Song Ke is not a professional naval officer and does not understand the method of array, but he feels not very good... The Dutch fleet is also anchoring the sails and cross-ships, but the fleet ships are in a mess and seem powerful. In fact, because they are crowded, many of the gun positions on the side guns will accidentally hit their ships and can only slowly move. On the contrary, the warships of Hutchison have basically been adjusted. The warships and merchant ships on the three lines are adjusted very quickly, because they are originally a column of characters, so the adjustments and shifts are quite swift.

In terms of sailor skills, of course, Dutch ships are the first. Even the British, the most powerful maritime powerhouse in the sea a hundred years later, after the victory of the First British-Dutch War, the second, third, fourth and third consecutive large-scale naval battles against the Dutch were lost, and they lost quite badly... The fleets on both sides entered a two-mile range. When all the artillery ranges, Hutchison adjusted the sails and prepared for the Dutch ships. Hutchison's fleet had the advantage of a column. Even so, the Dutch would have to adjust them.

Even so, one step ahead is one step ahead. The sailing ship below is the first to adjust its head. The benefits of sailing water are fully displayed. When most of the Dutch ships are still adjusting their hull, especially when the clumsy hull of the Garen ship are only less than half, the four sailing warships have been adjusted long ago. The pulp hands keep rowing the long cushion in their hands to adjust the hull to the most appropriate position...

While Song Ke was still in a daze, the sound of cannons rang out.

Each slurry ship has more than fifteen heavy artillery on the side. In terms of the number of artillery, the number of artillery is not inferior to the Garen ship, and in terms of the quality of artillery, each artillery is at least twenty-four pounds. The full ship is full of heavy artillery. At the same time, the gunner's movements are skillful and sophisticated, and the shooting is quite accurate. Around a few of the space, the first round of artillery shells hit the target.

The surroundings were filled with the dull roar of artillery shells, the roar of artillery shells, and of course the loud bangs made when the shells hit the wooden sailboat... A merchant ship was hit on the deck, and several people were blown away by the shells, flying into the air with wood chips, making screams.

Song Ke's face was normal. This scene in front of him was nothing to a colonial official, and he would not express his inner concerns. After all, Gao Wenlu was the commander of the fleet...

At this time, Song Ke turned his attention to the Batavia, which was the soul of the fleet... The hull with a length of 650 tons was 56.6 meters, the main mast was more than ten meters high, and it had 314 crew members. Now the number should be more than 350 people. Gao Wenlu brought some people on the main ship, and the number should be about 350 people.

The ship has not designed gun positions, only two-deck gun positions of twenty-four iron cannons. At this time, it was the stage when the large sailing warships began to develop. The British Marine Monarch began to take shape, with three decks and castle-like stern towers. There were as many as hundreds of gun positions, and ordinary small battleships also had dozens of guns.

At the beginning of the 17th century, many large ships had to carry cargo, so there were not many design gun positions. Later, as there were more and more large warships and more gun positions, many warships were equipped with artillery. Just like the Batavia, in addition to the original twenty-four artillery, they also added guardrails to the main deck, fourteen artillery pieces, and the artillery pieces installed at the stern, making their artillery more than forty.

Now the main battleship has crossed half of its hull, which is slower than the merchant ship. There are two merchant ships in front of Batavia, and they are basically almost finished turning around.

Unfortunately, they were not as good as Hutchison's merchant ships and schooners... The Dutch warship fleet consisted of nineteen ships, and Hutchison's twenty-five ships. The top-most horizontal line was four sailboats and four merchant ships. The eight fleets were lined up in a slant. After the anchor was taken down, the guns had begun to be fired. At this angle, it happened to be near the Batavia on the left. Song Ke saw the muzzle constantly spraying sparks, and the shells roared out, hitting all the warships in the area.

Near the middle part is a Garen ship warship and eight small merchant ships. Song Ke recognized the Garen ship, which was captured during the battle with the Fujian Navy of Ming Dynasty, but now it fell into the hands of Hutchison. Seeing the ship also lined up in a row and cooperated to fire at his side, Song Ke looked calm, but he felt a little uncontrollable anger in his heart.

Below were four sailing boats and four small merchant ships. The sailing boats turned around earlier. The four ships lined up in neatly horizontal lines less than a mile away. The firepower was fully exerted, and the firepower was fully opened. The shells kept pouring over the heads of the Hector and the other merchant ships. Broken wood flew everywhere, and people's howlings and shouts kept coming. The officers desperately urged the sailors to turn around sooner. The gunners cursed anxiously, and were beaten with their heads but could not fight back. Their anger was imagined.

Although the turn is slow, most of the Dutch ships have completed this tactical action.

What appears to Chang Wei and others is the greatest picture of this era, and the strongest voice of this era is the strongest sound in his ears!

The small merchant ships were equipped with more than ten artillery pieces, while the few warships were more than twenty, and the most were thirty or forty, and more than forty ships had nearly a thousand cannons. What a spectacular scene!

Imagine that the minimum allocation is also a nine-pound cannon. If nearly a thousand cannons are used on land, the thirty-six-pound cannons, twenty-four cannons, eighteen-pound cannons, nine-pound cannons, and the artillery positions that are lined up are enough to be as good as the artillery level in the main battles of the Emperor's era. Of course, the power of the artillery in this era is still small, and the effective range of the nine-pound cannons is only about a mile or less. But if there are indeed thousands of cannons on any battlefield on earth in this era, and when bombarded, the earth will shake, there is absolutely no army that can withstand it and can win it.

This scene is called the people who have participated in the battle on the grassland and have been to Liaodong. What would happen if so many artillery were placed on the grassland or on the battlefield in Liaodong?

Of course, I can only think about it now. In the past two years, especially in recent years, all the firearms cast by the Firearms Bureau are almost all artillery, and even the muskets and artillery of the newly formed Dragoon regiment have not been supplemented. A large number of technicians and required materials have been sent directly to Taiwan, which ensures that these ships have sufficient firearms.

The Zheng Navy never had so many artillery, not even half of Hutchison's current life. Even if Zheng Zhilong had more than 100,000 people at the peak of his might, there were probably not more than 100 artillery pieces, and most of them were small cannons, with only a small number of qualified cannons placed on large ships like central warships.

Casting cannons is also a science. Only after mastering it can you enter the Form of Strong People and be qualified to fight a decent naval battle with the Dutch at this time!

If Zhang Han were here, he would probably be more excited than Chang Wei and others.

What a spectacular and gorgeous picture, it is much more exciting than the several naval battle movies he has seen. How can the movie make the actual combat feeling even halfway?

Wooden warships lined up in a row, forming three neat battle lines. This is the origin of the name of the battleship type. The battleship line, and this name is also truly beautiful. It is a kind of warlike and violent aesthetic sense is perfectly reflected in these three words.

Three lines, facing the chaotic Dutch ships, compared to the three raspoused Hutchison Navy, the Dutch also came across, but they did not have any training made by fleets, but each ship knew that they would leave space for friendly ships to exert their firepower. A little distance between one ship and another would be easily accidentally missed by the firepower of friendly ships near them.

However, due to the density of Dutch ships, this kind of thing is inevitable.

In the eyes of Chang Wei and others, the blue sea was a rare wonder in their lives. A bunch of nineteen ships were scattered across the sea, as if they were deliberately scattered. The ships were staggered, both front and back, and they were constantly firing and firing. The cannons fired, and then a large piece of white smoke rose from the side of the hull. A ship had more than a dozen or twenty cannons fired one after another, and the hull was shaking, and then another... The nineteen Dutch ships kept firing, and the fire was constantly flashing like the firecrackers during the Chinese New Year. The fire was constantly flashing, and the fire was bursting, but the power of the cannons was of course far better than that of the firecrackers, giving people an extremely shocking feeling.

On one side of Huji were neat battle lines, and the time of each ship's artillery group was almost exactly the same. Every time there was a bang, and more than ten or twenty artillery pieces of a ship were almost fired together, and the hull was shaking very violently. However, the members of the artillery group and the sailors had long been used to it and did not take this vibration to heart.

The two sides kept firing cannons, but the hull was not moving at all, which was different from the one-chasing and escaping cannons that people imagined... The warships still fired each other when they moved, which was quite difficult in a real naval battle.

The recoil of the artillery is very strong, and it will hurt the members of the gun team if you are not careful. If you fix the ship, this possible damage will be minimized, but it is inevitable that the members of the gun team will be injured by the recoil of their own artillery. After all, the measures that can be taken in this era are very limited. If you want to fire while moving, it requires great courage and strong training. Only a few members of the gun team dare to do this and take considerable risks.
Chapter completed!