Lord of Ming Dynasty

Sailors with overall sea combat experience still surpassed the British, and even in the 1770s, it was the country with the highest per capita income (Adam Smith therefore said that the Netherlands was still the "richest" country in Europe in 1776), and its strong financial hegemony , so that other countries want to ally with it.

That's why they won't look at a newly rising territory that is not as big as their new Qin Empire, this country of exiles from the East. They are arrogant, because they have been brilliant in the past, and their strength is still not small , They can still dispatch 14 army troops at a time to help other countries fight, dispatch 1 to 160 sailors at a time, and dispatch [-] to [-] sail battleships with [-] to [-] artillery pieces to attack the fleets of other maritime countries.

This kind of strength is indeed not enough for the small New Qin Empire, which only has less than 28 artillery pieces and only [-] main battleships in the fleet. What's more, the former Huaxia Empire competed with them for colonies in the far east sea. , vying for maritime trade hegemony, drove them to the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Ocean also drove them out, and finally benefited from the British and the Chinese Empire, as well as the Spaniards who were favored by the Chinese Empire, which made them hate it.

Cutting off one's wealth is like killing one's parents. The hatred between the Dutch and the Chinese Empire is as deep as the sea, especially after they have experienced the three wars of the British, they have fallen from the powerful European maritime empire to the ranks of European second-rate countries, and relying on borrowing For a living, they were fully restricted by the British, and they became the future sea overlords stepping on their shoulders, all because they lost too many commercial interests in the Far East. The new Qin Empire formed by the imperial people did not like it.

Fighting started as soon as they met, and the Dutch didn't like the people of the New Qin Empire.

After a thousand-ton sailing warship was injured, it staggered and wanted to withdraw from the battlefield, but they couldn't help it. The original turret artillery of the Huaxia Empire was not a vegetarian, and its shooting accuracy was scary. Duomi, the next round of 100mm shells from the turret artillery hit the bow of the ship again, and all three shells hit a place within a radius of only five or six meters.

A cannonball smashed a three-meter-wide hole in the tattered deck, and penetrated deep into the deck of the bottom cabin. The deck of the bottom cabin was made of thick teak boards, which barely blocked the explosive power of the shell, but the diffusion wave of the shell explosion, However, it swept through the entire front of the cabin, and all the cabin partitions of the counterweight were blown apart. The flying wood fragments would adjust the supplies in the compartment to support the balance of the entire ship. The flying ones made a mess all over the place.

The second shell exploded directly at the bow of the ship not far away, blowing away the entire bow plate that had been blown out of the gap, and then blew up the entire bow, and the remaining shell fragments smashed several partitions in the bottom compartment of the bow , Then the gurgling seawater caused water seepage in the bottom cabin of the bow, and about three to five tons of seawater quickly filled the bottom cabin, and rushed towards the big hole along the gap.

Although the sailors on the sailing warship rushed down to plug the leak, they still couldn't stop the infiltration of sea water, not to mention the third class of shells.

Since there was no obstacle, the third shell directly exploded on the deck of the bottom cabin, then penetrated the bottom top deck, passed through the bottom cabin, exploded on the keel of the bottom cabin, broke the keel, and opened a half hole in the bottom cabin. The rice-sized hole, no one can stop the influx of sea water.

When the sailors fled in a hurry, this 130-ton sailboat loaded with 45 five sailors, 1000 combatants, and [-] passengers fell headfirst. The sailors in the superstructure and on the deck were all flung to the surface of the sea. The most unfortunate thing was that none of the people and passengers in the cabin and bottom cabin escaped, and they were all swept into the bottom of the sea by the sinking ship.

After being beaten by the tiger-like Zhuang Lin, the Dutchman couldn't help but get a dark face. This is a mad dog, chasing and beating him.

However, they adjusted quickly. The artillery fire on their eight sailing warships was much denser than that of the New Qin Empire. In terms of distance, it has been tested. They defeated the British in this way in the third Anglo-Dutch war with the British.

The British only pay attention to the experience of their sailors and the upgrade of their ships and technology, but they have not improved their gunnery skills much. Moreover, the British sailors are relatively loose, arrogant, and conceited, so they are very willful when facing the enemy. As a result, the Dutch defeated them, although the Dutch also paid a heavy price. Their last naval battle general, the 65-year-old general, was seriously injured and died shortly afterwards.

After winning the battle, he groveled and gave loans to the British for development, becoming a second-rate country on the sea.

Now their warships are still densely packed with gun gallery artillery, relying on solid bullets and explosive bullets to win. They are not equipped with turret artillery like the British, the Chinese Empire, the New Qin Empire, and the French.

Among them, the strongest turret artillery is the Chinese Empire, the second is the British, the third is the New Qin Empire, and the fourth is the French. After the New Qin Empire purchased the French warships, it was transformed and used a turret with two Joint installation, of course, is not the twin-mounted artillery of the giant ship cannons of World War I or World War II, but just side-by-side artillery.

The two 75mm cannons are no longer matched up and down, but a close-range 34-pound old-fashioned solid-bullet cannon at the bottom, in order to carry out heavy bombing attacks on the enemy when chasing or retreating at a distance of 800 to 75 meters. The semi-open side-by-side artillery, with a caliber of [-] mm, can achieve a firing interval of ten seconds.

Almost equivalent to launching at the same time.

One cannon is loaded, and then the other cannon opens the gun door and is also reloading. The gunner takes aim, calculates the gap, and then adjusts the turret and the cannon turret to align with the target. The two cannons adjust the shooting angle and shooting parameters together. One cannon fires, and the other cannon waits for half of the recoil force of the other cannon to disappear, and then fires after ten seconds, then the second cannon first cancels the order, cleans the cannon, the first cannon then ejects the casing, cleans the cannon, and then the second cannon The door is loaded, and the first artillery is loaded. During this process, the gunner captures the target, and the deputy gunner gives an order to adjust the angle of the turret and the gun according to the parameters of the gunner. The first gunner and the second gunner close the gun door in turn. Then the second prepared artillery fires first, withdraws for a certain distance, and prepares the exit distance for the gunner of the first artillery. This process is very complicated and must be precise.

There is no way to do this, and technology is so backward now.

The first thousand 330 chapters and seven cunning Dutchmen 2

Killing a 6-ton sailing warship of the Dutch will not make the Dutch give up. After all, they have used their own advantages and means to induce Zhuang Lin to use most of their forces to protect the supply fleet. Now they are 14:680, and there is still a big The enemy's sail reconnaissance ship and communication ship, these ships have [-] artillery pieces, and how many artillery pieces are there on the six modified French steam engine battleships?

Each ship has two 75mm turret guns connected in parallel at the front and rear, and the lower 34-pound old heavy siege gun at the front. The turret artillery, the cabin on the lower floor, the gun gallery artillery, two eighteen-pound old guns on one side, and four twelve-pounder old guns between the two gun gallery eighteen-pounder guns.

In this way, there are six artillery guns on one side plus two turrets. The British rapid-fire guns have eight guns, that is, the firepower of the middle side is only the firepower of eight artillery guns, plus the rotating turret and the shooting angle only to the front. Thirteen degrees around, a total of 26 degrees of 34-pound heavy-duty siege guns, um, this gun, the guns at the bow and stern because of the shooting angle, unless the enemy is facing the bow or stern, and within a range of 600 meters to 800 meters , otherwise it will not work, then there are only twelve cannons on one side of a ship that can participate in the fire attack.

The six ships have a total of 72 guns. This is on the battle line, and even if the enemy's random small ship of several hundred tons cannot hit far, it can have the firepower of twelve artillery pieces at a distance of 300 meters to 180 meters. At a distance of 800 to 36 meters, there are three layers of artillery with a total of 56 to 72 artillery pieces. The enemy's 1000-ton firepower is even more abnormal. The firepower on one side has the firepower of nearly 200 to [-] artillery pieces. From [-] meters to more than [-] meters, they launched an attack on the six ships of the fleet led by Zhuang Lin of the New Qin Empire.

The intensity of firepower can be described as terrifying. It is no wonder that the fleet of the Dutch, a sea coachman who can fight against the fleet of the future maritime overlord British, such a small fleet has 150 to 360 guns on one side of terror. firepower.

But fortunately, the Dutch wanted to use their fists to kill the master's all-out offensive strategy to destroy the six steam engine battleships led by Zhuang Lin that they bought from the French.

To deal with this kind of chaotic battle, Zhuang Lin has experience. While leading the fleet to maintain a battle line formation to pursue the enemy's fleet, he also dealt with the enemy's dense solid bullet firepower like locusts. The six warships were constantly shot, but this did not help them. How much impact, a few sailors and handymen were killed, all the solid bullets were blocked by the armor plate, and then those enemy ocean-going communication ships that dared to rush to the 180-meter assault were torn apart by the gun gallery artillery and the 50-meter rapid-fire gun turret In less than half an hour, the enemy's three communication ships with hundreds of tons were all sunk.

The enemy's two 800-ton sail warships and one [-]-ton steam engine warship hurriedly fled a distance of [-] to [-] meters, but that was so easy. Scarred, but still fighting, he damaged a [-]-ton sail warship and a [-]-ton steam engine warship successively.

Of course, the Dutch were not completely beaten by Zhuang Lin. There were fifteen 500-ton steam engine warships wandering outside them, keeping them outside the maximum range of 75 meters. The general firepower is no worse than that of Zhuang Lin and the others, and they have more artillery, not only the [-]-pound and [-]-pound artillery, but also the artillery that is now commonly used in the world, the [-]mm copper shell shell.

Although there are not many of these cannons, they are definitely more equipped on the deck than the French. There are at least six 75mm cannons on one side, as well as cannons purchased or developed by themselves, but the caliber is 45mm or 68mm, 45mm The artillery should be counted in the 50mm rapid-fire guns, and the 68mm should be counted in the 75mm artillery series.

The artillery of any country cannot be used all over the world. There is always a difference. If you make 37mm artillery, I will make 37.5mm or 37.6mm artillery. The purpose is to prevent the enemy from getting my artillery or shells and directly loading them into the enemy's Fire inside the cannon, or directly use your own shells to fire inside the captured enemy's artillery, so that once captured by the enemy, it is equal to the enemy.

There is still a difference between the 75mm artillery of the French and the 75mm artillery of the British. The British are actually 74mm, and the French are actually 75mm. The shells are a little heavier than the British, and they are also larger circle, while the Huaxia Empire is 75mm. Although the tolerance will be a little larger, such as 74 or 74, but it is generally the same. It is enough to leave such a small tolerance for the muzzle.

Because the Chinese Empire was the first to make 75mm artillery, so they are actually 75mm, and the New Qin Empire has no resources, and the shells are slightly smaller, which is almost the same as the British artillery data, seventy Point six, so the shells can be used with a little grinding of the captured British artillery.

When using French warships, of course they will buy shells from the French. Therefore, the shells on board are all French now. The New Qin Empire has also increased production and specially produced some French shells. Otherwise, the French can’t be used. Artillery, afraid that the French will get stuck, so the French bought more shells, and at the same time produced more. If all these warships are bombed and sunk, then this production line will be useless. Of course, it can be slightly changed. Produce your own shells.

The intensive artillery fire almost knocked off the armor plates of the six Zhuanglin warships. The horizontal armor plates on the decks were undulating, and the casualties also rose in a straight line. Does not affect navigation and combat.

After defeating the enemy's eight sail warships and steam engine warships, six battleships with heavy wounds were exposed to the fire of fifteen enemy steam engine warships. Zhuang Lin began to distribute firepower. Once engaged in an artillery battle with the enemy at a distance of 500 meters.

The distance of 500 meters may be for the warships of World War I and World War II. To fire at this distance is the last moment. It is red-eyed. By being sunk, it is necessary to drag one or two enemy warships to hell, but Now, in this time and space, technology is far from developed, and everyone is still playing in the era of sailing battleships. This distance is equivalent to the battle at a distance of [-] meters in the era of giant ships and cannons in World War I and World War II.

The two sides projected countless shells, but the proportion of hitting the enemy plummeted. The Dutch projected solid shells, chain shells, and flower shells. Most of them fell into the water at a distance of 200 meters or 300 meters. Because of the maneuvering of the fleets of both sides, most of them fell into the water, and some even fell 75 meters away.

The first thousand and 330 eight chapters hit the enemy hard

In the battle where ten or twenty rounds of artillery shells were projected at each other, the enemy opened the scoring first. A 75mm artillery shell was accurately concentrated on Zhuang Lin's flagship. The tail gun 34-pound siege gun turret was blown up, and the gunners and sailors who carried the shells inside and outside the turret were all in one pot, even affecting the operation of the 1.2-meter-high upper juxtaposed 75mm turret.

The turret was hit by a piece of shrapnel, then bounced a bit, and was eventually blocked by a 75mm barrel, and then bounced off, directly stuck to the base, causing the turret to jam, the gunner inside and the handyman carrying the shells outside Sailors and slaves were killed and wounded.

Soon the damage control team ran out, quickly extinguished the fire at the stern, and then moved the bodies and dealt with the fault. It took 5 minutes to clean up the bodies of nearly fifteen dead and transfer the five seriously injured, and then hid in the cabin below. The spare gunners and sailors inside, the handymen ran up, and at the same time mobilized a batch of spare slaves from the bottom warehouse to restore the firepower of the two 75mm parallel artillery.

The entire stern deck was in a mess. The damage control team washed the deck with sea water, and then quickly got into the cabin protected by the heavy deck. As long as there is no huge damage and water leakage, they will not come out casually.

Fortunately, the propeller and steering gear at the stern were not affected, otherwise the flagship would have to spin on the sea surface and become a living target for the enemy. Some cabins in the bottom cabin were quickly inspected and found some penetration, but not much damage. The ships built by the French are worthy of recognition, and the shipyards of the New Qin Empire are also very strong.

Standing in the conning tower at the bow of the ship, Zhuang Lin quickly learned about the loss through the intercom. He didn't care, touched the wound on his forehead, and continued to command the battle. There was an intimate contact with a pillar, a big bump was knocked on the head, and there was blood oozing faintly.

The skull of a Han combat team commander in the command cabin was cracked, and he was urgently lifted off the command tower and carried to the internal medical warehouse for rescue and treatment.

There are more than 500 people on this 200-ton steam engine battleship. There are more than [-] slaves in the bottom warehouse. Ten damage control teams are constantly repairing, extinguishing fires, moving shells, or taking care of slaves.

They are not only the ship's damage control personnel, but also the combat team, and also the monitor of the slave's door. There are more than 80 gunners, more than 30 commanders, and artillery maintenance.

There are also seven or eight doctors, three to five cooks, seven or eight carpenters, blacksmiths, and even a priest. There is no way, there are many foreign soldiers among the gunners and sailors, and the slaves are all British or natives on the island. , these Newfoundlanders and Inuit believe those of the West.

A shell was hit here, another battleship, about No. [-], six French warships were numbered, flagship No. [-], followed by No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-]. No. [-] was hit by a cannon Corridor, lost four [-]-pound guns, and nearly twenty gunners, eight were killed, three were seriously injured, and nine were slightly injured.

The damage control team lost one person, and the others put out the fire, and filled the shell storage below with a water hose to prevent the shell from exploding, because an enemy shell went down, flew in from the gun gallery, and opened a hole on one side , I don’t know why there was no explosion, the damage control team didn’t dare to go down, so they could only pour water into it desperately to submerge the shells and gunpowder packs.

Now the remaining two [-]-pound guns with compartments on both sides can only use the small hatch to let the gunners of the other two [-]-pound guns without combat missions transport their propellant packs and shells. Come over, and send the gunner over to replace the concussed gunner.

With nearly three or four tons of seawater, the speed of the whole ship dropped a bit, from the high speed of 200 knots to [-] knots, and No. [-] was a little out of line. The Dutch maintained this speed very cunningly. They all The steam engine battleship did not suffer much damage, and the speed was not affected by the damage. It quickly opened the distance between No. [-] and the battle line fleet, about [-] meters.

It is impossible for the entire fleet to slow down because of No. [-], so they can only drop No. [-] and continue to deal with the enemy. No. [-] has just dealt with the fault, and the enemy injured three warships, one sail warship, one steam engine warship, and one three thousand warships. The ton steam engine battleship rushed forward.

The gunfire injured No. [-] again, and the gun gallery on the right was hit again. The flames of the martyrdom rushed over through the small hatch that transported the shells, injuring the gunner of an [-]-pound gun.A [-]mm rapid-fire gun turret above their heads was destroyed, but the other quickly returned fire. The enemy's [-]-ton sail warship was hit by the main mast and quickly dropped its speed, then stayed in place.

The commander of the No. 34 battleship grabbed the enemy and beat it fiercely. The 34-pound gun at the stern fired a shot, and it hit the enemy's stern with a single shot. The giant solid bullet iron lump as much as 100 catties was shot from a height of 580 meters. Flying down from the sky, at a distance of [-] meters, the huge kinetic energy pierced through the enemy's rear deck all the way, and the shells smashed a crack several meters long and a finger wide on the bottom warehouse before stopping.

The turbulent sea flooded in, and the enemy's sailing warship had to abandon the ship. A large number of crew members jumped into the water, or quickly sent the lifeboat, and then rushed towards the lifeboat. In order to grab the lifeboat, they disregarded morality, The sailors who blocked the way were pushed into the sea one after another.

The enemy over there saw that the No. 1 steam engine battleship was falling behind, and immediately separated three more steam engine battleships to rush over. Now it is 68 vs. 45. While No. [-] maneuvers, it bears the enemy's solid bullets, flowering bullets, and [-] to [-]mm shells. attack.