Seeing Zuo Hua firing, not only Babu Dewei was surprised, but Hong Xu also changed his expression.
"Damn it, who told him to use the new cannon?"
The new artillery purchased by Zheng Zhilong from Shandong has not been used even once until now.
The purpose is to confuse the Dutch and wait until the critical moment to give the Dutch a fatal blow.
But now, just to besiege the lone Dutch warship, Zuo Hua actually used new artillery.
Of course Hong Xu knew what this situation would mean once the Dutch discovered it.
He didn't have time to blame Zuo Hua. He saw the other warships approaching and said quickly: "Tell everyone that all these Dutch must be killed. No one is allowed to let go, even if they all die."
Hong Xu's ship quickly sent out a semaphore.
The other Zheng family warships that were originally lazily changed their posture and tried to approach the Wenluo from all directions like mad dogs.
"General, look, what is that guy going to do?"
Hong Xu was summoned and looked at the situation in front of him, his eyes widened.
Zuo Hua blocked the front of the Wenluo. Two consecutive shots missed the target, but he did not get out of the way.
Instead, he headed straight for the Wenluo, with a desperate attitude.
"He is crazy. Even if he has new cannons on his ship, how can he be a match for the Dutch?"
Hong Xu scolded him, but he also knew that Zuo Hua's actions were delaying the Wenluo's progress.
"Full speed ahead, bite Dutch."
"Minister, it would be great if we had an artillery scope."
Neither shot hit, and the combat staff complained.
Bapu Dewei was amazed by the new artillery, but the new army was very dissatisfied with the effect of the bronze cannon.
Not only was this gun weak in lethality and insufficient in range, it was not equipped with a gun scope and its accuracy was also very poor.
Zuo Hua laughed.
"How can good things be seen by outsiders? Let's do it this way."
"Minister, the Dutch are turning."
Seeing Zuo Hua rushing towards him, Bapu Dewei still remained calm.
The Wenluo drew an arc on the sea and slowly turned the side of the ship towards Zuo Hua's ship.
Bapu Devi believed that it would only take one salvo to sink this lonely Junk ship.
But while the Wenluo was turning, Zuo Hua's ship had already started running away again.
The staff officers of the New Army are all top students, and their ability to calculate ballistic trajectories is absolutely unparalleled in the world.
In the second shooting, the two shells accurately hit the Venlo at a distance of three thousand meters.
The first shell entered the bottom cabin from the left front side of the ship, then rolled wildly in the bottom cabin, and finally crashed out from the other side.
There were large holes on both sides of the Venlo's hull, and four or five people were killed or injured.
The damage caused by the second shell was even more horrific.
The shell unexpectedly landed near the command platform. While overturning the two artillery pieces, the flying wood chips penetrated Bapu Devi's left arm.
"This must be artillery like we've never seen before."
As a veteran military general, Bapu Dewei knew that the enemy in front of him had very powerful weapons just by seeing the damage effect of these two cannons.
Fortunately, the other side's commander didn't seem very smart.
Even though they had such powerful artillery, they didn't keep their distance and instead rushed straight towards them.
This is to give Wenluo a chance.
"Captain, two thousand five hundred meters!"
Bapu Devi was reminded by the observation post and immediately shouted: "Fire!"
Although this distance was a bit beyond the Wenluo's artillery range, Zuo Hua's ship hit the Wenluo.
Therefore, you will definitely encounter the cannonball halfway.
Ten guns destroyed two, and the remaining eight roared collectively.
The eight cannonballs turned into black lightning in the sky and hit Zuo Hua's ship.
The observation post shouted: "Artillery fire, be careful to avoid it!"
Everyone carefully looked for bunkers and tried their best to save themselves under the bombardment.
Only Zuo Hua was fearless and stood upright on the command podium.
"Hurry up, hurry up, we have to pick up the ship and grab everything on the boat."
As he shouted, artillery shells fell in the sky.
Six of them landed in the water.
Another one hit the cabin directly from the bow of the lucky ship.
The cannonball rolled from the front to the back, and everything it passed was like a dragon rolling around, leaving a mess.
Another shell hit the command podium at Zuo Hua's feet.
The thin wooden board was penetrated by the cannonball, but Zuo Hua did not suffer any damage.
The shell had great inertia and flew out from the rear cabin and fell into the sea.
The huge impact caused Zuo Hua to fall down. After getting up, he roared: "Your cannons are aimed at me, but they are not hard enough."
The staff officers were all furious when they heard this.
The bronze cannon fired a third time.
This time the distance between the two sides was only more than a thousand meters.
As the distance gets closer, the accuracy of the artillery fire increases sharply.
The excellence of Napoleon's cannon is more vividly demonstrated.
This time one of the two shells hit, breaking one of the Venlo's masts.
The naked eye could see that the Wenluo's speed suddenly slowed down.
The broken mast had serious consequences.
That is to make the Venlo tilt to the left.
This caused the artillery on the right side of the Wenluo to be unable to fire, and also caused Zuo Hua's ship to suffer a round of shelling.
Zuo Hua pulled out his sword, pointed at the Wenluo and shouted, "Crash into it."
Bapu Dewei had just finished bandaging with the help of soldiers. When he saw Zuo Hua's boat getting closer and closer, he became anxious.
"Go and cut off the mast quickly and restore the stability of the battleship."
Several sailors rushed forward and chopped with axes, finally cutting off the broken mast and pushing it into the sea.
The Wenluo slowly returned to a stable state and finally roared again.
Within a few hundred meters, Zuo Hua's boat was hit by five shells.
Three combat staff were killed on the spot and seven others were injured.
The entire hull made a loud creaking sound, as if it was about to disintegrate at any time.
Zuo Hua was also hit on the left shoulder by a flying iron rod.
Fortunately, he was wearing armor and only suffered a minor fracture in his left shoulder, which did not turn into a serious injury.
The severe pain made Zuo Hua even more excited.
He personally ran to the bow of the ship, pushed aside the staff officer, shook the gun barrel, and aimed at the Venlo, which was constantly enlarging to the naked eye.
He had already seen Bapu Dewei shouting on the ship, but the muzzle of the artillery was pointed at the gun window of the Venlo.
boom……
The shell flew hundreds of meters and arrived in the blink of an eye.
The shell poured in through the gun window and accidentally hit the powder barrel.
The cabin of the Wenluo was quiet for a while, and then there was a loud noise like an angry dragon.
I saw that the entire hull seemed to be lifted up from the sea by some terrifying monster, flew high out of the sea, and then crashed down again.
Then there were flames flying all over the ship.
The Dutch sailors and soldiers were all panic-stricken, running around and even starting to jump into the water.
Apparently the end had come for the Venlo.
On the other side, Hong Xu hurriedly hurriedly reached the three-mile radius.
Seeing Zuo Hua single-handedly destroy the Wenluo, he was completely shocked.
"This...this madman!"
