The battleship is galloping, the waves are rolling.

The sea breeze blew, and the sails were blown and whistled.

Seeing that the Dutch warship was about to catch up, Deng Haonan glanced at the sky and sighed.

Meow a! Why isn't it dark yet?

As long as it is dark, Deng Haonan will have a way to get out of danger.

Lin Feng inspected and came back, "Headmaster, it's all ready!" ”

Deng Haonan nodded, and when he looked at the Dutch battleship behind him again, the other party had gradually approached from the right rear.

The war was on the verge of breaking out, and both sides were very tense.

"The tail cannon is in range!"

Here, above the high mainmast, the investigators shouted loudly.

Although Deng Haonan complained about the sun, why didn't he hurry up and go home to sleep! But he was not without the advantage of fighting Dutch ships.

Although Van Witt's Ephersian was a battleship, she had eighty or ninety guns in the air, and she could only shoot when she was parallel to the enemy ship.

Since the age of sails, people have been studying what kind of layout the guns on warships should be used to maximize their effectiveness. Because the early artillery was very rudimentary, the firing range and accuracy were very poor, and the direction adjustment was not easy, so most of the guns on Western warships at that time were fixed installation, that is, a large number of guns were concentrated on the side of the battleship. In naval battles, the two sides face each other in parallel at close range, bombarding each other with broadside firepower, relying on the density of firepower to make up for the lack of accuracy.

This method of warfare was popular in Western navies for a long time, and became the standard mode of most naval battles at that time, from which the term battleship was derived (the original English word "battleship" is Blei, the name originated from the "battleline battleship" in the era of sails, when the fleets of the warring parties formed a single column at sea to line up and conduct sideways fire on the opposite side of the opposite or opposite direction). Ships that can participate in such operations are called battleships).

But it wasn't until the Battle of Trafalgar, which broke out in 1805, that this classic way of naval warfare was completely shaken. British Admiral Horatio Nelson made the most of the traditional "T" tactics in naval battles, commanding the fleet to cut through the Franco-Spanish fleet, giving the British fleet a favorable position with several "T" cross-heads, and the British fleet was able to concentrate all its broadside firepower to meet the combined Franco-Spanish fleet, while the Franco-Spanish fleet suffered heavy losses because the guns could not get the right angle of fire. After this naval battle, the navies of various countries had a deep understanding of the flexibility of the firepower of the main warships, and began to change their design from blindly enhancing the firepower of the warships to enhancing the flexibility of the firepower.

At this moment, the battleship Ephersen was using this method of combat, and the gun doors of the three gun decks were opened, and the gun ports of the black holes were pushed out one after another. However, the Ephersian was still behind the side of No. 101 and had not caught up, so it could not go berserk yet.

Western warships had too little space on the top deck, too many sail locks, and a spinnaker in front of them, so they were not suitable for artillery.

However, for Deng Haonan's ship No. 101, the Easterners' combat philosophy is different from that of the Westerners. The eastern warships have a wide bottom, so they can be built on top like a tower, and artillery is to be installed in front and behind the battleship. Up to two parallel guns could be placed in front, and up to four guns could be placed on the battlements in the back.

The No. 101 warship was only a three-masted warship of 400 materials, so only a 5,000-pound Longwei cannon was arranged in the front and rear. Although the number is small, it can pursue and repel the enemy.

Deng Haonan waved his hand, and the captain Xue Muhua immediately gave the order for the tail gun to attack.

The commander of the main gun, Second Lieutenant Hong Hailiang, and the commander of the first lieutenant quickly corrected the shooting of Zhu Yuan, and although the 5,000-pound Longwei cannon at the stern of the ship could be moved left and right by using the gun carriage, it could only be adjusted by ten degrees left and right due to the influence of the battlement wall.

Second Lieutenant Hong Hailiang pointed at the gunner, glanced at the enemy ship with his thumb, and said loudly: "The starboard side is five degrees away!" ”

Captain Xue Muhua immediately ordered when he heard this: "Right rudder five!" ”

"Right hand drive five!"

The order was issued step by step, and the second officer, Song Defu, the pilot, ordered the helmsman to fill the right helm five.

Immediately afterwards, the battleship turned five degrees to the right, and the huge figure of the enemy ship immediately loomed in front of the stern gun muzzle.

The third gunner loaded a 25-pound solid cannonball into the bore, and then the fourth gunner quickly compacted the bore with a cotton rod, and the first chief inserted the arquebus into the bore.

"Ready!"

"Fire!"

With the order of Second Lieutenant Hong Hailiang, Captain A lit the fire rope.

Boom!!

There was a loud bang, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

I saw that the 5,000-pound Longwei cannon was like a roaring beast, spewing out tongues of fire, and 25-pound shells rushed out of the barrel in response, penetrating the thick smoke at the muzzle, and whistling towards the enemy ship.

I saw that the cannonball tore a big hole in the middle of the middle of the rear mainmast of the Dutch ship, and landed a hundred meters on the other side, and the hot cannonball suddenly made the sea water rise several meters high, which frightened the Dutch sailors to panic.

After the first shot, the morale of the officers and soldiers on Deng Haonan's side was greatly boosted.

The smoke was blown back by the sea breeze, and Deng Haonan couldn't help coughing a few times. He likes to smell the smell of gunpowder, but this body is not used to it for the time being.

"Good fight!" Deng Haonan gave a thumbs up to Second Lieutenant Hong Hailiang and said, "Live ammunition is not much of a threat to their battleships!" Swap grenades! ”

"Yes!" Second Lieutenant Hong Hailiang was very pleased to receive Deng Haonan's praise, and his fighting spirit was immediately high, and he hurriedly instructed his subordinates to quickly clean up the cannon chamber and change the shell into a scattered grenade.

After about four or five minutes, the Longwei cannon roared again.

In an instant, hundreds of balls and steel bullets shot at the enemy ship, like a goddess scattering flowers. Since the angle and distance of the live ammunition have just passed, the effect of attacking with marbles scattered at a large area and angle is very good. Seeing that the starboard bow of the Dutch ship was covered, there was a crackling sound, and when it hit the surface of the sea, a splash of spray was made. Suddenly, some Dutch sailors who had not had time to guard screamed wow, and their voices were terrible.

The smoke was blown away by the sea breeze, and Deng Haonan observed the enemy ship with clairvoyance. I saw that many Dutch sailors on the enemy ship were wounded, and the original black hull was mottled with white spots everywhere at this time, which was obviously the effect of steel balls. Looking further up, some of the sails under the mast were riddled with holes, and the sunlight penetrated directly onto the deck.

"That's right!" Deng Haonan slapped his thigh and said, "Hit their sails!" ”

Lin Feng and the staff officers of the bridge suddenly thought of this, and shouted one after another to hit the enemy's sails.

Second Lieutenant Hong Hailiang immediately understood Deng Haonan's intentions, and immediately ordered his subordinates to clean up the cannon chamber, and the shells were replaced again, and they became sub-mother chain bullets specially designed for sailing.