Although in the original time and space, in the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese were the overlords of the sea, and the Spanish Armada was even more famous.
But in this time and space, the strong rise of the Tang Empire has basically completely taken away the limelight of the above two countries in the field of navy. The latecomer, the Royal Navy of England, is still playing in the mud on the island of England.
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The Spanish Armada was able to organize more than a hundred battleships at its peak, and the entire fleet had 3,000 artillery pieces!
But now, even the Spaniards have to surrender to the Tang Empire's huge maritime operations!
Throughout the Malacca Battle, the Tang Empire's army, navy and guards organized a total of more than 150 warships of various types!
These include 11 battleships, 14 cruisers, 38 frigates and more than 10 patrol ships, a total of more than 70 professional warships!
In addition, there are more than 70 army and navy guards or various transport ships recruited from the private sector, most of which are also equipped with naval guns and are commonly known as armed merchant ships.
The above-mentioned professional warships and armed merchant ships are equipped with a total of more than five kilograms of long guns and more than 24 kilograms of mortars. Well, when counting naval guns, they do not include two kilograms of shotguns and three kilograms of shotguns.
Cannons and other similar small-caliber short-barreled shotguns.
Because these one-pound, one-pound, or even three-pound shotguns are very light in weight, small in size, and easy to operate. Basically every battleship has a lot of equipment that can be used everywhere, and it is even kept in the warehouse on weekdays.
In warships, it would be moved onto the deck for use in wartime. On a battleship, this thing is no different in nature from a musket. It is not considered a category of naval gun by the Navy at all!
Therefore, these light and ultra-light shotguns, which are specifically designed to kill enemy ship deck personnel, have never been included in the statistics list of Datang Navy naval guns. If these are also included, then the number of artillery in the entire fleet will still be higher.
Double again.
The scale of such a huge fleet actually exceeds the invincible fleet that the Spaniards can organize. Even if they count the most proud combatants of the Spaniards, the Spaniards have to be defeated, because the joint landing fleet has
There are also nearly 30,000 ground combat troops.
Facing such a huge fleet, the Portuguese in Malacca did not dare to break out of the encirclement, so they could only defend Malacca.
It wasn’t that the Portuguese were fearful of their enemies and passive in fighting, but that the huge fleet of the Tang Empire was simply too scary!
When the main battleship in this huge fleet rushed into the port with its sails set, puffing up black smoke, and used countless naval guns to bombard the forts on the land and the Portuguese ships, the scene would almost make anyone
Everyone present will have an unforgettable experience!
Dozens of warships formed a multi-row battle line. The warships were closely connected at the head, and then used powerful broadside artillery to continuously bombard the forts on the land and the ships in the port.
All you can see is fire and smoke!
All that can be heard is the rumble of cannons and the sound of exploding shells!
Even during traditional battles, people’s shouts cannot be heard!
At this moment, it seemed as if the entire Malacca port was filled with fire and smoke!
When the main battle fleet led by Chen Pengming passed a Portuguese fort, his flagship Guangdong had just fired a covering salvo at the fort with more than 30 broadside artillery pieces, followed less than ten seconds later by
The Guizhou, the flagship Guangdong, also launched a salvo, then the third, fourth, fifth...
At the beginning, the Portuguese fort tried to fire back, and the accuracy was pretty good. Some shells hit the Tang warship, but the counterattack only lasted a short round!
The artillery on the Portuguese fort did not even fire back for a second round!
Because at that time, the fort was already enveloped by a dense explosion!
The battleships of the Tang Navy did not fire solid bullets, but grenades and shrapnel shells.
Grenades will explode, and shrapnel grenades will explode above the enemy's position!
Even with today's grenades and shrapnel shells, sometimes there will still be dumb bombs, and the probability is not low, but there are too many artillery pieces and too many artillery shells!
The battleships of Chen Pengming's main fleet sailed past and opened fire one after another. Each battleship only fired one round of shelling, but the Portuguese forts on the shore were completely reduced to ruins, and there was not a single living person left!
As the first land fort to face the attack of the Tang Dynasty navy, this fort was built very solidly and could withstand solid artillery shells fired by the 32-pound Robe. More than ten large-caliber artillery pieces were deployed on the fort.
The smallest cannons were twelve-pounders, and the largest were twenty-four-pounders.
The Portuguese soldiers in the fort are also carefully selected elite gunners, with superb skills and incomparable bravery. These soldiers are also worthy of the trust of their superiors. They stick to their combat posts from beginning to end and fight the Portuguese
The first round of artillery fire from the counterattack!
However, it only fired a round of counterattack artillery!
It was not because these brave soldiers were passive and lazy in fighting, or they were frightened by the powerful firepower of the Tang Dynasty navy and turned around and ran away. In fact, they had always stayed at their combat positions, and after launching the first round of counterattacks, they carried out
The loading work was carried out in preparation for the second round of counterattack.
However, the Tang Navy did not give them a chance to load their artillery and launch a second round of counterattack. Nine battleships and three cruisers successively bombarded the fort in just one minute, even though each battleship was only
There was a round of firing, and it was not a salvo, but a total of at least 400 artillery shells were fired at this fort. Although the shells were of different sizes, there were twenty-four kilograms, eighteen kilograms, fourteen kilograms, and nine kilograms.
, but they are all grenades and shrapnel grenades. After some of these grenades hit the fort, a violent explosion occurred, killing the enemy with impact fragments and shrapnel, while the shrapnel grenades exploded directly above the enemy fort. The shrapnel grenades have built-in
A large number of steel balls are like raindrops, splashing towards the enemy from mid-air, killing a large number of the enemy's effective forces!
In just one minute, this fort experienced at least a hundred violent explosions!
What's more important is that in these days, fortifications such as forts to defend against artillery, except for the Tang Empire, which specialized in fortifications against grenades, other countries did not have this awareness.
The artillery on the fort is basically deployed in the open air. At most, a thick breastwork is built in front of the artillery.
This kind of fortification has a good defensive effect against solid bullets, but for explosive grenades, the effect is much smaller, and for shrapnel grenades, it is completely useless!
You have to know that when bombarding land, the Tang Navy never uses solid bullets, but mainly grenades and shrapnel bombs. At the same time, they especially like to use shrapnel bombs!
The shrapnel grenade controls the explosion time of the artillery shell through the fuze, so that the artillery shell explodes just above the enemy's position. At the same time, a large number of steel balls are arranged inside the artillery shell, and the steel balls kill the enemy's active forces.
The intensive bombardment of the Tang Navy caused the Portuguese fort to be blown into ruins in just one minute, and more than a hundred Portuguese artillerymen on it were killed or injured!
This is also the reason why they did not launch a second round of counterattack!
It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I can’t!
After destroying the enemy's first fort, Chen Pengming's main fleet did not stop. Even during the shelling just now, the fleet actually did not stop and kept moving forward at a constant speed.
Chen Pengming's fleet, like a tiger, rushed towards Malacca and tore apart all the resistance along the way.
This kind of scene made the Portuguese watching the battle on the top of Malacca City, especially the several senior officials and generals inside, frightened!
Although we had known for a long time that the military power of the Tang Empire was extremely powerful, and we also knew that the enemy fleet outside the port was terrifyingly powerful, but that was just imagination.
What kind of terror method is this, but they have never seen it before!
And now, they finally saw the terror of this fleet!
It was more terrifying than any scene they had imagined before!
According to their assumptions, it was undeniable that the Tang Dynasty's navy was very powerful, and if it really wanted to attack, it would definitely be able to destroy its own coastal defense batteries and even its fleet.
However, our own side should not be completely powerless to resist, especially the carefully deployed coastal defense batteries.
These forts used countless indigenous people. Even if they were killed or injured, it was unknown how many indigenous people were built. The small forts were equipped with more than ten artillery pieces, and the large forts were equipped with dozens of artillery pieces. All outside the port
The six forts add up to a total of more than 300 artillery pieces.
Relying on the strong defensive advantage of the fort, even if you are defeated by the enemy's huge fleet, you should be able to fight at least in the early stage. No matter how bad it is, you can sink one or two enemy warships!
but now!
However, the numerous forts offered no resistance at all. They usually only counterattacked one or two rounds of artillery fire, and then were covered by the artillery fire of the Tang Navy. In the end, the artillerymen suffered all casualties and lost their combat effectiveness.
Well, this is also a very special scene, that is, the bombardment of the Tang Navy looks very fierce, but in fact, whether it is a grenade or a shrapnel, it has basically no impact on the solid fort itself and the big iron lump like the artillery.
The lethality, they all kill enemy gunners.
So you will see that the Portuguese forts after the bombardment of the Tang Dynasty navy, except for a few forts that were destroyed by ammunition explosions, the other forts seemed to be in a mess, but in fact the forts were basically intact. Although some of the large-caliber cannons were damaged
It was overturned, but basically everything was intact.
There was just blood flowing everywhere, and the dead and wounded Portuguese soldiers covered the entire fort!
This scene made the Portuguese officials and generals watching the battle on the top of the city of Malacca almost unable to believe what they were seeing!
In just half an hour, they were deployed outside the port and shouldered the important task of intercepting the Tang navy's intrusion into the port. A total of more than 300 artillery pieces were destroyed, and nearly a thousand native artillerymen and more than 2,000 indigenous artillerymen were killed and injured.
, the rest fled!
The only result of these six forts was to punch a few large holes in a few warships of the Tang Dynasty Navy, causing more than ten casualties of the Tang Navy!