Thanks to the breeched gun's shorter barrel and wider muzzle, it took almost two minutes for the gunner to reload the second gun. In the case of cast artillery (the casting is vertical, and the body of the cannon can only be cast very long in order to achieve sufficient strength in the bottom chamber), even in the late eighteenth century, the rate of fire of heavy artillery was mostly ten minutes, while in the sixteenth century, naval heavy artillery in combat was basically unable to be reloaded in battle, and had to leave the battlefield for about an hour before returning to the battlefield to fire again.

The four Chaos-class gunboats reload immediately after launch. Under the west wind, white gunpowder smoke still shrouded the sea area on the east side of the battleship. The Carthaginians did not beat the drum in battle, and no one could see where they were until the smoke had completely cleared. When they finally broke through the smoke, the bronze ramming angle at the bow of the battleship was less than forty paces away from the gunboat, and the non-commissioned officers on the deck shouted again.

"Putting ——!" On the artillery deck the order rose again. The thunderous cannon roared incessantly, and the Carthaginians, who were close at hand, were hit by a storm of steel, and the sawdust and flesh flew everywhere, and most of the battleships with the guns slowed down in vain, but the slowed down battleships still slammed into the gunboats thirty or forty meters away at a speed of six meters per second.

"Left full rudder! Turns. When the ninth cannon of the second salvo was fired, the red mule quickly gave the order to turn the rudder. The fat Chaos turned inevitably sluggishly, and it was only when the twelfth cannon was fired that it gradually turned around, and the bow of the ship, which had been facing south, was slightly tilted due east by the current and the westerly wind.

Seven or eight seconds was not enough time for the gunboat to complete a nearly ninety-degree turn, but it was enough to change the angle between the side and the angle of collision of the enemy's warship. The rudder had been killed, and the people on the deck, including the sergeants, were dragging the truss ropes and turning the truss quickly.

The mast made a '......rattling' sound, and after a round of not too dense stone projectiles and arrows, the battleship hit the gunwale of the gunboat, and the Chaos was turning as if it had been punched, and the hull of the ship inevitably moved backwards in the earthquake, connecting the keel, and the whole ship let out a terrible 'squeak' moan. Hearing this voice, Red Ridge's face was expressionless.

"Broken rib number 35! Ninety-three, No. 4 rib break! Soon the shouts of the boatmen were heard from the bilge. Bilge inlet and bilge inlet ......"

Although the speed was slow, the displacement of the three-oared battleship was more than 40 tons, and such a huge momentum obviously exceeded the limit that the bulwarks could bear. Under the pressure of the bronze collision angle, the outboard shattered, and the ribs that covered the huge iron plate broke with a click. The icy water poured into the ship through the cracks, and the sailors in the bilge exclaimed.

"Putting ——!" The order to fire a salvo sounded again on the gun deck, and the muzzles of the guns were tilted outwards and aimed at the enemy outside the bulwark. Such a close-range shot was fatal, and a single ship was bombarded by at least four guns. The Carthaginians who were trying to paddle back were bleeding from the cannons, this time not solid but double-shotgun. The ship's thin gunwales could not stop the rainstorm of shotguns, and with just one salvo, there was no living thing on the deck.

"General!" The boatman on the deck pointed to the right side.

Previously, the USS Chaos faced south and engaged the enemy on the port side. The hull of the ship more than 30 meters long was rammed by three three-oared warships at most at the same time, Margo Baca led the battleship to ram the enemy's port side, and Hasdruba led the remaining battleships through the gap between the enemy ships, went around to the rear of the enemy ship and rammed the starboard side of the enemy ship in a roundabout way.

"It's okay!" In the Red Sea, after battling the Seleucid warships, the Red Warrior had a good idea of how strong the gunboat was beneath his feet. The impact of the warship would break the gunwale, break the ribs, cause flooding, but that's about it. The Chaos class is a gunboat, and its ribs are extremely dense, one could even say that the ribs are next to the ribs. Although the ribs were broken, there was no other structural damage to the entire gunboat, and temporary repairs could ensure the ship's sailing.

The red man looked at the Carthaginian battleship rushing towards starboard, and the guns on the deck began again, this time not on the port side, but on the starboard side. The starboard guns roared, and the onrushing battleship was beaten to sawdust, and the shells swept through the battleship, killing the soldiers on the deck and the oarsmen below deck. Hasdruba watched in horror, but what was even more frightening was that after the battleship crashed into the Chuni warship, the side of the battleship did not collapse entirely, it only appeared a crack that was not too large, like a woodpecker sharply pecking open the rotten tree trunk.

Hasdruba had never seen such a sturdy warship, and he was about to pray to the God of Baal when another shout came from the warship: "Let go——! He knew the few Chuni words he knew that this was an order before the cannon was fired, and he did not hesitate to throw away his shield and jump into the sea, even if the water was cold to the bone. This saved Hasdruba's life, and he leaped into the sea unscathed by the numerous shotguns that swept the battleship.

The battleship should have quickly retreated after hitting the enemy ship for the next impact, but the dense shotgun killed most of the people on the battleship, and after the first salvo, some wood pulp was still rowing, and the battleship retreated with difficulty, and after the second salvo, the battleship was completely motionless, and rows of wood pulp on the side of the board rippled along the waves, like a stiff centipede, and began to sink little by little.

The gunners did not stop, and they continued to fire shotguns, sweeping away the ships that had not been hit. After each salvo, a group of men fell on the deck of the enemy ship until they were all withdrawn to a distance of 500 meters.

Hasdruba, who was almost frozen to death in the sea, was picked up from the sea, and as soon as his men reported the death of Margo Bacca, he shouted: "Retreat!" Retreat now! ”

Your own warship cannot get within 500 meters of the enemy ship, and the impact can only knock out a gap where a woodpecker pecks at the trunk of a tree, and then the whole battleship is finished. The rapid and unusual artillery bombardment killed all the people on the battleship, and the battleship sank with it.

In the war with the Romans, the Carthaginian warships will also be sunk, but the Romans will also pay the price of blood, and now their own warships are sinking one after another, what price did the Chuni pay? Except for a few cracks in the gunwales of the warship, the price they paid was probably only the smoke of gunpowder that filled the sea.

He still had ten ships on his side, enough to launch a second ramming, but Hasdruba, who was trembling physically and mentally, chose to retreat. It was not just that victory was hopeless, but that he was eager to fly to the new city at once and tell Hamilcar Baca that he must abandon the Egyptians at once, no matter what promises Ptolemy III had made; At the same time, negotiations must be made immediately with the Chuni in order to maintain peace between the two sides. Otherwise, Carthage and the Roman Senate would have been glad that the Baca family had been destroyed by the Chuni.

"General, look!" The enemy seemed to be retreating, and the boatmen on the deck couldn't believe it.

"The enemy has retreated." The west wind blew away the smoke, and the red boat clearly saw that the enemy ship was getting farther and farther away, and the strait was ahead. "How's the bilge? Is it airworthy? "He doesn't want to stay here.

"How's the bilge? Is it airworthy? The interrogation was repeated twice in the bottom compartment before the boatmen and sailors in the bottom bilge broke free from the auditory hallucinations caused by the roar of the artillery.

"The bilge is unharmed, and the water is one foot seven inches, and it is seaworthy." The sea was cold, and while the cracks were blocked, the sailors were pouring buckets of seawater out of the ship.

Hearing that the water in the bilge was only one foot seven inches, the red mo, who was a little worried, breathed a sigh of relief. When the other three gunboats all waved the seaworthy flag, the other side gave the order: "Course one hundred and twenty." The cargo ships raised their wings, and all the ships sailed through the strait in double columns. ”

"One hundred and twenty headings. The cargo ships raised their wings, and all the ships sailed through the strait in double columns. "The order was immediately conveyed,

He couldn't care about the hydrology of the strait, so he could only try to pass through the middle of the strait. Gluttonous cargo ships with winged sails and full sails can reach speeds of about eight knots. The four gunboats and the two new Suzaku-class shearers, although they could be faster, could only slow down to protect their passage through the strait.

It has been nearly ten years since the sea boat was launched, and even if it is a cargo boat, there are also capable sailors and boatmen on it. As soon as the order was given, the cargo ship began to raise its sails, and the sailors climbed up the high beams, and in less than half an hour the winged sails were hung out. At this time, the cargo ships were formed into a team in the north, the gunboats and two flying shears in the south, and the double column pursued the Carthaginian warships several miles away.

The retreating Carthaginians were only about six knots, and they were puzzled by the fact that the Chuni had not pursued before. From a distance, as the Chuni ship got closer and closer, they could only speed up, and the soldiers on the deck also jumped into the bilge to take over the dead and wounded oarsmen with all their might. Suddenly, the thunder sounded again, and the Chuni ship, which had just passed through the stone pillar, once again let out a Zeusian roar, and then all turned and sailed northeast.

They ...... "The northeast direction is the direction to the new city, and watching the Chuni people go in that direction, the deck suddenly felt uneasy.

"They travel entirely on the wind," Hasdruba said, knowing his men's concerns, recounting his observations while riding the Chuni boat. "So you can't really go downwind, then the wind won't blow all the sails, you have to have a certain angle with the wind."

The ship that runs completely on the wind is unimaginable, Hasdruba looked at his subordinates around him, and said helplessly: "We shouldn't be enemies with the Chuni, but ......"

It is not up to the individual to decide who to host, but to political interests. Hasdruba was helpless about this, and his subordinates feared that the Chini would go to the New Town, and he feared that the Chini would go back to Rome. In fact, as he feared, after determining that it was the Carthaginians who attacked him, the Red Lord, who knew something about the Western Mediterranean, had decided to go to Rome.

However, before that, when the fleet sailed into the sea of the earth and the news pigeon could fly back to Yingdu, the red horse had to report to Xiong Jing thousands of miles away. After more than 600 days of arduous sailing, the fleet sailed safely into the sea of the earth; He reported that he had found not only his way to the Sea of the Earth, but also his way back to the Red Ocean—the first failed voyage was the return of the fleet; Finally, at the entrance to the strait, this naval battle with the Carthaginians was reported......

The Red Warrior believed that the king would be overjoyed to receive the news of the pigeon, because the passage of the spice trade would be opened, and the gold and silver obtained from the trade would be turned into goods and continuously imported into the Chu State, which was starved of materials due to the war. However, he could never have imagined that at this time, the 600,000 Qin army was violently attacking the state of Chu, wanting to kill Chu with one blow.