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Chapter 231 Fierce Naval Battle

"Your Commander is wise! We will win this battle!" A group of naval generals below also looked confident.

So under the order of Takeshi Yamashita, the fleet of the Red Sun Kingdom pierced straight towards the fleet of the Dagan Empire like an arrow.

Due to its small size, the warships of the Red Sun Kingdom do not have many long-range weapons on them. They are only equipped with some weapons such as crossbows. Only those large warships with a length of more than 30 meters are equipped with one or two Trebuchet.

The accuracy of these primitive long-range weapons on the rough sea is even less flattering. Therefore, the warships of the Red Sun Fleet generally only fire when they are within 100 meters, and after a few rounds of firing, they will approach. The opponent's warships engage in gang-hopping operations.

The Daqian Empire is completely different. Each battleship is equipped with at least two cannons, and the attack range is much farther than the battleships of the Red Sun Kingdom.

When the Red Sun Kingdom's fleet approached about 500 meters, Du Longbo immediately ordered the battleship to fire.

After seeing the semaphore sent by the flagship, other warships opened fire on the enemy fleet ahead.

To be honest, the accuracy of these primitive artillery developed by the Daqian Empire is not very good, but because hundreds of artillery fire at the same time, and the warships of the Red Sun Kingdom all gathered together to attack the Daqian Empire's battleship formation, Therefore, in this round of shelling, almost one-third of the shells hit.

The solid shells are indeed very lethal to these wooden battleships. With the sound of the cannons, big holes were punched out of the hulls of the battleships of the opposite Red Sun Kingdom, and pieces of wood were scattered everywhere. Once pierced by these sharp splinters, his flesh and blood would be bloody immediately.

Several of the smaller warships of the Red Sun Kingdom immediately began to sink after being hit by several shells at the same time.And it sank very quickly, before the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom on the battleship escaped, they sank to the surface of the sea with a rumble.

Takeshi Yamashita was shocked when he saw that five warships had been sunk and more than a dozen warships had been seriously injured before he could get close to the enemy fleet.He naturally knew that the Dagan Empire had been researching firearms, but he did not expect that in less than a year, the Dagan Empire would produce results and produce powerful artillery.

After the shock, Yamashita Takeshi faced the panicked eyes of many of his men, but he did not order a retreat. Instead, he let the fleet continue to advance at full speed, preparing to fight the opponent to the death.After all, for this war, the Kingdom of the Red Sun can really be said to have sold the pot and sold the iron. It decided that it could not back down just after suffering a slight setback. Even if it was to be defeated, it must go all out and defeat with great vigor.

After Du Longbo saw the results of the first round of shelling, he was very dissatisfied. The enemy warships were gathered so densely that only one-third of the shells hit after one round, and only five small warships were sunk. .This level is far different from the results during previous training!

"I have to practice after I go back! The accuracy of this shelling is too bad! The future naval battles will definitely be dominated by large ships and giant cannons. The shells are not accurate, but they can't!"

Listening to Du Longbo's comments, the surrounding Daqian Empire naval generals also nodded in agreement.

The gunners on each battleship were seizing the time to reload the artillery. At the same time, the battleships began to slowly retreat, trying to delay the approach of the enemy battleships.

After spending more than a minute, the ammunition was finally reloaded. At this time, the Red Sun Kingdom's warship was already close to within 200 meters. This was because the Daqian Empire's warship was continuously retreating. If it stayed If you stay where you are, you may have been rushed to the front by the opponent's fleet at this time, and you are about to start a hand-to-hand battle!
"Fire!" Amidst the roars of the captains, the warship artillery of the Daqian Empire roared again, and solid cannonballs carrying huge kinetic energy were fired at the closer Red Sun Kingdom warships on the opposite side. .

As the distance got closer, the hit rate and damage caused by the second round of shelling became even greater. At least two-thirds of the shells hit the enemy ship, and some of the shells even directly hit the enemy warship. After hitting a double penetration, the shell blasted in from the left hull, penetrated the hull, killed a bunch of crew members in the battleship, and then smashed through the right hull before flying out.

After this round of bombardment, the Red Sun Kingdom sank a total of twelve warships at once, including a large warship with a length of more than 30 meters, and even more warships were damaged, 30 Multiple ships.The speed of these damaged battleships was greatly affected, and gradually began to fail to keep up with most of them, and they all fell behind.

Faced with this situation, Takeshi Yamashita frowned more and more deeply, and the victory of this battle became more and more unsightly.But even at this time, he still did not order a retreat, and still let the fleet continue to rush towards the enemy fleet, intending to rush up and defeat the Dagan Empire's fleet by virtue of its numerical superiority.After all, even if more than a dozen warships were sunk, he still has more than 90 warships on his side, which is almost twice the number of the Daqian Empire's side.

Soon, the Red Sun Kingdom's warships came within 100 meters of the enemy fleet, and the crossbows and slings mounted on the Red Sun Kingdom's warships also opened fire one after another.Since the power of crossbows and catapults is far inferior to artillery, the Red Sun Kingdom's targets are mostly the sails of enemy warships, and they use rockets to destroy the sails of enemy warships and reduce the opponent's maneuverability. Sex, so as to catch up with enemy warships faster and decide the outcome in hand-to-hand combat.

This tactic is indeed quite effective. Under the fire of numerous crossbows, the sails of many warships in the Daqian Empire were shot out. They could only rely on the ship propellers on both sides of the hull to provide power, and their maneuverability was greatly affected. Influenced, he was overtaken by the warship of the Red Sun Kingdom in a short while.

Du Longbo saw a trace of depression on his face when he saw several of his warships being overtaken by enemy warships after their sails were damaged. However, he had no intention of asking the entire fleet to stop to rescue those warships. After all, the artillery The power of the enemy has been well demonstrated through the two rounds of bombardment just now. Instead of engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy and defeating the enemy fleet after heavy losses, it is better to stay far away from the opponent and use artillery to slowly eliminate the enemy. fleet.

Because Du Longbo did not go to the rescue, those warships of the Dagan Empire were quickly surrounded by a large number of warships of the Red Sun Kingdom.

Faced with this situation, the crew members on the warships were all very scared. After all, who is not afraid of death?Given the current situation, they might not be able to escape death today!
"Don't stand still, load the musket with ammunition and prepare to fight!"

Amidst the shouts of the captains, the crew finally reacted and began to load their guns. Homemade grenades were also moved out for easy access.

At this time, hooks and claws were also thrown from the enemy warships in all directions, completely hooking these Daqian Empire warships, and then a famous Red Sun Kingdom with a short knife in its mouth and wearing light armor The warriors are like preying spiders, quickly crawling towards these large imperial battleships along the ropes connected by the claws, and some with wilder combat styles even directly grasp the cables, like The swing just swings towards the enemy ship.

"Fire!"

At this time, with the roar of the gunners, the artillery that had been loaded with shotgun opened fire one after another.

These shotguns were extremely effective against these enemy soldiers wearing only light armor. As the dense shotguns swept past, the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom who originally swarmed towards the Daqian Empire warship seemed to be screaming. The sound was like dumplings falling to the sea.

After the bombardment, you could see that the sea surface was already covered with corpses, and the blood dyed the nearby sea water hundreds of meters red.

Seeing that one round of bombardment by one's own comrades was all wiped out, and the death conditions were worse than one, the remaining soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom were all frightened for a while, and did not dare to continue to attack these trapped enemy ships .

While the soldiers on the side of the Red Sun Kingdom were frightened, it was just the opposite on the side of the Daqian Empire. Those soldiers of the Daqian Empire saw that their own artillery was so powerful that they killed hundreds of enemies with a single volley of shotguns. The morale was at the peak, and then the gunners continued to be busy loading ammunition for the artillery. The other soldiers were holding large homemade grenades, like throwing lead balls. The grenade was thrown at the enemy ship.

Seeing these smoking grenades falling on their battleships, the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom were awakened one after another, and they all ran around in panic, trying to find a place to hide.

But before they could find a place to hide, these homemade grenades exploded one after another.The explosion power of these earthen grenades made of black powder is actually not great, but because many sharp nails and iron pieces are added inside, their lethality is very terrifying, especially for most of the navy. Soldiers only wear light armor.

Accompanied by the explosion of these grenades, pieces of soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom were blown to the ground, and streams of blood merged on the deck of the battleship and finally flowed slowly along the hull into the sea. It makes the color of this piece of sea water more vivid.

Such a strong smell of blood soon attracted sharks and other ferocious carnivorous sea beasts. These sea beasts frantically biting and fighting for the human corpses on the sea surface were not affected by the fierce fighting on the battleship above.

"Come on! Do you continue to stand there and wait to die?" Some of the surviving Red Sun Kingdom officers saw that their soldiers seemed to have been blinded by the enemy, and they were still standing there, and they suddenly became angry. roared.

Under the urging of these officers, the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom could only bite the bullet and continue to attack the enemy warship.

But as soon as they showed up, they were severely beaten by the musketeers of the Daqian Empire who had been waiting for a long time. After a volley of muskets, hundreds more soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom were killed.

However, due to the large number of Red Sun Kingdom warships surrounding these Daqian Empire warships, even though more than 2000 people have been lost, the Red Sun Kingdom can still continue to use its forces to attack.Soon another group of Red Sun Kingdom soldiers attacked.

Since the muskets had not had time to be loaded, many Daqian Empire soldiers could only hold swords and engage in brutal hand-to-hand combat with these Red Sun Kingdom soldiers.

These Red Sun Kingdom soldiers all use a variety of long knives and short knives. Most of them have excellent sword skills, especially some of the warriors who hold long swords with both hands. They have superb sword skills and can often kill with one blow. Cut off the necks of Daqian imperial soldiers, killing seven or eight people in just a few seconds, and the corpses fell behind.

"Get out of the way!"

At this time, the voice of the gunner on the side of the Dagan Empire suddenly remembered, and the soldiers of the Dagan Empire rushed towards the two sides reflexively when they heard the sound.

And when these soldiers from the Daqian Empire got out of the way, the dark muzzles of the cannons behind them were immediately revealed.

The warriors of the Red Sun Kingdom who were extremely brave before were so frightened when they saw these black muzzles that they evaded as fast as possible.

It's a pity that no matter how fast they ran, they couldn't run faster than the cannonballs. With the thunderous sound of cannons, the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom who had just attacked the Daqian Empire warship were almost completely emptied, leaving only an incomplete patch of land. corpse.

The shelling had just ended, and before the enemy could react to the deafening sound of the artillery, a large number of imperial soldiers rushed out one after another, and quickly cleared up the few remaining soldiers.

At the same time, the bombardiers also grabbed homemade grenades one after another and threw them at the enemy warships, blasting the enemy soldiers who continued to attack upwards, causing them to howl like ghosts and run around everywhere.

At the same time, the main force of the fleet led by Du Longbo was still dealing with the main force of the Red Sun Kingdom's fleet. With the roar of cannons, the battleships of the Red Sun Kingdom were constantly being sunk.However, warships from the Daqian Empire kept falling behind because their sails were damaged, and then they were surrounded and trapped by a large number of Red Sun Kingdom warships.

In the end, even the flagship Qianlong led by Du Longbo was overtaken by the fleet of the Red Sun Kingdom, trapped by three large warships, and a fierce hand-to-hand battle started.

In order to defeat the main fleet of the Daqian Empire in one fell swoop, even the troop transport ships of the Red Sun Kingdom rushed forward after the battle, and sent a large number of Red Sun Kingdom's land forces to attack the trapped Daqian Empire warships. , joined in the brutal hand-to-hand combat that quickly devoured the lives of soldiers on both sides.

(End of this chapter)