Chapter 568: The One Who Doesn't Admit Defeat
After the surrender of the Spanish fleet, the Dutch Indian colonial fleet tried to break away from the battlefield.
He knew in his heart that his fleet would not be able to defeat the Tiance Navy, and it would also not be able to outrun the Tiance Navy. No matter what the result is, he still has to work hard to fight for it, and he has the luck mentality of the Tiance Army to give up the chase.
But his hopes were dashed, and the main fleet of the Tiance Army quickly caught up, and the detachment bypassed the Spanish fleet that had surrendered, and also caught up, anyway, with the speed of the Spanish warships, the Tiance Army was not worried about where they could run.
"We are the navy of the Ming Dynasty Tiance Army, and now we officially inform you to drop the sails and surrender immediately, otherwise we will open fire."
A beautiful female voice came from the direction of the Tiance Army and the navy, which was a pure Amsterdam accent.
"We are the navy of the Ming Dynasty Tiance Army, and now we officially inform you to drop the sails and surrender immediately, otherwise we will open fire."
This time, it was in French, a popular European language, and Lisa was shouting using the strong voice device on the landing ship.
Colonel Ryan looked at the Tiance Army battleship chasing from behind in horror and said, "General...!" ”
He didn't look at the scene behind him and said, "Leave them alone and continue to retreat." ”
The sailors of the Dutch fleet were amazed by the sound coming from several kilometers away, and they exchanged words and discussions.
The Tiance fleet followed the Dutch fleet, and the four coast guard warships gradually outflanked it from both sides, and the shouting had been carried out three times.
"Fire!" Navy Commander Wei Xiaoliang ordered.
"Boom, boom!" With a burst of cannons, an 800-ton Dutch warship was hit nearly 100 rounds in a row, and the dense explosion swept almost everything, most of the shells hit the waterline, and the warship began to quickly disintegrate and sink.
"General, the Lion has been sunk!" Colonel Ryan panicked.
Shaking his body and reaching out to grasp the guardrail, he knew he couldn't continue to escape reality.
Raising his binoculars and looking at the situation on the sea, he ordered: "Order the remaining six cruisers to live on both sides, and target the enemy ships on both sides, and let them taste the power of the forty-eight-pounder gun." ”
The enemy ships are very large, but unfortunately the distance is too far, and only the maximum range of the forty-eight-pounder gun can be enough, and now there is no choice but to try their luck, hoping that the enemy can retreat in the hope of the difficulty.
One of the previous cruisers had already been lost in the naval battle just now, and now there were seven cruisers left, one of which was the flagship.
The six cruisers gradually adjusted to the sides, and at this time, another Dutch warship behind was sunk by the Tiance army.
Fear, resentment, and reluctance made the Dutch sailors look like red-eyed gamblers.
"Cannonballs, reload cannonballs, and to hell with those damn Ming people." The cannon shouted loudly.
"Oh my God, it's too far, can we hit them?" The gunner looked at the Coast Guard battleship two or three kilometers away.
"No matter how far you go, you have to beat me, hit me hard!" The artillery commander roared, "I need you to shoot the most cannonballs in the shortest possible time, and if any guy dares to be lazy, I don't mind sending him to God." ”
The shelling of the six cruisers was ready, and then came one after another"! Fire" "Fire!" ”
It was the first and perhaps the last fire fired by the European Combined Fleet since the start of the war.
The 48-pound shell weighed 21.77 kilograms, had an effective range of about 1,000 meters, and a maximum range of 3,000 meters. The gun weighed six tons, so it could only be used for naval battles and defending cities.
Due to the distance of the Tiance battleships, the seventy-two forty-eight-pounder guns on the six Dutch cruisers were all fired at large elevation angles, so the shells rushed towards the enemy ships in a parabolic line. The Dutch expected to use probabilistic shelling, smashing through the upper deck of the enemy ship.
The sound of the 48-pounder cannon was particularly alarming, and because of the black powder, the smoke of the gunpowder after the successive firing almost completely enveloped the hull.
Due to the impressive recoil of the gun, twelve cannons on the side of each cruiser fired one after another.
Seventy-two shells whizzed towards the four coast guard warships on either side, and the well-trained Dutch gunners hurried to reset the gun carts in preparation for the next round of shelling.
The aiming of the smoothbore cannon in this time and space is basically close to Meng, and the deviation at such a distance is even greater. However, the sound of the Dutch's cruiser firing was much louder than that of the anti-aircraft guns of the Tiance Army, and the thick smoke of gunpowder when the guns were fired added to a terrifying momentum, which really startled the officers and men of the Tiance Army, who had never met an opponent.
"Concealment, concealment, all personnel pay attention to concealment!" Through the images transmitted by the drone, the smoke-filled scene of the Dutch firing the cannon was seen, and Wei Xiaoliang used the walkie-talkie to loudly alert the coast guard warship that was shelled.
Although he knew that the enemy's shells were not on target, he was still a little nervous, and since the establishment of the Tiance Navy, there has been no record of casualties in naval battles.
Seventy-two projectiles fell one after another, shooting skyrocketing waves in the sea, and the impact points were found in the front and rear of the four coast guard warships, which also showed that the heavy guns equipped on the Dutch warships could reach a range of three kilometers.
"Teach the Dutch a lesson, otherwise they won't throw in easily." Wang Yue said.
The victory was already in hand, and the next stage of the naval battle was to capture more Dutch ships, but I didn't expect the Dutch to be quite unwilling to admit defeat.
The Tiance army should also consider fighting to feed the war, and the Dutch warships are all made of high-quality oak, which can be kept for decades. Although the Tiance Navy could not use these warships, they could be used as transport ships after modification, or they could be sold to the Ming Dynasty to those maritime merchants for the development of the Ming Dynasty's maritime career.
The retaliatory artillery bombardment of the Tiance Army was extremely ferocious, and the Dutch cruisers had not yet completed their preparations for the second shelling, and the dense anti-aircraft artillery shells had already crossed the three-kilometer sea surface one after another.
The focus was on the six cruisers that had just fired their guns, and the warships around them had also become fish in the pond.
With six cruisers as the center, the Dutch fleet boiled like boiling water in an instant, and the firepower of the Tiance Army never disappointed the enemy, and it was absolutely full.
The cruisers were sad, and the dense rain of shells easily smashed through the hull, releasing strong kinetic energy and heat wantonly inside the ship, and it was difficult to stop their energy from both the flesh and the hull.
"Boom!" With a loud bang, the powder magazine under the gun deck of a cruiser was hit, the gunpowder was ignited, and the battleship began to disintegrate and break into two pieces in mid-air, and then fell heavily to the sea, and the charred bow and stern burned on the surface of the sea, sinking to the bottom of the sea little by little.
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