The strange magic fire did not stop Admiral Bank's march. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

He had no other choice, and the Netherlands had no other choice.

Everything in this Low Country today comes from overseas trade, and it is a matter of merchant ships returning from afar laden with goods, supporting the prosperity of this country that has no resources or even enough land, and the most important piece of their trade map is the Spice Islands, and the Netherlands that lost the Spice Islands is not only a question of loss of wealth, but a question of whether the country can still gain a foothold on the European continent.

It can be said that they have no choice but to fight!

In this respect, they are indeed like crusaders.

Immediately after that, the huge Dutch fleet, or the Crusader fleet, arrived in Malacca......

This city that once belonged to them.

And what they need to face is also the fortress that once belonged to them.

It's just that this fortress is no longer what it used to be.

As the western sea gate of the Ming Dynasty, Malacca City has been fully reinforced, the four corners of the fort fort wing castle, the gun emplacement built of reinforced concrete on the top of the fort, a door of the latest heavy rifled fortress cannon proudly on the sea, which even includes six terrifying eighty pound cannons, and it is also mounted on a special gun carriage and arc track, the top of the head is covered with a reinforced concrete roof, and the cannon with the same reinforced concrete parapet wall is built on both sides, and more importantly, it is still breech loading.

Well, this is actually a hundred and ten pound Armstrong cannon.

This is also the main gun of a new generation of warships planned by the Ming Navy.

"Hold on for ten days, the fleet of Coconut City will arrive, hold on for a month, and the main fleet of Changguo will arrive!"

Qin Yan, the garrison of Zhennan Mansion, shouted.

He actually has nothing to worry about, all the Chinese here have been evacuated to the city, he has enough artillery and soldiers, enough ammunition and food, not to mention a month, even a year to support it is no problem, and it only takes ten more days for the fleet of Coconut City to arrive.

"Fire!"

Then he let out an exuberant roar with the finger of his saber.

Beside him, a terrifying cannon with a thin front and a thick back, and the muzzle of the cannon could reach into the head of an adult, suddenly spewed out a blazing flame more than five zhang long, accompanied by an earth-shattering loud sound, the steel cannon carriage was pushed by the ferocious recoil, like a beast with a loose head and a fierce retreat, and at the same time, an eighty-pound cannonball pierced the air with a roar like a speeding train, and smashed into the sea seven miles away like a meteor.

Immediately after that, the other five cannons roared one after another.

Suddenly, a blaze exploded on the sea.

"Damn, what kind of cannon is this?"

Admiral Banke, the battleship of the second rank of the USS William III, exclaimed in a trembling voice.

Less than five hundred meters away, the port side of the third-class battleship Tronp, like a flame monster breaking free, the lava-colored flames burst through the half-meter-thick solid oak, spraying outward with countless fragments, even the towering mainmast jumped hard, and then fell to the right in an eerie manner. He could even see the blasted cannons streak through the sky, crashing into the sea and stirring up huge waves, and when the fire died away and the smoke dispersed, the middle of the Tromp was like a piece of gnawed cheese, and suddenly there was a shocking gap, and the flames were still bursting out of the gap.

Spikes.

A 3rd class battleship with a displacement of 1,000 tons was killed by this terrifying cannon.

Although it has not been completely destroyed, there is no hope left, at least for this battle, the battleship has been completely scrapped, and in fact it was engulfed in flames immediately afterward.

This scene made even Qin Yan in Malacca City stupid.

It's a battleship!

However, he is also an eighty-pound cannon, equivalent to forty-eight kilograms, purely from the weight of the cannonball, equivalent to a modern 152 gun, although the power of black powder and antimony ladder are not the same, but because the chamber pressure is much lower than that of modern artillery, so the charge coefficient of the modern 152 cannon is not the same as it. In fact, Yang Feng stuffed fifteen catties of black powder into this cannonball, although this would make the cannonball less penetrating, but fortunately, the Dutch were not driving ironclad ships, and that little bit of wood still couldn't stop the steel. As for the power, although it still can't catch up with the modern 152 cannon, the gap is not too big, such a shell is no longer something that a wooden battleship can withstand, even if a thousand-ton modern steel battleship explodes inside a 152 shell in the middle, it can be said that it has suffered heavy damage.

"Quick, load, boom!

Qin Yan roared excitedly.

Behind him, the gun gate has been opened, the gun chamber has been cleaned up, the remaining gunpowder smoke and water vapor, those soldiers are busy lifting an eighty-pound heavy cannonball, carefully put it on the bullet trough, the back bombardier immediately used the bomb pusher to push the shell forward, and then put in the silk medicine bag and then close the gun lock, the main gunner quickly made the final aim to pull the gun rope, the falling hammer hit the fire cap, the flame fired by the mercury thunderate instantly detonated the ******, in the deafening cannon sound, the second shell whistled out.

The fleet of the Crusaders at sea still did not fire.

They couldn't fire.

The distance is too far, their cannons can't hit so far, even the forty-two-pounder cannon on the Wilhelm III can't hit 3.5 kilometers, in fact, none of the guns of this fleet have a range of more than three kilometers, in this case it is pointless to open fire, in vain let the Ming army look at the joke on the opposite side.

Braving the shells fired by the Ming army, the Crusader fleet, which maintained a column, kept closing the distance between it and the city of Malacca, but at the same time, the inferior guns on the batteries also roared one after another, and the Crusader fleet also had warships hit from time to time. Fortunately, the Ming army has not used white phosphorus shells so far, and they can still make do with the simple flowering shells, after all, these shells cannot penetrate the thick planks of the battleship, and most of the shells are bounced off, and then fall on the sea surface and explode, occasionally exploding on the battleship, for these battleships that are more than 1,000 tons, it will not cause fatal injuries.

As long as it's not an eighty-pound cannon.

But unfortunately Admiral Bank's luck was not good.

Soon another battleship was hit by this terrifying shell, and although the distance was still three kilometers, the eighty-pound pointed shell still penetrated the half-meter-thick oak plank in an instant with its huge kinetic energy, and then exploded inside the battleship.

Unfortunately, the explosion immediately detonated the powder keg, and with a series of equally horrific explosions, the battleship, with a displacement of more than 1,500 tons and 74 cannons, was shattered in the explosion, and not even one of the hundreds of sailors on board had time to jump into the sea to escape, and in less than three minutes, along with one of the generals on board who was the commander of the detachment, was buried in the sea with their battleship.

"Fire!"

Looking at the burning wreckage on the surface of the sea, Admiral Bank gritted his teeth and gave the order.

On the three second-class battleships, the sailors who were waiting for the battle, with full grief and indignation, pulled the gun rope of the flintlock machine, and there were only twenty-four forty-two-pounder cannons on the starboard side and immediately let out an angry roar, this kind of cannon is actually something only a first-class battleship, but this time in order to recapture the Spice Islands, the Dutch also installed these second-class battleships, but unfortunately this is useless, the solid cannonballs at such a distance can not even penetrate the planks of the battleship, let alone a strong fortress.

Even such a distance is beyond the effective range of these heavy artillery, and if you really want to exert their power, you must get close to within a kilometer, but this is simply impossible, if you really get close to within a kilometer, the hit rate of the Ming army's coastal defense artillery will rise in a straight line.

"Garbage, their boats are garbage, their guns are also garbage, a group of garbage still wants to fight with us for territory, this is a joke, we should go to grab their territory, we should go to Colombo, to grab Tianzhu, to grab the Cape of Good Hope, to grab their hometown, let their king lie at the feet of our emperor.

Under the whole world, it is not the king's land!

Under the whole world, it is not the king's land! ”

Qin Yan stood beside the eighty-pound cannon and shouted excitedly.

"Under the whole world, it is not the king's land!"

"Under the whole world, it is not the king's land!"

……

The soldiers beside him shouted similarly.

Strength determines ambition, it is obvious that the weakness of the enemy and their own strength are quietly changing the mentality of the Ming soldiers, they have begun to understand what they can do, what they should do, just like the torrent that gathers behind the dam, they have begun to wait to show their strength.

The shells fired from the Dutch battleships were still hitting the reinforced concrete above their heads weakly like a shot put, smashing a shallow pit and then being bounced up and rolling, like a weak groan.

And below, a terrifying eighty-pound cannon continued to roar.

It was a completely unequal artillery battle.

"Retreat!"

Ten minutes later, when the third battleship was hit by an eighty-pound shell and began to burn with fire, Admiral Bank finally reluctantly accepted his fate.

The crusader warships on the sea turned gloomily, away from this desperate castle, of course, they did not give up the attack on the city of Malacca, they could not give up, this is the gate of the Ming Empire, the city controls the busiest waterways in the world, whoever controls here, who controls the dominance of the eastern trade, with all the Dutch hope, they must fight, since the sea cannot be opened, then land, behind Admiral Bank, is an expeditionary force of 20,000 men.

"Order, the expeditionary force lands!"

He looked at the still burning battleship and said gloomily.

Their armed merchant ships and frigates carrying the expeditionary force were still waiting in a bay fifty kilometers away, and a cruiser in charge of communications immediately turned north to inform the expeditionary force to go south, while Bank's main fleet remained off the coast of Malacca, waiting outside the range of the Ming army's shore defense guns.

However, he didn't know that at this time, his expeditionary force was being attacked. (To be continued.) )