Chapter 343: Recovering Taiwan (5)
Fierce naval battles are still going on, and the Dutch Far Eastern Fleet has already sunk three warships and nine more have been shot. Eight of the two major fleets of the Ming Dynasty were also hit, but compared to the losses of the Dutch, they were almost negligible.
"Bang! Boom! Countless water columns exploded, and the corpses of soldiers on the warships on both sides were constantly blown into the sea, and the sea water was dyed red all of a sudden.
"Boom, boom, boom" Another Dutch battleship was sunk by the Shenwu-class battleships of the Ming Navy, which were three thousand meters away.
The Dutch couldn't stand it, the deterrent power of the six Shenwu-class warships was too great, but the distance was outside the range of their own cannons, and it was impossible to counterattack, which made all the Dutch soldiers on the Dutch warships tremble, and the excellent quality of the usual times could not be brought into play at all, and the combat effectiveness of the entire Dutch fleet was only sixty percent at most.
"All ships leave the battlefield and retreat! Fall back! "The sailors on Count Ona's flagship kept waving the flag to convey orders to the surrounding ships.
The enemy had a powerful secret weapon, and in this situation of no understanding of the enemy's situation, Count Ona chose to keep the Far Eastern Fleet first, so he wisely ordered a retreat.
At present, in addition to the six Shenwu-class warships, the other 60 warships of the Ming Navy have rushed to a distance of only more than 500 meters from the Dutch Far East Fleet, and the warships of the two sides are about to meet together to start a close-range naval battle, but the Dutch fleet has retreated at this time.
The remaining thirty-five Dutch ships turned around and retreated!
"The Dutch are defeated!" Admiral Shen Jingchao of the East China Sea Fleet laughed and said.
"Pursue at full speed, be sure to annihilate the Dutch fleet, and don't let go of any of them!" Although Zheng Sen was also excited, he could still remain calm and calm on the surface!
Sixty warships pursued at full speed, and the six Shenwu-class warships cruising three thousand meters away also launched a pursuit.
Generally speaking, most of the cannons of the ships that are fleeing or pursuing at full speed cannot be fired, and only a few two or three cannons installed in the bow or stern of the ship can be fired, which is a law, the law of all warships at present.
However, this law does not include the six Shenwu-class warships of the Ming Navy.
The Shenwu cannon equipped with an anti-recoil device does not need to be fixed in one place as an ordinary cannon, only the muzzle can be rotated slightly, and the Shenwu cannon can not only move the muzzle, but also move the gun body and gun mount.
Of course, in the middle of the sea, the waves are choppy, and the cannon weighing two thousand catties wants to turn, and it is not swept off the sea by the waves, and the difficulty is quite bad.
Each cannon was painstakingly adjusted by the gunner and the ship's sailors.
The efforts of the gunners and sailors were not in vain, and the firepower of the six Shenwu-class warships in pursuit did not decrease in the slightest!
The sound of "boom, boom, boom" artillery was deafening.
After adjusting the cannons, the six Shenwu-class warships in pursuit fired their guns for the first time, still adopting the strategy of concentrating on sinking one.
More than 160 shells bombarded an escaping Dutch ship.
"Bang! Boom! "The selected Dutch warship was surrounded by more than 100 huge columns of water, and at the same time, the warship was shot, blowing up the skyrocketing fire, the mast of the warship was blown off, the wood was scattered, and many Dutch sailors' corpses or stumps and broken arms were swept into the sea by the air wave of the shell explosion.
The sea water around the ship was stained red with the blood of the Dutch soldiers, and the ship also rattled and tilted instantly, and the Dutch warship could not escape the fate of sinking.
"Oh, no! Oh, God! This scene shocked the Dutch even more than the Shenwu-class warship firing its cannon three thousand meters away.
The Dutch couldn't believe all this, what kind of warship was this of the Ming Dynasty, and it was in full pursuit without reducing its firepower at all.
Count Ona felt that this must be God playing a joke on them, when did such a warship appear in the world, with a long range, fast reloading, and even running the warship at full speed did not affect its powerful firepower, what kind of warship is this, this is simply a terrible nightmare!
Such a nightmare should not have happened to the great Netherlands, and God should not have done this to His sincere believers! Count Ona shouted frantically in his heart!
"Quick, full speed ahead, out of their range!" Count Ona's teeth were almost bloody.
What made Count Ona a little comforting was that because of the better location chosen, he could evacuate with the wind, and the great Dutch-made warships had better performance, and the Far East Fleet was faster when it withdrew, and it could gradually get rid of the pursuing Ming naval warships.
"Boom Boom"
Another warship was sunk by the Ming Navy!
Count Ona closed his eyes in pain, this was the loss that the Far Eastern Fleet had to bear before escaping the range of the Ming Navy.
"Hahahaha, this is called beating the water dogs!" Shen Jingchao laughed heartily, and before he could finish, he urged the gunner next to him to speed up the cannon: "Quick, open the cannon, sink the Dutch warship!" ”
The Dutch Far East Fleet chose a good position and escaped relatively quickly, although every breath could throw off the distance of one to two meters from the Ming warship, however, this distance was a drop in the bucket compared to the range of more than five thousand meters of the Shenwu cannon!
The sixty ordinary warships had almost stopped firing, and the sailors on them kept waving their flags and shouting for the six Shenwu-class warships.
"Boom Boom"
One Dutch warship after another was sunk by the six Shenwu-class warships of the Ming Navy that were being pursued as they fled!
"This is the best warship!" Seeing the six Shenwu-class warships continue to exert their might, Zheng Sen's eyes lit up and he was very excited, and he was once again glad that his father Zheng Zhilong did not choose to lead the Zheng family against the imperial court, and many of the high-level generals of the original Zheng family's naval division were also happy in their hearts.
All in all, they are no longer the Zheng family sailors of the year, they are the Ming Navy, guarding the Ming Maritime Frontier and safeguarding the interests of the Ming Dynasty!
"Dutch, you have today!" Seeing that the Dutch Far East Fleet, which was once a fearful opponent, was constantly being ravaged by the Shenwu-class warships of the Ming Dynasty and had no power to fight back, those sailors of the original Zheng Family Naval Division had no misfortune!
By the time the Dutch fleet had fled to a distance of 3,300 meters from the Shenmu-class ships, ten more Dutch ships had been sunk, and at this point in the war, fifteen Dutch ships had been sunk, and only the last twenty-four remained.
At 3,500 meters, six Dutch ships were again sunk in the runaway, leaving eighteen ships in the Dutch Far East Fleet.
"God! What is the range of their cannons! "Count Ona is already going crazy, his eyes are bloodshot with madness, he doesn't know how far he has to escape with the Far East Fleet to get rid of the range of the six nightmarish warships of the Ming Navy!
Sixty ordinary warships of the Ming Navy were no longer in the eyes of Count Ona, his eyes were staring at the six nightmarish Shenwu-class warships three thousand five hundred meters away, that was the deadliest threat to the Far East Fleet!
The Earl of Ona was undoubtedly in the same embarrassment as Viscount Leicester, and could not retreat!
Since the development of the war, he has clearly realized that the greatest threat to the Far East Fleet is undoubtedly the six Shenwu-class warships of the Ming Navy, and in the face of the Shenwu-class warships that have always fired their guns from three thousand meters away, the Far East Fleet has turned around and counterattacked, and there are sixty melee warships that were originally incorporated by the Zheng family to block and continue to retreat, but I don't know what the final range of the six Shenwu-class warships is, what if the Far East Fleet has not escaped from the range of the Shenwu-class warships of the Ming Navy, and it will be completely wiped out?
Count Ona hesitated, not knowing whether to order the remaining ships to turn back and fight back or continue to evacuate!
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