415, The Final Charge [1/2]
When the Westerners sailed all over the world and ushered in the Age of Discovery, there were countless battles with the indigenous people all over the world, and these battles all had one thing in common, that is, the range of the weapons of the Westerners was relatively long, and the range of the weapons of the natives was relatively short.
Therefore, in every battle, the Westerners were there with long-range weapons, and the natives rushed forward in the rain of bullets, and then the natives were beaten to pieces, and finally rushed to close range. When they reached this distance, in fact, the natives had already been beaten to the ground, but because they had finally entered their own battle distance, their hearts were happy for a while, and they completely forgot the fact that they had been beaten to death, and they would continue to rush forward, hitting stones with eggs, and finally the whole army was destroyed.
The excitement in his heart is indescribable, and his fleet, which has braved the fire of several nautical miles, has finally entered the range of two nautical miles, and after suffering huge casualties.
"Shoot back! Shoot back!" Putmans completely forgot that his side had suffered heavy losses, and the only thing on his mind now was: we are finally in range, hahahaha.
However, it was not so easy to open fire, it was impossible for the battleship to fire its guns at the enemy, the guns were all on the side, and Putmans' fleet had to make a cross at sea, turn the ship, and use the side to face Iyun's fleet.
So the entire fleet began to sail in an arc and began to lay out battle lines. As one battleship after another crossed over and formed a battle line, Putmans finally came to his senses, and counted carefully: "Huh, there are only seven of my Dutch galleons left......
A battle line of seven ships. That's so thin, look at the opposite, more than thirty battleships. Several battle lines were formed, interspersed and rushed over.
"Not good!" Putmans screamed, "Our strength is no longer enough to fight the enemy." ”
He thought about it now, it was too late. The warships of both sides began a fierce exchange of fire, countless cannons spit out angry shells at the same time, and the remaining seven Dutch galleons desperately resisted, but there were too many ships on the opposite side, and countless cannonballs flew like rain, bathing the seven Dutch galleons in the shower of shells.
Everywhere Putmans could see, sawdust flew everywhere. There were also soldiers screaming and flying through the sky, which was bombarded by cannonballs, and there was a scene of apocalypse, and the Dutch were beaten almost in a short moment and lost the ability to fight back, the side sides were bombarded to pieces, and almost all the batteries were oppressed by the enemy's artillery fire.
It was as if every piece of the ship's board had been overturned by a shell. The hull was full of holes. But his luck was good, so many shells were scattered, and not a single one of them hit the top of his head.
In the blink of an eye, Putmans saw that his seven Dutch galleons had been attacked by concentrated fire, but the junk that followed them had not been taken care of. These junk ships are all medium-sized ships, which do not belong to the Dutch, but come from various small pirate forces in the southeast sea, all of which are dependent on the Dutch and oppose Zheng Zhilong.
As if grasping at the straw, Putmans hurriedly ordered the junk ships: "You guys, all rush......
Putmans had apparently forgotten one thing, and that was that these little pirates were all wall-to-wall grass, otherwise they wouldn't have clinged to the Dutch fleet when they saw it. This kind of person can be the icing on the cake, but they can't help it. If the Dutch win, the little pirates might rush up to help the Dutch extend their victory. But in the case of the defeat of the Dutch, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to let these little pirates save them.
At this time, they followed behind, and when they saw that the Dutch had been beaten into pigs' heads by the army of the prince of Jiashan, where would they do things for the Dutch wholeheartedly?...,
The junk boats screamed, and they turned around and ran away.
Putmans' nose was almost crooked, these little pirates were too wasteful to be reliable. In the southeast sea, only Fengyun Eighteen Zhi can be relied on, so what about Liu Xiang, one of the Eighteen Zhi?
At this time, Liu Xiang was also in a bitter battle.
The Dutch turned around to meet the king of Jiashan who appeared in the rear, and Liu Xiang targeted Zheng Zhilong, both of whom were great pirates in the Eighteen Zhizhi, and they used to be in the relationship between the first and second leaders, and they both knew each other, I know your strength well, and you are also clear about my command style.
In this case, any conspiracy and tricks can be saved, and neither of the two brothers can think of calculating anyone, it is still upright, and it is the most reliable to fight the winner from the head.
Both sides lined up the huge ships in their fleets into battle lines, and the medium and small ships that were not qualified to enter the battle line obediently left the main battlefield and went to the side side battlefield to fight.
Then came the fierce shelling battle!
Pity...... Soon Liu Xiang began to scream, because Zheng Zhilong's fleet was the same as Yi Yun's, equipped with a large number of cannons and cannons. Before Yi Yun appeared, Zheng Zhilong strictly forbade all the cannon artillery to fire, and had been hiding his strength, but now there was no need to hide it anymore, a hundred newly made cannons, and a hundred newly promoted cannons, together poured out a range of five miles towards Liu Xiang's fleet, and the rotating flying shot, extremely powerful. Immediately, Liu Xiang was beaten all over his head, and he didn't know where he was.
"What's going on with this weird cannon?" Liu Xiang suddenly realized in his heart, no wonder my spy said that there is a blacksmith island, which is completely closed and managed, and he can't find out what is going on inside, it turns out that he is tossing this strange cannon.
He didn't know what was on Blacksmith Island now, and it was too late, and his fate was doomed to be the same as that of Putmans, who was beaten into a swollen face by the new weapon.
In fact, any time a new weapon or new method of warfare appears in history, it will bring huge trouble to the enemy, which is no wonder Putmans and Liu Xiang, for example, during World War II, the German Guderian suddenly sacrificed the lightning tactics of the big killer tank and suddenly beat Britain, France, the Soviet Union and other countries to the north, and was pushed all the way to the point that the butt was almost burned, and finally adapted to the enemy's tank tactics, and finally pulled it back.
Another example is World War II, the German Dönitz created the "wolf pack tactics," this new thing has never been seen in other countries, the Allies were overwhelmed and miserable, until the Allies racked their brains to come up with an escort system, invented a new type of anti-submarine tactics, and dealt with the wolves.
At this time, Yi Yun and Zheng Zhilong used the long-range strike tactics of cannon artillery, which was completely the first in the world, and the Dutch and Liu Xiang were bound to be deflated, at least they had to give them a few months or years to go back and slowly study and think about it, so that they could come up with tactics to deal with this kind of long-range artillery.
It didn't take much time for Liu Xiang's tattered pirate ships to be swept away by cannons, and the overall posture collapsed, while on Putmans's side, two more Dutch galleons were sunk, and only five tattered warships were still holding on.
"Withdraw, my ship is faster than the enemy, and I can escape!" Putmans was about to give the order of the wingman, when an adjutant suddenly burst out next to him, shouting: "Lord Governor, you can't withdraw, the enemy's artillery fire has a range of up to five miles, even if we flee immediately, we will have to run three nautical miles to escape from the enemy's range, although the enemy's ship speed is a little slower, but it can at least chase us for dozens of streets if it bites behind its tail." ”...,
"Scared?" Putmans then figured out that the range was not as good as the other party, not only was it difficult to get closer, but it was also difficult to escape, because when he fled, his ass would be chased and bombarded.
"What then?" Putmans was a little dumbfounded.
"Turner!" the adjutant shouted, "We still have a hundred 2.5-order 'Suifa Soldiers', as long as we get close to the distance of two hundred meters, our 100 Gunners aim at King Jiashan to shoot a salvo, maybe we can catch him off guard." As long as we kill him, the other party will be leaderless, and we can take advantage of the chaos to escape. ”
"Huh? That makes sense!" Putmans's mind turned, and he thought desperately: "That's right, there are thousands of third-order warriors on the enemy's ship, and they must want to fight with us in a jumping gang battle, so if we rush over, the other party will definitely not avoid it, and will rush towards us, and when we reach the range of two hundred meters, we can shoot the Jiashan King who is standing on the bow of the dragon boat and commanding it with a rapid fire at the same time." ”
He hurriedly ordered that all a hundred Wheel Guns were gathered on the deck, although they were called a hundred, in fact, there were less than a hundred now, in the fierce artillery fire just now, there were already seven Wheel Guns soldiers who met the King of Hades, but the profession of the Department of Science and Technology is so good, although they died, the Wheel Fire Guns fell into the hands of the ordinary guns next to them, and these guns immediately automatically became the "Sui Fa Guns" of the 2.5th order, so the dead people are not afraid, as long as the Wheel Fire Guns are still there, they are still a hundred.
Putmans shouted at the crooked soldiers, "the war is very bad now, we are almost defeated, and if we fail, you will all be killed or taken to work as coolies, just like the soldiers in Magong Fort more than a year ago." If you don't want to suffer such a thing, you can give me the last bit of courage to fight back. ”
"From now on, this ship will make a final charge against the enemy's flagship giant dragon boat, and I want you to suddenly fire a salvo at the other party's leader, King Jiashan, when you are within two hundred meters! Remember, there is only one chance, and if you miss it, it will be all over. Putmans generously said, "Only by killing him can we live!" (Your support is my greatest motivation.) )