"What do those four square characters mean? Is it the Ming Dynasty Navy?"
On the ocean near Pishan Island off the coast of Wenzhou Prefecture, when two large fleets formed a line of formation, they finally began to approach each other face to face. Admiral Bart of the Nanyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty, who had already felt that he was about to win, suddenly became interested in the "For Heaven's Way" flag on the Ming army's warship.
He is about to win, so he has to figure out who his loser is, right? Otherwise, it will be difficult for historians to write in the future!
But he didn't know Chinese characters, so he asked Figo - Figo had been a Manchurian for two or three years and not only learned Manchurian, but also learned Chinese and Chinese characters.
He raised his telescope and looked at it carefully, and whispered: "Preaching the Way for Heaven... means preaching on behalf of the Heavenly Law. Their Heavenly Law is probably our God, but the Heavenly Law does not come from the Apocalypse, but from China." What the ancient philosophers gradually discovered through speculation is similar to their black magic."
Figo, who has become a Manchu, still does not have the trust of Emperor Kangxi, so he has no chance to come into contact with the secrets of sugar and medicine. Although Kangxi pursues the policy of "preventing Chinese rather than foreigners", this does not mean that He is not wary of foreigners and treats foreigners as foreign brothers.
However, Figo still got some inside information. He now knew that Emperor Kangxi liked to tinker with "black magic" with a group of Taoist priests, and he even tinkered with something.
"Humph, they are indeed a group of barbarians without faith!" Bart snorted contemptuously, put away his telescope, and then stood on the back deck of the Dinghai Batulu, quietly waiting for the distance between the two sides. Get closer. There is also a naval staff officer beside him, who is constantly reporting the distance.
"6000 yards!"
"5500 yards!"
"5000 yards!"
“4000….
"boom......"
The distance between the two sides closed very quickly. In the blink of an eye, there were only about 4,000 yards left, which was more than 3,000 meters, about 2,000 steps. The 12-pound long gun was already quite accurate at this distance. . However, the Ming army's 5-pound cannon is still not big enough. After all, the weight of the bullet is nearly half, and the barrel is much shorter. The effective range is certainly a long way off.
However, the twelve 5-pound cannons on the leading Ming warship fired first. The shells almost disappeared and fell far into the sea, stirring up a dozen water columns and causing the Dinghai Batulu to The Dutch sailor on board burst into laughter.
"Those Chinese not only don't understand naval warfare, but their artillery skills are also very bad. It seems that we have overestimated them."
Admiral Bart also seemed very relaxed at this time, and made a more pertinent comment on the navy that Zhu Heji had worked so hard to pull out - their gunnery skills were quite bad, not only the navy's gunnery skills were bad, but the army's too. During the two or three years of war, they relied on rocket launchers and small mortars to conquer the world. Field cannons were simply a show-off.
After commenting on the opponent's artillery, Bart immediately issued an order: "Tell the artillery deck to launch the first salvo at a distance of 3,000 yards!"
Then he gave an order to Major Bit, the captain of the Haibatulu: "Major, the distance from the Ming fleet must always be maintained between 2,500 and 3,000 yards."
"As you command, Your Majesty Commander."
This Major Bute is an old subordinate of Bart. He has first-class ship-handling skills and can drive a large ship with a deadweight tonnage of 600 tons as flexibly as a small boat. A captain like him is actually a member of the United Netherlands. The greatest wealth of the provincial republic!
And their number is as high as 20,000 to 30,000, which can continuously improve the Dutch navy's outstanding captains.
Therefore, until this generation of captains grows old and dies, the Dutch's advantage on the ocean is almost unshakable. Even Britain, whose handicraft industry was far more developed than the Netherlands, suffered a lot in several Anglo-Dutch wars.
"Dangdangdang..."
Shortly after Admiral Bart gave the order to Major Bute, a rapid bell suddenly rang.
The lookout post discovered something again!
"The arson ships...number 20, no, at least 30!"
Figo's voice suddenly sounded: "Admiral! There are dozens of small boats rushing towards us...it doesn't seem to be an arson boat!"
Not an arson ship? What kind of ship is that?
Admiral Bart did not dare to take it lightly and quickly raised his telescope to take a look.
As a result, he discovered that dozens of small boats driven by long oars had appeared on the sea in front of him to his left. Each boat had sixteen oars. The oarsmen were now rowing with full strength, so these oars The speed is not slow.
In addition, there were two sailors standing at the bow of each boat. They were holding something like a box with one hand and the railing with the other, looking straight ahead.
What do these Chinese people want to do? As soon as Bart thought of this, the deck under his feet trembled, and then there was a roar.
This is the twelve 12-pounder cannons of the Dinghai Batulu firing, and they are not shooting at those small boats. The targets of those small boats are too small, difficult to hit, and their value is not great. There is no need to use 12-pounder cannons. . The target of those twelve-pound long guns was the leading Ming Dynasty Great Eastern-class armed merchant ship!
Bart temporarily forgot about the dozens of boats, but focused all his attention on the Ming Dynasty Great Eastern class less than three thousand yards away... Although the 6-pound Great Eastern class The cannon (5-pound cannon) is not a threat, but there may be thunder rockets on this ship!
In fact, Bart's guess was correct. The Ming army's Great Eastern class was indeed equipped with rocket launchers, one on the bow and one on the stern. They were both mounted in six units. A single salvo could launch 12 rockets!
However, the accuracy of the rocket launcher is rather pathetic. It is impossible to hit a mobile warship at a distance of several thousand steps.
Therefore, these rocket launchers installed on the Great Eastern class are now equipped with smoke grenades. In case they cannot be defeated, they will be used when running away.
Qiu Rong was still standing on the rear deck at this time. He didn't care about the firepower of the enemy warships. It was not so easy to hit them now that they were so far away. So he devoted all his attention to the "assault boats" that were rapidly approaching the enemy ships.
All his hopes are on these dozens of "attack boats"... The accuracy of the rocket launchers is not very good, so they rely on this tactic of swarming up and firing "random fire".
Although in previous exercises, this small boat was always able to quickly approach the big ship and hit the target with practice bombs.
But that was an exercise, today is actual combat!
Through the telescope, he saw the small boats floating through the waves, getting closer and closer to the enemy's large ship. Qiu Rong was so nervous that he almost squeezed the telescope in his hand.
At this moment, he saw the gunner and captain of a small boat had started to tear off the tarpaulin covering the rocket launcher.
After the tarpaulin was torn off, the rocket launcher inside was naturally exposed.
Figo had never seen the actual rocket launcher, but he had seen the graphics - Kangxi had someone draw it and send it to the people below, telling everyone to be careful when seeing it.
But Kangxi didn't say how to prevent it? I didn’t even give the people below a talisman to prevent rocket launchers...
So Figo was dumbfounded when he saw the ferocious rocket launchers on those small boats. Those small boats were already very close to him, only six to seven hundred yards at most, and the boats were large and slow to turn around... Now they had the upper hand. It was blown up by the wind and it was impossible to even go backwards!
This rocket launcher is about to hit, but how to defend against it?
When he was anxious, he saw smoke coming out of dozens of small boats in front of him. One or two hundred rockets, dragging white smoke, made strange screams of "Qiuqiu", and disappeared at extremely fast speeds. Pounce on the "Dingyuan Tulu"!
"bingo!"
"Long live!"
"Hit..."
"Boom boom boom..."
Cheers, violent explosions, and the indispensable roar of artillery all rang in Qiu Rong's ears. Zhu Heji's uncle was so excited that his eyes filled with tears.
Because his "sea cavalry" had just used "mounted fire" to destroy the most powerful warship owned by the East India Company east of Malacca - a huge warship. It was vulnerable to a single blow and was destroyed by a single rocket launcher. Got it! It turned into a floating fireball!
The vast ocean, from now on, has another part of the Ming Dynasty!
