Lord of Ming Dynasty

The captain of such a battleship with enhanced firepower and defense, increased buoyancy, speed, and improved performance is also the commander of the entire fleet.

The fleet is small, but it has a heavy mission. Wunan Fleet, Zhuanglin Fleet, and Molin's main fleet all had to be rescued by him. He felt that the burden on him was heavy. As a result, the fleet he commanded sailed at sea for more than ten days Time, sailing in a straight line, and finally came to the coast of France.

In fact, going to France is to take a steep slope, but it is closer than going to the Strait of Gibraltar, and it is similar to a straight line. He does not have much experience, so he chose an easy route. Going to the Strait of Gibraltar also requires a steep slope, and The slope was bigger than this, and it was nearly a few hundred nautical miles away. It was all due to his lack of experience. When he reached the coast of France, he asked some French captains on the coast of France. Fifteen degrees, just go to the bottom of the map.

So he could only continue down with the fleet.

Just after going down for [-] nautical miles, I saw gunfire rumbling in the bay between France and Spain, black smoke filled the sky, and the British ships were rushing back and forth. , he knew something was wrong, it must be the fleet of his own country fighting the British, leaving the battlefield around them in the distance, and more and more warships returning to the UK, most of them were scarred and staggering, it seems that the battle was fought Very intense.

So he ordered to speed up, raising the speed of the entire fleet to [-] knots, hurriedly and slowly, and finally arrived at the battlefield.

When he arrived on the battlefield, he saw the enemy's main fleet was preparing to join the naval battle from twenty nautical miles to the side, so he ordered to intercept the enemy's main fleet.

Five steam engine warships and two sailing ships were assigned to support the Wunan fleet, and the other five ships followed his five ironclad ships to intercept the enemy's main fleet.

After four and 10 minutes of sailing, the two sides intercepted the enemy's main fleet at a position of 317 degrees northwest of the Wunan Fleet, about 25 nautical miles.

The leader of this main fleet is Molin’s old enemy, Major General John Bing Carter, who met Molin’s New Qin Empire’s main fleet, supply fleet, and auxiliary fleet squadron on the Algerian coast of the Mediterranean Sea. After escaping from the pursuit of Morin's main fleet, with the remaining four battleships, they encountered another super fleet of the British, two super fleets at the mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar, and then joined the super fleet.

The two super fleets were two of the three that chased Wunan back from the coasts of Britain and France. They lost some small boats and some high-tonnage sailboats, but their strength was not damaged. Ten battleships, so their strength is superior. Even if Morin's main fleet has three heads and six arms, they can't completely defeat them, protect the supply fleet and return to the New Qin Empire intact, so they have to leave nearly [-]% of the losses and barely complete the task .

Before they broke away from the fleet chasing Wunan and returned to the strait, they handed over another super fleet to the command of Major General Carter, and continued to pursue the Wunan fleet. This super fleet was not far from the mainland fleet of the British mainland. More than half, the rest will be under the command of Major General Carter, otherwise a defeated general will not be able to command a super fleet.

After the Morin Fleet was besieged, the two heavy-loss super fleets continued to return to the UK, and the UK continued to send warships to support, so Carter's pursuit fleet was supplemented by many ships. Otherwise, Wu Nan's escape Technology has already thrown off the pursuit of Major General Carter and the others. There are still many scattered warships in the North Atlantic that have not returned, and they are still looking for Wunan and the others.

It's just that this auxiliary fleet led by Major General Carter can intercept Wunan and the others in the Cantabrian Gulf between France and Spain first?After intercepting the Wunan Fleet, the auxiliary fleet dispatched ships to quickly inform Major General Carter, who was looking around behind the Wunan Fleet, and then hurried over, but unfortunately, he encountered the reinforcement Song Qing's fleet again.

Seeing several ironclad ships, Major General Carter's face was very exciting. He was beaten by twelve ironclad ships just a month ago, and a few of the thirty battleships ran back. Now he has a shadow of this kind of battleship.

But the war still has to be fought. Now there are twelve first-class battleships and eight second-class battleships. And fourth-class battleships.

"Rush forward, don't fight with them in the battle line, try to rush to fight as close to the enemy as possible," this is the conclusion reached by Major General Carter after a painful experience. The 74mm artillery on the battleship here is still harmful. , but because the accuracy is not enough on the battle line, the hits are not great. If you hit a few more times, the enemy's ironclad defense will not be strong enough.

Indeed, it is a pity that Song Qing may lack experience in some places, but after nearly a hundred battles, he still knows how to take advantage of his warships. The two sides are still three nautical miles away, so he ordered three ironclad ships with nine gates of 128 mm The cannon fired.

At a distance of 5000 meters, no matter how powerful Major General Karl’s 74mm artillery is, at such a long distance, there is still no ability to hit it accurately. The most accurate of that kind of artillery is 1000 meters to 200 meters, beyond this distance , increase the elevation angle to launch, maybe it can hit three to five nautical miles, but it is aimed at the ground, and precise shooting is not required. Now at sea, it is not accurate, how can it hit such a small three to five nautical miles away? Target?

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The main fleet of the British Super Fleet led by Major General Carter broke up and swarmed upwards. Song Qing didn't care about them. He immediately fired around them, and at the same time let the five steam engine battleships that followed retreat to help Wunan and the others. .

In such a big melee, there is no way to help the iron-clad ships. Instead, because they were besieged, Song Qing and their iron-clad ships might have to rescue them because they were besieged. This is Song Qing's experience.

The firing at three nautical miles, of course, was not accurate, even the sailors and gunners of the New Qin Empire who had been trained frequently were not accurate, so the nine shells still fell far away, but the spray of water from the shells scared the British. People, some warships, dodged one after another, avoiding such a water column, avoiding the artillery shells of the New Qin Empire.

Dodging shells increases the gap between their fleet ships and increases the chaos of their fleet, which makes it even more impossible for them to surround the ironclad ships with the large number of ships in a short while.

After reaching two nautical miles, the accuracy improved. The shell exploded a higher water column at a distance of 200 meters from the enemy. Next to a second-class enemy battleship, a near-miss bomb was formed. The near-miss bomb caused the enemy ship to shake a few times. Although no casualties were caused, the enemy warship immediately turned around and floated more than 600 meters away. , and then bypassed.

One nautical mile, Song Qing's five armored ships began to fire around the enemy's attacking fleet. The intensive firepower made the enemy dodge here and there, without much damage, but it expanded the enemy's formation and intensified the chaos. At a distance of 600 meters, Finally, the success was achieved. A 128mm artillery shell directly formed a straddle shot and carried out a three-dimensional attack on a first-class battleship. Two near-misses caused several large sunken pits on the enemy's side of the ship.

At 500 meters, the armored fleet was no longer approaching the enemy, but the enemy was rushing forward, firing non-stop. The shells scattered in a wide range and did not form a deterrent at all. They could only be said to embolden the enemy.

But at this time, the cannons on the sea were already rumbling. Nearly 1 shells fired a salvo every 30 minute, or a minute and a half, or sporadic shooting in less than [-] seconds, like a big battle. Yes, but in fact there was loud thunder and little rain, and the two sides fired at each other. There was not much achievement, at most they scratched the skin of the ship. The firepower of the nine cannons was too weak, and most of them were shells and salvos from the enemy. The sound of gunfire, the confusion of gunpowder smoke, is only in the enemy's fleet, and the ammunition has already begun to be saved here, and the main and secondary guns have stopped firing.

Because it doesn't have much effect at a distance of about 500 meters, Song Qing tried his best to maintain this distance, and then returned fire with giant cannons.

The main guns have been fired for thirteen rounds, but there is still no great achievement. This makes Song Qing very anxious. The British began to organize their fleet and divided them into two groups to attack. The following steam engine warships followed suit and moved towards Their auxiliary fleet ran.

Major General Carter is not stupid. He knows that even with only five ironclad warships, it is not easy to fight, so the best way is to destroy the enemy's other warships and use wolf tactics to consume the enemy. The enemy's main warships are too few. weakness.

He had also heard about the enemy's main battleship before. Twelve ironclad warships faced nearly three hundred warships of two super fleets. Although it was not a victory, it finally contained the attack of twelve enemy ironclad warships. , Destroying at least three enemy ironclad ships, the enemy's current main fleet has escaped, and the fleet is organizing a pursuit.

Now he is going to surround the enemy with these main warships, and then beat the master to death with his fists, and also keep these iron-clad ships of the enemy. He may suffer heavy losses, but he is not afraid of losses if he can win the enemy.If it can add to his record, he doesn't care even if he loses all of it.

I just divided the fleet into two parts to outflank five ironclad ships. A volley of nine cannons on that side immediately shattered a second-class battleship on the other side. The nine shells hit two of them, and one hit directly On the deck, even the iron protection on the deck was shattered, the shell exploded, and the deck was directly smashed. The battleship blasted a five-meter-wide and three-meter-deep hole from top to bottom, directly scrapping the entire ship.

The hull in the middle section made a crackling sound, and the crackling hull could not bear the sound of gravity cracking. Before the sound was over, another shell landed on the stern, directly cutting off the entire stern, a section of about five meters, and then the whole The warship split into three sections. The front section lost gravity and hit the sea surface directly, rowing about ten meters away, and then plunged into the sea. Those who were not hit by the bombing followed into the sea in a daze. There was not even time to react, the middle part was directly scattered on the sea surface, many people turned into corpses, and the tail end was even turned into fragments.

awful,

awful,

What was even worse was the psychological shock to the people on the other British warships.

Major General Carter led eight first-class battleships here, and they were outflanking at high speed. Seeing this, he was stunned, and a chill ran from the soles of his feet to his whole body.

It was so shocking, just two, killed a second-class battleship with a weight of 890 tons and nearly [-] tons, and it was so miserable.

Major General Carter and the others were amazed, but the war still had to be fought. This was a life-and-death war. Robbery or being rescued, every time is so miserable.

This is the first to set the record, and Wunan and the others boarded a new [-]-ton steam engine battleship there. The second-class battleship they snatched was abandoned because it was too broken.

After counting, Wu Nan found that at this time, he had lost three [-]-ton sailing warships, and the enemy had lost a lot. The support fleet hit the enemy at the beginning. Three warships sank and two battleships were injured. Flee, the enemy's warships are running out, and most of them are wounded and fled.

The main thing they have to face is some steam engine battleships and sail warships sent by the enemy Major General Carter, not many, the main force is two second-class battleships and three first-class battleships, and the remaining three [-]-ton sail warships here , two [-]-ton steam engine warships, there are about fifteen combat ships in total.

After Wu Nan took over the auxiliary fleet, he immediately regrouped. Ten battleships with full blood came to aid, and six remnants with serious injuries were defeated. Facing the enemy's battleship with almost full blood, he still felt heavy.

Over there, Song Qing became more and more handy. It's not that his command is better than Wu Nan's, but because he has advanced warships that are almost crushed. At a distance of 300 meters, the cannon fired repeatedly. No.20 fired six rounds, and a first-class battleship was immediately blown up. This time, only one shell, and the entire battleship jumped nearly three meters. High, then fell heavily on the sea, and then broke in the middle.

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The 128mm cannon is really too cruel for the wood-clad iron sail warship and steam engine warship of about 128 tons. In addition, the barrel of the 200mm cannon is too long, and the kinetic energy of the cannon is too strong. Direct shooting at a distance of [-] meters, the shells directly penetrated into the unprotected hull of the steam engine battleship in the middle, the result is obvious.

After this first-class battleship, 10 minutes later, another violent explosion sounded. When a first-class battleship surrounded Song and Qing's fleet, it was first attacked by the main guns on the No. 800 and No. [-] ironclad ships. The fire from the secondary battery ransacked the deck and the hull, and then was hit directly by a slowly turning cannon at a distance of [-] meters. With a bang, it was disintegrated again by a cannon.

Major General Carter looked at it with pain. This is the third first-class battleship that was killed by a single shot. The shock that the second-class battleship brought them was only half an hour later. This is four ships. Isn't it time to finish?

Without waiting for his order, all the warships turned around and fled crazily, wanting to leave this sea area. All their ships are now at a distance of 600 meters to 800 meters from the armored fleet led by Song Qing. After all, Song Qing and their ships are too few. The maneuverability is actually similar to that of Admiral Carter and his warships. They are all at [-] to [-] knots. If you can’t catch up, there are others who can go around a little farther and just circle you. The encirclement is about to form, but they can’t resist. Such brutal fire effects.

Although it is said that we have a large number of people, a large number of ships, and are not afraid, we can always kill the enemy. Look, don’t look at the awesomeness of the iron-clad ships, but they are only iron bones and iron sheets after all, but the iron sheets are thicker. Cannonballs, plus the solid bullets of old-style artillery, are equivalent to forging titanium alloy steel with a hammer to the enemy's battleship. The problem is that if the hammer hits for a long time, the ironclad ship will also be deformed and damaged, plus the impact of the shell explosion And destructive power, the enemy will be affected no matter what.

Among the five iron-clad ships, the surface of the first-type iron-clad ship was already pitted, damaged in many places, and even burned up. The artillery turret was also deformed and twisted, and the barrel was damaged. It is not bad if 20.00% of the artillery on an ironclad ship can fire. Almost all the secondary guns are destroyed, and the main gun can still be repaired. You, you will lose a ship. If you hit it with [-] solid bullets, it will not sink the enemy. If a few shells hit it, as long as it is not critical, the enemy can still fire and fight.

The Ironclad Type II is simply a floating fort on the sea, which is difficult to chew.

"Sir, we have two [-]-ton steamships leaving the battlefield." When Major General Carter was in shock, fear, and anxiety, the first officer beside him shouted to him, "What, who told them to leave? They got Is it approved? Or are they no longer able to fight?" Major General Carter asked continuously with a roar.

"No, sir, they don't seem to have much damage, and they are not fighting on this side, but on the other side, in the bay of twelve nautical miles, we have a total of more than 40 ships besieged by another enemy fleet. Now we In addition to the more than a dozen ships that were sunk and the seven or eight ships that were seriously injured, the ships that were only slightly injured have also left the battlefield one after another. Even the second-class battleships we sent were being destroyed by the enemy. One ship was sunk, two ships were captured, and three ships were left without reporting to this side, but the two ships were fine, after reporting the situation there, they reported us to leave.”

Major General Carter was so angry, these people simply didn't take him seriously. After seeing him defeated once, they were not very convinced by him and refused to obey orders.

Before he could get angry, a 75mm shell exploded suddenly, just under his command tower. The huge explosion shock wave made the whole ship tremble, and all the staff officers and officers in the command tower were stunned.

"Report the damage to the ship," the chief mate immediately called out.

Then he quickly helped Major General Carter with the bruise on his forehead, picked up the captain's cap next to him, and handed it to Major General Carter. Major General Carter, who was standing up with his sword on his shoulders, staggered and felt a little dizzy, and took the captain's cap with one hand. Put it on, and shake your head to drive away the shining gold stars in your eyes.