Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 94 Minghe Naval Battle ([-])

Le Maire's flagship also joined the ranks of fleeing. Although the damaged sails have been repaired to a certain extent, it is impossible to restore them in a short time.

Therefore, the speed of the flagship was inevitably affected by the speed, and as a flagship, it was so conspicuous that it was targeted by three warships of the new army.

One of them was Ye Dacheng's flagship. He ordered the other two warships to pursue other targets, and he personally commanded the flagship to start the pursuit.

Le Maire's flagship was injured at the beginning, so it stayed behind and a little farther away.

After giving the retreat order, he knew that he was slow, so he started to run away immediately.

But Ye Dacheng's flagship is intact, and its speed is obviously faster than that of the injured Le Maire's flagship.

"Damn it, they're coming after them."

"That's the enemy flagship, bastard."

"Fire and sink it for me..."

Le Maire no longer cared so much. For him, if he couldn't get close to the warships of the new army, the distance of 1000 meters or 2000 meters was almost the same.

However, because they were turning around and fleeing, most of the cannons on the bow and side were unable to play a role, mainly relying on the few cannons on the upper deck near the stern to exert their power.

At a distance of less than 2000 meters, the range is no problem for guns over 18 pounds, and it can go farther if it is lobbed.

But in the case of lob shots, the farther the distance is, the greater the displacement of the ballistic drop will be. If it exceeds 1000 meters, the ballistic drop will not exceed tens of meters, and it is still at sea, so it is difficult to control the accuracy.

The best way to control accuracy is flat shooting, and flat shooting can only be done within a few hundred meters.

This is also the main reason why in mainstream naval battles, operations are often conducted at a distance of two to 300 meters or even closer.

The new army was able to shoot horizontally from a distance of a thousand meters. This was a completely unexpected accident. Coupled with the reason of the rate of fire, if Le Maire failed to succeed in the sneak attack, failure was doomed.

"Boom boom boom..." 18-pound, 24-pound and even 36-pound solid iron bullets roared and flew out, smashing water jets on the distant water surface.

But the deviation is really far, more than [-] meters.

Ye Dacheng did not rush to fight back, after all, the distance was still a bit far, more than 500 meters.

As for the bombardment of the enemy ships, Ye Dacheng didn't care too much.

Several cannons, with such a slow rate of fire, and at such a long distance, if they were hit, it would only be their bad luck to blame.

Le Maire didn't care about it. For him, if he couldn't get rid of Ye Dacheng's pursuit, no matter how many artillery and shells he had, it would be useless.

And now this kind of bombardment, which is completely dependent on luck, is also his only means of resistance.

"Boom boom boom..." After one round was loaded, they fired quickly, and then proceeded to the next round.

What frustrates those gunners is that in the previous battle, they failed to grab the upper hand.

Now when they were running away, they had the upper hand, but in this case, every time they shelled, the smoke from the muzzle would be blown towards them by the sea breeze.

In just two rounds of shelling, everyone was ashamed like refugees.

It didn't look like they were shelling other people, but it looked like they had been shelled.

Le Maire also came to the stern because he was going to be in command, and his face was also covered with a layer of black ash, which was very funny.

Kele Maier didn't care about this, his eyes were fixed on the flagship of the new army that was chasing after him.

Seeing that none of the shots hit, Le Maire looked ferocious, and became more and more frustrated. He kept urging the gunner to speed up, just to be able to shell as many rounds as possible.

In the chasing and fleeing here, the other directions have already been in full swing. A Dutch warship of more than [-] tons was besieged by two new army warships of only more than [-] tons.

The two warships of the new army are in the shape of horns, and they are respectively at the upper left and upper right of the warship of the Dutch army about a thousand meters away. In the shooting angle of the army warship.

With a bang, a shell finally hit it.

The shells were violently poured into the hull from the rear third of the starboard side of the stern, rushed all the way to the bow third of the second deck, and just happened to wreak havoc on the central core area of ​​the second deck.

Broken shrapnel and raging flames vented in the enclosed space, and flames and black smoke spewed out from the shooting holes.

The ammunition box was overturned by the powerful shock wave, and the solid iron bullets inside were scattered on the deck, and quickly rolled around, rolling over the corpses of the dead and the bodies of the wounded.

"Ah..." A wounded man's palm was just crushed by a 24-pound iron bullet, and he could not help but let out a scream.

There was also a person lying on the deck screaming, only to see a black shadow rapidly enlarged in his pupils, but there was no time to dodge it.

With a bang, his head was hit by his own iron bullet, and then there was no sound, and he didn't know if he was dead or passed out.

At this time, the second deck was in a mess, and there were few gunners who could stand. Blood was flowing on the deck, flowing downward from the cracks in the broken deck.

The wounded who were still alive with shrapnel stuck in their bodies were crying in pain, full of helplessness.

The flames caused by the explosion of the shell burned blazingly in the cabin, and the thick smoke spread rapidly, and could only be discharged from the perforation and the passage leading to the upper deck, but the speed of the discharge was far behind the speed of the thick smoke.

The wounded who couldn't move were once again suffering more painfully, coughing non-stop, and bursts of frightening suffocation hit.

At this time, the people on the upper deck had rushed down from the panic, but seeing the fire and smoke in this scene, they were desperate.

However, if the fire is not extinguished, no one will survive in the end. Several officers frantically urged to put out the fire.

Fortunately, the fire has not ignited the propellant in the cabin, otherwise, everyone will hang up and go to hell.

However, the warships of the new army did not seem to be willing to give up easily. The two warships continued to shell and had already been severely damaged. The Dutch warships whose speed had dropped greatly could only be beaten passively.

The captain was terrified, knowing that if this situation continued, his warship might be doomed at any time, so he couldn't care about anything else, so he had to order surrender.

After a while, several white flags were waving on the upper deck, indicating that the Dutch warship finally couldn't hold on and surrendered first.

However, it was the first time for the two warships of the new army to face the situation of the enemy surrendering, and they were foreigners, so they didn't know how to deal with it for a while, and they were afraid that there would be fraud.

In case the other party just wants to deceive himself, and then launch a surprise attack when he gets close, it will be more dangerous. This possibility is not impossible.

The captains of the two warships had the same idea and wanted to discuss countermeasures with each other. After a brief communication with semaphore, the two warships approached each other.

After the two captains communicated at close range, it was decided that one of the warships would monitor here, and the other warship would assist other friendly ships.

As for how to deal with this surrendered enemy ship, let's report to the battalion commander after the battle is over.

Next, the warships of the Dutch army that could not escape or fight one after another chose to surrender, and most of the warships of the new army chose to wait and watch and monitor temporarily.

The captains of two warships saw their own small boats nearby, so they called the small boats over and asked them to accept the opponent's surrender.

The boat moved forward immediately, and was not attacked by the opponent. More than a dozen soldiers equipped with light weapons boarded the opponent's warship and immediately controlled the ship.

The language barrier between the two sides, after some gestures, simply accepted the surrender of the opposing captain.

Because there were more than 100 people on the other side's ship, except for the captain and some operators, the others were driven to the upper deck and tied up, so as not to take the opportunity to make trouble.

Then the squad leader of the new army signaled the opponent to keep up with his big ship, and just like that, the first warship of the Dutch army was officially captured.

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