Valley Emperor

Chen Pengming didn't have any hesitation. Before the Portuguese reacted, whether they stopped giving up the fleet and sent the fleet out of the port to fight, or before they moved a large number of large-caliber fleets to the city of Malacca, they would attack first.

Therefore, Chen Pengming's offensive plan was not just to send a squadron to conduct a tentative attack as before, but to dispatch the main fleet directly, ready to carry some of the Portuguese battery's firepower, shelling the enemy's battery and their fleet.

After the order was issued, Chen Pengming also ordered the flagship to raise the battle flag, ready to take the flagship and lead the fleet to attack!

The commander led the flagship to take the lead in charging, which made the army liaison personnel on the ship frown a little, thinking that Chen Pengming was too reckless, a dignified admiral, the supreme commander of more than a hundred warships and tens of thousands of soldiers.

Taking the lead in the charge during the critical period of the battle, this kind of thing can certainly boost morale, but you are not afraid of 10,000, what if you, Chen Pengming, are accidentally killed or seriously injured, and you cannot command the fleet?

It doesn't matter if you, Chen Pengming, are dead, but as a result, the troops are leaderless, and the command is confusing!

In a large-scale battle, an admiral-level commander personally leads the team to launch an attack. This kind of thing is almost unimaginable in the army, because in the army, generals at the admiral level generally sit firmly in the rear and dispatch troops. General, there will be battles with the enemy in person, not to mention generals at the level of generals, even generals at the level of brigadiers will basically not fight in person.

Therefore, the army liaison officers in the fleet did not quite understand Chen Pengming's actions.

But within the navy, Chen Pengming's approach is understood and taken for granted!

In the navy, it is nothing for a fleet commander to personally lead a fleet into battle.

This is because the flagship of the fleet commander is often the most powerful battleship in the fleet, and it is also the battleship with the most complete command system. This is the case with the flagship Guangdong that Chen Pengming rides, although the protection capability is a little worse than that of battleships of the same tonnage. However, the firepower is not bad at all. At the same time, its maneuverability and related command system are among the top of the tonnage battleships.

It is naturally impossible for such a powerful battleship to watch the show in the rear when the fleet is in a decisive battle.

In this case, it is normal for the flagship to lead the fleet to attack.

Chen Pengming raised the battle flag and led the main fleet towards the port. This action instantly made the Portuguese ships in the port and the Portuguese on many coastal defense batteries nervous.

Dozens of battleships outside the port acted together, especially the nine battleships inside, which formed two huge battleships. Not to mention other battleships, just these nine huge battleships are already enough to make those The Portuguese were terrified.

Those are warships with a tonnage of more than 1,000 tons. No matter what kind of tonnage is placed in the navy of the contemporary country, they are all top-level warships.

From more than 100 years ago to decades ago, in fact, countries, or more precisely, should be European sailing countries represented by Portugal and Spain. In fact, they did not have any professional large-tonnage ocean-going warships.

Because for the maritime countries of these two countries, which are mainly engaged in maritime trade, they need ships with a huge carrying capacity and armed at the same time, so in this period, the boundaries between merchant ships and warships were not obvious.

At the same time, naval warfare is not mainly based on artillery warfare, but in fact it is still dominated by side-to-side warfare, so ships are usually very tall and can carry a large number of combat personnel in order to gain an advantage and defeat opponents during side-to-side warfare.

During this period, the most typical ship types were Clark ships and Spanish galleons.

However, this situation has gradually changed in recent decades, because the warships of the navies of various countries have begun to be generally equipped with large-caliber naval guns, and the power of naval guns is also increasing, so naval guns have gradually emerged. Weapons of the battleship.

However, it is worth noting that even if the ships of the navies of various countries have begun to install more artillery and began to use the lower deck to deploy artillery, so that a warship can deploy dozens or even hundreds of artillery, but the ship type is still generally Clark boats and Spanish galleons dominated.

At the same time, these ship types still have some inherent problems. For example, the superstructure is too tall, and after a large number of artillery pieces are arranged, the center of gravity will be unstable.

At the same time, the hull will still retain a large amount of tonnage for transporting cargo and carrying people.

The most typical of them is undoubtedly the contemporary Spaniards' global fleet. Almost all the Spanish treasure ships are large ships. It is common for ships with a tonnage of over 1,000 to carry a large number of naval guns, more personnel, and cargo volume. Also extremely large.

But whether it is an armed Spanish galleon or a Clark ship, it is actually a transition from a merchant ship, and they are not designed as warships themselves.

At the same time, Galen ships began to appear on the Spanish side. Relatively speaking, the fore and tail of the Galen ships were lower and the aspect ratio was more slender, and more naval guns could be deployed for combat.

But what is interesting is that this kind of Galen ship, which first appeared in Spain, has not been carried forward in Spain at present. On the contrary, after this type of ship appeared on the coast of East Asia as an armed merchant ship, it was accepted by the Tang Empire Navy, and then the Tang Dynasty The Imperial Navy referenced the Galen ship and some designs of traditional Chinese ships, and finally a new generation of Tang ships appeared in the design.

It is rude to say that the Tang ship of the Tang Empire was the first type of warship in human history that was specially designed for ocean-going sea artillery warfare. From the beginning of its design, it was not considered to transport goods or engage in battle.

It has been specially designed for ocean-going maritime operations since its inception.

In the past ten years, as Tang ships gradually spread to Europe through the Portuguese, Europeans, especially the Portuguese, began to directly build Tang ships to use as warships. I heard that England and other countries also imitated Tang ships and Galen. ship, design and build a new generation of Galen-type warships.

Well, I have to focus on the Spaniards here. Although they also noticed the development of this battleship, they still believe that the artillery capability of the battleship is important, but if you want to completely defeat the enemy, you still need to rely on the battle. Therefore, they will still deploy a large number of combat troops in the fleet, especially the heavy sword and shield soldiers.

Therefore, although the development of warships by the Spaniards in the past ten years has also improved, it is not as extreme as the Tang Empire, the Portuguese and even England.

This is not to say that the Spaniards do not develop fleets. In fact, they are still very enthusiastic about developing the navy, but their tactical concepts are different from those of the Tang Empire, the Portuguese, and England.

This different tactical concept is vividly reflected in the naval battle of Gravelines in the original time and space.

The Spanish Armada had about 130 warships, equipped with about 3,000 naval guns, and had a crew of more than 8,000, but they also carried more than 20,000 infantry.

As for the English, their fleet is about a hundred ships, and there are more than 9,000 combat personnel in the fleet, but these 9,000 people are all crew members. In addition, most of the artillery guns equipped in the English fleet were long-barreled naval guns, which had an advantage in range. At the same time, the ships were more flexible and more suitable for maritime combat.

The result of this battle is of course clear at a glance. It ended with the disastrous defeat of the Spanish Armada. Although this naval battle was a real naval battle, the British sunk five Spanish battleships even if they died. Destroyed, causing the loss of more than half of its fleet and even the violent storms of the North Sea plus thick fog.

But no matter what, the impact of this naval battle was huge, and it even opened a new era of naval battles. Later, even the Spaniards began to attach importance to artillery warfare, and quickly equipped a large number of long-barreled naval guns. , against the British pirate ships.

At the same time, what is more noteworthy is that in this naval battle, there were more than 100 warships on both sides, but in fact there were not so many real professional warships. There are only fourteen ships, and the rest are all armed merchant ships.

From this we can know that in fact, there are not many professional warships in contemporary navies, and even fewer have more than 1,000 tons of tonnage.

This is true whether it is the Tang Empire or Spain, or the Portuguese, England and other countries.

Not even talking about professional warships, and even expanding the scope to warships with a tonnage of more than 1,000 tons, including armed merchant ships, there are not many.

This is also the reason why when the nine battleships of the Datang Navy started to act, it would cause the Portuguese to pay attention and even panic.

On the many forts on the land, the Portuguese are preparing for the battle, trying to protect the port with shore fire cannons, but the Portuguese fleet in the port is in some confusion at this critical moment.

Because at this time, some ships also raised their sails and began to slowly leave the port, heading out of the port, and among the Portuguese fleets that rushed out, there was a battleship, but more of them were ordinary armed merchant ships.

However, the other ships in the port~www.wuxiaspot.com~ are still staying in place, and through the binoculars, you can see that they are hurriedly loading and unloading naval guns.

Obviously, there was a disagreement within the Portuguese fleet. Some chose to stay in the port and withdraw the sailors and naval guns to the city for dead defense, while some people took the initiative to intercept the Datang Navy in principle.

It's just that no matter how the Portuguese act, they can't stop the attack of the Datang Navy!

Chen Pengming personally led the main fleet along the way, and used steam engines as auxiliary power, so that the sailing of the fleet did not depend too much on the wind direction, thus obtaining a better heading and shooting angle.

It didn't take long for the rumble of guns to sound in the port of Malacca!

It's not the sound of a few or dozens of artillery guns firing, but the sound of the intensive shelling of hundreds or even thousands of artillery pieces!

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