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- Li Xiang commanded thirty imperial warships and rushed directly into the center of the battlefield amid the melee. The elite imperial fleet sailors didn't need any instructions from Li Xiang at all, they started the battle skillfully.
"Compared to the sailors of this era, these genetic people cultivated through the virtual world are far ahead of the people of this era in terms of knowledge and other aspects.
Even as sailors, they are still the strongest.
They clean the barrel of the gun in an orderly manner and then load the shells. All processes are very fast. This opened the eyes of Li Xiang and their men, and Li Xiang couldn't help but admire secretly in his heart.
With such elite sailors and sophisticated warships, why worry about not being able to resist Zheng Zhilong.
Even Zheng Zhilong¡¯s subordinates don¡¯t have such elite sailors or sophisticated warships.
The sailors of the Imperial fleet on the deck have been arranged neatly, and they all have flintlock guns in their hands. In such a close combat, there is a high chance of hand-to-hand combat.
Therefore, they must prepare in advance.
Of course, a skilled imperial warship helmsman will try his best to avoid such a situation. After all, although they don't have to be afraid of hand-to-hand combat with their advanced weapons, they should try to avoid it if possible.
The imperial warship is very sophisticated. There are forty-six cannons on both sides of the huge hull. In the process of melee, the maximum destructive power and power can be exerted.
Therefore, they must try their best to give full play to this advantage. Instead of engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
The sailors of the empire are very clear about this.
"Shoot!"
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The artillery in the gun cabin below continued to bombard the enemy ships nearby, and the musketeers on the deck also used their muskets to kill the enemies on the side when they were very close to the enemy.
In short. Use all means available to destroy the enemy. Just go and destroy the enemy.
Peng!
A huge stone fell, hitting the middle of the ship and bouncing. However, no one was hurt, but it also proved to the sailors of the empire that although the warships, tactics and weapons used by their opponents were very ancient, they could also hurt people.
The stone left a mark on the deck, but did not damage it.
The deck of the imperial warship is very strong.
The wood used to build this warship. Taken from a special kind of wood in the Americas, this wood is used to build warships, which can make the warships strong and have stronger defense.
What's more, there are iron plates and iron sheets inlaid on both sides of the warship, which greatly improves the defense of the imperial warship.
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The sound of the trebuchet bounced up was very harsh and was constantly coming from all around.
Dozens of huge rocks were thrown out in the sky, flying all over the sky. It looks quite terrifying.
but. Most of these rocks miss their target and fall into the sea.
Although a few huge rocks will hit the side of the hull of a sailing imperial warship, it is simply impossible to destroy the iron plates embedded in the outside and cause more progressive damage to the hull.
The Imperial fleet rushed into the center of the melee, charging like a tiger into a flock of sheep.
With its huge hull, they even adopted very barbaric tactics. Just use the ramming angle to ram into the relatively weak building ships and bucket ships.
The defensive power of Eastern warships is still much weaker than that of Imperial warships.
so. Every time it was hit by an imperial warship, the entire ship would fall apart or even roll over.
In addition, when the imperial warship rushed in, the artillery on both sides of the hull continued to bombard. The shells accurately landed on the enemy's heads and their ships. This suddenly increased the losses of Wang Renzeng's side in the melee. Quite a few.
Moreover, it also greatly relieved the huge pressure on the Amami Island community.
In just a quarter of an hour, thirty imperial warships destroyed about fifty large enemy warships. It can be said that Wang Renzeng suffered heavy losses and the balance of the war began to tilt.
Although the naval battle is still going on, any fool can see that the goddess of victory no longer favors Wang Niso's side, but is ogling everyone on Amami Island.
The loss of one's own large warships is very detrimental to Wang Renzeng, because in the maritime battles in the East, large warships are mainly relied on.
Those small clippers are the root ofIt's of no use at all.
Moreover, since the imperial fleet rushed in, it has knocked over countless small speedboats. Facing such a behemoth, even large bucket boats and building ships cannot be knocked over, let alone small clippers.
The imperial fleet used this barbaric method of warfare to turn the tide of the naval battle in a short period of time.
Originally, the Imperial Fleet usually did not use this method of warfare. After all, the Imperial Fleet's warships had many cannons and could fire from the periphery to destroy the enemy.
But this time, because they had to rescue the surrounded Amami Islanders, they had to use this barbaric method of warfare. And if they don't do this but fire from the outside, there is a high possibility of accidentally injuring their own people.
After all, the surrounded Amami Islanders and the warships under Wang Renzeng were entangled together, and the two sides were fighting fiercely. The distance is also very close, so firing can really cause accidental damage.
Under such a situation, the imperial fleet had no choice but to adopt this ridiculous strategy.
Fortunately, the warships of the imperial fleet are very strong, and they are really not a little stronger than the warships under Wang Renzeng's command. So people here in the empire are not worried at all about what problems may arise.
The wood used for the hull is strong, and the internal structure of the hull is also very reasonable. It has long been anticipated that a collision will occur, so defensive measures in this area were taken early during construction.
Especially the fast speed played a big role in the collision.
Even after ramming an enemy warship. The imperial warships can continue to sail away.
Unlike two ships that usually collide, there is no way to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy and there is no way to continue sailing.
The propeller and engine hidden underneath are absolutely incredible in this era.
With these two magic weapons, the imperial fleet can be said to be almost invincible at sea.
Li Xiang's warship approached and was fighting Zhang Bangchang's flagship. At this time, on Zhang Bangchang's Spanish galleon, the two parties were fighting fiercely.
The hand-to-hand combat of this era. It's not like what movies and TV shows from another time and space show. Everyone is a martial arts master who knows how to act like that.
In fact, we are all ordinary people, not martial arts masters at all.
It was like a palm strike, and all the enemies within a radius of ten feet were shaken and flew away with wailing sounds.
These are impossible things.
In reality, what everyone is fighting for is strength, speed and vision.
With the help of riot shields, Zhang Bangchang and the others formed a small turtle formation at the suggestion of Liu Dascar. This formation brought great trouble to the attacking enemies. Even the enemy's bows, arrows, swords and axes were unable to destroy this shield.
Zhang Bangchang¡¯s men using new flintlock muskets. Keep your cool, clean the barrel and load ammunition as you normally trained.
Because it uses paper gunpowder, it makes loading gunpowder easy.
Therefore, they can load gunpowder and put lead bullets into battle in a very short period of time.
At the same time, there are some people who are holding cold weapons and hiding behind riot shields, and they use cold weapons to attack the enemy from time to time.
What hit Zhang Bangchang¡¯s flagship was a Ming-style fighting ship. This type of boat has crenellations and a small loft. It can carry one hundred and twenty-three soldiers, as well as forty oarsmen.
At critical moments, those oarsmen can also be used for fighting, so in other words, Zhang Bangchang and the others have to face one hundred and sixty-three enemies.
On the other hand, Zhang Bangchang¡¯s flagship was a three-year-old Spanish galleon.
The quota for this kind of ship is 236 people.
Zhang Bangchang followed this rule. There were also fifty more people on board.
After all, they don¡¯t have to go on ocean voyages, so it doesn¡¯t matter if they add some people.
that's all. Zhang Bangchang's men numbered 286, almost twice as many as the enemy.
Therefore, these enemies who came to attack the ship were in serious trouble.
When they rushed up, they realized that there were more enemies than them.
But now they are on the verge of riding a tiger, and there is no place to run even if they want to, so they can only bite the bullet and fight Zhang Bangchang.
Who could have taken the initiative to collide with Zhang Bangchang's flagship, causing all of their own warships to become embedded in the Spanish ship's hull, and there was no way to escape.
So, ?If we want to survive now, we must deal with people like Zhang Bangchang.
Liu Dashen held the ghost-head knife in his mouth, picked up a flintlock gun from the side, aimed forward and pulled the trigger.
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In the queue of enemies that were crowded together and slowly pressing forward, an unlucky guy fell down.
Because Liu Dashen took the lead, the musketeers behind him started shooting one after another.
Immediately, more than half of the enemies who boarded the ship fell instantly.
The enemies who were still standing saw that this was not going to work.
Isn¡¯t this the rhythm of total annihilation?
So, in order to stay alive and not stand still and become the leader, they shouted and charged forward to kill.
Unfortunately, before they could take a few steps, they were shot to the ground again by muskets.
With only two rounds of shooting, there were not many enemies left who had boarded the ship.
Liu Dashen gave a loud shout, then led the team to rush out and began to send the enemies who fell to the ground on their way.
At this time, Li Xiang and the others also rushed closer to the battle circle, attracting Zhang Bangchang's attention.
At the beginning, Zhang Bangchang was also shocked.
The imperial battleship made his heart tremble.
My mother!
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