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Chapter 1532 Tail Explosion

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    "Fire!"

    "Fire!" As the gunners and gunners gave the order, the Hongwu cannons and Yongle cannons installed on the six warships fired in unison!

    Amidst the earth-shattering gunfire, rows of orange tongues of flame spurted out from the gun windows, and white smoke instantly enveloped the Ming Dynasty's warships.

    When they fired again, the gunners' sight was blocked by the thick smoke and they could hardly see anything. They kept firing based on the shooting points they had just calibrated!

    Although the results of the battle cannot be judged for the time being, the gunners are confident and have no worries about losing anything.

    First of all, although there is a Category 4 Dongfeng today, because we are fighting in the bay, the sea is still calm and waveless, which greatly reduces the difficulty of shelling.

    Furthermore, and most importantly, the gunners of each artillery team are at least third-level police officers.  This means they have served for at least four years and have been trained at the Coast Guard School twice.

    Every gunner has fired at least 500 rounds of artillery shells, and some have even fired thousands of rounds. It can be said that practice makes perfect!

    This is simply unthinkable in Europe.  In the West, due to the serious shortage of gunpowder, the king was reluctant to allow the navy to conduct live-fire training.  The captains all comforted themselves by saying, "You can't hit the ball accurately anyway, and training is useless."  Normally, I just practice firing the cannon, and it's enough to be proficient in the movements. As for where I can actually hit the cannon, it all depends on God's will.

    Only a few captains who have both money and pursuits can grit their teeth and spend their own money to buy gunpowder and train soldiers.  However, most captains actively resisted involution and resolutely refused to follow the trend.

    The reason for this dilemma is that Europe lacks the raw materials for making gunpowder.  In addition to charcoal, they were also short of sulfur and fire salt.

    Sulfur is better. There are volcanoes in Iceland and Sicily in Northern Europe. You can always buy it by spending more money.  The most troublesome thing is saltpeter, which is not produced in the whole of Europe. Before the Spanish discovered Chilean saltpeter and the British discovered Indian saltpeter, until the 18th century, it was still produced by using human and animal urine to pile up saltpeter.

    The Ming Dynasty was not much better at first. Although saltpeter was still used to purify fire saltpeter, the output was very impressive.  But since Mr. Zhao started promoting public toilets in Jiangnan, we no longer have to worry about it.  That's the urine of tens of millions of people. Isn't it enough for him to drink a pot?

    ¡°And Jiangnan is open to purchasing fire salt in the name of manufacturing fertilizers.  Seeing the profits, places such as Southeast China, Shandong and Jiangxi have also begun to spontaneously build public toilets and pile up saltpeter compost. It can be said that one billion people are used to feed one person, which makes Zhao Hao no longer have the urgent need to go to Turpan or Bangladesh to find saltpeter mines.

    The self-produced and purchased fire salt, marine police, security team and Jiangnan Chemical are really inexhaustible, and can even be used to make fertilizers, ice and cold drinks.

    This is the advantage of the only super-populated country in the world.  There are more people just booing Mr. Zhao than the entire population of Europe combined.  This terrifying advantage is something a red-haired ghost would never envy

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    ??????????????????????????????????????????????? The sea breeze finally blew away the smoke, and the observers who had already used their binoculars to lock on the enemy ships rushed to report the results of the battle!

    "The left one exploded several times!"

    "The second one from the left exploded several times!"

    "The right one will explode the tail multiple times!"

    "The second one on the right has a little tail blast!"

    The so-called tail blast means that the shell is fired from the stern of the enemy ship and penetrates the entire hull.

    Correspondingly, there are also headshots, but because the stern is the weakest protected part of all ships.  Once the shell explodes at the stern of the enemy ship, there will be no place to hide except for a large number of flesh and blood bodies in the killing bay.  It can also destroy a large amount of equipment, such as anti-retraction ropes and pulley systems, making it impossible for the enemy ship's artillery to reset, and may even break the mast. In short, it will greatly weaken the enemy ship's combat effectiveness.

    Therefore, the big sailboats pay great attention to protecting their own chrysanthemums. There are usually small and medium-sized sailboats following behind, ready to take bullets for the big brother.

    But Rear Admiral Naba Mende only focused on his head and not his back, and ordered all the warships to line up in a single column and pounce on the Ming fleet that they had driven into a dead end.  Just like the formation used in the naval battle of Lepanto.

    As a result, all Spanish warships, regardless of size, faced the Coast Guard's battle line with their sterns.

    What¡¯s worse is that they are still downwind

    Regarding this situation, Principal Zhao has a clear discussion in the book "Tactics of Sail and Naval Warfare" compiled for the Coast Guard School:

    ¡°The most important thing in a naval battle is to gain the upper hand, even taking precedence over gaining the upper hand.  When there is not much difference in strength between the two sides, if the 'Ding Li' side is at a disadvantage, although it can gain a temporary advantage, it is far less than the wind direction advantage of the 'Ding Li' side.  Because the fleet in the leeward position will lose most of its maneuvering space and initiative.  Once the formation is broken through, it will suffer greater losses and even lose the entire naval battle.  ¡¯

    ?Heavy siege.

    And the ¡®White Lingque¡¯ was also the only Spanish warship to escape during the Battle of Manila Bay

    The remaining small and medium-sized sailing ships tried their best to cover the four large sailing ships, and even launched a headwind charge against the Ming Dynasty fleet. As a result, they were easily blocked midway by the destroyers that had returned to their positions, and were then destroyed or sunk.

    As for the Spanish galleons, except for the unlucky Santo Domingo, which exploded, caught fire and sank, the other three ships, although they suffered heavy casualties and all their sails and masts were destroyed, still stubbornly floated on the sea and refused to sink.

    To a certain extent, this also demonstrates the excellence of Spanish shipbuilding technology.  In the end, under Jin Ke's persuasion, Lao Wang gave up his plan to burn the three incapacitated warships with rockets, accepted the surrender of the Spanish crew and soldiers, and got three Spanish galleons with tattered chrysanthemums and intact hulls.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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