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The two Dutch ships had been blocked in the waters in the direction of the exit of the red port, and it was obvious that they already knew that the Qionghai was fast, and if it was washed out of the port, it would definitely not be able to catch up.

Although the distance between the two sides is a bit far, the lookout from the mast can still see the situation here. The Qionghai first pretended to be crazy and stupid, and then the bad behavior of the savage collision was of course all looked down upon by others. Seeing that all the siblings were sent into the sea in just a few tens of minutes, it is conceivable how the people on the other two ships reacted.

didn't care about blocking the channel, the two big ships came from the left and the right, apparently trying to sandwich the Qionghai in the middle to make a left and right salvo. However, the huge technical gap between the two ships made this tactic hopeless from the start.

Lao Zheng adjusted the rudder slightly, and the Qionghai, which was completely unrestricted by the wind direction, went around the outside very flexibly, and also faced the enemy ship with the side side, and the combat positions of their two mortars were on the flat deck in the middle, and they could only shoot in the left and right directions, and the front and rear were blocked by the bow and stern, and there was no shooting boundary.

"Which one to get first? Big or small? ”

Lao Zheng also needed to confirm the target in order to determine the direction of his action, and Tang Jian, who was being bandaged by Jack, next to him, glanced at the situation at sea, and immediately ordered without hesitation:

"Hit the big one first, and concentrate all your firepower to sink it!"

"Okay, you can rest, and we'll leave it to you."

The gunner, Lao Ma, who was furious because of the wounding of his comrades, swore an oath and turned to his position.

The distance between the two sides soon approached about a thousand meters, and the Qionghai opened fire first.

"Boom" "Boom"

Two oxygen cylinder mortars were fired one after another, and two large waves were stirred up in the front and rear positions of the EI sea vessel, both of which missed.

"It's a little wet, brother."

Xie Xie, who came to help carry the shells, laughed at the old man, and Ma Qianshan snorted:

"It's a solid calibration shell, the gun position and the target are moving, and the first shot can shoot a straddle shot, which is good."

said. The old horse stuffed a high-explosive grenade into the chamber of the gun with his own hands.

"Now it's show time!"

With the confident declaration of the old horse, the mortar of caliber spoke again, and a parabolic trail of long white smoke pierced the sky with a screeching sound, and fell accurately on the deck of the "East Indian".

A ball of fire rose up, followed by an explosion. Through the telescope, you can clearly see the fragments of wood and human limbs flying out of the firelight at the same time, the huge wooden hull of the ship shaking violently, and the howl of the Dutch can be faintly heard in the wind.

The Qionghai was jubilant. Everyone gave a thumbs up in the direction of the middle deck gun emplacement.

"Well done!"

"Old horse, good job!"

"Nonsense, Lao Tzu's hard work for five and a half years is not in vain, back then, we even planned to use a cannon to get rid of the screaming vultures of the Yankees!"

Ma Qianshan boasted triumphantly. However, Lin Shenhe's next shot missed, and the shell fell into the water and exploded only four or five meters away from the side of the opponent's ship, causing a large splash.

"Oh, that's a shame."

Shen Yanei slapped his thigh hard, and he aimed at this shot for a long time.

"It's fine. In the absence of computerized auxiliary sighting systems, the hit rate of artillery in naval warfare was always below 10 percent. ”

Ling Ning comforted him, Lin Shenhe smiled bitterly, and continued to instruct his assistants to clean the cannon chamber and load the new monolithic shells into it.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom...... The Dutch returned fire, although they were still far from the best range of their artillery, and it was estimated that they would never reach it, because Lao Zheng had been adjusting his direction and sailing around them. Always keep the distance between the two sides at about 800 to 1,000 meters.

But the Dutch continued to fire, if only to keep morale up. However, in this era, even the best bronze artillery. The distance it can aim at accurately is only three or four hundred meters at best. Beyond this distance. Even if a large charge of Tongguò can be fired very far, only God knows where the shells will eventually fly.

In fact, this is exactly the case, and a large number of water columns were smashed on the sea in the direction where the Qionghai was located, but the place where the latest shell fell into the water was more than 100 meters away from the Qionghai, and even according to the standard of probability shooting, this dispersion area was too large.

However, for these modern people on the Qionghai. Even if it's dangerous. They also did their best to prepare for it, and everyone wore red life jackets, except for the crew members who were busy on the gun emplacements on the deck. Unrelated people were driven into the cabin, and everyone had to take turns watching the excitement with binoculars.

As one of the non-combatants, Pang Yu was almost driven into the cabin below. Eventually, he claimed to be an operations staff officer, but he was able to stay in the cockpit and had the privilege of owning a Chase telescope for a long time without having to share it with others.

Holding the telescope in front of his forehead for a long time, Pang Yu suddenly turned his head mysteriously:

"Hey, brothers, I found that the flag flying on that big ship was not the East India Company VOC mark."

"Huh?"

Next to him, Wen Desi, Wang Ruobin and others pretended to raise their binoculars to look. Sure enough, the flag fluttering at the top of the mast of the Easindi galleon opposite, which was being beaten, was very different from the Flue ship next to it. The latter is a capital letter associated with and, which is the logo of the Dutch East India Company, while the flag pattern of the former is so complex that no one here can make out it.

But no one is interested in this, anyway, they are all big-nosed foreigners, even if it is not a ship of the East India Company, since they came here with the Dutch, they deserve to be beaten, and the people who cross will not feel guilty for hitting the wrong person. What everyone is interested in now is how long this behemoth can last.

Basically, it was a one-sided naval battle. Although the other side has two ships and dozens of cannons, the place where they can really fire in the direction of the Qionghai is the more than ten bronze cannons on the side of the Eindi. The other Flue was blocked by the EI and had no angle to fire at all.

Of course, the two ships on the opposite side tried their best to speed up, trying to adjust their formation and get closer to take advantage of the large number of guns. But for these seventeenth-century wooden-hulled ships that relied entirely on sail power, it would have been too difficult to keep up with modern propeller ships.

What's more, there is also a complete radar system on the Qionghai, and the sea conditions in the red card port and the positions of the ships on both sides are displayed on the fluorescent screen at any time.

The artillery on the Qionghai did not stop, staring at the pitiful Eindi bombardment, and completely ignoring the other Flue ship to concentrate superior forces and fight a war of annihilation, which is the consistent guiding ideology of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Lao Ma, who was born in a military area, deeply grasped this principle, and was bent on sinking the big ship first.

It's a pity that the hit rate of the artillery is really outrageously low, even if there are masters in charge, so far they have only hit a total of four shells on the other side, all of which were hit by Ma Qianshan himself, and the second artillery group in charge of Shen Yanei has not yet opened. The decks of the ships were mostly crowded with people these days, and each hit of the exploding shells caused heavy casualties to the Dutch.

However, the traversers were not satisfied with such a result, and they wanted to send this big creature to the bottom of the sea as much as possible. Although the high-explosive grenade fired by the mortar at a high angle was very lethal, when it landed on the enemy's ship, it only destroyed the deck facilities, and did little damage to the critical waterline.

The damage management measures on the other side of the ship were also well done, and the four explosions before and after did not cause fires, and occasionally a few small fires were quickly extinguished, making the ship here sigh from time to time.

"I said, it's not okay to go on like this, it's a waste, don't we have shells with incendiary warheads?"

Wen Desi asked very unhappily, and Pang Yu shook his head helplessly:

"It was not easy to make a trigger fuse for a high-explosive projectile in the first place, and there were no incendiary bombs fired from mortars."

"Are you going to blow that ship apart completely?"

In fact, if you have patience, it is not impossible to use high-explosive shells to knock slowly, and only they can hit each other anyway. It's just that the size of that ship is too big, and if it continues to fight like this, I'm afraid it will take twenty or thirty shells to completely disintegrate the big ship, and if you are unlucky, you have not been able to ignite the opponent's powder keg.

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