This is a pure firearms duel belonging to this era, the spacious perimeter of Manila Bay, the Western battleships used the same tricks as the British in the Sino-British Opium War more than 200 years later, one by one the battleships continued to move out of place to avoid damage, but the muzzle of Hesse was constantly spraying cannon fire at the sea fort.

However, Manila is different from any of the fortresses that these Western powers have attacked, and it is not the kind of simple forts that are empty and open to the enemy's artillery fire in the late Qing Dynasty.

Solid iron cannonballs are like ping-pong balls, crackling and smashing on the thick wall, and in the dull loud sound, cracks are smashed out on the wall, and even more cannonballs and hail fall on the fort, with a large piece of broken cement sparsely collapsed, and where the cannonballs passed, the steel bars were broken out.

A small fort was under the overwhelming bombardment of more than 600 12- to 18-pounder guns.

With a bang, it is estimated that another cannon smashed on the roof of the shed, and a large piece of lime wall fell down in the sparse noise, which happened to hit Chen Xinghua's body, the broken lime wall smashed his hat, and the golden medal on his shoulder was white, but he didn't even look at it, and he was always observing the battlefield with a telescope.

Beside him, the observer hand who was also holding a telescope was already sweating profusely, and his eyes were red as he looked at the Western warships dangling back and forth in front of him, and he shouted in a hoarse voice: "Half past four o'clock, five degrees on the scale!" Ready!"

The turntable with the iron chain was squeaked by the four gunners, and the barrel of the gun, which was more than six meters long and weighed several tons, shook and skimmed downward, while the gun commander in charge of the gunner was holding the stillness and letting the beads of sweat on his head flow down little by little.

"Fa Ye!"

Suddenly, the sound of the observer exploded like gunpowder exploding, and the next second, the explosives really exploded in response, and there was a loud bang, and the explosion was louder than a few shots, and the whole artillery base trembled violently.

A second later, a Spanish warship trembling violently as it was moving forward.

Outwardly, it seemed that the behemoth had only broken a large hole, but the speed of the ship slowed down significantly, and even tilted slightly to the side, and three or four minutes later, a battleship that was moving and firing its guns slammed into the stern tower of the ship, causing chaos in the orderly group of battleships.

In the fort, instead of pulling the heavy cannon back along the gun track and reloading it from the muzzle, he directly unscrewed the stick behind the butt with a wrench, and removed the two layers of hot tail caps that had been burned one after another, and a hot brass-colored shell shell that was also burned fell out at once, and a sharp-headed cannonball shell about a meter was stuffed into it again.

Starting from Mao Jue's lord Liaodong, he has been promoting industrialization for more than ten years, and nearly half of the essence is used on the overlord cannon in front of him, first of all, breech gun! Eliminating the hassle of loading a breech gun, the body of the gun has been forged with a super-powerful steam engine hammer and engraved rifling, turning these few tons into an oversized sniper rifle.

Secondly, the custom-mounted shells are finally used here!

Don't underestimate a fixed cannonball, first of all, the gunpowder has to be upgraded, in the old days, the black powder was not enough to create such a great power, according to the periodic table that Mao Jue couldn't remember clearly, by the way, in the West even with the blind, the alchemists of the West and the alchemists of the East have practiced together for more than ten years, and even initially cooperated with Mao Jue, and is now the honorary president of the Imperial Taoist Committee, the suspended old Dao was feathered and ascended to immortal in an accident, and then he made up the yellow gunpowder he wanted.

And Mao Jue didn't know what chemical formula they used to develop a matching propellant for falling to the ground, which made a small cannonball have such great power.

Fortunately, Mao Jue pointed out the direction and took a shortcut, and it took two or three hundred years of research and exploration time to be responsible for the advent of this thing.

At this time, the technical content of the Ming Army's Overlord Cannon was almost the same level as the Armstrong cannon when the British army attacked the Big Horn Fort in the Second Opium War, but the specifications were a few points higher than the Armstrong gun.

The only pity is that as a high-tech project, it is like a convertible sports car in later generations, with high cost and few parameters, and can produce about 20 million taels of Luzon three islands every year, and until now, it can only be equipped with three doors.

But the results are remarkable!

Looking at the bay fortress that was constantly trembling in the artillery fire, Curt's flabby face because of aging was even a little pumping, indeed, after more than four hours of fighting, the former enemy fort had been bombarded with thousands of holes, even if it was a concrete artillery fortress, it couldn't help but how many joules of heavy artillery overturned and bombarded, and it had collapsed a lot, but this progress, ten days may not be able to collapse this fortress.

Especially the largest gun barrier in the middle, Curt doesn't know what kind of fanged monster is crouching in it, although until now, it has not sunk a coalition warship, but its hit rate is extremely accurate, except for the cooldown time, this thing can fire twenty cannons every hour, eleven or twelve cannons can hit the hull, even the hardest big oak deck in the Spanish mountains can't withstand its bombardment, if it hits the bow or stern of the ship, it's fine, if it hits the middle deck, the condescending bombardment, basically will break down the three decks, blowing up to the bottom of the cabin.

And this thing is not as simple as just piercing the eye, I really don't know what vicious devil's curse the Ming people added to it, the power of the cannonball explosion is enough to catch up with more than ten barrels of gunpowder to explode together, and it will basically blow up a big hole in the bottom of the ship.

Even if you learn the extreme speed of the Dongfang watertight cabin, the battleship can't stand it with such a hole, and basically takes a shot, and you have to go down to renovate!

The only thing that is lucky is that there is only one thing!

"Terrible Devil of the East!"

It really responded to Cohen's exclamation, just when he looked at the battlefield in horror, suddenly a huge explosion suddenly erupted in the group of warships bombarded in turn, fifty-two meters long, the people next to the five masts on the third deck instantly exploded into a big fireball, the mast was like a toothpick broken by the giant, clicked and broken, half of the hull of the aft building was directly gone, turned into a burning debris plank, floating everywhere, as for the people are like ragdolls, blown everywhere by the smell of fireworks and fireworks.

Of course, even if it is yellow powder, it is not so powerful, but this cannon was ignited into the powder compartment of this unlucky Portuguese ship, and on the first day of fighting, more than a dozen tons of black powder that were still sufficient were detonated together, and the explosive power of this level was enough to tear apart even the solid several layers of rammed earth walls of Kaifeng City back then, not to mention the hard and brittle wooden hull!

The raging fire shook not only Curt, but the entire coalition army.

Finally, when the setting sun was tilting and the entire sea was reflected red, the main battleships that were still in the artillery battle turned around nimbly like schools of fish and withdrew from the range of the shells of both sides.

A half-sunken capital ship was raised high in the bow, and the entire sea was littered with broken planks, and corpses could occasionally be seen floating.

Coming out of the fort, looking at his results, Chen Xinghua was excited and slammed his fist on the battlement that had collapsed and peeled off a large piece, but the excitement dissipated, and when he looked back, not far away, in a collapsed fort, a hand full of blood and stretched out the ruins made his heart heavy again.

War is always fair! Either side will pay the price! It's just that whoever pays the heavier price and who can't hold it first!

Today's battle, it is obvious that after a long journey of more than half a year, the combined fleet of the Holy See Crusaders, which has traveled from the west to the east to fight for world supremacy, is even more disastrous.

Silver candles illuminate the restaurant, and on the table, delicate lobster, large bottles of Bordeaux red wine, roast goose and pig shoulder, all kinds of delicacies, but all the outstanding nobles have no appetite.

"The Portuguese Santa Corrando was sunk, the ships Polya, Dasta, Paris Maiden and other ships were damaged in the first degree, and the dead and wounded were ......, one thousand and one!"

I thought that the combined fleet assembled under the common interest was already the most powerful fleet in the world, and this power could even conquer hell! But the result of the first day of the firefight was obviously unacceptable to the proud men of the West, who thought they were the center of world civilization.

"Gentlemen!"

Raising a glass of wine, Sir Curt on the Dutch side was the first to break the silence.

"It's a fact! The number of firepower of the opponent is inferior to ours, but the tonnage of the opponent's artillery fire exceeds ours! And the fort of the former island is stronger than we expected!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, I suggest that you withdraw from the army!"

"Retreat!"

The French commander, Prince Condu, with the usual arrogance of his Gallic rooster, stretched his voice heavily, and sneered with contempt.

"It's true that the Netherlands is a group of inferior people who have mastered the rights that should be held by the nobility, and this little injury scares the guts!"

"The true warrior of the Lord will not compromise with the infidels!"

was already deeply hated because of the Thirty Years' War, and taking this opportunity, the Spanish Admiral Marquis Placido also looked pious, but his eyes fell on Curt with great mockery and contempt.

However, it is said that people are old and fine, and at the age of Curt's status, he has really reached the cultivation of being pampered and humiliated, and he did not show the slightest anger, but sighed helplessly.

"Gentlemen, just one Manila, even if it is filled by people, it has been defeated, but don't forget, the purpose of organizing the coalition this time is not to take a small Manila, in the north, the main navy of the Ming Empire has not yet been dispatched, it is no less than the behemoth that you add together, and can mobilize two hundred main warships!"

As soon as these words came out, the entire banquet hall seemed to be overshadowed, and even the proud Gallic rooster or the vicious old Spanish politician couldn't help but weigh it.

However, the silence was gradually broken by the noisy chatter!