Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 629: He Yi's arsonist class uses an axe, and encounters a blue dragon in a narrow road to show off its power!

Kuang Ludao: "The country of the Netherlands, the Chinese translation of its full name is the 'United Republic of the Netherlands', which was formed by the union of seven provinces in the northern lowland area formerly ruled by Spain.

Compared with Western powers such as Spain, England, and France, the Netherlands is not only young, but its land area is not large, and there are not many overseas colonies. The country's financial and material resources do not support them in building first- and second-class battleships.

Even if they build it, compared with other Western powers, they do not have an advantage, or they are at a disadvantage.

So they simply gave up building first and second battleships, and concentrated their financial and material resources to build third-tier battleships, and even smaller battleships, called fourth-tier battleships. "

Most of what Kuang Lu knew came from Jin Yiwei's information, and the content of Jin Yiwei's information was recorded in the archives after combining the information given by Aunt Zhu to future generations.

That's why Kuang Lu's speech has a lot of vocabulary and terminology of later generations. Of course, some of them are new words he learned from newspapers such as "Da Ming Pao".

Chen Jitai also reads newspapers frequently, and some new words can understand their meaning through the literal meaning.

This made it easy for the two to exchange the information just now.

"In order to give its third- and fourth-tier battleships an advantage when facing battleships from other western powers, He Yi chose to equip fewer naval guns.

But most of its naval guns are heavy guns, conventional ones such as 24-pound guns, 32-pound guns, and even 42-pound guns or even [-]-pound guns.

With flexible navigation capabilities, more powerful artillery, and a larger number of battleships, it competes with other navies.

It is said that although its third-tier battleships are small in size, they can completely suppress the cruisers of other Western countries, and the number of third-tier battleships exceeds most countries.

In addition, its fourth-tier battleships can defeat the first-tier and second-tier battleships of Western powers by virtue of their large number and flexible navigation capabilities, thus becoming an emerging Western power.

Other western countries even called them "sea coachman" and "Mongolian cavalry at sea". "

At this time, Chen Jitai pointed to the battlefield in the bay, and said, "Why is He Yi so good at using arson boats?"

Kuang Lu looked through the binoculars, and saw that there was a sea breeze coming from the southwest, and the sea was surging inward due to the high tide. The Dutch took the opportunity to release hundreds of arson boats to attack the Ming navy warships.

After only a few glances, Kuang Lu smiled and said, "He Yi is playing tricks."

Chen Jitai was stunned for a moment, and then laughed too.

The Dutch are indeed playing tricks.

Because the main source of the generals and soldiers of the four towns navy that is currently attacking Dongfan Island is the Zheng family navy.

When Zheng Zhilong was sailing across the sea in the past, the warships were not as big as the Dutch, and the cannons were not as many and big as the Dutch. In the end, relying on many small boats, he defeated the Dutch with sampan arson and board battle.

These navies of the Dutch East India Company have been entangled with the Zheng family in the South China Sea and the East China Sea for 20 years, and they have obviously been greatly affected, and they can also skillfully use arson ships and boarding battles.

But it is obviously impossible to defeat the No. 12 town of the Ming army navy with this trick.

I saw that the Ming army either sank the arson ship with artillery shells in advance, or sank it with its own sampan, or propped it up with a long pole, or put out the fire with sand, the generals and soldiers did not panic. Busy, problem solved quickly.

After the use of the arson ships, this half of the Dutch fleet was at the end of its rope.

After being sunk by the Ming army, two fourth-tier battleships were sunk, and the remaining three battleships and a dozen cruisers hurriedly fled into the southern channel.

They have no choice, because staying on the east coast of Dayuan Island is a live target—although they have the coastal defense guns of Zeelandia City to rely on, but the ships are in the sea, and with the range of the artillery of the Ming army, they can do it. Bombard Dutch ships outside coastal defense guns.

However, escaping into the southern passage is not a good choice, because some warships in the seventh town and No.11 town of the Ming army navy in the outer port have already entered the southern passage.

Seeing more than a dozen Ming warships approaching, the commander of the Dutch third-class battleship Silver Lion, Corbett, shouted: "Don't stop! The Ming people are small, so rush up and smash them! Only by breaking through these Ming warships Only when the warships stop us can we escape to the open sea!"

What these Dutch navies regret most now is choosing to stay in Taijiang Bay, which makes them a shackle.

Now if you want to survive, or not be captured by the Ming army, you can only break through desperately.

The Dutch sailors on board also tried their best to accelerate the Silver Lion forward.

The other Dutch warships followed closely behind.

From their point of view, the largest of the dozen or so Ming warships in front was only comparable to their Tier [-] battleships, and was about the same size as cruisers and destroyers.

Therefore, it is possible for them to rush out.

However, these Dutchmen didn't notice that three of the warships were jet-black in appearance, faintly reflecting the glint of metal in the sunlight.

"Let the steam engine start, add full horsepower, and go!"

On the Qinglong steel-armored steam warship, Yan Yingyuan shouted orders against the sea wind, his face flushed with excitement, at first glance he looked like a red-faced Guan Gong.

As the Qinglong accelerated forward, the other two armored battleships beside them also started their steam engines and propellers, and accelerated towards the Dutch fleet!

On the battleship Silver Lion, Commander Corbett and other Dutch navy soldiers were dumbfounded when they saw this scene.

Immediately subconsciously began to discuss——

"Why did the three Ming warships suddenly run so fast?"

"Their warship is smoking, is it on fire?"

"Are they trying to hit our Silver Lion? Are the Ming people crazy, or are they out of their minds?"

"···"

When the soldiers were discussing, Colbert, who came back to his senses, keenly realized that something was wrong, and quickly shouted: "The bow battery fires, quickly sink these three Ming warships!"

Corbett felt that the three jet-black Ming warships were probably trying to launch a suicide attack on the Silver Lion and the other two Tier [-] battleships.

Suicide attack was also one of the tactic used by the Zheng family's navy to deal with western warships in the past, and it was quite effective.

Although the three Ming warships looked quite large ([-] or [-]), it would be worth it if they could sink or seriously injure their battleships with a suicide attack.

Corbett thought he had an insight into the tactics of the Ming army's navy, but found that it was not what he thought.

The width of the southern channel is limited. At this time, the fleets of the two sides are heading towards each other. The bow battery of the Silver Lion was lucky to hit the bow of the Qinglong in the first round of shelling.

Then Corbett was surprised to find that the 32-pound iron bullet fell on it and only made a shallow crater, bringing out some sparks.

A light flashed in Corbett's mind, and he vaguely grasped something, but it was not clear.

He didn't realize until he saw that the black warship on the left side of the Qinglong was also hit, and the hull was also not damaged, and then noticed that its hull was shining faintly in the sun.

"Iron armor!" he exclaimed in surprise, "Ming people's warships are equipped with iron armor!"

At this time, the Dutch side had already fired a second round of artillery, but the damage to the three armored warships was extremely limited.

On the contrary, after the bow guns of the Ming army were fired, a Dutch cruiser was sunk, and a Tier [-] battleship was damaged.

Most importantly, the warships of the Ming people are about to collide!
"Your Excellency, the Ming people's strange ship is about to collide, what should we do?!" Corbett's deputy ran over and asked loudly.

Corbett tried his best to calm down, and said: "They are ironclad ships, you can't collide with them, try to avoid them!"

In fact, the Qinglong and other three armored warships were not prepared to crash into the Dutch battleship in a daze.

Although the Dutch battleships would be damaged or even sunk in this way, most of the three steel armored warships would capsize and sink on the spot—after all, the three steel armored warships were still too small.

If the thousand-year-old Suzaku came over, it might be able to knock down the Dutch fourth-tier battleship.

However, the Suzaku is now preparing to face the Dutch fleet from Batavia together with Navy No.13 Town...

Seeing that the ships on both sides were close enough, Yan Yingyuan immediately commanded the Qinglong to deflect and move forward along the sidestring of the Silver Lion.

During this process, the side string of the Silver Lion was directly scratched by the special triangular steel on the Qinglong, which slowed down.

Then at this opportunity, the jumping hands of the Qinglong Camp threw out their claws to hook the Silver Lion, ready to jump and fight.

Colbert and the Dutch navy did not wait to die. Rows of musketeers held matchlock guns and wanted to shoot condescendingly, killing the Ming army one by one.

However, the musketeers on the Qinglong had been prepared for a long time, and when they saw the Dutch protruding from the side of the ship, they fired with their flintlocks.

Now the distance between the sides of the two ships is only [-] steps. At this distance, the Ming army's flintlock guns are enough for aiming and shooting.

In addition, the flintlock guns of the Ming army fired faster than the matchlock guns, and the Dutch musketeers would often be aimed and killed by several Ming army musketeers as soon as they emerged from the ship's side.

At the same time, the Ming army with good arm strength threw grenades directly at the Silver Lion!

boom boom boom

Amid a series of grenade explosions and gunshots, the attack of the Dutch was completely suppressed. In just a few minutes, the Ming army boarded the Silver Lion in batches.

At this point, it became a matter of time before the Silver Lion was captured by the Ming army.

　First more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)