Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 735 Serious Questions
At this point, the Beiyang Navy is also suffering huge losses, but without Liu Hongjian's order, all the soldiers are still working hard to confront the Dutch fleet.

Every quarter of an hour, both sides almost lost a warship, and it would be a lie to say that they didn't feel distressed.

The Beiyang Navy saved this wealth almost with the efforts of shipwrights all over the country. The cost of each Fuchuan No. 40 is 30 taels, and the cost of No. 3000 Fuchuan is [-] taels, plus a large number of guard ships and winter ships. Ships, and various auxiliary ships, the total cost is as high as more than [-] million taels.

However, the same sentence, the Beiyang Navy will never retreat in the first battle, life and death are bearish, and it depends on who wins.

Fortunately, Liu Hongjian won the bet. He did not expect that a group of captives could play such a big role.

"Old Qi, pass on the king's order, the whole army pursues, and bombard me!" Liu Hongjian regained his confidence in an instant, and shouted into the walkie-talkie.

Those who want to kill you while you are sick are idiots, if you don't chase the Dutchman's ass and beat him up, it's not Liu Hongjian.

"I obey you!" Qi Yuangong replied with high spirits.

At the same time, the Jingyuan was ordered to pursue, and the captain of the Jingyuan, Cui Geng, immediately got excited.

"Wu Liuyi, let's look at the ass of the battleship ahead and give it a hard bang!" Cui Geng pulled the arm of the first officer Wu Liuyi, pointing to a third-class battleship in the Dutch fleet. .

The Jingyuan has always been at the forefront of the Beiyang Navy. Although it has achieved outstanding results, it is also the key target of the Dutch warship. The steel armor on the left and right sides of the Jingyuan has almost been blown off, and there are several more on the deck. big hole.

Cui Geng swears in desperation, he loves his warship more than anyone else, and Cui Geng vowed to become the captain of this warship from the moment he boarded the Jingyuan with a belt.

He was more distressed than anyone else when the battleship was beaten into this state, and now it was finally time to pursue, how could he not be energetic.

Boom—the heavy guns in the bow fired, but the shells went sideways.

"Get out! Let me do it!" Cui Geng didn't have the time to reprimand his subordinates, but pulled the gunner away and began to adjust the angle by himself.

First officer Wu Liuyi consciously began to load the shells, which made the five or six gunners beside him extremely embarrassed.

The battleship of Ming Dynasty is equipped with a heavy gun at the front and rear, and the caliber is quite powerful, just to deal with this situation.

Cui Geng entered the state in an instant, observed the position of the battleship ahead, calibrated the firing angle of the artillery, and decisively lit the fire.

Boom—the bow of the ship trembled, and the artillery successfully hit the rear of a third-tier battleship in front, blasting a big hole.

"Okay!" The gunners who were watching couldn't help cheering, and after they finished speaking, they realized that they were praising their immediate superiors, and felt embarrassed again.

"There is still time to applaud, let me aim at the ass of the battleship in front of me, and reload quickly!" Cui Geng saw that he had hit, and he was overjoyed, and said to his opponent again.

This season there was a southerly wind on the sea, and the Dutch fleet retreated towards Palawan Island. This was a headwind, but the superiority of the Dutch warships was immediately revealed.

Europa is located in the Atlantic Ocean, and the wind direction is relatively complicated. In order to cope with the complicated ocean currents, most of Europa's warships have four or five masts, plus twenty or thirty sails.

An experienced skipper can sail in any complicated direction with the sails, and still maintain speed, including against the wind.

This is not the case for the warships of Ming Dynasty. Although they can sail in any wind direction due to the use of steam power, the steam engines of the Ordnance Institute are still being improved, and are limited by power problems. It is better in the case of downwind , barely comparable to the original sailing warship.

It's just that if it's against the wind, the warships of the Beiyang Navy are not as fast as the Dutch warships with twenty or thirty sails.

The Beiyang navy pursued for more than half an hour, and the distance between the two sides continued to widen. As the distance increased, the Beiyang navy's artillery hit rate also dropped sharply, and in the end they just followed far behind.

"My lord, the Dutch battleship has already left our range, should we continue to pursue it?" Qi Yuangong asked Liu Hongjian for instructions through the walkie-talkie.

To be honest, Qi Yuangong's mood is very agitated now. The first battle of the Beiyang Navy repelled the Dutch fleet, which he never dared to think about before.

Qi Yuangong is not a great Confucian in the imperial court, he has always been very concerned about the situation at sea. Back then, the Zheng family navy relied on the number of warships and crowd tactics to repel the Dutch.

However, the warships of the Beiyang Navy plus auxiliary ships, even the bird ships, are only in the early [-]s, and this Dutch fleet has at least a hundred ships, which is already considered the main fleet of the Dutch.

Now, this fleet is in front of his eyes, retreating under the artillery fire of the Beiyang Navy.

"I'm still chasing wool, but I've run away without a trace. Let's continue south, to Sulu!" Liu Hongjian said angrily.

The effect of the pursuit process just now was not satisfactory. The Beiyang Navy spent most of the time training linear array and retreat tactics, but did not put too much energy in the pursuit. It took more than half an hour to expand the record by another eight ships. Just battleships.

Apart from being lucky, Liu Hongjian was not very excited that the Beiyang Navy could win, and more precisely, he was worried.

If it weren't for the steel armor covering the outer layer of the main battleship, it might be the Beiyang Navy that was defeated now.

Maybe even more embarrassed than the Dutch.

Then there is the problem of power. The steam engine must continue to be improved, at least the speed must keep up with the main battleship of Europa.

There is also the problem of the artillery configuration of the battleship. Although the main battleship of the Dutch fleet has two decks, the number of artillery is more than that of the Dingyuan and Jingyuan. The No. [-] Fuchuan has three decks.

This problem is too serious. The number and range of artillery directly affect the power of warships. According to Torture Owat, the Dutch still have more powerful warships in India. One hundred cannons can be assembled, which is already twice the number of cannons on the Daming Dingyuan.

There are still many issues that need to be considered, but Liu Hongjian is not in the mood to think about this right now.

It is estimated that Xiao Zheng and other reinforcements in Sulu have already seen through the water. Fortunately, the Dutch, the main force in the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces, withdrew, and Xiao Zheng should have a better life.

Although the Beiyang Navy had not had time to make overall plans for the damage after this battle, at least a dozen large and small warships were sunk, and many warships were injured and urgently needed to be docked for repairs.

And the closest place to the surrounding area can only go to Sulu.

According to the previous plan, the Beiyang Navy would spare the Palawan Islands and take a detour to Sulu, but now it is unnecessary. The Dutch have been repelled, so how can they have the courage to intercept the Beiyang Navy on Palawan Island.

Unless Liu Hongjian himself was inflated to compete with the forts on Palawan Island, passing through Palawan Island at this time was a match made in heaven.

"My lord, there is a Dutch ship sailing ahead, Mr. Qi asked if it should be sunk?" While thinking about it, Bu Jiageng, the first mate, came to report.

Liu Hongjian was amazed at the courage of the Dutch, but thinking that this Dutch warship must have come to him, he ordered the ship to stop not far from the Beiyang Fleet.

After a while, a Dutchman with a big beard and curly hair boarded Qi Yuangong's Dingyuan, and through the walkie-talkie, Liu Hongjian heard the whole conversation between the two parties.

"Respected Your Excellency, General Ming, on behalf of Major General Jon, the Governor of the Netherlands in Batavia, I would like to invite your country to go to Palawan Island for peace talks."

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