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Chapter 173 Armor Piercing Bullets

"Boom, boom, boom..." On the starboard side of the naval battleship of the new army, blue smoke rose from the muzzle positions of each gun, indicating that a shell was fired from these gun positions just now.

A shell weighing more than twenty catties fell on the deck of an enemy ship, like a meteorite from the sky.

With a bang, the three soldiers on the deck were smashed into a pulp on the spot, and then they pierced the deck fiercely, fell into the cabin, and wreaked havoc in the cabin.

This ship was not the most unlucky. On another large ship with more than [-] materials, a shell weighing more than [-] catties hit the upper left corner of the bow with a bang, creating a big gap.

The shells did not stop, and continued to rush onto the deck rapidly. This fast, big iron ball almost rushed from the bow to the stern in a rampage.

Along the way, no matter whether it was flesh and blood or hard obstacles, they were all easily pushed away by him.

The sound of impacts continued, and soldiers were directly smashed into meat, the railings were broken, the ammunition boxes were smashed, and the deck was a mess.

The wounded were howling, and the uninjured were still in shock.

At this moment, two black cannonballs whirled and rushed towards them side by side.

A soldier on the deck didn't have time to react, and suddenly his whole head flew out, and blood shot out from the broken neck like a fountain.

However, the shell did not stop at all, and passed by again, without directly hitting the mast, but the foremast broke with a click.

It turned out that the two shells were actually connected by an iron chain.

Under the high-speed flying, this iron chain is sharper than a sharp knife, it can cut the human body, and it can also cut all obstacles such as masts.

This type of shell, called a chain shell, has the primary goal of breaking the mast of an enemy ship.

During the war, the break of the mast will naturally have a huge impact on the entire ship.

There is also a kind of shotgun, which is filled with a large number of small projectiles. After the gunpowder is ignited and fired, these small projectiles will fly out like celestial maidens scattered flowers, without any rules.

A Zheng army ship, which was less than 30 meters away from the large ship of the new army, forcibly withstood two shots.

Small projectiles the size of eyes almost swept across the entire deck, easily piercing through the human body.

For a while, most of the soldiers and crew members who stayed on the deck were killed or injured, which was very miserable.

"Ah..." The howling of ghosts and wolves came one after another, and the blood flowed continuously on the deck and seeped into the cabin.

Especially those small boats that tried their best to get closer, under one shot, almost the entire crew of the boat suffered disaster.

Because the small boat is much lower than the big boat, the artillery of the new army shoots condescendingly, and the shotgun can easily cover the whole boat. The hiding space of the small boat is limited, and it is almost inevitable.

The gunpowder carried on some small boats was detonated, and instead of hitting the warships of the new army, they blew themselves to pieces.

Zheng Zhilong also thought that these small boats could play the same role as the new army's assault boats, and also imagined that the new army blew up the Dutch warship last time.

But how did he know that black powder is different from the explosives used by the new army. The explosive sensitivity of black powder is much stronger and it can be easily detonated.

And the explosive package will not be detonated if it is hit by a shotgun or other solid ammunition.

Another very important point is that the current firepower of the warships of the new army is stronger than that of the Dutch.

It's not that this thirty-ship fleet is equipped with more artillery than the Dutch, but that the battle line formation can well maximize the firepower output of the new army.

Therefore, the seemingly long line of the Navy of the New Army is easily cut off.

But after some attempts, the soldiers of the Zheng Jun Navy felt that this line was harder than a copper wall, which made them bleed.

This is not a simple line, but a poisonous snake in the sea.

Of course, their efforts were not useless, at least they bought some time, and the scattered formation was gathered a lot, and the whole team was ready to launch a more violent attack.

At this moment, a few signal bombs were launched into the air, and the long line of the new army's navy began to swim like a water snake, pulling away from the warship of the Zheng army's navy, which was about to evacuate.

After finally approaching such a short distance, Zheng Jun's navy was naturally unwilling to let the new army's navy escape again.

Ye Dacheng, who was sweeping the formation on one side, took the remaining warships into action himself, and set up a line of battle in the other direction. This line just formed an angle of about [-] degrees with the line of the other team. .

At this time, Zheng Jun's navy was approaching the other team, and the flanks were naturally exposed to Ye Dacheng's line of sight.

With a "boom", the German 88mm anti-aircraft gun on Ye Dacheng's flagship fired. This is definitely the well-deserved main gun on the flagship.

With a burst of flames, the cannonballs flew out almost in a straight line.

The front half of the hull of the first enemy ship was directly penetrated like paper.

As soon as it passed, the cannonball actually flew out from the other side of the hull, and then continued to fly forward at a rapid speed, hitting the hull of the second bow boat that was speeding side by side.

Without exception, the second ship was hit to the core. It is incredible that the shells still did not stop and continued to fly forward.

And along the way, there was no lack of ships blocking the way. It didn't stop until it pierced through four ships and slammed into the fifth ship. The warhead fell into the sea.

Of course, it's slow to say, all this happened in a flash, and even the five ships that were hit were not sure what happened.

I only felt that the whole warship was hit by a huge force and heard a loud noise.

The whole ship seemed to be pushed violently by a huge force, and the course suddenly deviated, and the soldiers and crew on the deck fell like wheels.

When I came back to my senses, I found that the hull of the ship had been chiseled in half, which was extremely terrifying.

The soldiers on the two adjacent ships looked at me, I looked at you, and looked at each other's ships. The big bright hole was very eye-catching, and their faces were full of incredible fear.

Ye Dacheng didn't know how many ships he had penetrated with this shell, but he saw that at least two ships had been penetrated, so he was quite satisfied, and quickly ordered: "Continue to use armor-piercing shells."

Yes, it was the effect of an armor-piercing bullet just now.

You know, an 88mm anti-aircraft gun can easily penetrate more than [-]mm of tank frontal armor at a distance of about two miles.

These wooden boats are naturally like paper in front of such fierce weapons.

However, this is the first time that an 88mm anti-aircraft gun has used armor-piercing projectiles in actual combat. The reason is very simple. Only in such a big battle can the power of armor-piercing projectiles be fully utilized.

The fleet of the Zheng Jun navy is too large and dense, and it can hit several ships with one shot.

If Zheng Jun's navy also put up a battle line formation, it would not be cost-effective to use armor-piercing projectiles, and one shot would hit at most one enemy ship.

Armor-piercing bullets mainly have armor-piercing effects, and there are no high-explosive shrapnel to cause damage. Therefore, in the last battle with the Dutch, high-explosive bullets were mainly used.

High-explosive bombs are used well, and one shell may directly destroy an enemy ship.

The flying shrapnel can also kill and injure a large number of people on board, and the deflagration effect may also ignite the gunpowder on board.

The Dutch suffered this kind of loss.

The situation is different now. Zheng Jun's fleet is much larger and denser than the Dutch fleet in the last Naval Battle in Nan'ao, and it is sideways facing itself.

A high-explosive shell may destroy a ship in one shot, but a single armor-piercing shell can severely damage several enemy ships.

Moreover, the ships of Zheng Jun's navy were much smaller than those of the Dutch, and Ye Dacheng was not happy to exchange one high-explosive bomb for an enemy ship.

So in comparison, he still thinks it is more cost-effective to use armor-piercing bullets.

(End of this chapter)