More than 30 warships of the Broken Army, which had already flanked the enemy, fired a salvo of cannons almost simultaneously, and for a time it erupted in flames and smoke like a moving city. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

For the first time in the history of the East, a large-scale duel of sail warships and cannons began.

This duel originally did not appear, and the initiator of the appearance was of course Zhao Lie.

At almost the same time as the salvo of the Broken Battleships was fired, a new wave of attacks by the coalition forces began.

For a time, the sea was full of the roar of artillery, and the roar of hundreds of guns covered all the sounds of heaven and earth, and the ears of all sailors on the front were filled with roar.

The two huge fleets of the east and west began to fight each other less than a mile away, and the only thing that clearly distinguished them was this sea corridor that was less than a mile away.

Lan San looked at the results of the shelling of the Li Daozong with a telescope, and two large holes appeared on the side of the other side in the lens, this 400-ton Ceylon Portuguese warship was lucky, these two big holes did not appear on the artillery deck, but near the top cabin.

Pengpengpeng, Li Daozong's left side of several large water columns, the momentum of the fluttering is extremely amazing.

Hissing, several projectiles flew past the upper deck, and the Li Daozong suddenly shook, apparently hit the gun.

Lan San leaned on the side of the ship and looked down, only to see two large bullet marks on the side side, one of which had broken through the side of the ship, but there was only a hole the size of a sea bowl, and the projectile did not shatter into it.

Lan San estimated that it was caused by an eighteen-pounder cannon, and it seems that the opponent's battleship also had heavy artillery.

"The captain had better wait in the lower compartment, for fear that the enemy would use scattered bombs in a while." The first mate shouted to Lan San, it is impossible not to shout here, there is a roaring artillery sound everywhere, even the loud shouting is intermittent in the roar of artillery.

Lan San shook his head, at first the enemy was not able to use scattered bullets, it must have been a hammer, of course, after a while, it was not guaranteed, and the first battle was the time to boost morale, he must not avoid the artillery.

The ship was speeding on the cusp of the storm, trying to maintain its balance as much as possible, observing the situation nearby.

The Li Tingzhi shook violently, and the guns on the lower deck roared again, and smoke drifted from the lower deck, carrying a pungent smell of sulfur.

There were nearly 20 48-pounder Tiago cannons on the Li Tingzhi, and although there were less than 10 of them firing on the side of the ship, the momentum was also amazing, and of course the turbulence of the ship was also amazing.

Regarding the interval between the two shellings of Li Tingzhi, Zhang Gusheng expressed his satisfaction, and finally did not lose face for him as a commander.

The side of an English battleship of more than 200 tons opposite Li Tingzhi was immediately hit by four projectiles, and the artillery deck inside was patronized by three projectiles.

One of the 36-pounder long-barreled projectiles hit a pile of kits.

Boom, boom, the entire gun deck's medicine packs detonated one after another, and the entire lower deck burst violently.

First a large puff of flame and smoke erupted from the gun window, and finally after a violent explosion, the whole warship was disemboweled, and the torn hull was bubbling with orange-red fire, and the fire burned even more fiercely by the wind.

The upper deck of the ship almost collapsed, and the mainmast above began to fall in pieces, and some sailors fell from the mast with a piercing scream.

Some of the gunners who did not die jumped from the gun deck into the sea desperately with the flames on their bodies.

Van Penny almost didn't bat out his eyes, and during the pre-battle discussion, they had already talked about the power of the Broken Army's heavy artillery, and Sanders and Zheng Zhilong meant to keep the fleet away from the Broken Army's ships and avoid the heavy artillery of the Ming people.

But Van Penny has never fought against the Broken Army, so he has a fluke in his heart, no matter how powerful the Broken Army warship is, there must be a limit.

He planned to shell at close range first, after all, close-range shelling can hit the opponent the most, not to mention the attack of scattered bullets, too far away, scattered bombs are useless.

But as soon as the fire was exchanged, the power of this Mingren cannon surprised him, looking at the battleship that was disemboweled, spewing smoke and spitting fire and paralyzing at sea, Van Penny beat a drum in his heart, whether to immediately order the fleet to shell farther away.

At this moment, another series of explosions came, and a Dutch battleship of only 200 tons was also shattered by a giant cannon, and the human body inside even rose a few feet high, flying in the air and howling and falling into the sea, and the whole warship was burning like a large torch.

From time to time, there was the violent sound of the medicine packets, and the black smoke was blown everywhere by the sea breeze, filling the sea, a hellish scene.

Yes, Van Penny couldn't hold it anymore this time, and he immediately ordered to distance himself from the battleship of the Broken Army, saying that he could not fight with the Ming warship at such a close distance, which was to seek death.

Now he regrets that he did not listen to the advice of others.

The coalition fleet began to move east away from the warships of the Broken Army, and they couldn't afford to fight much, didn't they see the two warships that were spewing fire there, better away.

The first intimate encounter ended with the destruction of several warships of the Broken Army, and the battle between the two warships of the coalition forces did not end.

At the same time, it also shows that the melee combat within a mile of the Breaker Army Naval Division is indeed invincible.

Zhang Gusheng immediately discovered the latest developments of the coalition naval division, and almost all the coalition warships began to retreat eastward, intending to shorten the distance between them and the broken army.

Zhang Gusheng understood the purpose of the coalition warships at that time, which was to invalidate the heavy artillery bombardment of the Broken Army Naval Division, that is, to make the Broken Army Naval Division lose its sharpest weapon.

It's one thing to know, it's another thing to find a way to deal with it, the sail warships of this era are different from the steam engines, diesel engines, and steam turbines of later generations, their steering is extremely cumbersome, and it is not easy to maintain the formation of the entire fleet at the same time.

It was not easy to get as close as possible, but the sound of the drum still gave the order to move closer to the east.

The more than forty warships in front began to turn the angle of the sails, making full use of the diagonal sail and the upper sail, and approached the east, but the coalition warships were one step ahead or opened the distance between the two.

At this time, Yue Fei also turned the bow to the south, and then the lookout received the flag command from the front and headed towards the southeast.

Li Hu hurriedly observed with a telescope, and he immediately discovered that the opponent's fleet was breaking away from the so-called one-mile strike line of the Broken Army and Naval Division to the east, with a very clear purpose, to avoid heavy artillery bombardment.

Faced with this situation, Li Hu had no choice but to slowly move closer to the past.

Two huge fleets chased each other and headed east.

Of course, in the process of chasing between the two armies, the mutual artillery bombardment continued, but half of the firepower of the Broken Army was the Thiago cannon with a range of one mile, so after the distance was shortened, the Broken Army Naval Division was equivalent to self-defeating five successful forces, and from the perspective of destructive power, most of the power was lost.

On the coalition side, only the 18-pounder, 24-pounder, and 36-pounder guns could hit the Broken Army's naval division, and even if the 9-pounder and 12-pounder guns had sufficient range, they could do nothing to the planks of the Broken Army's naval divisions.

Both sides are bombarded with half-wasted strength that has been lost.

Zhang Huan's Wang Jian was on the position of the two ships in front of Yue Fei, and turned to the southeast.

As soon as Wang Jian entered the battle formation, the enemy's fleet had already opened up to the southeast, so Zhang Huan, who entered the battle position, found that the only long-barreled guns he could use were 24-pound, 36-pound, and 48-pound long-barreled guns.

There were thirty-three of these guns, and only sixteen were on the side side, and his Wang Jian lost its most powerful weapon.

But this is war, there are too many things that you can't think of, there is no Tiago can opener, you can only rely on long-barreled cannons, fortunately, the long-barreled cannons of Song-class battleships are also heavy guns, at least twenty-four-pounder guns, and the others are thirty-six-pounder guns, forty-eight-pounder guns, all of which are heavyweight.

Boom, boom, sixteen long-barreled cannons began a salvo, and large puffs of smoke rose from the artillery deck below, and the smell of sulfur permeated the deck.

Zhang Huan used a telescope to look at a huge Dutch battleship fighting against Wang Jian from a distance in the smoke, this battleship was about the same tonnage as Wang Jian, and the sides were also densely covered with gun windows, which was obviously the opponent's capital ship.

In Zhang Huan's telescope, the side of the enemy's warship rose into a large stream of fire and smoke.

Of course, some of the gun windows are silent, and Zhang Huan estimates that they are short-range artillery.

Suddenly a large hole appeared in the deck of the enemy's artillery, which, according to the opening, was supposed to be caused by a projectile from a thirty-six-pounder gun.

Zhang Huan tightened his body excitedly, and at this time, the enemy's projectile hissed to the left of Wang Jian.

Zhang Huan didn't take this into account, he still stared at the opponent's warship, but unfortunately, no smoke rose from the opponent's artillery deck, and it seemed that it did not cause the spontaneous combustion of the opponent's projectiles and medicine packets, Zhang Huan could only be a pity.

A large column of water rose around the Wang Jian, and then the Wang Jian shook violently.

Zhang Huan leaned out to look, only to see that a large piece of the side side near the upper edge of the gun deck was broken, and the black hole inside could already be seen, but fortunately it was not broken in.

Boom, boom, the gun deck on the Wang Jian continued to roar, showing with practical actions that the gun deck was not damaged, and it was still bombarded with all its might.

Zhang Huan breathed a sigh of relief and got up and continued to look at the other party's warship.

In this way, the two battleships were side by side, interdependent and bombarded each other as if they were brothers and sisters.

Wang Jian tried his best to get closer, but the warship just wanted to break away, and the number of hits from the artillery bombardment on both sides was not much.

It's not a parallel position, but a mutual shelling during the chase, and this accuracy is really painful.

A salvo is just one shot or two.

After three or four rounds of bombardment, Wang Jian overtook the other party with three wounds, and handed over this difficult opponent to the seed behind Wang Jian. (To be continued.) )