Chapter 040: Asymmetrical Shelling

To be honest, in this naval battle, Zhuo Shijie's two gunboats, the Asuka and the Flying Fish, came to fight soy sauce. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The Dutch fleet had much more artillery than the total number of shells carried by Zhuo Shijie's two gunboats, and in terms of firepower, the two sides were not comparable at all.

The Dutch battleships, whether they were two giant battleships or eight other large gunboats, were all double-decker plywood ships with amazing defensive power, and the 25mm naval guns on Zhuo Shijie's two gunboats were a little powerless to deal with them.

With high firepower and high defense, this is the naval fleet that the Dutch are proud of.

This is also the biggest capital of the Dutch who are rampant all over the world.

Of course, Zhuo Shijie will not fight hard with the Dutch, he is just driving the gunboat to play soy sauce, and by the way, he is just cultivating a little intimacy with Anne.

The gunboats were getting closer and closer to the Dutch fleet.

The two battleships of the Dutch fleet, one in front of the other and one in the rear, were located in the center of the fleet, and on their flanks there were four large gunboats each, while four small speedboats, maneuvered around the fleet.

Zhuo Shijie's target was a large gunboat at the very edge of the left flank of the Dutch fleet.

He rode the gunboat, sometimes rushing towards the Dutch fleet, sometimes turning away, testing the reaction of the Dutch fleet.

After repeating this several times, the Dutch fleet was unmoved, still maintaining its original formation, and pressed towards the Black Wind Island step by step.

Seeing that the Dutch fleet was ignoring his gunboats, Zhuo Shijie once again approached less than three kilometers from the Dutch fleet.

The effective range of the 25-mm naval guns on the gunboats was 2,800 meters, while the range of the Dutch fleet guns was only a few hundred meters.

"Anne, target, the nearest Dutch gunboat to the right, fire!"

Anne received the order and immediately aimed at the enemy ship, firing a long line of tongues of fire.

Dozens of shells hit the Dutch gunboat, shattering its thick hull with a bang, and the outer hull was immediately broken.

If it were another ship, these dozens of shells would surely sink. But this plywood ship has this advantage, the outer hull is broken, and it does not affect its combat effectiveness in the slightest.

Zhuo Shijie sneered in his heart, he naturally knew the characteristics of the double-decker hull of the Dutch warship, but was the double-decker very remarkable?

Anne is a marksman, and she can calculate the relative speed of the ships on both sides, the height of the ships in the waves, and the speed of the wind, so that it is not difficult for her to hit the cannonball into the gap of the last explosion.

He was about to give the order for Anne to keep firing when his eyes widened.

I saw that in the side gun holes of several large Dutch gunboats, there were all clouds of smoke coming out!

"Volley! One salvo! ā€

In this salvo, more than 100 artillery pieces fired shells.

Zhuo Shijie was shocked, and hurriedly turned the rudder and turned around, the Dutch did not play cards according to common sense and stopped playing with them.

On the battleship "Golden Bird", Albert was actually a little embarrassed in his heart.

He wanted to beat the other party hard to let them know how powerful the Dutch fleet was, but he was afraid that he would hit him too hard and sink the small gunboat. And the purpose of his trip was these two small gunboats, and he didn't want to spoil a big thing because of his momentary whims.

However, it is not possible to intimidate the other party without firing a cannon.

On the island of Black Wind that day, Albert had seen the range and power of these small gunboats, and if they were allowed to open fire, his own battleship would inevitably suffer serious damage.

Therefore, Albert ordered that as long as the opponent dared to open fire, no matter how far away, he should return fire, but only the large gunboats on both flanks could return fire, and the main battleships could not fire.

On the four gunboats on the left flank of the fleet, they were armed with more than 200 guns, and the side guns on one side all fired, which was more than 100 shells.

Although these shells were inaccurate because they were far beyond the effective range, because they were too numerous, Zhuo Shijie's gunboats were suddenly in danger.

Anne controlled the 25mm naval guns, strafing into the sky, exhausting all the shells before intercepting several of the most threatening projectiles.

"Grandma, when Lao Tzu has a destroyer cruiser, see how I clean you up!" Zhuo Shijie wiped a cold sweat, and began to miss the lost destroyer in his heart again.

The gunners on the gunboat were out of ammunition, and Zhuo Shijie couldn't wave any longer, so he drove the Asuka to retreat to Blackwind Island and use the batteries to punish the Dutch.

Knowing the power of the Dutch battleship, Zhuo Shijie didn't want Liu Laoliu and Hong Zhi on the Exocet to take another adventure, and just wanted to raise the signal flag to let the Exocet retreat, but found that the Exocet had also exchanged fire with the Dutch.

Zhuo Shijie was so anxious and angry that he almost scolded.

He dared to take the risk of attacking the Dutch because with Anne, the protector by his side, she could accurately intercept the enemy's shells, even if he missed one or two shells, and the gunboat was hit by the enemy, and he was seriously wounded, Anne could quickly treat his injuries, so he was not afraid of the Dutch fire.

But what are you Hong Zhi and Liu Lao Liu mixing blindly? Do you think that your life is too long?

Actually, this can't all be blamed on Liu Laoliu and Hong Zhi's hot-headedness.

Driving a small gunboat, Hong Zhi and Liu Laoliu were quite happy at the beginning. After all, this gunboat has strong firepower and fast speed, don't look at its small, but its attack power is leveraged.

However, as their gunboats got closer and closer to the Dutch fleet, they felt strong pressure from the Dutch fleet.

Huge warships, each battleship, is a dense artillery stack, the whole fleet gives people a heavy pressure, like a heavenly soldier on the sea, people do not have the courage to confront it.

Compared with Zhuo Shijie, Hong Zhi and Liu Laoliu lack vision.

Although these Dutch gunboats look domineering, in Zhuo Shijie's eyes, these backward wooden warships are no different from local chickens and dogs.

And these Dutch gunboats, in the eyes of Hong Zhi and Liu Laoliu, are extremely terrifying, almost invincible.

Hong Zhi and Liu Laoliu's plan was originally the same as Zhuo Shijie, relying on the advantage of their fast speed and long range, close to the enemy fleet, draw cold and shoot a few shots at the enemy ship, and then just accept it when they see it, anyway, they just thought about the addiction of firing cannons.

They rode the Exocet around the right side of the Dutch fleet for a long time, never daring to get too close. The Dutch fleet was too imposing, and their gunboats were too small to muster the courage to fight.

This is not to say that Hong Zhi and Liu Laoliu are timid, you must know that there are ten other brothers on the gunboat, they don't think about themselves, they have to think about the lives of their subordinates.

Moreover, Zhuo Shijie also warned them not to attack rashly.

When Zhuo Shijie's Flying Bird bombarded the Dutch fleet, Hong Zhi and Liu Lao Liu finally couldn't help it.

"The big bosses are all involved with the enemy ships, and we can't let people look down on them, on, **** mother!" Liu Laoliu shouted at Hong Zhi.

The heat in Hong Zhi's chest surged, and his brain was hot: "Okay!" Just do it! Let's flank left and right and give them a blow! He has always spoken in a literary manner, but he suddenly changed his style.

In this way, the Exocet, a small gunboat of less than 50 tons, rushed to the Dutch fleet with a total tonnage of more than 5,000 tons.