Chapter 645: Iron Armor

After the enemy ship entered the firing range, Wu Huai'an gave an order, and the ship's general shelled the ground with a loud bang, and it was bombarded by a cannon for more than ten miles.

Although this cannon fell into the water, it obviously played a role in boosting the morale of the enemy and damaging the enemy's fighting spirit.

The ten Daifuku ships all had the big general's cannons, and the general's cannons fired in turn, hitting the water column near the enemy ship on the opposite side, and several of the cannons almost hit the enemy ship, and it was clear through the telescope that the sailors on the enemy ship were all horrified, and they, like the Dutch, had never seen such a large ship, and a naval gun that could shoot so far.

However, the Franc machine man did not mess up, they just pulled the distance between the ships a little more, and after the general cannon fired two rounds, the opponent's naval guns finally launched a return fire, and the Ziqiang was bombarded by the enemy, and many projectiles fell into the water, but more of them smashed directly on the hull and on the deck.

The Ziqiang received the most fierce attack since its construction and launching, and the iron-covered bow stubbornly withstood this round of shelling, because the bow was angled, and the shells that hit the bow of the ship slipped into the water, leaving almost no traces, but the shells that fell on the deck caused a certain amount of trouble to everyone, seeing the cannonballs whistling in, even if they were as bold as Duan Fei's masters, they didn't dare to block that thing empty-handed, Duan Fei remembered a movie he had watched before, and the undefeated Miss Dongfang in the movie said calmly. You have technology, I have magic skills', and then caught a flying cannonball with one hand, that look was really handsome and cool, Duan Fei also wanted to be handsome, but unfortunately everyone surrounded him as a baby bear, Wu Huai'an stomped his feet and persuaded in his busy schedule: "My lord, you save me something, go to the cabin!" ”

Duan Fei was willing to miss such a wonderful good thing, he shouted grandly: "Do your business, don't care about this official, what danger has this official not seen?" The officer must share weal and woe with all the soldiers, and in the most dangerous place, the officer will go first! ”

The morale of the officers and men on the Ziqiang was greatly boosted, and they shouted one after another: "We are with the adults!" ”

After the Ziqiang overcame all obstacles and experienced a wave of more fierce artillery fire, the enemy had already entered the firing range, and Wu Huai'an shouted after waiting for the enemy's last shot to fall into the sea: "Lower the sail!" Left rudder! The right gunner prepares! The target is in the best position and fires freely! ”

When the hull of the ship was straightened, the forty guns on the right side of the Ziqiang opened fire one after another, and the cannon rumbled, and the enemy ships on the opposite side were suddenly bombarded intensively, and countless big holes were smashed on the side of the ship, most of the batteries were destroyed, and the mast was smashed off.

Although the guns of the Franc fighters could hit farther and more accurately, they never thought that the shells could be filled with shrapnel and filled with oil, and under the devastating attack of such advanced weapons, the two Franc battleships basically lost their combat capability.

After a short period of panic, the enemy ship loaded its ammunition again and opened fire, the first to bear the brunt of the Ziqiang encountered a more violent attack, the huge hull made the enemy almost useless to aim, the shells rained down on the hull, everyone on the ship felt the huge shock of the hull, but the oak and iron plate covered armor resisted the vast majority of the shells, hundreds of bullets, and the armor that was smashed through was only more than ten places, in the eyes of the Francophone this is another incredible thing.

Two more Daifuku ships turned around, and the Franc machine people knew that they could no longer fight hard with this kind of steel monster, and they turned around and hoisted their sails, intending to use tactics and superior range to compete with the Ming fleet.

The five Daifuku ships and many smaller warships, which had not yet begun to turn around, swarmed up, especially the sharp-bottomed clippers, which were nearly twice as fast as the centipede ships when their oars were flying, and would soon be able to catch up with the big centipede galleons of the Franc machine.

After the two centipede ships had to be broken, they spared half a circle left and right, and bombarded the small boat that followed with the naval guns, and the cannonballs smashed the water column on the sea surface continued to rise, a speedboat was directly broken, and the soldiers fell into the water one after another, and the other two medium-sized warships were also seriously damaged, but the Great Wall of the sea like the Great Fortune ship avenged them in a blink of an eye, and when the roaring Daifuku ship passed by the opponent's centipede ship, the two naval guns fired almost at the same time, bang bang...... Dozens of iron bullets smashed through, and the two ships suddenly turned into sieves, lost control on the surface of the sea, spun around, and in a moment they flipped sideways.

Wu Huai'an's spirit was greatly lifted, he commanded other ships to continue to pursue the enemy ships under the cover of the Dafu ship, outflanked from a distance, his own ships were many, and the Pearl River Estuary was just such a little vacant land, as long as the command was appropriate, with several times the number of ships in the place, and ten Dafu ships such as sea monsters as the leader, if the enemy was still allowed to escape, Wu Huai'an would feel that he had no face to say goodbye to Duan Fei, and he had no face to say goodbye to his father and mother!

A chase began on the sea, although the ship of the Franc machine was cunning and tenacious, but the East China Sea Fleet A still had the upper hand under the leadership of ten Daifuku ships, as the enemy ships were destroyed more and more, the resistance became weaker and weaker, the Ziqiang began to withdraw from the battle group, with two transport ships, on the sea to search and rescue their own or the enemy's personnel.

Celicia was allowed to board the deck of the Ziqiang after entering the late stage of the naval battle, and she looked at the ships still fighting in amazement, and suddenly sighed softly: "Simon is finished......"

Simão de Andrade, the younger brother of the captain who had traveled to Nanking as an envoy to meet Zhengde, was a man who was very different from Andrade's bold and cautious personality and was ordered to go to the Ming Dynasty to "search for the former envoy Pilleg", arriving in Tuen Mun in August 1518. He built fortifications, forts, fortresses, and outposts without permission, and treated the people along the Ming coast like blacks on the African coast. drove Chinese merchant ships, captured sailors, plundered money and goods, allowed its members to rob the people wantonly, captured their wives and daughters, and bullied and ravaged them at will, and even secretly became slave traders, wantonly selling the people defrauded or captured by the Ming Dynasty under various pretexts, and selling them to Count Kavnanbel to be sent to Manchurian or Goa, Sri Lanka and other places in India to develop plantations and mines for slaves, and were brutally enslaved, few of them lived past the age of fifty, and the old slaves were even more cruelly abandoned, or more cruelly disposed of.

Celicia had also heard of Simang's notoriety, but when she came to Tuen Mun to play in the past, Simão behaved very gentlemanly in front of her, and now she could not help but feel a little embarrassed when she saw Simang's fleet fall.

Duan Fei glanced back at her and said with a smile, "Miss Celicia, what do you think of our Ming fleet's naval battle compared to your Franc Machine's fleet?" ”