Lu Ming

There is a saying that a cake will always fall to the ground first with the cream side...

Just after the second lieutenant heaved a sigh of relief watching the Junk ship go away, the ship came back after making a smooth turning radius.

All the people on the Alicante were dumbfounded.

They watched the junk perform a tight turn, and then watched it catch up... Well, now everyone has a tailwind, and the funny scene occurs again: two people 300 meters apart ships, moving in parallel.

Lieutenant Sandoval hadn't guessed his opponent's intentions until now, which was frustrating.

What are they waiting for?Is it reinforcements ahead, or a surprise attack after nightfall?You know, it is not yet noon, and it is still early before nightfall.

Apart from making sure that the opponent will not rush up to melee, the Alicante now knows nothing about this familiar neighbor 300 meters away, and is helpless...

And the ongoing semaphore exchange between the two sides is not enough for the Spaniards to understand the identity of the other party: because the simple semaphore cannot express the concept of the exploration team, including the crossing forces on Dayuan Island, the same cannot be explained by the semaphore.

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This kind of self-expression confusion has actually existed here for a long time.There is no way, everything is developing too fast, causing the whole group to always be unable to keep up with the situation in philosophical questions such as "Who am I? Where do I come from? Where are I going?"

To put it simply, the regime lacks a mature theoretical system to support it, and when it is reflected in reality, it is institutional chaos.

Walking on the streets in the period of the Republic of China, people can see businessmen in long gowns and jackets, elites in suits and leather shoes, old and young with braids, and oriental students in school uniforms with stand-up collars. such a situation.

It only took one year from the first batch of time-traversing people to haunt Hangzhou City to the day when the first wings of Dayuan Island took shape.

The traversing crowd was also overwhelmed.

No matter in terms of ideology or system, with the rapid expansion of power, everyone can only use some temporary identities as a cover in confusion while desperately adapting to the reality.In fact, until the great discussion on the constitutional monarchy, the people across the world did not have a unified statement to the outside world.

From the initial unknown merchant gangs, to the pirates who robbed officials, after that came the immortal soldiers and generals who descended from West Kunlun, and then the exiled nobles who appeared from the remote areas of the Ming Dynasty, and recently added the coastal defense guerrilla Cao Chuan. Subordinates, as well as the identity and system of Empress Junxian...

To Daming, to the Europeans, to his subordinates, and to the internal explanations of the people passing through, these chaotic masks inside and outside are intertwined, and the result is chaos.Departments like the Exploration Team couldn't even tell the outside world where they came from or what power they belonged to.

As for the solution, at least today, when the Yuan Dou intercepted the Galen ship, there is no news yet.

——The Rules Committee, which is controlled by the emperors and is responsible for solving these tactical issues, has recently been busy fighting with the Conservative Party Constitution Committee on the constitution, the national flag, including the country name that has been decided in the early stage, and has no time to care about these trivial matters.

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Therefore, the signalmen on the poor Yuandou can only signal to the Galen ship to stop the ship over and over again today, until the ships of both sides arrive in Kenting at noon.

It took the Yuandou to run against the wind in one night, and it took less than half a day this morning to return to the original point: Kenting, the southernmost tip of Taiwan.

But at this time, Pan Mingzhong and the others would naturally not let the Galen ship continue southward.Their purpose is to hijack the Galen ship and go to Dazuo, everyone should turn a corner and go north now.

Therefore, the Yuandou finally changed the semaphore at the next moment: stop the ship, or start a war!

Lieutenant Sandoval was unmoved, and Galen continued to sail directly.

Not long after, the Junk boat moved further away, and now the distance between the two ships is 400 meters.

The next moment, a row of white smoke billowed out neatly from the side of the Junk ship.

"Hahaha"... Seeing these stupid pirates of the Ming Dynasty actually firing bird guns on the 400-meter sea surface, the sailors collectively laughed.

The bird gun really didn't work.When the white smoke passed, the sea was calm and nothing happened.

However, in the next short time, another row of white smoke sprayed out from the muzzle of the sailor on the opposite side.

"These bastards have spare guns!" a big-nosed Catalan named Puyol yelled.

Before the words fell, a "whoosh" sound suddenly passed over everyone's heads.

Just as the piefaces were puzzled and looked at each other, another row of white smoke spewed out from the junk boat.This time, Puyol's big nose was shattered by a buckshot, and blood spattered his big pie face.

Chapter 194 The police are here

Accompanied by the blazing tropical sunshine, strong sea breeze, and clear and transparent sea water, the 10 sailors on the Yuandou were firing guns at the Galen ship under the blue sky and white clouds.

In order to avoid the smoke caused by free shooting and the loss of accuracy caused by the heaving of the hull, the 10-person shooting team now shoots at the same time, and the squad leader will only give the firing order when the hull shakes to the highest point.

Therefore, the current situation on the sea is: every half minute or so, a row of white smoke will rise neatly from the side of the sand boat.

The only downside to this approach is the reduced rate of fire.Erba Dagai, which could shoot 8-10 rounds of lead bullets per minute, can only shoot 1-2 rounds at a slow speed.

However, the Spaniards on the Alicante did not think so.

In 5 minutes, in just 5 minutes, the monster possessed by the devil on the opposite side fired 10 crazy rounds of lead bullets.These terrifying bullets spanned a distance of 400 meters and sent four sailors to the western sky one after another... Wrong, it was heaven.

As for the artillery fired by the Galen ship in a panic, even the gunner didn't know where the iron ball flew after temporarily increasing the dose.

Second Lieutenant Sandoval saw that the situation was not good, and once ordered the ship to approach the opponent. However, this strange ship, with a puff of blue smoke from the stern from time to time, quickly relied on its strange speed and the advantage of the wind with its hard sails to regain its strength. The distance between the two sides was widened, and the gap was widened to 450 meters.

Traditional Chinese ships have the advantage of maneuvering in turbulent winds, but due to the limitation of the total area of ​​hard sails and dead weight, the speed of the ship is flawed.However, the Yuandou, a monster ship with both dexterity and speed, made Second Lieutenant Sandoval feel powerless and helpless.

Faced with this unprecedented and weird fighting mode, the second lieutenant, who was quick and wise, issued an ostrich order: everyone hides behind the deck, and the ship moves on.

The clever second lieutenant saw the opponent's weakness: relying on the advantages of the ship's speed and range, they were unwilling to fight hand-to-hand with the Alicante, which had an eight-pound gun.

Since this is the case, let’s keep the status quo: the Galen ship is sailing straight with full sail now, lead bullets can’t penetrate the deck, so just shoot whatever you want, at worst, add a few more holes to the canvas...

The second lieutenant's order worked quickly.Facing the seemingly empty situation on the deck, the opponent stopped firing the "bird gun".

The next moment, a loud "dong dong" sound suddenly sounded from the sea.The M2HB heavy machine gun with the flash hider removed, even in the glare of the noon sun, still sprayed out high-brightness gun flames and fiery red tracer bullets.

The Spaniards, who stuck out half of their heads from the side of the ship, easily saw the trajectory of the tracer bombs—before they understood what this meant, the 12.7mm armor-piercing incendiary bombs plunged into the poop of the Galen ship.

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In the movie clips that people are familiar with in later generations, there are always some cool pirate captains, drinking rum, while smartly turning the wheel in front of them, and steering the sailboat.

However, this kind of picture did not exist before the 18th century.

Before the 18th century, the helmsman controlled the course of the sailing ship by operating the tiller attached to the rudder stock.The whole system is a simple "7"-shaped horizontal switch. The helmsman operates the horizontal side of the 7, and the tail rudder and rudder stock are the vertical side.

This system is primitive and in bad weather it sometimes takes 4 people to withstand the pressure of the bar.Moreover, this kind of rudder stock is placed on the semi-open deck in the stern cabin, unlike the wheel rudder in the movie, which is directly on the open deck.

It only needs to be positioned a little bit behind, and Lei Jian, who is lying on the stern of the Yuandou, can clearly see the position of the floor of the girth handle in the stern of Galen: because only the stern of this floor is smooth. It's open.

Therefore, using short bursts of machine gun ammunition, the level of the tail rudder was quickly tested.

When Lei Jian was in Africa, he could often play AK.Later, in the training stage before the time travel, the ignorant and fearless Lei Jian used all kinds of machine guns, and after time travel, he knew the sinister intentions of a certain chairman who invited him to play machine guns for free...

At a distance of 450 meters, the 12.7mm warhead shattered the deck like tofu. The next moment, the wood chips and warheads wrapped in energy knocked down the sailors in the rudder cabin.

The Alicante then turned a corner on the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The gunfire stopped quickly, and less than 30 rounds were spent.

After seeing the trajectory of the tracer bullets on the sea, Second Lieutenant Sandoval, who almost subconsciously bent down and ran into the stern cabin, was stunned by the tragedy at this moment.

There are human body parts and internal organs all over the floor, large swaths of blood, and the warrior who insisted on crawling forward without the lower half...

After stopping the sailors who came running in, the second lieutenant had an epiphany at this moment: "Stop the ship, lower the sails, raise the white flag, we surrender."

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An hour later, the Alicante sailed again.

Naturally, the exploration team had enough translators on their voyage this time.There are not only Spanish translations, but also two small Fujian businessmen who had dealt with the natives of Taipei before.

When the interpreter who came to Galen’s ship in a small boat told Lieutenant Sandoval about the origin of the Yuandou and the request of the exploration team leader Pan Mingzhong, the Spaniard looked at the broken body on the ground, and had no choice but to bow his head and obey. up.

As a result, the Alicante re-moored and sailed towards the officers, while the Yuandou naturally followed behind and started the journey to escort the prisoners.

At this time, there is no need to turn on the wood gas power system, and in fact, the Yuandou can no longer play - the energy density of wood is much lower than that of diesel and coal. After more than 3 hours of chasing and going, the cabin The little fuel stored in the boat has bottomed out, and if you want to play cats chasing mice again, you will have to burn the boards.

Then there was the scene where the police uncle arrived: two soft-sail schooners with hull numbers 301 and 302 arrived head-on shortly after the Galen boat turned around from Cape Kenting and headed north.

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The two police ships are based on the 17th-century two-masted schooner, a new type of sailing ship after the ship design company recalculated the line shape.

According to the naming rules of the Navy, these two newly manufactured sailing ships, due to their small tonnage, fell into the class of third-class destroyers: the number starting with the hull number is 3.As for when the second-tier cruisers and first-tier battleships with larger tonnages will be installed, this is out of the question.

Ship No. 301 is 30 meters long and has a displacement of 150 tons. The streamlined hull endows it with the ability to shuttle at high speed on the sea.

The speed of western sailing ships increased from the 17th century to the 18th century, mainly due to the increase in sail area, more and more sails, and higher and higher masts... However, the design of the underwater line was very slow, and the flying shear Appeared in the 19th century.

The parts below the waterline of the two new verification destroyers built by the traversers have been optimized through computer simulations of later generations.Although the keel does not recede like the clipper ship, the speed of the new ship is still very high. Without the gas power system, the speed can reach 13 knots per hour with full sail in the wind.

In addition, the sails of the two destroyers have also been changed: the mainsails on the front and rear masts are similar to the gaff sails of Chinese ships, but the hard sails have been changed to white canvas soft sails.

Topsails above the mainsail, whether square or jib, are cancelled.

Europeans need to increase the sail area as much as possible to gain speed, but crossing does not.The speed gains from trimming and adding auxiliary power far outweighed the complex rigging and topsails.

Therefore, the newly released cruiser is not equipped with clumsy square sails that are only suitable for sailing in the wind, but a flexible gaff sail is installed on the mainmast.In addition, on the sword-like long bowsprit of the destroyer, there is a triangle sail suitable for traveling against the wind.

This simplified sail outfit, coupled with the application of the pulley block, makes the destroyer not only flexible and fast, but also has a small crew: 9 combatants + 1 engineer, which can meet all sailing needs.Even with the addition of two artillery crews, 20 people will be full.

As for the armament on the destroyer, there are two imitation Napoleon guns installed on the front and rear decks with rotating mounts and auxiliary aiming equipment.A 12-pound caliber and a 6-pound.

Use the 19th century smoothbore gun to compete with the 17th century ancient red cannon, well, this is bullying, very suitable for traveling through the crowd.

The Napoleon cannon, like Erba Dagai's prototype gun Sharps, belongs to the pinnacle of this field.

A standard 12-pound smoothbore Napoleon gun weighs 556 kg. It can accurately project a 12-pound iron ball to a distance of 5 meters with a 1500-degree firing angle.If the firing angle is increased to 10 degrees, the distance can reach 1900 meters.

At a shooting distance of 1500 meters, the shells of the Napoleon cannon can accurately hit the opponent's artillery, and there were many examples of hitting the opponent's soldiers in the Civil War.

The rate of fire of the Napoleon guns is very fast, and a skilled gun crew can fire 4 rounds per minute-this is more than all the indigenous artillery and firearms in the 17th century.

Therefore, the Napoleon cannon is a highly mobile, fiercely fired weapon that is extremely simple and effective to manufacture and use.Compared with the original snake guns and red cannons in the 17th century, after 200 years of development, the Napoleon cannon, which is perfectly integrated in all aspects, can easily beat the old predecessors.

Even if it is through the crowd, they can only make a fuss about metal smelting now, but there is no way to change the appearance of the Napoleon cannon.In fact, the performance of the first batch of cast iron cannons produced in the kiln area is not as good as that of the bronze Napoleon cannons. It can only be said that they are a little higher than the cast iron cannons of the 19th century.

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Throughout the naval battles of this era, including those cannons over 24 pounds, the effective distance will not exceed 700 yards.

Although the maximum range of many large-caliber guns can be as high as 3000 yards or more, at a distance of more than 700 yards, especially in naval battles, the ships of both sides are in their own movements, and the hit rate is appalling.

If they want to achieve a passable hit rate on undulating seas, then the captains must shorten the engagement distance to within 400 or even 300 yards.

In fact, the captains of the British Empire were more inclined to engage in battle at a distance of 150 yards. Even the brown bass can exert its power at this distance, and some captains clamored: put the muzzle on the enemy's face and shoot!

Therefore, the Napoleon guns currently owned by the crossing public have both speed of fire and accuracy. Also within a distance of 1000 meters, the destroyer guns with optical sighting equipment can preemptively strike and use a large number of shots to make up for the hit rate. Opponent ships buried.

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At noon the next day, the exploration ship Yuandou, which represented the first time the traversing forces set foot on the coast of the outer island of Taiwan, just caught a small fish and came back.

Chapter 195

The people on the Alicante are all first-timers.

Due to the headwind, the speed of escorting the team was very slow, and they returned to Dayuan at noon the next day.

Originally, it was necessary to travel overnight, and the method was very simple: send a navigator with a walkie-talkie on board the Spanish ship, and then turn on the navigation lights of the front ship.This method can be implemented as long as the weather conditions permit and there is no wind and rain.

Later, I still considered that doing so would expose my ability to fight at night, so the destroyer captain, who had not been authorized in this regard, decided to spend the night before leaving.

Since the Spaniards established a stronghold in Taipei, they have been harassed by Dutch armed sailboats from time to time.The Dutch not only sent ships to Jilong Bay to harass and shoot, and made tentative landings, but also intercepted all Spanish ships near Dayuan.

Later, the Spanish transport ships only passed by the outer islands of Taiwan, so they were not very clear about the situation in the strait, let alone Dayuan Island, the axis of evil.

Although Second Lieutenant Sandoval had heard some sporadic rumors from the Philippines about the withdrawal of the Dutch from the army before this, but these were all unconfirmed news and not enough for him to make any judgments.

In fact, when the second lieutenant saw the two streamlined soft-sail destroyers, he even thought that the captain was still in the hands of the Dutch: the earliest two-masted schooner was invented by the Dutch.

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Looking around, there is not a single red hair or yellow hair on the Chikan Wharf where there are many people.The entire quayside is full of short inventors of one water.

By this time, the poor Spaniard finally recognized the fact that the Dutch had been driven out by these heretics.

... O God, we have fallen into the hands of the heathen.The terrible news spread throughout the ship in an instant.

You know, the Spaniards in this time period are all loyal Catholics.

The 10-year war that started 30 years ago is now in full swing on the land of Europe, and it is impossible to stop.

The loyal partners of the Habsburg dynasty: the Spanish royal family, nobles, and Spanish people are the mainstay of the Catholic League.

Therefore, the pie-faced people know the horror of heretics better than anyone: because for hundreds of years, they are the ones who have invented all kinds of terrible tortures to deal with heretics.

This fear of the unknown even overwhelmed their surprise along the way.The crew watched all kinds of strange and bizarre scenes in the Taijiang River in silence, and no one shouted.

The Alicante, which was parked alone on a pier, soon waited for the disposition of the heretics.

A few dock officials in khaki linen shirts, linen trousers, and straw sandals boarded the galleon.

These black-haired and yellow-skinned people have Spanish-speaking translators, so the four-person team, including the second lieutenant Sandoval himself, the first mate, the navigator, and the priest Josep on board, was ordered from the beginning I got off the boat, boarded a beautiful boat not far away, and sailed to the other side of the Taijiang River.