Chapter 332: Fierce Naval Battle (Part II)
Seven Dutch ships, each with 28 cannons, including 20 main guns and 8 melee guns, at this time the distance between the two sides was still 2 thousand meters away, and the Dutch ships had 20 main guns to fire.
At the same time, because the cannons on the Dutch warships did not have the technology of anti-recoil devices, in order to resist the strong recoil when the cannons fired, the cannons on their warships were fixed and immovable except for the muzzles that could be adjusted slightly, so each Dutch warship only fired one side of the cannon in each round of artillery fire, that is, ten main guns.
Seventy shells to four warships of the Ming Navy.
"Bang Bang Bang" The huge water column exploded, and the sea water shot out!
"Smack! Rumble! "One of the four warships of the Ming Dynasty hit two shots, one solid and one flowering, which shows that the Dutch did not use flowering shells like the Ming navy.
The power of the flowering bullet may be greater, and it is easy to blow the entire warship into pieces, but the penetration of the solid bullet should not be underestimated, although in terms of the solid bullet, it takes at least ten or even a dozen shells to sink the opponent's warship, but this is better than the economy, after all, the price of the flowering bullet is nearly thirty times that of the solid bullet, and the cost of a naval battle is not something that ordinary countries can afford.
"My lord, the maximum range of the ghost is 2,200 meters, should we avoid it immediately!" A naval general asked Shen Jingchao.
Now that they know the extreme range of the Dutch warships, the Ming Navy can rely on the absolute advantage of the range of the Shenwu cannon to fight the Dutch, and it is not difficult to win.
Shen Jingchao glanced at the naval warship that hit two shells in a row and frowned.
The Dutch warships can fire seventy shells per round of shelling, although the accuracy is not as good as the Ming Shenwu cannon, but if the Dutch warships hit two or three in each round of shelling, even if he still has a great chance of victory, when the Dutch warships are finally annihilated, the four warships of the Ming Navy will sink at least half.
The output of the Firearms Bureau is limited, and the Ming Navy currently only has these four warships, which are very precious.
"Avoid the range of Dutch warships and fight!" Shen Jingchao thought about it for a few breaths, and then decisively ordered.
The four warships of the Ming Dynasty began to evade the extreme range of the Dutch warships, intending to engage in a guerrilla fight with the Dutch and drag the Dutch to death!
"Turn!" Seeing that a warship had been hit in the Ming Navy, Viscount Lester roared loudly.
The Dutch warship began to turn sideways, turning the cannon on the other side that had not yet fired through the warship to the Ming navy.
This process takes about two dozen breaths.
"Fire!"
"Boom boom" the second round of shelling of Dutch warships, and seventy shells hit the Ming navy again.
"Bang Bang Bang" accompanied by a huge column of water, a Ming Navy warship was hit by two shells again, a mast was broken by a solid shell, and at the same time, a flower shell exploded next to a Shenwu cannon.
The Shenwu cannon was blown over and thrown into the sea, and several gunners were killed!
"Hahahaha, God! Let these Ming people taste the power of our great Netherlands! Viscount Leicester laughed.
"Turn!" The Dutch warship turned on its side again, and the cannon of the other side of the ship that had just been loaded with cannons was turned sideways through the sideways warship and aimed its guns at the Ming navy.
"Huh?" At this time, the four warships of the Ming Navy began to evade and turn.
"Lord Viscount, the Ming people are scared, they want to escape!" A Dutchman shouted in surprise.
Viscount Lester frowned, he felt that something was wrong, the action made by the other party's four warships was not to escape at all, but to evade!
"That's not right! They want to circumvent our range and rely on their own range advantage to suppress us! Viscount Leicester stared deadly, no doubt that he had guessed correctly.
"Ou! Oh, God! The Dutch cried out in despair.
The range of the cannons on the warships of the Ming Navy is too far, more than five thousand meters, once the Ming Navy evades their range, then they will return to the miserable situation where they can only be beaten just now!
Thinking that ten ships had been sunk as they had just come closer, the Dutch seemed to have seen God and beckoned to them.
"Boom, boom, boom" Sure enough, the Ming Navy evaded and opened fire.
Accompanied by the soaring water column, another Dutch warship tilted instantly, and I am afraid that it will not be able to hold out for a while and will sink.
"We must not let them out of our range, then we will all have to follow God back to the great Netherlands!" Viscount Leicester roared with red eyes, he was crazy, he didn't really want to see God yet!
"Full speed pursuit!"
The Dutch pursued frantically, biting the Ming Navy to the death, no matter what, they couldn't let the Ming Navy warships avoid their extreme range, it was a nightmare, a nightmare that the great Netherlands should not bear!
While the Dutch warships were pursuing at full speed, only a few two or three cannons per warship could fire at the evading Ming Navy, which had been sharply reduced to six warships, so it could not pose a threat to the four warships of the Ming Navy at all!
"Hehe, the Dutch ghost is crazy, do you think that doing this will pose any threat to my Ming Navy?" Shen Jingchao sneered.
"Keep shelling and send all the Dutch down to the sea to feed the fish!"
The sailors on the four warships of the Ming Navy immediately moved their cannons with all their strength and aimed their guns at the pursuing Dutch warships.
"Fire!"
"Boom Boom"
Another Dutch warship was bombarded intensively, hitting five shells in a row, and the flames from one of the shells exploded directly ignited the powder magazine and shell magazine on the Dutch warship.
"Boom!" Gunpowder and shells were detonated, and the Dutch ship was shattered in flames, and the corpses of countless Dutchmen were blown into the sea in the explosion!
"No!" Viscount Leicester screamed in despair.
As a good naval commander, Viscount Lester had already regretted that he could have allowed the warships to get closer before firing the cannons, but watching his warships being sent down to sea one by one, he lost his cool and exposed the extreme range of the cannons early. What was even more unexpected to him was that the Ming people decisively avoided it the moment they knew the limit range of their Dutch warship cannons.
Speaking of which, the range of the cannon of the Ming people is too powerful, and the rate of fire is extremely fast, through the clairvoyance Viscount Lester also found that the cannon of the Ming people can move, and there is no recoil when firing the cannon, how is this possible, how did the Ming people do it, is this far east, really as Marco Polo said, inhabited by this group of mysterious and omnipotent people?
No! We at Obaros are God's favor!
"Boom, boom, boom" The Ming Navy shelled again.
This time, a full six shells hit a Dutch warship, which, although not yet tilted into the water, would definitely not survive the next round of shelling.
"God! Have you abandoned your people? "Viscount Leicester's desperate roar!
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