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The sky is falling, but someone tall is holding it up
(0823)
Chen Zhan knew very well that Xu Xingxia regarded the Dutch as the main opponents of the White Army Navy for some unknown reason. The basic strategy of the entire White Army Navy is to mainly attack the Dutch. On the basis of focusing on attacking the Dutch, we also attacked other Western powers. Therefore, since the Fourth Fleet has encountered the Dutch pirate fleet, it must not let it go. If these pirate fleets are killed, the Dutch Navy will suffer a lot.
As the combat orders were issued, the flag carriers on the flagship continued to wave flags of various shapes and colors to accurately convey the commander's orders. The other warships also have semaphores constantly feeding back various information. Soon, all kinds of warships began to quickly adjust their queues, and everything was ready.
The Fourth Fleet is equipped with a total of twelve Taishan-class battleships and four Wutaishan-class battleships. In large-scale naval battles, the sturdy and durable Wutaishan-class battleships with fierce firepower are the main force. The Taishan-class battleship mainly plays a supporting role.
However, what the Fourth Fleet is currently facing is the pirate fleet. The tonnage and number of warships in this pirate fleet are inferior to those of the Fourth Fleet. Therefore, Taishan-class battleships also have the opportunity to perform. Each Taishan-class battleship can also be used as the main force. This is indeed a rare opportunity for the officers and soldiers on the Taishan-class battleship.
Of course, Chen Zhan does not dare to take it lightly. He is very clear about the advantages of the white army and navy, and he is also very clear about the disadvantages of the white army and navy. The Dutch were able to travel across the sea and become sea coachmen, which must be extraordinary. As a rising star, the White Army Navy still has a lot to learn from the Dutch. Learn from the barbarians and use their skills to control them! Therefore, he emphasized in his order that the enemy must not be underestimated.
"Kill them!"
"Prepare for boarding battle!"
Esco roared with a ferocious expression.
He was already impatient and wanted to start a fight immediately.
He wanted wholeheartedly to eat up the navy squadron of the White Army in front of him.
With so many brand-new warships, if they could be captured, the results would be too great.
"The best way to capture the opponent's warship is of course to engage in a boarding battle. The boarding battle was a hand-to-hand battle. The warships on both sides were tightly entwined. The sailors on both sides used various methods to completely eliminate the other side from the body. This is the most primitive and bloody way of fighting on the sea. It is definitely a huge challenge to the courage of sailors.
Esco has one hundred reasons to believe that as long as the two armies engage in a side-to-side battle, they will definitely be able to defeat their opponents. Esco has enough confidence in his men's ability to engage in boarding battles. What is the pirate fleet best at? Of course it's a boarding battle. Normally, Esco has very strict requirements on the hand-to-hand combat abilities of his subordinates.
If you want to engage in a boarding battle, you must first close the distance with the opponent and tightly entangle the ships of both sides. Therefore, Esco ordered to quickly shorten the distance with the White Army Navy. Before carrying out the bombardment, he wanted to shorten the distance between the two sides to within 300 meters. In general naval battles, three hundred meters is the most suitable bombardment distance.
??Obviously, the navy in white has no intention of giving in to the rapid approach of the pirate fleet. On the contrary, the warships of the White Army Navy are also constantly approaching the pirate warships. The distance between the two sides continues to shorten. Soon, it shortened to about 1,500 meters. At this distance, many details can be observed with the naked eye.
"Each ship is free to fire!"
Chen Zhan quickly issued the bombardment order.
¡°Dong dong dong!¡±
The cannon of the first battleship of the White Army Navy opened fire first.
The cannonballs roared out of the cannon barrel one after another and flew towards the pirate fleet like lightning.
Due to the recoil, the battleships of the White Army Navy cannot launch salvos. All cannons must be fired at staggered intervals. This gave the pirates the illusion that the artillery fire from the White Navy warships was not actually violent. Many pirates felt that the White Army Navy did not have many cannons and the power of the bombardment was not great.
In fact, if calculated purely based on the number of cannons, all the cannons of the Fourth Fleet of the White Army Navy are less than one-third of the pirate fleet. In this era where the combat effectiveness of battleships is generally measured by the tonnage of battleships and the number of cannons, the number of cannons equipped by the White Army Navy is indeed a bit unusual.
If measured by general standards, all the warships of the White Army Navy can only be called armed merchant ships, not warships. Fortunately, the cannons of the White Army Navy have a long range and are powerful, which can greatly make up for the lack of cannon numbers.
¡°Puff puff puff!¡±
"Boom!"
¡°Whoa, whoa, whoa!¡±
The first wave of cannonballs landed near the pirate fleet, stirring up a lot of water and making the entire sea seem to boil. The sea water kept surging, as if there were invisible big hands pushing the waves hard. As more cannonballs fell, the entire sea slowly became rough as if a strong wind had arisen.
The shells fired by the White Army Navy can explode smoothly even in sea water. The cannonball exploded in the seawater, and the energy could not be released effectively. It could only push up the surrounding seawater. The explosion of each shell stirred up the sea. The impact caused by the explosion changed the color of the sea water.
"Huh?"
Esko frowned quietly.
He had a lot of combat experience and immediately realized something was wrong.
All the artillery shells fired by the navy in white fell around his pirate fleet. The closest one to the battleship was not even fifty meters away. Such a hit rate is very surprising. He wouldn't be surprised if only some of the shells landed so close. However, with so many shells landing so close together, he felt something was wrong.
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????¡ The first round of bombardment by the white-coated navy had already read a lot of information in his eyes.
"Your Excellency, General, something seems wrong"
Not only Esco saw it, but his adjutant also saw it.
His adjutant is also a top student of the Dutch Navy. He is also very experienced in various combats and has quite good eyesight. Judging from the impact point of the cannonballs, the white-coated navy's artillery bombardment skills are quite superb. It is really surprising that so many cannonballs landed so neatly. Although these did not hit the pirate fleet, the skill of this bombardment was enough to make them increase their vigilance by twelve points.
Everyone knows that naval bombardment is the most difficult to train. For a gunner, it is impossible to maintain a certain hit rate without three to five years of immersion. If you want to become an excellent gunner, it will take at least ten years. Many naval gunners are older because they need a lot of time to accumulate experience.
For a powerful navy, the most important asset is not warships, but excellent officers and soldiers, including sailors and sailors. If a navy does not have a group of excellent gunners, it is impossible to have strong combat effectiveness. On the other hand, if a navy has a large number of excellent gunners, it must be a powerful navy.
From this perspective, it seems that the power of the White Army Navy no longer needs to be proven. Because even if the main fleet of the Dutch Navy arrives, it will not be able to fire such accurate shells at such a long distance. The British's artillery skills were originally the best, but there seemed to be a big gap compared to the white-coated navy.
"Your Majesty General, I suggest that we retreat temporarily" the adjutant said in a low voice.
The first wave of artillery shells from the White Army Navy was so close that it almost hit the pirate warship. After correcting the error, the second wave of shells might hit directly. The adjutant's suggestion was to avoid running headlong into the artillery fire of the white-coated navy. If they were violently bombarded before they entered the range of the pirate fleet's own cannons, I'm afraid the pirate fleet's own losses would certainly not be small.
Judging from the explosive power of the shells dropped by the White Army Navy, everything in the rumors has become a reality. The artillery shells of the White Army Navy are indeed very powerful, so powerful that even the sea water cannot resist its power. Poor Sorum was indeed sunk directly by the cannonballs of the White Army Navy. The Esko Pirate Fleet cannot make the same mistakes again.
Esco had a sullen face, said nothing, and held his saber tightly.
Indeed, the first round of shelling by the White Army Navy gave him a moderate disincentive. He had to admit that the artillery skills of the white army and navy were indeed superior to theirs. If he ordered to continue advancing, he would indeed suffer considerable losses. It seems that this opponent cannot be underestimated! No wonder Solum would give up his life.
He felt very strange. How did the unknown White Army Navy train such a group of excellent gunners? Esko relied on his own experience to judge that the gunners of the White Army Navy had at least ten years of combat experience. Maybe, more than twenty years. Because, without such a long period of time, their bombardment skills would not be so powerful!
"However, if the army and navy in white clothes??Twenty years ago, we started training gunners. They will definitely not become unknown. Because the training of gunners cannot be completed on the shore, nor can it be done in exercises. Excellent gunners must be trained through actual combat, brutal actual combat, and repeated actual combat.
However, Esco has never heard of the existence of the White Army Navy in the north of Nanyang. The Ming Navy under the Ming Empire was nothing in the eyes of the Dutch. To say that the White Army Navy evolved from the Ming Dynasty Navy, Esko would not believe it under any circumstances. Countless questions lingered in Esco's mind, and he felt like he was going crazy. No way, there are too many weird questions that I can't figure out.
Esco didn¡¯t know that the reason why the White Navy¡¯s bombardment was so accurate was not because of the high quality of the officers and soldiers, but because of the application of some new technologies. Among them, the ones that play the biggest role are the rangefinder and the angle meter.
The cannons of the past either hit too far or too close. Just judging the shooting distance requires countless efforts. Even with the help of a telescope, it is impossible to effectively judge. After the invention of the rangefinder, these shortcomings no longer exist.
The use of rangefinders has a very good corrective effect on the cannon firing of the White Army Navy. Measuring distance with an instrument is much more reliable than with the naked eye. Especially on the sea surface where there are few reference objects, judgments made by the naked eye often make mistakes. Even an extremely experienced gunner cannot effectively control the error.
At the same time, instruments such as angle meters are constantly being put into actual combat to help gunners accurately measure the angle of shelling. The angle meter also plays a huge role, which is to correct the advance of the artillery strike. This is crucial for the impact point of the cannonball. After all, in naval battles, battleships are all moving, and advance calculations must be calculated to achieve accurate hits.
With the help of instruments such as rangefinders and angle rulers, the White Army Navy still has considerable advantages in shelling. Even a novice can control the impact point of the cannonball relatively accurately with the help of instruments. Even if there is an error, it is not too far off.
Of course, the biggest advantage of the White Army Navy is explosive bombs. Powerful explosive shells can severely damage enemy warships with just one shell. This ensures the destructive capability of the White Army Navy. No matter how fierce your artillery fire is, as long as you are hit by one of my rounds, you will basically lose the ability to fight.
"Boom!"
¡°Whoa, whoa, whoa!¡±
?? Continuous shells fell into the sea water, making terrible loud noises.
The water column stirred up by the explosion was more than ten meters high. Sometimes several consecutive shells explode in the same sea area, and the water jets stirred up are even more terrifying. A large amount of seawater, like a downpour, poured on the deck of the pirate warship, ruthlessly washing everything on the deck into the seawater.
Such powerful power made all the pirates shudder uncontrollably. They are not idiots, so they naturally know how destructive these shells are. The power of the explosion in sea water is so powerful. What if it exploded on a ship? I'm afraid that with just one shot, the entire battleship will be shattered.
Pirates are pirates after all, and the largest warship equipped only has a displacement of about 500 tons. The navies of various countries are reluctant to use warships with a displacement of more than 600 tons for pirates. Even these pirates are actually variants of the navy.
A five-hundred-ton warship can survive for a while when faced with solid bullets or shotgun shells. However, it is more dangerous when facing explosive bombs with powerful destructive power. If he is really hit by an explosive bomb, the consequences will be very serious.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a pirate warship burst into flames.
But it was a cannonball from the White Army Navy that accurately hit its deck.
There is no doubt that this wooden warship with a displacement of only about 400 tons cannot withstand a heavy hit from a 75mm howitzer. The shell exploded on the deck, blasting a huge gap in the deck and almost breaking the pirate warship into two pieces. The cabin below was also in a mess. A large number of sailors died and the entire cabin collapsed.
Although this pirate warship has not sunk yet and continues to float on the sea, there is no doubt that it has completely lost its combat effectiveness. The only thing the pirates can do now is to desperately evacuate the battlefield and get out of the artillery range of the White Army Navy. As for whether it will sink, it depends on the damage control capabilities of the ship.
"Damn it!" Esco couldn't help but curse.
Why are the cannonballs of the White Army Navy so powerful? After all, it is a battleship with a displacement of 400 tons. How come it was hit by a cannonball and ended up like this???If it is a solid bullet or shotgun, even if it is hit by hundreds of rounds, there will be no problem!
"Boom!"
Before Esco could react, suddenly, there was another loud noise. He hurriedly turned around and saw that another pirate warship had been hit and suffered huge damage. The masts of this pirate warship were blown off, and the sails fell down and penetrated deeply into the sea water, dragging the warship to a serious tilt. The sailors on the pirate ship realized something was wrong and jumped into the water to escape. For a time, the entire sea surface was in a state of chaos.
¡°Hululu!¡±
Suddenly, another cannonball hit the group of fleeing sailors, making a loud noise. The cannonball exploded in the seawater, stirring up a large number of water columns, and the sea surface was violently surged, as if some devil was about to appear underneath.
After a while, the sea gradually calmed down. However, the sailors in the seawater were all shocked to death. Their corpses floated on the sea, drifting with the current, and slowly drifted further to the sea along with a large amount of debris.
Due to the large amount of blood poured out, the sea surface in the battle area was dyed dark red. The seawater stirred up by the shells onto the deck was also dark red, with a strong smell of blood. No one knows how much blood the pirates have poured into the sea. Likewise, no one knows how much blood the pirates will continue to pour into the sea.
The initiative on the battlefield is completely in the hands of the navy in white. If the pirate fleet continues to fight, they will only continue to bleed until all their own blood is drained.
"Retreat!"
Esco gave the order decisively.
If he continues like this, he will follow Sorum's footsteps.
The power of the artillery fire of the White Army Navy was indeed too powerful, and he had no way to resist it. If he continues to fight, his losses will be greater. It is even possible that the whole army will be annihilated. If the pirate fleet is gone, he, the "pirate" leader, will probably be sad in the future. If it doesn't work out, you'll have to go to a military court.
These damn white-coated navy soldiers seem to be a bit evil. Before finding out their details, Esco decided not to take any more risks. Anyway, if the sky falls, there will be tall people holding it up. The white-coated army and navy, let the high-level people have a headache!
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