Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 295 The advantage is in me
"Your Excellency, the enemy has divided his forces!"

Aboard the New Spain.

Captain Silva has been using binoculars to observe the enemy's movements.

"Is that a steam ironclad ship? I don't know if Madrid has any plans to start building such a ship."

Silva said.

The shape of the six iron ships that caught my eye was really weird.

There are no sails.

Only the chimney.

It is spewing black smoke.

"It seems that there are not many guns, and the caliber is not large?"

"Should it be an auxiliary ship? The twelve hybrid ships are the main force?"

On board, several Spanish officers were talking.

"Their hybrid ship is going in the direction of Ryukyu. It seems that they are going to land?" Valeriano said. "Don't care about them, send an order. If there is no winner before dark, the formation will be disbanded and retreated. Let's go to Hawaii to meet up!"

Boom boom boom!
The first to fire was the Spanish fleet.

They lined up in a straight line, turned the hull sideways, and hundreds of giant cannons blasted out a terrifying barrage.

The Spanish fleet fired solid bullets first.

Because wooden support bullets cannot withstand too much chamber pressure, the range is not as far as solid bullets.

But in fact.

The purpose of firing shells in this way is only to harass and control the opponent's course, and it is impossible for their artillery to hit at such a long distance.

What these Spaniards don't know is that.

The six ironclad ships were simply not something their old-fashioned smoothbore guns could handle.

Ming's fleet is virtually invincible.

"They have fewer cannons, no more than a hundred, and we have more than 1000 cannons, the number is ten to one!" Maloska said.

According to his naval battle experience, the final competition in naval battles is artillery.

Quantity, range.

This is the most important.

In terms of numbers, the Spanish fleet has an absolute advantage.

on range.

So far, the Ming Fleet has not started firing, which shows that the range of their small-caliber artillery is far inferior to that of Spain's 32-pound naval gun.

These two facts gave the old-fashioned Admiral Malloska some confidence.

not to mention.

The Ming army divided its troops even though it was not numerically superior.

Now there are 24 Spanish battleships against six Ming ironclad ships.

24:6
The advantage is mine.

"We can destroy them!" Valeriano said. "As long as we can win a naval battle, we can negotiate terms with the Chinese. After all, they are land peoples, and the sea will not belong to them!"

"Wood support bombs are ready!!"

Vice Admiral Maloska, who was in charge of the command, suddenly raised his voice.

His eyes looked at the Ming Fleet that was getting closer and closer.

My palms started to sweat.

This was a battle against enemies and warships that he had never faced before. The fear brought about by this strangeness made the Spanish admiral a little nervous.

No matter from which point of view we have the advantage!

Maloska said this sentence almost gnashing his teeth in his heart.

What he didn't know was.

The British Eastern Fleet was completely destroyed, and the Britons did not tell their allies the real reason for the destruction of the British Eastern Fleet.

therefore.

The Spaniards have no idea how powerful the ironclad ship is!
At this time, the wind on the sea has almost stopped.

For the Spanish fleet, which needs to rely on sails as power, they must also fight-otherwise they will not be able to run.

As the sun gradually slanted westward.

Around four o'clock in the afternoon.

The fleets of both sides encountered each other thirty nautical miles northwest of the big island of Ryukyu.

The two sides were heading towards each other. The Spanish fleet was arranged in a neat column. The waterproof doors of the gun bays on both sides of the ship had been opened, and a cannon was pushed out. The black muzzle pointed at the six Ming iron-clad ships.

"We have 708 guns on our side, and the guns they can point to us are only 36 turrets, 108 guns!!"

at this distance.

Malloska clearly saw the six rotating turrets on the front deck of the Ming army ironclad ship two nautical miles away.

Manufacture the artillery into a turret and install it on the front deck, the field of fire is widened, but what's the point?Artillery depends on quantity!
Malloska thought.

"Command, aim the turret! The enemy ship is two nautical miles away!" Cai Qian's voice was transmitted to every battleship through the messenger system.

"Songjiang and Hangzhou attacked the left side of the enemy column, Xuzhou and Jinan attacked the right side of the enemy column, Dalian and Qingdao aimed at the belly of the enemy column! I was going to give them a head start, a tail end, and a flower in the middle!!"

Cai Qian's heart is burning.

This is a great achievement delivered to the door.

These Spaniards are so stupid that they dare to face the ironclad ship head-on!

"General, in this formation of the Spanish fleet, all the pressure will be on the Matsue. Do we need to make the Matsue dodge?"

The captain of the Xuzhou, Wei Licheng, said loudly.

"No need! The Songjiang will make a great contribution!" Cai Qiandao, "With the firepower of the Songjiang, it is enough to sink these more than 20 wooden ships!"

"Send an order to the Songjiang, the Ming Navy, I am invincible!"

It was Zheng Xiaoyi, the first officer of the fleet, who led the Songjiang and Hangzhou to attack first.

He now operates the ship himself!
Excited.

Now the opponent's fleet is in front of him, this credit is almost picked up!

"Come closer, come closer!"

Zheng Xiaoyi muttered.

He knows the protection of ironclad ships.

With steel armor of this thickness, it is impossible for the opponent to penetrate it.

So. At this distance, it is impossible for the opponent to run.

But he still hoped to fire again when he was closer.

Because the closer the distance, the greater the advantage of the ironclad ship.

That strong bow can even break the opponent's wooden battleship directly!

on the Spanish fleet.

Catholic hymns sounded.

These Catholics sang about God and the King of Spain.

Military music is playing.

The soldiers saluted with guns raised.

The signal for an all-out war has officially begun.

These sailors of the New Spain Fleet who have been hiding in the Western Pacific for more than a year have long been looking forward to this battle.

It is different from high-level officials like Malloska.

On the one hand, these Spanish sailors did not know what happened to the British.

On the other hand, it is also full of confidence in defeating the Chinese on the ocean.

The sea once belonged to Spain.

They were once the first countries to colonize the world.

When the military music dies down.

Malloska found that Ming's ironclad ship was still facing the enemy with its bow.

"The advantage of installing the artillery on the bow also includes reducing the frontal surface."

Malloska thought.

But at this time he was full of confidence in this battle, because the Spanish fleet had seized a favorable shooting position.

Four of the Chinese ironclad ships were blocked behind the other two, and their firepower could not be exerted for the time being.There are only two ironclad ships in the face of the enemy!

(End of this chapter)