open sea

Chapter 770 Obstacles
Pals' Peeta armament looks scary, and it's scary to use.

Every five or six hundred steps, huge stone bombs smashed into the water and stirred up waves higher than the freeboard of the ship, which was enough to discourage everyone.

Fortunately, Liang Bozhen is not Shao Tingda's soldier.

If the Spanish army in Mexico suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from the cavalry of Heiyunlong, then the Marine Division of Shao Tingda's Department was also terrified of the Spanish stone-shooting guns.

Simply comparing weapons is a very boring thing, as if Liang Bozhen's ship was equipped with all Nanyang-made Zhenshuo generals, all of which were the latest, best, and longest-range guns.

The stone-shooting gun is an old thing that has been used since the fourteenth century and is now almost retired. It is inaccurate and has a short range, so it is almost nothing to be afraid of.

But the fact is just the opposite. Everyone on the two Ming warships was most afraid of the stone-shooting cannon.

Fate is one's own, everyone is afraid to death, being afraid can't solve the problem, you can't jump into the sea just because you are afraid, right?
Liang Bozhen's flagship, Dongchong, and another warship, Baitengbao, are both the names of the capitals under the jurisdiction of his hometown Shunde County. At this time, the sound of horns sounded on the flagship deck, and the square flag was raised to direct the other warship to head towards the city. The enemy ship left the battlefield from the other side of the island after throwing shells.

He couldn't maintain the battle line, and he couldn't even go to battle with the Western ships. The four Western ships anchored along the coast of another small island in front of him were all bigger than their ships. Once they were damaged, they would be caught. In the boarding battle, Ming ships are no match for Western ships.

Two warships of [-] materials came with the wind, and the bow of the low-pressure ship was like a bird passing over the flank of the Pitta, which had blasted out the stone guns from the bow.

At the same time, three Spanish warships, which were turning, also fired broadside salvos.

It is worth mentioning that the broadside gun structure of Spanish ships, most of them do not have broadside guns on merchant ships, only equipped with some swivel guns, that is, light Francois machines, this kind of small iron guns forged with iron hammers mostly come from small Spanish ships The blacksmith workshop is cheap and can be armed in large quantities.

The broadside guns of warships are mostly made of copper, with excellent performance and high cost. They are mixed with cast iron guns purchased from the Netherlands. They use wooden gun carriages uniformly. There are two small wheels at the front and two elongated sleds at the back without wheels. The breech stock is used to reduce the recoil.

This is the tailstock of a field gun. It can be mounted on horses and horses to move quickly during land battles, but it will obviously lead to slow loading after the artillery is fired on a ship. Sailors must first lift the tailstock manually, pull the gun out, and then clean the barrel. , Loading shells.

In fact the broadsides of Spanish warships were never intended to be loaded in battle.

Artillery, what's the use after firing it for a while?In any case, it is still necessary to rely on boarding to win.

Liang Bozhen didn't have time to observe the damage caused by his own artillery shells to the enemy. When he saw the flames of the enemy ship's guns bursting out at sea, he shouted for his subordinates to take cover.

The chance of the stone-shooting cannon hitting the warship is so small that it can be ignored, but the lethality of the Francophone and the broadside can't be ignored. His words fell short, and the sound of the cannon piercing the sail and smashing into the freeboard hit his ears. .

More than [-] shells, large and small, swept across the sides of the two open ships like a gust of wind. Liang Bozhen didn't dare to stand upright to watch the hit, but he still heard the Nanyang veterans on the watchtower report loudly: "General, nine hits have been hit!" The enemy ship was unscathed, two hit the deck and one hit the forecastle!"

Only nine shots?
Liang Bozhen scolded: "They fired more than a dozen cannons on my boat, hurry up and let General Qi deal with them!"

With an order, the ship immediately turned the rudder, and before leaving, it swayed and bombarded the starboard side artillery on the sea area where the four western ships gathered, and then the two open ships fled.

The two Spanish ships, including the Pita ship, fired their stern shotguns unwillingly. The shells chased the tail of the open ship and fell into the waves, and the angry shouts of the Spaniards sounded from the coast.

"Why would I cut the anchor if I hit and run?"

The fighting power of the Ming army fleet spread so miraculously in the New World that the squadron captain Pars was so frightened that he wanted to run away when he saw two warships smaller than them.

It's easy for you to run, but my ship has no main anchor. How can it dock in a ghostly place like Devil's Island where thirteen islands don't have a harbor?

After cursing a few words, Pals looked back at his subordinates on the deck and ordered: "In any case, it is lucky for us that they left. Count the casualties, check the damage to the hull, and call the legion infantry on the shore back. Food and fresh water, we can't stay here for long."

"Quick, quick, move! With luck, we can still catch up with them!"

The open ship came faster and left faster, as if it had never been there except for the shells and the corpses on the deck. In just a moment, the statistics of the wounded on the attacked Peeta were counted by the officers on the ship.

"Seven sailors and twelve infantrymen were killed in the bombardment, and the head of an unlucky seamstress was blown off, and a knight's arm was broken."

Pals frowned, expressing dissatisfaction with the officer's detailed injury report, and then heard about the ship's damage: "The damage to the foremast needs to be reinforced, and the barrel of the No. [-] gun on the lower level It was smashed crookedly, and only one cannonball almost penetrated the hull, but it was inlaid on the ship plank, so as long as the carpentry is sealed, it will not affect the navigation."

"Where are their cannons?" Pars asked, "What kind of shells are they?"

"They hit us with two types of solid iron, nearly six pounds and twelve pounds, but a little heavier."

Pals nodded slowly, straightened the shirt under the half-armor and nodded to the officer, "Understood, go do what you should do."

After the officer left, he said with emotion to the army captain on board and his adjutant: "As rumored, the warships of the Ming Dynasty have heavy guns and fast boats, and they have a huge advantage in long-distance battles of half a league."

The information about the Ming Ship, the admirals stationed in Lima, could not be more clear, which made Pars look worried, and he asked uncertainly: "Should we continue to pursue?"

The situation of the battle frightened him. If there was only the Peeta, even though their ship was much larger than the Ming ship and had more soldiers than the other two ships, it was not difficult to imagine that they would be caught by the Ming ship when they could not get close quickly. The artillery of the army warship bombarded at least six rounds.

After six rounds of offensive, how many of their heroic army are left. Even if they take over, can the remaining soldiers still win?

"Is the captain also a supporter of the Lima gunboat?"

The sergeant major asked this question. Since Ming Xilin came to the naval battle, a voice gradually appeared among Lima admirals, hoping that the warship would be improved in the direction of light and heavy artillery, but it failed due to huge resistance.

The biggest resistance obviously comes from the Army and the status quo of going back and forth between the old and new continents.

"Don't worry, captain. We have four warships. As long as we survive the first two rounds of artillery fire, we will be able to kill them in front of them. It will be too late to run away, not to mention the stone-shooting cannon. They are very afraid of this weapon."

"The Ming army has always relied on more fleets than ours, and they have always used more to fight the few. Such artillery has advantages, but when the number is the same or when we are more, their small boats are useless, even the hulls are damaged. Not broken, as long as the infantry is careful."

"Besides...they were also blown here by the storm, right? There are only two small islands to the east, they must be there, and the direction they left is the smaller one."

"This war has already begun!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)