At present, the Dapeng is in the center, with the Golden Eagle on both sides, plus eight Peregrine Falcons, a total of eleven large battleships sailing in a single shape in front of one hundred gallops, and aiming at the bow of the gallop in the starboard position.

At first glance, the Ottoman galleys were about the same size as the Hanhai Army's Golden Eagle, with a width and height of more than ten meters. Because the bow and stern of the ship were square, and the bow was raised high, it actually looked larger than the Golden Eagle.

Such a ship is equipped with two or three artillery guns on the bow, but because the hull structure of the galley is made of solid wood, the rest of the carriage and the ribs cannot be compared with the current European battleships and Daxia warships in both material and thickness.

The width is twelve meters, and one hundred ships is 1,200 meters. Plus the distance between the ships - due to the hasty response, the distance between each two sailboats is mostly about ten meters, and some are estimated to be less than ten meters. If the length of the oars is deducted, the gap left for the ships is not large, and they will collide together by accident. If that is the case, all the oars on one side will be damaged.

This is the gap of about a thousand meters, plus the width of the hull. When all the hundreds of galleys in Kara sailed out of the harbor, the width of the sea surface occupied was more than 2,000 meters.

The maximum lengths of the Dapeng, the Golden Eagle, and the Peregrine Falcon are ninety meters, sixty meters, and forty-two meters respectively. In this case, the combined length of eleven such ships is more than 500 meters, plus the distance between the warships is about twenty meters, and the total length of such a one-line snake formation is about eight hundred meters.

The eight Peregrine Falcons had four ships at the beginning and end, two Golden Eagle in the middle, and the Dapeng in the middle. When the long snake began to cut into the waters directly in front of one hundred gallops, they did not fire shells at the beginning. However, when the starboard position of the last Peregrine Falcon was almost perpendicular to the bows of the three gallops, all the artillery on this Peregrine Falcons fired!

As mentioned earlier, the new version of the Peregrine Falcon is a small battleship. It has three layers of direct access to the artillery deck. Each layer has twenty artillery guns. From bottom to top, the main arrangements are twenty-four kilograms, eighteen kilograms and twelve kilograms of Nibuchu bronze guns. When they are fired together, there are thirty artillery guns that are aimed at the bow of the sailboat.

Thirty guns are fired together, so naturally, the port-side bottom cannons are required to echo the port, otherwise the ship will definitely overturn.

The launch of this Peregrine Falcon is a signal. When it is launched, all the artillery of all ships in front of them blew up!

In an instant, the sea area between the two fleets was "heavy fog"!

A gray-yellow smoke almost enveloped everything!

For ships like sailboats with thin skin and large fillings, the Hanhai warship does not need to be bombarded at a hundred meters away. When the first Peregrine Falcon cuts in, the distance between it and the bow of the enemy ship is about fifty meters. When the subsequent warships follow, since the galleys are also advancing, the distance between the two sides is actually about thirty meters.

Thirty meters, at such a close distance, the cannon of the Hanhai Army was almost direct!

The smoke of gunpowder was still everywhere, but the eleven warships continued to drive forward. At this time, the last Peregrine Falcon, which had first loaded the ammunition, was still bombarded again as a signal, and all the warship side guns sounded again!

Since we have to maintain a certain speed advantage in front of the sailboat, the two steam engines on all the warships were fully turned on. In the case of only steam power and no sailing installation, the average speed of the warship is about 20 kilometers per hour (ten knots). If it is smooth and there is sailing installation, the maximum speed can reach 27 kilometers per hour (fifteen knots). In any case, the speed of the sailboat is only half that of the Hanhai Army, which creates conditions for the Hanhai Army warships to adopt maneuverable and flexible tactics.

At a speed of about ten knots, it only takes six or seven minutes for the Hanhai warship of more than four miles of sea route, and six or seven minutes is also a high level of artillery loading speed. Sure enough, when the last Peregrine Falcon barely crossed the sailboat that was almost about to hit, all the Hanhai warships fired two rounds.

But the effect of these two rounds of bombardment is amazing.

Two wheels, the galloping boats that can be reached at each time of the long snake array are calculated based on three, that is thirty-three, and two wheels are sixty-six!

In other words, the bows of most ships in the galley were hit by close-range bombardment by the three-layer artillery on the upper, middle and lower levels of the Hanhai warships, especially the Dapeng and the Golden Eagle among them. The damage caused by the forty-eight and thirty-two kilograms of heavy shells they placed on the bow of the galley was fatal.

Three large ships launched two wheels, hitting a total of eighteen galleys!

After all the large ships left the sailboat, the observer of the Albatross who was cruising on the sea observed with a telescope. After the two rounds of bombardment were hit, at least twenty galleys stopped immediately!

As galleys, they would not have stopped unless they were fatal damage to the hull. Observers could observe these because after two rounds of bombardment, the twenty ships had been dragged behind, making the almost erratic formation of the galleys that were advancing in parallel.

The first Peregrine continued to sail forward, and after about ten minutes it began to turn around, then sailed forward in the left, almost in line with the enemy ship for another ten minutes before turning left again.

It's still in the same shape, but this time they exposed their port side cannons!

In these twenty minutes, many more sailboats fell behind. Naturally, under the influence of the terrifying power of the Hanhai Army cannon, the oarsmen on the ship were frightened and were reluctant to row the oars forward, or the ship was originally fatally injured, but just barely sailed for another period under the trend of inertia.

In any case, except for the twenty ships just now, ten more ships left the ranks of moving forward at this time.

Just as the eleven large ships of the Hanhai Army bombarded the front and turned around and sailed, the Swift was not idle either. They attacked the side ports of the outermost gallops from both sides of the gallops.

Some sailboats also turned the bow of the Swift to face the Swift, which was naturally the Swift's thoughts.

Therefore, when eleven large ships began to sail in front of the galleys again and continued to bombard the first position of the galleys with sideways, there were only more than fifty galleys in front of them this time, and these fifty ships did not go hand in hand, but this was not important. At an average distance of fifty meters, more than three hundred cannons roared two more rounds!

In this way, as the galleys continued to sail towards the outer sea, the eleven large ships of the Hanhai Army's European Fleet were also turning around and sailing, constantly bombarding the head of the galley brigade.

After the sixth round of bombardment, half a day had passed. At this time, all the ships from both sides came to the sea about thirty miles away from the Varna port!

At this time, there were only about twenty sailboats that were still combat-capable. They were scattered or sunk everywhere between the battlefield and the port, or they lost power completely, or the ship could not adjust its direction due to damage to the rudder position, like a ship that was spinning around the sea.

Occasionally, one or two sounds of ships catching fire and exploding on the sea surface.

At this time, the performance time for the Six Swifts and Six Albatrosses has come.

The six warships received the order from the Dapeng - "Don't rescue the prisoners, use ships to crush them, or shoot with muskets, and send them for the last journey to the galleys that have lost their power and direction."

Although the remaining twenty galleys still have power at this time, after half a day of attack, they no longer look like they are moving forward in unison. They are already fighting each other, about two or three galleys against one Hanhai warship.

Near the huge Dapeng, four galleys seemed to be approaching him desperately, as if they had seen that the fate of the collapse of their own fleet was irreversible, so they had the idea of ​​dying with this large warship that must have an enemy official on it.

But they were destined to be futile. With such a huge body, the ship speed could still reach twenty kilometers, relying on two steam engines with huge horsepower.

Therefore, although four galleys were desperately approaching, they could not get close to the Dapeng. The fifteen giant cannons on each side of the Dapeng were not vegetarians. When every time he made a shocking roar, almost one galley immediately lost the opportunity to continue challenging him.

On this day, when the sun sets in the west, the naval battle on the sea near Varna Port was completely over.

"General"

Yang Chengen is a lieutenant general. At present, the Dapeng navigator, who is responsible for counting the results of the war, is reporting on the results of the war to him.

"There are a total of 100 enemy ships. As of now, according to the results reported by each warship of our army, ninety sailboats should have been destroyed by us, and about ten of them ran away, half of which ran to the sea further south. If nothing unexpected happens, they should have fled to the Port of Burgas, about two hundred miles south, but maybe they could have run directly to Istanbul."

"Half of the ships fled north under the forced force of the Swift. They should have gone to Constanta, look..."

Yang Chengen thought for a while, "There are dozens of galloping boats in Constanta. It hasn't been long. The news of our army's victory in Varna must have reached there. From you, what actions will they take?"

The navigator said: "I definitely don't dare to go south along the west coast of the Black Sea, nor do I dare to load too many people and materials into the Black Sea, because the ship would be too slow. If I were an Ottoman, since I was not a match for our army on the sea, I should travel lightly and simply, first go to the depths of the Black Sea, and then sail to the east coast and the south coast."

"Since they don't know how many ships our army has, their best strategy should be to cross the Black Sea to reach the southeast coast of the Crimean Peninsula and attack our army's ports Yalta and Kerch ports. However, each of them has an old fleet of Huang Fei, and it is not easy for them to succeed."

"So they will most likely head to about a hundred miles from the coastline, and then go straight south to Istanbul."

"According to the information reported by each ship, the earliest enemy ship that fled north began to operate four hours ago. According to their speed, under the desperate situation, the speed of the ship can reach ten kilometers per hour. Varna is about two hundred miles away from Constanta, and they arrive in ten hours. The ship is still on the way."

"About midnight, the enemy fleet in Constanta will receive news from Varna. If they want to run to more than 100 miles off the sea as we have just guessed, it will probably be early tomorrow morning."

Yang Chengen smiled and said, "That means we can rest assured."

The navigator shook his head, "That's not necessarily. We just defeated Varna's fleet. The commander of Constanta's enemy fleet might want to avenge his friend's ships. It might be possible to go straight along the coastline south, but no matter what, they will fight tomorrow morning from getting news to rushing to Varna."

Yang Chengen thought for a while and said, "Record"

The navigator quickly picked up the pen.

"First, divide the sea area well and let the six Swifts patrol the north, east and south of Varna Port with two ships. The farthest part of the east is 200 miles, and the north and south are only 50 miles."

"Second, just now, Lord Luo Jizhi on the shore reported that they had captured the Varna Castle and captured the enemy Navy Minister Kara and a large number of sailors and soldiers. However, there were still a large number of Dacians and supplies on the shore. We could not hold these twenty-three big ships alone. Staying here was cheaper. Let an albatross set off immediately and report to His Majesty to Yalta. I hope that His Majesty would best send a large number of albatrosses here and transport these personnel and supplies back."
Chapter completed!