"Boom!"

The Silver Shark's bow turret let out a loud rumble, and even the bow seemed to sink for a moment.

A full 120mm caliber hexagonal cannon, this is already Chen Han's largest hexagonal cannon today, although the 150 hexagonal cannon on the test site has been produced for four or five years, but because of the material, the cost performance is still unsatisfactory.

There was a loud bang on the side chord of the Southern Lanark, and hexagonal shells flew straight into the hull. The outer side of the ship was still completely corpsed, and only a hole the size of a pot was smashed open, but the other side of the ship on the other side was half broken.

Western-style sail warships are all deck-open, cannonballs can get into it, can hit from head to tail, plus the wood chips splashed by the broken side of the ship, the lethality is not small, just like now. It was not uncommon for shells to hit the side of the ship on the other side, but very few were able to penetrate again.

The hull of the battleship is made of wood with three layers inside and three layers outside, and although it is all wood, it is not broken at the first stab. Softwood and hardwood are both softwood, so why is oak the best wood for shipbuilding? Isn't it because it has both hardness and toughness, it is not easy to absorb water, it is corrosion-resistant, and it can also prevent wood splashing. That is, if it is hit by a cannonball, [penetration/non-penetration], there will not be too many small sawdust jumping off, causing secondary damage to the sailors. Moreover, the general hull of a ship is two protective layers, which are forty or fifty centimeters thick. Without super penetration, the hull is not so easy to shatter.

The South Lanark was a standard oak warship, and if it was a solid bullet in the shape of a ball, it would not have been possible for someone to penetrate the hull at all. However, the 120mm hexagonal cannonball is much more powerful than the spherical solid projectile, and the penetration is not at all of a level.

Although it was no longer as clean as it had been at the first point when it penetrated the other side of the South Lanark, it still succeeded.

The ship's side, the size of a large skylight, was instantly torn to shreds under the impact of hexagonal shells, and a nearby artillery crew, from people to cannons, as well as gunpowder barrels, shell boxes, buckets, mops, etc., all disappeared cleanly, and not even a small piece of meat residue was left. The entire Southern Lanark shook violently from the impact of the shells, and several unpaying sailors were thrown out.

As for the second-tier gun deck where they were shot, countless gunners fled with their heads in their hands, and the wooden chips and wooden blocks that burst out everywhere were like bullets, whizzing and shuttling in the deck, I don't know how many veterans felt that there were countless shrapnel brushing their foreheads at this moment, it was really a dance with death. When the pieces of wood hit the human body, they all made a slight clattering sound, like a knife stabbing into the flesh quickly. And if it hits a wooden board, it is like the sound of nails being swept into the wood......

"Drive in a curved direction and be careful to avoid shelling."

"Stern guns, give me a counterattack at once."

The lightness on Michael Hughes's face instantly froze, because as far as his eyes could see, the Chinese battleship was already more than 2,500 meters away from the South Lanark.

At such a distance, the Chinese cannon can also hit?

Could it be that their artillery technology has improved by leaps and bounds again?

At this moment, on the Silver Shark, Chen Huacheng stood on the edge of the turret and praised Zhang Bao, who had just fired his cannon and hit the enemy ship, "It is worthy of being a well-known sharpshooter of our Oriental Fleet, and this level is high." "This Zhang Bao has been known for his magic cannon in many previous trainings, and he was promoted to the first mate of the Silver Shark because he did a good job as a gun commander, and now he is finally using it in the right place.

A second round of 120 guns followed, opening a hole in the stern of the South Lanark, shattering a large number of glass mirrors, flattening an angelic statue and twisting bits of steel into strange shapes by shells.

Both shots were all hit, and the distance was at least five miles or more, Zhang Bao's level of artillery was really godly.

The boiling sea and bloodthirsty air brought the six European warships back to their senses, and all the captains couldn't wait to give the order to return fire, whether they hit or not, whether they hit or not is a matter of attitude.

At 11:20 a.m. on this day, after several hours of chase, the artillery battle officially began. The advance sentinels of Chen Han's main fleet engaged in a boring and boring artillery battle with the European police fleet. With five sailing ships and five 120mm bow guns, they had to face more than a dozen European stern guns of hexagonal guns.

The former has few guns, and Zhang Bao has only one, so the overall hit rate is quite impressive.

Besides, no matter how sharp the gunner Zhang Bao is, it is impossible to guarantee a 100% hit.

But with the distance between the two sides always maintained at a distance of 2000 meters, the artillery hit rate of the Europeans was even more impressive. Moreover, the sturdiness of the bow turret was tested, and even if a hexagonal shell hit the turret, it had little effect. But no matter how small the hit rate is, it will eventually hit, and the stern and side chord of the Europeans, and the bow of Chen Hanji's sail detachment, it is also full of gunsmoke and debris flying.

The Silver Shark, the Starfish and the Sea Urchin were behind the three sailing ships, while the Tiger Shark and the White Shark were like two outstretched arms, outflanking the enemy from the front little by little in the process of chasing.

When the bleak slanting sun persistently stayed on the line between the sea and the sky, dyeing a large area of the sea and the sky into bright red, a waning moon as thin as a cicada's wings had quietly climbed up to the starry sky on the horizon; On the horizon, the setting sun is still swaying its last afterglow, and it uses thousands of light arrows to shoot through the clouds in the sky and the sea underground. At the foot of the setting sun, the sparkling sea did not become calm with the arrival of night, the sea water was still surging, and at the moment it was dyed red and bright, as if it was soaked in the bloody sunset.

At 5:40 p.m., three huge fires burned on the surface of the sea 100 nautical miles northwest of the Falklands, lightly raising three dense puffs of smoke, but they were swept away by the howling sea breeze before they could really rise.

After a while, five warships flying the blood-colored battle flag of Chen Han and the red flag of the blue sky and the white sun drove over. The guns of these ships were glowing with a cold glow on the outstretched barrels.

The cool moonlight sprinkled on the ocean like frost, and the three warships did not implement any light control, and the fires were bright and could be seen from afar. It was their enemies who turned on the lights, and the other three European warships turned on the strict lights, and then the sky fell and they fled.

Chen Huacheng did not continue to send warships to pursue, only let the two sailing ships in the distance to be on patrol alert, and he led three sailing ships to search for European sailors floating on the sea. From their mouths, you should be able to learn a lot of information about the Falklands.

On the towering mast of the White Shark, two lookouts were on duty, their eyes wide as they watched the dimly lit ocean. The more night it is, the more vigilant it becomes. This morning they set out from the east entrance of the Strait of Magellan, and chased for hundreds of miles all day, and they were stunned that they did not see a single European ship, which is absolutely abnormal.

If you think about it on your heels, you can see that the Europeans must have ruled the latter by that means.

"Do you think this red-haired ship is lying in ambush somewhere, waiting for us to hit it head-on?" An lookout asked, leaning against the guardrail on the mast, worried.

"We are a fleet of sails, we make a U-turn and turn easily, and we run faster than a sailboat. Why did they ambush us? ”

"This time, the main force of my large fleet is fully exerted, as long as the red hairs dare to come up, we will definitely be able to defeat them." Another lookout patted his colleague on the shoulder and said confidently.

On the Qin Shi Huang, the main flagship of the Grand Fleet dozens of kilometers away from the White Shark, the commander-in-chief Ye Tingyang was sitting by the chart, staring at the chess pieces of different sizes on the huge chart, the latter representing the main force of the Grand Fleet.

Although during the march of the Grand Fleet, Ye Tingyang organized the main battleships of the fleet into columns, but in the war, Ye Tingyang always adhered to the T-shaped horizontal head tactic. This is the tactic that can best use the firepower of a battleship!

Of course, the British are the ancestors of the T-shaped cross-head tactic, but this time the situation is a little different. The speed of the battleship in the hands of the British was not comparable to that of the sailing ship at all, and at the speed of the sailing ship per hour, the sailing ship could fall at least two knots, and if the wind and water direction were more beautiful, it could fall in three or four knots per hour. And the latter steering is quite flexible, and the sail battleship is a tragedy in turning.

In front of the sailing ship, the sailing battleship, which generally has only 8/9 knots of maximum speed, has only room for disgrace and sadness. What's more, the sail capital warships of some countries do not have such a high speed.

The standard of shipbuilding in European countries is generally good, but no matter how superb it is, there are also high and low. Northern European warships were generally inferior to those of Western Europe, and British sailors were far superior to those of Spain.

In naval battles, this is the ankle of Achilles for the Europeans.

Although the Chen Han fleet could rely on its own powerful front and rear main guns to kite the red hair, the red hair is a contemptuous term for the Europeans on the Chinese side, and it is not even as good as the title of foreigners. But this will take a long time, and it will be difficult to deal a heavy blow to the European fleet.

Ye Tingyang gave up the idea of firing at the extreme range to disrupt the formation of the Europeans early on, and instead tried to seize a more advantageous position with high speed, the so-called T-shaped crosshead. Although Nelson's glory was not too far a decade ago, this does not negate the importance of the T-shaped crosshead in naval warfare. Even the word 'most' can be added in front of this 'important'. In naval battles, the side in the horizontal column can exert all the firepower, while the side of the column can only use the bow firepower, and the simple numerical superiority of the main gun is enough to fight the decisive battle.

Nelson's brilliant victory at that time was in the era of change in the European navy, and no one in the European navy at that time completely replaced the cannons on the battleships with hexagonal guns, because the rate of fire of the hexagonal guns, the accuracy, the weight of the smoothbore guns, and the required number were not a small number. More often than not, the smoothbore guns on the upper deck were replaced, or the smoothbore guns in certain positions were replaced with hexagonal guns. What's more, in that naval battle, there was still a timid coward in the Franco-Spanish combined fleet who was helping the British. It can be said that it is a lion pack led by a sheep. On the eve of the battle, Werneuf commanded the combined Franco-Spanish fleet to make a 180-degree turn to put the fleet in an downwind position to facilitate easier escape in the event of a tactical disadvantage. This directive not only seriously affected morale, but also caused the formation of the combined fleet to fall into disarray. When the Combined Fleet was thrown into confusion due to the reversal of direction, Nelson seized the opportunity and decisively ordered an attack.

The British were not without a little mistake in naval battles, they also made big mistakes. But compared to the French and Spanish navies, they made fewer mistakes and were less harmful. When Nelson led the first detachment of fifteen battleships to cut off the combined fleet in a column regardless of the danger, and then commanded the battleships to cross the 500-meter death line again and again, desperately attacking the enemy warships, this desperate move greatly boosted the morale of all the British naval officers who participated in the war, and one by one the blood boiled and impassioned, and also made the demoralized Franco-Spanish combined fleet formation chaotic, and then completely lost its organizational strength, Villeneuve's flagship "Bousantol" lowered the marshal flag, and the fleet commander was captured. The rest of the Franco-Spanish warships scattered in a hurry. The British were also afraid of the lethality of rockets and hexagonal guns, and did not dare to push too much, so although Nelson won a brilliant victory in that battle, he did not completely destroy the naval foundations of Spain and France.

Nelson's defeat of the French and Spanish fleets with column tactics did not mean that this tactics were thoroughly adapted to all naval battles.

Again, the current Eastern and Western fleets have all been reequipped with hexagonal guns, think about the chiseling tactics in this situation, the column attacking fleet will be beaten to blood.

Nelson's victory was due to the naval conditions of the time, to the difference in morale between the enemy and the enemy, and even more to the stupidity of Villeneuve.

That is completely different from the current form, and war cannot be replicated.

The conditions of the warships on both sides will be developed for the time being, and only the fighting passion of both sides will not be weaker than that of the British Royal Navy back then.

On the one hand, it can be regarded as defending the country, but on the other side? That's the expansion of territory. This is not aggression, the Europeans have already invaded first, and the Chinese army can only be said to be expanding its territory now. In the end, Chen Ming still had no face to pull the Indians and Yin Shang together. But even so, China has nothing to owe in the grand scheme of things. On both sides, the morale is very high!

If anyone dares to play 'hand-to-hand combat' first, presumably its opponent will never 'avoid the enemy's edge'.

……

"Dear duke, Detroit was once again lost from the hands of the Americans, and the Chinese soldiers, with their great strength, completely reversed the disadvantage in the Northern Theater of Operations." With the loss of Detroit, the advantage that the Americans had won in the initial war was lost. "The Chinese's inner lake fleet is rampant on Lake Erie, many American cities around Lake Erie have been shelled, and the Americans' advantage in the northern battlefield has been completely lost."

"This summer is going to be a summer of pain for Americans. I think the Chinese have gathered enough strength, and they will break out soon. Next month, or next week, or just this week, the news of the Chinese counterattack will come. ”

Paris, the heart of Napoleon's empire. In the luxurious residence of Charles Maurice de Taleurand-Perrigore, Miss Dorocel, who was Chinese New Year's Eve and 2 years old, sighed to her uncle, the Duke of Bennivanto, who is now the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of France.

"You're disappointed?"

"Of course. We paid so much and we gave them so much support. "100,000 French soldiers have already arrived in the United States, or are still on their way to the United States, which is a very powerful force.

Thirty-two-year-old Mrs. Dorossey Belligor Dino was Talleyrand's niece-in-law, yes, he was Talleyrand's niece-in-law.

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