When the sky was slightly bright, the three Sea Shark-class ships lined up outside the anchorage of Peter's fleet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

All 6 105mm howitzers, and 12 88mm cannons, as well as 24 40mm direct-fire guns, were moved to the side of the ship.

A total of 42 guns of size, after the commander of the gun used an optical sight to adjust each large-caliber gun (small-caliber 40mm guns can be aimed directly and do not need to be adjusted. At a distance of 1200 meters, the first round of the flame of revenge erupted.

According to the results of the Coast Guard's reconnaissance, at this distance, Peter's fleet did not have any guns that could cause damage to its own side, but all of its rifled guns, from large to small, could inflict damage to the enemy at this distance.

The current breech guns of the Xuan Army Navy still use the technology of separating the warhead and propellant.

Chen Xin also knew that the monolithic copper-shelled artillery shell had better air-holding performance, a longer firing range, and a faster firing speed.

However, there is no way, the breech guns, plus the retracted gun carriage, the rate of fire is too fast, and the Xuan army has not yet had the luxury of being able to use copper as a one-time consumable and smash it on this bottomless pit.

Therefore, the warhead of the artillery shell of the Xuan Army is cast iron, but in the thickest place, a copper-poured bullet belt is added to squeeze and fit the rifling line.

However, the types of ammunition are subdivided.

Solid warheads were used as armor-piercing shells, of course, there was no concept of steel armor in this era, armor-piercing shells were used to destroy the wooden armor of warships stacked with more than a dozen layers of wood in the West, or the waterline of enemy ships.

Just pouring an iron shell, filled with a large number of steel marbles, and explosives, and filled with a timed fuse, is called a grenade shotgun, which is specially designed to kill and injure people.

The damage of this kind of grenade projectile to the enemy's artillery, hull, and equipment is not obvious, so another type of ammunition is needed as a supplement to it, that is, the grenade.

A large amount of explosives and a timed fuse are filled with a poured iron shell, known as a grenade, and use the shock wave of the explosion and a large body of scattered projectiles to kill and injure the hull, personnel, and artillery.

The previous coast guard and Peter's fleet fought until the other party's hull was not too thick, so the first round of shelling of the 101 formation used grenades.

A full 42 grenades of various sizes tore through the hull of Peter's fleet with ease.

The power of the 105mm caliber 30 kg grenade projectile is the most amazing, 10 kg of iron shell, 7 kg of explosive charge, 13 kg of a large number of fine steel balls, after the outbreak in the enemy's cabin, the watertight compartment has not yet been fully popularized Western ships, instantly suffered a catastrophe.

A single 105mm grenade bomb can destroy half a layer of enemies.

The navy was afraid that the penetration of large-caliber rifled guns would be too powerful and would cause a series of two-eyed tragedies to enemy ships, so it was decided to increase the cross-sectional area in front of large-caliber grenades and grenades to increase wind resistance when dealing with merchant ships.

The Navy's concerns were warranted, and in order to save costs, the Dutch merchant ships drastically reduced the amount of material used in the hull, and the planks became much thinner than their prototype, the Spanish galleon.

Even if the cross-sectional area was increased and the firing distance was stretched to 1200 meters, there was still 1 shell of 6 rounds of 105mm grenades, and there was a situation of a sugar gourd, which exploded outside the enemy's hull.

The 88mm caliber 20-kilogram grenade is also infinitely powerful, although the mass of the shell is reduced by one of the three fetters compared to the 105mm shell, but as a long-barreled gun, the penetration of the 88mm gun is almost the same as that of the 105mm howitzer.

12 rounds of 88mm grenade shots, and 1 round of string sugar gourds also appeared.

As for the 40mm direct-fire gun, it was placed on the upper deck to deal with flexible targets, or to clean up the deck of enemy ships.

Able to aim at their own targets quickly and accurately, these small cannons were aimed at the waterline position of Peter's fleet, and all achieved good results.

The 40mm shell shattered the ship's plank and drilled behind the enemy ship, causing the ship to leak.

The surviving sailors of Peter's fleet, who had already been blinded by a round of grenade bombs, began to return to their respective posts under the shouts of their respective captains or first mates. Began to raise the sails, fire guns and fire back.

A leak in the bottom of the boat once again exacerbated their confusion. Although the leak is not large, if you ignore it, the pressure of the sea water will slowly break away from the hole and slowly expand the leakage, so even if the manpower is very tight, all the captains still urgently allocate manpower to plug the leak.

The sails of this era were very heavy, and without the assistance of the steam engine, it would not have been easy to rely on manpower alone, and when the enemy raised the sails, the second round of shelling came again.

"Hell, how could enemy artillery fire so fast?"

"God knows, stop talking nonsense, hurry up and hoist the sails."

"Artillery, strike back immediately."

"Boom, boom, boom" A barrage of artillery bombardment was heard, and Peter's flotilla began a counterattack.

However, the distance chosen by the 101st formation of the Xuan Army Navy was too good, all the guns of Peter's fleet could not reach the Sea Shark, and they needed to advance at least a few hundred meters.

"First, use the oars, and move the boat into range of my artillery."

"Captain, you haven't anchored yet."

"Bastard, do you still use me to teach you, anchor, anchor, pull the anchor up for me."

In the past, all the ships of Peter's fleet were anchored here in order to avoid the typhoon, and the two anchors in the front and rear anchors firmly fixed the ships, but now, these anchor chains have become their shackles.

Peter's fleet was held in place, simply the best target, and the gunners of the 101st formation kept opening the bolts, stuffing the warheads, then stuffing the cartridges, then closing the bolts, loading the fuses, and firing.

However, because black powder is still used, after each round is fired, it is necessary to clear the barrel from the breech once before the second round is reloaded, extinguishing the flame in the barrel and cleaning the debris.

However, by subtracting the processes from muzzle clearing, muzzle loading, compaction, and gun repositioning, the gun was fired several times faster, reaching 6 rounds per minute.

According to the principle of concentration of fire, in addition to the 24 40mm guns scattered to harass the locality, the 6 105mm howitzers and 12 88mm cannons adopted the strategy of concentrating fire with all their might.

After a minute of rapid fire, the enemy ship selected by the commander of the 101st formation, Kan Shu, was completely silent, and it was as quiet as a ghost ship.