Chapter 675: Battle of Bohr 1

The violent explosion in the distance seemed to cause the waves to shake. Clemento's face was pale. In his vision, the warships at the front of his own battle line were suffering unimaginable destruction. Those first-class warships acting as strong attackers had their hulls blown to pieces by enemy shells before they launched an offensive.

Amid the violent explosion, the sturdy ship structure was destroyed and shot radially out to sea. The damaged hull was still being burned by flames during this time.

From the burning wreckage of warships, black smoke drifted towards the sky. Under the cover of smoke, masts that were blown off and burned fell down one by one.

The brutal battle almost suffocated Clemento.

In the front row, the warships that had suffered the most severe bombardment had even begun to disintegrate. The shells exploded on the middle deck, destroying almost everything, while subsequent shells fell into the deck, blasting a huge gap in it, and the burning flames burned fiercely in all directions.

The soldiers who were lucky enough to survive the explosion had no time to put out the fire. Their eardrums were almost ruptured and they could hardly control their bodies. They could only shake their bodies and shout weakly, even though the sound was as faint as the sound of insects in the explosion. Then the flames rushed everywhere and burned into the bottom cabin.

The soldiers in the lower cabin had already been frightened out of their wits by the sudden explosion. When the flames came, they instinctively chose to hide. The fire could no longer be contained. It burned more and more vigorously, and finally spread to the important machine rooms in the lower cabin.

In a sailing ship, the most important place is undoubtedly the ammunition room, where a large number of shells and gunpowder are stored. They play a vital role in fighting the enemy. But at this moment, a big hole had been broken in the deck above the ammunition room by the explosion, and there were flames on the fallen wooden boards.

Finally, when the fire spread here, the flames ignited the stored gunpowder.

follow closely.

"Oh!"

The gunpowder exploded in an instant, and even more violent flames exploded in all directions with the ammunition chamber as the center!

The soldiers near the ammunition room were set on fire like willow catkins in the high-temperature flames. Their hair, sweat glands, clothes, and other flammable materials that first came into contact with the flames were almost instantly charred. Their eyes were blinded by the instantaneous high temperature, leaving only pale pupils. The exposed skin turned red in an instant, then charred and cracked, and the flesh under the skin burst open, but not a drop of blood flowed out.

They fell to the ground with a loud bang, letting the flames burn on their bodies, because they had suffocated to death in the instant of the explosion.

Clemento at the rear of the fleet could almost feel the scorching heat and the choking smoke, but the most terrifying thing was the horrific explosion. He was horrified at the power of these shells, which were destroying his own warships with overwhelming force.

The shocking scene made Clemento feel as if a piece of iron was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't utter a word.

He thought that his own warships would definitely be damaged in the confrontation, some would be sunk, and the enemy's losses would be even greater, but the result on the battlefield at this moment was heavy casualties on his side. The proud warships were easily destroyed like rotten wood by the enemy's shells, and they had not even played a role.

At this moment, the shelling continues.

In the Yan Army fleet that formed a "T" shape and launched a fierce attack, hundreds of warships in front of it were continuously firing explosive bombs, and this shelling was completely different from the first time.

In fact, in the first bombardment, the hit rate of the shells they fired was not particularly high. The reason was that the bombardment at the beginning of the naval battle played a more ranging role. The enemy warships on the opposite side were still very far away in their field of vision. Only a few of the large number of shells could fall on the enemy warships, and more shells fell into the sea. However, after the ranging of the first round of shelling, the hit rate of the second round of shelling will be significantly improved.

Just as now, after calibrating the guns, the gunners fired at the remeasured target point.

One after another, explosive shells shot out from the boring tube. The unique conical structure significantly increased the flying speed of these shells. With a sound of breaking through the air, they flew towards the sky in an arc.

On the opposite side, when the Allied fleet was hit by the first round of shelling, the warships at the front of the longitudinal battle line suffered heavy damage. Almost all of the warships that were hit first began to sink due to various damages to the hull. The warships at the rear could only choose to avoid the wreckage and continue sailing forward, looking for opportunities to launch shelling.

But at this time, the second round of shelling from the opposite side had already reached the top of these warships. There was no way to avoid it, and the warships could only withstand it. In previous naval battles, this was the usual way of fighting for all warships, and the competition was about who would be the first to give up.

The coalition soldiers who had already experienced the power of explosive bombs were now trying their best to find shelter, but the bombardment was so fierce that they could only hope that the shells would not hit the ship or fall near them.

In fear, "Boom boom boom!", the shells fell!

Without any surprise, a new round of explosions rang out one after another. The soldiers hiding everywhere were like ants trampled by a giant. They hid in vain in things that could not block the bombardment at all, but what followed was still collapse and disintegration.

On a front-line battleship, the soldiers hiding in the cabin were horrified to see a gap blown open above the cabin, and almost at the same time, the invisible shrapnel entered their bodies.

The soldiers on the deck had nowhere to go, and some of them who were quick to react chose to get into the wooden barrels. They huddled inside in fear, curled up their bodies, covered their heads, faces and chests with their hands, praying that the explosion would not come here.

However, the explosion still sounded beside them, and the wooden barrel was shattered into pieces by the aftermath of the explosion. The soldiers howled in fear and crawled around on the deck. At this time, an unexploded shell suddenly fell from the sail.

It was not until then that the soldiers saw the original appearance of the falling shells. It turned out that the shells fired by the enemy were completely different from the shells they used.

But at this moment, with a "clang", the shell fell onto the deck.

Subsequently, the counterweight at the front of the shell sank inward under the influence of the deck and hit the firing pin, and the main explosive exploded instantly.

With a loud "boom", the shell broke into pieces.

The soldiers who were fleeing with their heads in their hands were knocked to the ground by the shock. Those who were close were completely destroyed, and those who were further away had their internal organs shattered. They staggered and spit out streams of blood from their mouths. This tragic scene made some soldiers completely lose their minds. They climbed up the railing wailing and jumped directly into the sea.

But personal choices cannot influence the will of the entire fleet. During the bombardment, the Allied fleet quickly formulated new tactical actions. With the sound of trumpets, the warships arranged in a vertical battle line were turning rapidly. They knew that the current method of vertical attack would only cause the fleet to be continuously damaged and eventually wiped out.

Therefore, they had to transform their vertical into horizontal formation at this moment and fight the Yan army with the same battle line combination, but the "T" head had been occupied by the faster Yan army warships. Now they would have to pay a terrible price to form a horizontal formation, but this was a last resort, and this was the only way to fight them.

Such an obvious tactical move was naturally noticed by the Yan Army on the opposite side, but they still maintained the "T"-shaped front and moved forward. The enemy's battle line was like two sugarcanes that were constantly being chopped off. Their heads had been severely damaged, and then they were defeated piece by piece by continuous artillery bombardment.