Although in the original time and space, in the sixteenth century, the Spaniards and the Portuguese were the dominant powers of the seas, and the Spanish Armada was even more famous.

But in this time and space, the strong rise of the Tang Empire, in the field of the navy, has basically completely taken away the limelight from the above two countries, and the latecomer Royal Navy of England is still playing mud on the island of England.

The Armada of the Spaniards, at its peak was able to organize more than a hundred warships, and the entire fleet had three thousand guns!

But now, with the huge maritime operations of the Tang Empire, even the Spaniards have to bow down when they see it!

In the entire Battle of Malacca, the army, navy and guards of the Tang Empire organized a total of more than 150 warships of various types!

There are more than 70 professional warships, including 11 battleships, 14 cruisers, 38 frigates, and more than 10 patrol ships!

In addition, there are more than 70 transport ships of various types recruited by the army and navy guards or from the civilian population, most of which are also equipped with naval guns, commonly known as armed merchant ships.

The above-mentioned professional warships and armed merchant ships are equipped with more than 4,000 long guns of more than 5 catties and mortars of more than 24 catties.

Because these one-catty, catty, and even three-pound shotguns, their weight is very light, the size is small, and the operation is also simple, basically every battleship will see a lot of equipment, and even on weekdays are placed in the warehouse, and will only be put on the deck in wartime, this thing is in the battleship, the nature is no different from the musket, and it is not considered by the Navy to be a classification of naval guns at all!

Therefore, these light and ultra-light shotguns that are specially designed to kill and injure the personnel on the deck of enemy ships will never be included in the statistical list of naval guns of the Datang Navy, and if these are also included, then the number of guns in the entire fleet will have to be doubled.

Such a large fleet was actually larger than the Armada that the Spaniards were able to organize, and even counting the fighters that the Spaniards were most proud of, the Spaniards would have to bow to the upper hand, because the combined landing fleet still had nearly 30,000 ground combat troops.

In the face of such a huge fleet, the Portuguese in Malacca did not dare to break through, and it was understandable that they could only defend Malacca.

It's not that the Portuguese are afraid of the enemy like tigers and passively slack off the war, but the huge fleet of the Tang Empire is too scary!

When the main warships of this huge fleet, with sails and black smoke, burst into the harbor and shelled the land batteries and the Portuguese ships with countless naval guns, it was a scene that almost anyone present will never forget!

Dozens of battleships, they formed a multi-column battle line, many of which were closely connected in close proximity, and then used powerful broadside guns to constantly shell the land batteries and the ships in the harbor.

All you can see is fire and smoke!

All you can hear is the rumbling of cannons and the explosion of shells!

Even in traditional battles, people's shouts are inaudible!

At this moment, it seems that the entire port of Malacca is filled with fire and smoke!

When the main battlefleet led by Chen Pengming passed through a Portuguese battery, his flagship Guangdong had just fired a round of covering salvo at this battery with more than 30 broadside guns, and then just over ten seconds later, the Guizhou, which followed by the flagship Guangdong, also fired a salvo, followed by the third, fourth, and fifth......

At the beginning, the Portuguese battery also tried to fire back, and the accuracy was not bad, and some shells hit the battleship of the Tang Dynasty, but this kind of return fire only lasted for a short time!

The artillery on the Portuguese batteries did not even return fire with a second round of artillery fire!

Because at that time, the battery was already shrouded in a dense explosion!

The warships of the Datang Navy fired not solid bullets, but grenades and grenade shots.

Grenades explode, and grenades explode over enemy positions!

Even if the current grenades and grenades scatter bombs, sometimes there will still be dud bombs, and the probability is not low, but there are many artillery pieces and shells that can't stand it!

The battlefleet of Chen Pengming's main fleet sailed past and opened fire in turn, and each battleship only shelled one round, but the Portuguese on the shore got the batteries and completely reduced to ruins, and there was no one alive!

As the first land battery to meet the attack of the Tang Navy, this battery was built very strong, enough to withstand the solid shells fired by the 32-pound robe, and more than 10 large-caliber guns were deployed on the battery, the smallest caliber was a twelve-pound gun, and the largest reached 24 pounds.

The Portuguese soldiers in the fort were also carefully selected elite gunners, skilled and heroic, and these soldiers were also worthy of the trust of their superiors, they stuck to their combat posts from beginning to end, and fired the first round of artillery fire from the Portuguese counterattack!

However, it was only a round of counter-artillery!

It was not because these heroic soldiers were passive in the battle, or they were frightened by the powerful firepower of the Tang Navy and turned around and fled, in fact, they had always stuck to their combat posts, and after launching the first round of counterattacks, they carried out reloading work in preparation for the second round of counterattacks.

But the Datang Navy did not give them the opportunity to load their artillery and carry out a second round of counterattacks, nine battleships and three cruisers successively shelled this battery in just one minute, although each battleship only fired one round, and none of them fired a salvo, but also a total of at least 400 shells were fired towards this battery, although the size of the shells was different, twenty-four catties, eighteen catties, fourteen catties, and nine catties, but they were all grenades and grenade shots, Some of these grenades hit the turret and then there was a violent explosion to break through and shrapnel the enemy, while the grenade exploded directly over the enemy's turret, and a large number of steel balls built in the grenade were like raindrops, splashing towards the enemy from mid-air, killing and injuring a large number of the enemy's living force!

In just one minute, this battery has experienced at least a hundred violent explosions!

And more importantly, the fortifications such as fortifications such as fortifications for fortifications such as fortifications in these years, except for fortifications that the Tang Empire will specialize in anti-grenade fortifications, other countries do not have this kind of awareness.

The artillery on the batteries was basically deployed in the open air, and at most a thick breastwork was built in front of the artillery.

This kind of fortification is naturally good for the defense of solid bullets, but for grenades that can explode, the effect is much smaller, and for grenades, it is useless at all!

You have to know that when bombarding the land, the Datang Navy never uses any solid bullets, but mainly grenades and grenade bombs, and they especially like to use grenade bombs!

The grenade is to control the explosion time of the shell through the fuse, so that the shell just flies over the enemy's position, and at the same time, a large number of steel balls are arranged inside the shell, and the living force of the enemy is killed and injured through the steel balls.

The intensive artillery bombardment of the Datang Navy caused this Portuguese battery to be blown into ruins in just one minute, and more than 100 Portuguese artillerymen on it were killed and wounded!

That's why they didn't fight back in the second round!

It's not that I don't want to, but I can't!

After destroying the enemy's first battery, Chen Pengming's main fleet did not stop, and even when the artillery bombardment was carried out just now, in fact, the fleet did not stop its pace, but maintained its speed and continued to advance.

Chen Pengming's fleet, like a fierce tiger, pounced on Malacca and tore apart all the resistance forces in its path.

This kind of scene made the Portuguese watching the battle at the head of Malacca City, especially several senior officials and generals inside, tremble!

Although he had known for a long time that the military strength of the Tang Empire was extremely strong, and he also knew that the enemy's fleet outside the port was terrifyingly powerful, it was just imagination.

What kind of horror method is it, but they have never seen it!

And now, they have finally seen the horror of this fleet!

It was even more terrifying than anything they had ever imagined!

According to their assumptions, it is undeniable that the Datang Navy is very powerful, and if it really wants to attack, it will definitely be able to destroy its own coastal defense batteries and even fleets.

But it should not be that you have no power to resist at all, especially the well-arranged coastal defense batteries.

The small batteries are equipped with more than a dozen guns, and the large batteries are deployed with dozens of guns, and the six batteries outside the port add up, with a total of more than 300 guns.

Relying on the strong defensive advantage of the fort, even if it is defeated by the enemy's huge fleet, it should be able to fight at least in the early stage, and no matter how bad it is, it will be able to sink one or two battleships of the enemy!

But now!

Numerous batteries did not have the slightest resistance, and generally only counterattacked one or two rounds of artillery bombardment, and then they would be covered by the artillery fire of the Tang Navy, and finally lose their combat effectiveness due to the dead and wounded artillery.

Well, this is also a very special scene, that is, the artillery bombardment of the Tang Navy, which looks very fierce, but in fact, whether it is a grenade or a grenade shotgun, it has basically no lethality against the strong battery itself and the big iron bump of artillery, and they kill and injure the enemy gunners.

So you will see that after the bombardment of the Tang Navy, the Portuguese batteries, except for a very few batteries that were killed because of ammunition, the other batteries seem to be in a mess, but in fact the batteries are basically intact, although some of those large-caliber guns have been overturned, but they are basically intact.

It's just that blood flowed and dead and wounded Portuguese soldiers covered the entire battery!

This kind of scene made the Portuguese officials and generals watching the battle at the head of Malacca almost can't believe what they have seen!

In just half an hour, it was deployed outside the port and took on the important task of intercepting the Datang Navy from breaking into the port, with a total of more than 300 artillery pieces, all of which were destroyed, nearly 1,000 local artillery and more than 2,000 indigenous artillery were killed and wounded, and the rest fled!

And the only result of these six batteries is to knock out a few big holes in the few warships of the Tang Navy, causing more than ten casualties in the Tang Navy!

(Tianjin)