Chapter Seventy-Two: A Fierce War Is About to Begin?
That night, Xu Gongzi took Tu Shanyue and Aunt Jiu to almost all the steam ironclad ships moored in the Malacca military port. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, after a few "stroked" the ship-loaded heavy guns of several warships, Xu Gongzi looked a little weak. It's just that because Aunt Nine is here, she will be able to recover soon. So it took them a whole night to go through all the steam ironclads - of course, the more numerous wooden sail battleships were gone, and they really didn't have the energy......
The next day, after dawn.
It was a cloudless sunny day, and the weather was just right for a hearty and fierce naval battle!
At least in the eyes of Zheng Lang, the commander of the naval fleet of the Huaxia Divine Kingdom. His face was solemn, and the monocular in his hand was staring ahead.
And near his flagship, steam ironclads like steel monsters were distributed on the sea; Each of them was surrounded by several wooden sail warships, as if they were forming mobile "squads" independently. It is majestic and full of an indomitable reality.
"There are still less than thirty nautical miles from Malacca City, and generally speaking, the other side's fleet should come out to fight us." Zheng Lang said lightly. After all, this is a war, especially a naval battle, and it certainly cannot be fought too close to a port or a city.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the monoculars showed that black dots appeared in the distance, and then rapidly grew larger. It was clearly the British Navy stationed in Malacca City that had been dispatched!
A fierce naval battle is about to begin.
"Command the whole army to start the sea wolf tactics! Each steam ironclad is paired with two or three wooden sail ships to form a lone wolf team. At the same time, every three lone wolves maintain an arc queue, watching and helping each other......"
When Zheng Lang was a pirate in the Strait of Malacca, he was nicknamed "Sea Wolf". He has a great talent for naval warfare, and the pirate ships he leads often come and go without a trace, and he forms mobile squads, and even the national navies of some weak and small countries in Southeast Asia are reluctant to fight them.
After serving as the commander of the Huaxia Divine Fleet, he improved this tactic and combined it with advanced steam ironclad ships to organize new naval combat tactics through training......
In a sense, this is the first head-on collision between the official navy of the Chinese Divine Kingdom and the navy of the British Empire, which is currently the strongest in the world!
Even if the soldiers of the Chinese Divine Kingdom have strong self-confidence, they also know intellectually that Britain is now the world's largest power, and the navy is recognized as the first. Such a strong strength is enough for the emerging Huaxia Divine Kingdom to fight with a twelve-point spirit to deal with it.
Gradually, the British fleet stationed in Malacca drew closer, and the huge and hideous steel battleships showed their massive size.
It has to be said that the "scientific and technological strength" of the British is currently higher than that of the Huaxia Divine Kingdom, and their warships surpass those of the Huaxia Divine Kingdom in terms of average quality. But because this is not the mainland of Britain after all, it is far away from each other, so it is far less numerous than the Chinese Divine Kingdom that has been dispatched by the nest!
Zheng Lang is also very aware of this, so he plans to use the "wolf pack tactic" to bite the fierce "lion" of the British naval fleet. When it comes to the mobile operations and practice of the navy, Zheng Lang, who has been a pirate in the Strait of Malacca for so many years, is far more familiar than the British......
The battle is on!
The big-tonnage battleships of the British rushed straight towards them like fierce steel behemoths, and put on a crushing posture. Some of the smaller warships were scattered from the two wings of the Divine Navy.
Directly in front of the British battleship named "Celtic" was fast, loaded with many heavy guns, and all of them were longer and more advanced. Therefore, the British soldiers above and some elite Malay natives who assisted hoped to be able to calm the scene at the beginning, so that these "heretical Chinese" could endure the hardships and enjoy the fear of being crushed......
Normally, this "Celtic", which is loaded with the world's most advanced and longest-range steel heavy artillery, can indeed cause a certain degree of trouble to the warships of the Huaxia Divine Kingdom at the beginning - because Zheng Lang is indeed a little negligent, considering both strategic and tactical aspects, but missing the gap in science and technology!
Although everyone is "low-tech" now, there is a difference between low-tech......
Boom Boom Boom !!
At a relatively long distance, the "Celtic" actually opened fire -- this was a naked show of force. Although those shells didn't really hit the ships on the side of the Chinese Xia Divine Kingdom head-on, the long range had already made Zheng Lang, who was watching the first confrontation with a telescope on the flagship, change his face greatly!
"How is that possible! When did the guns on the battleships of the British reach so far? "Rao is that he is already in a high position, but he is still a little discolored. It seems that I am afraid that the Divine Council will be at a certain disadvantage in the early stage of this naval battle......
On the other hand, the British naval officers and sailors on the Celtic were overjoyed and full of contempt for the Chinese Divine Kingdom. They naturally knew that the establishment of the Huaxia Divine Kingdom was obtained from the Dragon God Sect's forces in Shenzhou's native country.
In the eyes of these British, even the "Great Qing Kingdom" in Shenzhou was no match for the "British Empire" at all, and the war was easily won by sending a small fleet and some Indian native soldiers (only suffering a small loss in Guangzhou). What's more, it is just a heretical state established by the forces that fled from the "Great Qing Kingdom"?
It was at this time that the Dutch in Banda Aceh had not yet been fully disseminated by the bloody stupidity, the coercion, and the communication was very backward in those years. If they knew, they wouldn't be so contemptuous......
A British artilleryman grinned at the corners of his mouth, revealing a sneer, and reached out to gently stroke the somewhat hot ship gun, and said in a thick pretentious tone: "Oh, my dear Curus, I can promise that as long as I get a little closer, I will come again." can make these Chinese die, hahaha...... Giggle ho !! ”
Suddenly, the British artilleryman's laughter suddenly stopped, as if his throat was being pinched by a pair of large hands. No laughter, just a dull ho-ho-ho sound; The eyes widened, as if the eyeballs were about to roll out of their sockets.
Because the moment he reached out and stroked this huge steel cannon, a crack the thickness of a thumb suddenly appeared on the cannon body! And there is also a trilling sound of metal shattering.
Immediately afterward, under the horrified gaze of the nearby British naval soldiers, including this man, the thumb-thick crack spread rapidly over the entire cannon body like a sinuous snake, and the thunderbolt "crawled" the entire cannon at 360 degrees!
Eventually, there was a "click". This large-caliber long-range ship gun, which represents the latest military casting technology of the British Empire, is like a ceramic jar, and the whole self-shattering into a large pile of fragments, falling all over the deck with a clatter.
And all this happens, which is long to describe, is actually only in two or three seconds!
A steel cannon turned into a pile of scrap metal...... (To be continued.) )