A huge fireball suddenly jumped up on the midship deck of the Wuhanfu, then turned into a black smoke and shot straight into the sky!

This is the scene of a 40-pound explosive bomb exploding. In addition to the frightening scene, the lethality is also amazing. It directly blew a large hole on the deck of Wuhanfu, completely destroying the two gun cabins below, and all kinds of

The debris was carried by the shock wave of the explosion and swept across the flat deck, cutting down the officers and soldiers on the deck one by one, like ripe wheat.

Liu Guoxuan and Zheng Jing were lucky. They were huddled in the command podium surrounded by sandbags, so they escaped the disaster and now such things as sandbags are actually placed on the deck of the battleship. It's a bit incredible to think about it!

However, wooden pallet shells and their improved nail-head wooden pallet shells are incredible things. In the original history, they appeared very complete. Shells were available very early. In the 17th century, the navies of the Western powers had

There is a light gunboat that can be equipped with large-caliber mortars. However, because there are no two inventions such as wooden tube fuses and wooden ammunition holders, the explosive ammunition is very unsafe, so it cannot be mounted on a battleship. A small gunboat will explode if it explodes. Anyway, 17

A century's human life is not worth much, but how expensive is a battleship? If it is blown up due to exploding shells, the naval commander must not be sent to a court martial?

So it was only in the 19th century that explosive bombs were put on battleships. The first ones to get them on and put them into actual combat were the Russians who were desperate for their lives.

Now, thanks to the three key inventions of the wooden tube fuse, the wooden bullet holder and the pointed cannonball (nailhead bullet), the explosive bomb has become a weapon that completely subverts the rules of the naval game.

At the same time, things like armor are too expensive and technically difficult. The displacement of a sail battleship is at least more than a thousand tons. How can it be built with steel? Steel, not pig iron, at least wrought iron, right?

?How much is the output? How can we spend hundreds or thousands of tons to build a battleship? And we can’t make large enough wrought iron plates these days! If too many small pieces of iron plates are used to splice them together, the interface part will be very complicated.

It's difficult to handle. If the splicing part is not handled firmly enough, it will still break if the cannonball hits it!

Therefore, steel armor cannot be manufactured in the foreseeable future.

Without armor, but with reliable explosive shells, the hard life of naval officers and soldiers will be endless!

When Liu Guoxuan and Zheng Jing were holding their heads and hiding behind sandbags to avoid death, the Dutch were also having a hard time. The New Hertok was already finished, with all five gun cabins blown up, and a fire was still burning at the stern of the ship.

Like a floating torch floating on the sea.

The ship has been completely abandoned and is now just floating aimlessly along the ocean currents, waiting for its end!

Along with the New Hertok, there were five other Dutch warships and three Ming Dynasty Senhusho-class ships. Tropp's division plan was successful, but the price paid was beyond his imagination.

While performing a division mission, the Seven Provinces Council was bombarded by concentrated artillery fire from a military guard class and a Sentosho class at close range. It was hit by fourteen rounds, nine of which successfully exploded, destroying the ship of the Seven Provinces.

The stern and five gun cabins also caused at least three fatal explosions, and a 15-pound shell hit the command podium. The command podium was full of dead bodies. The captain and first mate of the Seven Provinces were also killed on the spot. It was really tragic.

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In the end, the fire spread on the Seven Provincial Council and was completely unable to be extinguished. The surviving crew had to abandon their battleship.

Two medium-sized and light battleships actually destroyed a huge battleship in a close-range artillery battle (it was not without cost, the guard class ship that participated in the battle was also turned into a torch and finally completely burned). This is

It was something that was unimaginable in the past!

But now, before the terrifying shells, all wooden-hulled warships are equal cannon fodder. No matter how thick the wooden shell is, they cannot stop the nail-head shells, so the difference is only the size of the cannon fodder!

The battleships that are still fighting are not in good condition either. They have either been blown out of holes or are burning somewhere!

The most tragic of them all was the Takayamasuo. This two-masted gunboat with a carrying capacity of 300 tons was flanked by two Dutch formations along with its three sister ships. The guard ship was completely destroyed and burned like a torch. The survivors on board

The sailors are all flopping in the sea now. Only the Takayamaso broke out of the encirclement, but it suffered one 40-pound explosive bomb, three 36-pound explosive bombs and four 30-pound explosive bombs, and all five gun bays were blown up.

, half of the butt of the ship was also blown up. Fortunately, the two masts and the foremast were intact, so they were able to escape at full speed. Most of the officers and soldiers on the ship were killed or injured. The gun room was full of corpses, and the flat upper deck was also littered with corpses.

The captain, first mate, and second mate were all killed, except for one who broke his leg. The third mate could only sit on the deck and roar like crazy.

"Quickly put out the fire! Hurry and throw the cannonballs into the water! Hurry!"

Fire was spreading everywhere on this 300-ton warship, and the shells in the ammunition magazine were set alight at some point!

If it really explodes, everyone in the boat will have to go to the sea to feed the fish!

After the defeat of the Seventh Provincial Assembly, the captain of the Dutch Provincial Assembly, who was responsible for commanding the split formation and the outflanking formation (which was actually in chaos and had no more formations), sent three warships to pursue Gaoshansuo, leaving two more ships behind.

Fish for people (both sides need to be fished out. The Ming Dynasty navy officers and soldiers fished out the revenue, which can be redeemed by Emperor Zhu at a high price), and then took the remaining warships that can still fight to support the Zeeland Provincial Council formation.

The formation led by Major General Tropp himself has been badly beaten! The eleven ships are all smoking, three of them have been abandoned, and the remaining eight have been blown to pieces. If they can still be pulled out,

If we go back to the Netherlands, the engineers at the shipyard will have such headaches. Can they still repair it?

The queues on both sides were in chaos, and more than a dozen ships were mixed together and engaged in a melee. Melee was originally the strength of the Dutch navy. They had good skills and dared to engage in boarding battles. In the Anglo-Dutch War, they relied on melee to defeat the British.

The navy suffered heavy losses and forced the latter to innovate and invent battle line tactics.

But now they find that they suddenly can no longer fight in melee!

Because during the formation of bombardment, only half of the artillery of both sides can fire. After the melee begins, because the two sides are mixed together, it is not one side facing the enemy, but both sides are likely to face the enemy ship. And because

Without the array, the ship will sail irregularly, so every time the naval gun fires a shot, it must be re-aimed. At this time, the 15-pound gun is much more convenient than the 40-pound, 36-pound and 30-pound guns.

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In addition, due to the previous fierce battles, the battleships of both sides lost part of their gun bays, so the number of cannons that can fire has been reduced. The Ming Dynasty Navy's battleships have more gun bays, and the Dutch Navy's battleships have fewer gun bays. After subtraction,

After that, the amount of ammunition (regardless of weight) that the Ming warships in the melee could produce was more than ten times more than that of their opponents!

With such a disadvantage in firepower, how can the Dutch fight in a melee? The only thing left is to be beaten. As for docking and other things, there is no need to think about it. Before you can get close, someone else's 15-pound explosive bomb will hit you.

And as soon as the distance is close, you can hit the target with perfect accuracy!

Brothers Tropp and Davy Jones were now sitting facing each other leaning on the sandbags, not giving any instructions, just looking at an unexploded nail-headed bullet and adding a "nail" to the head of the stunned shell.

Isn't that too immoral?

According to this method, as long as it is a wooden-hulled boat, no matter how big or strong it is, it is useless! A few pounds of black powder are attached to the hull and exploded. If it cannot be blown through, it is not wood!

Will you have to sit in a small boat of two to three hundred tons and mount a few 18-pound cannons to line up with the enemy and kill them in the future?

They didn't know how long they were stunned before Davy Jones realized that there was no longer the roar of artillery fire in his ears. He stood up holding the sandbag, stretched his neck and looked around, and then murmured to himself:

"They're gone"

Tropp still didn't quite understand, "Who's gone?"

"Several Chinese warships were driven away by our reinforcements! Rear Admiral, do we still want to pursue them?"

"Chasing?" Tropp said with a wry smile, "David, have you forgotten that the Chinese also have reinforcements? Their reinforcements are coming soon, and it's time for us to escape! Now, victory still belongs to us.

When the time comes, retreat quickly!”

"What about Johor City? The Ming army is landing in large numbers!"
Chapter completed!