Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 610

"Rumble..."

"Boom bang bang..."

The artillery shells fired by the opponent's battleship bombarded the hull of the Daming iron-clad battleship like a violent storm, causing the iron-clad battleship to shake.

But they don't have armor-piercing bullets or flowering bullets, so they can't pose a serious threat to ironclad warships in a short time.

It's just that the artillery bombardment caused huge vibrations and noises on the hull, which disturbed the artillery.

Facing the stormy attack of the United Fleet, the Ming warship began to counterattack. The guns on one side of the three warships all aimed at one of the warships in the United Fleet and fired fiercely.

"Rumble..."

"Crack clap..."

Most of the 180 shells hit a wooden hull, and the sound of the bottom of the hull being pierced and the wood breaking immediately came from the opposing warship.

The five battleships in front of the United Fleet were broken up almost instantly, most of the gunners were blasted into pieces of meat, and the wood chips were flying around, and the battleship began to sink rapidly.

Soon five warships disappeared on the sea, leaving only some soldiers struggling in the water.

"The effect is very good, and the soldiers continue to bombard."

Zheng Chenggong was overjoyed when he saw it, and hurriedly encouraged the soldiers to make persistent efforts.

However, the two colonels of the Netherlands and Spain were a little dumbfounded. Since they joined the navy, they had never seen a precedent for a round of heavy bombardment to directly sink five warships.

As the commander of the joint fleet, Garcelo shouted angrily:
"Order the battleships on the two wings to fire. Why hasn't it fired after so long? The warships behind will immediately go up to fill the gap and fire."

"Yes"

Five warships were sunk just now, and five more warships were added immediately, and the naval guns on forty battleships violently bombarded the Ming iron-clad warship.

The iron plate of the iron-clad battleship is very thick, and it is impossible to be penetrated by solid bullets in a short time. However, so many shells bombarded the side of the battleship, and the shock of the gunners inside was too much.

Zheng Chenggong immediately ordered to send them cotton balls. For the time being, they had to plug their ears first, otherwise eardrum problems would occur after a long time. These people cannot be cultivated in a short time.

Soon, soldiers of the Ming army came to the cannon cabin and handed small cotton balls to the artillerymen. The artillerymen didn't understand what the cotton balls meant when they saw them.

"Immediately plug your ears with cotton balls. This is the order of the governor. No one should disobey it, or you will be punished by military law."

The artillerymen of the Ming Army immediately stuffed cotton balls into their ears, and the effect appeared immediately. The sound of the joint fleet's shells hitting the Ming battleship immediately became quieter, and the feeling of dizziness just now disappeared instantly.

"Nimma, let these turtle sons sink into the bottom of the sea today."

After feeling that the cotton balls worked well, the morale of the artillerymen of the Ming army suddenly rose, and the shells were pushed into the barrel by them.

"Rumble..."

The three warships completely ignored the opponent's bombardment and concentrated their firepower to bombard more than 100 shells.

Even if only half of the shells hit one of the enemy warships, the wooden hull of the United Fleet would be blown apart and sink to the bottom of the sea in an instant.

Zheng Chenggong's aggressive fighting style was something that the United Fleet had never encountered before, but they relied on the superiority of the number of warships to pour thousands of shells on the Daming iron-clad battleship.

Almost at the same time, the warships of the United Fleet on the two wings of the Ming army also entered the range of their naval guns, and they began to bombard the iron-clad warships of the Ming army from three directions.

Fifteen ships vs. 120 ships, the gap is too great. Fortunately, all of Daming's battleships are iron-clad warships, otherwise they must have sunk to the bottom of the sea.

For a while, shells rained down on the warships of the Ming army, and some shells occasionally hit the gun ports of the iron-clad battleships, which caused some casualties to the Ming army.

Feeling that he had won the battle, Colonel Netherland immediately stepped onto the deck of Figaro and waved to the Netherland flagship Barcelona. He wanted to take advantage of the chaos to capture the warship of the Ming army.

Zheng Chenggong saw that twenty warships had been sunk by the opponent, but they were still attacking frantically without retreating at all, so he grabbed the walkie-talkie:
"Shi Lang, you can launch an attack."

"Yes"

The eight warships led by Shi Lang have come three nautical miles away from the United Fleet. The United Fleet never thought that Da Ming would have warship support.

The United Fleet observation post only looked at the battlefield ahead, and didn't pay attention to what was behind them.

However, the warships led by Shi Lang quietly approached the United Fleet and formed a battle formation two miles away. The direction they were in was still downwind.

Shi Lang picked up the binoculars and took a look. Instead of ordering to fire, he sent an order to release [-] small merchant ships behind them. More precisely, they were the arson ships arranged by Zheng Chenggong.

These merchant ships are not very big, the largest tonnage is less than [-] tons, and they are full of sails. When the wind is downwind, they are very fast, already close to ten knots.

Following Shi Lang's order, [-] arson ships quickly sailed towards the joint fleet. Each ship contained five Ming navy troops, and their task was to ignite the fire.

Thirty arson ships were one nautical mile away from the United Fleet. At this time, the United Fleet finally found the thirty arson ships behind them and rushed to report:

"Report, dozens of small merchant ships suddenly appeared behind the fleet."

Seeing that the United Fleet had gained the upper hand, the Spanish commander was complacent, when he suddenly heard a merchant ship attacking behind the fleet.

Garcelo hastily raised the binoculars, in fact, he could see clearly without a binoculars.

Sure enough, he found dozens of small merchant ships approaching. After carefully looking at the configuration of the merchant ships, he didn't find a single artillery piece, so Gasello relaxed his vigilance.

"It doesn't matter, they are all ordinary merchant ships. If they continue to approach, they will be sunk directly..."

Halfway through Garcelo's words, he suddenly saw thick smoke coming out from behind the merchant ship, and his face changed immediately.

This guy was afraid that he would be flanked by the Ming fleet. He didn't know how many Ming warships were behind the merchant ship, so he immediately ordered to sink the merchant ship:
"Hurry up, there is a Ming warship behind the merchant ship, bombard the merchant ship immediately, and don't let the sails of the merchant ship block our sight."

"Yes"

The United Fleet has more than 100 warships, and the flagships of the two captain commanders are all behind the fleet.

If the Ming army were to fire from behind, Garcelo would be terrified even thinking about it. Others could die, but he absolutely couldn't.

The eight warships led by Shi Lang were behind the arsonist ship, all of which were blocked by the arsonist ship's sails. The combined fleet could only find the Ming warships by sinking the merchant ships.

"ignition"

Before the United Fleet fired, Shi Lang gave the order to fire.

After receiving the order, the Ming army on board immediately ignited the withered grass in the cabin, which was covered with sulfur and gunpowder, and it ignited immediately.

After igniting the arson boat, the Ming army immediately jumped off the sea and swam to the rear.

As soon as they jumped into the sea, the merchant ship burst into flames and rushed towards the sailing battleship of the United Fleet.

"Crack..."

Seeing the merchant ship on fire, Garcelo rushed towards him. The single-tube telescope in his hand fell to the deck, and hurriedly shouted:

"Fire, fire quickly, don't let the fireboat get close to the United Fleet, these cunning dogs don't talk about martial arts..."

(End of this chapter)