"It must be a big blow to the French!"

Yang Chengen personally brought the main force of the European fleet to Algiers. When he thought of Nikan's advice before leaving, he immediately made arrangements for his own offensive.

Generally speaking, large battleships that do not fight, the huge Dapeng rarely enters the battle from the beginning, but Yang Chengen can't control so much. Strong northwest winds began to appear on the sea surface, and the winds became stronger and stronger, mostly storms formed on the sea surface near France.

At this time, if the French warships cannot be attacked as soon as possible, when the storm gradually strengthens, our warships will have to withdraw from the battle!

So, at the beginning, Yang Chengen's Dapeng faced the largest Saint Louis, the opponent's warship.

Although the USS St. Louis is the largest in the French warship sequence, it only has fifty-two artillery pieces. Each of the three-layer direct decks is arranged with only about fifteen artillery pieces. Together with the artillery pieces at the beginning and end, there are 52 artillery pieces in total, but it is only slightly smaller than the USS Dapeng, which shows that the French warships at this time have not yet entered the most mature stage, and the side fully loaded artillery and enemy ships are still a little unsatisfied.

However, the French also arranged some 64-pound super artillery on the lower deck, and the artillery on the middle and upper decks were mostly medium and medium-sized artillery, which is also the reason why Saint Louis dared not arrange artillery too intensively.

And the Dapeng is different.

The average length of the Dapeng is 90 meters, and each layer of direct deck is arranged with thirty cannons, with an average of one cannon in three meters. With the head and tail artillery, there are a total of 100 cannons. At this time, Europe is definitely a giant existence!

The lower deck of Dapeng is mainly arranged with artillery mainly forty-eight kilograms, the middle layer is mainly forth 32 kilograms, and the upper layer is mainly forth 24 kilograms, with both the beginning and the end of the twenty-four kilograms, each with five doors, all placed on the upper deck.

Although there are only fifteen artillery on one side, if he turns around and fights against you with the 64-pound or 48-pound heavy artillery on the side, even if you can win in the end, it will probably be a terrible victory in such weather, because the wind and waves are already very big at this time, and no matter what advantages you have, it will be gone.

But the advantages of Hanhai Army's motor power will not disappear easily!

"call……"

“Wow…”

The whistling of the strong wind, the rafting of the waves, and the dark clouds gradually approaching the Bay of Algiers made both the enemy and us nervous.

The wind that had been calm for two days was actually beneficial to the French warships, because they could use the wind to make their sailing ships move. Although it was northwest wind, they could still move slowly after adjusting their position. However, this movement was not enough compared to the movement brought by the Hanhai warships by the powerful steam engine.

Almost all Hanhai military ships were like this. With their powerful maneuver power, they aimed the guns in the side position at the bow of the French warship!

For European warships at this time, although they have entered the era of battleships, since the bow of the ship must cut the waves, especially after entering the outer sea, the wind and waves are even greater, so they generally do not set up artillery on the middle and lower decks at the bow of the ship. If there are, most of them are on the upper deck. Of course, some super large battleships also have them, but the current French battleships obviously do not.

If there is only one layer, the gun density will definitely not be enough at the bow position, but they are facing the dense artillery on the side of the Hanhai warship!

At this time, no flintlock machine or gun mirror can be used. The only thing that can be used is the density of the cannon, just like the dense formation function that had just entered the musket era.

Sure enough, in the bad weather, both sides lost their first three rounds of artillery, but from the fourth round, the gunners of the Hanhai Army gradually adapted to the gradually increasing waves of Algiers. This time, a total of nine artillery fired in the middle of his starboard position, three of them at the upper, middle and lower.

The 32 kilograms and 48 kilograms of artillery in the middle and lower levels were naturally live ammunition, while the 24 kilograms of artillery in the upper deck shot out three packs of shotguns!

Three special shotguns!

At present, the distance between both sides is very close. At such a close distance, if the shotgun is still used to kill people and canvas, the effect will not be great.

In the backup ammunition of the Hanhai Navy, even the shotgun has multiple specifications, such as three types of 24 kilograms of cannons.

Nowadays, the common lead in Hanhai Army muskets weighs three cents, but the shotguns used on warships are not so light. For example, the lightest shotgun of the 24-jin cannon is twelve cents, and then there are three types of 24-jin, forty-eight cents, and forty-eight cents, which is four liang and eight, which is almost half a jin.

But this time the shotgun used a very small amount of 96 cents of super large lead seeds. One lead is nearly a pound and the diameter is nearly one centimeter, and each pack is fifteen.

If such lead is shot within a distance of less than fifty meters, it will cause serious damage to the cabin plate, mast and a large number of facilities on the first deck. If it hits the human body, one will be enough to form a shocking large wound on the human body.

The three large shotguns were shot out, and the shotgun fired from the cannon in the middle was just in the bow of St. Louis!

Fifteen, each weighing one pound of loose pieces hit the bow cabin gang, and some hit the bowsprit!

At this time, the bowsprit was not only used to place the bowsprit, but also used to fix the bowsprit and main mast rigging. When the shotgun hit the mast, it immediately caused serious damage. Then the bowsprit broke with a "click" under the action of the wind!

In addition, the heavy shotgun swept across the sailors near the bowsprit and hit people near the bowsprit!

And a heavy shell weighing 48 pounds also hit the keel that was lifted by the storm!

The kinetic energy contained in the giant shell weighing 48 kilograms is not a joke. When the shell hit, the bow structure of the St. Louis immediately squeaked. That was because when the keel was severely damaged, it naturally affected the ribs attached to it and then transmitted to the boat board and the boat gang!

This big ship can still hold on, but the old sailors on the ship knew that it would not last long when they heard the sound. The best choice now is to drive back to the port for maintenance as soon as possible.

But the Han Dapeng still tightly entangled its bow position like a tarsal bone, making it linger.

The tactics adopted by other ships of the Hanhai Army were all the same as those of the Dapeng. In addition to St. Louis, St. Henry and two ships were only built according to the battleship mode. Only St. Louis and St. Henry were three-layer artillery decks, and the other two had two-layer artillery decks. The remaining four warships were transformed by armed merchant ships with single-layer artillery decks, so they were not the opponents of the Hanhai Army's warships at all.

After about two hours, except for the four large and thick-skinned ships, the remaining four were either sunk or completely lost their maneuver under the attack of the Hanhai Army warships, and were thrillingly jogging on the large waves that had already arrived.

At this time, ships including St. Louis were seriously damaged due to the bow position and the wind was getting stronger and stronger, so it was even more impossible to turn around and face the Hanhai warship with artillery on the side.

At this time, under the raging wind, the Hanhai warships did not care about completely destroying the four large ships, and quickly turned around and drove towards the Port of Myersa.

Just as the Hanhai Fleet had just arrived at the Port of Meersa, the wind was already scary.

In the strong wind, it took a long time to barely park. Because the Hanhai Army warships were hung with thick thick rubber mats on the side of the side, they bumped into the trestle and were somewhat buffered when they collided with the trestle under the swelling. But can the trestle that the Hanhai Army had set up not long ago withstand such a big storm?

Just as Yang Chengen and others were praying secretly, the French warships that rely entirely on sail power were not so lucky. Under the strong northwest wind, the remaining four large ships could only retreat to the port, but in this case it was too difficult for them to stop at the port safely, not to mention that the structure, masts and rigging near their bows were seriously damaged.

Hurricanes in the Mediterranean are not like the Caribbean Sea. They usually rarely occur. Once they occur, they retreat quickly. However, after the wind passes, the largest Dapeng on the Hanhai Army, because of its huge body, destroyed the pier under the swelling waves. So he fell. Fortunately, the steel pipes captured by the Hanhai Army's engineers were not completely pushed down. Their triangular structural design in the water made it tilted, but a considerable part of them still supported the hull.

After the inspection, the right keel on the Dapeng was intact, but the ship gang was a little damaged and needed a major repair.

In addition, there was also a Golden Eagle, and two Albatrosses also had accidents. The Golden Eagle is similar to the Dapeng, but the huge albatrosses were not so lucky. The two albatrosses completely fell into the sea.

On the contrary, it is the lighter Peregrine Falcon, the Swift is intact.

This also reminded the fleet of the Daxia Kingdom that in any sea area, before there are regular shore facilities, it is still very dangerous for large ships like the Dapeng, the Golden Eagle, and the Albatross to be parked on the side of the temporary trest.

On the French side, although the port of Algiers was a regular wharf that the Barbarians operated for more than a hundred years, none of the four damaged ships could be parked safely and steadily. The four large ships were pushed to the dock by the waves. Some were the gangs of ships first contacted the dock, and some were the bow and tail of the ship. Without manual intervention, the damage caused to the hull was self-evident.

After the storm, it can be said that these four large ships also lost their combat effectiveness. There is also a Golden Eagle, eight Peregrine Falcon, and six Swifts that can be used, and it still has an absolute advantage at sea.

The storm had just stopped, and Nicholas Fukai quickly arrived at the Port of Myersa with a boat.

When he saw that most of the Hanhai Army's warships were intact, the expression in his eyes became dimmer.

Just before Fukai arrived, the battle on land came to an end.

"His Majesty"

Wang Wenhui is reporting on the battle situation.

"After the defeat of the Barbary cavalry, they did not care about their infantry. According to the information obtained from the interrogation of the prisoners, they should have had about a thousand cavalry and successfully ran away from the battlefield. They entered the mountains along the valley in the south. At that time, due to the unfamiliar terrain and the rush to support the infantry, Sun Xiulan did not chase after him."

"The enemy's infantry was defeated. According to the information obtained from the interrogation, their leader, Kaplan, the governor of Tunisia/Tripoli, who was detained by the lord of the Kasbah Castle, was detained by Barbarossa VI of the lord of the Caspian Castle, brought 10,000 people this time. After they were defeated, they fled in all directions, most of them were caught up by the cavalry and captured. Some of them ran to the mountains and escaped. When the number of people was finally counted, about two thousand people ran away."

"In this battle, the cavalry and cavalry lost more than 200 people, most of which were caused by horses being disturbed, hoof-breaking, etc., and they were trampled or injured. Not many people were killed or injured in the battle."

"The infantry suffered even less damage. Because our army's muskets and artillery were dominant, the cavalry came up when the enemy collapsed, so the casualties were minimal, but there were more than ten casualties, all of which were caused by the enemy's inattention when they were captives."

"In this battle, our army killed about 1,200 enemy cavalry and captured nearly 800 people, all of whom were tribal cavalry. The elite of their cavalry, Sipaxi, either died in battle or escaped."

"Kill about three thousand infantrymen and about five thousand prisoners, including Jenicer and half of the black spearmen, you see..."

Nikan was about to speak when Sun Xiulan came in.
Chapter completed!