The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 799 In the West, there are no more great powers! (kneeling for a monthly pass)

"Oh my God! This is a desperate way of fighting!" His eyes were wide open, and he had already foreseen what would happen after his battle line was cut by two enemy columns.

However, the warships of both sides have been mixed together, and nothing can be changed.

He suddenly went crazy and shouted to Luiter: "Order, let them use the maximum firepower, all the guns, don't stop! Make sure to cause enough damage to them before the Easterners get in!"

Tromp gritted his teeth, and repeatedly observed the two Ming warships rushing to the front with a telescope, hoping to see them being penetrated, caught fire, tilted, and sunk!
However, none of this happened.

Only the Jinan, facing the French second-tier battleship, was left with three holes on the port side by the 32-pound gun. Several guns were affected and could not be used, but they did not appear to be severely damaged.

A gust of sea breeze blew away the gunpowder smoke covering the warship, and Tromp's right eye, which was close to the telescope, jumped suddenly—he saw, outside the important positions such as the rudder cabin, captain's cabin, and stern building of the Ming army warship, unexpectedly A large piece of iron grid that is as thick as an arm hangs!
The shells hit those iron bars only to make a dent in them, and then they rolled into the sea.Even small-caliber shells collapsed directly.

"This, how is this possible?!" Tromp's mind went blank. Carrying such a large piece of iron grid armor would inevitably cause the warship to be overloaded. How did the Orientals do it? !

It wasn't until 20 years later that Helan gradually figured it out.Because the Ming warships were loaded with canned food for rations, there was no need to grow vegetables, raise livestock, or carry wine barrels on board. In addition, the Caron cannons they used were much lighter than ordinary long cannons. All these reduced weights became important parts. armor.

Important positions such as the rudder compartment are extremely difficult to destroy, and the joint fleets of Japan and France can only forcefully fight against the thick hulls of Ming warships. However, how can a first-class battleship built with full ribs be easily destroyed in such a short time.

Compared with the huge hull, the holes in the hull are like a strong man who has been bitten by mosquitoes a few times.

Soon, the "happy time" of the Combined Fleet was over.The two first-class battleships of the Ming army, together with the two second-class battleships behind them, squeezed into the battle line of the He and French fleets.

The Hangzhou was the first to fire, and the dense flames flashed continuously from the bow to the stern, and there was a loud noise like thunder.

Trump was shocked by the sound. Hearing the sound, it seemed to be bigger than a 32-pounder gun!Could it be that the warships of the Orientals are equipped with 42-pound guns? !

He hurriedly raised his binoculars, looked at the first Helan third-class battleship Den Helder to be hit, and Dang even stayed where he was.I saw a few surprisingly large holes on the side of the Den Helder, definitely not the effect that a 32-pounder gun can achieve, and even a 42-pounder gun is impossible.

The blood-covered deck and the howling and struggling sailors can be seen faintly inside the hole.One of the shells actually penetrated the two decks, penetrated from the upper gun deck, knocked aside the three cannons on the middle gun deck, and killed at least 40 people around.

In addition, the poop of the Den Helder was uprooted, and the communication cabin inside was exposed to the sea breeze.

How can this be? !Trump's hands were already trembling, and his battleship was not even as good as a small fishing boat in front of the cannons of the Orientals.

You know, in the era of sailing warships, even if you put a battleship above level [-] there for you to bombard, you can't seriously injure it if you don't hit thirty or forty rounds of heavy artillery.

But the Den Helder was only hit once, and only six or seven of the cannons on the starboard side were still able to fire. This is almost considered to have lost its combat effectiveness!

At this time, Hangzhou fired another round of salvo.A shell accurately hit the waterline of the Den Helder, and a large amount of sea water poured in from the huge hole.The binoculars in Tromp's hand fell to the ground with a clatter. He was so experienced that he only had to look at the bullet hole to know that the Den Helder could float for an hour at most before it would be buried in the bottom of the sea.

On the Jinan, several gunners skillfully cleaned the bore of a short gun with a strange shape, and then two people used a wooden stretcher to carry an extremely heavy shell into the muzzle.

Seeing how they were struggling, one knew that the shell weighed at least fifty or sixty catties!
Then the gunners quickly finished aiming, and when the commander gave an order, the igniter pulled the gun rope, and the short gun roared, and the huge shell accurately hit the opposite French second-tier battleship.

The [-]-pound shell easily tore through the hull of the enemy ship, and with the wood debris flying all over the sky, it jumped more than ten feet away in the hull, and broke another rib before finally stopping with exhaustion.

This single shot alone caused more than eight guns on the second-story gun deck of the French battleship to lose their combat effectiveness, and countless gunners were killed or injured...

The gunner of the Jinan squinted at his own results, and someone said in shock: "This caron cannon is a bit short of shooting far, but its power, tsk tsk, it's nothing to say!"

This is the main weapon of all the large warships of the Daming Navy today - the Caron Cannon.A big killer that the British began to equip at the end of the eighteenth century.

This kind of gun uses a finely machined bore to improve air tightness, so that the short barrel can also achieve a basically satisfactory range.At the same time, because of the short barrel, the weight is very light. Even the upper gun deck can be equipped with 48-pound Caron guns, and the middle and lower gun decks can easily be equipped with more than [-]-pound Caron guns.

And the large caliber brings huge lethality!

Compared with the 32-pound cannon commonly equipped on heavy battleships in this era, the power of the [-]-pound Caron cannon has doubled several times!It can almost reach the point where a single shot can shoot through an enemy ship.

At the same time, the recoil force of the short barrel is much smaller, which makes the shooting stability and rate of fire of the Caron gun higher than that of the cannon.This series of advantages made this gun quickly dominate the sailing warships in the [-]th century as soon as it appeared!
This is the confidence of the Daming Navy to dare to attack tens of thousands of miles to challenge the Allied Forces of Japan and France!
As more warships of the Ming army cut into the battle line of the United Fleet, hundreds of Caron cannons began to wreak havoc.Usually, the situation where the two ships were bombarded for half an hour to decide the winner did not appear. Relying on the high defense and high lethality of the Daming Navy, the enemy ship could be knocked out of combat power in almost one face-to-face, and then turned to the next target...

An hour and a half after the battle started, three battleships of the United Fleet had sunk, and several others were circling around in place with holes in their bodies, half dead.The nearby waters are full of Japanese and French sailors, like a large group of ants washed away by the rain, helplessly being taken away by the sea...

On the Bradrod, Trump finally closed his eyes in pain and gave the order to retreat.

Peaceful and French sailors have high tactical literacy, and even in such an extremely unfavorable situation, they can still withdraw from the battle in an orderly manner.

The warship in charge of breaking the rear is also brave and fearless, blocking the Daming navy with its body to buy time for its own people.

By the time the sun began to drift westward, the battle in the Bay of Biscay had basically ended. The Daming Navy had achieved a glorious record of sinking four enemy ships, severely damaging eight ships, and capturing eleven ships at the cost of two third-tier battleships being seriously injured. .Of course, this only counts battleships above Tier [-].

However, less than ten battleships escaped from the previously invincible combined fleet of peace and France, and only one of the three French first-class battleships survived.

The remaining warships slipped into the Mediterranean Sea without looking back, and they never dared to show their faces until the Ming Pacific Fleet left the Atlantic Ocean.

(End of this chapter)