Chapter 869: The Battle of Malacca (7)

In fact, now, they don't need to deceive themselves.

The commanders of the fleets of all countries are not fools, through the binoculars, they can already see every battleship that appears in the Ming fleet.

They were horrified that all the warships of the Ming fleet were of the same type, the same shape, the same size, and the muzzles of the cannons equipped on the battleships were the same, what does this mean, this shows that the warships of the Ming fleet are all of the same type, and there is only one type of battleship in the Ming Dynasty, and all of them are the kind of warships that are so powerful that they make people palpitate!

According to the powerful combat power estimated by the Ming warships compared to their combined fleet warships, the Daming is no longer two hundred and ninety-seven warships, but nearly nine hundred, which is terrifying!

"Boom, boom, boom" The sixth round of artillery bombardment of the Ming fleet hit.

More than 170 battleships fired a salvo, and under more than 5,000 shells, there were violent explosions everywhere in the battleship group of the European Combined Fleet, the sea water was blown up, and the wooden battleship hull was shattered.

"Ah" a shell hit the flagship of the Kingdom of Poland directly.

Several Polish soldiers on the Polish battleship were blown away along with the ship's two cannons, and with a bang, they crashed into the sea.

The Polish soldiers, who were not dead, struggled on the surface of the sea, but they were immediately drowned by the water that had been blown up next to them.

Also affected was the fleet commander of the Polish fleet.

If it weren't for the protection of the Polish soldiers around him, the commander of the Polish fleet would probably have been overturned into the sea in the explosion just now.

The commander of the Polish fleet climbed up in embarrassment and hurriedly looked at the other two Polish battleships around the flagship.

To the anger of the commander-in-chief of the Polish fleet, one of the Polish battleships had been sunk in the shelling just now, and was gradually sinking into the sea in thick smoke.

They had only three Dutch ships coming, and now one had been sunk, and only two remained.

Anger lasted only a moment, and then turned into fear.

The Daming fleet was so powerful that it sank dozens of warships of the combined fleet two thousand meters away.

Their Kingdom of Poland sent three warships to participate in the combined fleet, originally just to take advantage of the fire, plunder the Ming Dynasty with the combined fleet, grab some property and go back, and replenish the empty treasury of Poland against the Tsarist Russian Empire over the years.

I thought that it would be impossible for the Ming Dynasty to defeat the huge combined fleet no matter what, but who would have thought that there were a lot of warships in the Ming Dynasty, reaching a terrifying scale of three hundred in total, and the combat effectiveness of each warship was very strong, and it was not so easy to defeat, and even according to the current situation, it was estimated that the defeat of their combined fleet was more likely.

The commander-in-chief of the Polish fleet regretted his involvement in the Combined Fleet.

"Boom boom" the seventh round of artillery bombardment of the Ming fleet.

As the warships on both sides rushed to the front closer and closer, more and more Daming warships reached the range and participated in the salvo.

"Boom Boom" Round 9, Round 10.

During the tenth round of shelling, almost all the Ming warships participated in the salvo.

Nearly 10,000 shells were dumped, and the sky was dense, like rain, with the smell of death.

When some of the soldiers on the battleships of the European Combined Fleet saw this scene, they were all stupid, their legs were weak, and some soldiers even collapsed directly on the deck.

"Bang! Boom! Bang" exploded violently, and countless columns of sea water were blown up.

A large number of Combined Fleet warships were hit by bullets and exploded, shredded wood was blown away, and more Combined Fleet soldiers were blown over and thrown into the sea.

Wood chips and overturned cannons fell into the sea, and there were not only a large number of floating bodies of United Fleet soldiers, but also more broken planks, which were left behind after the sinking of the shattered hull.

At this moment, more than a hundred Combined Fleet warships have been sunk, which is extremely miserable.

When the tenth round of artillery bombardment of the Ming fleet ended, the seventy Dutch-class battleships in the distance finally completed the rotation of their hulls again, and aimed the muzzles of the other side with reloaded shells at the place where the battleships of the Ming fleet were located.

"Boom Boom"

This time, the Ming battleships were undoubtedly more dense, but there were less than twenty-five twenty-two-pounder shells that hit the Ming battleship.

Another Ming warship sank.

The Ming Dynasty only sank two ships, while the European Combined Fleet had already sunk more than a hundred, and the losses on both sides were not proportional at all.

Inside the combined fleet, a large number of soldiers were pale, their eyes were full of fear, and their morale was greatly damaged.

Even the nominal supreme commander of the Combined Fleet, the Dutch Duke of Havelan's face was blue at the moment.

"Da Ming, sure enough, all the warships are the kind of warships with strong combat effectiveness!" The Duke of Havelan's scalp was a little numb, and he gritted his teeth.

He was angry and even more unwilling.

The strength shown by the Ming fleet is too strong, even if the combined fleet has more warships, the chance of victory is only less than fifty percent.

Once the combined fleet loses and the Ming Dynasty wins this naval battle, then their great Netherlands will definitely fall from the position of the world's first sea power hegemon, and it will be replaced by the Ming Dynasty.

This is something that the great Netherlands could never endure.

The great Netherlands could not bear to fall from the position of the world's first sea power hegemon, let alone the Ming Dynasty, a non-Obarro empire, to sit on this throne, by no means!

There are only more than 500 warships left in the combined fleet, and the distance between the two fleets is about to enter a full-scale engagement distance of two thousand meters.

This time, the eight-nation joint fleet came and gathered ninety percent of O'Barro's sea forces, if this can't defeat the Ming Dynasty, then it will be even more impossible in the future.

For the Great Netherlands to continue to rule the seas, and for Obaro to rise to the top of the world, the Combined Fleet must defeat the Great Ming Fleet at all costs.

The British peeped into the position of the hegemon of sea power, and could not tolerate the victory of the Ming Dynasty in this naval battle, and the British also fought desperately to carry out the naval battle to the end, defeating the Ming fleet at all costs.

Britain and the Netherlands are the most determined, even if the other six countries regret it, but the naval battle can no longer be stopped, and they can only bite the bullet with the British and Dutch to defeat the Ming fleet at all costs.

"Bang!" On the Ming battleship, the Ming naval soldiers quickly replaced the cannons with new shells.

"Boom Boom" This is the eleventh salvo of the Ming battleship, all the battleships participated, and nearly 10,000 shells were dumped in the battleship group of the United Fleet.

Under the violent explosion, no less than 30 Combined Fleet warships were directly sunk, which directly reduced the number of European Combined Fleet warships to less than 500.

And at this time, the fleets of the two sides were finally less than two thousand two hundred meters apart.

2,200 meters, this is the longest range of the 16-pounder guns on the European Combined Fleet battleships, which means that the European Combined Fleet warships can finally make a preliminary large-scale counterattack on the Ming fleet after suffering losses of no less than 140 warships.

The sixteen-pounder guns that rushed to the front of the Combined Fleet battleships were impatient to start firing first.

A Ming battleship that had been heavily damaged was sunk immediately, which was the third one that the Ming fleet had sunk since the war began.