Although the 4,000-meter range of the 70-class Dutch warships was long, it was ultimately unreliable, not only because of their small numbers, but also because of the low accuracy of their cannons.

On the contrary, the general range of the Ming warships of 3,000 meters still occupies an absolute range advantage, and the combined fleet can only fully swing the combat strength of the fleet only by rushing within a distance of 2,000 meters.

However, the Ming battleship changed its shells too quickly, and it took almost six breaths or so to replace the shells.

In such a short period of time, even if the two fleets are facing each other and sailing fast, the degree of approach is not slow, but the interval between each round of cannon firing of the Ming warship only makes the two sides approach less than 100 meters, according to this calculation, the Ming warship will only approach the distance of two thousand meters after at least fourteen or firing salvos.

"Boom boom" Soon, the Ming battleships fired another salvo, and this time the Ming battleships that fired their guns had already exceeded fifty.

Thousands of shells were poured towards the Combined European Fleet.

Almost fifty shells hit the battleships of the combined European fleet.

The shells shattered the hull of the ship, overturned the cannons installed on the ship, and killed and wounded the soldiers of the Combined European Fleet on board.

This time four Combined Fleet warships were sunk.

"Boom, boom, boom" The third salvo of the Ming fleet, and there are more Ming warships involved in this round.

Six Combined European Fleet warships were sunk.

In the fourth round of "Boom Boom", this time a hundred Ming warships have fired a salvo together.

More than 3,000 shells rained down on the European Combined Fleet warship group in front.

"Bang! Boom! Bang" There was a violent explosion, and the water columns were blown up, and the blown sea water rushed onto the deck of the battleships of the European Combined Fleet, even if the battleships were not hit by shells, there were soldiers on it who were swept into the sea by the blown seawater.

The European warships that were hit were even worse.

"Boom!" With a single violent explosion, the European battleship that had been hit by one was shattered by a large section of its hull.

The power of the percussive high shells made by the Ming Dynasty with new gunpowder is too powerful, and the power of one shell is no less than the power of three flowering shells made of ordinary black powder, which means that as long as a European warship hits one Ming shell, it is equivalent to three of their previous naval battles.

Only five or six shells were enough to sink a European battleship with a wooden hull.

Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can sink three of them.

In this round, ten combined European fleet warships were sunk.

Counting the first three rounds, 22 warships of the European Combined Fleet have been sunk, and at this time, the warships in the front of the fleets of the two sides are still nearly 2,700 meters away.

In the fifth round of "Boom Boom", nearly 130 Ming warships fired a salvo.

More than 4,000 artillery shells flew towards the battleship group of the European Fleet as if it were really obscuring the clouds and the sun, and frightened many soldiers of the European Combined Fleet's eyes wide in fear.

"Nope! God" shouted the French soldiers on one of the French battleships.

However, no sooner had he shouted than the shells fell.

Four shells hit the French fleet battleship on which the French soldier was located.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "There was a violent explosion, a burst of fire, a blazing wave that swept off the shattered wooden planks, and was accompanied by the corpses and severed arms of many French soldiers.

At the same time that the battleship was hit, the sea water around the battleship was also blown up one after another.

The hull of the ship had just been more than half shattered, and before the surviving French soldiers on it could react, the surrounding blasted sea water fell on its own, washing a large amount of wood chips and soldier corpses from the broken deck into the broken cabin.

"Quack!" At the bottom of the battleship, the keel broke.

With a bang, a large amount of seawater poured in from the hull, and the surviving French soldiers on the battleship fled in terror.

However, this battleship of the French fleet had already been hit by one, and now it was hit by four in a row, and it was also hit by the vital point, the keel was broken, and the bottom of the ship was broken, no matter how much they ran away, no matter how hard they tried, they could not save the end of the sinking of the battleship.

Not only this French battleship, but many more battleships were sunk in this shelling of more than 4,000 shells.

The entire combined European fleet suffered heavy losses in these five shellings of the Ming fleet, and nearly forty warships have already been lost.

At the time of the five rounds of artillery bombardment of the Ming battleship, in the distance, the seventy Dutch-class battleships that had already stopped sailing had finally completed the hull rotation and aimed the cannons that had been loaded with shells on the other side at the Ming fleet.

"Boom, boom, boom" Seventy Dutch warships finally opened fire again, pouring more than 1,300 22-pounder shells into the Ming fleet.

It's a pity that although it is a twenty-two-pound cannonball, it is still not as powerful as the cannonball of the Ming battleship.

And because the cannon was too cumbersome and lacked technology, the so-called 4,000-meter cannon in the Netherlands had no accuracy at all, and could only rely on a large number of shells to cover a place and hit the Ming warship by luck.

There were more than 1,300 shells, and only about 20 of them really hit the Ming battleship, which was too few, and it could not pose much threat to the Ming battleship group at all.

"Boom!"

"Ah" there is a Ming battleship that rushed to the front, and it has been hit seven times, but this time it was hit four times in a row, the hull was blown out of a big hole, and a large amount of seawater poured in, and the broken hull of the Ming battleship finally began to tilt, and it was about to sink.

After all, this is the first battleship that has been sunk by the Ming Dynasty since the beginning of the war.

Although it finally began to sink the Ming warship, the European Combined Fleet obviously could not be happy, and even began to fear.

The Ming Dynasty was only sunk one, but they had already sunk nearly forty warships, counting the losses of sinking Lin Chong and other three Ming warships not long ago, the number of warships in the combined fleet had dropped to less than six hundred.

Although this is all because they have not yet rushed into the combat distance of less than two thousand meters, and have not been able to fight back by the bombardment of the Ming fleet, after they rush within two thousand meters, it will definitely be different, at least at the same time as their battleships are sunk, more warships will be sunk by the Ming Dynasty.

However, the most pressure in their hearts was that Daming already had more than a hundred warships, each of which showed the same powerful combat power as the three Daming warships they had sunk before, and they couldn't be sure how many warships with strong combat effectiveness there were in Daming, or that all the warships in Daming were warships with strong combat effectiveness.