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Volume 1 Chapter 87 Naval Battle 1

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    Here, the Dutch warship suddenly became busy. They were raising the sails and loading the bombs. They were all sitting hard and preparing to attack the warship that dared to run out alone.

    On the shore, the offensive and defensive sides were also making adjustments. The sudden appearance of the Dafeng put a lot of pressure on the Dutch who were performing harassment tasks. They slowly retreated to the beach, planning to wait for their own  The battleship sank the lone battleship, and then pursued the victory.  [bsp; When Liang Yong, who had been on the defensive, saw the Dafeng appear, he immediately launched a general mobilization; he dropped all the reserves and militiamen, also preparing to board the Dafeng after the Dafeng had killed the enemy's sailing battleship.  Victory attacked and drove all the Dutch on the beach into the sea.

    For a moment, all eyes were focused on the sea

    Battleships of this era were basically all sailing battleships built of wood, sometimes covered with copper below the waterline.  The power is a sail, and the weapon is a muzzle-loading cannon, which fires round projectiles used to destroy the hull, as well as anti-personnel shotguns and chain rounds to damage the sails.  Since wind power was used as the driving force at that time, and the powerful range of single-ship artillery was not enough to cause effective damage to an enemy ship, all combat warships were arranged in a line for combat.  Or they can sail closely together in the same direction, send sharp sailors, forcibly board the enemy's ship and kill all the enemy's active forces, or completely destroy the enemy's sails and cause them to lose power.  In this era, whoever has more warships, bigger warships, more cannons, and more sailors will be more powerful.  It is rare for less to win over more.

    What Matthew did now was to line up the warships. The moment they passed by the opponent's warships, nine warships opened fire one after another.  When he thought about it, there were nine first-class battleships, each with more than fifty cannons on one side. It only took one chance to make a mistake, and the side of the opponent's battleship was riddled with holes, losing the ability to continue fighting.  ability.

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    In front of the command platform, Wu Yiping watched the enemies forming a column and rushing toward him, and held back his mouth in disdain. Such tactics can indeed bring out the greatest power of the sail warship. If it is against other enemies, it will definitely make them run away with their heads covered.  But their opponent is the steel battleship Dafeng.

    The Dafeng is originally taller than the sailing battleship, so when it passes by, the enemy's artillery can only hit one side of the hull. Once these lead bullets, which are a huge threat to wood, encounter the Dafeng, whose side armor reaches 90 mm,  , will completely lose its power.

    "What a pity!" Wu Yiping shook his head and sighed to Carlos beside him: "Originally, I had good intentions and wanted you to save fewer people from dying, but it's a pity that you Dutch people are too arrogant and arrogant"

    After speaking, he turned back and said loudly: "Helmsman, right rudder 0.5 degrees, correct navigation, we will miss the enemy from the right. Ultimate crossbow, all medium crossbows, free attack"

    "Some people on the deck are paying attention and preparing rockets. After the enemy ship enters the range, attack the enemy's sail with all its strength"

    After Wu Yiping gave the order, he suddenly felt a little depressed; he felt worthless for this battleship A cruiser from World War II, because it had no weapons, was now reduced to being like a sailing battleship, relying on its body.  A moment later, using the sailors on the deck to attack the enemy ship What a failure!  !

    Although Wu Yiping was disappointed, his subordinates were extremely excited and followed his orders.  The ultimate crossbow on the front deck was fired again. Now the enemy's sail has been completely raised, so this time it fired chain bombs, which can damage the enemy's sail to the maximum extent.

    I saw the ultimate crossbow vibrating fiercely, and eighteen black shadows flew out with a whoosh. Then under the action of inertia, the eighteen black shadows slowly unfolded, like eighteen black roses, fiercely moving towards  The first battleship moved away.

    These chain bombs were expanded into a cross shape. The chain was two meters long, and each end was an iron ball weighing two kilograms With a "click", the iron ball easily penetrated the sail, but this was just the beginning.  The iron ball's iron chain turned into the sharpest long knife at this time.

    "Crash!" The sound of countless tearing strips of cloth sounded, and the sail of the first battleship was suddenly full of holes.  The speed of the battleship began to decrease

    "The lead ship was attacked 50% of the sails were damaged, six sailmen were killed, the bow sail was stuck, repairs are being carried out, and it is expected to take thirty minutes! The speed of the lead ship dropped"

    Countless bad news spread to the flagship in the middle.

    "Damn it" Matthew ripped open the collar of the aristocratic dress, spat in a very dishonorable manner, and then said fiercely: "Flagman, order the first ship to turn to starboard. The other battleships maintain speed, order,  The artilleryman enters the attack position and fires freely"

    Matthew did not expect that this huge battleship was actually equipped with a device that could go along the ship.Fortunately, only the first battleship was damaged by the weapon fired But this thought had just occurred to him. Less than thirty seconds after the last attack, another eighteen groups of black shadows flew over.  

    "Damn it! Faster, faster!!" Matthew kept urging. Two consecutive attacks caused his two warships to lose part of their power and couldn't keep up with the rhythm. He was so angry that his eyes turned red; Ma  Xiu swore fiercely in his heart that he would send the enemy to the bottom of the sea to feed the sharks. Before his eyes, he seemed to have seen the scene of the enemy ship being beaten to pieces by him and riddled with holes; he could imagine that Bunuco  How wonderful it was when the Governor praised him after knowing that he had sunk the enemy's warships and fed them to the sharks.

    Amid Matthew's roar, the fleet, which had been maintaining its highest speed, rushed straight towards the huge battleship opposite like ferocious beasts from hell

    "Boom, boom, boom!" The lead ship finally made contact with the Dafeng, and its artillery began to roar.  A huge plume of smoke rose in front, and was blown away by the sea breeze.

    "Boom, boom, boom!" The second battleship opened fireand then the third.

    Matthew stood on the side of the ship, trying hard to lean out, trying to see the enemy ship being torn apart.  But there was so much smoke in front of me that I couldn't see clearly.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????: The battleship broke through the sea water and moved very fast, Matthew finally saw the enemy's strange battleship clearly. He couldn't even notice it from a distance, but only when he got closer could he intuitively experience its hugeness.  The ship was like a big mountain, slowly enlarging in front of Matthew's eyes with an unparalleled sense of oppression.

    "It's okay No matter what kind of mountain, in front of my invincible fleet, it will turn into a pile of sawdust. I will be able to see with my own eyes the process of it turning into sawdust" Matthew comforted himself with a sinister smile.

    It was finally his flagship's turn to open fire.  "Boom!" The first shot was fired "Dang!" A strange voice came from Matthew's ears, "Boom, boom, boom!" The dense sound of artillery sounded one after another, becoming one.  "Dang-dang-dang-dang!" was also echoed.

    "This??" Matthew's ferocious smile froze on his face for a moment, replaced by a look of confusion.  "How is this going?"

    The sight of sawdust flying everywhere and riddled with holes in Matthew's imagination did not appear. Instead, the flying lead bullets bounced away with a "dang" sound when they hit the hull. Then these lead bullets seemed to be boiled glutinous rice balls.  The same "plop, plop, all fell into the sea."

    "Wow!"

    On the messy deck, not only Matthew was surprised, but other people who saw what was happening in front of him also exclaimed in unison, and then opened their mouths, unable to compare.

    "God! What is that?" Matthew's eyes were straight, staring at one place, and he didn't even notice the countless rockets flying from the opponent's warship and shooting at his sail.

    At the moment when he passed by, Matthew saw the side of the opponent's huge warship. A large piece of wood was blown away in one place. It was not the broken wood board that Matthew thought, but a piece of steel-like material was exposed.  thing.

    The battleship had arrived completely by mistake. Matthew mechanically turned his body like a puppet, but his eyes were still fixed on that place.  The battleships behind him opened fire one after another, and countless lead bullets rushed out of the barrels but the result was still the same as what he just saw - the lead bullets bounced off one after another and then fell into the sea.

    "Is there an iron plate inside??" Matthew's eyes were blank. He turned around and grabbed his adjutant Carl tightly, and said hurriedly: "Tell me what did you see? Did you see the iron plate?"

    Karl, who was caught by him, also became demented.  He murmured: "My God, it's iron plate That battleship is made of steel, haha It's steel" As he spoke, Karl laughed crazily

    When the eight warships lined up in a row and passed by the Dafeng, there was almost no change in the Dafeng that they thought would be sunk by them.

    On the contrary, it was their own warships, and only three of the sails on them were intact.  The sails of other warships were lit with fireballs of different sizes, which were getting bigger and bigger under the blowing of the sea breeze.

    But the sailors on these battleships did not go to put out the fire immediately. Instead, they stared blankly at the Dafeng going away.  Everyone had an expression as if they had seen a ghost. They thought that the Dafeng would be very powerful and difficult to deal with. They were even ready to sacrifice one or two battleships to completely destroy the Dafeng.

    But they could never have imagined that eight battleships, a perfect bombardment, and nearly 400 powerful lead bullets would cause no other damage except knocking off some of the Dafeng's bark.

    Matthew clung to the railing of the command podium and allowed the battleship to continue sailing. He did not expect that he would hit such a battleship and encounter such aA powerful enemy.  Now it seems that it is very difficult to defeat the enemy in front of you with just these few battleships.

    "Your Majesty the Earl" His adjutant finally stopped going crazy and asked in a hoarse voice: "Now, what should we do?"

    There was silence in the command room.  Matthew turned his neck, his face covered with dark clouds, thinking hard.

    Ignoring the dazed Dutch warship, the Dafeng, which had a lot of planks ripped off on one side of its hull, drew an arc and began to slowly turn around.  Carlos's annoying voice urging surrender sounded again

    "I am the former governor, Count Carlos. The fleet commander opposite, listen, you must surrender immediately, so that your lives can be guaranteed."
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