Two fleets that were originally traveling opposite each other on the sea suddenly changed their course: the Fu fleet from north to south began to turn right collectively.

On the right is the mainland.

"I ran away, I really ran away." The hull number was 301. On the task force flagship, which was temporarily named "Taijiang" within the navy, a group of people holding telescopes sighed at the same time.

Liu Zhe, the real leader of the fleet, had no time to deal with these guys now. He quickly issued a new order based on the opponent's actions: "Add coal to the engine room, two-thirds of the speed."

"It's three-quarter speed." Next to Liu Zhe, a short boy named Mao Wu, less than 1.6 meters tall and with a shaved head, put his feet together. After repeating the order loudly, he turned around and walked to deliver the message at a standard pace.

In front of the machine, pick up the microphone and start talking to the engine room.

Three-quarter speed refers to 18 knots: full speed is 24 knots.

This new destroyer produced by Time Travel Force can run at a speed of 13 knots under smooth winds and smooth water. Once the engine room at the stern of the cabin starts working and the propellers turn, the speed of the fleet will quickly soar from 13 knots to 18 knots.

Festival or so.

In fact, the full speed of the empty ship is 24 knots. However, it turns out that once the wooden ship exceeds 18 knots, the fleet will break away from the safety line of "three-quarter speed", and the gain will not be worth the loss.

Historically, the famous clipper ship "Short Shirt" was 646 meters long, 11 meters wide, and had a displacement of 2,100 tons. Its speed was only 175 knots.

The all-wooden small sailing ship "Taijiang" is born with osteoporosis and cannot be compared with the iron-ribbed wooden hull clipper ships of the 19th century. They cannot withstand long-term high-speed sailing: at a high speed of 18 knots

Under water, the waves will become as hard as a brick wall. Without steel ribs as a frame, the ship will develop cracks and leaks over time.

In addition, high speed is also troublesome. Just like using Poussin Biao to reach 100 yards, once the speed reaches a certain level, the maneuverability and stability of a sailboat like the Taijiang will be greatly reduced.

To a certain extent, the benefits brought by propellers to destroyers are more reflected in improving the lower limit of the ship: increasing the speed of the ship in headwind, increasing the maneuverability of the ship in complex sea conditions, assisting the ship in entering the port, etc.

As for increasing the upper limit of ship speed to 18 knots, it is already a warning line, and there is no point in raising it any higher. In addition, with everyone following the wind at the same time, the ship speed of the Fu Fleet at the moment is only six knots, and there is no way to escape the pursuit of the fleet.

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So just like Poussin chasing a pedal, the task force quickly caught up with the Fu fleet.

It only took less than 20 minutes for the two sides to discover each other head-on, to turn towards the mainland almost at the same time, and then to the slow Fuzhou fleet being overtaken by the fleet. The Fuzhou fleet that turned to run away, even Cormorant Island

They didn't even get over it and were chased after them.

The metaphor of a slender hairtail catching up with a fat carp from behind is inappropriate, but this is the reality: only fleets with broadside shooting capabilities will pull out a battle line formation. In the 17th century, these gangs played cold weapons.

The pirate team that jumps into gangs to fight has no concept of battle lines. The five sand fleets at this moment are arranged in a traditional zigzag formation.

As for the artillery fire on the Fu ship, in fact it has no effect now.

In the Zheng family's fleet, the bow of each ship is equipped with naval guns sold to the Zheng family by the Portuguese. These five guns are fixed to the fort slide rails on the bow using various imitation bundling methods. These technical pirates

We have neither the ability nor the need to master it.

Stand a Fuchuan ship model with a "" shaped bottom on the table, and then blow a breath from the side, and the ship model will topple over.

The Fu Chuan, which was designed to transport cargo flexibly and weather the wind from all directions, was not originally used to fire broadsides. Not to mention that these Fu Chuan did not even have ribs. Even if enough ribs were installed, then in

At the same time as the cannon is fired from the side, the ""-shaped ship will capsize on the spot. In the best case scenario, it will also transform into a park-style "pirate ship" and roll all the sailors into the sea with a large roll.

Historically, 20 years later, in the battle of Guo Xingye to regain the Da Yuan Commercial Building, the only ships that could fire broadside guns were the "" type bottom European ships purchased by the Zheng family.

The ships built by the Zheng family, even the so-called "Da Qingtou" with a strengthened hull structure, are essentially point-bottomed melee ships: only one cannon can be installed on the bow, and the longitudinal keel is used to absorb the recoil of the cannon.

.When the artillery is firing, it cannot swing its head left and right, let alone shoot sideways. It can only point the bow of the ship at the enemy.

This is the current situation.

The line that was catching up from behind at high speed was almost parallel to the Fuchuan array, and there was nothing the Fuchuan fleet could do. They couldn't collectively turn around just to blast an iron egg out, not to mention they couldn't: the current parallel distance between the two sides was 1000

meters, the side with the speed advantage is freely adjusting the distance between the two sides.

Five minutes later, the battle line deftly adjusted the parallel distance between the two sides to 500 meters. Then the fleet began to lower the sails and reduce the gas delivery rate. The speed was too high for launch, so everyone just moved forward at the same speed.

Seeing that the opponent actually lowered the sails in the naval battle, Zheng Zhilong no longer had any luck at this moment: he now knew the speed difference between a tiger and a sheep, and having worked in both Dutch and Portuguese companies, he knew very well what the opponent was going to do next.

do what.

So he could only painfully issue an order that was close to giving up hope: turn to charge.

At the same moment, the iron bullets fired by the 12 naval Napoleon guns on the three destroyers also flew towards the Fu fleet in white smoke and roar.

Of course shelling is ineffective.

Even though the distance was only 500 meters, the iron balls fired by the gunners who had experienced actual combat for the first time on the bumpy deck all hit the target without exception. Some iron balls even deviated from the target by hundreds of meters, splashing away.

Useless water column.

"This hit is too bad, isn't it said that using three guns is more accurate?" The people who were eating melons began to express their excitement again. The people who said this were not knowledgeable, but the army and marines who knew the skills were also full of expressions.

I was surprised, as if I suddenly discovered that the navy was a worm of the people, and it was a shame to travel through time.

Liu Zhe was no longer able to argue with these bad guys. He was holding a walkie-talkie and giving orders to the entire fleet: "Left rudder three, speed unchanged, steady fire."

Following Liu Zhe's order, the Zheng pirates, who had just turned the bow of the ship and made a difficult charge, were surprised to see a beautiful tactical movement: three warships with white sails were like springs.

The battle lines all moved 200 meters away.

This uniform tactical action had a huge psychological impact on the pirates, because at the same moment, they fired the cannonballs from the bow.

The five bow guns of Zheng's fleet have different calibers: ranging from 12-pound to 16-pound guns. As for the accuracy of the gun, it depends on mental estimation, and the distance measurement relies on naked eye radar. Aiming requires adjusting the entire ship.

The shooting method that is perpendicular to the opponent is purely blind and has no effect at a distance of 700 meters.

The task force's second round of artillery shells and the Fuzhou Fleet's first round of artillery shells were fired at the same time. The iron balls fired from the muzzles of both sides crossed in the air. Except for a splash of water, no one achieved any results.

The fleet's third round of artillery shells soon hit.

During the Civil War, a skilled Napoleonic gun crew fired four rounds per minute. On sailing battleships in the 17th century, the Navy's basic requirement for the gun crew was one round per minute. This data will change in time with sea conditions:

Under high sea conditions, one shot every 3 minutes is also allowed.

Today's sea conditions were normal, the wind was a little strong, but everything else was fine, so the fleet's 12 artillery groups fired salvos at the normal training rate of one round per minute.

However, in the eyes of the pirates on the opposite side, this speed is a bit fantasy.

You know, when they fired the first shot, the huge recoil caused the various ropes and wooden blocks tied up the artillery to fly away. Just as the hard-working people swarmed up to reset the artillery, five more rounds came from the opposite side.

There is no way to shoot, and you will be beaten if you fall behind. Who makes the pirates do not have three-axis CNC machine tools and bearings, and cannot process the customized slide rail system that can quickly reset the artillery?

In fact, when the Napoleon cannon fired its fourth round, it had already opened.

A 12-pound iron ball passed over the deck of a lucky ship, creating a bloody alley for the densely packed pirates on the deck who were still dreaming of fighting the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.

As the first cannonball fired, iron balls continued to hit the ship, either smashing a hole in the ship's deck or killing everyone on the deck. The scene began to become tragic.

As for the five Fu boats that were slowly charging in a zigzag pattern, the speed of the first three boats had slowed down due to the continuous attacks. A strange battle scene now appeared on the sea: five neat Chinese-style boats were advancing hand in hand.

Heading south, three Western-style boats had already drawn an arc and quickly passed around the front of Fu Chuan.

"Brother, the momentum is not good, let's go separately." At the moment when he saw the ship on the opposite side ignoring the wind direction and turning at high speed on the sea at will, even the dullest pirate understood the essence of the problem: the sheep was being teased by the tiger.

This weird fighting mode makes the pirates who are accustomed to gang-hopping at a loss what to do. You know, even the arrogant Dutch not long ago also lost their armor and fled in panic under the pirates' ant colony tactics.

But today is different. Today's ant colony has actually turned into sheep. Faced with the opponent's unstoppable speed and dense artillery shells, the Corsair suddenly found that it could do nothing. Even the speed of turning around inside was not as fast as the opponent's.

The speed around the outer circle is purely a fighting posture of lying down and getting hammered.

After hearing his brother's words, Zheng Zhilong, who was standing on the ship's roof and watching, smiled bitterly: "I don't think these Kun people are not only sharp with guns and cannons, but also have great boating skills. They were defeated today. Alas.

, give the order, let’s go separately.”

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