White Devil
Chapter 569:White Devil
Li Dan hung up too fast, and the other personnel who quickly called the sea to watch the battle were shrinking in their hearts, and even the pain.Fan Wencheng stayed on the deck of the Amsterdam, staring at the vortex about two or three nautical miles away.He knew Li Dan's ship and the flag of the owner of Li Dan.He also tried to win over Li Dan, hoping that the sea merchant would really contribute to the woman.
But now the big man of the moment is finished.
When the Liaodong turned at high speed, the captains of the ships on the sea were horrified, as if to see a monster emerging from the deep sea choosing a hunting target.When the Liaodong was close to the Lidan ship, everyone gave a breath at the same time.Although the two ships are very different in strength, naval warfare has always been known for its long time.Everyone is feeling...
Since this unscruly warship is eyeing Li Dan, the battle will not end for a while.Perhaps the two sides will have to bombard the sea at close range for half a day - compared to the shells, the hundreds of tons of ships is actually a fairly difficult to destroy object.Often some ships are bombarded with hundreds of shells, the hull has been beyond recognition, but it can still float on the sea.
But Li Dan's boat was destroyed after only one round of shells.
Two thousand large ships, Li Dan's boat is well-made, durable, not the "revolutionary army" in order to save the use of pine board rough water.This kind of ship can be called the top ship in the southeast coast, but it has been killed by a blow!
After the bullet in the hull, the sky flew up wooden debris, and the large-caliber projectiles opened a full six large holes in the ship's side, and even two holes below the water line.The projectiles fired into the hull were destroyed as if they destroyed a number of watery silos, breaking with the keel and the ribs, which was the real reason for the rapid sinking of the Li Dan ship.
This also shows that Zhao Ze spent heavy money to design and manufacture, and the large-caliber guns that fired high-speed shells had more than expected power.This power is even as powerful as Zhu Chengxuan, who is very surprised to command the battle, and he has tested his own gun during the sea test, but he has never encountered such an effect.
“Luck, luck, all luck!”Zhu Chengxuan, who got the door to the door, did not feel the pressure to reduce, after all, there was a large number of enemy ships waiting for him to fight.He could only encourage his men to say, "Look, these scum do not seem to be difficult to fight."
Near and far, there were hundreds of artillery pieces, large and small, large and small, firing at the Liaodong.For a time, a large number of shells fell within hundreds of meters of the hull.The whole sea is like a boiling pot, and countless flowers are raucous.
Zhu Chengxuan immediately groaned and said, “What kind of stupid?”Don't you run fast?"
The destruction of Li Dan made all the ships of the false Ming and Roy fleet feel a thick death threat.The rabbits were in a hurry and bitten, not to mention the crew sailors who were playing with their heads on the sea.This year, all the outlaws who came out to run the sea were outlaws, and there was no good, and they had to struggle a few times.
Like a rain cannonball.What cannons, earth cannons, whether they are enough or not, all bombarded the Liaodong.The sailors on the "Liaodong" had just sunk a ship, and they wanted to be proud, so they could see the scene that caused public anger, and it was said that they were not trembling.
The captain of a ship is the largest, and everyone must obey the order and join hands.If the ship is finished, no one wants to live.On the Amsterdam, Fan Wencheng was forced to be assisted on the deck and was responsible for tugging a rope to help restore the position.
Sir Roy commanded himself on the deck, and he stared at the white-painted warship in the distance, and ordered in his mouth: "Five degrees to the left, turn over."The ship was too flexible and too fast to circle with it, and had to take advantage of our numbers and get close.”
The thousand-ton Amsterdam has hundreds of crew members, all of whom are engaged in intense fighting.They all stared at the terrible ‘white devil’ in the distance, at its strange chimney, at the six mighty main guns on its deck.
The Liaodong rushed out of the chaotic barrage and began to focus on the seven Tassil sail ships.Zhu Chengqi just turned the big angle to turn around the seven ships, and now the other side is adjusting the course, or want to restore the word cross, with the side to the side to it.
"Fif the right rudder, let's pick a weak one."Zhu Chengxuan is still very confident in the speed and flexibility of the Liaodong.Seeing that the opponent wanted to be close to himself with the wind, he ran to the counterwind position after turning to approach the enemy, causing the opponent to lose his mobility."Be careful, the guys on the other side are guns."
The enemy not only had a lot of guns, but also a lot of guns.
At the tail end of Roy's fleet was the Cape of Good Hope, a five-hundred-ton armed merchant ship, with more than two dozen guns in its cabin and on the deck.Although its firepower is far less than the "Amsterdam", but it is also a weapon such as the twenty-four-pound long barrel gun.This is already weighing two tons, the furthest can hit five kilometers, belongs to the "red cannon" level of the big guy.
The Liaodong ship chopped up and quickly approached.The lookout on the Cape of Good Hope can only watch the enemy reach his own boat.Even if it is an armed merchant ship, the ship and the ship's crocus are also artillery.But at most this position is also a gun, or the inconspicuous little guy.
Seeing the "White Devil" behind his ass, the crew on the Cape of Good Hope suddenly made a mess.No matter how they turn the rudder or change the sail, their hull can only turn around at a very slow speed.
At this time, the "Amsterdam" in front of the company had led the team to turn one step forward, and when the opponent ran to the tail of his own fleet, Sir Roy immediately shouted: "Cannon, shoot!"
The big deputy of the "A" ship quickly reminded: "Sir, this angle is not good for us, and the probability of firing the Cape of Good Hope is even greater."
“Strive to shoot!”Sir Roy's face twisted, without changing the slightest meaning of his orders, "The ship must understand our will to resist, or we will only be sent to the bottom of the sea by it."
The roar of the artillery again shook the sea, and dozens of artillery pieces on the side of the "Amsterdam" continued to fire.Fan Wencheng was stupid on the deck of the ship to accompany a group of unknown gunners.If someone asks him to pull a rope to pull the gun, he will only catch it.When the cannon opened fire, the huge back seat pulled the rope, and the rough rope surface immediately Ma Mamo's hands were full of blood.
Ah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . He did not expect that the strength of the back seat of the gun was so great that after eating a big loss, he found that others had finished firing the rope.
"Don't be silly, get the guns back up."An ugly sailor shouted at Fan Wencheng, and he did not care that the slender-haired man could not listen to the Dutch, but after scolding, a whip was smoked - and then Fan Wecheng immediately understood.
Fan Wencheng gave Huang Taiji as a slave who had never suffered this pain, but after he was whipped, he still had to use the blood-throwing hand to grab the rope that had broken his skin.And because he did not catch enough force, he was hit with several whips in succession.The people on the boat saw him as a slave.
Just when Fan Wencheng made the strength of milking, he biting his teeth and pulling the rope of the cannon reset, but the ship's deck sounded with an amazing cry.Even the Dutch sailor, who was beating him, stopped and looked blankly at the tail of the fleet, the Cape of Good Hope.From the point of view of the shot, it was hit by the person who had already turned.
What about the “white devil”?It slammed into the thigh of the Cape of Good Hope, and then quickly ran away at its own speed.It was this time within a hundred meters of strait, six rounds of shells hit two rounds, all hit the ship.The trumpet of the Cape of Good Hope was bombarded with a thin rottenness, though not fatal, but it lost its ability to turn.
Unable to turn, the unlucky Cape of Good Hope was then beaten by its own people, especially the 48-pounder heavy gun of the "A" ship, which destroyed the cannon on the side of the Cape of Good Hope in indiscriminate fire, and detonated the gunpowder barrel on the gun.
The explosion of the gunpowder barrel triggered a chain reaction, killing or igniting all the gunners and gunpowder on several nearby gun positions in one go.
So not far away on the Amsterdam, almost everyone can see a burst of flames on the poor Cape of Good Hope, and then the merchant ship from Europe turned into a sea bonfire.The crew of the ship was desperately jumping into the sea.But now this weather, people can not hold on to the sea for a few minutes.
Fan Wencheng was bemoaning the demise of a large ship, but Sir Thomas Roy did not have the idle work.He ran from the ship's starboard side to the right string and ordered again, "turn back, the right string is ten degrees."
The deputy had to remind again: “Sir, this will not work.The ship is much more flexible than ours.We turn to the right as a headwind and cannot turn over.”
Sir Roy looked up at the sail, judged the wind, and said, "Then lift the formation, each fighting."Let the priest pray for us, and we need greater strength and wait for the miracle to come.”
It was only after this that that the lookout on the mast had a tearing warning: "Captain, the ship is coming towards us, straight toward us."
What's going on?
It’s a miracle really coming!
The "White Devil" turned a circle but did not go far, but accelerated to the right side of the Roy fleet.The distance between the two sides is not increasing, but it is shrinking and relatively parallel.Sir Roy was both delighted and puzzled.But he could not control so much that he immediately ordered all the guns of the right-hand side of the whole fleet to fire at the target.
And Zhu Chengqi will be in his own bridge to the helmsman angry and shout: "What the hell?"Turn the rudder!There are more guns than us, and the hard fight is to find death!”
The rudder was full of sweat, and the rudder was doing nothing.He had to cry out in his face: "Commander, the auxiliary transmission of the rudder seems to have failed, and the rudder seems to have been stuck in an angle."We're afraid we'll have to use manual rudder."
The "Liaodong" is used for too much black technology, too far ahead and too immature.There were countless problems during the sea trials, and now the same problems are in the war.
Zhu Chengxuan heard the rudder failure, and the cold sweat immediately came out.He hurriedly drove the helmsman to the artificial rudder in the cabin, and let people find a way to repair the auxiliary transmission device of the rudder.But the observer in the bridge reminded him, "Commander, we seem to be in trouble."
Zhu Chengxuan was not angry and scolded: "From the war to now, we have been in trouble."
"But now we're in more trouble."
“What trouble?”
"We're going to hit the enemy's biggest ship."
What?
Death to me too!
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