Chapter 1521: ?*. ?(???*)??*. Great South Seas Battle

The port of Brunei is probably located at 3o north latitude and 111o east longitude on the chart. It has been managed and colonially plundered by the Portuguese for many years. It mainly produces cardamom and sugar gum. It is a very important part of Portugal's largest island in the Spice Islands. Ports and trade nodes.
It’s just that now it is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Malay Governor Doyle Lopez di Preyla. It is under the flags of Ming and Li, the Portuguese officials and some colonists in the original port. Most of them were also expelled and replaced by merchants from the Li family, locals, and descendants of the Ming Dynasty, working together to manage and guard together.
And this port city (town) closest to Malacca has naturally become the prime target of Malay Governor Preyla and his huge fleet.
But fortunately, such a large fleet of warships and armed merchant ships must be prepared and set off from Malacca. It must be concealed. Therefore, Brunei received the news early, and then Brunei sent people as soon as possible. Take a clipper to report the situation to the Li's fleet, which is still in the port of Dernate, and is preparing to sweep down the Spicy Ingredients Islands.
Therefore, on this day, the five giant ships of the Li family's development fleet, who led the fleet to return in an emergency and replenished once in Brunei, were finally in the South Ocean to the east of Brunei, on the spice route at 2o north latitude and east longitude. In the open sea around 108o, I encountered a large fleet led by Malay Governor Preyla.
Of course, it can't be said that it was encountered, but it was found by the watchman of the Li family fleet from a distance.
That's right, just look for it!
The Grand Admiral Anne Hasta of the Li's fleet is here to find the fleet of villains who are aggressively trying to grab her turf! Moreover, she still only brought the five super battleships under her command. As for the other ships, she did not bring even any one, including the first-class battleship that she had levied for free. .
She intends to use only five main battleships to fight Preyla's super-large fleet alone!
"report!"
"Grand Admiral! Found the fleet of Malay Governor Preyla!"
"True West!"
"distance…"
"About a hundred miles!"
"From here, it is all sail shadows and flags. The exact number of enemy ships is temporarily unknown!"
At this time, in the gondola on the tall main mast, a watchman holding a telescope directly pointed loudly towards someone on the lower deck podium who was boringly feeding fish and seagulls with breadcrumbs. The little girl shouted.
"A hundred miles?"
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"Did they finally show up?"
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Annie picked up her single-scope telescope. She knew that the other party said that one hundred miles was about twenty to thirty nautical miles, which was already the farthest distance that could be seen by the sea line of sight.
When sailing at sea, the length of the line of sight depends entirely on the altitude, the curvature of the earth, and the climate. Theoretically, the maximum line of sight is about 25 nautical miles, but in fact, due to the eye height and refraction effect, and here in the South Ocean It is close to the equator, so under the current best weather conditions, the longest distance can generally reach 30 nautical miles, which is about 100 miles of Daming.
"what!"
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"But people don't seem to see anything..."
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After trying it, Annie gave up soon after.
Because at her height, the line of sight is definitely not as good as the watchman on the main mast that is tens of meters high. Therefore, she saw only the sea level of the sky and the sea. Except for the blue sky, white clouds and sea level, she had everything. did not see.
"I do not have either…"
Song Yifeng also nervously picked up the other telescope and looked towards the west direction for a while, and then she quickly said as frustrated as Annie.
"Two admirals!"
"The enemy is still a hundred miles away. If we don’t change our course, with the current crosswinds, the relative speed between us and them will add up to a speed of about ten knots. It will take at least an hour and a half. Will enter the shelling distance."
"At that time, as long as our fleet mainly maintains a distance, pays attention to the course and wind direction, and takes advantage of our ship speed, shelling accuracy and shelling distance, no amount of enemy ships can be feared!"
At this moment, the chief mate next to him spoke proudly.
He knows that in this era, those Westerners’ cannons and heavy long-barreled cannons generally have a maximum bombardment distance of about four hundred yards at sea, but they must be at least two hundred yards or less in a real battle, which is seventy. Only when they are around ten feet or even closer can they enter the combat distance and ensure the accuracy and lethality of the shelling.
In other words, the enemy’s effective engagement distance is about two hundred yards (seventy feet), but it is also possible to take advantage of the large number of ships to start attacking their Li family fleet from 400 yards (one hundred and fifty feet) away. Launched shelling, so they must control the distance between them, try to eliminate the enemy ship outside the enemy's range, and also need to pay attention to the course to ensure that they are not surrounded by the enemy ship.
Although the five warships of their Li's fleet are made of steel, the keel is only made of steel, and the other places are still made of wooden planks. They certainly cannot prevent the enemy from approaching and shelling. Once the area below the waterline is approached by the enemy And use artillery to penetrate, they will only sink faster than ordinary wooden boats!
"Is there another half hour?"
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"..."
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Annie picked up the binoculars and looked at it again, but unfortunately, she still didn't see anything. There were still blue sky, white clouds and calm sea in the distance just west.
"So slow!"
ε=(′ο｀))) Alas!
"Then you go and let the sailor artillery prepare in advance. Now the enemy must have seen us too. People should take a nap first and get up after the shelling is about to begin."
(?￣?￣?) Hey!
Waiting like a fool here for an hour and a half, that is, a full three hours of silly things, Annie would definitely not be able to do it, so she threw the telescope in her hand into the arms of the first officer. She was ready to leave it alone.
"That's it!"
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A messy little girl left her podium directly, and ran towards her largest captain's room on the lower deck.
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
The first officer saluted, and didn't take those enemies too seriously, and didn't care about the enemy's current situation, but his chief admiral had to run back to take a nap.
"Second Admiral!"
"It's still early, you can go back and rest for an hour!"
The chief officer saw that now the sailors and artillery were orderly cleaning the barrels, fetching water from the sea, and carrying artillery shells and gunpowder barrels, preparing for the next battle. The morale was very high, and then waited. After getting ready, there is still a lot of time to eat, drink, and rest as a group, so there is really nothing to worry about and stare at right now.
"I can't sleep..."
"I heard that the Malay Governor Preyla is said to have prepared more than 60 warships. We only have five here. How can you make me sleep?"
"The opponent is not the iron armored boats and small sampans that come to the island to help and fight, they are dozens of warships..."
"Although it's a bit smaller than ours, but the number is too much."
Song Yifeng is really worried, because now their opponents are not the cannons that came to the island, and there are not many cannons, and the range is so short that they will only be swarmed by Japanese pirates. Now their enemies are Westerners with strong boats and cannons. It is possible that the number of cannons is definitely not less than that of their five ships!
In the beginning, when the Japanese attacked the country and Ping Ding came to the island, they had a full ten ships, but now there are only five ships left here, but there are dozens of enemy ships, and all of them are warships. The broken ships of Lai Dao’s family are completely different. How could she not worry?
"Do not!"
"Their warships will not exceed ten, and the others are all armed merchant ships, which is nothing to worry about!"
The first officer said proudly.
Although the boundaries between armed merchant ships and warships in this era are not too obvious, and the performance difference between ships and ships is also very small, it is not bad for any ship to press the cannon and open the gun door to say that it is a warship, but In order to take care of the emotions of the second admiral in front of him, the first officer was so gentle and soothed.
"Is that so?"
"But I always feel a little frightened..."
With that said, Song Yifeng picked up the single-scope in his hand and looked towards the end of the sea level, and then, unexpectedly, let her faintly see a little bit of the mast.
"one two Three…"
"Seventeen, eighteen..."
"what!"
"I have counted the flags on top of the masts of a dozen ships!"
Looking at it, Song Yifeng couldn't help exclaiming, and couldn't help but start to worry.
Looking at it from afar, there are more than a dozen ships that I have seen. After a while, after an hour or two, how many ships will appear in her sight.
"..."
The first officer also raised his eyes to look toward the west of the fleet, but he couldn't see anything without using a telescope.
"It's still early, Miss Song, why don't you go take a rest?"
"rest assured!"
"I will send someone to notify you and the Grand Admiral when the battle is coming soon."
The first officer was a little impatient, he didn't want the second admiral in front of him to sigh and affect his morale.
In this regard, in his opinion, their chief admiral did a better job?
Their grand admiral’s disregarding, maddening (heartless), never put any enemy in his eyes, even knowing that the enemy’s large fleet is coming, he is still ready to attack, is the most capable. Morale-boosting.
"All right…"
"You don't need to call me, I will watch the time by myself."
He sighed, seeing that there was really nothing wrong here, and seeing that he really couldn’t help much. There was no way, so Song Yifeng had to go down the spiral staircase, ready to go to their common room just like Annie. Stay quiet for a while in the biggest captain's room.
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Three hours later, the sixty-seven large and small warships led by the Portuguese and Malay Governor Doyle Lopez Di Preira finally appeared on the kilometer of Li’s poor fleet of five warships. Outside.
At this time, the Malay Governor’s fleet was divided into the main force of a large fleet consisting of 54 warships at the front, followed by one nautical mile from the back, led by Admiral Hedram of the Swedish Navy. A squadron of warships.
They were so mighty and mighty, the sails obscured the sky, and the sailors on the ship were gearing up one by one. They rushed forward fiercely toward the five ships ahead, which seemed to be really big, but some of them alone, the Li family fleet.
"strangeness…"
"The distance is at least about a thousand yards, why did the Li family fleet change its course and prepare for shelling?"
At this time, the Swedish navy admiral Hedram who followed behind saw from his telescope that the Li's fleet had raised all the sails directly at a relatively long distance and turned to completion using the crosswind.
What he saw, the other party spared a big arc. Those beautiful hulls drew a big circle neatly on the sea and followed the flagship in front of their mouths, and then maintained a side angle with the same heading as their fleet. Sailing to the northeast, they opened the cannon doors facing them one by one, and pushed out the cannons inside.
"Do you really plan to fire a gun from a thousand yards away?"
"Do not…"
"Then there are at least one thousand and one hundred yards left!"
"What's the use of shelling like that?"
The Admiral Hedram of the Swedish Navy was a bit unclear. Therefore, although the enemy ships changed their course from a distance to follow them, forcing them to chase and then unable to use their numerical superiority to outflank them, he did not understand that the other side What is the use of shelling at a distance of more than a thousand yards?
In his opinion, it takes at least three hundred yards of shelling to ensure the accuracy of shooting, and about one hundred yards to ensure the absolute lethality of shelling!
"strangeness!"
"Isn't it said that these Li's fleets were actually disguised by Daming's navy?"
"But…."
"Why is their Royal Navy at this level?"
Following the rear of the fleet, at least three thousand yards from the enemy ship, Hedram, who was unable to catch up or fight, did not order the sailors to enter the combat post, but continued to follow and watch closely with binoculars. Every move of the enemy ship.
"!"
"Also, really opened fire?!"
Suddenly, in the telescope, Hedram saw that the Li family fleet used that small angle to open fire at the fleet in front of them.
"Who are they directing, this is for fun..."
However, as the muzzles of the enemy ship’s guns spewed fire and black smoke, Hedram soon discovered that with the roar of the guns, the sharp cannonballs roared quickly. It came, and immediately afterwards, his eyes widened, and he was abruptly frightened back before he even finished speaking.
It is said that each of the Li's fleet has 248 heavy cannon rapid-fire cannons?
Therefore, he knows that there are a full 120 cannons on each side of the opponent. He also knows that the opponent can shoot a full 600 cannonballs in one round, but the opponent has more than a thousand yards. Shooting cannons at a distance of 1500. In his opinion, it would be good to have a dozen or so hits on the deck of several ships and smash a few pits at the head, it is a waste of ammunition!
But what do you think...
"!"
boom! boom! boom!
boom! boom!
At this time, he unexpectedly saw that a round of heavy solid shells or expensive bloom shells was directly and accurately smashed down in the front squadron of Malay Governor Preyla’s main fleet, except for three. About two-thirds of it fell into the sea, except for the high water splashes. The rest were accurately pierced into the deck or side of a ship and smashed into large pits, or simply the whole Exploded?
At this moment, in the front of the fleet ahead, the howling shells smashed one after another like rain. From the light to the wood thorns, the people turned upside down, and the masts and sails broke, and the fire flashed. What's more, some ships. The ship didn't know whether the gunpowder barrel was detonated or the reason for the bombing. There were fires exploded on the deck and cabin, and then the entire ship was instantly enveloped in dense smoke and fire.
"not good!"
"quick!"
"Pass the order!"
"Don't worry about the ten armed merchant ships, let our battleship speed up with full sails and rush up. They must be stopped!"
Seeing this, I saw that Malay Governor Preyla’s fleet lost two ships under one round of enemy shelling, and after wounding several ships, I found that the accuracy of the naval guns carried by the enemy ships was beyond imagination. Hedram exclaimed immediately, and then he hurriedly ordered the three second-tier battleships under his command to break away from the ten slow-armed merchant ships that dragged down behind him, and directly sailed through the waves and accelerated, intending to use the power of the three battleships under his command. , And tried to stop the Li family fleet.
He must do that, or else, if this goes on, everything will be over!
At this time, Portugal’s Malay Governor Doyle Lopez Di Preira obviously also saw the seriousness of the problem just like Hedram.
Therefore, the battleships they led also quickly accelerated, and gradually separated from the pursuing fleet, directly from another direction, ready to cooperate with Hedram to rush up to approach and intercept and flanking the five ships that seemed to want to fight. Destroy their damned Daming ship with ultra-long-range advanced artillery.
boom! boom! boom!
boom! boom!
However, the Li family fleet did not take care of the battleships that left the fleet. Instead, after the reloading was completed, they launched a second round of bombardment against Preyla’s large fleet again, directly wounding them again. Several ships, even one of them was directly submerged in the flames and lay across the sea, which seemed to be completely scrapped.
"Help~!"
"quick!"
"jump down!"
"The mast of the June Flower broke, UU Read www.uukanshu.com let them be responsible for saving people, and the other ships move on!"
"keep going!"
"Quick! You must get closer!"
"Leave them alone!"
Hedram’s ships were obviously much faster than those armed merchant ships. Therefore, after the Li’s fleet completed the second round of shelling, they finally caught up with the large fleet and moved directly from those ships because of the sails. Either the hull was injured, or the ship caught fire and exploded quickly passing by.
Looking at the horrible sailing ships and the screaming fire men who were constantly jumping out of the armed merchant ship on fire, the sailors on the three second-tier battleships couldn't help but flash across their faces. A look of uncertainty and fear.
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