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Chapter 1331 Great Battle, Decisive Battle in the Tunis Strait ([-])
"Fire!" The 68-pound cannon located on the bow of the ironclad ship fiercely shelled the enemy ship ahead!
This 68-pound cannon, which was installed for the first time, weighs 4.8 tons and has a caliber of 8.2 inches. The initial velocity of the gun has reached an astonishing 481m per second, and the maximum range has reached more than 3000 meters!
In the era of early sailing battleships that generally used 12-pound and 24-pound guns as the main force, the power of this kind of naval gun can be described as brutal!
A small galley on the right wing of the Ottoman fleet was hit by a giant cannon, the deck was ruptured, bloody and bloody, and was severely damaged in an instant!

"Accelerate forward and break through the enemy's formation in a line!"

Zheng Zhibao, who owns a huge ship, gave the order for the final attack!

Workers in the boiler room are struggling to add coal to the steam boiler. The marine steam engine is hot. The flywheel, piston, and crank-link mechanism are operating rapidly. The instruments for testing various indicators of the steam engine are trembling!The speed of the ironclad ship is increasing steadily!
The ironclad ship is like a cheetah that has been freed from the chains, and the maximum speed of the explosion reaches an astonishing 14 knots, breaking through everyone's imagination!
Ironclads still retain their rams for melee combat, and they are all-metal scary and sharp rams!

When General Fubo charged forward with all its strength, the battleship Soochow took over from the armored ship that had left the line and became the leading flagship of the left-wing line. It led the left-wing line and quickly followed behind the iron-clad ship!
As long as the ironclad battles a bloody path, the left-wing line can quickly win an overwhelming victory!

"No! What kind of monster is this! It's puffing, its speed is too fast, it's coming towards us!"

The flagship of Huosan Zand Pasha, the right-wing commander of the Ottoman Empire, is an 800-ton galleon. He was full of confidence in his own flagship, but he found that he was wrong!
An almost black monster was heading towards the fleet he commanded with billowing black smoke!
The most frightening thing is that this monster also intentionally makes a piercing siren sound, which makes the scalp tingle!Like a terrible monster from the depths of the Mediterranean Sea!

"Destroy it with artillery!" Khoshan Zand Pasha cried hysterically.

He really didn't dare to fight the unknown black monster head-on!

The 70 sailboats and galleys on the right wing were in a hurry because of the surprise attack of the ironclad ship.

The artillery of the galley is mainly concentrated on the bow and stern, which has a structure similar to a city wall, where the artillerymen hastily adjusted the shooting angle of the artillery.

"Destroy the sea monster!" The Turkish artilleryman ignited the match in fear!

A series of white flashes appeared in the fleet of the Ottoman Empire, followed by a loud noise like thunder, followed by thick smoke that covered the sky and the sun, and the solid iron shells covered the ironclad ships sailing at full speed with the whistling sound of piercing the sky!
boom! !More shells fell into the sea, but a dozen shells roared and hit the ironclad ship!
"Hit the black sea monster!" The Turkish artilleryman cheered!
How can being hit by more than a dozen shells cause a lot of casualties?If they're lucky, maybe they'll cripple the black sea monster, rendering it incapacitated.

Yet they were all wrong!

The thick smoke from the firing of the shells dissipated, and they dispersed the remaining smoke in front of them. They could clearly see that the ironclad ship was not only unscathed, but also getting closer to them!

"Impossible! A dozen shells didn't damage it at all!" The Turkish artilleryman almost went crazy!

The rise of the Ottoman Empire relied on matchlock guns and artillery, and each of their artillerymen had to undergo an average of several years of training to maintain a high degree of combat effectiveness.It was as if they had seen a ghost at this time, and they felt incredible about the result of their shelling!
"Don't stand still, continue to load the shells! It's coming!" the artillery commander urged.

Turkish gunners had to clear and reload the gun from the front of the gun after a round, and even the most skilled gunners had intervals between guns.

And during such an interval, the black ironclad ship, which seemed like a nightmare to them, quickly approached them!

The movable turret on the bow of the ironclad general Fubo, the gunner is operating the 68-pound artillery to destroy the enemy's large warships one by one.

The bow of the ship is protected by semi-circular armor. When it is shelled by Turkish artillery, the 68-pound artillery is difficult to be destroyed by the opponent's artillery.

The dozen or so shells just now were bounced off by the armor of the hull. The iron armor is lined with two layers of teak boards, which can also reduce the impact of being shot.

"Don't use artillery to attack the opponent's small ships. We must try our best to destroy the enemy's command ship. If there is a large sailing ship there, we will attack it!" The commander of the fort observed the approaching enemy fleet with a telescope.

He was not interested in some small and medium-sized galleys like small fish and shrimps, but discovered Khosan Zand Pasha's 1000-ton galleon, which was directing other small boats to bombard.

Destroying such a large sailing ship might have the effect of catching the thief first and the king first!

The gunners hurriedly turned the dial to adjust the direction and angle of the cannon.

This kind of simple mobile turret designed is not yet so mature, and the turret rotates slowly. To hit a specific target when the ironclad ship is advancing at full speed, the gunner needs to predict with rich experience.

"That one must be the other party's flagship, let me see the angle..."

Huoshan Zand Pasha didn't know that his 1000-ton galleon had been targeted by the 68-pound guns on the iron-clad ship, and he was witnessing the iron-clad ship getting closer under the bombardment of his fleet with a look of panic!

His fleet, 70 large and small galleons and galleys, continuously bombarded the ironclad ships, but achieved very few victories!

Occasional shells hitting the deck can cause casualties to unprotected soldiers on the top deck, but they are basically ineffective against armored command rooms, hulls, and artillery!
It would be understandable if Huoshan Zand Pasha knew that it was a complete iron ship, but he didn't know that the black sea monster opposite was an iron-clad ship, and thought it was some kind of wood painted black.

This caused great misleading to him and his subordinates!

They thought it was an invulnerable deep-sea monster, otherwise they couldn't explain why the artillery couldn't hurt it!
boom!With a sharp roar, a galley on the left side of the galleon where Huoshan Zand Pasha was on was hit by a 68-pound artillery!

The high-speed shell penetrated the thin hull of the galley, drawing a terrifying bloodstain inside, and several artillery pieces inside were destroyed by the shell!
"The power of this cannonball is really huge!" Huoshan Zand Pasha broke out in a cold sweat. He had an intuition that this cannonball was probably coming towards him, but it lacked precision and landed on the nearby galley. superior.

"It's a pity that we didn't hit the enemy's flagship, but we got it by accident!" The commander of the bow turret of General Fubo said to the gunner.

(End of this chapter)