Chapter 181: Great Battle (3)
Cheng Yu's head ship first went up diagonally to grab the wind, then took a westward direction and began to fight the Dutch below.
Songke is dark and the opponent's ship is fast enough!
The sixth-tier cruiser of the Southeast Fleet has seized the upper hand!
Their warship was ordered by Yan Changwu, and the cumbersome big **** (stern tower) and big RU house (fore tower) were removed (in fact, there is still a stern tower, but it is relatively low. In order to show its prestige, the previous galleons used the **** and the bow The building is so high that the ship is streamlined and naturally fast.
Songke sighed slightly and ordered: "Order the fleet to unfold!"
After seeing the flag raised by the flagship, the Dutch first made a move, and then were overjoyed, and started to take action. Several Clippers stood out in the brigade and went straight to the Southeast Fleet.
The opponent disbanded the battle line!
Cheng Yu on the head ship was also sweating heavily in the cold wind, watching the other four ships pounce at him from four directions.
what do I do?
Inexperienced, he was a bit at a loss, but the drumbeat from behind made him understand: "Keep on the line!"
The training of the Southeast Fleet is very comprehensive. What should be done if the opponent is in a melee? Cheng Yu also hesitated for a while, immediately continued to charge, and was immediately bombarded by four Dutch warships!
A series of shells made the head ship sway from side to side, and water jets rose around it. The splashing waves baptized the officers and soldiers on the open deck of the head ship.
The guns on both sides of the head ship bow left and right to meet the enemy.
"Can you stand it?" Cheng Yu was worried, but his sailor was born as a bold ship boss. He looked down on life and death and said cheerfully: "It's too strong, I can go back and show off to my son that his labor and capital are walking in the bullets and bullets. It happened!"
Cheng Yu calmed down and shouted: "A point on the starboard side (compass point)." Command the warship to go north and then turn west.
The head ship rushed out of the circle of fire and bombarded the enemy ship in the south with its port side artillery. It was lucky. Due to the high speed, the opponent only dumbed the two port side gun positions, and there were seven twelve-pounder guns to deal with the enemy.
The captains of the four Dutch ships that were originally the first to be the first ship were superb, always maintaining the circle of firepower, trying to concentrate the firepower to bombard the southeast warship that entered the circle.
They have superb maneuvering skills, and they will make Mingren who enter the circle of fire suffer enough.
At this time, the Southeast Fleet immediately divided into three groups, and the three columns in turn attacked the Dutch, but the general trend of their battle lines remained unchanged.
The southeast cruise ship made of cedar (lightweight) has a good streamline, coupled with the unparalleled loyalty and well-trained crew on board, they in turn surrounded these four Dutch ships from the Dutch fleet, let They were hit by rounds of fire, one by one southeast warships passed by them, so the unfortunate "Ian Wright" fell victim to the firepower of the fifth-tier battleship "North Harbor One". , So that it quickly capsized on the sea, and the remaining three Dutch warships were scarred and had to withdraw from the battlefield.
The scene began to be chaotic. The ships of the Southeast Fleet tried to maintain the battle line, while the Dutch tried to cut off the orderly battle formation of the Southeast Fleet and let them fight separately. The experienced Dutch had the confidence to defeat the Southeast Fleet.
At this time, the benefits of the battle line leader ship were reflected. The captains of each ship looked at the leader ship’s flag and drove his warship to follow it, running and firing guns, never in love with the battle!
Even if one of the warships on the side is blocked by the enemy, the other friendly ships all detour and fire from the side to support the warship (the military order still needs to be rescued for the flagship).
"Fire! Fire!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The artillery fire continued, and the Dutch were shot in succession.
That's right, no matter how hard we work, we have a certain gap between the visitors from the distant Atlantic Ocean, the ship handling technology, and the combat skills of the century-old navy. The melee with the Dutch is the trap. They have the ability to form an advantageous situation of one more fight, or to cut the formation of our army, anyway, they have many methods.
He forced him to be strong, the breeze blew the sea, he let him go horizontally, the sun shines on the sea, he came and hated himself, I am a line of battle!
The artillery roared, and the Dutch had no more tricks, so they had to fight hard and everyone blasted.
There are also Dutch people who don’t believe in evil. Captain Van der Weyde on the "Brent" is a master of swordsmanship. He uses a blade that is like a small plate (that is, the length is not as long as the Toyo sword, and the width is three times the Toyo sword). The officers are strong and powerful, and are very good at hand-to-hand combat, so he captured the Kaohsiung No.17 ship. The two ships went side by side and fired continuously at a distance of 100 meters. Without giving way, they approached obliquely, and finally got together.
Fearing that the enemy ship would escape, the crew of the "Brent" threw the barbs and connected the two ships tightly.
Van der Velde personally led the charge, he took his famous blade and jumped over the enemy ship!
Then he saw everything in front of him, he was dumbfounded, and his men were dumbfounded.
squatted in a row, and the Ming people standing in two rows raised guns and shot at him. Some Ming people held a pistol in each hand, and some Ming people had double-barreled spray guns!
Poor van der Velde was covered in blood and fell on his back!
Mingren who had played a round immediately changed his guns~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Shotguns and pistols were put on together, and the Dutch fell in rows as the guns rang, and then Mingren changed his guns again, and the Dutch were terrified. After returning to the ship, he cut off the hook and immediately opened the distance.
Although shelling is unpleasant, close combat is even more terrifying!
They have to escape, because Mingren still has grenadiers!
Throwing gunpowder cans one by one, almost not terrifying the Dutch.
Van der Velde died very worthless, and the other Dutch ship "Overijssel" was even more ridiculous. It broke into a burst of gunpowder during the chaotic battle, and then discovered that it was blocking the "Taiwan". "The way to go.
Black warrior Siresma ran into it without hesitation!
The British man-made warship used good oak, which was strong and heavy, and followed the wind. The impact was more than ten thousand catties. For a moment, the sawdust shattered, the Dutch ship sank on its side, and half of the people on the open deck fell into the water.
When it was centered by the strength of the keel, its bowspreader, fore mast midmast, fore mast and main mast upper mast, and all the rigging in front of her were all damaged.
Taiwan sailed away, leaving the Overijssel left messy at sea...
The sun was sinking slowly to the west, the air was filled with a choking smell of gunpowder smoke, and the sea breeze could not dissipate the smell. The raging flames rose into the air from a half-sinked Dutch ship, sending thicker smoke. In the upper mid-air, there was a faint chaotic sound of people shouting that the ship burned.
As the dusk began, the Dutch withdrew from the battlefield and headed west under the cover of the wind. The Southeast Fleet was also returning home, and the curtain on the sea battle came to an end.
In addition to the previous losses, the Dutch sank three ships in total, 13 ships out of combat (eight ships were truly disabled, and five ships slipped by themselves), while the Southeast Fleet was sunk by one ship and five ships. Disability.
There are 37 warships left, and Songke has no hope of victory!
