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Chapter 1426 Symphony of Blood and Fire

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    ¡¾The last sentence of the previous chapter, I wanted to write about carronade, but I wrote it into cannon.  What I want to express is that cannons are unreliable and have nothing to do with cannons.  ¡¿

    While Ship 104 and the Zhenwo continued to carry out the second round of destruction of the Duke of Goa, Ships 102 and 103 had already exchanged fire with another Karak galleon, the Gareles.

    A quarter of an hour has passed since the first shot was fired, and the Garreles has naturally been ready.

    Three warships opened fire at the same time, engaging in a brutal battle!

    The starboard turret of the 102 ship and the port turret of the Gareles, and the port turret of the 103 ship and the starboard turret of the Gareles are no more than forty meters apart.  In this kind of face-to-face, muzzle-to-muzzle battle, the hit rate is directly at full range.  As long as they are on the same level, there is no possibility of missing the shot!

    White gunpowder smoke soon enveloped all three ships, and all that could be heard was the suffocating continuous gunfire, the frantic shouts of killing, painful howls, and angry curses from the soldiers of both armies.  There are also the clicking sounds of the cannons in the mast and wooden hull, and the huge metal collision sound of the cannon body being hit All these terrifying sounds are intertwined together, forming a symphony of blood and fire!

    But gradually, the superiority and inferiority were differentiated

    The Garreles, which was supposed to be one against two, suffered significantly greater losses than its opponent.

    There are twenty bronze snake cannons on each side of the Gareles and falcon cannons with a slightly closer rangewhich are what the Ming Dynasty calls Dafa Gong.  Originally, the number of guns was far more than the two ships combined.

    " However, the size of the Gareles is basically the same as that of the Duke of Goa, and the barrel is fixed and cannot be adjusted in height.  Therefore, the gun positions on the weather deck can only shoot at the masts and sails of the two enemy ships, but cannot cause damage to their hulls.

    So what can really hurt the Marine Corps soldiers are the twelve guns on the left and right of the artillery deck.

    Ships 102 and 103 are half-size galenic ships. Although they also have double decks, the gun windows on the lower deck are relatively low. When the windows are opened to shoot in strong winds and waves, seawater can easily pour in.  Therefore, during the initial sea trial, Yang Fan only installed nine cannons on the left and right on the upper deck.

    Wang Rulong and other senior officials of the Coast Guard were very dissatisfied with this firepower and insisted on getting Yang Fan to add cannons to the lower deck.  Yang Fan was exhausted. After they firmly promised that the gun windows on the lower deck would never be opened when the sea conditions exceeded Level 5, they added seven more cannons on the left and right sides of the lower deck.

    Therefore, the two ships each have 16 guns available at this time.  32 versus 24, Jiangnan Group has eight more artillery pieces that can cause damage to the opponent's personnel!

    This is not the point.  The key is that the 24 Portuguese guns are long-barreled guns that fire at long distances.  At this distance, the long-barreled gun penetrated two enemy ships without any pressure.  But its shells are small and have high muzzle velocity. They often leave two symmetrical bowl-sized holes in the side walls of the two ships, and the shells fall into the sea

    In addition, the artillery deck has been splash-proofed. Basically, as long as there is no direct hit, there is not much threat to the cannon and the gunner.

    But once it hits directly, trouble begins One of the solid shells directly penetrated the guard plate of the 103 ship, and hit the barrel of a Hongxi cannon. The gun immediately sunk into a big dent, completely  scrapped.

    Another cannonball came through the gun window and hit the mainmast wrapped in quilts by chance.  There was a loud click, the mainmast still cracked, and the shell bounced back, first blowing away a coast guard's head, then making a big hole in the deputy gunner's chest, and finally amputating the main gunner's thigh.  It rolled quickly on the ground and tripped several coast guards before it stopped its human-eating journey.

    In fact, the number of coast guard killed by cannons was not as high as the number of casualties caused by the Portuguese's condescending use of matchlocks and big guns.

    However, the coast guard officers showed a fearless fighting spirit. The medical staff quickly carried the dead and injured to the medical cabin. All the marines on the ship went to the top floor and attacked with muskets, Dafolang aircraft, Longqing rockets, and Chacha grenades.  Portuguese.  With so much firepower, it suppressed the red-haired ghost from high up so that he didn't dare to show his head.

    The coast guard gunner who was idle at the rear of the gun on the opposite side immediately filled the vacancy of the sacrificed comrade and continued to pour firepower on the red-haired ghost with the Hongxi cannon.

    With the continuous output of the two coast guard battleships, the Portuguese suffered most losses.  Hong Xi's cannon fired two bullets, attacking Bao Junshuang from both sides

    And the short cannon is much more convenient to load than the long cannon. Basically, if the opponent fires one cannon, we can fire two cannons!  Under such intensive and ferocious artillery fire, the gun emplacements on the gun deck of the Garrelles went silent one after another.

    In fact, the artillery is okay, and it is not reported.  But the more than 300 Portuguese and Nanyang sailors on the gun emplacements were all wiped out by the torrential rain of shotguns

    ??~~

    &n??, how strong can it be!  "

    "Okay!" Xiang Xuehai issued the anti-collision order to the deputy captain, while steering the ship himself and pushing against the hull of the Duke of Goa.

    The gun deck of the Duke of Goa was completely devoid of living people, so it was naturally unable to defend itself. All it could do was watch the black-tailed boat crash into it.

    With a loud bang, the Duke of Goa, which had finally turned around, had a big hole in the right side of the ship!  An unknown number of sailors who were repairing leaks in the bilge were killed alive.

    Sure enough, as Wang Rulong expected, the broken ship that was shot into a sieve had countless ribs broken into pieces, the ship's planks were all riddled with holes, and the entire ship's mortise and tenon structure was shattered.

    So much so that the square-headed and square-headed bow of the Zhenwa was actually deeply inserted into the body of the Duke of Goa, making it impossible to pull it out

    Wang Rulong, this madman, immediately raised the command flag and ordered the 104th ship to fire upward with its broadside cannon to clear the upper deck of the enemy ship!

    Because the Zhenwa is a lot shorter and is closely connected to the Duke of Goa, with this wall blocking it, it is not afraid of being accidentally damaged by the Hongxi cannon of the 104th ship.

    If the three ships were compared to humans, then the Duke of Goa in the middle would have his arms held down from behind by one person, and at the same time, he would be punched in the face by another person.

    The Hongxi cannon of the 104th ship fired only one salvo and wiped out all the Portuguese and Nanyang sailors on the weather deck and forecastle of the Duke of Goa.

    Only the three-story poop tower withstood the bombardment of Hongxi's cannon.

    But no one can guarantee what will happen in the next round of salvos.

    "Don't worry about so much, just jump!" Lin Daoqian took the lead and jumped from the porthole of the poop tower.

    Zeng Yiben and others also performed high diving and left the sailing ship that was completely hopeless.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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