"Aim at the enemy's large battleship, prepare, fire!"

The Zhenyuan warship, led by four 305 mm 25 times caliber Krupp steel hoop guns, was the first to roar at the Allied naval fleet more than 7,000 meters away.

The main gun is arranged in two connected pear-shaped turrets on the ship, and uses a grinding disc gun mount. Effective range: 7800 meters. Muzzle velocity: 500 m/s; Rate of fire: 1 round / 3 min; Power: Hydrostatic.

Although there is no later primitive fire control and aiming technology on the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships, they can already skillfully rely on artificial means such as mapping, drawing slide rules, and checking shooting tables to carry out aiming, and the principle is to project the transcendence equation to the X and Y axes of the Cartesian coordinate system on the shooting triangle, which is basically the trigonometry, geometry, and algebraic operations of elementary mathematics plus the solution of simple transcendent equations.

Therefore, the results of calculations based on elementary mathematics have greatly increased the aim, and even targets more than 7,000 meters away can theoretically be hit!

It can be said that the combat level of Zhenyuan and Dingyuan has departed from the crude realm of relying on artillery experience and instinctive aiming!

The most important thing is that all the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships use advanced explosive shells, which have a better explosion effect than flowering shells, even if they are still filled with black powder, but the volume of the shells alone is enough to ensure the lethality of the explosion.

The first salvo of the four main guns of the Zhenyuan ship did not hit the target, but instead startled the Allied fleet more than 7,000 meters away.

It was the first time they had seen a shell that could reach such a distance!

The most important thing is that the commanders of the Allied fleet saw the shelling of the enemy fleet at such a distance, and actually created the water between the fleets!

The first round of salvo is so accurate, so will the hit rate of the second and third rounds be low......

Just as the Confederate fleet had expected, the second salvo fell on the Confederate fleet just three minutes later!

This time, the Zhenyuan ship directly hit a close miss!

A 'petite' lightweight wooden-hulled frigate was hit directly by the waves set off by a near-miss!

A wooden-hulled sail frigate with ocean-going capabilities sank like this......

The sailors of the Allied fleet even forgot about their work for a moment, and looked at the friendly frigate overturned by the waves with their jaws wide enough to fit a duck egg, feeling that the world was full of malice towards them......

This is not the mode of naval warfare they are familiar with at all!

It was the first time they had seen an ocean-going frigate overturned just by relying on the waves set off by a near-miss!

While the Allied fleet group was shocked and did not dare to move forward, the third salvo fell into the fleet group on time.

In a naval artillery salvo, both sides went in the opposite direction, and for experienced gunners, the bigger the more accurate, and sure enough, in the third salvo, one of the main gun shells landed on the deck of one of the large wooden-hulled battleships!

The explosion sounded like an instant detonation of the battleship's powder magazine, and the battleship, which was the main force of the Allied fleet, was equivalent to the sail ship of the third-class battleship in the naval standard of the Taiping Army system, and in an instant, a big hole was blown out and the entire deck was ignited!

The entire battleship's keel was blown in half!

While burning, the battleship also erupted from time to time with a small popping sound, which was a powder keg that burned into the battleship itself.

In the light of the fire, even an ordinary low-level sailor knew that this main battleship of the Allied forces had been completely scrapped and reduced to a ship-shaped torch floating on the sea, and as for how many people on it could survive, it could only depend on whether God gave face......

A single shell wiped out a battleship of the main battleship of the fleet, and this level of force value suddenly filled the entire Allied fleet with a sad atmosphere, and the Allied fleet, which had been inspired by the high morale of defending the homeland and the country, suddenly became panicked!

When the Zhenyuan ship was powerful, the Dingyuan ship behind also carried out several rounds of salvos, sinking the two main battleships of the Allied fleet surrounded behind!

Who called the main battleships of this era with wooden hulls and sails a good target to aim?

The Allied fleet group, which had formed a situation of flanking the front and rear, immediately fell into a dilemma, and the unscientific range and artillery power of the other side made the confident Allied fleet commander fall into silence.

However, after realizing that only two ironclad ships in the Taiping fleet could fire high-powered shells at such a distance, the commander of the Allied fleet did not abandon the original battle plan and continued to urge the fleet group to advance quickly.

The commander of the Allied fleet thought that the Taiping army's high-power artillery would not be too much, and it would not be possible to form a dense fire network, and as long as he tried to lose some warships, he could completely charge into the transport ship group in the center of the Taiping fleet.

Anyway, their goal is not to sink those ironclad ships, but to eliminate a full Taiping Army division on the transport ship!

It's a pity that the commanders of the Allied fleet are too much to take for granted!

At 7,000 meters away, only the main guns of the Zhenyuan ship and the Dingyuan ship can hit it, but as the distance closes, the Zhenyuan ship and the Dingyuan ship really show what is called the firepower density of the ironclad ship in the 20th century!

With the secondary and small guns on the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships firing, the closer the Allied fleet is, the greater the losses!

The Allied fleet suddenly discovered that the Taiping Army's strange iron-hulled battleship had more guns on it than a first-class battleship full of guns, and the most important thing was that the cannonballs fired on the iron-hulled battleship were too powerful, all of them were blasting shells, and the wooden-hulled battleship was in front of them, like a live target, as long as it was hit, it was immediately ignited into a floating torch at sea!

Basically, one shell can reimburse a capital battleship!

If it's not enough, then two shells!

The tradition of the sail battleship era that it was difficult to sink enemy warships with artillery was completely shattered at this moment, and in front of the iron-hulled battleships of the Taiping Army, the sail and wood-hulled battleships were as fragile as virgins and women who had stripped naked.

Break it with a single stab!

Just by approaching the enemy fleet, the Allied fleet group paid the price of dozens of battleships, most of which were capital battleships!

God is pitiful, no matter how many ships there are in the Allied fleet, but the main battleships are only hundreds, and before they can open fire, they have already lost nearly half of the main battleships!

It has to be said that under such heavy losses, the spirit of the Allied fleet did not collapse, which is enough to make people awe-inspired.

Of course, admiration is admiration, but the gunners of the Taiping Army are fighting more and more happily, and the sweaty sailors open the full ammunition boxes back and forth, load the shells into them, and then maintain the maximum fire density towards the Allied fleets everywhere!