Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 617
A large hole was opened in the hull of the Dutch battleship "Hidavia".

Under the impact of the powerful shells, the hull swayed into waves, and the surging waves slapped the board of the ship with the pungent smell of gunpowder.

The entire "Xidavia" ship was hit hard by the "Dong Ou Wang" of the Ming Dynasty, and it had lost its power, and it could no longer control the direction. The deck groaned in pain.

The captain of the "Xidavia" climbed up unsteadily, pulled out his command knife, and roared dryly: "Withdraw! Withdraw!"

As an experienced naval commander of the Dutch East India Company, he now understands that the Ming army has no intention of peace talks. He even discovered through the bombardment just now that the range of the Ming army's artillery has far exceeded his imagination. Therefore, he is now only shocked and frightened. Anxiously ordered the battleship to be quickly transferred back.

But the bombardment of the Daming "East Ou King" has just begun, and the 45-jin cannon is just testing the range.

About [-] paces away, the Dutch battleship "Hidavia" can still be accurately bombarded by the rear-loaded rifled cannon. This is the brilliance of the Ming ship-mounted guns!It is also an equipment gap that Western Fan has never thought of!
The 45-jin grenade continued to be fired.

Although Ming did not have Galileo, Galileo's ballistic parabola theory has been applied to artillery firing by Ming in a sacred way.

As soon as the Dutch captain Chu Lin finished speaking, more than a dozen 45-jin grenades pierced the sky and exploded again on the Dutch battleship "Hidavia".

With a bang!
The Dutch battleship "Hedavia" burst open, turning into a pile of debris, and black smoke shot straight into the sky.

And the captain of the "Hidavia", Chu Jian, was also blown to pieces. Numerous Dutch officers and soldiers were blown up and fell into the sea water, struggling up and down in the sea water crowded with broken wood like dumplings in soup.

At this time, the two third-class sailing warships of the Ming Dynasty were quickly approaching the wreckage of the Dutch battleship "Xidavia".

Pieces of red began to smear on the ocean, and these Dutch red-haired animals were shot full of holes, and some heads were even blown away.

This is Ming's most direct revenge on these Dutch thugs who slaughtered the Han people. At this moment, these mourning Dutch red-haired fans also have to experience the pain of being slaughtered.

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"Bastard! They are not here to provoke, they are here to massacre. Those of us who have jumped into the sea, these Ming soldiers will not let go, they are a group of brutal Satan!"

Dutch Governor Masiike roared angrily.

"Your Excellency, it seems that they retaliated against us for the massacre of the Han people. We can no longer surrender, and they have no intention of making us surrender. Now we can only resist. You need to return to Badawi now. Yacheng organizes land resistance, and the sea is handed over to me."

After the Dutchman Tasman said, he immediately brought the remaining 39 Dutch sailing warships towards the Ming South Sea Fleet.

"The naval guns of the Ming Empire have a long range and great power. We can only win by speeding up and fighting with them, so now listen to my orders, advance quickly, get close to his flagship, and kill the supreme commander of the Ming army wearing a python robe. official!"

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Although the Dutch East India Company has only 39 warships in total, the Dutch officers and soldiers on these warships are also the backbone of mercenaries trained by the Dutch East India Company for many years. The warships are cruising and shuttling freely in the ocean like sharks, and the target is also directed at the flagship of the Ming Dynasty South Sea Fleet "Dongou Wang".

It looks like a pack of wolves tactics, and it also seems to be desperate.

But no matter what, the South China Sea Fleet of the Ming Dynasty went all out. Zheng Chenggong, the commander-in-chief of the fleet, methodically commanded more than two hundred warships to use the wind direction to re-arrange troops, preparing to encircle and wipe out the 39 wolves of the sea.

Every Dutch battleship will be besieged by three first-class Ming Dynasty sailing warships, two second-class warships and three third-class warships.

As soon as the Ming warship bites a Dutch warship, it can immediately bombard it with 25 catties artillery, which can severely damage the Dutch warship in an instant, while the sailing warships of the same company can quickly encircle it and fire chain bombs to directly destroy its sails. Disabled its Dutch battleships.

There are three types of artillery shells for the entire Ming battleship, namely grenades for long-range damage to the hull of enemy warships, shotgun shells for intensive firepower strikes against enemy officers and soldiers, and chain shells for destroying the sails of enemy ships and losing power.

After all, the steam industry in Daming has entered a mature blowout stage, and the machinery industry is highly developed, which is equivalent to the level of the original history in the middle of the nineteenth century. It is not difficult to manufacture precise and multi-functional shells.

Today, the Dutch second-class battleship "Naam" was hit by five shots from the "Xin Nimbo" of the Ming Dynasty, and the entire side of the "Naam" was beaten to lose ten gun positions, and its combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. Moreover, because the artillery of the "Naam" is still a front-mounted 24-pound smoothbore gun, the range is far less than that of Deming's rear-loaded rifled gun, even if the combat effectiveness is not completely lost, it cannot form a blow to the Deming fleet.

At this time, the "Pinglianghou" and "Jiangyinhou" that had been pasted directly fired chain bombs with [-]-jin mortars, and the huge explosion resounded above the "Naam", " The sail of the Naam battleship was blown off immediately, making a creaking sound, or it broke and fell to the sea.

Because of this, the entire "Naam" tilted directly, slowly almost sinking into the bottom of the sea.

Because, now that the "Naam" has almost completely lost its combat power due to tilting and loss of power, the "Pinglianghou" and "Jiangyinhou" continued to approach, attacking the Dutch soldiers on board with fast shotguns or jumping to the ground. Dutch soldiers in the sea.

The artillery of the Ming Dynasty not only has a better range, but also a very fast firing speed. Because of the use of the flintlock principle and the improvement of the fuse, the artillery of the Dutch battleship takes three to four minutes to fire a shot, while the Ming can only fire a shot in one minute. .

The firing speed of the Ming battleship's artillery is three or four times that of the Dutch battleship's artillery!
Therefore, once the Dutch warship was bitten by the Ming warship, it would be difficult to take advantage of it. They had to choose to surrender or be beaten to nothing.

And even if a Dutch warship broke through the barrier and used skilled navigation technology to encircle the Ming flagship "Dongou Wang", it would be of no avail.

At this time, Tasman successfully brought the five remaining Dutch sailing warships to approach the flagship of the Ming Dynasty South Sea Fleet "East Ou Wang".

Because the distance between ships had been shortened to less than [-] paces, Ming's long-range cannons were useless in combat, so Zheng He ordered the mortars on the flagship to fire chain bombs first to damage the sails of the Dutch battleship.

As a result, when the Dutch warships waiting for the Tasman approached, they were fired by chain bombs from countless Ming warships and destroyed the sails. , and also lost the ability to escape.

At the same time, the boarding battle that Tasman wanted to carry out could only become a short-range confrontation.

And what the flagship of the Ming Dynasty South Sea Fleet "Dongou Wang" is least afraid of is short-range bombardment.

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