"Oh my God! They're just deadly playing! His eyes widened, and he had foreseen what would happen when his battle line was cut by two columns of the enemy. ranwe?n?ｗ?ｗ?ｗ?．? ｒ?ａ?ｎ?ｗ?ｅｎa`ｃｏｍ

However, the warships of both sides have been mixed together, and nothing can be changed.

He suddenly went crazy and shouted to Leut: "Order, let them use maximum firepower, all the cannons, do not stop!" Be sure to do enough damage to the Orientals before they get in! ”

Tronpu gritted his teeth and repeatedly observed the two Ming warships rushing to the front with a telescope, hoping to see them penetrated, fired, tilted, and sunk!

However, none of this happened.

Only the Jinan, which faced the French second-class battleship, was left three holes on the port side by the 32-pounder guns, and several guns were affected and unusable, but they did not look like they had been severely damaged at all.

A gust of sea breeze blew away the smoke that enveloped the battleship, and Tromp's right eye, which was clinging to the telescope, suddenly jumped suddenly, and he saw that outside the wheelhouse, captain's room, stern and other important positions of the Ming warship, there were large iron gratings with the thickness of an arm!

The cannonballs hit the bars and only made a dent before rolling out into the sea. Even small-caliber shells simply collapsed.

"W-How is this possible?!" Tronp's mind was blank, carrying such a large piece of iron grating armor would inevitably cause the warship to be overloaded, how did the Orientals do it?!

It wasn't until twenty years later that Helan gradually figured it out. Because the Ming warships were loaded with canned food for rations, they did not need to grow vegetables, raise livestock, or carry wine barrels on the ship, and in addition, the Caron guns they used were much lighter than ordinary long guns, and all these reduced weights became armor in important parts.

Important positions such as the helm deck are extremely difficult to destroy, and the combined fleets of peace and France can only fight hard to find out the heavy hulls of the warships, but in a moment, how can a first-class battleship built with full ribs be easily destroyed.

The few holes in the hull of the ship, compared to the huge hull, are almost like a strong man who has been bitten by mosquitoes a few times.

Soon, the "happy times" of the combined fleet ended. The two Ming first-class battleships, together with the two second-class battleships behind them, squeezed into the battle line of the Japanese and French fleets.

The Hangzhou was the first to fire, and the dense flames flashed continuously from the bow to the stern, and a loud sound like thunder burst out.

Tronp's heart tightened with the sound, and it seemed to be bigger than a thirty-two-pounder cannon! Could it be that the battleships of the Orientals were armed with forty-two-pounder guns?!

He hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked at the first battleship of the third class of the Helan, the Den Held, and stayed where he was. I saw several huge holes in the side of the Den Held, which were amazingly large, and definitely not the effect that a thirty-two-pounder gun could achieve, and even a forty-two-pounder gun could not be.

Inside the breach, a blood-covered deck loomed, and wailing and struggling sailors. One of the shells actually pierced through the two decks, penetrated through the upper gun deck, and smashed the three cannons on the middle gun deck to the side, killing at least thirty or forty people around.

In addition, the stern of the Den Helder was lifted by the roots, and the communication module inside was exposed to the sea breeze.

How is this possible?! Tromp's hands were already trembling, and his battleship was no match for a small fishing boat in front of the cannons of the Orientals.

You must know that in the era of sail warships, even if a battleship above the third rank was placed there for you to bomb, it would not be seriously injured if it did not hit thirty or forty heavy guns.

But the Den Hellder had only been hit once, and only six or seven of the starboard guns were left to fire, which was almost out of combat!

At this time, the Hangzhou fired another salvo. A cannonball hit the waterline of the Den Held, and a large amount of seawater poured in through the huge hole. The telescope in Tronmp's hand fell to the ground with a thud, he was so experienced, he only had to look at the bullet hole to know that the Den Helder could float for a maximum of an hour before it would die at the bottom of the sea.

On the Jinan, several gunners skillfully cleaned the chamber of a strangely shaped short gun, and then two men carried an extremely heavy cannonball on a wooden stretcher into the muzzle.

Looking at their struggling appearance, you can see that the shell weighs at least fifty or sixty pounds!

Then the gunners quickly completed aiming, and when the commander gave the order, the igniter pulled the gun rope, and the short cannon roared, and the huge cannonball accurately hit the French second-class battleship opposite.

The 60-pound shell easily tore through the hull of the enemy ship, and with the debris of wood flying from the sky, it jumped more than ten feet away in the hull and broke a rib before finally stopping with all its strength.

This cannon alone rendered more than eight guns on the second deck of the French battleship incapacitated, and countless gunners were killed or wounded......

The gunner of the Jinan squinted at his results, and someone was speechless: "Although this Caron cannon shot is a little worse, but this power, tsk, it's really nothing!" ”

This is the main weapon of all the large warships of the Ming Naval Division today, the Caron cannon. A weapon of mass murder that the British only began to equip at the end of the eighteenth century.

This kind of cannon uses a finely machined bore to improve air tightness, so that the short barrel can also achieve a basically satisfactory range. At the same time, because of the short barrel, the weight is very light, even the upper gun deck can be equipped with a 48-pound Caron gun, and the middle and lower gun decks can easily be equipped with more than 60 pounds of Caron guns.

And the large caliber brings great lethality!

Compared to the thirty-two-pounder cannon that was commonly equipped with heavy battleships of this era, the sixty-pounder Caron gun was several times more powerful! It can almost reach the point where a single shot can shoot through an enemy ship.

At the same time, the recoil of the short barrel is much smaller, which makes the Caron gun more stable and faster than the cannon. This series of advantages made this cannon quickly dominate the sail warships of the nineteenth century as soon as it appeared!

This is the confidence of the Daming Navy Division to dare to run tens of thousands of miles to challenge the peace and French coalition forces!

As more Ming warships cut into the Combined Fleet battle line, hundreds of Caron guns began to wreak havoc. In the past, the situation in which the two ships could only distinguish the winner from the two ships for half an hour did not appear, and the Daming Navy Division relied on its high defense and high lethality, and almost beat the enemy ships to the point of losing their combat effectiveness with a single look, and then turned to the next target......

An hour and a half after the battle began, three Combined Fleet ships had sunk, and several more were lying in place, broken and half-dead. The nearby sea was full of sailors from peace and France, like a swarm of ants washed away by the rain, helplessly taken away by the sea......

On the Bradrod, Tromp finally closed his eyes in pain and gave the order to retreat.

The tactical literacy of the and French sailors is still very high, and even in this extremely unfavorable situation, they can still maintain an orderly exit from the battle.

The warship responsible for the broken war is also not afraid of death, blocking the Daming Sailor with his body to buy time for his own people.

By the time the sun began to move westward, the battle in the Bay of Biscay was basically over, and the Daming Navy Division had achieved the glorious record of sinking four enemy ships, inflicting heavy damage on eight, and capturing eleven ships at the cost of serious damage to two third-class battleships. Of course, only battleships of the third rank and above are counted.

Less than ten battleships of the previously invincible combined fleet of peace and France were able to escape, and only one of the three French first-class battleships survived.

The remnants of the warships slipped into the Mediterranean without looking back, and until the Ming Pacific Fleet left the Atlantic, they never dared to show their heads again.