The most thrilling and passionate artillery battle began. The smoke filled the gunshots and thunder rumbling. A one or two tons of steel monster was pushed out of the small cannon window. Then anger suddenly erupted onto the other party's face in the roar. Wood chips splashed, and the salty sea water sprayed out a column of water. The man's roar before his death shocked the sea.

In terms of tonnage, artillery fire, and number of wheels, the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty was much stronger than the opponent, but! No matter how powerful the firepower was, it needed to be exerted. More than two-thirds of the fleet was still stuck in the narrow Cebu Strait, and only one-third remained trying to unfold the formation on the east and west edges, but faced nearly double the enemy's artillery bombardment.

On the deck, wood was jumped up one by one, and the canvas was burned by the hot fire. Several Ming army sailors panickedly holding blankets to cover and put out the fire. Suddenly, another sharp whistling sound came to their faces. As the saying goes, Taoist people are in the world and have to pay back after all. On weekdays, the Royal Navy often uses such broken mast-breaking grape bombs to kill pirates, but today they have also tasted the taste of such a big killing weapon.

Looking at the scarlet ball left by screaming on his deck, Xu Liao's face was twisted, and the eyes of this western Liao man also turned bloody. Looking at the Western warships that were sailing across both sides of his warship and the flames that were rising and falling from his muzzles, Xu Liao punched his hard on the wood, but turned his head helplessly and roared anxiously at the flag-speaking hand behind him, who was also sweating profusely.

"Let the red fireworks and ask for help from the mothership!"

In the air, more than a dozen bright red fireworks sprayed into the gloomy dark clouds one after another. The red color also reflected in the pupils of the huge sea. He has been managing the navy since the Dongjiang era. He is a veteran of most of his life, but now, this is the first time that such a difficult battle has been encountered.

Greasy sweat kept coming out of his broad forehead. It was not that he did not want to send reinforcements, but that the opening from the Cebu Strait was the narrowest piece. The Royal Navy lined out, and the four Western ships rushed forward. The Western warships that rushed to the entrance of the strait first hit his main ship, and they were desperate to hit his main ship. They let the warships behind them cross the artillery cabin and how to strike. They refused to move in the artillery fire like the pouring rain. The heavy sail battleships across the six rows completely blocked the strait.

"Military throne, what should I do?"

The sound of cannons and shouts of killing in the distance are clearly heard here. The East China Sea Fleet, the Yellow Sea Fleet, and the commanders of several squadrons were all cut off their hearts and were anxiously asking for instructions there. The telescope tubes pinched with their wide fists seemed to be slightly deformed. After a while, Pang Dahai suddenly roared and roared.

"Working flag-speak, all frontier warships will lean towards the two sides of the straits and move the channel into the mothership! The back team turns into the front team, bypassing Dumargot Island from the east, and sets in immediately!"

"But it will take at least half a day for the Marine to bypass the Dumargot Strait. Can the Forward Fleet last that long?"

The female staff officer asked tremblingly, but only half of her words were asked. Under the eyes of the scarlet sea, she had to swallow it back. The other major naval generals were in a daze, but then they could not helplessly say that they were right and fists away.

Indeed, it may take half a day to detour. Perhaps when it comes, one-third of the main fleet of the Royal Navy's fleet has turned into a piece of broken wooden boards. However, the battlefield is most taboo to hesitate, and the war has to continue. Even if it pays such a price, it is better to sit and watch the enemy bombard it indiscriminately.

In the strait, the main battleship, which was originally in the middle channel, was paddling with difficulty, and turned around slowly like a turtle, and then plunged to the two sides. Then, a double row of ten masts, a Pangu-class treasure ship like a giant beast drove forward anxiously along the waterway given out. After more than half an hour, it reached the edge of the battlefield with difficulty.

Four years before Haiguo Kaihong, the treasure ship's mothership did not have much combat effectiveness. The design and huge body of the lucky ship made it slow to move and could not carry many artillery on the side. Its main function was to transport troops and supplies. In the deep sea ocean that was difficult for small transport ships to reach, a super transport treasure ship and six and nine first- and second-level sail battleships were enough to form a close combat group.

However, after the fourth year of Hai Guokaihong, in order to resist the storm and enemy artillery attacks, the treasure ship added a thickened and solid deck, which made Mao Jue eager to try to give them a big killer that represents half of the Ming Dynasty's industrial level. The breech overlord cannon was equipped with four doors. The towering rear tail building also pressed one. This kind of cannon has a range of five or six kilometers. It was originally a naval combat support weapon, but it did not expect it to become the only life-saving straw here.

However, the treasure ship's ship type is not the best fit for this type of ultra-extreme turret. Before launching, the sails that blocked the turret's view had to be put down. Six heavy iron anchors on the bow and stern of the ship were also thrown into the sea. It took more than ten minutes before the preparations were completed.

Looking at the ships that had already burned fire on the sea of ​​Baohe Sea, the Pang Dahai, who had been anxious, suddenly waved his command knife, and several giants finally released their late anger. In the air, shells rubbed against the air, and bursts of sharp and sharp roars that made the eardrums itchy. Then, the deafening explosion burst out on the fierce battlefield.

Boom ~

Although Daming Zhao is much worse than these Western powers in terms of navigation technology, it is definitely more than the ballistic! Thanks to Mao Jue's glass in order to make money, the Ming army cannons are equipped with very advanced scale telescope sights, and before various types of cannons are produced, ballistic tests will be conducted, distance, landing point, and wind influences will be carried out. They are written by Chief of Staff Sun Chun, the flower of the empire, and recorded in detail in the artillery course.

As Michelle and Curt's telescope watched, the originally tall and mighty bow of the French warship Virgin Mary was flattened by a bombardment. The kind but majestic Virgin Mary was left with only half of the horns, as if it had been beheaded, and the sailor doll blown up by the explosion screamed and flew to the four sides.

The battle in Manila these days, the most feared Western fleets was overlord cannons like Divine Punishment. After the shelling, the Western fleet at the range was obviously a little confused, and it seemed that it was hesitant to surround and wander. However, the shelling that was eager to support the huge sea pushed the surrounded fleet to a more dangerous situation.

The skin covered with old spots on his face twitched violently. Looking into the sky, the aging Dutch general suddenly pulled out his command knife and waved it out with murderous aura at the flagship Tai'a, the Ming squadron, which was not far away from him.

Xu Liao, who was commanding his own warship to fight hard, suddenly heard his subordinates turn back in horror. In his incredible eyes, the enemy ship that had been wandering away from his side had actually hit the corner and aimed at him. He rowed the oars and raised the sails, and the barbarians rushed over like that.

He was so scared that his soul was rising. He also pulled out his command knife. Xu Liao roared in horror: "Central launch at six o'clock on the port side!"

The Royal Navy artillery, who had already been fighting in the artillery cabin, also turned the corner of the artillery anxiously and suddenly turned the flintlock. In an instant, the dense artillery fire poured down around the Dutch flagship Rotterdam. Large swaths of water swelled up, and the originally sharp bow was torn apart like pockmarks.

However, after all, there was no yellow gunpowder, and two rounds of artillery attacks were not enough to defeat the Rotterdam. On the deck, the sailors were shouting fearfully. More than 400 meters away, and a loud bang came. Xu Liao was almost shook off the deck. It was far heavier than the shells and directly cut into the side of the Taia. On it, the Dutch mercenaries who had been preparing for a long time jumped off the deck like madmen, waving pirate scimitars and short muskets, and bombarded the Ming army fiercely.

Full of anger, Xu Liao rushed down from the command bridge with his left hand and his right hand. But at this moment, there was another violent roar of cannons coming from behind, and the earth-shaking explosion almost shook him into the sea.

Since the Battle of Britain and the West in 1590 AD, the traditional landing tactics of the past were gradually eliminated and replaced by linear tactics. Just like queuing up and shooting, the battleships of the two armies tried to pull the line as far as possible and rely on the continuous artillery fire to defeat the other side.

Mao Jue used this linear tactic, and devoted himself to the upgrading of heavy artillery. However, in history, at the end of the sixteenth century, when the peak of linear tactics, a rebellion of naval warfare tactics emerged, and the British Royal Admiral Nelson.

He changed one line to two line, surrounded the enemy battleships from both sides. The battleships on the left used a corner attack, braved the artillery fire and tried their best to stick to the enemy. Taking advantage of the disturbance of the enemy's artillery fire, the battleships on the right tried their best to output artillery fire.

In the Battle of the Nile Estuary in Britain, France, Nelson almost wiped out the French Expeditionary Fleet and destroyed Napoleon's grand career to conquer the Middle East. In the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson also defeated the main force of the French Navy, shattered Napoleon's dream of conquering the British mainland, and laid the foreshadowing the demise of the Napoleon Empire.

A large part of Nelson's tactical thoughts came from the Dutch veteran Michel. The battleship of the horn battleship was used in advance in the eastern sea battle a hundred years ago. On the deck, flintlock rifles and scimitars kept roaring, and under the ship, they almost hit the cannons in front of them, which made the Taia tremble. Finally, I don't know that the cannon penetrated the deck and bombarded the keel. In the face of Xu Liao's desperate roar, the huge cracks were torn apart.

The Taia was sunk!
Chapter completed!