Chapter 157: Lucky Strike
At this time, the morning fog near the destroyers gradually dissipated as the sunlight strengthened, and in front of them was a large Medeno fleet, which was surprised and a little panicked by the charge of the destroyers, but in a short time it still resumed command.
The fleet had seen two burning friendly ships at this moment, and needless to say, they knew that it was the destroyer's damage, and everyone was amazed at the destructive power caused by the destroyer. Although the tonnage of this three-masted destroyer is not comparable to that of the Luxuriate-class and the sharp-class capital ships, and the tonnage of the ships is only in the middle of the range in this fleet, it is said that it will directly ignite two battleships, one of which is a Gorgeous-class capital ship, which can only be explained by good luck in the eyes of the Meedno.
This Maidno fleet is part of the Eastern Fleet, which includes five Magnificent-class capital ships from the Pacific Fleet and many escort ships, and when it comes to fighting wars, they are absolutely experienced. The weapons used in naval warfare in this era are mainly smoothbore artillery, because the smoothbore cannon is used in the front, and there is no rifling, the use of round cannonballs like bowling balls, not only the 'precision' is poor, the loading speed is slow, the loading process is cumbersome, not to mention, the lethality is also very low, if it is not for the distance of less than 100 meters between the two sides, these iron bowling balls can not even penetrate the side of the ship. In addition, the cannon used on the ship does not have a stabilization system, and the aiming when firing the cannon is all based on hand, and the hit rate is all based on luck, so the naval battle in this time and space is often a three-hundred-round battle between the two sides, scarred, each going back to its own home, looking for its own mother, and to sink the enemy ship, one can only hope that the enemy's gunpowder arsenal has been ignited by accident. But now that the two battleships that had been arranged to attack the destroyer in the first place have all been set on fire, are the gunners of this destroyer a little too unlucky?
After the feud is not the party, the ball is made by the moon feud department
The Eastern Fleet has been leaderless since Ston was captured and "surrendered to the enemy," and the commander of the fleet was vacant for a long time, until not long ago, Rear Admiral Perez Mycenae, deputy commander of the Southern Fleet, took over the command. The sophistication of the weapons used by the Chinese and the strangeness of the modification of ships made Mycenae very interested, and he wanted to capture alive a group of Chinese naval officers and men and at least one converted warship, but one did not have this opportunity.
However, Shu Da, who defected from the Shabak 'chaos' not long ago, gave him this opportunity, he had already seen the power and efficiency of the Chinese's semi-automatic rifles and machine guns, and knew that such weapons would inevitably let the Chinese come to recapture them, so he specially set up a game with this. In this game, the bait used as 'decoy' was the semi-automatic rifle and machine gun offered by Shu Da. Mycenae deliberately let out the wind that the Meednoites had obtained these magical weapons, and specially sent this information for a long time through teleportation. With this method, as long as the Chinese know the situation, then it must be that the communication technique has been lost, and the Chinese can obtain their own communication through the communication technique. At the same time, it can introduce the Chinese fleet into the hunting circle that the Maidno people need to hunt.
Earlier yesterday, when the Maidno Intelligence Department learned that the Chinese fleet was leaving the port at a rapid pace, Mycenaeus was already convinced that the communication technique had been leaked, and he estimated that the Chinese fleet should arrive at the reef area around the evening to wait for the non-existent fast sailing ship. Then he commanded the fleet to surround the ships that the Chinese had little defense against at night - Mycenae was the premier commander of the Maidno fleet, and under his command, several small boats of the combined fleet first approached the Chinese fleet at night to conduct close reconnaissance, determined the position and number of ships, and then made attack arrangements: first of all, the Fengrui-class capital ships captured by the Chinese from the Medeno fleet must be recaptured, given that this Fengrui-class battleship is the largest of this small fleet, Naturally, it is the flagship of this fleet, so the capture of the flagship is also significant; Second, the three-masted destroyer should also be seized as much as possible, because this smaller warship has also been modified by the Chinese at the moment, and if it can seize one more, there will be one more sample for reference. In addition, the bulwarks of destroyers are much shorter than those of capital ships, and if they can quickly approach and jump around in the night and morning fog, they will definitely be able to quickly capture the destroyers. It doesn't matter as for the two remaining Fu Ships and the Canton Ships, which are not of much tonnage and do not seem to have changed much in shape, the main thing is that the Medeno people have little disdain for the small transport ships that are nicknamed "junk ships".
The Victory and the destroyer obviously had a lot of sailors on board, but both ships had a much smaller number of sailors than the Meedno ships of the same class - this was obtained from information from an unknown Meedno spy in recent times, so Mycenaeus felt that if they could get close and jump quickly, the Medeno sailors would be able to quickly capture and capture the two ships.
He had sent several of his fleet's warships in place before the dawn came, and the morning fog had successfully covered their quiet approach, but the location of the Victory made Mycenaeus feel quite scratched, if it was copied from the south, it was bound to touch the reef and be dangerous, but to the north were the destroyers at anchor, and on the east and west were two frigates docked. It was quite difficult to get close at night, so after discussion, Mycenae decided to first mobilize two warships to go forward, first capture the destroyer at the beginning of the battle, and then let the following battleships bypass the destroyer and sink or drive away the two junk ships with artillery fire, and then the battleship could outflank the Chinese captured sharp ships in a short time and jump to the gang, capturing the enemy ships in one fell swoop.
But no one thought that the inconspicuous destroyer would have a rapid musket capable of firing continuous 'fire' and a powerful single-barreled gun, which in a short period of time, ignited two Medeno battleships that were originally intended to capture the destroyer. The burning battleship Medno was helpless against the fire on its hull, so it could only sail away from the destroyer as far as possible to extinguish the fire. The two ships that fled the battlefield unexpectedly stopped the Meednor battleship, which was supposed to quickly 'close' to capture the Victory, and in order to avoid hitting the two burning torches, the ships that followed behind could only choose to evade, thus giving the Victory a chance to breathe. The Chinese seized the opportunity very well, and almost at the same time the Victory had already turned around and headed towards the reef area.
When Mycenae saw that the Chinese's capital ships were fleeing, they summoned nearby ships to quickly follow into the reef area in pursuit. According to his assumption, when he left the reef area, there was a flat area ahead, and he would naturally be able to catch up.
At this time, however, the destroyer twisted in a great circle on the battlefield, 'inserted' horizontally from the pursuit route between the two burning torches, and slaughtered the Medeno fleet with great vigour. Several of the pursuing ships were frightened by the destroyers that rushed out, and inadvertently two large frigates accidentally collided together, and the sailors who did not stand firm fell into the sea like dumplings.
After far from being ruthless, the enemy was inspected by the lone master technique
The fleet behaved so that Mycenae almost didn't scold, and he gave orders to give way to the ships in the front to turn their hulls and start 'shooting' in an effort to sink the destroyers here.
At this time, several sharp ships also began to turn, the side of the hull began to turn towards the destroyer, the gun windows were opened one after another, and the muzzles of black 'holes' and 'holes' stretched out from the gun windows, pointing at the destroyer that was moving fast, but because the distance between the two sides was still more than 200 meters, the sharp ships did not open fire.
But on the destroyer, the situation was completely different, the sailors were running up and down the deck, and the sailors carrying the wounded were constantly descending from the entrance to the cabin, and there were not many bodies left on the deck, even the wounded of the enemy were carried out of the cabin for treatment - a little later, of course. The crew in the cabin pushed the 'pumping' machine vigorously, and a steady stream of seawater poured directly onto the deck along the canvas hose, and the sailors on the deck held the canvas hose to wash the blood stains on the deck and prevent the blood stains from affecting the movement.
The gunners on the foredeck were already in position next to the two 'guns' spring guns, their muzzles facing distant targets. Unlike the layout of the Medeno battleship, two 'spring' cannons were placed side by side in front of the destroyer, which could be used to 'shoot' at the enemy both in the bow and on the side of the ship. The observer nervously reported the position of the enemy ship, and now the distance of more than 200 meters has already entered the 'firing' range of the spring gun, but because the destroyer does not have hull and muzzle stabilization equipment, the probability of missing the target is quite high at this time, so it will have to wait until about 150 meters before firing the gun.
But compared to the spring cannon, the marines on the ship did not have so many scruples, they had a better and better stabilization equipment - human body adaptive, they held their rifles steadily, half knelt on the side of the ship, aimed at the densely populated area of the Medeno in the distance, and carried out the first salvo 'fire' with the roar of the officer waving the command knife.
Mycenaeus had seen the power of the Chinese's weapons, especially after seeing the weapons of the Foreign Legion deserters, and he was already convinced that the 'shooting' of these deck soldiers could kill and injure the personnel on his own ships. And the situation that appeared in front of him at this time was indeed the case, since the thick smoke of gunpowder rose from the side of the destroyer, a dense scream broke out on one of his sharp ships, and the sailors on the deck rushed into the cabin to hide, and the crowded crowd blocked the hatch, resulting in a denser crowd than the original deck. What Mycenaeus feared immediately happened, only to see another round of gunsmoke rising from the side of the destroyer, and the dense crowd near the hatch suddenly fell again, and the casualties were even greater than when they were 'shot' before.
The enemy hates the war, and the main branch is committed
"Leave him alone!" Mycenae commanded loudly, "The ships that have entered the 'firing' position remain in their original positions, and the other ships evade and outflank from the left and right!" "His intention is obvious, let the ships that can fire guns stay in place, and the other ships avoid the sides, so that the destroyers will not be able to 'shoot' at those ships that evade quickly, but can only charge at the sharp ships that are ready to 'shoot', so that the sharp ships can wait for the destroyer to enter the 'firing' range and then concentrate their fire and 'shoot', and try to break the destroyer's mast and make her lose power. At this time, the ships on both sides rushed up to help, even if the small arms on the Chinese ships were powerful, it was impossible to sink the ship, and the cannons that could be installed on the ship were always counted, and the loading time was there. I have more ships than you, and I have more cannons than you, and a few salvos of 'fire' come down and smash the upper floor of your ship, how can you withstand me? In the end, isn't it still the 'meat' on the chopping board for me to slaughter? When the destroyer has no power and no artillery to protect itself, then the jumping boats on both sides jump another gang, and the ship will not be taken down in minutes?
Although this idea is very good, there are also problems, he only said that the ships that entered the 'firing' position remained in their original positions, but did not state which ships they were, and at this time some ships were unable to 'shoot' at the target in the 'firing' position, and some ships said that they had aimed at the destroyers, but they did not have time to enter the predetermined 'firing' position. And even those ships that need to be avoided, they are completely ignorant, they don't know in what direction to avoid, a simple left and right outflanking makes them look confused, who goes left and who goes right, they don't know, so they have to turn according to their own ideas.
This turn doesn't matter, the turning fleet suddenly 'messed up' the formation, even Zhong Bin, a "rookie" who has never commanded a large fleet, can see it, he knows that this is an absolutely great opportunity, once it is not seized, there will inevitably be enemies who will realize this problem and correct it.
"Captain! That one is the flagship! A Medeno sailor shouted loudly, pointing to a sharp ship about three hundred meters away, "with the commander's flag on it!" ”
Zhong Bin hurriedly looked, and sure enough, a golden commander flag was hanging on the main mast, and there were several flags hanging on it, which was probably a flag. Several Medeno sailors shouted almost simultaneously, "Captain! Their flagship is giving orders for all ships in the 'shooting' position to follow the flagship! ”
"Aim at the flagship and prepare to fire!" Zhong Bin ordered loudly, and the soldiers who heard the order turned their guns to the flagship, and the sharp flagship three hundred meters away was turning with several large ships nearby. "Aim and wait for the order to fire!" The gunners of the various gun positions shouted loudly, and the ammunition operators took the shells from the boxes and prepared them for reloading.
"Feel free to fire! Put! With Zhong Bin's order, there was a sound in front of the barrel, and one after another shells crossed a distance of more than three hundred meters and landed on the flagship.
There were a total of three 'guns' spring guns on one side of the destroyer, and at this moment, one of the three shells missed close and landed on the tail side, raising a column of water as high as six meters in the sea; the second shot hit the foremast, blowing up a large 'hole' with a diameter of three meters on the deck, and several nearby 'guns' lost their ability to 'fire' because the gunners were killed or wounded; the third shot was a legendary "lucky direct hit" that landed directly near the stern, and immediately saw a burst of blood mist mixed with a pile of severed limbs and wreckage flying up. Sprayed the backsail with a weird dark red 'color'.