The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 320 Minghe Sea Battle ([-])

Five or six shells mercilessly hit the side of the third-class sailing battleship Santa Maria.

Driven by the kinetic energy of the gunpowder, the cylindrical pointed cannonball was inlaid on the hull of the Santa Maria.

As the ignition burned out, the explosion sounded!

Amid the rumbling explosions, several large holes were blown out of the Santa Maria's hull.

Raymond felt his feet shaking, and the shock wave from the explosion sent him slumped to the ground.

The surrounding Dutch soldiers surrounded them and helped their commander up with all their might.

Just at this moment, a Dutch soldier ran up from the lower cabin, reporting with sweat profusely.

"Your Excellency Commander!"

"The waterline of the hull is damaged, and the bottom cabin is flooding!"

"The carpenters on board have already begun to repair the gap, but the gap is very large, and it is not certain whether the repair will be successful!"

"Commander, please be prepared to abandon the ship at any time!"

When Lei Meng heard this, he felt his eyes darken, and his heart throbbed.

He has rich experience in naval battles, and without the slightest panic, he continued to command the fleet to fight in an orderly manner.

The battle situation continues to develop!

The fleets of both Ming and He passed by like two parallel lines.

Then, on the vast and boundless sea, each made a big circle, preparing for the second round of line-to-line exchange of fire.

Since the Dutch successfully seized the upper hand before the war, they turned around much faster than the Ming army's fleet!

The Dutch had already fired another salvo of naval guns, and the Ming army's fleet had only turned around halfway!
A round of shells fired at the warships of the Ming army!
Sawdust splashed and the ship shook violently!

Seeing this scene, the Dutch let out a smug laugh.

Proud of their boat handling and naval combat skills!
As sea coachmen, they have never been afraid of anyone in sea battles except for the fact that they lost a battle against the British pirates!
However, before the Dutchman's complacency lasted long, the smiles on their faces froze, and they could no longer laugh.

Because, the Ming army's second round of rocket and speedboat assault is ready!

The small boats of the Ming army that had replenished the rockets quickly left their own fleet and attacked again.

There are a lot of small boats, densely covered the entire sea, heading straight for the Dutch fleet!
The oarsmen rowed hard, and the dinghy rushed forward, leaving ripples on the sea surface left by the dinghy passing by.

The large and small naval guns of the Dutch kept firing, trying to intercept the rocket assault boats of the Ming army!

But the effect is not obvious!
Although there were also shells that could hit the small boats of the Ming army, it was a drop in the bucket, and a large number of shells fell through.

The small boat continued to rush towards the Dutch fleet!

A moment later, the earth and heaven resounded like the humming of demons again.

One after another rockets dragged their tail flames, focusing on several sailing battleships of the Dutch.

Boom!Boom boom boom!

Amidst the continuous explosions, several Dutch sailing battleships disintegrated and became pieces of wood floating on the sea.

In two rocket attacks, most of the sailing battleships in the Dutch fleet were damaged.

The complacency of the Dutch just now has completely disappeared!

Rhines wiped the sweat from his forehead, and panted heavily.

"Your Excellency, what should we do?"

"We really can't stop the Ming people's novel naval warfare tactics!"

Rhines' eyes were almost filled with fear from the bottom of his heart.

This deep sense of powerlessness made him feel hopeless!

Lei Meng also opened his mouth slightly, his pupils contracted violently, and his mood was very unstable.

"Damn it, damn it!"

"Ming people must have colluded with the devil! They will definitely go to hell."

"God, please lower your eyes here, we need your blessing to defeat the devil!"

"..."

The surrounding Dutch soldiers and sailors were also emotionally unstable, and some even began to pray to God.

Just at this moment, the Ming army also turned around, and the warships of both sides turned into two parallel straight lines running towards each other again.

However, compared with last time, this time, the distance between the two battleships is less than 200 meters.

Even in naval battles, if you fire at this distance, you can guarantee a certain hit rate.

boom!Boom!Boom boom boom!

The sideboard guns of the Ming army began to fire alternately.

Amidst the rumbling shelling, the sky and the earth seemed to be shaking.

Cannonballs were fired at the Dutch fleet one after another. There were flowering bullets, but most of them were solid bullets, chain bullets, and shotgun shells.

Flowering bombs are good for everything, except that there is nothing wrong with it!

Amidst the rumble of shelling, the Dutch fleet was hit hard again.

Their sides were blasted to pieces by the Ming army's naval guns!

The sails of the battleship were shattered by the chain bombs, and the mast was broken.

The sailors on the deck were swept by the shells, causing countless casualties!

Snapped!clap clap!clap clap clap!

Moreover, at this distance, musket fire can already cause damage to the enemy.

The sailors of both sides stood on the deck and engaged in a fierce musket exchange.

The soldiers on both sides of Ming and He fired a round of neat rows of guns!
In the air filled with gunpowder smoke, people kept falling to the ground and died miserably!

Even the Ming army started to set up rocket launchers on the deck of their own warships, aimed at the Dutch warships, and then ignited them.

Amidst the sharp blaring sound, one rocket after another drew an arc in the air and fell towards the Dutch battleship.

Simon watched helplessly as a rocket landed on the deck of his ship!

With a bang, the sharp guide rod of the rocket pierced directly into the deck!

As the fuse burned out, the rocket bomb exploded with a bang!

The gunpowder inside the projectile was ignited, releasing a powerful shock wave and flames all over the sky, and fragments flew.

The Dutch sailors within a radius of more than ten meters were all swept away!

There was even a Dutch soldier whose body was directly crushed by the fragments, and his stumped limbs and broken arms were washed into the sea by the shock wave.

A large hole with a radius of several meters was blown out on the deck, and even the Dutch sailors in the lower cabin were not spared.

On the body and skin of these Dutch sailors, dense blood spots ooze, their eyes are bulging, and their seven orifices are bleeding.

Obviously dead can't die anymore!

The cause of death was not the shock wave or fragments, but the vibration generated by the explosion.

In other words, they were shocked to death alive!

The Dutch artillery also returned fire, but with little effect.

Their flower bomb technology is not mature.

Most of the shells used by naval guns are solid bullets, and it is not an easy task to sink a battleship with solid bullets.

Although the battleships of the Ming army are also scarred, the main structure is intact!

On the Dutch side, since the beginning of the war, six sailing battleships have been sunk.

Among them is a third-level one, four fourth-level ones, and one fifth-level one...

It can be said that the main force of the Dutch fleet has been severely damaged!

You know, in the Dutch fleet, there are only five third-tier sailing battleships, seven second-tier sailing battleships, and fourteen fifth-tier sailing battleships!
There are only 26 pieces in total!

Now six are gone, nearly one-fifth of the number.

Without being able to sink a single enemy warship, one's own side has already lost so much.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the Dutch have lost this battle!

Of course, such a casualty exchange ratio is because other warships on both sides except the sailing battleship were not counted.

(End of this chapter)