414, range...... Is it five nautical miles?【2/2】
"Putmans turned back, twelve Dutch galleons...... Plus two dozen medium-sized junks. Chen Yuanyuan said with a grin.
"Then beat him!" Yi Yun laughed and said, "Summoning the whole ship, as long as the enemy ship enters the five-mile range, it is allowed to fire freely...... Killing or injuring the other party and putting them in the hospital is not illegal, and I am responsible. ”
"Hahaha, the prince laughed again. The female artillerymen laughed together.
The beautiful bow gun girl was the first to complete the aiming, and she said loudly: "I am the first person under the prince to be promoted to a third-order artilleryman, and I can't live up to the prince's love, see me hit the fifth plank on the port side of the enemy's first ship with one shot." ”
"Khan, isn't it, can you hit so accurately?"
The bow gun girl smiled: "If I hit, the prince will take me as a concubine!
"This ...... Cough...... cough...... "Iyun Khan."
"Well, if you don't object, I'll take you as you agree. The bow girl snorted and lit the arquebus at the end of the gun.
I only heard a loud bang on the ground, and the 12,000-pound rifled cannon let out an angry roar. Her cannon is not an ordinary cannon, but a 12,000-pound bronze cannon, remade after being engraved with rifling, with a very thick body barrel and a huge caliber, other cannons can only hit five miles away, but she can hit eight miles. So while the other girls were still aiming, she had already opened fire, and the huge cannonball drew a beautiful arc in the sky, whistling towards the Dutch battleship.
At this time, on the ship of the Dutch, Putmans was looking at Iyun's fleet with a telescope, and the corner of his mouth snorted coldly: "Attack on both sides?" Even so, I'm not afraid of you monkeys. This time I have prepared a support net, and I am not afraid of fireboats. Naval battles still have to rely on artillery......"
As he said this, he saw that the bow of Yi Yun's giant dragon boat suddenly flashed with fire, and it seemed that it had opened fire...... Experienced captains know it. The muzzle of the cannon flashed with fire, followed by the sound of the shell cutting through the air, and finally the shell falling, a process that often takes tens of seconds.
"Cut, six or seven miles away, the cannon was fired on the other side, it's really a neurosis. Putmans laughed and said, "Don't the monkeys of the Great Moe Kingdom even know how to use cannonballs?
Poor Putmans, the words just fell. I saw that the Dutch galleon at the front suddenly shook and trembled, and made a clattering sound of broken wood, as if it had been hit by a cannonball, and then there was a strange cry of Dutch soldiers in horror from the ship: "Impossible...... I actually hit ......"
"This ...... At least six nautical miles away......"
"There can be no such cannon ......"
"I don't believe it!"
"Oh God!"
Putmans was so startled that he almost fell to the ground with the telescope in his hand. Isn't it? What cannon hits so far? Is it a 10,000-pound red-coated cannon? Oh, no, it's impossible for a 10,000-pound cannon to hit so far, is it a 100,000-pound cannon? Anyway...... Is it possible to build a 100,000-pound cannon?
At this time, a cheer sounded on the giant dragon boat: "Hit, hit!"
"That's amazing!"
"The bow gun sister is so powerful. We'll give you a nickname, Cannon Niang, what do you think?"
Everyone was happy, but the bow gunner was very depressed, and she said with a sad face: "I obviously aimed at the fifth plank, but I hit the seventh...... Woo...... Woo...... People can't get married again!"
"Don't cry, it won't work this time, there will be a next time, anyway, the prince can't run away. The other girls comforted her, and Iyun was sweating profusely when she heard it.
"Alright, it's within five nautical miles, everyone, let's fire together!" Iyun ordered loudly.
"Okay!
All the ships in the Iyun fleet began to roar at the same time, and dozens of battleships crossed their bodies together, pointed their sides at the Dutch battleships, and opened fire...,
Hundreds of cannons, while spewing out rotating shells. All of a sudden, the cannon fire shone brightly, the sound of cannonballs slashing through the air, and countless black iron balls poured down on the Dutchman's head.
Putmans was taken aback: "My God, five miles away, the enemy artillery is under full fire! The commander on the opposite side is either mad or insane." Could it be that all his cannons are 100,000 pounds?"
Is it 100,000 catties, soon there is an answer, hundreds of shells fell on the head of Putmans's fleet, like a rain of cannonballs, the difference is that every raindrop here will kill people.
"Bump!"
"Boom!"
"Poof!"
"Click!"
"Ahh
"Help!"
All sorts of voices alternated throughout the Dutch fleet, and almost at the same time, every Dutch battleship was hit badly, the deck was littered with craters, and the port side was blown to the ground in an instant.
The cannon could not only hit far, but also had much more kinetic energy than a non-flying shell because of its rotation and disengagement, and when it hit a Dutch battleship, it could cause very serious damage, ranging from a large hole to several decks and into the bilge.
Soon, the first victim appeared in the Dutch battleship, and a cannonball was lucky, and it happened to penetrate the ammunition room of the Dutch galleon, and the sparks carried on the cannonball ignited the black powder in the powder room, causing a chain reaction, and one after another powder kegs exploded continuously, directly bursting the belly of the Dutch galleon.
The entire battleship was broken in two, the bow and stern were raised almost simultaneously, pointing towards the sky, and then slowly sinking. The Dutch soldiers on the ship cried and begged the wingman next to them to save them, but the other warships did not have time to get close, and these soldiers sank into the sea with the battleship.
Five miles away, the Dutch galleon, sank one!
"Fuck, this is abnormal. Putmans stomped his feet on the deck: "Charge, charge me, get close to two miles, get into our range, take revenge." ”
In fact, there was no need for him to give an order, and the captains of each ship had already begun to rush towards Iyun's fleet pigs. The Dutch suffered a great loss in the first round of shelling, and every ship was beaten to the ground, and many people were holding back their strength to rush close to the right distance and use their cannons to fight back.
At this time, Iyun's fleet was sailing in an arc while loading shells, and since the pre-battle preparations were sufficient, all the sub-guns were preloaded, so the second round of shelling soon began.
"Fire!"
"Second round!"
"Boom, boom!"
Another round of death-like shelling began, and black shells flew across the sky and smashed heavily on the Dutch ships, each carrying a large amount of wood chips. If the cannonball hits the Dutch soldiers, whether they are artillery or gunslingers, whether they are Western fencers or Western knights, they will all be smashed into pulp without exception.
The profession of science and technology, although the defense is very poor, but the attack power is far beyond its rank.
In this round of shelling, another lucky, or unlucky bear child appeared, a cannonball, impartially smashed on the rudder of the Dutch battleship, and the tragic battleship immediately lost its course, and spun on the spot, and as a result, it became a live target, and countless shells fell in it, and soon, it was pierced by thousands of holes, and went into the sea and sand, and finally could not bear this torture, and sank into the sea.
A wingman next to him tried to come to the rescue, but he was also beaten and sank into the sea with the ship.
Four nautical miles away, Dutch galleons, a total of three sunk!
Putmans was on the verge of madness, and he had never encountered such a situation during the voyage of the Western colonists across the sea, and it was unbelievable that the enemy's artillery could hit farther than theirs. You must know that Westerners have always considered themselves civilized people, and they think that except for Western Europe, everywhere else in the world is savages. ...,
They have bombarded the Indian Asan, the Indians of the Americas, and educated the blacks of Africa, so to speak, across the earth, and have never encountered a civilization that is more advanced in science and technology than them.
Putmans couldn't figure it out, he was completely mad: "Rush me, rush over, I'll see if they use cannons or sorcery!"
At this time, the third round of shelling of Yiyun's fleet started again.
The Dutch are already numb, they know what the result will be when the shells fly out, but the distance is too far, they are helpless, whether it is to return fire or abuse, in these few nautical miles away, it is meaningless, and even hiding and exclaiming are useless, anyway, if the ship is going to sink, you will die wherever you hide on the ship, it is better to sit in a daze generously.
The cannonballs kept falling, ping-pong, pots and pans being smashed, interspersed with a scream or two, then the clatter of broken wood, and the sinking of two huge Dutch galleons, but the Dutch soldiers were no longer surprised, and only glanced at them with insensitive eyes.
Three nautical miles away, the Dutch galleon, a total of five, sank!
"I still have six ships, I can still fight!" Putmans secretly cheered himself up: "I still have the Runner Firebolt, as long as I enter the range of two hundred meters, I can flatten the opposite deck so that I can't see a single figure, as long as I rush close to the side of the dragon boat, I will let the Runner Gunner concentrate firepower and kill King Jiashan, then I can still win!"
"Your Excellency, we're at last two miles away...... one soldier reported with a bloody face.
"Hahahaha, Lao Tzu is finally in range. "Putmans rejoiced over such a trifle, and forgot that it was always the natives who were happy about it. Now he is not much different from a native.
Putmans waved the flag: "Fight back, fight back!" (Your support is my greatest motivation.) )