Valley Emperor

To this end, the Navy has spent a lot of money in the past two years to fund related domestic enterprises to develop rifled artillery and more advanced artillery shells, but it is impossible to get any results after a while.

So today in the Battle of Malacca, the tactics used by the Datang Navy are actually not much different from those during the Unification War!

I saw the six warships of the Second Mobile Squadron raised their sails and rushed into the port, and used the steam engine to choose a favorable route, but did not rely heavily on the wind direction to sail like the previous pure sail warships.

The six battleships of the Second Mobile Squadron, one after the other, with three battleships as a group, formed two small teams, separated by about 100 meters from the front to the rear, and headed towards the port in turn.

When the leading cruiser approached the predetermined target in the port for about 500 meters, it was the first to fire, using the unique weapon grenade of the Datang Navy!

The grenade flew out from the chambers of a 9-, 14-, or even 18-pound naval gun, and then crossed a distance of more than 500 meters and landed in the port. Although the hit rate of shelling at this distance is very low, it is absolutely impossible Most of the artillery fell on the sea, but some still fell on the Portuguese ships moored in the port.

Whenever a shell falls on the Portuguese ship, it can set off a violent explosion. These shells are not solid bullets, but grenades, and most of them are grenades of large-caliber naval guns. But a lot.

Even though the explosive power of black powder in these years is still relatively limited, it can't stand the large shells and the large amount of charge. When it explodes, the power is still very impressive.

At this time, the Portuguese also began to fight back, but the first to fight back was not the fleet in the port, but the shore fire guns on land.

On the shore, the Portuguese built a lot of forts to guard the port. After the war was approaching, they stepped up to build a lot of temporary forts, so the number of forts was still quite large, and many of them were actually Portuguese from the fleet. The dismantled artillery.

But at this time, the Second Mobile Squadron was still far from the port, and because of the shooting range, only some of the artillery on the fort could shoot, adding up to more than ten artillery pieces.

Listening to the sound of these counterattacking guns, Chen Pengming knew that the smallest caliber of these shore fire guns that were fighting back was 14kg, and there were even a lot of 24kg guns.

After all, it is a shore fire gun, and there is no need to consider weight and other issues like naval guns, so it is normal for a large caliber and a high power.

Besides these shore fire guns, many of them were originally large-caliber naval guns in the Portuguese fleet.

In the face of the Portuguese shore fire artillery counterattack, the Second Mobile Squadron only increased the power of the steam engine, increased the speed, and made a small evasion, but on the whole it still maintained the shelling of the port.

This artillery battle between the two sides lasted for about fifteen minutes, and finally the Second Mobile Squadron was ordered to retreat!

Admiral Chen Pengming ordered the 2nd Mobile Squadron to retreat temporarily, not because the 2nd Mobile Squadron suffered any losses. In fact, although they were hit by some shells, they were only slightly damaged and were not in the way at all.

He chose to let the Second Mobile Squadron retreat, because he did not see the effect he wanted to see.

Although the Portuguese fleet in the port was bombarded, and there were also warships firing back in the follow-up process, but from the high-powered telescope, he did not see the Portuguese giving up the fleet's artillery. The attempt to move to the city of Malacca.

They seem to have completely abandoned the fleet, prepared to strengthen the defense of Malacca at all costs, and then huddled in the city of Malacca.

Although the bombardment of the Second Mobile Squadron caused certain losses to the Portuguese, it did not completely stop the Portuguese's attempt.

At the same time, he also initially detected the port defense power of the Portuguese through this tentative artillery bombardment of the Second Mobile Squadron!

They completely gave up using the fleet to resist, but chose to put the fleet's artillery on land, partly to strengthen the city defense of Malacca, and on the one hand to strengthen the power of the port and coastal defense battery.

When the Second Mobile Squadron attacked just now, a large number of Portuguese ships on the opposite side basically did not carry out large-scale actions. Only a few ships fought back. Most of the ships continued to anchor in the port like dead fish. moored directly in the pier.

Most of the counterattacks suffered by the Second Mobile Squadron were counterattacks by the enemy's coastal defense batteries.

But this allowed Chen Pengming to find another opportunity!

Although it is said that the Portuguese brought artillery to the land and used some of the naval guns as temporary coastal defense battery, which can effectively increase the coastal defense force, but the coastal defense battery also has a fatal flaw, that is, it cannot be moved!

And it is worth noting that the city defense of Malacca is the city defense of Malacca, and the coastal defense fort is the coastal defense fort.

The overall defense of the Portuguese in Malacca is centered on the city of Malacca. This city of Malacca is a typical large-scale bastion. Although artillery can also be deployed on it, it is worth noting that this Malacca bastion is not directly built on the seaside. It is still a few hundred meters away from the pier by the sea, although speaking of the protruding part on the side of the sea, there are also forts built, which can be used to shoot at the port.

However, the coastal defense battery in this bastion is naturally not the main force of the Portuguese coastal defense battery in Malacca. In fact, most of the coastal defense battery is still built outside the Malacca bastion, which is an independent fortress battery.

After all, the port of Malacca is not a concave port, but a port lined up along the north bank of the waterway. Because Malacca has developed business and trade in the past ten years, the scope of this port is actually very large, with a range of several kilometers from east to west.

In this geographical environment, and considering the range of contemporary naval guns, it is impossible for the Portuguese to rely on one or two forts to completely control and defend the port. They have to build more forts to control and defend the port.

Of course, a better method is to directly block the waterway outside the port with the fleet. The width of this waterway is only ten kilometers. As long as the fleet is strong, the blockade is a matter of minutes.

But unfortunately, the strength of the Portuguese fleet is much worse than that of the Indian Ocean fleet of the Datang Navy, so that the Portuguese fleet did not have the courage to leave the cover of the coastal defense battery at all.

If they took the initiative to fight, Admiral Chen Pengming would be even more happy, just assemble the main fleet to sink them, there are so many things going on there!

Therefore, the Portuguese gave up the fleet and brought many naval guns to the land, which was equivalent to giving up the fleet's ability to maneuver defense. In the end, they could only protect the port through numerous artillery batteries.

In Chen Pengming's view, this choice is almost a fatal mistake. Although the northern waterway of Malacca is wide, it is only ten kilometers wide. If the Portuguese fleet has always maintained combat effectiveness, Chen Pengming dared to bring the fleet with him. Enter, but it is also unlikely to rush directly into the port and fight the Portuguese fleet.

But now the Portuguese have given up the fleet and opted for battery defense instead.

This also gave Chen Pengming a chance!

He planned to take advantage of his fleet's mobility to gain absolute military superiority over most of the Portuguese forts, and then gradually clean up the enemy's forts, and finally kill the port to completely smash the Portuguese resistance.

After ordering the temporary evacuation of the Second Mobile Squadron, he called his combat staff and asked them to quickly come up with an offensive plan.

Chen Pengming wanted to take this opportunity to smash the Portuguese resistance in the port in one fell swoop, so as to better support the subsequent siege operations of the landing troops.

The operational staff members of the Indian Ocean Fleet Command are basically the most outstanding staff officers drawn from the various departments and fleets of the Datang Navy.

Whether it is the Datang Army or the Datang Navy, they are used to deploying elite forces from various units when war breaks out, especially the core mid-level officers to go to the front line to fight.

As for the Indian Ocean Fleet Staff Department, this organization is also full of elite officers drawn from various places by the Navy. Among the twenty combat staff officers, the lowest ranks are all majors. Well, because the combat staff of the Indian Ocean Fleet Command Staff Department, As long as the Royal Academy graduates, and the Royal Academy students have just graduated, they have the rank of major, so you really can't find the Royal Academy graduates at the lieutenant level.

Of course, Gao is no more than a colonel, because if he goes up, he is a brigadier general, and the brigadier general does not serve as an ordinary combat staff. .

These more than 20 combat staffs basically cover all directions, some are from sailing, some are from logistics, some are from artillery, and some are even from land combat.

But no matter what background these people are, they are the best among their peers in their respective fields~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Just take one out, they are the sons of the navy, and the key training of the navy Talents, generals, and future commanders of the main fleet, otherwise, they would not be able to appear as operational staff in the Indian Ocean Fleet Staff.

Whether it is the army or the navy, the combat staff position is the best springboard position within the military. Almost every general who is promoted after 15 years of Xuanping, regardless of whether it is the army or the navy, or even the guards, is all Served as a combat staff officer.

If nothing else, in a few years, the group of combat staff serving in the Indian Ocean Fleet Command will have generals. Woolen cloth.

These elite mid-level naval officers quickly passed complex calculations and came up with a plan for a fleet attack.

Soon Chen Pengming ordered the fleet to attack!

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