Chapter 870: Battle of Linga Island (2)

.., the hero of the Ming Dynasty dominates overseas

After retreating for more than two hours, the Southeast Fleet regrouped and faced off again!

The wind is always favorable to the red hair fan, and it has always been downwind.

Both sides of the war were fighting all the way strictly according to the battle line, and there was no break-up.

The battle line engagement came from the initiative of the Southeast Army, and Hong Maofan also learned it.

Turnip Black led the British navy and was defeated by the Dutch. Turnip was his own constipation and blamed the toilet. The business was not good and the counter was blamed. He said that the reason for the failure was that the captains rushed to kill him and broke his own position.

But at that time, naval battles were like cavalry battles, with warships of the same size catching and fighting each other.

In the three battles of Batavia, the Southeast Fleet fought a line and defeated the Dutch by line-of-line tactics.

Everyone sees that this tactic is good. Don’t fight in chaos, line up in a line to shoot each other. Fighting means more guns, stronger ships, more ammunition, and in the end it’s better than sailors’ endurance. .

Also, when there is a line, the commander is often in the middle and can take care of it. Sometimes there are too many ships in the fleet, and a line stretches out several nautical miles, and the commander can neither come nor see. It's okay. There are deputy commanders under the commander. Like all major fleets, there are forward, middle and rear armies, each with its flagship. Their ships are scattered along a line, like the railway police, each in charge of one section.

During the battle, if a captain is found to be not keeping a line and showing signs of moving backward, the commander will write it down and go back to make a small report. The captain will face the danger of dismissal of get out of class or even loss of life when he goes ashore.

If you are dazzled in the chaos, you don't know where to go.

Battle line combat is a stupid way, there is no way.

So they started to fight again, both of them were top-notch troops. The two sides were not afraid, seeing the wood chips flying around, the shells were too unobtrusive around them, patronizing cannons and guns.

After the Hong Maofan's forward, the Chinese army followed. Suddenly, a Dutch ship was under fiery gunfire and brought out the next group of battleships and went straight into the Chinese army of the Southeast Fleet!

It is the Dutch general Jost Bonquet who is leading the battle line of the Southeast Fleet!

If it is too late to wait for the battle lines of both sides to be set up, and it is too late to outflank the Southeast Fleet, which has few ships, Jost Bonkhet will attack the Southeast Fleet in the Chinese army.

The battleships of the Southeast Fleet were denser, shouldering shoulder to shoulder like people. All the ships used volleys, spewing fire and banging continuously. The battleship "Ford" of Jost Bunkert fell into the sky of gunfire. Lost in the white smoke, when it got out of the smoke, a large ship came oncoming.

Siresma!

He shouted sharply: "Fire!"

Thirty-eight guns fired at the "Ford" with bayonets on the cannons, and the shells hardly missed, so that the Dutch ships were sturdy enough to eat!

Less than a minute, fifty-eight seconds!

Another volley!

On his "Southeast Asia No. 8", the officers and soldiers were in full swing. The officers were still wearing military uniforms, while the soldiers were wearing helmets and naked torso. They only wore a bulletproof vest. Some people wore trousers. Wearing a crotch.

They are very motivated. Anyway, everyone's job is to shoot and throw things out.

Then the third round of the volley, this time it took two seconds, one minute.

But the "Ford" couldn't stand it anymore. It made a lot of mistakes. The volley of the "Southeast Asia No. 8" was not only as simple as killing the Dutch, but also disrupting their rhythm, so that their counterattack was quite weak. , And even the upper gun deck did not fire a shot.

"Ford" was like a woman who was tortured by pain. The deck was dead and wounded. There were wood fragments everywhere. The fallen personnel groaned constantly. Jost Bonquet's head was as big as numb, and he had to Commanding the warship to retreat temporarily, opened the distance with the Southeastern warship, thus reducing the hit rate of the Southeastern warship.

After returning to the Dutch battle line, Jost Bonkhet let out a long sigh of relief.

Then the Dutch general John Iverson did not believe in evil, and commanded his "Maid of Rotterdam" to rush to the fifth-tier cruiser in the Southeast Fleet's battle line. Although this cruise ship has 18-pound cannons, it only has one gun deck. The firepower is quite weak.

Relying on the ship's many high artillery, the "Maid of Rotterdam" and the Dutch ship that followed were parallel to the fifth-tier cruise ship formation, pouring their gunfire fiercely on the Chinese warships.

But the Tier 5 cruise ship always insisted on fighting back. The soldier fell and another soldier took over. The port cannon fell apart. Pull the starboard cannon and fight again!

The Chinese hid in a hidden place and used a musket to shoot Hong Maofan!

After all, the cruise ship was not as good as the battleship, and the firepower on the cruise ship gradually fell silent, especially when the battleship was condescending, and the open deck fired shotguns, so that the Chinese could not raise their heads. If the helmsman was not protected by armor plates, I was afraid that he could not even control the rudder. .

John Iverson triumphantly maneuvered the ship towards the cruiser and carried out the task of cutting off the battle line.

Suddenly, dozens of black **** that were on fire flew out of the cruise ship!

The Orchid Fans watched as they landed on the Maid of Rotterdam and exploded violently, causing the Orchid Fans to fly onto the wall!

bomb! The bomb is coming!

The gunpowder cans of the black powder period were actually large firecrackers, and their explosive power was limited, but the iron bullets and rusty nails were still a great threat to the human body. Even John Iverson also suffered a few irons. The flick hits the body, and it hurts.

Some Hongmaofan unfortunately nailed iron nails into the flesh, and there were quite a few.

So John Iverson returned without success.

Next came the Dutch general Vit de De Witte, who commanded his "Flevolan" to the rear of the Southeast Fleet, wanting to have a tail cut.

However, the southeast warships were extremely dense, and the Dutch could not cut off the southeast fleet, but incurred a violent blow.

However, the Dutch had good luck. The 70-gun "Nanhai 13" battleship "Nanhai No. 35" hit the rear rudder position and the rudder position failed.

When the forward British wanted to outflank the Southeast Fleet, Chen De issued an order to retreat. The ships opened their sails to retreat, and the "Nanhai 13" battleship fell behind!

Even if the officers and soldiers on the ship tried their best, it still surrounded the Red Hair Fan ships, and the rest of the Red Hair Fans passed them and continued to pursue!

The officers and soldiers of the southeast ships opened their eyes and watched the battleship caught in the red-haired gunfire ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ but they could do nothing.

Especially the officers and soldiers on the "Nanhai 35" battleship, even more eager to take their place.

Chen De said coldly: "Retreat!"

The Southeast Fleet had to continue to retreat and threw its friendly ship to the enemy.

The "Nanhai 13" battleship raised three red flags, indicating that this ship will fight to the death and will never surrender!

"If you resist to the end, detonate the gunpowder storehouse, open the sea valve, and sink the ship!" Captain Jiang Jiandong said loudly.

"Nanhai 13" guns fired in unison, but caught in the siege of wolves, Hong Maofan was very experienced first to destroy its sail system with chain bullets to make it unable to run, and then use solid bullets and shotguns in turns. attack.

The Chinese resisted bravely and fought to the last one!

As the sun sets, the "South China Sea 13th" is shocked and the battle sinks!

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