Chapter 655: Closing the Siege and Sneak Attack (Page 1/1)

Flores' first reaction on the deck was: it's over!

Such a violent explosion was enough to shatter the keel of a battleship, and even the strongest battleship's gunpowder would have to explode by itself. In terms of strength, Flores's prediction was very accurate, and then there was a tooth-aching sound of cracking wood from the battleship.

Flores knew that the dry silk battleship under his feet could not be saved, and gritted his teeth and rushed down the gun deck. He wanted to see what caused the gunpowder to explode, and he couldn't figure it out.

When he rushed down the gun deck, it was scorched black everywhere. The artillery charges stacked here have all exploded, and the guns that had been placed here have fallen to the ground.

And the gunners were burned to black coal, curled up in a ball on the artillery deck. To Flores' surprise, there were still flames on the charred corpse from time to time.

At this moment, the sailors on the deck jumped into the sea, and they had to take advantage of the silence of the battleship to stay away from the battleship, so as not to be sucked to the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool of the battleship's sinking.

Flores sat on the hot artillery deck in despair, the burning sensation from his ass making him feel better.

The Changxing army has this kind of magical shell, and their coalition forces have no hope of winning this naval battle at all. If you had taken out this kind of shell at the beginning, I am afraid that you would have already retreated!

It was only at this moment that he felt that Sandy was right, and it was very unwise to go against Changxingjun. With such a powerful lord, they should take the initiative to befriend rather than war.

But it was too late, and the defeat in the naval battle would have cut off the arm stretched out to the east by the Dry Wax Man. It is estimated that it is impossible to control a place in the east, and it may be a good choice to reach trade with the other party.

As his mind the battleship began to sink rapidly, the massive crack in the bottom compartment caused the sea to flood into the cabin in a frenzy. Such a crack is that God will not be able to do anything when he comes, and the sailors have run to the deck and jumped into the sea to escape.

Only Flores sat quietly on the gun deck, and the sound of tooth-aching wood cracking never stopped. Each crack seemed to break the nerves in Flores's body.

He lay limply on the gun deck, staring blankly at the roof of the shed. As the waters flowed over him, Flores, the commander of the fleet who wanted to conquer the East, sank with his flagship.

The counterattack of the Changxing army was extremely fierce, and a similar situation was played out on other warships. But they were not as unlucky as Flores, who were smashed through the top deck by three shells at once.

Someone saw the iron ball explode open, and the gunpowder filled with it shattered small nails, iron sheets, and iron sand raged on the artillery deck. These were nothing, and the most surprising thing for the dry wax people was the ball of fire that flew out after the cannonball exploded.

These small fires could not be extinguished at all, and they would not stop unless they were cut off with a knife or a belt. When these fireballs fall on the powder kegs, they will soon burn through the wooden shells and detonate the gunpowder inside, and no matter how hard the dry wax gunners fight, they will also stain the fireballs on their bodies.

In just one round of counterattacks, the raiding fleet commanded by Zhang Huan of the Changxing Army sank four warships of the Gan Wax Silk. Those who were lucky enough not to sink were no better, and the sound of self-detonation from time to time made people tremble when they heard it.

The ensuing counterattack of the Dry Silk Fleet was also sparse, and many people were stupid by the wave of the Changxing Army. They had never seen such an exploding shell, let alone a shell that would burn when it exploded.

In fact, this is the flowering bomb developed by the Changxing Army, and at the beginning, the Changxing Army used cast iron as the shell, and the effect was unsatisfactory. The cast iron is so thick that it can't explode the shell. The cast is thin, and the shell will shatter when it hits the target.

A leaky flowering projectile is simply not powerful, let alone killing or damaging enemy ships. After several experiments failed, Zhang Dou asked the craftsmen to try casting steel.

The flowering shells of the cast steel shell worked well, but the fragments exploded each time were very irregular. Even if the fragments were reserved at the time of casting, the effect was not ideal, and later it was simply like a grenade filled with iron sand and other items.

In the end, Zhang Dou also came up with the idea of adding other things to it, and after many experiments, he added yellow phosphorus to it. However, the ignition point of yellow phosphorus is very low, and it is necessary to use wax to isolate the air outside the yellow phosphorus.

Otherwise, the shells will explode during transportation, and no soldier will use such shells, no matter how good they are. The flowering bomb with yellow phosphorus becomes an incendiary bomb, and although the power of the explosion is weakened a lot, the yellow phosphorus burns very domineeringly.

Due to the problem of the amount of charge, such shells had to be made large. The other artillery can't be fired at all, and can only be fired at close range by the Early Sun Cannon.

Moreover, cast steel is not easy to come by, and the number of such shells is very rare. Each of the first sun cannons was only equipped with three shells, and even that almost drove the craftsmen of the blacksmith's workshop crazy.

It's just that the processing of shell casings is too complicated, and the output can't be increased at all. If it weren't for the fact that this was a battle that decided the fate of the Changxing Army, Zhang Dou would not have been willing to come up with epoch-making special shells at all.

The incendiary shell suppressed the coalition forces when it debuted, and they all looked at the Changxing Army battleship in surprise, and a chill came out of their heads, and many people had the idea of escaping.

After only a few rounds of bombardment, the coalition forces could not hold on, and they had no good defense against incendiary shells. This kind of artillery shells that can't kill you and blow you up, and burn you if you can't kill you have seriously hit the morale of the coalition forces.

Just as the coalition forces were about to flee, they were horrified to find that Zheng Zhilong's fleet had outflanked the coalition forces when they were firing at the raiding fleet.

It only takes a moment to complete the encirclement of the coalition forces, and no warship will be able to escape the encirclement of the Changxing army by that time. The coalition forces had only one option left but to surrender and be sunk, and at this time the coalition forces were completely chaotic.

They scrambled towards the only gap, and several warships crashed into each other in order to fight for the gap. Without the Changxing army attacking, the coalition army will be in chaos.

The Changxing army immediately launched an offensive and opened heavy fire on the besieged coalition forces, and the scene immediately changed from a back-and-forth shelling to a one-sided battle.

Just as the Changxing army was besieging the coalition forces, Weddell led his six warships back to Zhang Dou's flank. Because Weddell's battleships were low, narrow, and inconspicuous, they were not taken seriously by the Changxing army.

The Flying Fish Clipper was sent to entangle with it, and it was not until they rushed towards the Zhang Douzuo ship at full speed that the Changxing Army reacted.

At this moment, there are only three killer whale battleships left by Zhang Dou's side, and there are only four beluga battleships with his seat. There are five Exocet clippers used for communication, which is not enough to see the English battleships.

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