One negligence can bury nearly a third of their fleet, and it may also endanger the entire battle!

The sound of the cannon became more and more intense, and in the view of the telescope, each of his battleships was sandwiched by two or three battleships of the other side, the blazing artillery fire came and went, the towering mast groaned and fell, and the ears could faintly hear the angry scolding of the sailors under his command before dying, this scene made the Minister of the Navy Da Hai also became more and more desperate, the eyes seemed to be about to pop out, the sweat like a stream rolled down his forehead, and the originally fat slap pinched the telescope and actually held out the green tendons.

But even if the Western warships in charge have lost their combat capability under the shelling and are sinking slowly, they still haven't given up a single road that can be passed by the Ming Royal Navy.

For a few seconds, even Da Dahai thought about what kind of reproach he would face after going back, the angry and incredible faces of the emperor and his cabinet colleagues, the overwhelming reproaches of the newspapers, and the boiling scolding of the people, should he die to apologize, right?

Should you hang yourself with a rope around your neck, or should you learn from Wu Zixu to wipe your neck? Or it's quite popular to use a pistol to break the head now, but if you collapse the skull all of a sudden, it can't be regarded as a whole corpse, right?

The teeth chattered, and the battle situation was so corrupt that the huge sea didn't even have the heart to care about how to fight again, but at this moment, four dark pillars of smoke suddenly ignited in the sky.

"Throne! Look, my Ming reinforcements have arrived!"

Lost the battle, everyone is unlucky! For a moment, as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw, pointing to the sky, Xia He shouted in surprise.

However, after glancing in that direction, the huge sea should still cry and mourn, and he didn't take it to heart, the support army he knew that there were only four warships, and the big battle in front of him was full of nearly three hundred main battleships strangled in the huge bay, four ships, he really couldn't think of what effect it could do.

Not to mention him, the rest of the staff officers should also cry and mourn, and those who should write suicide notes write suicide notes, only Xia He still has a glimmer of hope, looking from afar, with a pair of big eyes shining and looking at it non-stop.

In her nervous eyes, the four battleships were also dragging black smoke, and they were fearlessly rushing behind the butts of the mighty battleship group.

Four smoky battleships suddenly approached, Michelgen couldn't have not noticed, but he didn't care too much either, now the Dutch veteran's whole service was focused on how to destroy the Ming battleship in front of him as soon as possible, and then added an attack, striving to defeat the huge Daming Royal Navy, abandoning the Tai'a, his Rotterdam took on the task of an assault ship again, crashing into the north of another Daming battleship, dealing with the black smoke ship that was eyeing the tiger, Michelle only waved the flag, The rear row was ordered to go to the battle of Venice and Genoa, which were close to the soy sauce battleships.

But just when he led his sailors to fight fiercely on the deck of the Ming army, suddenly a loud noise came from behind him, and this time, almost not let Michel be stabbed through by a bayonet, and shook back in shock, allowing his own soldiers to fill his position, Michelle turned his head suddenly, picked up the telescope, and in his round lens barrel vision, it was the steaming smoke of the Mediterranean, the flagship of Venice, which had just gone to meet the battle.

The powder chamber was blown out with one shot! The whole ship is scrapped!

At this moment, Michelle obviously felt bad!

Indeed, the powder compartment of every ship is its dead end! In the era of sail battleships, to cope with fierce sea battles, a fully loaded battleship even needed to hoard several tons of gunpowder! However, the sail battleship is not a clay pot, saying that one shot bursts the powder compartment, just one shot bursts the powder compartment, just one shot bursts the powder compartment, take the present, the entire battlefield sunk battleships have to have thirty, not forty, there must be thirty, not even a single explosion of the powder tank, on the one hand, for this dead hole, no matter which country has to do its best to protect it, some are buried under the waterline, some are placed in the stern, and the walls are made of the hardest and finest wood, even if they are equipped with the navy's largest caliber eighteen-pounder guns at this time, it is impossible to hit the powder compartment with one shot.

On the other hand, even if there are shells occasionally entered, they will not necessarily detonate, first of all, for the sake of explosion-proof, the gunpowder is isolated in barrels, and secondly, at this time, almost all of the shells attacking each other at sea are solid shells, and the ignition ability is also biased.

But because of these restrictions, this opening shot is the most terrifying, because Michelle has seen the only one who has the ability to blow up the powder compartment of a battleship with one shot, only Daming's breech overlord cannon!

"Back to ship! Get ready for battle!"

Not even the battle line that was in full swing, and even abandoned a dozen of his soldiers, Michel shouted and jumped back to the Rotterdam, and in his roar, the Dutch sailors on the ship resisted the flintlock bullets crackling from the Ming army Abyss, and pushed the distance away with all their might with the poles against the deck of the opposing ship.

However, it was still too late! Loud rumbling noises one after another, the towering battleship was like a toy in the bathtub, and the sawdust flew under the wave of the naughty boy's slap, and the eight Italian ships did not wait to get close, but they were reimbursed by the fierce artillery fire of the other party, since the fall of the Roman Empire, there was no blood on the Italian peninsula, and the remaining five were to pull the sails and escape, but it was not so easy to escape, in the breath of fire in Michelle's eyes, one had just crossed over, and the bow was facing the Milan ship at the exit of the bay, and the sailors suddenly let out a terrified roar, Immediately after a loud bang, the tall and sturdy hull was actually cut off by the waist, and a dark bow like a huge steel knife emerged from the other end of the ship's side, and like a giant holding another section of the handle, it was violently cut twice, and a whole Milan gunboat broke violently, like the curtain call of the Titanic, the stern turned upward, bubbling and sinking into the sea.

At this time, Michelle finally saw the incoming ship clearly, even if he had been fighting on the battlefield at sea all his life, he couldn't help but open his mouth wide into an O-shape, and screamed in disbelief.

"How is that possible? Oh, God! Are these Wise people the embodiment of the devil? How could they possibly sail a ship made of steel on the sea? ”

It's no wonder that Mao Jue would rather abandon Manila and wait for the four Liaodong ships as killer weapons! All four are ironclads! Half of the essence of Daming's industrialization for more than ten years is on the Overlord cannon, and half is on this ironclad ship.

In fact, many seemingly impossible things in the world, as long as you break through the imagination, you can turn them into displays, Mao Jue's era, when he was a child, he thought that it was a dream to have a computer in his hands, but in his college dog era, everyone has a smart phone similar to a computer, and the steel giant ship is running all over the street, so when he studied the train in Dongjiang, the research of ironclad ships has also been put on the agenda.

But I have to admit that this thing is really much more difficult than the locomotive, and loading the steam engine on the ship is not just as simple as increasing the volume of the steam engine, it requires better steel! More reasonable design and forging process, seven or eight years later than the train, before the ironclad ship that can catch up with the second-class battleship before successfully going to sea, its scientific and technological level, compared with the ironclad ship of the Beiyang Naval Division, is far worse, whether it is naval guns, ammunition, or rust prevention, maintenance, fuel, the problems are a lot of problems.

But this is still an ironclad ship!

The whole ship has four cannons, each of which is a steel turret several meters high and can turn 270 degrees, standing in the command room of the second main gun turret, looking at the front of the bulletproof glass more than half a meter thick, the sail was taken away by the waves, and Sun Chun, the chief of staff of the military department, who was personally named the god of artillery and war by Mao Jue, narrowed her delicate eyes dangerously, and then shouted loudly.

"At six o'clock, thirty degrees, shipwreck, launch!"

With her loud command, the turret steam engine was suddenly connected to the gears, and in the crunching sound of metal friction, the multi-ton behemoth turned a corner, and the same gear drove the chain, and the heavy barrel gurgled down, and a few minutes later, there was another loud bang, and the barrel with the retractor retracted sharply, and two heavy yellow powder metal shells more than a meter long flew out with a roar.

In the loud bang, the unlucky guy who didn't know whether it was a French, Spanish or Portuguese ship happened to be in that position, and the whole hull of the ship was like being gnawed by a dog, and it exploded and tore out more than a meter of damage, and the sturdy cast iron cannon was twisted into a twisted sailor's seven orifices under the deck and bled and collapsed to the ground.

Clang, in a violent sound of metal, a row of dense white marks appeared on the protective armor on the side of the battleship, and the mature and temperamental eyes only glanced to the side, and then Sun Chun didn't care about the Western battleship that was firing continuously at him, and it was already scarred, but continued to give orders calmly.

"Keep sailing at full speed! In half an hour, we would have seen the chain of ships blocking the strait destroyed by our naval guns!"

In the lower cabin, in the hot boiling, dozens of shirtless and sweaty sailors boilermakers kept filling coal into the boiler, and the black smoke from the typical big chimney, which can be called the opposite of environmental pollution, became more and more intense, and the whole behemoth also roared towards the Cebu Strait at a faster speed.

But here, Michel still defended the last dignity of the Dutch Navy, and even Sun Chun didn't expect that the Rotterdam, which had already hit three battleships in a row, hit her with a full sail and full oars, and this huge force, even the heavy armor was bent and dozens of rivets jumped out with a bang, and the ironclad ship deviated fifteen degrees.

But this time, for the Rotterdam, it was a death impact, bearing the bombardment of I don't know how many guns, the length of the entire bow of more than three meters was directly smashed, under the huge recoil, the same broken middle mast collapsed, and the Dutch sailors on the deck who were already sweating were swaying into the sea like a large piece of the hoist, and when they retreated more than ten meters, the stern began to rise upward, and large strings of foam came out of the bow of the battleship.

This also crushed the fighting spirit of the Rotterdam, full of disbelief, let the command of the frenzied fight for the lifeboat escape, Michelle just looked at the correction direction with straight eyes, and then stared at the black chimney pierced in the strait, for a long time, he sat on the ground dejectedly.

"Flag language, run away if you can!"