In order to block the ships of the Shattered Leaf Army "escape" to the Black Sea, Curtis' fifty large slave galleys all dispersed and surrounded the four Shattered Leaf Army warships led by Yuanfeng in a semicircular shape!

Seeing that the Thunder Leaf Army warship had no intention of escaping, but took the initiative to fight, Curtis was naturally overjoyed.

A fifty vs four battle is still a narrow island in the northwest to block the swelling from the Black Sea and the Azov Sea. The other three sides are calm on the land, which is most suitable for sailing boats!

On the largest galleon in the center, Curtis, thirty-five-year-old, touched the yellow beard under his jaw, then bowed his head to pray to the "Gothoracle" flag on the main mast, which had his own family symbol. Finally, he came to the bow of the boat and looked at the four "boats" opposite with calmness.

At this time, the sea was still blowing a strong northeastern wind, and Yuanfeng determined his tactics just as the four warships were launched.

His fleet rushed towards the four galleys that were far north of the enemy's semicircular fleet!

He has his own reasons for doing this - since the northeast wind is always blowing, even if he is sailing back and forth on the sea, it is most appropriate for the Thunder Leaf Fleet, which mainly adjusts the maneuver of sailing, to navigate against the clockwise direction around the enemy ships, so that he can use the wind most of the time.

Curtis was also a little surprised by the enemy's actions, but in his mind, the north is the junction of his two large fleets. Is the enemy trying to pass through there?

So he also ordered his ships to sail to the northeast!

At the same time, he turned to his confidants and said, "Tell those lowly slaves that if this battle is won, one woman will be rewarded for every ten slaves."

Soon, a large cheer came from the paddle room under the deck, which made Curtis spit at the sea with contempt, "Bitch!"

The confidant came over again, "Master, the slaves asked if it was black or white."

It must have been cursing: "The lowly slaves are also picky and picky. Tell them that if they win, they will be rewarded with black slaves, and if they will be wiped out, they will be rewarded with white slaves."

Not long after, there was a sigh, followed by a large cheer. Curtis did not spit this time, but was secretly proud. "This trick really worked. These people were strong and physical, similar to the babies born to female slaves. They served my Curtis family for generations. You thought you had taken advantage of it, but in fact you were just a stallion..."

"boom......"

Although I don't want to, what Curtis has been worried about still happened!

The four warships in Yuanfeng fired about thirty meters away from the enemy ship!

At this time, they were naturally using the cannon on the bow of the ship. The Zhenyang-level is an 800-jin special artillery for sea ships, while the Zhenhai-level is a 500-jin kilogram. According to the current regulations of the Sailing Ye Army, the 800-jin cannon shells used by the army are the standard weight of eight kilograms, and 500 kilograms are naturally five kilograms.

However, in the navy, the eight hundred kilograms of cannons used ten kilograms of shells, while the five hundred kilograms of cannons used seven kilograms of shells, which is said to be eight hundred kilograms, but in fact it is close to a thousand kilograms, and the five hundred kilograms are close to seven hundred kilograms.

Even the seven-pound round shell had a diameter of nearly ten centimeters. On the calm Taman Bay, at a distance of 30 meters, all the artillery artillery on the bows of the four Broken Leaf Army battleships hit!

At this distance, even if it is not a standard cannon, the kinetic energy contained in the shells is not comparable to that of the most powerful crossbows in the Tang Dynasty. At this time, the galleys of the forces around the Black Sea are similar. In order to fight against wind and waves, the bow of the ship will be slightly thicker, but it is still a wide head and upturned pattern.

The wide head is naturally for stability, and the upturn is for resisting the influx of waves, but this makes the target of the bow seem too big. Although the boat board about five centimeters thick has been used, it is still too common for the shells of the Shattered Ye Army.

Of course, since you are driving in the sea, even if the waves are calm, there will definitely be ups and downs when the ship is driving. At this time, the gunner needs to have enough experience to grasp the gap between the ups and downs of the bow and the time when the artillery fuse burns.

But no matter what, in this sea situation, if you can't hit the big target that is as high as three meters high and three meters wide at a distance of 30 meters, you will not be a qualified gunner.

In Yuanfeng's telescope, a large black hole appeared at the bows of the four enemy ships.

Although the diameter of the shell is only ten centimeters or thirteen centimeters, when the accumulated strong kinetic energy suddenly encounters an object with a much smaller density than its own, the wave-like vibration will pull the wound very much. The ten centimeter shell can cause fifty centimeters of wounds and can also shatter all the farther parts!

Just like the bullets in later generations, it has a diameter of only a few millimeters, but when he shoots an apple with a diameter of five centimeters, it will smash the entire apple into pieces!

The five-centimeter ship board is already a rare occurrence for slave ships, but it is not worth mentioning for shells. They suddenly "drilled" in, the kinetic energy of progress shattered everything, and the horizontal shock waves teared everything apart!

For sailboats, they are lucky. They are not like the ships of the Shattered Leaf Army. The rudder is placed on the bow of the boat, while the oar is placed on the stern. They only have the rudder, and they are placed on the stern. The bows are mostly where commanders and senior sailors live. At this time, the war is imminent, and these people have come to the first deck, so the damage caused by the shells is limited.

However, after some shells penetrated the boards and continued to fly forward, they hit the Gothic soldiers commanding the two rows of slave paddlers, which immediately caused a chilling and shocking wound on them, which naturally made the slave paddling frightened.

After the Thunder Leaf Warship fired a shot, it quickly used the rudder on the bow of the ship to turn the direction. When they barely completed this action, they just passed through the middle of the slave ship that had already come up!

Thirty meters, one shot, and the steering are correct, and every step is not bad. If the boat is a little worse, it will collide head-on!

At this time, the artillery on both sides of the Shattered Ye Army warship was also ready!

For the Shattered Leaf Army, because the enemy's large galley was used as an imaginary target early in the morning, this point was taken into consideration when designing the ship. The Shattered Leaf Army's warship draft was deep, but because there were two straight decks, the height floating on the water was actually similar to that of the slave galley.

At this time, the heavy artillery on the middle deck only needs to be flattened. They are all equipped with solid bullets. Facing enemy ships that are only about ten meters apart on the left and right sides, they can hit them even if they close their eyes.

On the first deck, the combat soldiers would all be equipped with shotguns of 100 kilograms and 200 kilograms of Fran cannons.

"boom......"

The solid bomb encountered the thinner boards of the ship gang (compared to the bow, the slave ship gangs were generally only one or two centimeters thick). They passed through effortlessly and would do everything they encountered: slaves, beams and pillars on the ship, white soldiers who were shouting loudly at the top of their lungs, were destroyed by all the ship gangs, and most of them had the strength to continue flying forward after passing through the three-meter-long hull.

Then he continued his previous action and ravaged the ship on one side of the ship until he encountered enough resistance to stop.

A scene that made the people on the slave ship shuddered. A large shell with a diameter of thirteen centimeters still had enough energy to "drill" two ships, bringing a black slave on the second ship against the side of the ship outside the ship!

As slaves, in order to prevent them from attacking, they had anklets on their feet, so the people on the third ship saw this scene:

A big hole appeared in the black slave's chest, and his internal organs fell out, but he was not dead yet, and he was hanging upside down on the boat board and struggling!

The most deadly attack came from the first deck, which was the main part. When both sides walked opposite each other, the arrows shot from the ships opposite, the javelins thrown by the Ottomans, and the stones tied with ropes that the Ottomans were best at were like drizzle. The Broken Leaf Sailors who wore wide-eaved iron helmets hidden behind the ship gang with ten centimeters thick could be ignored.

The scatterstorm of the 100 pounds and 200 pounds of Fran's cannons that they could not bear. After a round of concentrated bombardment, there were very few sailors who could stand on the deck leisurely.

Such a scene is even more shocking than a solid bomb:

Since the shotgun is covered at an angle of 45 degrees above and below without distinction after leaving the chamber, the slight shotgun at the bottom of 45 degrees is naturally the slave who is paddling, and the one who is sweeping forty-five degrees above is the Gothic soldiers who are shouting as if they are going to swallow the Broken Leaf Army!

Most of these Goth soldiers were able to wear leather armor, some of them were wearing chain mail, holding large axes, big swords, javelins and other objects in their hands, and most of them were wearing cow helmets, one by one, and they seemed to choose people to eat them. If they had fought against Romans and cannibals in the past, this situation would add a lot of courage to them.

But at the moment, after a roar, everything disappeared.

The shotguns emitted by the 100-pound or 200-pound Fran cannon are very subtle. If they were not directly hit the head or the heart, they would not die on the spot. However, no matter where they hit, the strong kinetic energy will make the person who was shot lose his combat effectiveness immediately.

A burly man wearing a cow helmet on the ship was such a bad guy. He was hit by several shotguns, one shot hit his thigh, causing him to lose his power of movement, and fell to the ground on his back. A shot hit his lungs, making it difficult for him to breathe. A mouthful of blood continued to emerge from his mouth. A shot hit one of his eyes, making his entire face almost covered by blood.

So he could only crawl on the deck with his remaining consciousness.

In an instant, people like him covered the deck!

Under the attack of solid bullets on the middle deck, the upper structures of the five slave ships were also destroyed to varying degrees. Some collapsed on one side, covering the paddle mouth, and some collapsed from the middle, leaving all the soldiers on the first deck in the middle.
Chapter completed!