Chapter 103: Crushed
Pursuit?
Rumble!
Deng Zilong actually doesn't like artillery battles very much, his ironclad ship has a total of eighteen guns, and the big ship uses thousands of materials, but the cannon is not as good as the five hundred warships, as the flagship firepower is worse than the tail ship under his command, can he like it?
Not to mention that Chen Mu also specially installed pure iron ramming horns for this ship, did Second Master Chen let this ship fire guns?
It's not a cannon, what is it for?
When the enemy fleet was about to retreat, General Deng found the right time to poke out sixteen large oars from the bottom of the ironclad ship, and the butterfly sails were full, cutting off the retreat of the armed merchant ship straight from the middle, and the ironclad ship slammed into the tail of the merchant ship like a big black rhinoceros.
Why do ironclad ships carry fewer troops, less guns, and less space, but use thousands of wood?
For the dog is stronger, and it is stronger than the Red Sea.
In the waters west of Guam, there were two loud bangs.
One was the sound of dogs slamming into the belly of a merchant ship, and the other was the horrific tearing sound of a giant tree disconnecting.
The collision was not over, and the ironclad ship, with its wide ship type and full impact force, almost 'rode' on the body of the armed merchant ship.
It was smaller than a thousand-material ship, and the weight of the iron sheet was only light, and the keel of the merchant ship was broken almost instantly, and the thick wooden spikes hung a large piece of iron sheet from the side of the ironclad ship, and the grinding sound of the thorns was numb, and everyone underestimated the damage of this collision to the two ships.
No, it's a hurt for an armed merchant ship, and a fright for an ironclad ship.
Smashing the side of the enemy ship, leaving most of the hull of the ironclad ship out of the sea at an inclined angle, sitting on the merchant ship's hull, followed by the merchant ship's keel could not withstand the huge pressure and was broken, the ironclad ship slowly slapped back to the sea with heavier force again, this process was not fast, but many sailors on the ship left the deck with their feet at a certain moment.
They were tossed low and then slowly smashed.
The situation of the barefoot sailors was fine, but the captain's boots were not so comfortable, and the ironclad ships slapped back into the sea, and the sea water overflowed the deck, and when they landed, they fell out of the mud - including Deng Zilong, the general of the Zhenguo from Erpin.
The people all flew up, never leaving their heads, knives without leaving their hands, seventy-six pounds all over their bodies, and slapping them on the deck, which could make personal marks on the iron shell.
That is, Deng Zilong, who fell harder than others, got up faster than others, and shouted the first sentence when he got up with a knife on his eyebrows: "Throw the gunpowder bundle and blow them up!" ”
Blowing up a fart, turning his head to straighten his helmet, he saw the bow of the armed merchant ship raised high in the sea outside the right ship, and everywhere the Xiyi Navy squeaked and screamed, and everyone struggled to climb up the bow of the mast.
Everything else was already in the sea, and only the mast and a little bow were still sinking slowly in the sea.
It's a good boat, and the dog is gone.
"Fuck it, you son of a bitch, you will be promoted to a general with a meritorious white body!" Deng Zilong shook his head, patted the mast and sighed, wiped his nose and shouted without looking back, "Is there water in the cabin?" ”
Just now, he rushed too hard and sat too hard, Deng Zilong didn't expect to ride it directly, and there was a problem with his keel, but soon a flag army climbed up from the bottom bilge and said: "General, it's okay, there is a crack, which is already being repaired, that is, the ship oar is broken by fourteen." ”
"Beat the drum and flag, chase towards the port, and no one will hit the ship again!"
At this time, if Deng Zilong is asked to sit down and write a book, he will definitely be able to conclude that the effect of force is mutual.
If he had known that the ship that shook the oars with all his might would have been so hard, he would have said that he would not have hit the merchant ship - he would have to hit the enemy's command flagship.
The three thousand-material warships hanging the statues of the gods of the six armor are not as aggressive as Deng Zilong, which will be just right, crossing the messy battlefield around the ironclad ship full of merchant ships, chasing and crushing all the way.
Crushed in this is not an adjective, it is a verb, those boats carrying several or even a dozen warriors can not run fast by rocking the oars alone, especially when the big ships are retreating in a panic, they are squeezed in the gap It is really difficult for them to survive, the sailors who have escaped for a short time and the oars have lost their strength, the speed of the ship has suddenly slowed down, and what awaits them is the three Rokko gods who broke the waves behind them.
The giant ship ran over the boat, and the flag army with the bow of the ship holding a salvo of birds could not even feel the vibration of the hull, but heard a few 'clicks' mixed with the exclamations below, and the small boat was reduced to a pile of wood chips.
A 'coup' had just been completed on the Glory, the flagship of the New Spanish Guam Fleet, and the Admiral, like Lin Xiao, temporarily seized the command of Army Commander Mendoza, because after more than half of the ships were sunk, their commander actually refused to retreat into the harbor and relied on shore defense artillery and land forces to resist the enemy.
If you don't withdraw to the port at this time, will you bury the entire fleet in the hands of the Ming army?
But Mendoza really didn't want to run away.
Before this battle, he was a firm take-over winner, and the great Iberian Peninsula fought all over the Mediterranean, and what did he rely on to be invincible in naval battles? It depends on the broadside battle after the rampage.
Others have sixty or seventy sailors and sailors in a boatload, but there are no more than 100 people in a ship, but I have at least 100 people in a ship, and the Great Galen ship can stuff three or four hundred people, how can I lose a broadside battle?
Later, the ship Galen, which was carrying three hundred and thirty sailors and soldiers, was sunk.
Hmph, victory is not martial, these enemies are not honorable, they are so timid that they dare not let my ship touch their side.
I'll retreat first, as long as I'm next to our ships, even if it's an armed merchant ship...... When Mendoza thought this, he happened to see the Ming army ironclad ship riding on the hull of an armed merchant ship in a mating posture.
It was not an armed merchant ship carrying one hundred and forty-four sailors and soldiers, it was one hundred and forty-four men or corpses that had fallen overboard and a few armed merchant ships.
He saw his armed merchant ship shattered beneath the black monster.
At that moment, the flagship of the fleet, which had resolutely withdrawn to the West Harbor of Guam, slowly deflected, and Mendoza felt that his battle-hardened face was like a joke in front of this scene, and he wondered who would win if he collided with that ugly and black thing!
The ship did not turn around, not everyone had a collapse of faith like Mendoza, and it was decided to change the captain temporarily, and the rudder was turned halfway to continue towards the port of Guam, where another armed merchant ship was sunk and the mast of a newly built Galen was broken.
The retreat of Six Lig was a painstaking one, and when it came within range of Guam's shore guns, the huge fleet was reduced to only the flagship and another Galen ship, the armed merchant ships were all wiped out, and only seven small boats remained.
Those Ming ships blocked their harbor bay like villains, and even threw cannonballs at the harbor with artillery from afar, looking extremely rampant.
As if heaven's punishment for them was not over, when Mendoza, who was wrapped in a small boat by his subordinates, and asked to go ashore to lead the army to set up defenses, he saw three black smoke rising from the side of the island mountain.
That was the direction of their eastern sentry.