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When Tong Shangchao's fleet, when the chasing soldiers behind him were about to catch up, turned at a large angle, the situation of the two sides suddenly changed from two words to a T shape, and Tong Shangchao's fleet also seized the big one for the first time. The Tang Hai Academy has emphasized countless times that the T prefix should be occupied as much as possible during the battle.

After occupying the T prefix, they fired the long-prepared shells without hesitation.

This year, the line tactics are still in the stage of enlightenment. Although the warships of other countries are already equipped with a large number of naval guns, when the navy conducts a decisive battle, there is still no rules to speak of. A kind of auxiliary means, the decision of victory or defeat is still the battle of the side.

But the Datang Navy did not do that!

From the Datang Navy, no, it should be said that from the day the Datang King Division was established, the basic tactical concept of firepower advantage was basically determined.

In order to pursue firepower advantage, the army used a large number of artillery pieces and equipped muskets at the same time.

After being equipped with the flintlock gun, it directly eliminated a large number of cold weapons such as spears, and thoroughly used the three-row line tactics to better utilize the firepower advantage of the flintlock gun.

The same is true for the navy. Every warship of the Datang Navy is designed with the core goal of fighting at sea, or more precisely, conducting artillery battles on the sea.

Therefore, the battleships of the Datang Navy are equipped with more artillery than the warships of other countries in the same period. Even the armed merchant ships in the private sector use new-style armed merchant ships with more artillery than those of other countries. .

In addition to stronger firepower, the battleships of the Datang Navy are also designed for naval battles in other designs. For example, higher decks are generally used.

Of course, this will bring about the problem of unstable center of gravity, but it can take a high degree of advantage in medium and short-range artillery battles. The artillery on the upper deck, especially those light shotguns, can sweep across the opponent's deck, destroying enemy personnel and enemy ships. Sailing and other facilities.

When the Spaniards and others were still using Spanish galleons as the main force of warships, the Datang Navy directly abandoned the merchant ship attributes of warships and used more tonnage for combat.

This also caused a phenomenon, that is, in the case of the same tonnage, the professional warships of the Datang Navy, whether in terms of speed or number of artillery, are far more than those half-baked warships of other countries.

Although the Portuguese and others have also been influenced by the battleship design of the Datang Navy, they have also begun to research and build some battleships specially used for combat, but after all, they have not yet entered the system.

In this regard, even England, the little brother in European countries today, is doing better than Spain and Portugal.

When the T-head was occupied and the naval guns were fired, at this moment, when Tong Shangchao's fleet was at its most powerful, dozens of artillery guns of the four warships fired in unison.

But those on the opposite side are also veterans, no matter whether it is the navy of a certain country or what kind of pirates, this kind of artillery battle is definitely not uncommon, so they also started to fight back with the guns on the bow, and carried out Small range maneuvers are used to evade artillery fire.

But they did not choose to turn as they did with Tong Shangchao's fleet, and then used naval guns to attack the enemy.

It's not that they don't want to, it's that they don't dare!

They are all small boats, but they don't have many artillery pieces. They rely on flexibility and pick-up battles.

Carry out broadside artillery bombardment with warships, but few pirate chiefs would choose to do so.

They used their own flexibility to maneuver in a small range, and then approached quickly, ready to rush over to directly engage in a pick-up battle.

But their idea soon fell through, because they found that the shells shot out of the fleet of Datang Western Company were a little weird!

How weird?

Their shells actually exploded!

Although the number of shells that will explode is not large, only a small number, and they are all fired from the Arctic frigate, but this still makes those pirates extremely panic.

Explosion, this is nothing, they have even seen the whole battleship explode, because there are a lot of artillery on the ship, when the gunpowder is ignited by the enemy's arson bomb, it is normal to have a violent explosion.

They also know that there is a short-barreled howitzer in the Tang Dynasty, which is also an explosive shell, but this kind of artillery is basically not used for medium and long-distance maritime operations, because the accuracy of the hit is too high, can it hit if it is fired? Moving enemy warships, it depends on whether God will give you face.

But now, it's not either of the above two scenarios!

They found that the artillery shells fired by the fleet of the Datang Western Company on the opposite side exploded frequently.

How is this going?

Some of them do not understand, some panic!

In naval battles, shells that explode and shells that don't, are two different things.

When everyone is using solid bullets, you take out the grenades, which is bullying to be honest.

Even if the solid bullet hits the enemy's warship, it will punch a big hole in the enemy's warship, but it is basically difficult to hit below the waterline, and it is difficult to sink the warship, and it is more difficult to hit the enemy's personnel when it hits other places cause too much damage.

But grenades are different!

This thing will explode, as long as it falls into the battleship, it will definitely cause great damage!

On a pirate ship headed opposite, a middle-aged man with a long beard and a typical western face watched as a cannonball landed on the deck of his battleship and then exploded violently.

The violent explosion almost swept the surrounding pirates. A nearby artillery crew operating the deck artillery was completely reimbursed on the spot. After the smoke passed, the deck was in a mess.

More than a dozen people fell into a pool of blood. Some people died at the moment of the explosion, while others were just injured. The seriously injured can only hum, while the slightly injured ones were crawling. , rolling, trying to leave the hellish place: the explosion also caused a fire, and the debris near the gunpowder keg had already started to burn. It won't be long before a violent explosion will appear.

Looking up again, the other two warships under his command were not so good either. They were all hit by the kind of shells that would explode. The deck and cabin were in a mess. They were originally crowded on the deck and were ready to jump to help sailors fighting. They are now crying and shouting to escape from the deck. One of the battleships has even the sails torn and tattered, and can no longer sail against the wind.

Seeing this scene, the bearded middle-aged man murmured, "How is this possible..."

He never imagined that he was ordered to disguise himself as a pirate and ambushed in the Andaman Sea, attacking all the non-Portuguese ships passing through this area, that he would encounter such a monster.

Although in the previous pursuit battle, he also discovered that there was a frigate in the fleet of the Datang Western Company ahead, but he was thinking that his three ships were extremely fast and extremely flexible. Although the firepower of the sloop is weaker, as long as it rushes up and fights, even if it cannot completely destroy the entire fleet, it can still grab one of the merchant ships.

After all, they are all just merchant ships. Although merchant ships are armed merchant ships, they can't have too many personnel. As long as they don't foolishly engage in gang wars with the other's warships, then the problem will not be too big.

This kind of thing has never happened before!

In the past two years, as a Portuguese, he has always been active in this sea area, and was ordered to disguise as a pirate to block this sea area, looting non-Portuguese ships in the past, sometimes succeeded, sometimes failed, But it has never been so disastrously defeated as it is today:

They haven't rushed up yet, but they have suffered heavy losses!

In the past, he also robbed the merchant ships of the Datang Western Company fleet. Although this new type of Datang merchant ship was faster and had more artillery, it was still a merchant ship. Yes, but he can also use his speed and flexibility to deal with them, and then take a bite when they are unprepared.

But I didn't expect that today's situation is completely different from what I encountered in the past!

This kind of explosive shells almost completely broke the balance of the battle!

Seeing such a scene, he gritted his teeth, and then ordered to retreat!

This robbery can't be robbed!

Continue to catch up, even if their speed is fast, but both sides are in motion, the distance of several hundred meters can not be crossed in a short time, and at this time, he is afraid that his battleship will be attacked by this kind of The exploding shells were destroyed one by one.

But when he ordered the retreat, two ships were successfully evacuated, because the mast of the other ship ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ had been broken, and it was floating on the sea like a dead fish!

But now he has no time to think about it. Anyway, it is not him who stayed and waited to die. If he continues to stay here, it is possible that he will die.

On the other side, Tong Shangchao smiled when he watched the other's two warships change course and escape at high speed!

These **** pirates are no match for my Datang's latest technology grenades!

Alas, if our company fleet could have been equipped with these grenades earlier, the previous losses could have been avoided, but unfortunately, there is no if!

In fact, the grenade of the Tang Dynasty was initially successfully developed as early as the seventh year of Xuanping. In the eighth year of Xuanping, it was used by the guards in the battle of the Korean Peninsula.

However, the large-scale equipment of the army and navy has been waited until the second half of the ninth year of Xuanping!

The willingness is very simple, because at that time, the domestic arsenals completed the equipment transformation and established a large-scale production line for production, and the first batch of howitzer shells produced were naturally given priority to the military.

Although the Datang Western Company is also an officially registered armed force, it is a commercial armed force in the end. If you want to equip such advanced weapons, you have to wait. Until this summer, the Datang Western Company fleet is officially given to the fleet. The capital ships were issued with this new type of shells, and because the shells were expensive, there were not many of them.

But all the waiting and the expensive price are worth it!

Just like those old comrades who are still serving in the Navy said, this kind of howitzer is a weapon that can change the pattern of naval warfare!

Today is him, and it is also the first time that the fleet of Datang Western Company has used this new artillery shell in actual combat.

However, he has already seen the arrival of a new era of naval warfare!