Chapter 37 Wood. Wild Fox. Zen Fifteen: Picking Chestnuts from Fire 4
Sunazhuo stood at the bow of the Golden Eagle, looking at the movements opposite him with a serious expression.
To this day, the black-jin boy who used canoes to travel between Sakhalin Island and the mainland has grown into the first few people in the Imperial Navy. Now he is thirty years old. Unlike those students who graduated from the Imperial Navy School and then entered the navy for internship, Suna had worked on Sun Jiaji's ship from the beginning, and of course, there were appropriate arrangements for people like him in the empire.
It is normal for people like Suna to enter the naval school for three months every year. In addition, he almost shoulders the hopes of the entire downstream tribe of Heilongjiang, and he also works very hard and asks others humbly in his spare time. Now he can not only speak fluent Nanjing Mandarin, but also read a few major items that are listed as a must-read by Nikan as a senior officer in the Empire.
These major items are: "Naval War Dictation", "Sun Tzu's Art of War", and "Ji Xiao New Book".
Reading "Ji Xiao New Book" is naturally not to train troops according to Qi Jiguang's military tactics. Today's Daxia Kingdom is very different from any army in the past due to its military branches and weapons. Whether it is infantry, cavalry or navy, there are scriptures that suit them. It is impossible to implement them according to the training experience written by Qi Jiguang when he fought against the Japanese decades ago.
Nikan used it as a battle example to encourage his officers to think.
"In the past, Japanese pirates were equipped with this equipment and combat characteristics, so Qi Shaobao took these measures. What you need to master is, if you were placed in a strange environment, how would you select troops, train troops, and lead troops?"
By extension, "When you suddenly encounter a strange enemy, a strange tactic, how will you deal with it?"
This is the situation that Suna faces.
Shi Lang led five Erqingtou and protruded in front, followed by a large number of Garen ships, Big Qingtou and Erqingtou and seventy or eighty large ships. He only had a new fleet and twenty Saha Company-class warships that were about to retire.
Speaking of which, the flagship Golden Eagle of the new warship is as big as the Big Green Head. The four Peregrine Falcons are slightly larger than the Er Qing Head, while the Swift is only slightly smaller than the Er Qing Head. Of course, most of the Fuchuans have a strong figure, and the aspect ratio is definitely very different.
The Saha Company-class warship is actually similar to the Peregrine Falcon, but the internal structure is different, resulting in a different aspect ratio and a different speed.
The current situation is that because the south wind is in full swing, both sides are heading south in a zigzag shape, and they both want to seize the upper hand.
Even so, the gap between the two sides was revealed over time.
Whether it is the ship type (V-shaped bow, which is easy to break waves, the aspect ratio of streamlined), sail type (the combination of horizontal sails and vertical sails), the control of the rudder/oar (the two settings of the Hanhai Army use a large number of pulley devices, which is more labor-saving and convenient and quick to operate), the ship speed (the combination of multi-faceted horizontal sails, side sails, and spinnakers, although the control is a bit troublesome, but it is full of wind and has greater thrust) makes them much better in speed than Zheng Sen's fleet.
Therefore, Shi Lang was determined to surpass the enemy ship. Unfortunately, half an hour later, the gap between the two sides became larger and larger, and soon the traces of the enemy ship were no longer visible.
Shi Lang was also a little scared now. The vast sea and the mists were everywhere. Do you know where the enemy ship was?
Just as he was hesitating, Zheng Sen's brigade also arrived. At this time, Zheng Sen's original blood energy gradually dissipated. At this time, he finally obeyed Lin Xishan's opinions. He asked the fifty Erqingtou, carrying infantry troops, to sail towards Dengzhou, and continued to sail south with the remaining ships.
Not long after, the enemy ship appeared again!
After Suna returned from the south, she saw that the number of enemy ships was much smaller, and she felt a little suspicious. However, they were at the upper hand and the speed of the ship was even more superior. He quickly issued an order.
"Fastest speed, one-line shape, clockwise!"
Not long after, two Swifts took the lead, two Peregrine Falcons followed, with the Golden Eagle in the middle, and two Peregrine Falcons lined up in a long row and sailing northward at the fastest speed.
Ten large Sakha Company Class II ships were also lined up in a long row and headed northeastward, while ten large Sakha Company Class I ships were dragged at the end at normal speed.
Soon, the new fleet stood out from the brigade and quickly approached the starboard position of the enemy ship. After seeing the Han Hai Army's ship, the enemy ship was a little confused when he saw the three fleets.
"boom!!!"
The artillery on the starboard position of the Swift, Peregrine Falcon, and Golden Eagle had been ready. At this time, the distance between the two sides was about one hundred meters away, and half of the artillery on the starboard position of all ships was ignited.
It should be noted here that due to the limitations of conditions, thermal bombs that can be fired on land are too risky on the wooden deck, so there is currently no option for thermal bombs in the Hanhai Army's warships.
In this case, the current teachings of Han Haijun are explained in this way.
"The ship with only one deck gun fires live ammunition, and there are two deck guns. The upper deck fires chain bullets, the lower deck live ammunition, and there are three layers of direct gun deck that passes through the middle and upper decks, and the lower deck is live ammunition."
Currently, there are only three layers of artillery directed through the deck in the Hanhai Army warship. The upper, middle and lower layers are arranged with twelve kilograms, eighteen kilograms and twenty-four kilograms of bronze cannons, all of which can fire chain shells of different specifications.
The Peregrine Falcon has eighteen kilograms and two-layer cannons with twelve kilograms and nine junctions on each side.
Half is five. When half of the artillery fires at the same time, the huge back-square force makes the large ship equipped with the hem of the hem of the keel to prevent the rollover suddenly fall to one side. If it has not been trained for a long time, both sailors and gunners must fall, but this situation is almost impossible to see at the moment. The artillery is quickly reset under the obstacle of ropes. The gunners push the cannon with wooden wheels embedded in the deck and can also be restored and aimed.
At this time, the functions of the gunshots and flintlocks can be shown, especially the flintlocks. It is not good to ignite cannons on the turbulent sea. In the past, when the cannon was ignited with a flint, you could not expect what the next wave would look like. When the flint ignition and induced drugs bombard the shells, the muzzle at that time went nowhere with the ups and downs of the ship.
The flintlock can ignite the cannon in an instant, which can greatly reduce the target deviation caused by the waves and undulations. With the role of rifle and gun mirror, in this world, if the artillery accuracy of the Hanhai Navy ranks second, no one dares to rank first.
The artifact at this time, the flintlock machine, triggered artillery technology, was not fully equipped by the British until the 18th century.
If you are proficient in a distance of 100 meters, even if you bump on the sea, your hit rate can reach 50%!
This world at this time is simply a miracle, a complete cheating tool.
After the artillery was fired, the effect was amazing in the telescope:
The enemy ships near the Hanhai Army ships were almost wounded, especially the ships under the attack of the Golden Eagle, which almost lost their combat effectiveness in an instant!
Facing the Golden Eagle was a big Qingtou. Its waterline, middle deck, main mast, and bow cabin were all severely damaged. The 24-pound heavy cannon on the bottom deck of the Golden Eagle was at a distance of 100 meters, and it hit the target directly at a 5-degree angle and almost no drops. It steadily hit the part of the Da Qingtou waterline. This hit was two big holes!
The 18-pound cannon on the second deck and the 12-pound cannon on the upper deck are all shot at an angle of octave, and the effect is also quite amazing: the middle deck chain cannon, known as the Hanhai Cutting Machine, swept across at a distance of about one meter above the deck surface of the enemy's bow, and cut everything it encountered, including sailors, ropes, and masts, without hesitation, into half.
The chain bombs fired by the upper deck cannon also seem to be different, but it aims at the upper and upper parts of the enemy ship's mast. Once it does not cut off the mast but wraps around the mast, another iron bomb rotates at high speed around the mast, cutting anything within one and a half meters into pieces.
Zheng Sen's fleet had only more than twenty ships, and the new fleet's long snake formation quickly passed over them. At this time, their ships barely fired a round of artillery, and most of the shells were transferred into the sea.
When the fleet sailed to the tail end of the enemy ship fleet, the fleet suddenly turned east, and at this time it was just using the south wind to sail sideways. Under the skillful control of the sail driver, all the sails formed the best angle with the south wind, and the speed at this time was faster than sailing downwind!
The fleet was still a long snake formation, but it was aimed at the stern of the enemy ship. At this time, the other half of the artillery was fired!
After the stern quickly passed, Suna, who was standing steadily on the Golden Eagle, saw in the telescope that almost 30% of the enemy ships lost their combat effectiveness after two rounds of strikes by the Hanhai warship. Either they lost their masts and sails, or they were shot in the breeze and tilted water. Some were unfortunately knocked down by shells and gunpowder barrels, causing a violent explosion on the spot, and then a raging fire ignited.
Some of them are the rudder hit, which makes it lose its ability to adjust its direction.
The fleet continued to sail eastward after crossing the enemy ship. At this time, the fleet suddenly turned north and then westward. At this time, the crosswind was still used, but the angle between the sail and the south wind was in the opposite direction.
Half of the port side of the gunfire sounded!
At this time, the enemy ships were still in chaos. The fleet began to turn south and continued to sail south in a zigzag shape. At this time, all the side sails of all ships were opened. In the wind, the ship speed also reached the fastest. When the enemy ship came back to its senses, the fleet began to sail north from the other side again!
The battle lasted for a full half day, and the situation was completely one-sided. When twilight fell on the sea, Zheng Sen's fleet completely lost its combat effectiveness.
However, Zheng Sen, Lin Xishan, uncle and nephew of Shi Fu ran away - there was no way, the sea was too vast, and even if the Hanhai Army allowed another twenty Saha company-class ships to patrol the sea, it would not be possible to completely cover it up.
The only ships that escaped in the end were only three second-headed ships, and the remaining ships were either sunk or captured.
Chapter completed!