The eastern end of the Cebu Strait (the narrowest part of the eastern end of the Baohe Strait).

A Batulu sailed in.

This is a Batulu, which looks no different from other Batulus at first glance, but he is Batulu of the New Iron Armored Fleet.

The old Iron Craft is actually the Iron Shell Fleet, which is just covered with iron plates on the oak board. The same is true for most warships in the new Iron Craft Fleet. However, whether it is oak boards or iron plates, the thickness is better in terms of processing, thickness, but it is nothing more than superior in strength.

But in the New Iron Armor Fleet, in order to deal with emergencies, one of the Batulu was specially dealt with.

This is a real iron-armored warship!

This is an iron-armored warship made of steel plates imitated from wooden Batulu models. With Truchen's world-renowned steel production and processing capabilities, he can only create one for five years.

However, this pure steel warship is close to the level of armored battleships of various countries in the late 19th century.

Moreover, his two chimneys have also been specially treated.

As mentioned earlier, in order to prevent the chimney from being broken by solid bullets during the battle, the part below 1 meter of the chimney was reinforced, but in general, this part is still closely connected with the above part.

This pure iron armored warship is obviously not the case. During wartime, the part above 1 zhang can be easily put away!

Although such an iron armored warship has similar appearance to previous iron shell warships, its tonnage and protection capacity have increased by more than doubled.

Chu Feng, Chu Huer's eldest son, used to show off his skills when facing the famous Russian Navy general Ushakov in the Battle of the Sea of ​​Azov.

In the age of sails, Ushakov's technical and tactical level must be above the general of the Truechin Navy, because he is a genius, and genius is hard to come by for all countries.

But if they encounter a weapon of the Disaster, even if Bai Qi and Li Mu are in full swing, they can only bow their heads and surrender.

For sailing warships, the biggest problem is mobility, but maneuverability is only a necessary element for steam warships.

Therefore, the following techniques easily defeated the genius.

But Ushakov and his semi-finished steam warships reminded Qitad that European countries have begun to develop steam warships on a large scale, and it is only a matter of time before the emergence of iron armored warships.

Britain is the first country in the world to cover copper plates below the waterline of the ship to prevent seawater and marine organisms from corroding wooden boards. They can do this and it is not difficult to form an iron shell warship.

What's more, because the British were suitable for building ships, there was less copper, so they could only use coal and steel first. The process of rational allocation of coal was the process of modern technology evolution.

All existence is reasonable, and the British's existence on the European continent created his empire of the Sun never set.

In addition, the armored warship is not completely without opponents. In a few years of Napoleonic Wars, with the ability of Napoleon, a military genius, he can show off his skills in artillery and tactics, and is no less than in the navy.

When he was preparing to attack Britain across the English Channel, his use of sailing warships was actually more tactical than that of the British.

But the nature of the island country made the British beware of danger long ago, and they creatively created the wolves tactic.

My skills and tactics are indeed not as good as yours, but I can use more ships to deal with you. This is why Napoleon failed to enter England.

This is obviously what Qitad knows.

Therefore, although he has only created two iron armored warships in recent years, a large number of wooden warships are still produced in various sails. If you want to get a bargain with him, you must find another way.

As for the Spanish, the impression of later generations is nothing more than the old empire based on agriculture and colonies. In fact, their military innovations are also good.

The first inventor of the battleship of Galen was the Spanish.

Unfortunately, when the British began to vigorously promote the enclosure movement, they were still immersed in the feudal glory behind the farms and the fields and could not extricate themselves. A certain tactical and technical invention could not change their destiny.

The Strait of Cebu is about six miles long and one mile wide. There are ports in Mactan Island to the east and Cebu Island to the west, and artillery is densely covered with ports.

The width of a mile can be staggered, which can greatly reduce the density of the cannons on one side.

Moreover, they obviously would not place all the six-mile-long places with artillery. The real dock is only two miles away, just in the middle, and other places are either cliffs or mudflats, and large ships cannot rely on them at all.

If you want to land, you must dock at a dock on one side, and if an enemy ship wants to pass through this strait, you must receive intensive baptism by dozens of artillery.

All this was obviously known by the Intelligence Agency. In the past, the high-quality mineral resources on Cebu and Leyte were also coveted by the Dutch. They had fought with the Spaniards here, but the Dutch, who were obviously dominant at sea, still returned in a defeat, which shows that the defense here is quite strict.

The Dutch cannot do it, is the Truchenians okay?

Can the new Batulu withstand the baptism of sixty-pound cannons?

What's more, the mission of this new Batulu is not to pass through the strait. If so, all the steam warships of Truchen can do it at this time of two miles.

His mission is to sail there and then destroy artillery on both sides of the strait!

Mongolians generally had early marriages. Before Qitade married Abahai, the daughter of the Hoshuote tribe Dataiji, Chu Huer, at the age of fifteen, got married and gave birth to Chu Feng at the age of sixteen. When Qitade married Abahai, Chu Huer and others naturally married other women according to their own needs.

At that time, it was obviously for the needs of the family.

Chu Huer is three years older than Qitade and is forty-five years old this year, which means Chu Feng is almost thirty years old this year.

"Woo..."

New Batulu sounded the horn to prepare to enter the Cebu Strait. Of course, this is not to remind the enemy that "I'm here", but to prepare the soldiers on the ship.

It seems that an island can be landed everywhere, but there are not many places with piers or suitable for setting up piers, and there are even fewer piers that can provide docking of large warships.

Therefore, it is actually very easy to defend an island.

Of course, if you do not care about life and death, and use a flat-bottomed wooden boat to shore, then I don't say it.

For the Truchens, since they chose to use technology generation differences as the basis for establishing a country, they must choose the hard resistance of hard bridges and hard horses.

Otherwise, he would need to invent the landing ship.

On a morning with a gentle breeze and sun, the rippling waves of the sun scattered on the strait are intoxicating, and the long cannon barrels with true appearances exposed on the docks on both sides of the strait are chilling.

For the Spaniards, these two rows of artillery are like two rows of teeth of a violent beast, now open, waiting for the prey to fall into the trap.

Many years ago, this giant beast swallowed two Dutch main battleships in one bite, causing them to no longer dare to covet the Philippines.

Now its opportunity is here again.

This time, its opponent is Truchen.

A Truqin who doesn't follow the routine.

The black ship gang, the black chimney, the black deck, the black reinforced horn, a dark sea monster, only the red-bottom golden dragon flag that roared in the wind on the main mast and the white waves rolled up by the tail propeller.

As mentioned earlier, there are eight cannons on the side of Batulu, from the middle to the outside, accordingly: one 18 cm, 50 kilogram heavy cannon, two 15 cm, 30 kilogram medium cannons, four 12 cm, and 15 kilogram light cannons.

Since it is specially used to break the deadlock, there will naturally be some changes.

On each side, there are two heavy cannons weighing 50 kilograms in the middle, and on both sides are three heavy cannons weighing 30 kilograms each!

New Batulu suddenly stopped!

At this time, he was located about a hundred meters outside the entrance to the strait!

For the Spaniards, there are naturally artillery toward the outer sea, but obviously not many, and they will not focus on it. If the enemy stops in the outer sea and attacks him, they are on land and have sufficient ammunition to confront him and consume.

"Ga..."

All the artillery on both sides of the middle deck of Xinbatulu began to tilt to the front side. After tilting to the forty-five degrees in the middle, then raising the elevation angle. Some movements of some rows would not be possible without the support of carefully set guide rails and steel plates.

European battleships can only move the cannons forward and backward, raise up and down, lower the elevation angle. If you want to change the position left and right, you must set up an arc guide rail near the straight guide rail. This situation is difficult to achieve on wooden boards.

Only steel plates cast in advance can be achieved!

"Boom..."

Both sides' artillery began to roar!

This time, Batulu fired a shotgun. At such a distance, don't try to destroy the enemy's artillery. His purpose is to kill gunners on both sides of the strait near the entrance of the strait!

Even so, only four artillery guns in Batulu can hit the shore, but that's enough.

After a test shot, the Truchen artillery quickly adjusted its position, and the Spaniards could not do this in a short period of time. They could only continue to cast artillery desperately, in an attempt to scare away the black ship.

After two rounds of grenade shots bombarded, the dock artillery about one hundred meters near the entrance became obviously sparse. After another round, there was no more movement.

During this period, the grenade shots launched by the Spaniard's artillery also landed on Batulu. The grenade shrapnel produced by the explosion and the shots shots shot in it seemed to have a sudden huge hail.

Dangdang's voice disturbed the heartstrings of the artillery under the deck, but they still did it.

"Woo..."

Chu Feng gave the order to enter the strait.

In this way, the new Batulu still let the artillery tilt forward, and slowly advanced while bombarding the gunners on the shore with a shotgun. They could not shoot all the gunners on both sides of the strait. The enemy obviously had backup gunners, but the horrific and dense killing scene of the hull that was obviously not there.

The enemies on the shore can naturally adjust the gun position, but due to the lack of gunners and the extremely slow adjustment, after they adjust, Batulu has gone far away, they need to continue to adjust their positions.

Taking advantage of its gunner's shortcomings and the slowness of adjusting the gun position is Chu Feng's plan to pass the Cebu Strait!

Of course, during this period, when the ship officially entered the narrow strait, a huge, sixty-pound black solid bullet flashed. When it hit the ship gang and on the deck, it immediately caused disturbances to the ship, but they could no longer use the tactic of intensive bombardment, but they were just sporadic.

This sporadic disturbance had some impact on the new Batulu, but it was obviously not as great as dense bombardment. According to their intelligence, when the Spaniards used this tactic to deal with the Dutch, a volley almost overturned a third-class battleship and did not respond for a long time. When it finally came back, the gunners were unable to return to their positions in time due to the violent overturn of the ship and thus could not make a timely counterattack.

It took about two hours for Xinbatulu to pass through this strait. When he turned his dark body and came over again, the artillery on both sides was already a little sparse.

When I spent another two hours to reach the entrance of the strait again, I could hardly hear the movements on the shore.

"Woo..."

All the trombones on the ship were blown.
Chapter completed!