It’s over!
The days when Europeans could dominate the eastern coastline with just a few cannons were over!
Everyone who was on the "Dinghai Batulu" and saw with his own eyes one or two hundred rockets dragging white smoke and making strange "Qiuqiu" sounds flying towards the battleship they were on, all thought in their minds. Got such an idea!
This was not a failure of the Nanyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty, or even a failure of the Dutch East India Company, but a disastrous failure for the entire European civilization.
Since the voyages of Columbus and Magellan opened the Age of Discovery, European navigators and colonists have traveled across the global oceans for nearly two hundred years and brought the flag of God to almost every known coastline in the world. For the first time, they encountered an opponent at sea that they could not defeat!
And this is not a failure caused by accidental negligence, nor is it an enemy who "division Europe is planning to control Europe". Instead, they encountered an attack from a "magic weapon" that the Europeans didn't know how to defend or how to make... Their powerful ships and cannons were simply impossible to withstand!
They were "struck by dimensionality reduction"!
The so-called strong ships in this era were nothing more than wooden-hulled ships. A solid oak board may be able to block the bombardment of solid bullets at a longer distance, and it may also be able to block the attack of a gunpowder-propelled rocket, but the sugar-powder rocket flies faster, has greater kinetic energy, and has a warhead. The spikes made of crucible steel are enough to penetrate the oak baffle... Even if it cannot penetrate, it can still nail the rocket to the oak board and then explode!
The oak ship planks are strong, but they are also wood! Not to mention the explosive power of sugar-powder bullets, even black-powder-charged bullets cannot be withstood by oak boards.
In the historical Battle of Sinop in the Crimean War, the first large-scale use of bombardment cannons and explosive bombs in naval battles helped the Russian Navy easily destroy the Ottoman Empire's naval fleet, thus ending the wooden sail battleships. The era of dominating the oceans!
Now, the Ming Navy, which uses "speedboat riding and shooting" tactics and sugar-powder rockets, has ended the era of sail battleships two hundred years ahead of schedule.
One side of a sail battleship was supported by dozens of cannons, and there was little firepower at the bow and stern. Facing the assault of dozens of small fast "mounted gunboats", there was almost no way to fight back... Even if a few of the speedboats could be sunk with solid bullets from the smoothbore cannon, it would be meaningless. Because the remaining speedboats can still fire hundreds of rockets.
As long as 10% of the rockets hit, a battleship with dozens of cannons can be completely shut down...
Although the accuracy of rockets is very poor, as long as the distance is close enough and the target is large enough, it can still be easily hit.
The "Dinghai Batulu" is not small in size. If the no-load displacement is calculated, it is estimated to be more than 1,000 tons. And its firepower was "very weak". It was just an armed merchant ship with only one gun deck and a total of twenty 12-pound guns. There were only twelve guns on each side, and they were placed in the gun cabin. The firing angle of the artillery that fires from the gun window is very small, and it is difficult to aim at small, fast-moving targets - such targets were originally shot with the Eagle Cannon (France Cannon) placed on the upper deck. But there are only four eagle cannons on the "Dinghai Batulu", two on each side. How about a hair loss?
Therefore, none of the "mounted shooting boats" that rushed towards the "Dinghai Batulu" were hit by the firepower from the "Dinghai Batulu", and the Ming army sailors who rowed the boats did not even notice the attack from the enemy. Therefore, they were very courageous. They rowed the "mounted shooting boat" to a distance of less than 200 steps from the "Dinghai Batulu" before firing more than 100 and nearly 200 rockets.
The hit rate of the rockets fired at this distance is not low. At least thirty or forty of them penetrated the baffles on the port side and bow of the "Dinghai Batulu", and half of them penetrated the "Dinghai Batulu" The inside of the hull exploded, and the "belly" of "Dinghai Batulu" was blown to pieces in an instant. The Dutch sailors standing on the upper deck felt as if they were experiencing an earthquake or volcanic eruption. The deck beneath their feet shook violently, and fireballs were ejected from time to time. Almost no one could stand firm, and they all fell to pieces.
Figo was quite clever. He immediately lay down on the deck, so he did not fall. However, he was still hit hard by something. Fortunately, the thing was not very hard, so Figo was not hit. Smashed. But his spine was so painful from the smash, and the thing was so heavy that it still pressed on him after the smash.
After the deck beneath him shook violently, Figo also recovered and pushed the thing away with all his strength. Just as he was about to get up, he suddenly heard Bart's call: "Figo, it's me..."
It turned out to be Bart. He was knocked over by the vibration under his feet just now. He couldn't steady himself and sat down on Figo.
"Admiral, we..." Figo, who was getting up, held on to a ship plank and looked up. What he saw was a burning, disintegrating, and sinking warship. This scene was really real. It's hard to describe, it's probably like hell, right?
"Rumble..."
At this time, Figo felt that the battleship under his feet trembled again, and at the same time there was a roar. Apparently there was another explosion somewhere on the lower deck!
"We must abandon ship!" Figo turned around and said to Bart, who had struggled to get up and was leaning on a baffle in a daze. "The fire is out of control. There is still a lot of gunpowder in the gun cabin. Once it explodes, we will Dead!"
"But, there are Chinese speedboats nearby..." Bart's face was full of horror, "They will kill us!"
"I have a way...Admiral, you follow me, we will be saved!" As he spoke, Figo rolled off the deck on one side of the ship and jumped into the sea.
Bart knew that his battleship was hopeless and that staying on it would lead to death, so he couldn't care less and felt like he was jumping with Figo.
Both of them were good swimmers, and they were wearing light silk military attaché uniforms of the Qing Dynasty, so they didn't get in the way when swimming.
The two people swam one after another and soon swam to a "mounted shooting boat" - this "mounted shooting boat" had just completed reloading and was now preparing to bombard the "Dinghai Batulu". "Zhenhai Batulu", and ended up encountering two big fish.
Although Bart had received Figo's guarantee just now, at this time he could not imagine how the Portuguese could save his life. Could he still jump on the boat and subdue the people on it?
Just when Balter couldn't figure it out, Figo suddenly shouted in Chinese: "Don't shoot...we surrender! We are Chinese too, and we also want to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!"
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Ningbo, Zhaobaoshan.
Fan Chengmo, Governor-General of Zhejiang and Governor-General of the Nanyang Navy in the Qing Dynasty, stood on the Zhaobaoshan Fort for a whole day again today, stretching his neck and looking at the mouth of the Yongjiang River not far away like a watchman's stone.
But he waited and waited, and looked forward to it, but he couldn't wait and couldn't wait for his Nanyang Navy fleet!
This is not the first day he has been a watchman on Zhaobao Mountain, but the seventh day he has been standing here stupidly.
And now fifteen days have passed since the Nanyang Navy set out to sea with great force... But this huge fleet just disappeared out of thin air, and not a single warship returned.
How is this going? Could it be that the entire army was wiped out? There are dozens of Western warships. Even if they are bombarded by the rebels with thunder arrows, a few of them can still escape, right? How is it possible that none of them can come back?
What made Fan Chengmo even more worried happened yesterday at noon. Smoke suddenly rose from the beacon tower over Dinghai! This shows that Dinghai has been attacked by the rebels...
But what puzzled Fan Chengmo was that the smoke from the Dinghai Beacon was extinguished yesterday afternoon, and no messenger ship came from Dinghai to Ningbo. What happened? Was there a fire at the beacon tower, or was Dinghai already occupied by rebels?
Why didn't Dinghai even send a clipper to report the news? Could it be that they can't be dispatched?
Fan Chengmo is really getting more and more scared now as he thinks about it!
