According to the requirements of the Royal Navy of the Golden River Empire, the gun doors cannot be opened until 500 meters from the enemy ship, and the lower gun doors can only be opened within 300 meters. Because in high sea conditions, the lower gun deck will be splashed with a lot of seawater by the waves, and the gun doors will be opened early, and once the sea water is poured into the barrels, this round of fire will be dumb. Now the boats on both sides have just approached about 500 meters, and the other side hurriedly opens fire, which is equivalent to telling the old sailor on the other side that I am a mallet! I'm a little panicked!

Although all the captains of the Royal Navy came from Hong Tao's command and learned similar things, everyone's combat style is different. Kong Pei likes a step-by-step, unhurried rhythm, and will not take risks until the last resort; Bo Jiao inherited the mantle of Hong Tao, and is usually very cautious, once he sees a loophole, he will seize it, how to steal and play tricks; Weng Ya and Swan are of the same faction, and their style is one word, fierce! If you can shoot at 200 meters, you will never shoot at 210 meters, and if you can smash the opponent's ship, you will never try to save a few shells, and the closer they fight, the more excited they will be.

Hong Tao is the commander of the fleet, not the captain of the Jinhe, his task is to control the overall situation, so the task of commanding the Jinhe is still completed by Weng Ya. As long as she doesn't go too far, Hong Tao will not easily deprive her of her rights, which is a matter of honor and reputation for a captain. Weng Ya is indeed sensible, she knows that Hong Tao is on the ship, this is the flagship of the entire fleet, and she can't do whatever she wants like her own battleship, so she ordered to open the gun door as soon as she entered the distance of 500 meters, but she didn't give the order to open the gun. She was not willing to shoot so far away, the hit rate was too low.

"Mercy, when will you be able to grow your ambition and take care of your daughter-in-law, isn't this Nima playing with my life!" Hong Tao consciously stood behind Weng Ya. Gave up the captain's position. However, he didn't say it, it didn't mean that he didn't want to, if he was asked to command the Jinhe, the oblique route would not be so ruthless at all, and it would not be closer to within four hundred meters, and the cannon would have been fired a long time ago. The main fleet was a feint. It's already very risky in itself, and it's even more dangerous to play like this. But after thinking about it, this kind of thing can't be said, Weng Ya is not wrong at all, she is the captain of the ship, and she has to endure it without a big mistake.

"Boom ......" When Hong Tao cursed the eighteen generations of Compassion and Weng Ya's ancestors several times, his worries were indeed fulfilled, and a loud noise suddenly came from the bow of the Jinhe. Standing in the stern of the boat, you can feel the vibration, and you have been shot.

"What do you think I'm doing? You're the captain, you decide! Of course, Weng Ya also felt it, and she couldn't help but look back at Hong Tao's face, trying to find the answer from his face. It's a pity that Hong Tao doesn't have a face at all, he is obviously afraid to death in his heart, and his mouth is still hard.

"Captain, a position of five meters on the starboard side of the bow was attacked. However, there were no cracks or holes, and the shell should have been bounced off. "The results were not long in coming. According to the boatswain, there seemed to be nothing wrong with the Golden River, not even minor injuries.

"Hahahaha, I'm not afraid that *** won't play, I'm afraid that *** will come to a good card! Steady your course and cross to the middle of their course before firing your cannon. Whoever catches up is unlucky! As soon as she heard that the Jinhe was intact, Weng Ya smiled again. Originally, she was worried that the opponent's cannons would cause great damage to the main fleet, but now it seems that the cannons on the opposite side can't penetrate the hull of the Jinhe at all, although the shells are quite large. But the power is not as good as the 135 naval gun. That's still scared, so you have to get closer and attack again, trying to inflict serious damage on the enemy with a single blow.

The eight ships of the main fleet did not cross the channel of the Mongol naval fleet in a long snake formation, and that was the commander of the mallet. Because even if the Jinhe in front of it opened fire from a distance of 500 meters, when it was the turn of the last No. 7 ship to drive to the middle of the channel, the ships on both sides were probably about to collide, and they were also advancing. This practice of crossing the enemy's route is pure bullying, and can only be used against ships that are inferior to oneself in firepower and speed, in order to make the opponent turn.

If you don't turn, then good, the main fleet will take advantage of the speed advantage and make a zigzag back and forth in front of your fleet, one left and one right, and after the starboard naval guns are fired, the front team will become the rear team, and when you turn around, you will continue to beat you with the port naval guns. Your fleet will have one or two bow guns at most, and it will not be able to fight the fleet on the opposite side of the board at all, so you can only turn to meet the enemy, and in this way, the purpose of the flood will be achieved.

It is very difficult for the large fleet to turn suddenly at night, and it depends entirely on the experience and tacit cooperation between the captains, and it depends on whose fleet is well-trained. Shooting and turning at the same time is not something that ordinary captains can play, especially with a large fleet, the slightest misdirection of one ship may interfere with the normal navigation of the surrounding ships. And then it's like dominoes, one affects one, two affects four, four affects a whole bunch of ...... The whole fleet was in disarray, not to mention organizing an effective artillery bombardment, and it was difficult to keep the course on the same course.

The reason why Hong Tao chose to fight in this way was to bully the insufficient training of the Mongolian sailors. He did not believe at all that a large fleet, from captains to sailors, could be transformed into a well-trained and unfazed old navy in three years, which did not conform to basic logic. The Mongols don't have three heads, so why are they more powerful than the navy that they have trained for more than ten years? So no matter how the Mongolian sailors pretend to be during the day, he plans to give them a black one, not only to interfere with their course, but also to add a night!

These two words represent a lot of helplessness in the era of sail warships, and it is even more difficult, depending on how the Mongolian sailors respond. As for sinking the other party's ships, Hong Tao didn't care too much. People can't fight normally at night, and it's the same on their own side, with only a few small lights, the gunner can't see anything clearly, and can only fight blindfolded, even if he approaches to within 200 meters, the hit rate can't improve much. I can't even see the course and ups and downs of the opponent's ships, how can I grasp the time to open fire? The difference is a thousand miles, and this is the reason for shooting on the sea.

"Boom...... Boom Boom Boom Boom ......" With a tremor from the hull, the starboard naval gun of the Jinhe finally began to speak, and thick tongues of fire spewed out from the muzzle of the guns several meters away, illuminating the nearby sea, and also illuminating the shadow of the ship more than three hundred meters away. Just looking at the voyage is not much, but now that he sees the shadow of the ship, Hong Tao shakes his head. There were many layers of shadows, and they pressed over like a wall.

"Hit! Hit! Soon, two large green lanterns were hung on the mast. This is the lookout who determined that this shelling hit two enemy ships, and as for those who did not hit but could not be seen, it is no problem.

With the first wave of attacks on the Jinhe, the already noisy sea instantly became a toad pit, and one of the seven armed merchant ships behind entered the firing position every five minutes or so. They were all armed with 80-millimeter cannons, and the sound of firing was short and crisp, like beating a brass drum. Don't look at the small cannon, small also has a small advantage, that is, it is very fast to load, and the next round of shooting can be carried out in more than a minute, and the sea is like fried beans, one after another is full of fire and explosion.

The forward fleet of the Mongol naval division was suddenly hit hard, and it was impossible to think about it, and it is not known whether it was hit by the heavy artillery of the Jinhe under the waterline, or whether it was hit too many times by the small cannons of armed merchant ships, and several ships quickly lost their speed and crossed the middle of the fleet. The sinking of a few ships actually did little harm to the Mongol sailors, and the ships behind them had to avoid the shipwrecks in front of them. Since it was nighttime, although the sky was already slightly white, the sea was unusually dark, or how to say the darkness before dawn. This time is the time when visibility is the lowest, and it is also the worst place for Hong Tao, so he specially chose this time period to attack.

"A mallet is a mallet, at this time it is not dispersed into several columns, but also together, this commander should be hanged! Twenty on the left side, thirty on course, a collective U-turn! Weng Ya started shooting, and ran to the back of the stern to watch the shooting situation and position of his own boat. When the last armed merchant ship had passed through the main channel, she began to criticize the reaction of the Mongol sailors from a superior standpoint, and then according to the plan, she directed the rear of the fleet to change from the front to the front, preparing to cross the channel of the Mongol sailors again from right to left for a second round of shelling.

The first fleet cluster of the Mongolian naval division was already a little scattered at this time, the ships on both sides of the formation dodged to both sides, and the ships in the middle were some to the left and some to the right, and the good arrow shape gradually turned into a hollow drop-shape, throwing out the seven or eight ships of the arrow in front of them alone. Weng Ya has a very careful grasp of the rapid changes on the battlefield, which is probably one of the few female genes in her body that is at work, so the distance of the second round of shelling was shortened by more than 50 meters, and she gave the order to open fire only after the two sides entered 300 meters.

At such a close distance, the power of the new fifteen-fold long-barreled cannon was fully exerted. Its horizontal firing accuracy is higher than that of a short-barreled bronze cast howitzer, and the muzzle velocity and penetration of the projectile are also greater. The bow of a Mongolian naval battleship located in the middle of the port side was shattered by a solid bullet of 155 caliber, and then squeezed by the waves, and the entire bow of the ship was directly broken, just like an An-225 cargo plane that lifted the nose and prepared to load.

"Congratulations, that ship could be the enemy's flagship!" Don't look at Hong Tao's small eyes, but focus on the light. By the light of the cannon fire, he saw on the ship's mast something resembling the shape of an animal's tail, like a lantern tassel, black. This thing should be called a black 纛 (dao), a status symbol belonging to the Mongol princes. White represents peace and friendship, and black represents war to death. Since the Mongolian princes have all come, and this thing has been erected on the mast, it is more likely to be a flagship.

(To be continued.) )