"All ships evade urgently and keep distance from enemy ships!"
Su Chen suddenly shouted.
Liu Rengui also turned pale. He instantly understood what those enemy ships that were charging forward crazily wanted to do.
"Commander, more enemy ships appear ahead!"
At this time, the observers also reported loudly.
Su Chen raised the telescope and looked into the distance.
Sure enough, more sloops appeared behind the enemy ships, suddenly appearing from nowhere.
What the main gunboats see in front of them is only the enemy's vanguard fleet.
However, Su Chen just glanced into the distance, and then immediately looked back. It was more important to resolve the immediate crisis first.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Another round of bombardment, and more than half of the cannibal galleys in front were lost, leaving only about twenty!
But at this time, the enemy ship was less than a hundred meters away from the main gunboat!
At this time, more than twenty large man-eating galleys suddenly accelerated and crashed into the main gunboat in front of them!
The naval gun that had just been fired had no time to fire the next round of bombardment.
The firing speed of primitive naval guns was very slow. Even the gunners of the Tang Navy could not fire one gun per minute. It usually took one and a half minutes.
The man-eating galley uses both oars and sails, and can run one to two hundred meters per minute at full speed!
By this time, the emergency evasion order had been conveyed to all ships.
The helmsman hurriedly turned the wheel, and the sailors pulled hard on the sail ropes, trying to avoid the big food ship crashing into them.
However, the narrow strait waterways severely limited the maneuverability of Datang's main gunboats.
The great man-eating galley's agility at close range was now revealed,
The galleys formed a group of two and quickly approached the main gunboats of the Tang Dynasty.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
There was another burst of chaotic gunfire, and the bowl-mouth blunderbuss on the main gunboat fired!
This kind of short-barreled gun with a range of only more than 300 meters was used by soldiers on the main gunboats as close-in defense guns, directly loaded with shotgun shells.
After the shotgun blasted out of the muzzle, countless steel balls formed a fan shape and directly covered the big man-eating galley that hit him.
Anyway, there is only one chance to launch. The sergeant on the main gunboat waited until the enemy ship was less than thirty meters away before launching.
With such a short distance, coupled with the sector-shaped killing effect, the hit rate is completely ignored, and the shots are always on target!
The large cannibal galleys on the way to the collision were hit by cannons one after another. The ships were immediately riddled with holes, and the crew members on them were bloody and bloody!
Although most of the cannibal's galleys were hit, they were not sunk!
The kinetic energy of the shotgun is limited. Even at a very close distance, it is impossible to directly disintegrate the enemy ship.
So the big cannibal galley that was hit still maintained its course and continued to ram into the main gunboat.
But it's not completely useless,
The galley was riddled with holes and had begun to leak. The sails were torn into strips. In addition, a large number of people on board died.
The speed of the enemy ship immediately dropped, and it was almost impossible to control the direction. The galley basically relied on inertia to rush forward.
However, the enemy ship is already very close to the main gunboat, and it can hit it even if it relies on inertia.
However, the enemy ships were basically unable to control their steering and their speed slowed down, which greatly improved the success rate of Datang's main gunboats in avoiding collisions.
But not all were successful in evading it. A gunboat was flanked by two large cannibal galleys. After barely dodging one of them, the stern of the gunboat was hit by another large cannibal galley.
And at the moment when the main gunboat was hit,
"boom!"
A loud bang!
A ball of fire flashed from the bow of the big cannibal galley that hit the main gunboat!
The galley turned into a cloud of smoke and a sky full of sawdust,
A huge water column and raging waves arose on the water!
The impact is not the final thing, the final gunpowder explosion is!
A very distinctive suicide attack!
As expected, the Great Eater got the gunpowder formula from Linghu!
A hole was blown directly into the bow of the main gunboat!
The ship shook violently, and the sergeant on the ship staggered and almost fell!
Then it swayed left and right a few more times, and the ship began to tilt slowly!
Under normal circumstances, with the solidity of Datang’s main gunboats,
Even if it is hit by a large cannibal galley that is much smaller than its tonnage, there will be no particularly serious damage.
But if the enemy ship is filled with gunpowder and collides with it, there will be a big explosion, and it will be over!
Su Chen clearly saw the impact and explosion just now.
After taking a look at the main gunboat with hull number 12, Su Chen was extremely angry!
Ship No. 12 was just the beginning, followed by main gunboats No. 03, No. 08, and No. 17 were hit by the cannibal's suicide attacks one after another!
Just a few minutes into the battle, he lost four main gunboats!
The ambush of the Great Cannibal was so well planned!
The narrow strait waterways compressed the combat effectiveness of our main gunboats to the extreme.
If this is in the vast ocean, do you want to carry out such a suicide collision?
It's impossible to get you anywhere near a hundred meters.
Then he took a closer look at the main gunboat that was hit.
Fortunately, the hull was only damaged, with no signs of breakage and disintegration, and it would not sink immediately!
The sailors and sergeants on board the four damaged warships are still working hard to save the warships, and no captain has yet issued an order to abandon the ship and escape.
The large man-eating suicide battleship failed to ram, and tried to ram it a second time, but it was already powerless.
The ship was full of holes, and most of the crew members were killed or injured. Moreover, Datang's naval guns and bowl-mouth guns had been reloaded.
The few large cannibal suicide attack ships that had not yet sunk were quickly bombarded to pieces by Datang's main gunboats.
Such a close distance, one shot at a time!
However, the danger of the Tang fleet has not been eliminated.
Cheng Chubi wiped the sweat from his forehead and shouted loudly: "All ships will line up again and continue to face the enemy!"
Just now, when the main gunboats of the Tang Dynasty were trying to avoid the suicidal impact of the big cannibal,
The second fleet of the Great Eater has already taken advantage of the chaos to rush up!
The wave of fifty galleys just now was just the vanguard of the cannibal, to be precise, it was the vanguard of the suicide attack fleet!
It seems that the big cannibal main fleet is coming next. This main fleet is much more numerous than the suicide attack ships just now!
Moreover, the man-eating ships were not like the last wave, mindlessly charging into it.
This time, the formation of the cannibal ships was very scattered, almost occupying the water area in front of Datang's main gunboats.
Trying to reduce the activity space of the Tang fleet as much as possible is the most basic tactic of the cannibals. It is very clever!
The commander-in-chief of the Dashi Fleet is very confident:
As long as the movement ability of Datang's warship is controlled and it is not allowed to distance itself from itself while bombarding,
The man-eating small galleys can approach from all sides,
With the naval gun's rate of fire of over one minute, and with its numerical advantage, I could kill the Tang fleet with a heap.
There are a total of eighteen main gunboats in the Tang Dynasty. Four have withdrawn from the battle, leaving only fourteen.
