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In fact, when Henry Antoine's fleet was bombarded by Norfolk's shore defense artillery, their fleet only reached a position less than two kilometers from the mouth of the Elizabeth River.

　　 At the mouth of the James River behind them, four sailing battleships flying the Union Jack have just pursued from Jamestown.

　　 One of the four sailing battleships is a Tier 2 battleship, and the other three are Tier 3 battleships.

　　 The four sailing battleships arrived at the Port of Jamestown from Kingston, Jamaica, in the Caribbean, three days ago, and are ready to leave Jamestown tomorrow to support the British Army.

　　 Since the British and the Spaniards signed the "Madrid Treaty" in 1670, the Spaniards ceded Jamaica, an important island in the Caribbean Sea, to the British, and it has become an important base for the British in the Caribbean Sea.

　　 It was only the great earthquake in 1692 that destroyed Port Royal in Jamaica, the largest port city at the time, and the British began to build Kingston City to replace Port Royal.

　　 After more than 80 years of development, Kingston City has become the largest city in Jamaica. Although it has not replaced Spain as the capital of Jamaica, this city has become the de facto largest city in Jamaica.

　　 Even the British fleet stationed in the Caribbean Sea is anchored in this port.

　　 So when Henry Antoine's fleet bombarded Jamestown to no avail, the four sailing battleships chased them out.

　　 Now the British are not the kind of people who have been beaten to silence. The important port of Jamestown has been shelled, and they must retaliate.

　　 It was only when the British warship came out, Henry Antoine did not find that the British were chasing after them. After they turned into the Elizabeth River, the British chased them to the mouth of the Elizabeth River.

　　 While the British were pursuing Henry Antoine's fleet, on the north bank of the mouth of the James River, near the later Hampton Harbor, a Continental Army guerrilla of about three hundred people also gathered there.

　　 The Continental Army guerrilla team originally wanted to cooperate with the French bombardment of Jamestown. However, the French bombardment had no effect, so the guerrilla team returned to their base in this wilderness.

　　 Yes, at this time, there is still a wilderness near Hampton Harbor. There is no big port city in later generations, and some are just wilderness everywhere.

　　The Continental Army guerrillas naturally discovered the British warship they were pursuing. They wanted to use the fireworks to notify the French warships and let them escape quickly, but they did not expect the French warships to get into the Elizabeth River...

　　 So, when the shore defense artillery deployed on both sides of the Elizabeth River began to fire, although they were far away, both the British and the Continental Army guerrillas saw this terrifying large-scale "firework show."

　　 When the first test shot used to correct the bombardment coordinates exploded in a river not far from Henry Antoine's fleet, all the French panicked.

　　 Even though they don’t understand why the enemy’s artillery can hit so far and have such a terrifying power, they all know that their fleet is being bombarded at this time!

　　 But these French sailors are well-trained fighters. They adjusted their mentality in a short period of time, ready to turn the bow to leave this narrow river.

　　 Compared with the huge body of the sail battleship, this kind of river with a width of only three or four kilometers is really too narrow. The battlefield where the sailing battleship gallops is on the endless ocean. In this narrow river, the sailing battleship is not very useful.

　　 But when the French sailors desperately adjusted their sails and turned the bow, twelve 105mm shore defense guns from the east bank of the Elizabeth River fired the first round of salvos at the same time.

　　Because the first test shot has successfully achieved straddle fire, the first round of the salvo was extremely accurate.

One of the shells accurately hit the front three-tier sailing battleship. The powerful 105mm high-explosive grenade directly “bited” the ship’s fore-deck for a full one-third, and by the way All the French sailors standing on the deck were swept away.

The 76mm artillery and 105mm artillery used by the Yanhuang tribe are both sub-loaded ammunition. With the current technical strength of the Yanhuang tribe, although fixed-loaded cannonballs can be made, it is too troublesome to manufacture. Mounted artillery shells are now only equipped with a small batch of guns that are dedicated to firing fixed ammunition, such as the 105 main gun on the Carlos.

　　 Defensive artillery, such as shore defense artillery and fortress artillery, that do not require a fast rate of fire, mostly use sub-loaded ammunition.

　　 However, even if it is divided into shells, Shixiong has also developed armor-piercing warheads and high-explosive warheads based on the memory of previous lives.

　　 armor-piercing warheads are specially designed to deal with fortifications of fortress guns, while high-explosive warheads are specially designed to deal with the sailing battleships of European powers and the large number of enemies in the marine squadron.

　　 The French battleship broke into the forbidden area so desperately, it would naturally use high-explosive warheads to deal with these three sailing battleships.

　　 This kind of high-explosive warhead filled with close to three kilograms of high-explosive explosives can not only produce huge destructive power on the target, but the specially cast warheads will produce hundreds of fragments after the high-explosive explosives explode.

　　 When the warhead explodes, these fragments will shoot out at a speed exceeding three times the speed of sound. Any soft target without protection—mainly unprotected personnel will be mercilessly killed by these fragments...

　　 This is the first time that the Yanhuang tribe has developed the 105mm artillery in actual combat. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

　　 And this kind of 105 artillery, which was close to the later World War I period, did not disappoint the stone bear watching the battle on the hot air balloon.

Although the low hit rate in the first round of the volley made Shi Xiong a bit unbearable to look directly at him, at least one shell hit the French warship, and then the Frenchman’s King Knight became under the Yanhuang tribe’s 105 artillery. The first unlucky ghost.

This gun not only completely destroyed the front deck of the King Knight, but also sent more than 20 French sailors standing on the front deck to meet their father Jesus, and the fire caused by the high-explosive bomb was also extremely short. In a short time, several sails on the front deck of the King Knight were burned.

Standing on the hot air balloon, the stone bear had already seen the four British warships chasing up, so he said to the semaphore officer beside him: “Semaphore below and tell them that we don’t need to be captured, we must take these Frenchmen The battleship sank. Well, tell them at the same time, let them increase the hit rate for me. What are you worried about? We are on the shore, and the French cannonballs can’t hit us at all. Let’s still fix the turrets, if we are at this distance I can’t improve my hit rate. After the battle, all the artillery will run ten laps around Norfolk! His sister and sister, you really don’t need money for artillery shells. The hit rate for such a big target is still so low, it deserves it. be punished!"

　　 The semaphore officer in charge of playing semaphore immediately and honestly typed out his boss’s words verbatim in semaphore, and the soldier who looked up at the semaphore below saw the semaphore, his face turned pale...

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