Chapter 1501: Battle of Batavia (3)
Zhu Jie personally sat in the third column, transferred more than 50 main warships from the two major fleets, and besieged more than 30 warships in the middle of the Western Fleet, and the Western Fleet could not hold on!
After two or three waves of attacks, more than three of the Chinese warships have been sunk by the third column, and more than a dozen have suffered heavy losses!
In such a situation, how can Márquez not be in a hurry? Now the main force of the Dutch fleet is besieged, and the main force of the Spanish fleet is personally commanded, if the Dutch fleet suffers heavy losses, then how will he face General George and General Reynolds?
However, now it is not so easy to turn around on the sea, the battleship is telling the way forward, if you want to completely turn the course over, you need to draw a huge arc to be able to complete it, and when you turn around to help the battle, I am afraid that it will not be able to complete it in half an hour!
Marquez couldn't imagine what tactics the Ming fleet used? I've never encountered it, it's evil!
"Zhang Manfan, turn the course at full speed, turn around, and flank the Ming fleet!"
Márquez had no choice but to grit his teeth and give an order, hoping that the fleet behind him would be able to hold on.
The forward of the Western Fleet was diagonally inserted in the southeast direction and turned around, and similarly, Yang Geng led the first column to rush forward, constantly pressing the Western Forward Fleet, wanting to turn around, well, let's pass our pass first!
Although the strength of the Western Forward Fleet exceeds that of the third column, it also takes a lot of time to defeat the third column, not to mention the need to adjust the course, Yang Geng does not go all out to engage in the battle, his task is to contain the Western Forward Fleet, so that they can not go all out to help, it does not take too long, only an hour of time, the two columns will be able to win from the siege, and when the time comes, the two columns will pounce on and besiege the Western Forward Fleet again.
Today's Marquez is like being stuck in the throat by a fly, extremely uncomfortable, although one hand can pinch the fly to death, but it always has to be spit out, can't swallow it directly, twice wanted to break through Yang Geng's fleet, but was forced back by Yang Geng, can only choose a larger arc, towards the main force for a detour.
Márquez's forward fleet can't come back, and the rest of the rear army and the middle army are unlucky!
The two columns of the Ming army were full of firepower, constantly carrying out saturation attacks on the Western fleet, without sparing shells and rockets, wave after wave of shells poured out, completely suppressing the Western fleet, more than 120 main warships, against 80 Western warships, the difference in strength was nearly half, and the advantage on the battlefield was completely obtained!
The two sides fought with sparks, and the shells covered the entire sky like locusts, and it was extremely fierce!
The Ming fleet also suffered serious casualties, the worst was the three heaven-class warships and five earth-class warships that rushed to the front, which were the closest to the Western Fleet, and suffered the most serious firepower counterattack, each battleship had undergone the baptism of more than ten shells, seriously damaged, and the battleship had begun to pour!
"Grandma's!"
Du Feng shouted: "Beat the flag, tell the emperor and the governor, the Kaifeng is seriously injured and can't support it, and the minister is determined to repay the country with death, give the order, move forward at full speed, lock the battleship of the Western Fleet, and hit Lao Tzu hard!" Fight like Kilkenny cats! ”
Collision tactics are originally one of the most commonly used and primitive tactics in naval warfare, generally speaking, large warships and small warships are just chosen to use, but the size of the Western battleship opposite Du Feng is not smaller than the Tian-class battleship, so if it collides like this, it will really end up together!
"General Dragon! You see, the Kaifeng number has brought the flag, and it is time to implement the collision tactics! ”
The other Celestial-class battleship, the Daimyō, was also badly damaged, and there was basically no possibility of repair, and the battle was still ongoing, and it would definitely sink.
General Long Kaiyun shouted coldly: "He Du Feng has the courage to choose to die together, Lao Tzu is not worse than him, beat the flag, give orders, move forward at full speed, and crash towards Lao Tzu towards the Western warship!" The bow gun, give Lao Tzu a hard shot! ”
The two heaven-class battleships chose the collision tactics almost at the same time and rushed towards the Western warships at full speed, in this era, there are no torpedoes, no modern artillery, once they fight to the death, then there are only two options: either dodge or face hard, but Kaifeng and Daimyo are the closest to the Western Fleet, but the distance of five hundred steps, rushing up at full speed, that is, the blink of an eye, there is no chance to dodge!
The face of the general on the Western battleship changed greatly, and he secretly complained, fuck, this is a madman, at other times, it was a big ship that collided with a small ship, this time, they actually chose to collide with a battleship of the same size, isn't this self-defeating!
However, if you want to run, it's too late, people have already bitten themselves!
"Quick, U-turn, U-turn! The bow of the ship is aimed at the battleship of the Ming army! Fight! ”
The generals of the Western warships had no choice but to fight hard, but the Kaifeng and the Daimyo didn't even leave them a chance to turn the bow, so they crashed into each other!
Boom!
The four battleships were fiercely pressed together, and the Western battleships were unlucky, although the damage to their battleships was not serious, and the hull was more complete than the two heaven-class battleships, but the people hit the hull with the bow of the ship, with a huge inertial impulse, just like a car colliding with a truth, the hit party will definitely be knocked out! The size of the Western battleship was huge, but it did not crash out, but it was broken by the stubborn waist of the Tian-class battleship, and the bow of the Tian-class battleship even completely overturned the two Western battleships!
Of course, the two heaven-class battleships were originally seriously injured, and after such a collision, they could not be spared, the entire head of the battleship was shattered by the impact, and the soldiers on the battleship flew straight up and landed heavily on the deck, and the two heaven-class battleships slowly sank towards the bottom of the sea!
Cha Xuan and Zheng Haotian sat on the sentry tower, and saw it clearly, they all died together, they all died together, the naval fleet was completely bloody this time! They're all good men!
Check the bolt and breathe fire in both eyes! Heaven-class battleship, this is the treasure of the Ming Empire! There are more than 1,000 soldiers on the two battleships, and I am afraid that no more than three will survive!
"Ahh Attack, attack! Lao Tzu wants to wipe out all the Western devils! ”
Cha Bolt roared wildly!
(End of chapter)