Daming One Piece

Chapter 203 (Second update, please subscribe)
Chapter 204

Finally, when the distance between the two sides was less than 200 meters, Shi Yiwen shouted.

"Flag raised, ready to fight!"

With an order, the flag bearer immediately raised the flag, and at the same time as the front and rear warships raised their flags back to the order, the sailors on the deck also stood up and rushed to the gun positions. They passed over their heads.

Now, it's time to fight back!

"Quick, hurry up..."

The two gunners holding crowbars at the gun tail used the crowbars to move the four-wheeled gun carriage to move the firing range of the gun position. This seemingly clumsy method was still used by navies all over the world to adjust the shooting range until the Napoleon era. Main way.

Just as they adjusted their shooting range to aim at the Spaniard, the Spaniard fired another round.Compared with the previous shelling with no aim at all, this time because of the short distance, their aim was much better. At least half of the shells hit the sail, the side of the ship, and even the mast. They flew away whistling, stabbing the bodies of the sailors, and the whizzing shells even directly penetrated the bodies of some unlucky ones.

Finally, the naval battle has entered the cruelest stage.

This is the fight between blood and fire, and it is also the distance between blood and fire.

After firing a round of shells at a distance of less than 200 meters, while the sea was boiling and the smoke filled the air, Wades ordered loudly.

"Ready to board!"

In the past hundreds of years, the Spaniards have defeated seemingly powerful enemies time and time again by shelling and jumping gangs. Now they are just repeating their glory!

"For Heavenly Father!"

Those cuirassiers were all excitedly waiting for the upcoming decisive battle.Whether it was the Spaniards or the native soldiers, bloodthirsty eyes burst out from their eyes.

"They still haven't fired!"

Wades frowned, what are the Chinese waiting for?
He looked at the gunner on the deck who was loading the cannon with gunpowder in the turbulent waves. Did the Chinese never load the gun before?

But their cannons were clearly aimed at themselves!
Now you don’t even need a telescope, you can see the black gun barrel protruding from the gun window. At the breech of the gun, the gunners’ eyes are fixed on the front of the gun muzzle, and the hands of the firing hands are tightly clenched. Matchlock, just waiting for the last order.

"The fleet shortens the distance as much as possible, aiming at a target, just like an army platoon shooting, firing alternately one after another!"

Following Shi Yiwen's order, the distance between ships was shortened again, and the distance between ships was even less than 100 meters. For the fleet, this was even a risk of collision.

At the same time, Shi Yiwen looked a little excited as he stared at the approaching enemy ship.

it's time!

"Your Excellency, they are so close!"

Just when Vaders' adjutant was amazed by the distance between the Chinese fleet, he suddenly saw smoke spewing from the side of the first warship, one after another, continuous smoke and flames in the Chinese fleet. The warship spewed out.

"They opened fire..."

At such a distance, before they could even shout out, the shells flew over. Compared with the previous inaccurate shelling of the Spaniards, the close-range shelling of the Ming army was even devastating—the first round of shelling At least [-]% of the shells hit the Spanish ships accurately.

Solid bullets and grape bullets smashed the Galen ship's bulwarks fiercely, and while the flying sawdust scattered like daggers, the shells roared into the Spaniard's body, crushing the gunner's shoulders and head. And broke the infantryman's thigh.

But it was just a face-to-face effort. The Spaniards on the "Culian" only felt that the scene in front of them turned red—as far as they could see, blood was everywhere, and the blood was like fog and rain. flying around.

"What are they doing?"

Wades watched in astonishment as the Chinese shelled fiercely, and watched the "Hulian" being shrouded in a thick smoke.

Although the "Hulian" was shrouded in gunpowder smoke, the Chinese shelling did not stop. The fleet approaching in column, like infantry firing alternately, concentrated the most rapid firepower on the "Hulian". In the blink of an eye, the "Hulian" at the front was battered with holes. They didn't even attack the rigging and mast of the "Hulian", but concentrated all their firepower on its near the waterline.

Sea water poured into the cabin of the "Hulian" from the dense bullet holes. Although the sailors in the cabin tried to block the large and small bullet holes with wooden boards and rags, their actions were in vain—the sea water Still pouring into the cabin continuously.

"Father bless them!"

Varys watched the "Culian" become more and more clumsy. He knew that the ship was over, that a large amount of sea water had poured into the cabin, and its speed was slowing down. This naval battle was completely unexpected. He expected, or rather, this style of play was something he had never seen before.

"Father, they need at least 2 minutes to reload the shells."

Wades said to himself.

A round of shelling takes 2 minutes, sometimes longer, at least on the seas in the 17th century.

But Wades didn't know at all that the fleet he was facing was different.

After firing a round of salvo, the gunners of the Ming army quickly wiped the barrel of the gun with a cannon wipe stained with water. After extinguishing the afterglow in the barrel, the ammunition hand holding the cannonball once again put the whole cannonball into the into the barrel, and poke it in.

The moment the copper thorn pierced the charge through the fire door, the goose quill was inserted again, and the gunpowder in the horn cartridge was poured into the flintlock lighter.

"Aim, adjust the field of fire, 2 degrees to the left."

The strong gunner at the breech of the gun immediately sled the gun carriage with the sled pole, and at the same time, tightened the gun rope.The whole process took about 1 minute.

"The artillery is ready!"

The moment Rafa clenched the matchlock tightly, a cry burst out from his mouth.

Finally, when the enemy ship aimed at the muzzle, the cannon sounded again!

The cannons sounded one after another, like New Year's firecrackers, echoing and blasting in the sea, round after round of volleys, hitting a warship accurately one after another, but only In one face-to-face effort, more than half of the deck was killed or injured, and what was even more fatal was the shattered side. The dense shells made holes the size of watermelons on the side. Many dense holes accompanied the next round of shooting. It collapsed and turned into a huge bullet hole, and the sea water flooded the cabin in an instant...

(End of this chapter)