The Zheng family's Fu fleet first sailed from north to south.

After discovering that the enemy was coming from the other side, Fu Chuan changed its course in time and fled towards the west mainland. When the task force caught up with him at an unheard of speed, Zheng Zhilong found that he could not escape, so he changed the entire formation back to charge from north to south.

formation.

In the season of late June, there is a price to pay for traveling from north to south: headwind.

Whether it was the charge just now or the current situation of fleeing in all directions, the fact is that the Fortune Ships were all in an unfavorable wind direction.

However, these are no longer important. The fleet suffered heavy casualties and the ship's speed was slowed down due to water intrusion. At this moment, it was like an outstretched hand, splitting into two groups, trying to go around the Cormorant Island in front of it.

Go and escape.

The task force, which had already circled behind them and was firing at full force, discovered in time the opponent's attempt to disperse. By this time, the wolves would have no reputation if they did not pounce on them and bite them.

As a result, the three destroyers immediately assigned tasks through the walkie-talkie: the destroyer "Xingangxi" with hull number 303 was responsible for chasing two lucky ships from the east of Cormorant Island, while the other two destroyers went to chase Zheng Zhilong's flagship.

of those three enemy ships.

Zheng Zhilong's flagship was easy to identify because the flag on it was different from the others. In addition, the trackers on the time travellers' hands had accurately marked the location of the pocket watch when the two sides approached within a range of 5 kilometers.

So Ships No. 301 and Ship 302 pursued the target without hesitation, and quickly narrowed the distance between the two sides to a range of 200 meters: there was no artillery at the rear of the Fu Ship, and there was no chance to even fight back.

A blast of guns and artillery.

Within a range of 200 meters, the army soldiers on the destroyer finally began to work: the volley of guns knocked the pirates into the water like wheat. In addition, using the three-gun at this distance was no different from shooting in the head, roaring

Amidst the sound, an iron ball hit the opponent's stern in each round.

After today's actual battle, the battle over caliber and rate of fire that originally existed in the Navy will come to an end.

In the era of iron ball guns, the damage effect of 12-pound guns and 24-pound guns was actually not as big as imagined.

The caliber of the 12-pounder gun is 117 mm, and the caliber of the 24-pounder gun is 148 mm. In other words, although the weight of the iron ball bullet has doubled, the diameter has only increased by about 3 cm. If it also hits an enemy ship, the 24-pounder gun will be nothing more than a chisel.

A slightly larger hole emerged.

However, the accompanying requirements for heavy artillery are much higher: additional reinforced decks and gun wells, additional auxiliary loading systems, additional gun mounts and slides, additional gun crews, etc.

In short, the huge total weight of the system and the increased requirements for the shooting platform make it a bit useless in terms of the damage effect that heavy artillery can cause.

In addition, if you are attacking a dense crowd like today, there is actually no difference in the effect of the 24-pounder cannon and the 12-pounder cannon: they both dig out a bloody alley, and the 3-centimeter-large iron ball cannot kill a few more people. But right here

While the heavy artillery was loading slowly, the 12-pounder gun had already fired a few more rounds of shells, and its overall efficiency was higher than that of the light artillery.

In the 17th century, smoothbore cannons also had a flaw that was extremely detrimental to heavy artillery: the sighting method. The tragic ballistic trajectory and sighting method of iron ball bullets resulted in this: whether it is a light or heavy artillery, at 1,000 meters

In the long-distance shooting on the left and right, the hit rate is quite terrible.

There is no way to travel through the crowd.

The best that Chuangzhong can do is to use various eyepieces to measure distances and angles, but they cannot install the gunner's laser ranging sight, the gunner's day and night sight, the digital-analog hybrid fire control computer, and the target angular velocity measurement on the iron ball cannon.

devices and various ballistic correction sensors

If we compare poorly, the Travelers are currently number one on the plane, but if we compare with strength and distance, everyone is about the same at long distances. At close range, the high rate of fire of the 12-pound Napoleon cannon, and the resulting comprehensive damage effect

, is to exceed the 24-pound cannon.

The premise of the phrase "the caliber is just" is that half a pound of 3 taels of explosives must be packed into the shell. Iron ball cannons are not included in this category. Therefore, the heavy artillery party will cease from today, and the light artillery rapid jet will be

The mainstream configuration of future time-travel fleets.

Return to the battlefield.

Soon, under the intensive close-range fire of the two destroyers, the last ship, which was hit many times by iron balls, began to sink slowly. The sailors on the ship dived one after another, and some swam to the front.

Some of the lucky boats swam towards Cormorant Island. When Liu Zhe saw this scene, he picked up the walkie-talkie and started shouting: "Circle, fight from the outside circle, allow the remnant enemy to go to the island, and do not allow escape from the outside."

As a result, the army soldiers on the three destroyers fired at the pirates who were trying to swim to the outer sea, forcing them to swim to Cormorant Island.

The lucky ships, which had already sensed the coming doom, made a final struggle: the two ships on the east side saw only one destroyer chasing them, so the two ships parted ways, trying to escape one first in the chaos.

However, Ship No. 303 is not an ordinary ship with giant insects on board.

The next moment, Ship No. 303 lowered all sails, turning the ship into a fully gas-powered propulsion: propeller power can provide stable output, is not affected by wind, and can be operated precisely.

The slowed-down destroyer soon slid smoothly past the stern of a lucky ship. At this time, the distance between the two sides was deliberately adjusted to only about 40 meters by the destroyer. The pirates on the opposite ship now even had clear beards.

visible.

Then, a big man wearing camouflage trousers and a two-finger vest stood up from the side of the ship. Just as the man flicked a Yuxi cigarette butt into the sea, at his feet a soldier with a large birthmark on his face quickly

He took out a set from an aluminum alloy box and handed it to the boss.

Wei Yuan's feet were uneven at this moment, standing firmly on the slightly swaying ship board: after a loud "bang" sound, accompanied by the violent fire from the tail of the rocket launcher, the tail of the opposite ship also exploded with a fireball.

and thick smoke accompanied by the wooden blocks and the helmsman flying into the sky, the sound was amazing and the scene was cool.

Seeing the ship begin to burn violently after close contact with the high-explosive incendiary warhead, the No. 303 ship immediately abandoned the dead ship and began to speed up in a short distance, heading straight for another ship trying to escape.

And the people on that ship were not fools. They didn’t know what it was called, but they just needed to understand the effect of this thing. A large number of sailors began to jump into the sea, and this ship became the first ship captured by the navy since the war began.

Trophies.

While 303 was bombarding the sea and organizing manpower to board the ship, the main force on Liu Zhe's side also forced the two Zheng family ships to a dead end. The volley of guns and guns within 200 meters made Zheng Zhilong's generation

The hero finally gave the final order: rush to the beach.

Cormorant Island is a small island as big as a palm.

Cormorant Island, located off the coast of Putian, is 10 nautical miles away from the mainland and covers an area of ​​less than 2 square kilometers. There is no fresh water on this island, and there is no dangerous terrain to defend it. The only thing that can cause obstruction to the task force is probably some

Beautiful corals and sea trees.

Of course, the obstruction caused by these corals is limited: Cormorant Island has the "Eagle Head" natural deep-water bay that can accommodate giant ships of 10,000 tons.

So the fleet is currently organizing a landing in the large bay on the island.

Landing takes time. After all, the destroyer cannot ignore the damage caused by the reef and coral to the bottom of the ship and rush directly to the beach like the two lucky ships that have been stranded on the beach.

The current situation is: the two warships are making a circular motion around Cormorant Island, killing all the pirates still on the sea. Destroyer No. 301 has already assembled all three small boats of the fleet in the deep water bay.

The landing operation personally presided over by Marine Corps Commander Qian Tieshan is in progress.

The first wave of assault was the most important, so the commando team with a total of 22 people was divided into three small boats and began to seize the beach.

The Marine Corps, which has a small number of people, is currently used as a special force by the Cross-Travelers, so the team members are all well-equipped and highly skilled. Each group of 7 people is equipped with various individual protective equipment, and the main equipment is the 17 rifle.

and 9 pistols, and one of the Class 60 machine guns using 762 NATO ammunition is also in the hands of Qian Tieshan.

After the Marine Corps was quietly established, the Cross-Travel Army implemented a weapons deployment plan.

In view of the fact that a certain force's material "import" model is hellish, the consequence is that all firearms are ultimately limited to a few models and bullet calibers in order to maximize the interchangeability of parts and the use of ammunition.

Through that internal deployment, all Type 17 assault rifles purchased by Cao Chuan in the early days were all assigned to the Marine Corps. This was an accident: the expensive rifle that Cao bought at a high price was actually the most expensive rifle today.

Good special warfare weapons. The United States cannot even afford the SEALs. Only the 1st Airborne Special Forces Group is equipped with this advanced assault rifle.

Since then, the weapons regularly used by the army and navy that have crossed forces to suppress the battle have been unified into the Type 47 assault rifle. These three main battle firearms, including several 60-class machine guns, use 762 bullets.

In addition, there is only one type of pistol commonly used by the military: the .45-inch 9 pistol. The intelligence agencies and some civilian civilians use two types of pistols: Type 226 and Type 7. These two expensive pistols are exclusively used by law enforcement agencies.

, the common one is NATO 9 pistol ammunition.

The landing craft carrying 17 and 60 machine guns quickly rushed to the beach in the middle of Cormorant Island. At the same time, the pirates who had been forced to the corner saw the opportunity to fight the enemy for the first time, which made them burst into tears.

orbit.

Therefore, there was no need for the boss to instigate a wave of charging mottos. More than 300 heroes who had been aggrieved for a long time and had not been on the island for a long time automatically rushed over from all directions. Even if the sea water on their bodies was not dry, even if many of them had no weapons,

But they still followed closely behind their companions, expecting to pick up a steel knife and insert it into the enemy's chest.

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