gun compartment was full of corpses, and the flat upper deck was also strewn with corpses, the captain, first mate, and second mate were all killed, and only one of the third officers who had broken his leg and could only sit on the deck was roaring like madness.

"Extinguish the fire! Throw the cannonball into the water! Hurry up......"

The fire is spreading everywhere on the 300-ton battleship, and I don't know when the shells in the ammunition depot are being lit!

It's going to blow up, and a boatload of people will have to go down to the sea to feed the fish!

After the Seven Provincial Councils were finished, the captain of the Dutch Provincial Council, who was responsible for commanding the division formation and outflanking the formation (in fact, it was already a mess, there was no team), sent three warships to pursue Gaoshansu, and left two more boats to fish for people (both sides had to be fished, and the officers and men of the Ming Dynasty Navy fished out was revenue, which could be ransomed by Emperor Zhu at a high price), and then took the remaining battleships that could still fight to support the Sealand Provincial Council formation.

This formation, led by Major General Tropp himself, has already been beaten badly! Eleven ships were smoking, three of them had been abandoned, and the remaining eight had been blown to shreds, and if they could be pulled back to the Netherlands, the shipyard engineers would have had a big head...... It's all like this, can it still be repaired?

The queues on both sides were already in chaos, and more than a dozen boats were mixed up and were scuffling. Melee was originally the strength of the Dutch Navy, they were good at technology, and dared to fight broadside battles, in the Anglo-Dutch War they relied on melee to fight the British Navy to suffer heavy losses, and forced the latter to innovate and invent battle line tactics......

But now they find themselves suddenly not going to fight!

Because when the artillery is in formation, only half of the artillery on both sides can fire. And after the melee begins, because the two sides are mixed together, it is not one side against the enemy, but both sides may face the enemy ship. And because there is no array, the ship sails irregularly, so the naval guns have to re-observe every shot, at this time, the 15-pound guns are much more convenient than the 40-, 36-, and 30-pound guns.

In addition, due to the loss of some of the gun bays of the ships on both sides in the previous fierce battles, the number of cannons that could fire was reduced. And the Ming Dynasty Navy had many battleship gun compartments, and the Dutch Navy had fewer battleship gun cabins, and after the subtraction, the amount of ammunition (not counting the weight) that could occur on the Ming warships in the melee exceeded the opponent by more than ten times!

With such a firepower disadvantage, what kind of melee did the Dutch fight? All that was left was to be beaten...... As for the overboard or something, you don't even have to think about it. Before you can get up, someone's 15-pound flowering bomb will be smashed up, and the distance is close, it is a hundred shots!

Trop and Dave. The Jones brothers are now sitting facing each other against sandbags, and they don't command anymore, just looking at a nail head bullet that didn't explode in a daze - there is also a "nail" on the head of the shell, which is too immoral, right?

According to this gameplay, as long as it is a wooden-hulled ship, no matter how big and strong it is, it is useless! A few pounds of black powder are attached to the hull of the ship and exploded, if it is not blown up, it will not be wood!

Could it be that in the future, the navy will have to sit on a small boat of two or three hundred tons to resist a few 18-pounder guns to line up with the enemy to be killed?

The two of them didn't know how long they were stunned, David. Jones noticed that there was no longer the sound of artillery fire in his ears, and he stood up with his sandbag, craned his neck and looked around, before muttering, "They're gone......"

Trop didn't quite understand, "Who's gone?" ”

"Several of the Chinese battleships are gone...... Driven away by our reinforcements! Major General, are we still going to chase? ”

"Chasing?" Trop smiled bitterly and said, "David, have you forgotten that the Chinese also have reinforcements?" Their reinforcements are almost here, and it's time for us to escape! While the victory is still ours now, retreat quickly! ”

"What about Johor City? The Ming army is landing in a big way! ”

"It doesn't matter, don't you still have reinforcements from Dashun Kingdom? Let's retreat to Penang first and join the Dashun army! ”