The terrifying explosion caused the starboard middle of this battleship with a displacement of nearly 1,000 tons to suddenly turn into countless fragments and spew out with blazing flames, which looked extremely spectacular on the blue sea. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This is a straight-through deck battleship.

All the cannons were neatly arranged on an open and closed deck, and the shells, ******, and all kinds of debris were piled up next to the cannons, and the flames of the explosion of forty pounds of flowering shells smashed the starboard planks at the same time, and raged like a tide in the narrow cabin, like a flaming monster, and all combustibles in its path were ignited by the terrible flames.

This included, of course, the packets of gunpowder lined up next to the gunner, waiting to be filled into the chamber.

"Damn it!"

Bol said with a wry smile on the tail floor.

Suddenly, as if a giant beast was roaring and breaking free, the solid deck was torn apart like rocks shattered by a volcanic eruption, and then under a huge impact, his body and the fragments of the deck were thrown into the sky.

Spikes.

The shells of forty pounds of shells killed the battleship in seconds.

"Next!"

Looking at the spectacular scene of the Dutchman's flagship in the distance, which was instantly turned into pieces in the explosion, Luo Zhang said with satisfaction.

Behind the Dutch flagship, on the battleships in turn, the captains and sailors were so frightened by this scene that they couldn't believe their eyes, although the Ming warships were more powerful than their flagships, it was still chilling to blow up a thousand-ton battleship with a salvo.

After all, it was a battleship.

Looking at the messy sea ahead, the helmsmen desperately turned the steering wheels to avoid the still burning wreckage of the flagship, and at the same time, it was pointless to fire at such a distance, and the two battleships in the front kept flashing on the side of the fire, and solid cast-iron shells whistled towards the Weihai.

But at this moment, the fire on the side of the Weihai shone again.

A few seconds later, another 40-pound shell hit the Dutchman's second battleship, but it was the tail tower, which was blown to pieces along with the captain and helmsman who were in command with a loud explosion. The out-of-control battleship happily passed under the guns of the Weihai, but immediately saw the same fire shining on the starboard side of the Pinghai, and then the battleship that escaped was hit simultaneously by two flowering shells from forty-pound bombardments.

Like the flagship, the internal explosion of the flowering shell inevitably ignited the powder keg, and the battleship was instantly reduced to pieces in a terrible explosion.

The captains and sailors of the remaining Dutch battleships completely collapsed, they really couldn't face this terrifying attack, which completely subverted their perception of naval warfare, such a precise attack at a distance of more than a thousand meters is incredible, and it is also incredible that a cannonball can penetrate a battleship at such a distance, and it is even more incredible that a round of artillery bombardment can smash a battleship, there is no cannon bombardment that sees each other's faces at a distance of one or two hundred meters, there is no continuous impact of the blood-boiling shells, The sailors of the world's largest maritime power suddenly discovered ......

They don't understand naval warfare anymore.

The original battle line disintegrated in an instant, and all the battleships were desperately abandoning their heavy objects, trying to rush past the three battleships that were like demons in front of them as fast as they could, they didn't have the courage to fight anymore, such a battle was meaningless, this was completely a one-sided ravage, and if they continued to fight, they could only be wiped out, and they didn't want to be buried in this sea.

But unfortunately it is impossible to run.

They had already gotten into a pocket by themselves, leaving them to escape, only a sea less than two kilometers wide, on one side were three Ming battleships, and on the other side was the small island, they had no way to escape, they could only force their way into the blockade line of the three ships of Weihai, to face the terrifying shells that roared in, but even if they could avoid the bombardment of the Weihai, they could not avoid the Ninghai, even if they could avoid the Ninghai, they could not avoid the Zhenhai.

The three Ming battleships, with one hundred and twenty cannons of various calibers on their starboard side, constantly sprayed lethal shells outward at an average rate of one round per minute.

The Dutch warships that tried to break out of their blockade line one after another were reduced to pieces in the earth-shattering explosions, although the Dutch were also fighting back heroically, but to no avail, without a rangefinder, it was difficult for their shells to hit the target at such a distance, and even if they hit the Ming warships, those solid cast-iron shells could not penetrate the solid teak, and even if they did, it would only be a little fragment, and it could not constitute real damage at all.

However, the British resold their Daming flowering bombs at a high price, reaping a negligible result for them.

"Mah, they actually use flowering bombs too?"

Luo Zhang looked at the flames that exploded on the deck behind him, and said with some astonishment.

Although the shell was not very powerful, and did not penetrate the deck at all, it only caused some rigging damage, and caused a small fire, which was immediately extinguished by the sailors, but it did hurt the Weihai.

"Cast steel, pig iron shells can't hold so much gunpowder, the Dutch only have the technology to stir steel, and the quality of the steel produced is extremely poor, and casting shells with their steel, I'm afraid they can't withstand the pressure of the cannon chamber, most likely those who were sold to them by the British, and we still produce it if they don't get it."

His chief of staff said.

"Write it down, go back and blackmail them!"

Luo Zhang said with a sneer.

This threat is not worth mentioning, the shells that Yang Feng sold to the British are all twelve pounds, and it is impossible for such flowering shells to penetrate the battleship, and the external explosion of a pound of gunpowder is for a battleship of more than 1,000 tons, that is, it is bitten by a mosquito, and this kind of shell will only hit an armed merchant ship, and even the cruiser can ignore it, but this matter cannot be stopped, and it must be done with a good knock on the British when you go back.

At this time, the desperate Dutch had launched a final decisive charge.

Sixteen three-masted zong fireships were like crazy, lined up on the sea, desperately charging towards the three ships of Weihai, because it was a headwind, their speed was still very slow, the zong fireboats used in this ocean-going naval battle were not rowing boats, but some warships with tonnage equivalent to frigates, and even equipped with guns for self-defense, with special hooks and small boats for retreating crews, if they were in the naval battle of smoothbore guns and solid shells, they were extremely lethal if they occupied the direction of the wind, It is still an indispensable weapon in European naval warfare.

But alas, now they are meaningless.

The three ships of the Weihai quickly separated some of the small and medium-caliber naval guns, just like sinking those battleships, and easily destroyed these zong fireships one after another, because the ships were filled with kerosene and other ignitions, these zong fireships could not withstand the attack of a random flowering bomb at all, and in the blink of an eye, there were sixteen blazing torches left on the sea.

The hapless crew had no chance to retreat at all, and could only jump into the sea with flames all over them.

"An era is over!"

Looking at the wreckage of the Dutch warship floating on the sea and the Dutch sailors swimming desperately in the firelight, Luo Zhang couldn't help but say with emotion.

Indeed, an era has ended.

Just as the Russian bombardment in the Battle of Sinop ended the era of sail battleships with the wreckage of Ottoman warships, the Ming Navy of this time and space also ended the era of wooden sail battleships with their bombardment guns and the wreckage of Dutch battleships.

When the tenth Dutch ship was shattered in the flames of the explosion, the Dutch finally stopped their senseless resistance, and white flags were raised.

"That's the end of it?"

Luo Zhang sneered and said, "The Dutch are nothing more than that!" ”

"It's just the East India Company's own private army, and if it is replaced by the Dutch Navy, it may still be an adversary worth paying attention to."

His chief of staff said.

"Dutch Navy, I really want to fight them."

Luo Zhang said.

Little did he know that this wish would soon come true.

As for the rest, it was very simple, under the threat of the Ming naval guns, the remaining Dutch East India Company warships put down their boats one after another, and then the crew landed ashore, at this time the accompanying Ming marines had landed on the island of Ambuna, they quickly took care of the surrendered Dutch, and at the same time, the fishermen on the island were also requisitioned to salvage the Dutch who fell overboard on the sea, these are good big animals, and can be used to get another ransom from the Dutch.

After all this was done, Luo Zhang realized that he needed to face a serious problem.

There are too many captives.

"A total of two battleships, sixteen armed merchant ships, and more than 5,000 sailors were captured, we can't leave them here, there are not so many men, women, and children on the island, and there is no suitable prison on the island, unless we leave enough troops to guard them, they will definitely rebel and escape, but if we leave the army, then we will not have enough people to fight."

Luo Zhang's chief of staff, Gao Yan, said.

"Then let them drive the ship by themselves, remove all the gunpowder on the ship, and then let these red-haired ghosts drive the ship by themselves, assign four cruisers to be responsible for escorting, go directly to Saigon and let Chen Lao be in charge of temporary care, and then notify the country to send ships to pick them up, and leave the two battleships to supplement the fleet, transfer part of the crew from each ship, and recruit some sailors from the local area."

Luo Zhang thought for a while and said.

"You, come here!"

Then he saw that the fisherman who was leading the way was being led in by the soldiers, and he shouted.

"Your Excellency, General."

The latter saluted with a smiling face.

"You'll be rewarded."

Luo Zhang pointed to an open box next to him and said, it was full of boxes of seized Dutch silver coins, without this person to guide the way, this battle could not have been fought so simply and thoroughly, and the reward of 10,000 taels of silver was indispensable.

"But you'll have to keep showing us the way."

Just as the man pounced on the silver box, Luo Zhang said with a smile.

"Where are you going next?"

The fisherman asked without hesitation.

"Dragon's Tooth Gate!"

Luo Zhang said. (To be continued.) )