Lord of Ming Dynasty
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The distance between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger, and the meeting has reached 35 nautical miles, and they are getting farther and farther apart.
In the distance, [-] nautical miles away, a fleet sailed head-on, with an overall speed of five knots. The wind on the sea was strong, but the entire fleet maintained a speed of five knots.
Draw a semicircle on the sea, then turn around, the whole fleet sails in parallel in three columns, 28 thousand-ton warships are the main force, in the middle of the route, five 310-ton warships are on the left wing, and fifteen [-]-ton warships are on the left. In front of and behind the five [-]-ton warships, Zhang Qiang's Huaxia [-] ship will be on the right flank with fifteen [-]-ton warships.
On the left and right, a 180-ton patrol ship followed five nautical miles from the rear wing, and a 180-ton patrol ship in front led eight nautical miles ahead, and the other one was seen by the little prince, and it was cruising at a speed of six knots Surroundings, check whether there are enemies in the surrounding dense fog. The furthest range of activities is fifteen nautical miles, which happens to be the farthest that the watchman of any outermost ship can see.
The range of the entire fleet is six nautical miles, the shortest visual distance of the watchman is six nautical miles, and the viewing distance of the farthest telescope is eight to fifteen nautical miles. This is because some places can see far, and some places are foggy. Covering, you can't see far, so a patrol ship is needed to cruise around the entire fleet in the fog to prevent the enemy from rushing out of the fog to attack the flank of the fleet.
At this time, the patrol boat made a big circle after taking the enemy out fifteen nautical miles, and began to chase the fleet with all its strength. The fleet turned so that he was more than 20 nautical miles behind the fleet. It passed through a fog and took an hour at a full speed of eight knots. The speed reached ten nautical miles from the end of the fleet. Using the reflector, it reported the number of enemies it found, their positions, distances, and actions it made to another patrol ship five nautical miles away from the last fleet.
On the Huaxia, Zhang Qiang listened to the constant reports from the high-altitude watchmen, and learned that a 31-ship, slightly damaged armed merchant fleet under the flag of the Little Prince of the Hong family was heading for the Fifth Fleet Saigon base [-] nautical miles away from them. drive away.
Passing through a dense fog, an hour later, the ship on the left wing of the eldest prince and the right wing of Zhang Qiang's fleet, that is, the fifteen [-]-ton warships led by Zhang Qiang, spotted each other.
For a while, both sides were very nervous. Zhang Qiang ordered the [-]-ton warship on the left to go out in front of the thousand-ton warship to cover, so that the thousand-ton warship moved closer to the enemy, while he slowed down to prepare for a surprise attack on the enemy's front fleet.
The fleet changed from a Chuan-shaped pattern to a figure-eight pattern, and the figure-eight opening faced the opening in the middle of the flank of the enemy's Pin-shaped fleet.
Towards the side of Zhang Qiang's Huaxia Navy fleet, the enemy's two word-shaped battleship formations began to turn and kill them.
Because they have so many ships.
The scattered Huaxia Navy fleet seems to be less, and a hole on the enemy's side has the number of ships in their fleet.
Both sides are moving to the other's flank to gain the upper hand.
eight nautical miles,
five nautical miles,
three nautical miles,
1000 meters,
800 meters,
600 meters,
The enemy fired first.
Zhang Qiang found out that he didn't know whether it was because he was nervous or the enemy didn't have much combat experience. In short, they like to fire outside the direct range of naval guns. With the old naval artillery they have, they have to fire at a distance of at least 400 meters. Only then can they hope to hit the enemy. That was the maximum distance Zhang Qiang had when he sold them the artillery.
Of course, the weapons and equipment sold to the enemy are reduced weapons and equipment, which cannot be the best, at least not more advanced than those of the Huaxia Army Navy. The artillery must be guaranteed at least 400 meters, and generally can hit or severely injure the enemy at 380 meters.
The best distance for ordinary Europeans is 180 meters, or even 50 meters, 30 meters to directly bombard the enemy. After the British defeated the Armada, the maximum bombardment distance between the two sides was 300 meters to 320 meters.
As it is now, it is because Zhang Qiang used the technology provided by the system and the talents he cultivated to improve the artillery of the Huaxia Army Navy. He has added many details of stability, and with the addition of experienced sailors, he can guarantee that the guns are 400 meters away. hit the enemy at a distance.
Moreover, the accuracy rate can basically be guaranteed to be around 15.00%, and the closer the accuracy rate is, the higher the accuracy rate will be. When it reaches a distance of 300 meters, it can generally reach 40.00% to close to [-]%.
This is a crazy accuracy rate index. Even the advanced sea warships of later generations may not necessarily say that they can reach 50.00% in one salvo. It is considered amazing to reach 50.00%. In this era, [-]% is basically a myth, a legend.
The average level is that after more than a dozen rounds of fighting each other, the efficiency of hitting the enemy with one or two shells in one round can be achieved.
At 500 meters, the fleets approached each other, and the enemy formation began to spread out, ready to be crushed by the number mode, or to encircle the Huaxia Navy fleet.
The naval fleet began to circle in place, making a large circle of 200 meters, and then lined up. The thousand-ton warship was in front, and the 400-ton warship followed behind. The second echelon of the ton battleship followed behind the battleship, and began to shoot at the enemy at a distance of [-] meters from the enemy.
While moving with the fleet, they moved towards the enemy's rear and attacked the enemy with a line of battle.
Both fleets emitted a lot of gunpowder smoke, but the second prince's fleet faced Zhang Qiang and the others with the bow of the ship, while Zhang Qiang and the others faced them with the side of the hull, moving forward to gain the upper hand. Ships are faster and maintain a speed advantage over the enemy.
After three rounds of artillery, the 380-ton warship and the enemy fleet had already met at [-] meters. The accuracy of the fourth round of artillery began to increase, and some artillery had already hit the enemy.
And 50 meters behind the fleet, staggering the hull by about 20 meters, the small-tonnage fleet led by Zhang Qiang is mostly 33-ton ships, a total of 310 ships plus Zhang Qiang, the Huaxia 34 ship, a total of 400 ships, far away from the enemy fleet [-] meters away.
Three neatly arranged armed merchant ships rushed straight towards the Huaxia, and the shells fired from their bows kept hitting the Huaxia 400 meters away, or a little more than 300 meters away, without hitting the Zhonghuaxia once.
While the Huaxia is moving forward, it bombards the enemy with side artillery. The height and pitch device allows the artillery to adjust the angle of the muzzle at will. It can quickly recede to eliminate the recoil of the artillery, and then the spring-like soft device on the back can quickly push the artillery to the front and sit back with the help of the remaining force of the recoil, reducing the time for the gunner to push the artillery back into position.
When the enemy fires one shot, they can fire three shots.
So after the fifth round of shooting, more than 30 artillery shells fired by the Huaxia fell on three ships, forming a near miss. A shell directly hit and changed course. While fighting with them, Traveling in a diagonal line, the three second prince's warships are preparing to approach the Huaxia Navy and take advantage of their numbers.
The ship that the second prince was on was a thousand-ton battleship. On the other side of the zigzag shape, when the fleet started to turn, he ordered the ships on this side to move backwards and turn to prepare to outflank the Huaxia Navy.
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The three fastest 180-ton warships were hit one after another by the Huaxia, and then turned into pieces of boards floating on the sea, but the poor six artillery pieces on their ships did not work, and the nine-pounder gun on the bow It didn't work either, not a single shell hit the Zhonghuaxia.
The fleet of the second prince is still approaching. The battleships sold by the Huaxia Kingdom are equipped with old guns, while the armored merchant ships are equipped with guns purchased from the Huaxia Kingdom, the Ryukyu Kingdom, and various places in Southeast Asia. A smorgasbord of old guns on the ground, so they have to be in close proximity to be effective.
Only fifty of them were captured ships from the Fifth Fleet, which could compete with the Huaxia Navy Fleet led by Zhang Qiang, but they were still charging without using the artillery, and their operations were not enough At a distance of 380 meters, hit the ship of the Zhonghua Xia Navy.
"Order to continue to shrink the formation, shorten the distance of the formation, increase the speed, move as a whole, and move towards the upwind." Zhang Qiang shouted to the captain.
The entire fleet has gradually moved to the upwind position, the enemy's ships have turned against the wind, while the Huaxia Navy's fleet is traveling diagonally, making full use of the upwind wind to accelerate, making the entire fleet reach an overall speed of six knots.
It was one knot faster than the overall five knots just now, and occupied a favorable position, using the artillery on both sides to attack the chasing enemy ships. Due to the headwind, it took a lot of effort for the enemy ships to get close to them, and it always fell at 300 Meters away, it was bombarded by continuous artillery.
After fighting for an hour, the sea was full of enemy ships. The two sides fought on the sea with a radius of [-] nautical miles. However, he was only slightly injured, and was a little unlucky. He was hit by a warship of the Fifth Fleet that suddenly rushed out of the enemy fleet, and thus lost his combat effectiveness. He had to stagger away from the battle circle under the cover of other ships. , waiting ten nautical miles outside.
As time goes by, the sun rises to the right sky, the clouds are dispelled, the fog disappears invisible, and the visibility on the sea has been improved. From the original visibility of five nautical miles to eight nautical miles, it has become the visibility of the entire clear sea surface. , as far as the eye can see, there is at least [-] nautical miles of visibility, and there is confusion in the distance.
The sea seems to have torn apart a space specially for this naval battle, and then let the two naval fleets fight in it. The surrounding area looks empty, but it seems that there is an invisible and colorless wall separating the distance.
Thirty armed merchant ships sank, fifteen armed merchant ships lost their ability to move, or fell silent, and others were wounded. Hong Hongxiu almost cried. This is a heartbreaking loss. All his belongings, although the family There are still twenty four thousand-ton warships, eight eight-hundred-ton warships, and eight six-hundred-ton warships that China originally gave him when he was allowed to evacuate from Japan, but if that is the case, he can only protect himself , can no longer participate in the hegemony, and will have to rely on others in the future.
"Master, look over there, there are [-] ships that surrendered. Those are the warships of the Huaxia Navy, and they are the spoils that Zheng Zhi and the others gave us." Twenty large and small warships, twenty of the [-]-ton warships of the Huaxia Navy quickly separated from the brigade and boarded the twenty surrendered warships and began to capture them.
After a while, the [-] warships left the spot and headed to the place where the injured Huaxia navy gathered. Ten of the [-] navy warships that accepted the surrender were assigned to guard them, and ten turned back to join them. This side of the fight.
"That's mine, mine," the second prince raged on the deck.
But the situation is that they can't fight against the Huaxia Navy at all. Even though they also have many captured Huaxia Navy warships and more than a dozen thousand-ton warships, in the face of the fierce firepower of the enemy's 28 thousand-ton warships, all of them The warships that rushed up were all wiped out, and the loss soon expanded to fifty ships, and fifty ships were either sunk or destroyed.
Only one 180-ton ship of the Huaxia Navy could not escape being destroyed, and two [-]-ton ships were sunk, and the personnel were floating on sponges like dumplings.
"Decisive battle, decisive battle, charge up," the second prince roared angrily.
"Boom, boom," he said after one of his thousand-ton warships pretended to hoist a white flag to surrender, sailed towards the enemy's battle formation, and suddenly fired artillery, sinking a [-]-ton warship and a [-]-ton warship. Ton warship, severely damaged a warship of the Huaxia Navy.
"Okay, good fight, let's fight like this." The second prince shouted happily.
However, the warship of the Huaxia Navy, which was going up to receive the surrendered ship, reacted, and the three of them fired together. As many as 100 shells, at least [-] of them were concentrated on the second prince's navy who pretended to surrender less than [-] meters away. battleship.
The battleship trembled, shrouded in gunpowder smoke, and then snapped and fell apart. The people on it fell into the sea before they had time to jump into the water, and were dragged into the water by the sinking hull. Many people did not surface again.
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