Valley Emperor

Vol 2 Chapter 1428: heroic and desperate portuguese

Although in the original time and space, in the sixteenth century, the Spaniards and the Portuguese were the hegemons of the sea, and the Spanish armada was even more famous.

However, 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 the navy, and the Royal Navy of England is still playing in the mud on the island of England. .

The Spaniards' invincible fleet was able to organize more than 100 warships at its peak, and the entire fleet had 3,000 artillery pieces!

But now, with the huge maritime operations of the Tang Empire, even the Spaniards have to be humbled!

Throughout the Malacca campaign, the Tang Empire's army, navy and guards, etc., organized a total of more than 150 warships of various types!

Including eleven battleships, fourteen cruisers, thirty-eight frigates and more than ten patrol ships, a total of more than seventy professional warships!

In addition, there are more than 70 army and navy guards or various transport ships recruited from the people, most of which are also equipped with naval guns, commonly known as armed merchant ships.

The above-mentioned professional warships and armed merchant ships are equipped with a total of more than 5 catties of long guns and more than 24 catties of mortars. Well, the statistics of naval guns do not include two catties of shotguns and three catties of shotguns. Cannons, etc., are similar to small-caliber short-barreled shotguns.

Because these one-pound, even three-pound shotguns are very light in weight, small in size, and easy to operate. Basically, every warship will see a lot of equipment with needles, and they are even stored in warehouses on weekdays. It is only used on the deck during wartime. In a warship, the nature of this thing is no different from a gun, and it is not considered a classification of naval guns by the Navy at all!

Therefore, these light and ultra-light shotguns, which are specially designed to kill the deck personnel of enemy ships, will never be included in the statistical list of Datang Navy naval guns. If these are also included, the number of artillery pieces in the entire fleet will still be Double it again.

The scale of such a huge fleet actually exceeds the invincible fleet that the Spaniards can organize. Even if the Spaniards are most proud of their fighters, the Spaniards have to resign, because in the combined landing fleet There are also nearly 30,000 ground combat troops.

In the face of such a huge fleet, the Portuguese in Malacca did not dare to break out of the encirclement, and could only defend Malacca, which was excusable.

It's not that the Portuguese are fearful of the enemy and slack off, but the huge fleet of the Tang Empire is just too scary!

When the main battleship in this huge fleet, raising sails, bursting into the port with black smoke, and using countless naval guns to shell the battery on the land and the Portuguese ships, that scene almost made any one Everyone present is unforgettable!

Dozens of warships formed a multi-column battle line, and the first of many warships were closely connected, and then they used powerful broadside artillery to continuously bombard the fort on the land and the ships in the port.

All you can see is fire and smoke!

All you can hear is the rumble of cannons and the sound of shells exploding!

Even in traditional combat, people's cries are inaudible!

At this moment, it seems that the entire Malacca port is 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 salvo on the fort with more than 30 broadside artillery. The Guizhou of the flagship Guangdong also fired a salvo, followed by the third, fourth, fifth...

At the beginning, the Portuguese fort also tried to fire back, and the accuracy was not bad. Some shells hit the battleship of Datang, but this kind of counterattack only lasted for a short period of time!

The artillery on the Portuguese fort did not even fire a second round of fire!

Because at that time, the fort was already shrouded in a dense explosion!

The battleships of the Datang Navy did not launch solid bullets, but grenades and grenade shrapnel.

The grenade will explode, and the grenade will explode over the enemy's position!

Even with the current grenades and grenades, sometimes there will be duds, and the probability is not low, but there are too many artillery pieces and cannonballs!

The battleships of Chen Pengming's main fleet sailed past and fired in turn. Each battleship only fired one round, but the Portuguese on the shore had completely turned the fort into ruins, and no one was alive!

As the first land fort to face the attack of the Tang Navy, this fort is very strong enough to withstand the solid shells fired by the thirty-two pound robes. The smallest were twelve-pounder guns, and the largest were twenty-four pounds.

The Portuguese soldiers in the fort are also carefully selected elite gunners, with superb skills and incomparable heroism, and these soldiers are also worthy of the trust of their superiors. The first round of artillery fire of the people's counterattack!

However, it was only a round of counterattack artillery!

It was not because these heroic soldiers were idle, or they were frightened by the powerful firepower of the Datang Navy, they turned and ran away. In fact, they have always been sticking to their combat positions, and after launching the first round of counterattacks, they carried out loaded up in preparation for the second round of counterattacks.

However, the Datang Navy did not give them the opportunity to reload their artillery and carry out a second round of counterattacks. Nine battleships and three cruisers successively bombarded the fort in just one minute, although each battleship was a It took a round, and it was not a salvo, but it also shot at least 400 shells towards this fort. Although the shells were different in size, there were 24, 18, 14, and 9 jin. , but they are all grenades and grenades. After some of these grenades hit the fort, they exploded violently, killing the enemy with impact and shrapnel, while the grenade exploded directly above the enemy’s fort, and the grenade was built-in. A large number of steel **** are like raindrops, splashing towards the enemy from mid-air, killing a large number of the enemy's living force!

In just one minute, this fort has experienced at least one hundred violent explosions!

And more importantly, the fortifications of artillery defenses such as artillery batteries these days, except for the Tang Dynasty, which will specialize in fortifications to prevent grenades, other countries do not have this kind of consciousness.

The artillery on the fort is basically deployed in the open air, at most a thick parapet is built in front of the artillery.

This kind of fortification is naturally good for the defense effect of solid bullets, but for explosive grenades, the effect is much smaller, and for grenade grenades, it is useless at all!

You have to know that when bombarding the land, the Datang Navy never used solid bullets, but mainly grenades and grenades. At the same time, they especially like to use grenades!

The grenade is to control the explosion time of the shell through the fuze, so that the shell explodes just above the enemy's position.

The intensive artillery bombardment of the Datang Navy made this Portuguese fort blown into ruins in just one minute, and more than 100 Portuguese artillerymen above were killed and wounded!

That's why they didn't fight back in the second round!

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, and even during the shelling just now, the fleet did not stop, but kept moving forward.

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 in Malacca, especially the several senior officials and generals in it, tremble with fear!

Although I have long known that the military power of the Tang Empire is extremely powerful, and I also know that the enemy's fleet outside the port is so powerful that it is terrifying, it is only an imagination.

What kind of horror law, they have never seen it before!

And now, they finally saw the horror of this fleet!

More terrifying than all the scenes they imagined before!

According to their assumptions, it is undeniable that the Datang Navy is very powerful, and if it really wants to attack, it will definitely be able to destroy its coastal defense fort and even the fleet.

But our side should not have no resistance at all, especially the carefully arranged coastal defense fort.

These forts have used countless indigenous people. If they are killed or injured, they don’t know how many indigenous people were built. The small fort is equipped with more than ten artillery pieces, and the large fort is 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 it loses to the enemy's huge fleet, at least in the early stage, it should be able to fight back and forth. No matter how bad it is, it can sink one or two enemy warships!

but now!

The numerous artillery forts did not have the slightest resistance. Generally, they only counterattacked one or two rounds of artillery fire, and then they were covered by the artillery fire of the Datang Navy.

Well, this is also a very special scene, that is, the shelling of the Datang Navy, which looks very ferocious, but in fact, whether it is a grenade or a grenade, it is basically nothing to the solid fort itself and the big iron lumps like artillery. Lethality, they kill all enemy gunners.

So you will see ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the Portuguese forts after the bombardment by the Datang Navy. Except for a few forts that were killed by ammunition, the other forts seemed to be in a mess, but in fact the forts were basically intact. Those with large calibers Although some of the guns were overturned, they were basically intact.

It was just blood flowing, and the dead and wounded Portuguese soldiers covered the entire fort!

This kind of scene made the Portuguese officials and generals watching the battle in Malacca almost couldn't believe what they saw!

In just half an hour, it was deployed outside the port to undertake the important task of intercepting the Datang Navy's intrusion into the port. There were more than 300 artillery pieces in total, all of which were destroyed. Nearly 1,000 local artillerymen and more than 2,000 indigenous artillerymen were killed and injured nearly 1,000. , the rest fled!

And the only result of these six forts is to punch out a few big holes in the few battleships of the Datang Navy, causing more than ten casualties of the Datang Navy!

(Tianjin)

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