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"My lord, don't you give the order to fire?"

Inside the hot air balloon's gondola, an observer cautiously asked the guards beside him.

The latter was holding a telescope and staring downward, where a group of crusader soldiers with bayonets and rifles on their shoulders in a neat formation were walking towards the city of Malacca through a green field, dragging heavy field guns and even a few large-caliber mortars in the middle of them, struggling to move forward on the damp and soft ground at the edge of the tropical rainforest, and what was even more terrifying was that there were two monster-level heavy cannons, pushed forward by dozens of horses and hundreds of soldiers.

"Mada, this thing is a naval gun, right?"

Qin Yan looked at the two giant cannons and said in horror.

"It doesn't matter what kind of cannon he is, let the fifteen-pound cannon fire, and at most three rounds of artillery bombardment will blow them up."

The observer said.

The Ming army's eighty pound heavy artillery and forty pound heavy artillery are mainly based on sea defense, and the firing fan is very small in the semi-open gun fort of reinforced concrete, and it is impossible to use it to attack the rear of the side, but the fifteen-pound rifled guns on the city wall and the fortress are not far away, but they can hit wherever they want, even if they drag the city wall to run, and the firing range is also easy to hit seven miles away, but it has no penetrating power, so it will not attack the battleship at this distance, But when using flowering shells to attack land targets, what penetration power needs to be considered.

"What's the hurry, let them go a little longer!"

Qin Yan said sinisterly.

The observer immediately grimaced.

The poor crusader soldiers, of course, did not know that the opponent's cannon could have hit their heads a long time ago, and they deliberately did not fire in order to admire their exhausted appearance, so they pushed two heavy super cannons, and trudged through the wet ground with difficulty, sweat dripping like drops, and from time to time someone fell from heat stroke due to the heat, and even terrifying locusts unconsciously crawled on them, which frightened these lads from the temperate zone to scream in terror.

The hellish journey slowly stretched forward almost an inch.

"Hard! For the sake of victory, for the sake of the Motherland! ”

Dutch Army Lieutenant Colonel Knight rode on his horse and waved his white-gloved hand to cheer the soldiers on.

These two cannons were actually forty-two-pounder naval guns directly removed from a second-class battleship, which was their hope for breaking through the city of Malacca, and the Ming army's rifled guns had a long range, of course, they were also very clear, the British bought twelve guns from Yang Feng at a blood-high price, and then bombarded the French on the European battlefield to cry the same blood, which largely made John. Churchill's reputation as a god of war was certainly well known to the commander of the 1st Crusader Legion, who had been commanding the Dutch Army to fight under his command.

In order to restrain the rifled artillery of the Ming army, he made such two giant beasts.

Two specially modified forty-two-pounder guns were mounted on two large, sturdy teak planks with a bunch of broad wheels underneath, and the whole forty-two-pounder gun, including the cannons, weighed more than 150,000 pounds. In order to push them to the position, fifty war horses and a whole battalion of soldiers were busy with all their might, and even had to pave the road with logs for them in some special areas, and in order to prevent the Ming army from going out of the city to attack them, a whole brigade of soldiers followed on both flanks to provide protection, so to speak, as if serving their ancestors.

"Quick, keep going!"

An officer next to the gun carriage shook his whip and shouted.

The war horses in front of them snorted angrily, helplessly raised their legs, stepped heavily into the ground under their feet, and swayed their bodies slightly swayed forward a little bit, on both sides and behind the cannons, a soldier lowered his head and tried his best to push the two iron lumps, moving forward a little bit, suddenly a war horse in front of him screamed sadly, and fell directly to the ground, the giant cannon that had just climbed a mat log retreated a little, and then a soldier fell into the mud with a wail.

"Hurry up!"

An officer behind him stepped forward and whipped him hard, while a reserve soldier stepped forward to take his place.

"It's too slow, we have to speed it up!"

At this time, General Cohorn rode from behind, and looked at the re-moving cannon and said dissatisfiedly, and at the same time he looked up at the small high ground a few hundred yards ahead, which was the predetermined gun emplacement, three thousand five hundred yards from the city of Malacca, although the cannonballs at such a distance also had little penetrating power, but the cast-steel flowering shells purchased from the British at a high price could solve the problem.

He didn't really expect to blast the walls of Malacca with it, as long as it could hit the city with shells and cause a large number of casualties.

In this way, 3,500 yards is enough, slightly modified to raise the elevation angle of the forty-two-pounder naval gun, the maximum ****** can hit 4,000 yards, basically can cover the entire city of Malacca, and then those powerful cast steel flowering shells continue to enter the city one by one, with the death toll of the residents to force the defenders to submit, if it can destroy the ammunition depot and the like It would be more perfect, and the rifled guns sold by the Ming army to the British have a maximum range of 3,000 yards, and it is the largest elevation angle and the largest ******, This is enough to ensure the safety of the two cannons themselves.

As for the Ming army's coastal defense cannon......

Everybody knows that thing can't turn around.

Poor General Ke Houn obviously didn't know that Emperor Yang's exported weapons were all monkey versions, and the maximum range of those export rifled guns was a full thousand yards less than his own version, and his elaborate battle plan was completely based on a mistake.

The same poor Crusader soldiers were busy with all their might for a wrong goal, with the scorching sun above their heads and the muddy ground beneath their feet, and they were like their compatriots who served as big cattle for Yang Feng on the construction site of the Kuohan Railway, eight thousand miles away.

It's close, it's close!

Just as the last leg of the journey began, more and more soldiers spontaneously joined the work, and even some of the officers jumped off their horses and stepped forward to push the cannons they hoped for, moving little by little on the sloping dirt slopes.

"My lord, I can't bear to look at it anymore, I beg you to fire it quickly!"

The observer on the hot air balloon said with a smile.

"No, no, we want to give them a chance to show loyalty to their homeland!"

Qin Yan said seriously.

Then the two of them laughed triumphantly.

And at this time, among the Dutch below, there was a sudden burst of excited cheers, the two huge forty-two-pounder naval guns were finally pushed to the gun position by them, and everyone in the entire position cheered, hugging each other and screaming, it seemed that the scene was quite touching, even Qin Yan and the two seemed to feel that joy.

Then he happily waved the flag downward.

"Fire!"

On the wall to the south of the city of Malacca, an officer shouted.

Suddenly, thirty-six blazing flames erupted almost simultaneously.

The next moment the cheers of the Dutch came to an abrupt end.

The whistling of shells passed in their ears, and the flames of the explosion instantly flooded their artillery positions, and then the two cannons, which had been pushed up with great difficulty, were torn apart in the firelight.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

"These Qin beasts!"

Lieutenant Colonel Knight was also directly stupid there, and said sadly and indignantly after a long time.

"These Qin beasts!"

And in the Taiwan Strait, six thousand miles away, on the cruiser Seawolf of the Ming Army, the captain Fang Xu said sadly and indignantly in the same tone.

In front of him, the two latest paddle wheels were rapidly distancing themselves from him, and although they did not raise their sails, under the drive of nearly two thousand horsepower steam engines and paddle wheels, these two iron-ribbed wooden ships with flying scissors still easily broke through eleven knots under the adverse side wind, and the axe-like bow even ploughed a striking wave, and the sailors on the deck shouted proudly at him one by one, and the black smoke of the inadequate burning of coal drifted with the wind, causing him and his men to cough violently.

This is the latest paddlewheel warship of the Navy that Emperor Yang said.

Although because of congenital deficiencies, this kind of warship is destined to have no future, and it is impossible to really use it as the main ship of the navy, and the new propeller warship has also begun to be included in the navy's construction plan, but the generals of the navy still can't wait to order these two from the shipyard in the name of test ships, after all, this thing has a low cost and simple technology, and it can't cost a few dollars, and the propeller warship who knows how young it will be to build, and the Ming Navy has not added a large warship for a long time.

However, these two ships are indeed test ships, because they are all equipped with the latest technology.

First of all, the two-thousand-ton steam ship itself is the first time, and even the two-thousand-ton ship is also the first time to be built in Daming.

And such a huge displacement, in order to install the same latest weapons, eighty pounds of ship-borne heavy guns, two of these huge guns for each battleship are mounted on the axis one in front of the other, in addition to eight fifteen-pound auxiliary guns are mounted on the four ear stands on both sides.

The iron-ribbed wooden ship was also the first time.

It was the first time that the head of the flying scissors had been cut.

The schooner is still the first time, its three auxiliary sails are all schooners, not the most common sails at this time, of course, schooners are not strange to Chinese, Chinese hard sails are actually schooners, but Yang Feng changed to new soft sails, in fact, in the future, Yang Feng is ready to build all the sailing ships used for the American route into schooners, and steel schooners will also be built, this kind of speed advantage is undoubtedly the most suitable for running this route.

"Raise the sails and go full speed!"

On the experimental sail battleship Zhen Wu, the captain said proudly.

Immediately after that, the three sets of sails on the 2,000-ton battleship were quickly raised, and the speed of the already fast battleship increased again under the influence of the wind, and soon it was able to break through the design speed of 14 knots, and at the same time, the sister ship Baiyue was also raised in the sails, and the two battleships breathed black smoke and rode the wind and waves on the sea, and soon disappeared from the field of vision of the entire fleet. (To be continued.) )