"Bangbangbangbang!"

"Bangbangbangbang!"

Five lucky ships of the Zheng family fleet opened fire. Amid the roaring cannons, dozens of projectiles quickly passed through the air and kept falling around the Second Fleet. Water columns splashed.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Liu Xiang narrowed her eyes and looked at the water pillars flying around her, with a look of surprise on her face: "It turned out to be an eighteen-pound heavy artillery, and it seems that it is not the homemade red artillery artillery of the Ming Dynasty. When did those brothers of the Zheng family actually have such heavy artillery?"

Liu Xiang's eyebrows were thicker than ordinary women. When she frowned, she looked particularly attractive with her beautiful face. However, no one was in the mood to appreciate this beauty now. Although the Zheng family's shelling did not hit any target, everyone was startled by the thick water column splashing on the sea. Judging from the size and height of the water column, this was definitely not something that twelve-pound cannons could do.

However, Liu Xiang turned her eyes and saw the Dutch instructors who had been silent behind her. The Dutch instructors led by Neham seemed to understand something, and their faces became a little embarrassed. Only Liu Xiang said meaningfully: "Lt. Neham, this should be a good thing for you Dutch people, right?"

Although Neham's face turned a little red, he still said helplessly: "General, selling the cannon to Zheng Zhilong and others was decided by the Governor, and we have no choice."

"Of course I know." Liu Xiang sneered at the corner of her mouth: "You are just a group of low-level officers. You may not even have the right to know about it, but are you Dutch people afraid of raising tigers?"

Although Neham's Chinese proficiency can only communicate simply and he doesn't understand what the idiom "raising a tiger for trouble" means, he also understands that this is probably not a compliment. He said with a voice: "God of General, although the 18-pound heavy artillery is powerful, its recoil is also not small and is not suitable for installation on light warships. So I can be sure that the warships of the Zheng family opposite must have only deployed a small number of 18-pound heavy artillery, otherwise what awaits them will inevitably be the consequence of a crack in the deck!"

"Of course I know." Liu Xiang's mouth raised slightly and said calmly: "I'm just showing surprise at your Governor's eyes, and I will soon tell the other party with facts that although our gun caliber is not as big as theirs, its power will never be smaller than theirs."

"We believe in this." Neham and others looked at each other and responded in unison.

After being an instructor for several months at the Fujian Navy, Neham and others helped the Ming army improve their combat level and skills while also gaining a deep understanding of the Fujian Navy.

Judging from their professional naval officers, the quality and level of the officers and soldiers of the Fujian Navy are still different from the level of Western first-class naval powers such as the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal. At best, they can only be considered second- and third-rate. Even after their strengthened training, the time is still short, and the navy is different from the army, and the technical content required in it is not the same as the order of magnitude.

But the Fujian Navy is not without its advantages. First of all, their sailors are of good quality. In Naham and others, these sailors are simply born as navy materials. They are not only able to endure hardships but also work hard. They will grit their teeth and complete whatever tasks assigned to them by their superiors.

What surprised Neham and the others the most was that the artillery equipped by the Fujian Navy was very excellent. Take these twelve-pound cannons for example. The range of the twelve-pound cannons equipped in the Western world is generally around 900 to 1,000 meters, and few can exceed one thousand meters. However, the twelve-pound cannons of the Fujian Navy can easily reach a range of 1,800 or even 1,900 meters. What's more, these cannons are actually cast iron?

To be honest, when Neham saw the cannons equipped by the Fujian Navy for the first time, he felt that he was stupid. When could the twelve-pound cannons hit so far, and the other party actually used iron-cast cannons?

Before mastering the smelting and casting technology of cannon steel, almost all artillery in the world were cast with copper. This is because copper has good ductility, not as brittle as pig iron, and the lifespan of copper cannons is longer. More importantly, copper cannons are not easy to explode, which is the most important thing. However, copper cannons are not without disadvantages, that is, they are too expensive, and even a wealthy country dare not open them to build them. This is why Neham lost his composure when he saw the artillery of the Fujian Navy for the first time.

Because I know that the performance of the artillery equipped by the Fujian Navy is so abnormal, Neham and others did not feel any strange reason after hearing Liu Xiang's words. Although your artillery caliber is larger than mine, my artillery range is farther than yours and its power is stronger. It is unknown who will win!

"fight back!"

"fight back!"

Almost at the same time, on various warships, the officers in the cannon warehouses were also making orders to the gunners with all their might, and even the Dutch instructors were yelling to remind them to pay attention to their knowledge.

"Cleaning the barrel... loading the medicine bag... putting in solid bullets..."

"The angle shifts to the right by one and a half degrees, and the muzzle drops by half degrees!"

"Report... the artillery is loading!"

After receiving the loading report, the gunners raised their right hand without hesitation and waved them down, shouting in a roaring voice: "Let go!"

"put!"

“Bangbangbang…”

“Bangbangbang…”

The port side of several warships poured out flames. Amid the deafening sounds of cannons, countless projectiles were ignited by black gunpowder and powerful kinetic energy pushed out of the cannon chamber and flew towards the distance. At the same time, the Fuhuo ship opposite also fired the cannon at the same time.

The sea surface that had just recovered from peace suddenly boiled, and the sea surface of the powerful air waves sprayed out from the muzzle raised waves, and groups of projectiles flew towards their respective targets with a grim smile like a god of death.

Because there are too many shells, Zheng Zhihu and the others can even see the trajectory of shells from the Qianli Mile Mile Mile. They are like a group of hideous gods of death, roaring and shouting to pounce on the sea in the distance. Zheng Zhihu can even see two shells hitting the air and then bounce off each other. Finally, they land on the sea in the middle, splashing messy water.

Zheng Zhihu put down the Qianli Miles Miles, turned his head sharply and told Zheng Xing behind him: "You pass my order, and the long snake array will fight against them. As long as we can entangle them for half an hour, we will definitely win!"

"clear!"

Zheng Xing turned around and sent an order. As one of the members of Shibazhi, Zheng Xing naturally knew about Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao's plans today.

As a meticulous person, how could Zheng Zhibao place all his expectations for defeating the Second Fleet on a sneak attack? In fact, in addition to the sneak attack, Zheng Zhibao also arranged a fleet of thirty warships dozens of miles away to stand by near an unknown island. Once this place starts, a carrier pigeon will immediately convey the order, and the fleet will arrive in half an hour. As long as the two fleets can fight together, even if the other party has three heads and six arms, they will have to regret it on the spot.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

The dense projectiles fell like raindrops, splashing countless water columns.

What angered Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao happened. They found that the Ming army's artillery fire was particularly accurate. After two rounds of fire, some projectiles began to hit two Canghai ships located at the outermost periphery of the fleet, and one of the Canghai ships directly hit the middle of the mast.

Because the impact of the solid bullet was too strong, and it hit the front, the high mast made a crisp "crunch" sound, and it broke from it. Once the mast was broken, the large sail above naturally fell down. The pirates who were busy on the deck were caught off guard and were suddenly smashed. Four or five people were even killed by the heavy mast on the spot, and for a moment, there was chaos on the deck.

The pirates on another Canghai ship were not easy to live. They were hit by three or four solid bullets in a row. Since the space of the Canghai ship was not very large, several solid bullets hit the deck and wood chips flew across the deck. Under the rampage of the solid bullets, some pirates were directly hit on the head. The head suddenly looked like a watermelon with a scoop of red blood and white brain matter splattered out for a while. For the fragile skull of humans, let alone the twelve pounds of solid bullets, even those thumb-sized grape bullets could break the entire head, let alone the solid bullets falling directly from the sky. Under Zheng Zhihu's gaze, seven or eight pirates were hit directly by the solid bullets and flesh and blood, and some even all of them were smashed into the sea. For a moment, the sea water around the Canghai ship was dyed red.

Listening to the wailing and painful shouts coming from his ears, Zheng Zhihu shook his huge head hard, his eyes muttered in disarray: "No, it shouldn't be... I have been fighting with my elder brother for more than ten years. The Portuguese, the Spanish and the imperial navy have fought, but I have never seen any navy cannon that can be so accurate. Apart from 600 steps, it can be so accurate. Even the Dutch people with nostrils upturned can't do it. Is the Fujian navy really that powerful?"
Chapter completed!