"Boom!" A ball of fire, this is the second time that the 7,500-ton Ming battleship has been hit, and the shell not only blew up a Ming naval soldier on the battleship into the sea, but also blew off a small piece of steel plate, slightly injuring the surface of the battleship. Ethereal.2.

But that's about it.

Although the cannon shells on the warships of European countries have been replaced with new gunpowder and the power has been doubled, they are not regular naval artillery shells like the Ming battleships, and their power is at most stronger than the 60 mm mortars of the Ming 6 army. With this bit of power, it is impossible to penetrate the armor of the 5,000-ton or even 7,500-ton battleships of the Ming Dynasty, and it will only damage some surfaces.

And with such a powerful cannonball, if you want to sink a Ming battleship, I don't know how many of them are needed, but I am afraid that one or two hundred shells will still not be able to sink.

The distance between the two sides is shrinking, and the intensity of the naval battle is also becoming more and more intense as the distance is shortened.

Entering the four thousand meters, the secondary guns on the Ming battleship gradually reached the firing range, and they fired a salvo at the European anti-Ming coalition fleet. At a distance of about 3,300 meters, the cannons on the European battleships also reached the firing range, and the naval battle was still at its most intense.

"Bang! Boom! Bang ---- "Every moment, countless huge columns of water are blown up.

At the same time, warships on both sides were constantly being hit and exploded by each other's shells.

The flames of the explosion, the shattered wooden planks, the blown steel plates, and the naval soldiers of both sides who were blown into the sea all showed the fierceness of the naval battle.

As for the anti-Ming coalition fleet in Europe, the original 537 warships were 5,000 meters apart, and when the few warships with a range of 5,000 meters were able to initially fight back, the coalition fleet had already been sunk by the Ming fleet with 90 ships, more than 20 warships, and more than 100 warships were damaged or lost their combat effectiveness.

Now the distance has been shortened to 3,000 meters, and the European coalition fleet has sunk more than 100 warships, plus the heavily damaged, there are still 300 remaining.

Although the number is still three times that of the Ming fleet, however, they are not at all the same as the warships of the Ming fleet, and they are not at all able to make up for the number.

At a distance of less than three thousand meters, naval battles were also at their most intense, with all the cannons on both sides capable of reaching range.

European warships are loaded with more cannons, often a battleship can carry fifty or sixty, or even nearly a hundred cannons, even because of the angle of the cannons, a salvo fires at most a salvo of cannons on one side of the ship, that is, about half of the number of cannons loaded on the whole ship.

Although even so, the number of cannons fired by a European battleship per salvo is greater than the sum of all the cannons on a battleship in the Ming Dynasty, however, the number of cannons is not equal to the laughter of combat effectiveness, in addition to the difference in the power of the cannonballs, there is also the gap in the cannon shot, and the gap in the ability of the battleship itself to resist attack.

In terms of cannon shooting, the naval guns on the Ming battleships used percussion shells, and the secondary guns fired six per minute, even the main guns, because the caliber cannonballs were heavier, they could also reach three shots in two minutes, which was far stronger than the one minute or even less than one shot of the warships of European countries.

What's more important is the ability of the battleship to resist strikes, the smallest of the Ming battleships are 5,000 tons, the largest is 7,500 tons, the armor is thick, and the shells of less than 120 mm caliber are blown up on it, and they may not be able to blow up the armor at once, not to mention that the warships of European countries are equivalent to the power of 60 mm caliber shells at most, and if you want to sink a Ming battleship, it is said that two or three hundred are small, even 500 may not be able to sink it.

On the other hand, the warships of European countries, because of the whole wooden, are still somewhat useful in defending against the previous black powder shells, but in the face of the naval guns of the Ming battleships, especially the main guns with a caliber of 305 mm, as long as one main gun shell hits, there is a fifty percent chance of directly sinking a European wooden battleship, even if it is not sunk, it will inevitably be heavily damaged, making this European wooden battleship lose its combat effectiveness.

The gap is too big, and it is not an opponent of an order of magnitude at all, so in the face of the Ming fleet, the European anti-Ming alliance fleet is the one who is slaughtered by one-sided.

"Boom! Rumble! Several fires exploded, and a 5,000-ton Ming battleship was hit by three shells again, and the two Ming Navy soldiers on the battleship were blown over and thrown into the sea, and several small steel plates were blown away at the same time.

This Ming battleship continued to bombard the European battleship group in front of it without hindrance, as if it had not been damaged by being hit at all.

Counting up, this 5,000-ton Daming battleship has been hit by at least 20 shells, but it only killed more than a dozen Daming naval soldiers on the battleship and overturned three secondary guns, and did not cause much damage to the overall combat effectiveness of this Daming battleship.

In the fierce naval battle, countless water columns were constantly blown up on the sea.

"Boom! Boom ----" another two dozen European warships were hit, a whole seven were sunk on the spot, and the others were also heavily damaged.

At this moment, the distance between the two sides has been shortened to about 1,300 meters, but unfortunately, the combined European fleet has less than a hundred warships left, and it is still being sunk at an extremely fast rate.

On the contrary, on the side of the Ming fleet, even if more than half of the battleships were hit, none of them lost their combat effectiveness, let alone sunk.

It's horrible, it's just desperate.

Such a naval battle, I don't know how to fight at all, I can't see any hope of victory at all, more than 400 warships have been sunk, and the Ming fleet is still undamaged.

"God! It's a nightmare! The Ming fleet is too strong, we can't defeat them at all! The commander of the Combined Fleet, the Duke of Yorkfield of England, cried out in despair.

It's useless, the entire Combined Fleet is no match for a hundred Ming battleships, and even the Combined Fleet has thirteen 'ironclads' from their most powerful 'ironclads' in England, which also has no effect.

The thirteen so-called 'ironclad ships' from England are just the name of the British themselves, and in the eyes of the Ming fleet, these thirteen so-called English ironclad ships are no different from ordinary European wooden warships.

The British did not have welding technology, and the steam engine technology was not mature, so it could not be installed on the battleship, and the so-called ironclad ship was just nailed with a layer of iron plate that was not thick on the original wooden battleship, perhaps to prevent the kind of small cannonballs filled with black powder, or solid shells still have some effect.

But they were facing the guns of the Ming battleships!

"Boom!" With a loud bang, a violent fire, this was the last of the British so-called 'ironclad ship' that was hit by a 305-millimeter caliber main gun on a 7,500-ton battleship of the Ming fleet.

The iron plates nailed to the surface of the wooden hull were directly shattered, two huge masts were blown off, and countless broken wooden planks were swept away by the blazing waves, and half of the hull was blown to pieces.

"Boom!" Another shell hit by a secondary gun.

"Click!" The keel broke, and the last of England's so-called 'ironclads' was instantly dumped and sank to the bottom of the sea faster than ordinary European wooden warships.

The last bit of reliance of the European anti-Ming coalition fleet was also crushed.

"It's over!" The Duke of Yorkfield knelt on the deck of the flagship, and all the remaining less than fifty Combined Fleet battleships were completely enveloped in fear, looking at the columns of water that were constantly blowing up around the battleship they were on, thinking that the shells of these Ming battleships could hit their battleship at any time, and sink them and their warships like those warships of various countries that had already been sunk, their legs trembled with fear, their will completely collapsed, and they no longer had the courage to continue fighting.

The remaining European Combined Fleet warships all began to scatter and flee, they want to end this naval battle, they want to leave this sea area, this is a nightmare, the Ming fleet is an invincible nightmare, they can't even sink a Ming battleship, let alone defeat the entire Ming fleet.

The remaining combined European fleet warships were routed on all fronts.

It's a pity that they can escape! At the firing range of the Ming naval guns, how could these European wooden warships, which might not even be able to hold up a single shell, escape, and there would be no such miracle at all.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ----"

"Bang! Boom! Bang --- "There were constantly columns of water being blown up in the sea around each European battleship that had fled, and there were not only a few European warships that were directly hit by shells and sank in violent explosions.

"Europe, no ----" The flagship of the supreme commander of the combined fleet, the Duke of Yorkfield of England, was finally no longer lucky, and was hit by three shells at the same time.

The entire flagship was enveloped in flames from the violent explosion, and the Duke of Yorkfield only felt a blazing wave crash against him, lifting him into the air, and then he lost consciousness, and the broken body fell into the depths of the sea, and the flagship also slowly sank.

As the number of remnants of European battleships became smaller and smaller, sometimes a European battleship was even targeted by the naval guns on seven or eight Ming battleships, a salvo, and even ten shells were hit at the same time, and the entire battleship hull was directly blown into pieces, and even the process of gradual sinking was left, and it directly became countless fragments, and the end was extremely miserable!

"Bang! Boom! Bang ----"

"Boom!" As the last of the Europa battleships that had flown was hit by more than twenty shells in a row, accompanied by huge water columns, the entire hull of the ship disintegrated into pieces and scattered on the sea, and the United European Fleet was completely annihilated!

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(End of chapter)