When the cannon sounded suddenly, the coalition fleet was completely confused.

There were many warship captains, who didn't even know that it was the Ming fleet firing, but they thought it was the fastest British Empire warship firing.

It is normal to have this idea, because the range of artillery fire in their perception is very different from that of the Ming Fleet.

"Have the artillery of the British Empire fleet been upgraded? Is the distance of about three kilometers belonging to their effective range?"

The commander of the Tsarist Russian fleet frowned, which was not good news for them.

Although their artillery's maximum range has reached five kilometers, in fact, its true effective range is only about two kilometers.

Just like the White Horse Swordsman, the maximum range can only be exerted in the hands of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty. It can be killed in one shot at 1,500 meters away, and the bullets are shot without any effort.

But countries that have purchased the White Horse Swordsman and have imitated the White Horse Swordsman, including Tsarist Russia, which has been training sharpshooters, have only been six hundred meters in the farthest kill that can be achieved with the White Horse Swordsman.

Most soldiers, with the effective range of the White Horse Swordsman, are less than 400 meters.

"I haven't heard of it. After I go back, I should ask them to check it carefully. If the range of the British artillery is increased, it will have a great impact on us. We need to figure out how they did it. After all, without the Ming Empire, the British Empire is one of our main opponents."

The adjutant said: "But I think it should be the technology of the White Horse Sharp Gun. Some of us are also studying the technology of the White Horse Sharp Gun to the cannon to increase the effective range... Well? Did the British warship be hit? What's the situation? It's not the cannon they fired?"

"It was the Ming Empire. They fired the guns and they hit the British Empire's warships."

The commander of Tsarist Russia looked at the picture inside the telescope and said something certain, but his tone was full of doubts.

"How is that possible?"

"How could ten warships be hit by artillery at the same time? Didn't the Ming Empire have only twelve artillery? There are also artillery on that target ship?"

"No, no, there are no artillery on that target ship. They have no artillery, only the six battleships, only the twelve artillery."

"Oh my God, three of them began to sink, and were hit by a shell, and they began to sink? Where are the armor on their warships? They are all iron armored warships, how could it be?"

"General, look, those artillery can change the direction of shooting. They are fixed artillery, not movable artillery stands, but they can directly change the direction of shooting."

Boom boom boom boom...

Another series of cannon sounded.

"The French fleet was also hit, how could it be? They are 3.5 kilometers away from the Ming Empire fleet."

"The Ottoman fleet was also hit, and they were nearly four kilometers away from the Ming fleet."

"Not good, our warships were also shot, two of us, two of us were shot."

"Eleven ships, general, this time they fired twelve guns, and eleven shots hit."

"What is the time interval between two rounds of shooting? Tell me quickly, how much is it?"

"Ten seconds, only ten seconds, they can fire one shot every ten seconds, no, it's twelve shots."

While speaking, ten seconds had passed, and six battleships of the Qinhuang aircraft carrier formation of the Ming Empire fired again.

This time, all twelve shells hit the target.

Judging from the hit rate alone, the battleships of the Ming Empire are simply incredible.

Both sides are in a mobile state. In this era without a guidance system, the sighting device used by the coalition fleet is actually a magnifier similar to a gun.

Even this kind of aiming system is not available in all coalition warships. Most of them still need to rely on naked eyes to fire based on their feelings.

Therefore, they could not understand the hit rate of the Ming fleet at all, and what they could not understand was the lethality caused by these shells after they hit.

Can a shell sink an iron-armored warship?

That must be very lucky, hitting the armor at the waterline, or hitting the ammunition compartment of the warship...

But once is luck, three times, five times?

There were far more than one coalition warship hit by a shell and then began to sink directly, and such scenes were constantly repeating.

It was completely enough for everyone to believe that this was definitely not the luck of the Ming fleet, but the power of their shells was amazing, even beyond the perception of all commanders of the coalition fleet.

There are still many warships that were not hit, but their captains saw everything that happened in this sea area, saw the extraordinary range of artillery artillery of the Ming fleet, and also saw completely unreasonable hit rate and incredible killing effects.

They still have an absolute advantage in quantity, but there is a sense of fear in their hearts.

“Slow down, slow down immediately.”

Some captains issued such orders because of fear, and they wanted to wait and see.

In their opinion, the Ming fleet fired only when the British Empire fleet narrowed the distance to within three kilometers. Although there were shells hitting warships with a distance of about 3.5 kilometers, their calculations of distance were not accurate.

So they determined that the artillery range of the Ming Fleet was only about 3 kilometers, and they were now more than 4 kilometers away from the Ming Fleet, and the Ming Fleet could not defeat them.

"Charge, charge me, go forward at full speed, and as long as we reach our range, we can sink them all."

Some captains also issued orders to continue charging, such as the Tsarist Russian fleet and the French fleet.

Compared to the small countries represented by slowing warships, the countries behind them do not allow them to retreat, nor do they themselves allow them to retreat.

Because retreating means they will fail completely.

The coalition fleet was originally a battleship formation with a siege, and began to deform after the third round of artillery attacks of the Ming Empire. However, the Ming fleet was definitely not only three rounds of artillery attacks, but also more than six battleships and twelve artillery guns.

On the aircraft carrier Qinhuang.

Li Hongzhang issued the second order.

"Great Wall One, Two...cruiser, firing."

The broadcast communication system carried in the Qinhuang aircraft carrier formation immediately transmitted Li Hongzhang's order to six cruisers named with the Great Wall as the prefix.

Like battleships, these cruisers also have two artillery guns on each. From this point of view, there seems to be no difference between the battleships and cruisers of the Ming Fleet.

This is exactly the case.

In the historical process of another world, battleships are a type of warship destined to be eliminated, including cruisers.

Because the form of war will undergo earth-shaking changes due to the emergence of missiles.

Although the Ming Fleet has not yet built missiles, Anne was already preparing for future upgrades when designing these warships.

So in essence, the Ming fleet has no distinction between battleships and cruisers, and there is actually no difference in firepower. The only difference at this stage is the gap in range.

Cruisers exist for ocean-going naval battles, while battleships exist for near-shore naval battles.

But this time, because there were sufficient transport ships and unreasonable means of transporting materials such as portals, the battleships could also go directly to the Atlantic Ocean, and there was no need to create any battleship cruisers.

Compared with countries like the British Empire, the navy also had to build ocean-going battleships, and the Ming fleet had too many advantages.

The real advantage lies in the firepower system of the warship itself.

After Li Hongzhang's voice came from the command room of the Great Wall Cruiser 3, the captain reposted the order to fire the artillery. The cannon that had completed the locking of the target area almost completed the fire in an instant.

"Recharge."

"Reloading is complete."

"aim."

The Ming Navy artillery, who was responsible for controlling artillery, looked at the aiming system in front of him and easily locked an enemy warship in the area he was responsible for attacking.

If the artillery aiming system of the coalition fleet only has a scale scope, then the sighting system of the Ming Navy has added a sighting system with auxiliary sighting system.

It doesn't sound much different, but the artillery of the coalition fleet is similar to a sniper, requiring manual calculation of the speed, orientation and other information of the Ming Dynasty warships, and artificial intelligence is often prone to errors.

Although the Ming fleet also requires manual calculations and can assist in the aiming system, it can convert all parameters into scales on the scope. It has a more scientific calculation method. The aiming system that basically does not make mistakes after determining the parameters is the reason why the Ming warship artillery hit rate exceeds 95%.

"fire."

When the formation of the local fleet is pulled away by the artillery bombardment of the battleship, they no longer need to carry out tasks of escorting and protecting the transport ship.

Boom boom boom boom...

The six cruisers were also equipped with two 130mm caliber artillery guns. When the twelve guns also opened fire at the same time, the firepower of the Ming fleet truly suppressed the firepower of the coalition fleet.

Even so far, the coalition fleet has only fired randomly because of panic.

Twenty-four 130mm caliber artillery, with a maximum effective range of 10 kilometers and a total firing rate of 144 rounds per minute, can not only suppress the coalition fleet in terms of firepower, but also directly cover the entire battlefield.

All coalition fleets are within the range of artillery fire of the Ming Fleet.

What is most amazing is the power of the Ming warships and cannons.

Compared to the use of smokeless gunpowder not long ago, there is even a coalition fleet using black gunpowder. The artillery shells of the Ming Empire have been upgraded to TNT.

This is an epoch-making upgrade.

It also brings epoch-making improvements in power.

Combined with the armor-piercing design of 130mm caliber shells, it doesn't take luck to enter the soul at all.

The armor and metal hull of the coalition fleet's warships could not stop the artillery of the Ming Fleet. Even if the shells were only embedded in the armor, the power generated when the TNT inside the shell was detonated was enough to cause serious damage to the hull.

The power generated by the explosion made the entire warship vibrate or even tilt.

The warships hit before they could check the losses and were even in a daze, the second shell had already hit them.

The number of artillery in the Ming fleet was relatively small, so while the rain and dew were evenly affected, their combat plan was to catch one and fight to the death, and would not give up until it was sunk.

"The coordinate direction is 225, the distance is 2.3 kilometers, and the Great Wall Fourth ship requests to gather fire."

"The Great Wall 5 ship received the target, and the target is in the range of our ship's artillery strike. It is loading and aiming is completed in seven seconds."
To be continued...