"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

The five lucky ships of the Zheng family's fleet opened fire, and in the roaring cannons, dozens of projectiles quickly swept through the air and continued to fall around the Second Fleet, splashing water columns one after another.

Liu Xiang, who was standing at the bow of the boat, narrowed his Danfeng eyes and looked at the water columns flying around, with a look of surprise on his face: "It turned out to be an eighteen-pound heavy cannon, and it doesn't seem to be a homemade Hongyi cannon of the Ming Dynasty, when did the brothers of the Zheng family have this kind of heavy artillery?" ”

Liu Xiang's eyebrows are thicker than ordinary women, and when she frowns, she looks particularly attractive with her beautiful face, but now no one is in the mood to appreciate this beauty, although the Zheng family's land did not hit any target in a round of shelling, but everyone was startled by the thick water column splashed on the sea, judging from the size and height of this water column, this is by no means something that a twelve-pound gun can do.

However, as soon as Liu Xiangxiu turned her eyes, she looked at several Dutch instructors who had been silent behind her. The Dutch instructors led by Neham also seemed to understand something, and their faces became a little embarrassed, only to hear Liu Xiang say meaningfully: "Lieutenant Neham, this should be a good thing for you Dutch, right?" ”

Although Neham's face turned a little red, he still said helplessly: "Your Excellency General, selling the artillery to Zheng Zhilong and these people is a matter decided by His Excellency the Governor, and we have no choice. ”

"Of course I do." A sneer appeared at the corner of Liu Xiang's mouth: "You are just a group of low-level officers, and you may not even have the right to know about things like selling eighteen-pound guns, but aren't you Dutch people afraid of raising tigers?" ”

Although Neham's Chinese level can only communicate simply, and he doesn't understand the meaning of the idiom "raising tigers for trouble", he also understands that this is probably not a compliment, so he protested: "Your Excellency, although the eighteen-pound heavy cannon is hugely powerful, its recoil is also not small, and it is not suitable for installation on light warships, so I can be sure that only a small number of eighteen-pounder guns must have been deployed on the battleships of the Zheng family on the other side, otherwise what awaits them will definitely be the end of the deck cracking!" ”

"Of course I do." The corners of Liu Xiang's mouth rose slightly, and he said indifferently: "I'm just surprised by the eyes of Your Excellency the Governor, and I will soon tell the other party with facts that although the caliber of our artillery is not as large as theirs, it will never be less powerful than them." ”

"We have no doubt about that." After Neiam and the others looked at each other, they answered in unison.

After serving as instructors in the Fujian Navy Division for several months, Neam and others helped the Ming army improve their combat level and skills, and at the same time gained a deep understanding of the Fujian Navy Division.

From the point of view of their professional naval officers, there is still a gap between the quality and standard of the officers and men of the Fujian Navy Division and that of the first-class naval powers in the West, such as the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal, and at best they can only be regarded as second- or third-rate standards; even after their intensified training, after all, the time is still short, and the navy is different from the army, and the technical content required in it is not an order of magnitude at all.

But the Fujian sailors are not without merit, first of all, their sailors are of good quality, and in Neham's opinion, these sailors are simply born to be navy material. They are not only able to endure hardships and endure hardships, but also work hard, no matter what tasks are given to them by their superiors, they will grit their teeth and complete them.

What surprised Neham the most was that the performance of the artillery equipped by the Fujian Navy Division was very good, taking these twelve-pounder guns as an example, the twelve-pounder guns equipped in the Western world today generally have a range of about 900 to 1,000 meters, and few can exceed 1,000 meters, but the 12-pounder guns of the Fujian Navy Division can easily reach a range of 1,800 meters or even 1,900 meters.

To tell the truth, when Neham first saw the artillery equipped by the Fujian Navy, he felt stupid, when did the twelve-pounder cannon actually hit so far, and the other party actually used an iron-cast artillery.

Before mastering the technology of cannon steel smelting and casting, almost all artillery in the world was cast with copper, this is because copper has good ductility, not as brittle as pig iron, and the life of copper cannons is also longer, and more importantly, copper guns are not easy to blow up, which is the most important thing. But the bronze cannon is not without its drawbacks, that is, the price is too expensive, even the most wealthy countries dare not open it to build it, which is why Neham was so out of shape when he first saw the artillery of the Fujian Naval Division.

It was precisely because they knew that the artillery performance of the Fujian Navy Division was so perverted, so after hearing Liu Xiang's words, Neam and the others did not feel the slightest strange reason. Although your cannon is larger than mine, my cannon has a longer range and is more powerful than yours.

"Shoot back!"

"Shoot back!"

Almost at the same time, on each battleship, the officers in the gun compartments were also screaming and giving orders to the gunners, and even the Dutch instructors were shouting on the side to remind them of the acquaintances to pay attention to.

"Clean the chamber...... Reloading the medicine pack...... Put in the solid ......"

"The angle is offset to the right by one and a half degrees, and the muzzle of the gun is lowered by half a degree!"

"Report...... Artillery reloaded! ”

After receiving the report of the completion of the loading, the artillery commanders did not hesitate to raise their right hands and wave them down, shouting in a roaring voice: "Release!" ”

"Put!"

"Tom ......"

"Tom ......"

The port side of several battleships poured out tongues of fire, and in a deafening cannon sound, countless projectiles were ignited by black gunpowder, and the powerful kinetic energy pushed out the cannon chamber and flew into the distance, while at the same time, the opposite Fu ship also fired at the same time.

The sea, which had just regained calm, suddenly boiled, and waves of powerful air erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, and groups of projectiles flew towards their respective targets with a grim smile.

Because the number of shells is so large, Zheng Zhihu and the others can even see the trajectory of the shells from the clairvoyant mirror. It was as if they were a horde of hideous deaths, whistling and screaming towards the distant sea. Zheng Zhihu could even see two shells hitting each other in the air and then bouncing off each other. Finally, it landed on the surface of the sea in the middle, making a messy splash.

Zheng Zhihu put down the clairvoyant mirror, turned his head sharply and told Zheng Xing behind him: "You pass my order, form a long snake formation to bombard them, as long as you can entangle them for half an hour, we will win!" ”

"Understood!"

Zheng Xing didn't say a word, turned his head and conveyed the order, as one of the members of Eighteen Zhi, Zheng Xing naturally knew Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao's plan today.

As a thoughtful person, how could Zheng Zhibao pin all his expectations of defeating the Second Fleet on a sneak attack, in fact, in addition to the sneak attack, Zheng Zhibao also arranged a fleet of thirty warships dozens of miles away to stand by near an unknown island, once this place started, there would be carrier pigeons to convey the order, and that fleet would arrive in half an hour.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Dense projectiles rained down like raindrops, splashing countless jets of water.

What made Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao feel angry happened, they found that the Ming army's artillery fire was particularly accurate, and after two rounds of firing, some projectiles began to hit two Canghai ships located in the outermost part of the fleet, and one of the Canghai ships directly hit the middle of the mast.

Because the impact force of the solid bullet was too strong, and it was hit head-on, the high mast made a "crunch" sound, and it was broken from it violently. Once the mast is broken, the large sails on it will naturally fall with it. The pirates below who were busy on the deck were suddenly smashed to pieces, and even four or five people were killed by the heavy mast on the spot, and the deck was in chaos for a while.

The pirates on another Canghai ship were not having a good time, they were hit by a series of three or four solid bullets, because the space of the Canghai ship was not very large, several solid bullets in a row smashed the sawdust on the deck and flew sideways, and some pirates were directly hit in the head under the ravages of solid bullets, and suddenly their heads were like watermelons with a scoop open, and the red blood and white brains all splashed out for a while. For the fragile skull of a human being, not to mention a twelve-pound solid bullet, even those thumb-sized grape bullets can shatter a person's entire head, let alone a solid bullet that falls directly from the sky. Under Zheng Zhihu's gaze, seven or eight pirates were directly smashed by solid bullets, and some even smashed their entire bodies into the sea, and for a while, the sea water around the Canghai ship was dyed red.

Listening to the wails and painful cries in his ears, Zheng Zhihu shook his huge head vigorously, and muttered with incomprehension in his eyes: "It shouldn't be...... I have been fighting with my eldest brother for more than ten years, the Portuguese, the Spaniards and the sailors of the imperial court have all fought each other, but I have never seen a sailor's cannon can hit so accurately, and there can be such a high accuracy at a distance of 600 steps, even those Dutch with their nostrils facing the sky can't do it, is the Fujian sailor really so powerful? ”

Zheng Zhibao's eyes flashed gloomily, "It is precisely because of this that they can't be left even more." That Yang Feng was able to form the Fujian Sailor from scratch to the current scale in just over a year, if he was given another two or three years, the Fujian Sailor would inevitably swell into a behemoth that our Zheng family would also look up to. Because of Yang Feng's arrival, we have been driven out of the land by him, if we don't cut off his hand stretched out to the sea, our Zheng family may really die without a place to be buried! ”