"Alas! It seems that the armor-piercing ability of this solid cannonball is enough, but the lethality is still not enough! ”

Ye Tianlong saw through the telescope that the two enemy ships that were heavily damaged by the shells failed to sink, and they both successfully retreated, and couldn't help but sigh with some regret.

In Ye Tianlong's opinion, the best shells to use against these wooden warships should still be high-explosive shells, or flowering shells, which are the kind of shells that will explode after hitting the target and produce high-temperature flames. At present, the lethality of solid shells is enough, and even some of the power is excessive, but the lethality is somewhat insufficient, and if it fails to hit the vital point of the enemy ship, it is difficult to sink it directly.

Unlike high-explosive bombs, once they hit an enemy ship, it is easy to cause a fire, while a wooden battleship can be said to be the most afraid of fire, even if it fails to hit the battleship's vital point, use more high-explosive bombs to light a few fires on the opponent, and the enemy ship will soon be burned to the point that it completely loses its combat effectiveness or even sinks.

However, the high-tech content of this high-explosive bomb is much higher than that of solid artillery shells, and there are no experts in this area among his team members, so it seems that the next group of team members will have to find a few experts in this firearms, and when the time comes, the lethality of their own battleship artillery will be greatly increased.

At this time, the enemy's warships, taking advantage of Ye Tianlong's reloading of the main gun, continued to rush towards the fishing port at full speed.

Soon, the distance between the two sides had been shortened to within a thousand meters, and it was only then that Ye Tianlong and the others completed the second reloading of the main gun, which was almost their last chance to fire before the enemy approached.

So Ye Tianlong and the others all worked hard to aim before firing. Maybe it's because the distance is closer, maybe it's because Ye Tianlong and they aim harder this time, this round of salvo, Ye Tianlong The cannonballs they fired actually had two successful hits on the enemy's flagship, one of the shells hit its bow position, smashing most of the ship's capital, and the other smashed hit its sideboard, almost grazing the hull of the ship, interrupting more than a dozen oars along the road, which suddenly reduced the speed of the flagship by half.

And the other warships around it, there were also four that were hit by shells, but in addition to one of the small battleships that was directly sunk, the other three battleships were damaged, but they did not sink, and because the two sides were getting closer and closer at this time, the enemy seemed to feel that victory was in sight, so they did not withdraw from the battle, and they were still controlling the damaged battleships to continue to advance, wanting to rush to the ironclad ship as soon as possible and enter the gang jump battle mode.

Ye Tianlong saw that this last round still didn't cause much damage to the enemy, so he could only sigh helplessly, and then let the soldiers in charge of the secondary artillery start to reload, and once the enemy entered the firing range, he opened fire with all his might.

Compared to the slow rate of fire of the main guns, the rate of fire of these secondary guns is much faster, after all, each secondary gun is equipped with a full six guns! You can reload the ammunition in advance, take out the sub-gun after hitting one, and replace it with a new one, and then you can continue to fire. It's a pity that the effective range of these secondary guns is only more than 500 meters, so they can't fire yet.

Just when Ye Tianlong was halfway through the ammunition of their main guns, the distance between the two sides was already close to five or six hundred meters, and the large bed crossbows on the enemy battleship finally entered the effective range and began to shoot at Ye Tianlong and their ironclad ships.

Since the opponent's bed crossbow has dozens of units, there are still many successful hits to the hull under the salvo, but the ironclad ship that Ye Tianlong and they are on, even after a load reduction, the average armor thickness is still about fifty millimeters, and such a thick steel plate is not something that a mere bed crossbow can penetrate at all.

The bolts from the bed crossbows hit the hull of the ship with a clanging sound and then ricocheted off. If you look closely, you can see that most of the parts that were hit were just a small white dot that was inconspicuous.

And those soldiers under Ramon's command saw that their bed crossbows were completely unable to cause any damage to the enemy's battleship, and they finally confirmed in shock that the opponent's battleship was really an ironclad ship.

It's no wonder that these people didn't want to believe that this was an ironclad ship at all, after all, in their concept, an iron-made battleship should not be able to float on the water at all.

In addition, if such a giant ironclad ship with a length of 100 meters wants to be manufactured, how much manpower and material resources should be consumed during the period, I am afraid that even if several major powers on the Calradia continent join forces to concentrate all the steel produced in a year, it will not be enough to consume!

Before these guys could recover from their shock, the twenty secondary guns on the left side of the Sea Dragon opened fire in unison, and suddenly small cannonballs smashed into the enemy fleet not far away.

Because the distance has been so much closer, after these secondary guns are fired in a salvo, the hit rate is even higher, almost reaching more than 50 percent.

For a time, there were constantly warships in the enemy fleet that were hit by cannonballs, and the wood chips on the hull flew sideways, but unfortunately the shells of this pair of guns were smaller, if they did not hit the vital point, they hit the ordinary position that was just a small hole in the enemy battleship, and they could not really hit the enemy warship at all, but some of the shells that hit the enemy soldiers, and immediately after the hit, the soldiers of the slave trading group wearing heavy armor were blown off their hands and feet, highlighting the fragility of the human body in the face of firearms strikes.

And although the power of those secondary guns is far less than the main gun, but the rate of fire is much faster than the main gun, after the first round of fighting, only a dozen seconds later, the second round of shelling came again, for a time the upper deck of the enemy warship was nowhere to be seen, after all, it is too dangerous to stand on the deck, dozens of shells smashed over, there will always be a few rounds on the deck, killing a bunch of soldiers, so in order to preserve the vitality, those slave traders can only temporarily hide in the lower cabin of the battleship.

During this time, the large bed crossbows and catapults on their warships also continued to return fire, but unfortunately they were useless, and neither the giant crossbow bolts nor the stones fired could effectively damage the ironclad ship, which was as hard as a turtle's shell.

Fortunately, the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer at this time, and it won't be long before their warships can rush in front of the enemy, and then they will enter the gang jumping battle, and their own elite warriors with more than 800 armor will be able to exert their powerful combat power.

On the other side, when Ye Tianlong saw that the distance between the two sides had narrowed to within fifty meters, he asked his secondary artillery to start reloading with scattered bullets, ready to kill and injure the infantry on the enemy warship who wanted to jump into the gang at any time.

At the same time, the main gun of the own side has finally finished loading, and once again fired a salvo at the opponent's flagship.

This salvo, because of the close distance, ten shells were successfully hit, although not all of them hit the flagship, but there were also five shells successfully hit, and all of a sudden the wooden battleship, which was not small, began to sink slowly.

The soldiers above saw that the battleship was beginning to sink and fled towards the other warships around them. These guys are also worthy of being the elite of a hundred battles, one by one they took out their hooks and quickly hooked the hull of the surrounding friendly warships, and then used them to jump towards the friendly warships, and finally climbed onto the battleship with a rope in three or two clicks.

And some of the opponent's small but faster small warships were already about to rush in front of the Sea Dragon ironclad at this time, and those battleships were full of heavy armored warriors armed with swords and hook claws, obviously once they rushed in front of the Sea Dragon, these enemy soldiers would start a gang jump.

But Ye Tianlong, how could they give each other such a chance! Several secondary guns were already quietly aiming at the enemy soldiers on these battleships at this time, and then in a burst of cannon fire, large pieces of scattered bullets sprayed out from the muzzles.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was only more than ten meters away, and there was no reason to be inaccurate, and those scattered bullets all smashed into the enemy's dense crowd accurately, and suddenly these heavy armored elite soldiers that Ramon had spent an unknown number of years to cultivate, were bombarded in pieces and bloodied, screaming and falling to death on the deck.

The blood soon pooled into a stream of bright red on the deck of the battleship, flowing slowly on the battleship, almost smearing the entire battleship into a demonic bright red.

After seeing the miserable fate of these early birds, the other warship crews in the rear couldn't help but be frightened into a cold sweat, but unfortunately it was too late even if they wanted to run at this time, after all, there were so many guns on the other side's ship, I am afraid that they were already aimed at them at this time, even if they turned the bow of the ship and fled, it was difficult to escape death, and the only way to survive was to rush up, hoping that the opponent's artillery would not have time to kill them all, as long as they could take the opportunity to jump on the enemy warship, maybe there was a chance to turn defeat into victory, After all, they could see that there weren't many crew members on that ironclad ship.

As a result, these elite soldiers of the slave trading group, driven by extreme fear and desire to survive, controlled the battleships one after another, and accelerated towards the ironclad ship of the Sea Dragon, like a group of sharks besieging giant whales.

And Ye Tianlong and they were naturally not polite, the twenty secondary guns located on the port side kept firing, and the dense scattered bombs fiercely swept across the superstructure of one battleship, even if some enemies hid in the cabin, they would be beaten into honeycomb coals and die miserably.

What's even more terrifying is that when these secondary guns have finished a round and eliminated nearly half of the enemy's soldiers, this huge steel battleship like a hill actually began to move slowly, obviously its boiler has been heated.

After being able to move, the steel battleship drove forward a few hundred meters, and after completing the acceleration, it began to turn around sharply to the left, revealing the dense twenty secondary guns on the right side in front of the enemy.

The militiamen, who had already overheated the barrels of the secondary guns on the left, turned to the secondary guns on the right, and once again swept at the enemy ships, sweeping almost all the enemies in their sight.

Because these two rounds were fired with scattered bullets, the hull of the opposing battleship was not badly damaged, but the crew and soldiers on it suffered heavy casualties.

Ye Tianlong considered that these warships could be used as his own fishing boats and transport ships if they were slightly modified, so he did not let his subordinates bombard them with solid shells, but prepared to lead his guards and the first batch of team members to check on those enemy warships, if the soldiers on the other side's warships were really killed and wounded, then they could capture all these warships.