After listening to Ma Chengfeng's report, Lin Fei picked up the microphone and said: "Thirteen minutes later, the enemy ship will sail into the range of our ship's firepower, and then the fleet's gun positions will be free to measure the range and fire their guns freely...... Sink enemy ships. ”

In the era of battleships with large ships and huge guns, battleships preferred unified ranging and concentrated fire, so that they could kill and injure enemy ships at a long distance, but Lin Fei's artillery caliber on the battleship was only 120 mm, far from the standard of giant guns, and if you wanted to reach the standard of giant guns, the caliber of artillery should be at least more than 240 mm, such artillery Lin Fei could not make at this time, and the naval guns that Lin Fei could make now were all small and medium-caliber rapid-fire guns, so Lin Fei let his subordinates freely measure the range and fire the cannon to give full play to the advantage of the rate of fire.

At 1:36 a.m. on June 3, the Spanish battleship Charles I sailed into the range of fire of the Tianlong and Yunlong ships, and at 1:40 a.m., a ball of fire erupted from the Yunlong ship, followed by a loud "boom", and a column of water rose in front of the Charles I.

On the Tianlong ship, Liu Daming smiled at Lin Feilang: "I didn't expect Bi Fang to take the lead." ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "Bi Fang is the first, we can't lag behind, what about Sun Yong?" Why don't you fire yet? ”

Sun Yong was an artillery under Lin Fei on the Zhiyuan ship, after the Tianlong ship and the Yunlong ship entered service, Lin Fei originally wanted him to be the captain of the Pangu ship, but Sun Yong resolutely refused, he also has his own set of truths, that is, when the navy is only interesting to watch his own shells hit the enemy ship, what does it mean to be a captain?

So Lin Fei didn't force Sun Yong, and let Sun Yong stay on the Tianlong ship, serving as the gunnery chief and the fleet gunnery instructor, at this time, Sun Yong saw the Yunlong ship firing first, reached out and took off the blue and white striped navy camouflage jacket, crumpled it casually, threw it aside, and stood behind the No. 1 gun position with a bare upper body, standing behind the No. 1 gun position and shouting: "Brothers, the Yunlong ship is ahead, we can't lag behind, give me a fight..."

The Dragon-class cruiser is equipped with 8 120 mm caliber and 40 times caliber barrel naval guns, these 8 naval guns, one is installed in the bow, one is installed in the stern, and the remaining 6 are installed on both sides, the bow gun is called "No. 1 gun", and the rest of the guns are called "No. 2 gun" and "No. 3 gun" in clockwise order.

The direction of the firing range of these 8 naval guns is different, at this time, the position of the Charles I ship is in front of the Tianlong ship and the Yunlong ship, only the No. 1 gun in the bow can hit it, and the other naval guns are limited by the directional firing range and can't hit at all, so Sun Yong ran to the side of the No. 1 gun and operated the cannon himself.

Sun Yong personally observed the distance and position of the enemy ship with his sights, and said loudly: "The distance is more than 3,000 meters, brothers, don't use full speed fire, let's try a shell first." ”

The opener, loader, and launcher took action, and with a loud "boom", the shells came out of their disembowels, and Sun Yong immediately looked at the sea and waited to observe the landing point, but a few seconds later, he saw two water columns rising more than 100 meters diagonally in front of the enemy ship.

Sun Yong was stunned for a moment, thinking that two water columns were raised at once, it must be that the Yunlong ship also fired a cannon, which one is ours? Which one is the Cloud Dragon Ship?

Sun Yong frowned and said, "How can you correct the shooting even if you can see the water column clearly?" Let's try again. Everyone fired again, this time only a column of water was raised, located more than 50 meters in front of the enemy ship, Sun Yong gave an order to operate the gun, the gunner adjusted the muzzle pointing, and fired another cannon, the shells whistled out, this time the water column rose more than 20 meters in front of the enemy ship.

Sun Yong smiled: "You can fight, use medium and rapid fire, and hit the armor-piercing bullet of the cap." ”

The rate of fire of the "medium rapid-fire" was about 10 rounds per minute, which was relatively economical in the barrel, and several gunners immediately began the firing procedure, and the shells whistled and fired at the Charles I ship, and columns of water suddenly rose around the Charles I ship.

At 1:47, the shells of the Yunlong ship formed a straddle fire, at 1:49, the shells of the Tianlong ship formed a straddle fire, and at 1:54, a cap-piercing shell directly hit the stern of the Charles I ship, piercing the medical compartment and the storage compartment of daily necessities, and the stern of the ship began to enter the water.

At this time, on the Charles I ship, the captain Normanston fell into a panic, and the joy of discovering the Pangea was gone, and it turned out that at the end of the Battle of Cebu, the Spaniards began to summarize the previous battles, and found a mysterious whaling ship in these battles.

In the Battle of Horaku, the Spanish fleet spotted an approaching whaling ship before it was attacked, and in the Battle of Cebu, a whaling ship approached the coast, and then the Spanish ship was attacked from the water, so the Spaniards issued an order to sink a whaling ship close to their own shore.

Captain Normanston found the Pangu today, so he chased it out, originally thinking that he could sink the Pangea, but he didn't expect to chase after it, and cannonballs suddenly came from both sides, and Normanston realized that his battleship had been attacked.

Normanston roared angrily: "Fire, return fire, hurry up and return fire..."

At this time, the chief of staff whispered: "Captain, the enemy ships are out of our range, and I am afraid it will be difficult for us to hit them..."

Normanston said angrily in a deep voice: "Then we will get closer to the past and fight back........." Shot.

Normanston, seeing that his opponent could hit him from outside the range of his own battleship, knew that his ship would not be able to compete with his opponent under any circumstances, and hurriedly ordered to return.

Normanston yelled in frustration as he ordered the return voyage, "Damn the Chinese Empire..."

The chief of staff on one side whispered: "Captain, the warship we encountered may not be from the Huaxia Empire. ”

Normanston wondered, "How can you be sure that this battleship is not from the Huaxia Empire?" ”

The chief of staff pointed to the "booming" cannon sound outside and said: "Listen to these cannon sounds, how dense they are, the Chinese Empire only has one cruiser Cuba that was snatched from us, and the cruiser Cuba can't fire so many shells no matter what." ”

Normanston nodded and said, "It seems that what you said makes sense, since the battleship that fired at us is not from the Huaxia Empire, then whose will it be?" ”

The chief of staff said: "The Dutch and the British have long taken a fancy to the Philippines, could it be their warship?" ”

Normanston let out a "hmm" and said, "The ambitions of these two countries are indeed not small......"

Before Normanston could finish his words, he suddenly heard the sound of cannon fire outside, and then the bow, port side, and starboard side of the ship were all hit by shells, and Normanston exclaimed: "God, the enemy must be coming for reinforcements, quick, speed up the retreat..."

Normanston couldn't have known at this time that Lin Fei's warships were still those two, and there were no reinforcements at all, but in the process of firing the first gun, the Tianlong ship and the Yunlong ship were still close to each other with the Charles I ship, and the change in distance and angle made the other two guns on the two battleships also gain firing angles, and the two battleships suddenly had four more guns that could be fired, and the number of shells increased significantly.

Charles I's ship was vulnerable in front of the Nuwa ship, let alone facing the powerful Celestial Dragon Ship and the Cloud Dragon Ship, and after receiving a few cap-piercing shells, it began to sink, and Normanston hurriedly gave the order to abandon the ship.

At 2:27, the Charles I ship sank, and Normanston fled back to Manila Bay in a small boat with dozens of remnants of his soldiers...... Banderas.

Since the position of the naval battle was far away from Commander Banderas's station, Commander Banderas did not hear the sound of the cannons, let alone know that his gunboats had sunk, and when his squires woke him from his sleep, he was still very upset, and said angrily: "Didn't I say not to disturb me? ”

The attendant said cautiously: "Report to the commander, our Charles I ship has been attacked by unknown enemy ships and has sunk. ”

At this time, there were only three warships left under Commander Banderas, and when he heard the news of the sinking of Charles I's ship, he was so distressed that he almost fainted, and hurriedly asked, "Where did you get the news?" ”

The squire said, "Normanston, the captain of Charles I, has returned and is now waiting for you in the living room. ”

Commander Banderas turned over and sat up from the bed, and ran downstairs to the living room before he even had time to change his clothes, just in time to see Normanston standing on the ground, Commander Banderas walked up to Normanston in a few steps, and saw that Normanston was wet all over, and there were white salt stains on his clothes, so he knew that he had just come out of the sea, and hurriedly asked: "Why did Charles I's ship sink?" Hurry up and tell me about the process. ”

Normanston said gloomily: "I was patrolling outside Corregido Island today, and suddenly I noticed a ship that resembled the mysterious whaling ship, so I chased it, but on the way I was ambushed by an enemy ship. ”

Commander Banderas's eyes widened all of a sudden, and he asked in exclamation, "Is it that someone from the Huaxia Empire is coming to attack?" ”

Normanston shook his head and said: "I don't think it's the people of the Chinese Empire, the guns of these battleships have a very fast rate of fire, according to my estimates, at least ten per minute, the warships of the Chinese Empire are our cruiser Cuba, and the cruiser Cuba will definitely not be able to hit this rate of fire." ”

Commander Banderas pondered for a moment, waved his hand to call his attendants, and said, "Where did you put that top-secret document on the development of the Chinese Empire's navy?" ”

The attendant hurriedly said, "Locked in the safe." ”

Commander Banderas said, "Bring it to me." ”

The attendant hurriedly ran upstairs, came down with Wen Jiàn, and held it in front of Commander Banderas with both hands, Commander Banderas stretched out his hand to open Wen Jiàn, swept it over, returned it to the squire, and said to Normanston: "According to our top-secret intelligence, the development of warships in the Huaxia Empire is extremely slow, and they simply do not have the strength to build new warships, let alone warships with such fast artillery fire. ”

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