Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 932 Frightened

However, after a while, both Max and Anthony quickly came to their senses and couldn't help but complain.

The reason for this has to do with the topography of the Strait of Hormoci.

The Strait of Hormuz is located between the Arabian Peninsula and the southern part of the Persian Empire, shaped like a herringbone, and is the only exit from the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean.It is about 150 kilometers long from east to west, 97 kilometers at its widest point, and only about 38 kilometers at its narrowest point.

In addition, this strait has many islands, reefs and shoals, and the safe channel is only a few kilometers wide.If that's all, it's nothing, the most important thing is the location of Gomblon.

In this strait, there is the largest island called Qeshm Island, which is long and narrow in shape and stretches parallel to the coast of the mainland, separated by the Hulan Strait.The coastline is winding.It is 110 kilometers long, 32 to 330 kilometers wide, and covers an area of ​​about [-] square kilometers.

On this island of Qeshm, there is a military castle built by the Portuguese.But in the time of Abbas I, he turned to the British and Dutch fleets and drove the Portuguese away.

Originally, the British and Dutch fleets docked on this island.However, when Abbas II came to the new capital of Gomblon, the two of them stopped the fleet and guarded the sea side of Gomblon. benefit afterwards.

So, here comes the key question.

This Kamblon, later known as Bandar Abbas, is in the northeast of Qeshm Island.Now the Ming army is pushing sideways from the outside, thanks to the gift of Qeshm Island, if the British and Dutch fleets cannot break through the opposite Ming army, they can only retreat into the Hulan Strait.Not to mention that the Hulan Strait is too narrow, there is even a sea forest called "Hala" that exceeds [-] hectares.

This means that if the joint fleet of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands wants to run backwards, it will basically not work.

At this time, Max and Anthony had rich experience after all, and they knew that they could no longer fight each other, so they had to immediately adjust their formation to break through, otherwise, the whole army would really be wiped out.

However, there is another feature in the Strait of Hormuz.

Since the amount of evaporation is much greater than the amount of precipitation, the result is an increase in the salinity of seawater in the strait.The strait and the Persian Gulf have greater salinity than the Gulf of Oman, creating seawater density gradients.The seawater with less salinity in the Gulf of Oman flows to the Persian Gulf through the surface layer of the strait, while the seawater with higher salinity in the Persian Gulf flows to the Gulf of Oman through the bottom layer of the strait.

In other words, in simple terms, in this sea area, the surface of the sea flows from east to west, and the bottom of the sea flows from west to east.

In this way, the Ming Navy coming from the east completely occupied the geographical advantage.The fleet came at a very fast speed. Before the United Kingdom and the Netherlands' joint fleet adjustments were completed, the warships of the Ming Navy rushed over.

There was no other way, Max and Anthony had to fight in a hurry, let's fight first.

But at this time, the two of them discovered something new.

I saw the battleship rushing at the front of the Ming Kingdom fleet, and the hull shell actually reflected the sunlight.There is no doubt that it is metal!

Also, the battleship at the front actually had a large barrel on the hull, emitting thick smoke. What's going on?Is it on fire?Still desperately rushing over, or an arson boat?But why is the shell made of metal, which can burn enemy ships?

A series of doubts popped up in the minds of every Dutch and British.It's really strange that things happen every year, why are there so many things this year?

Before they could figure it out, they suddenly heard a loud noise.

"Boom..."

Are the sailors on the warships of the Ming army novices if they fired at such a long distance?
As soon as this idea came up, Max saw that the mast of a battleship in the Dutch fleet was broken by chain bombs.The huge mast fell with the sails above it, and there was a lot of noise.

Seeing this, he was immediately dumbfounded, can he hit from such a distance?This is simply favored by the goddess of luck, right?But Lady Luck is not from the Ming Dynasty!
Of course he didn't know that the cannons on this steam ironclad battleship are not only large in caliber, but also engraved with rifles. Under the premise of ensuring power, the accuracy and range of the guns are much higher than ordinary cannons.

At this time, although the Dutch battleship was hit, Max didn't feel any gloating.

"Boom..."

The artillery of the Ming army that rushed over first fired again. Without accident, another Dutch warship was hit on the side of the ship, sawdust and pieces of wood flying around, and there were screams from the sailors.Of course, if you are far away, you can't hear it.

This time, everyone knew that it wasn't the goddess of luck who betrayed them, but that the artillery of the Ming army was too powerful!
Realizing this, both the British sailors and the Dutch sailors panicked, and their morale dropped a bit.

Just when they were in a panic, the first warship of the Ming army had already entered the artillery range of some of their warships, so of course they would not be polite, and immediately opened fire, vowing revenge.

"Boom boom boom..."

Amidst the continuous sound of artillery, iron bullets, chain bullets, etc. roared out, and nearly half of them hit the Ming battleship.I have to say that the level of their artillery is still nothing to say.

The masts of warships in the Ming Dynasty were not made of iron, and they were of course broken when hit by chain bombs.And the collapse of the mast with its sails is also the most eye-catching.

But before the Dutch sailors cheered, they saw that the hulls of the warships of the Ming Dynasty were shot at most, and there was no hole at all.

"..."

This time, they were all dumbfounded.This fucking Ming Dynasty battleship is really made of iron, right?
It's made of iron, and it can float, so it can be figured out, but why can it run so fast?

Just when they were stupid, the artillery on the Daming battleship also fired.

"Boom boom boom..."

At this time, the distance was already very close, and the rifled artillery was even more powerful.It hit the hull of the Dutch warship, directly punching out a big hole, and it was still a penetrating injury, which also caused damage to the Dutch warship behind.Although this damage is not great, it does exist.

"..." The Dutch sailors who saw this scene, at least the sailors on the hit battleship behind, were dumbfounded again.

There were really too many unexpected things in this battle with the Ming fleet!

The captains of the Dutch fleet all have extensive combat experience.At this time, he had already ignored these things, and was shouting "turn the rudder, turn the rudder" loudly, because the iron-clad battleship of the Ming Dynasty was about to collide.No matter what, can wood collide with iron armor?

What's more, the Ming army took advantage of the geographical advantage, and with the help of the flow of sea water, the speed was faster.The Dutch warships are all sideways because they want to fire.

However, at this time, due to the deliberate action of the armored battleship, they had no time to avoid it, or even adjust the direction of the battleship.

"Boom bang bang..."

The bow of the armored battleship was like a sharp sword, splitting the Dutch battleship in front of it in half.The smoke then increased, and the battleship continued forward, then crashed into the next ship.

And behind this steam ironclad warship, there are twenty modified warships, specially modified for impact, and the hulls are covered with iron sheets.The impact that followed immediately smashed the formation of the Dutch fleet, which was not very good.

Anthony's flagship was in the back and was not affected, but when he saw the situation ahead, his back felt chills.He knew that, not to mention the thousands of warships of the Ming Dynasty in the back, just the hundreds of warships rushing to the front would definitely be over!

He was in a daze when he heard someone on the boat shouting hysterically: "The ironclad battleship is coming, coming, it is coming to hit us, turn the rudder quickly, and avoid it..."

Awakened by this voice, Anthony saw a huge warship approaching majestically.It was not until recently that he discovered that this iron-clad warship was actually so huge.

Anthony didn't panic, didn't yell, because he knew that no matter what he did, it was useless.Only with a wry smile in his heart, he looked at the iron-clad battleship crashing into him, and muttered to himself: "I finally witnessed the rise of the king of the sea in the Ming Kingdom!"

There was a loud "bang", and the flagship of the Dutch fleet was hit in two by the steam ironclad battleship.

Max at the back saw the Dutch fleet in front of them, facing the twenty or so warships of the Ming army, there was no way to fight back.Seeing these warships rushing towards them again, while the Dutch fleet landed in disorder, and would soon be submerged in the sea of ​​Ming warships.He was desperate, and instead of commanding, he just let the flagship escape as far as he could.

Unlike him, Yan Yingyuan, who was on the Ming Dynasty's flagship, could only see him stroking his long beard with a smile on his face.

Originally, according to Zheng Chenggong's meaning, it was a fleet battle.

However, Yan Yingyuan finally ordered the transport ships of the army to follow behind the fleet.Anyway, the enemy doesn't know the real situation, and doesn't know that in the current Ming Dynasty Navy, all the original Fuchuan have been used as transport ships instead of warships.

In fact, if you really want to fight, you can fight.There are no flowering bombs or high explosives. If you want to completely defeat the enemy, you still have to rely on side-to-side battles.The sailors on the transport ship have no problem with this.

Of course, the premise of this is that it can be connected to the ship.If it was the previous era, it would be difficult.It was also for this reason that a dozen or so sailing warships from the Netherlands dared to act arrogantly along the coast of Daming.In the end, although he was defeated by Zheng Zhilong in the naval battle of Liuluo Bay, most of the warships escaped.

This situation no longer exists today.The Ming Dynasty not only had a fleet of sails, but also iron-clad battleships propelled by steam-powered propellers.

"Your Excellency, this European fleet is nothing more than this!" A personal guard was excited to see it, and said to Yan Yingyuan, "It's not as powerful as the legends!"

"Hehe, they were scared." Yan Yingyuan replied with a smile after listening.

(End of this chapter)