Daming Crazy Emperor

The Spaniards have attacked!
Holding up the binoculars, Desierra looked at the iron-clad battleship approaching gradually, his heart pounding.

If this was an iron-clad warship of the Ming Empire, he would have taken his people away.

Because the twelve-pound guns of the armored battleships of the Ming Empire couldn't be fired at all, and their coastal defense guns were almost equivalent to twelve-pound guns.

Fortunately, the iron-clad warships built by the European Confederation do not seem to be as good as the iron-clad warships of the Ming Empire.

It seems that the armor is made of cast iron plates directly, and it has not been smashed at all.

He had heard about this a long time ago, otherwise he wouldn't have the guts to stay here and lead someone to fight back.

Forty armored warships, even a round of broadside salvo is nearly [-] shells!
They have less than a thousand coastal defense guns.

Now their only advantage seems to be the telescope.

They all used Daming military binoculars with scales on them, and they also nailed many wooden pillars with dimensions near the pier.

The dimensions on these wooden pillars can be used as a reference, allowing them to accurately estimate the position of the enemy ship.

In other words, the accuracy of their artillery must be higher than that of the enemy.

At this time, the forty ironclad warships were less than ten miles away from them, and it was time to load ammunition.

There is a saying in the Ming Dynasty, "The first to attack is the strong, and the second to attack will suffer."

He can completely use the advantage of the telescope to give others the spirit of a round of precise bombardment to kill the enemy.

Thinking of this, he decisively ordered: "All artillery is loaded with ammunition."

The artillerymen under him have been practicing for several years, and the speed of loading ammunition is simply not too fast.

After a while, flags indicating that the ammunition was loaded were erected everywhere.

He silently calculated the angle and range of the artillery, and then continued to order: "Adjust all artillery to [-] degrees."

This angle is already very small. If they weren't on the city wall, they couldn't adjust the angle of the artillery so small, or the shells might hit the ground before they reached the range.

The advantage of such a small adjustment is that the range of the artillery can reach the maximum, and it will definitely be able to blast more than five miles.

Soon, the command flags whose angles had been adjusted were erected one after another.

At this time, rely on the telescope in your hand.

He slowly adjusted the focal length of the telescope, so that the scale line on the telescope coincided with the scale line on a column near the pier, and then compared the changes in the scales on other columns, and then slowly swept the telescope towards Enemy Ironclad Battleship.

After such comparison and adjustment, the accuracy can reach within one foot, while the enemy's battleship is several feet wide.

In other words, their shells will fall on the enemy's battleship in all likelihood!

He constantly compared the reference scale lines, and measured the distance of the enemy ships. Finally, a row of ten warships led by the enemy had already entered their range.

At this time, there is no rush, because the enemy has forty armored warships rushing up.

Moreover, their artillery was not on the same line. In order to ensure the hit rate, he waited for all the enemy's warships to come into range before firing.

At this time, the forty ironclad battleships had already begun to slow down and move forward slowly.

Obviously, they also judged that the distance between the two sides was only five or six miles.

However, the ironclad battleship had to get a little closer to fire.

Because they are on the sea, while others are on the city wall.

This height difference is a bit much, the height of the pier alone is more than ten feet high, and the city wall is nearly two feet high, and the artillery on their three-story gun tower is not as high as the artillery on the other city wall.

In other words, they had to be within five miles before they could fire, so that it was possible to hit the shells on the city wall.

Forty iron-clad warships finally entered the range of fire, and these iron-clad battleships began to shift to the left neatly, and the gun doors on the right also opened one after another.

Seeing this, Desierra ordered without hesitation: "Light it up, fire it up."

"Boom!" There was a violent artillery roar, and nearly a thousand shells roared and smashed towards the iron-clad battleship on the sea.

What will be the result?

At this time, the result cannot be seen immediately, because hundreds of huge water columns have been splashed on the sea surface, and the telescope can only see a piece of water mist.

De Sierra ordered without hesitation: "Order, all artillery chambers are cleared, ready to reload ammunition."

He waited for a while until the water column fell and the water mist was blown away, then he raised his binoculars to scan.

After sweeping it, he was both surprised and delighted.

What he liked was that his armor was really not that good.

After this round of volley, many armors were smashed by them, and the wooden boards below were also exposed.

In other words, they only need one more salvo to smash through this fake ironclad battleship.

Although it may not be possible to sink other people's warships, as long as the shells can be smashed in, many people can always be killed.

To his surprise, the artillery had already been pushed out, ready to broadside salvo.

These cannonballs are not edible, one cannonball can kill and injure several people.

He quickly ordered: "Order, everyone hides."

After saying that, he also squatted down and leaned against the arrow stack.

The enemy did fire.

However, the roar of the artillery was not as dense as imagined, giving people the feeling that they didn't have as many artillery as they did.

Moreover, the accuracy of this round of shelling was also very poor, only a few dozen shells fell on the city wall.

What is going on here?
Deixeira was stunned for a moment, then understood in an instant.

The shells that fell between the armored battleships also made a contribution. The water column stirred up by hundreds of shells wet many enemy's artillery!
Cannons these days can't touch water. Once the cannon gets wet with water, not only will the fuse on the outside fail to ignite, but the gunpowder inside will also be wet, making it impossible to fire the cannon at all.

This is also the reason why building ships and gunboats have gun ports.

To put it bluntly, the gun door is waterproof.

Warships sailing on the sea will inevitably encounter wind and waves. If there is no gun port, once the sea water pours into the gun tower and wets the gun inside, it will be a big trouble.

When the battleships are bombarding each other at sea, they close the gun doors as soon as the guns are fired, trying to prevent the water droplets stirred up by the enemy's shells from floating into the gun tower.

This time, the telescope was indeed successful.

Because the enemy couldn't see what they were doing, but he saw the enemy's gun door open.

Moreover, the gun doors of others are not the kind of eaves-style gun doors that turn up, but are opened to both sides, which can't stop the water drops falling from the upper side at all.

Perhaps, you can take advantage of this and try to wet the enemy's artillery so that the enemy has no advantage at all.

Thinking of this, Deixeira stood up abruptly, raised his binoculars and scanned.

At this moment, the enemy's armored battleship began to turn again, this time to the right, and they were still approaching the city wall.

It seemed that most of the artillery on the enemy's right side was wet, and it didn't take a quarter of an hour to dry it at all.

Upon seeing this, De Sierra immediately ordered: "Order, all the cannons are loaded with ammunition, and the angles are raised by five degrees."

After a while, the artillery everywhere raised the flags indicating that the ammunition had been loaded and the angle had been adjusted.

However, De Sierra did not give the order to fire.

Because the enemy's armored battleship was still turning, the gun doors had not yet been opened.

It seems that the enemy has also learned how to behave, and will not open the cannon until it is time to fire!

This doesn't matter much, anyway, people's cannons have to be pushed out to fire, and they can directly ignite and fire, the time difference is enough.

Desierra just stared at the gun ports of the enemy ship until the gun doors opened one after another, and then he gave the order: "Fire, fire."

"Booming", there was a violent roar of artillery, and hundreds of huge water jets were stirred up on the sea.

This time, Deshaira didn't wait for the water column to fall, and directly ordered: "Everyone stay hidden."

Anyway, he has already found the trick, so there is no need to worry at all right now.

He just waited for the next time someone opened the gun door to prepare for a broadside salvo before firing. After a few rounds, it is estimated that his artillery will misfire.

The intensity of the enemy's salvo this round was similar to that of the previous round, but this round, hundreds of shells hit the city wall.

Well, just hit whatever you want, since they are all hiding anyway, and Daming's gunpowder barrels are all punched out of thick steel plates, a shell can hit a hole at most, and it won't break at all.

After the enemy fired a round of salvo, De Sierra immediately stood up and raised his binoculars to scan.

With this sweep, he couldn't help being dumbfounded.

The enemy's armored battleship turned around and ran away!
Is that the end?

Oquendo really didn't want to waste any more time. He had already seen that the defenders in El Salvador were very sophisticated, and they only fired when they opened the gun doors.

With such a confrontation, it is estimated that all forty ironclad warships will be misfired in a few rounds.

Moreover, the hit rate of their shells was astonishingly high. Many armors of the armored battleship were smashed, and the wooden boards were exposed.

If you let people bombard a few more rounds, you don't know how many shells will hit the iron-clad battleship.

Their iron-clad warships were densely packed with people, and if shells hit them, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Therefore, he could only order the armored battleship to retreat and withdraw from the bombardment range of other artillery.

These iron-clad warships that have been returned are quite miserable. They have been smashed into countless holes on the surface, and they are densely packed, just like a lame head.

Seeing this, Oquendo couldn't help sighing slightly: "Your Excellency Marshal, it seems that we can't take El Salvador. They have too many coastal defense guns, and their accuracy is ridiculously high."

Well, Wallenstein naturally saw this.

He frowned and pondered for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go directly into the bay, find a place to land, build a temporary dock, and cut off the connection between El Salvador and the inland colonies.

I would like to see what they will do if we seize all their colonies. "

That's all there is to it now.

Oquendo immediately ordered that the fleet turn to the west and enter the nearby bay.

It is more troublesome for them to find a place to land, because they are all large warships with a deep draft, and they dare not approach the general coastline at all, or they will hit the bottom and run aground if they are not careful.

They could only move forward slowly while detecting the water depth, hoping to find a place with a suitable water depth and a gentle slope on the shore.

The bay next to El Salvador has a radius of a hundred miles, and the coastline is hundreds of miles long. Naturally, there are places like this.

They searched along the coastline to the east of the bay for nearly an hour, and finally found such a suitable place to land.

However, they did not have Spike warships, nor did they have the equipment to quickly build temporary docks.

They can only let the fleet approach the coast, and then let the soldiers with good water skills jump into the water, swim to the shore, and cut down some trees to build a temporary dock.

There seemed to be a lot of trees in this place, at least from the telescope, it was surrounded by dense trees.

In fact, most of these trees were cut down by Qin Yiming to cover the fort!