Lord of Ming Dynasty

It took the enemy less than 10 minutes to catch up with them. In 10 minutes, the supply fleet had traveled eleven nautical miles, and its speed had increased to thirteen knots.

Wu Nan's fleet has traveled eight nautical miles in order to hold back the enemy.

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In order to hold back the enemy, the ocean-going communication ship also tried its best. At a distance of 800 meters, it used the [-]mm rapid-fire gun captured by the British, one at the bow, one at the stern, and two old [-]-pound cannons on the left and right in the middle. , The ocean-going communication ship is originally used for detection and transmission of information, so the firepower equipment on the ship is not high, the defense is not high, and the armor plate is very heavy, it is impossible to install it.

Just wrapped the iron sheet to the hull.Use special sails and masts, as well as steam engine samples to assist driving, speed up, and the most important thing is speed.

The 75mm artillery on the bow was always facing the enemy, and the shells hit the enemy ship one after another. The enemy fired thirty rounds of artillery. They fired nearly twenty rounds of artillery, and about [-] shells were fired. Not high, but also hit, at least three shells hit the enemy's upper deck gun gallery and second deck gun gallery.

One shell took away three [-]mm rapid-fire guns of a ship, and took away nearly fifteen enemy artillerymen at the same time, destroying the environment of the gun gallery. Nearly fifty gunners were affected and panicked for a while. After recovering, fortunately, no shells were detonated or charges were launched, but some fires were caused, which were quickly put out by the enemy's damaged artillery.

The other two shells hit another battleship, one took away two 75mm guns of the enemy, ten gunners, one blew up one of the enemy's sub-masts, killed a helmsman, and overturned a ship. A [-]mm gun was fired, wounding three or four gunners.

This has little effect on the British first-class battleship with more than 100 artillery pieces.

However, the good luck of these four ocean-going communication ships has also come to an end. Thirty salvos of artillery, each with about fifty shells, almost wiped out one-thirtieth of the battleship's stored shells. When the artillery was rounded, the masts of two ocean-going communication ships were interrupted immediately, and the two bow artillery were blown up. The power and speed dropped, from a rapid sixteen knots to only seven or eight knots. In the round of rapid salvo firepower, it was a life-and-death test every minute.

Wunan and the others retreated while being chased by the enemy. The enemy was very ferocious and knew how to fight. They kept lining up in battle lines and fighting around, maintaining intensive firepower against the enemy at all times.

During high-speed maneuvering, artillery fire is continuously poured around the enemy.

After severely damaging four ocean-going communication ships of the Wunan Fleet of the New Qin Empire, six 3-ton steam engine warships on the other side were also hit by the enemy's intensive artillery fire, and one was immediately exploded by more than a dozen shells. It sank into the water, but before dying, the battleship fired a front and rear salvo, and four shells hit the tail of a first-class battleship in the middle of the enemy.

A shell smashed one of the enemy's masts, and the explosion plunged the enemy's stern into a sea of ​​flames. The burning fire ignited all the enemy's stern masts and sails. The sailors on the enemy's ship tried their best to fight the fire, but there was no way to stop the fire from spreading. Then, The other three shells entered the fire and detonated the artillery on the stern deck. The violent explosion not only damaged the upper deck and the upper buildings of the enemy's stern, but also damaged the lower deck, flying shrapnel and sawdust, It directly penetrated the deck of the next floor.

The violent explosion also damaged the enemy's boilers and steam engines. The pipes of the steam engine burst, rushed into the boiler room, raged in the boiler room, and then rushed out of the coal bunker. All the crew members of the coal bunker were burned by the steam.

The power instantly dropped to a speed of three or four knots, and the entire ship broke away from the battle line and floated on the sea.

Seeing Jiangong, the other five steam engine warships also quickly approached 200 meters. They fired several salvos, but the salvos did not achieve much results, but they were damaged by the enemy, and the losses here were heavy.

The battle has been going on for two hours and 10 minutes, and it can be seen from a distance that the enemy fleet has caught up. Although they have left the coast of Africa for [-] nautical miles, in this clear weather, it is only a dozen nautical miles away. It can be seen that although they have deviated from the original African coast by [-] nautical miles, the enemy has come down [-] nautical miles away. They are only seven or eight nautical miles away from where they were originally, and they are only twenty nautical miles away from here. It takes an hour and a half to catch up with them.

However, these ten enemy first-class battleships dragged them and could not escape at full speed. The two sides circled for more than two hours before they were 22 nautical miles away from the original place. , The enemy also successfully waited for the British fleet going south, but the fleet went astray.

It seemed that it would be impossible to completely deal with the ten enemy battleships. Wu Nan ordered 22 sailing warships escorting the supply fleet to turn back and besiege the remaining nine enemy first-class battleships that were still on the battle line.

Ten minutes later, the two sides approached at three nautical miles, eighteen minutes later, one and a half nautical miles, and twenty-two minutes later at one thousand and one hundred meters. The two teams in the shape of a zigzag line up to the tail and head of the enemy team to seize the T-shaped battle position.

In another hour and a half, the enemy's support will arrive. If these ten warships are not defeated, they will be surrounded by the enemy fleet, and the entire army will be wiped out by then.

Wu Nan decided to break through as soon as possible even if he suffered heavy losses.

The enemy began to get rid of it at an accelerated rate, and the intensive firepower exploded the [-]-ton sailing warships one by one. Countless sailors of the New Qin Empire fell into the water, and many sailors of the New Qin Empire fell on the entire sea like dumplings. struggling.

Wunan sent two [-]-ton main steam engine warships to rescue people.

The main battleship still did not move.

Still clinging to it, pumping cold shots from time to time to fire a volley, and then hurried away from the battlefield to cover them behind the fighting ships.

22 sailing battleships, four ocean-going communication ships, six [-]-ton steam engine battleships, biting the enemy fleet, and lost six [-]-ton sailing battleships, two steam engine battleships, and three ocean-going communication ships in less than half an hour , the enemy was also injured by several ships, but it still did not affect the enemy's maneuverability and firepower output. The enemy's warship, which was hit hard, finally put out the fire. With only one mast, it took less than three knots. The speed followed behind, more than ten nautical miles away from the battlefield.

Wu Nan just watched calmly, the supply fleet had already run 25 nautical miles, and gradually ran out of sight, Wu Nan recalled the ocean-going communication ship and asked him to follow the supply fleet. The five ocean-going communication ships returned, Wu Nan did not sacrifice them again, but let them stay in the middle, maintaining the communication between the main fleet and the supply fleet.

Three hours later, the enemy fleet was approaching, about ten nautical miles away, and several [-]-ton sail warships finally seized the T-shaped battle position at the head of the enemy's team. The fierce artillery fire hit the enemy's front battleship like a torrential rain .

The enemy's bow artillery was no match for the 600-ton sailing battleship lined up across the sea. It attacked violently at a distance of 20 meters, and more than [-] shells fell on the enemy battleship.

Fifteen solid bullets, two flowering bullets, and three 75mm artillery shells immediately smashed the enemy's superstructure with thousands of holes, the mast collapsed, and many holes were pierced through the battleship deck. The air waves pushed the enemy's personnel and the material cables on the deck flying everywhere. Three shells hit the middle conning tower, and then exploded from the bow, side, and middle section of the ship.

A few more shells landed on the second frigate aft, setting fire to the deck.

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The first warship tilted immediately, almost capsized, and then withdrew from the battle line. While fighting back and putting out the fire, it struggled to get back to the battle line. Several sail warships behind also grabbed the battle position. He injured two ships and smashed two warships at the rear of the enemy team.

The enemy was entangled, Wu Nan saw that the enemy had already reached the eight seas not far away, and the enemy was about to catch up if the battle was not over for half an hour, so he immediately joined the battle with the remaining 22 main battleships and rushed towards the enemy. At this time, the remaining three [-]-ton battleships had already held back the enemy on the other side, and the two sailing fleets that had circled were also blocking the enemy's battle positions on the left and right sides. The enemy could only move within a radius of three nautical miles. Turning in circles, they used their thousands of artillery pieces to deal with the siege on all sides.

With a bang, in order to cut off the enemy's battle line column, a sailing warship rushed over, braving the enemy's artillery fire from both sides, and bravely bumped into the side and rear of the fifth battleship among the remaining eight enemy battleships. He was stuck out of the battle line and rushed straight about 30 meters.

The enemy's formation was in chaos, just as Wu Nan's fleet rushed up, eight [-]-ton sail warships directly cut off the meeting route between the three behind the enemy and the four in front, and Wu Nan led thirteen [-]-ton steam engine warships to besiege the four in front. The fleet was divided into two on the side of the enemy's battleship that was hit by the enemy, and each of the two teams separated two battleships from the team to besiege the battleship that was hit by the [-]-ton sailing warship.

In the fierce artillery fire, the enemy's battleship was washed out by the firepower, and the deck was in a mess. After the two thousand tons of sails hit, the bow of the ship cut into the enemy's hull by three meters, and then countless remaining personnel jumped off the ship. The personnel of the two ships entered the gang battle, and the two sailing warships rushed over while bearing the fire from the enemy's side, while returning fire, hitting the enemy's gun gallery artillery, while rushing up. They were all shot, and all of them were blown up by the opponent's gun gallery artillery.

But soon the helmsman attached the two sailing warships to the opposing ship, one left and one right. Countless sailors grabbed the cables and swung past the two ships before they approached. This version of the two [-]-ton steam engine warships rushed Come here, walk around, and fire at the enemy's gun gallery artillery, directly silencing all the enemy's gun gallery, and then lean in. Countless sailors threw out the scratching hooks, and fastened the two ships from this side, and then countless sailors The combatants jumped on it.

There are at least 800 to 300 people on five ships plus slaves. Even if there are 1000 slaves, there are still 800 people left. The number of people on one enemy ship is only [-]. After several artillery battles, the enemy There are a lot of losses, and there are not as many people here.

Eleven against four, six against three, five against three, plus the remaining sailboats and steam engine ships before, formed a situation where more than 50 ships fought against ten. After a hard battle, the enemy's ammunition consumption was almost the same, and they also lost a lot , there are 22 [-]-ton sailboats here, and there are eleven sailboats. The eleven sailboats are divided into two teams, one team, eight ships, besieging the four ships on this side, three ships in one team, three ships on the other side, and the rest One of the three [-]-ton steamships besieged the three ships on this side, and two of the four ships were besieging the enemy even if they were seriously injured.

At 300 meters, 600 meters, and 800 meters, there are warships of the New Qin Empire besieging the enemy within the firepower range of the three levels.

In 10 minutes, the battleship was captured, and the New Qin Empire hit the [-]-ton sailing warship and was completely pushed into the sea. The items were transferred to the captured battleship, and then left quickly. The two sailing warships salvaged the people who fell into the water, and then Joining the siege of three enemy battleships, two [-]-ton steam engine battleships were ordered to guard the enemy fleet with two [-]-ton sail warships.

Intercept ocean-going communication ships harassed by the enemy.

When eight 100-ton sailing warships were besieging the enemy's four battleships, two were sunk by the enemy and two were injured. The wounded immediately gave up the siege and rescued the sunk crew members who fell into the water, and then retreated to the supply fleet direction.The remaining four continued to fight. They imitated the sailing warship just now and wanted to repeat the same tricks, but unexpectedly the enemy hit the blow and did not get close to the enemy. One was seriously injured, one was slightly injured, and the other was [-] meters away from the enemy. Passed by the enemy at a reasonable distance, and damaged the enemy's mast and tail gun with artillery.

Another one passed between two enemy battleships and was hit by the enemy's stern and bow artillery. The mast was severely damaged, but it still fought back. and the stern exploded into a mess and burst into flames.

Then it was hit and sunk by the battleship rushing up from behind the enemy, and the battleship drove directly over it. The poor remaining 200 sailors and slaves on that ship did not react, and were directly crushed into the water by the enemy battleship, but the enemy It was also uncomfortable, because the propeller was damaged, the steering gear was damaged, and it stopped after driving [-] meters.

Seizing the opportunity, a [-]-ton steam engine ship sailed to the side of the enemy's bow, starting with the letter T, and then opened fire. After the salvo of fire, the ammunition on the enemy ship exploded, just like a firework show that suddenly erupted at [-] o'clock in the new year. The ship was blown to pieces, about three or four hundred British and the sailors and combatants they hired from various countries were blown up, and many injured people screamed in pain on the sea, and about fifty or sixty crew members were lucky not to be injured. Seriously injured, fell into the water and called for help.

"Intensify the siege," Wu Nan saw that the enemy had already reached more than five nautical miles, and it was about to arrive in ten minutes. He was not reconciled, and immediately asked the watchman to signal to urge other warships to step up the siege.

The four warships over there have already exchanged fire with the enemy's fast-moving warships.

"Narrow the encirclement."

"Rush up, the sailing warship rushes up, leans up, and captures them." Wu Nan yelled.

The remaining severely wounded ship, the lightly wounded ship, and the other wounded sailing warships ignored it, and chose one to rush up, and soon with the wounds, nearly four ships besieged one, under the cover of artillery fire from the steam engine battleship main battleship behind. , nearly eight steam engine battleships and three sailing ships rushed to the enemy's side, approaching ten meters. Eight meters, already accelerated and jumped onto the enemy's deck while hanging the cable.

The artillery fire of thirteen steam engine warships and three wounded sail warships surrounded the enemy's four battleships at an interval of 500 meters in the sea.

The personnel of both sides rushed to the deck one after another, jumped onto the other side's deck and shot, adding swords and axes, killing very fiercely.

The three sailing battleships over there also rushed in front of the enemy, entangled the enemy at the cost of damaging one and ramming the other, six ships approached two enemy battleships one after another, and the fighting continued.

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Wunan's flagship did not go up. The enemy had already destroyed one ship, seriously injured one ship, captured one ship, and sacked six ships. He immediately dispatched two steam engine warships that were not seriously injured to help the seven enemy ships in the distance. The eight warships attacked the four warships that blocked the enemy's approach.

In the end, he also rushed forward with his flagship. Eight warships stopped the enemy's eleven warships, including eight [-]-ton sail warships, two ocean-going communication ships, and a [-]-ton steam engine warship. , The enemy's main fleet is still desperately approaching three nautical miles away.