Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 265 Chapter 265

Datang Group's cannonball fuze is much stronger than other flowering bomb fuzes of this era, and its precision has made it completely unlike a product of this era.

Although due to precision machining, the yield rate of shells is actually not particularly high, but compared to the blooming shells that Cyric has just started to mass-produce, it is not known how many ranks are higher.

Even, this fuze has a safety device, which has been completely separated from the shell, and is only installed on the shell when it is fired.

When the soldiers used a special tool to twist the safety lock on the shell and then let the shell be fully activated, the enemy's nightmare seemed to begin.

The shell is pushed into the barrel, followed by the propellant, and the breech block is tightly closed.

Compared with the wedge-shaped breech block of C64, the brand-new breech block has been improved by one generation, and a threaded breech block that is more suitable for large-caliber artillery is chosen.This is more suitable for the ship's artillery, and also increases the rate of fire some.

After the breech breech turned half a turn and completely closed, the gunner couldn't wait to pull down the firing device of the cannon, and the tail of the cannon suddenly sat back, and the huge cannon sound was transmitted to everyone's ears through the steel plate .

Even with special earplugs, this muffled sound is still breathtaking.Some people covered their ears, some people turned their backs to the artillery, and everyone tried their best to relieve the pressure on their ears.

The propellant of the shell was ignited by the fuze of the cannon, and the gunpowder violently turned into flames in the combustion chamber. The gas expanded instantly, and the shell, which was slightly larger than the rifling of the gun body, was embedded in the rotating thread, and it spun forward rapidly.

The shell rotated along the rifling, and the huge force caused the metal around it to be squeezed and deformed by the rifling. It accelerated violently in the barrel, and then suddenly broke free at the muzzle.

At this moment, there were no rifling around the cannonball that forced it to rotate continuously, the air suddenly reduced the friction, and its speed suddenly jumped to a height of several hundred meters per second.

The surrounding air was suddenly pushed away by the air wave, and the flames in the barrel rushed out of the muzzle, raging around the muzzle of the artillery.

In the next second, the shell, which had already broken through the sound barrier, quickly passed over a distance of more than 700 meters, and within a little more than a second, it accurately hit a sailing warship that was firing.

The shell of the cannonball has become hot and red due to the friction between it and the air, and it is still rotating slowly to maintain a very stable trajectory.

When the shell hit the not-so-hard wooden hull, its fuze was activated by the impact, and the device inside ignited the detonator.

The detonator exploded immediately, igniting the charge inside the shell, and the fire filled the shell all of a sudden, causing the air inside to expand dozens of times in an instant.

The shell of the shell that had been burnt red due to the heat of friction broke apart in an instant, releasing itself to impact and cut everything encountered around it.

The shrapnel shattered the surrounding wooden cabins, severed the ropes of the hammock, penetrated the human body as soft as tofu, and broke bones weaker than bamboo.

The shock wave spread out, kneading and tearing everything around, and the gang wind easily disintegrated the corpse and the thick hull structure like a knife.

The improved fuze delay has been slightly increased, which greatly increases the destructive power of the shell after it hits the wooden sailboat.

When the explosion spread and spread to farther places, the parts hit by the shells were already in a mess.

When the sailors whose lower body was distorted and deformed by the shock wave flew into the air and began to fall downward, the internal organs of the sailors farther away had been shattered and bleeding.

In the next second, the deck of the wooden battleship was lifted by the airflow below, and it swelled rapidly like a balloon being blown up.

The soldiers standing on the deck flew into the sky along with the logs under their feet, and then fell down heavily.

Because of the violent explosion, the originally seemingly solid hull was shredded into more sharp debris, which filled the flying steel shrapnel, and filled almost all the blank places like a goddess scattered flowers.

And all of this happened within a second, and when it was over, people who still had thinking didn't even have time to react.

When the countless debris fell to the ground, the lives around those explosions were completely silent, and there was no more sound.

Then, the keel structure had been destroyed, the deck support had been damaged, and a large piece of the hull of this wooden sailing battleship had been completely lost. The main mast began to collapse instantly due to the tearing of the wind and the collapse of the structure supporting it.

It cut off the cross-mast on the front mast at once, and smashed heavily on the bow deck with a large pile of canvas and ropes.

The adjutant next to the steering wheel at the stern managed to get up from the deck. He felt dizzy before he recognized the captain beside him, and felt the battleship under his feet tremble.

Then, a bigger explosion knocked him away—the gunpowder stored inside the battleship, that is, the propellant of the muzzle gun, exploded, and the second explosion disintegrated the entire battleship instantly, turning it into a pile Broken wood.

It was not without luck. Although another warship following this sailing warship was hit by a shell, it did not explode.

At this time, on the battleship whose hull had already begun to tilt, the sailors were attracted by the explosion not far away.

They were surprised to see that their comrades were thrown into the air by the air current, and they were broken in two during the ascent.

And when they turned their attention back to their feet again, their battleship had tilted at least 15 degrees.

The flooding overwhelmed the masts of the gigantic warship, snapped their ropes and collapsed to one side.

The screams were endless, and the wailing of the injured made the people around them shudder.Some people have dived to escape, and others are trying to save their battleships.

Finally the muzzle-loading guns fixed to the emplacements broke free of their ropes on tilt, and the wooden wheels beneath them crushed the toes of the gunners who were trying to stop them sliding to the other side, and rushed to the lower side.

Then, these heavy cannons hit the cannons on the other side, making the roll of the entire battleship even more serious.

Then, the battleship sank in the sea like this, its hull fell directly, and everyone on it fell into the sea.

Some climbed onto the mast, some grabbed the sails, some stood on the side of the hull, and some just poked their heads out of the transverse gun ports.

They saw a battleship emitting thick smoke cutting through the waves a few hundred meters away, without even looking at them, they continued to move forward with another battleship that was exactly the same in front of them.

From the beginning to the end, this capsized sailing warship only suffered two shots, and one of them was a poor 75mm caliber C64 old-fashioned naval gun...

But it has now completely capsized and will soon sink to the bottom of the sea.It didn't even miss a shot, because the enemy ship was still 800 meters away when it was hit.

Bernard didn't intend to let go of any warships of the Kingdom of Taron, so after defeating the 21 warships on the Na side of the figure-of-eight, he ordered the warships to continue to accelerate and circle a large circle along the route.

The boiler that has been fully heated can obviously work at full speed, which makes the formation speed of the entire Datang Group's fleet reach 30 kilometers per hour.

This speed has crushed all the fleets of this era, so after making a big circle, the Datang Group's fleet caught up with the enemy's fleet on the other side that was slowly turning around from the outside.

That is to say, when Varun's fleet was dispatched by him into a complex "vertical hook" shape.Datang Group's fleet caught up with them from their outer circle.

The positions of the fleets of the two sides have become an interesting "er" shape, but the letter "er" is a bit short.

In the process of cutting in, the Datang Group's fleet turned its muzzle, so that all the turrets were aimed at the other side.

After all, just now they met the enemy on the starboard side, but now they are fighting on the port side.This change also happened to allow all the artillery positions on the other side of the battleship to join the battle.

Because Bernard's fleet was too fast, his angle of entry was from the outside, so Varen, who was turning the fleet, still couldn't fully see the Datang Group's fleet.

He could only see the black smoke that was drifting over the sea, and the wreckage of his squadron scattered on the battlefield.

Varen couldn't figure out why he fell into such a passive situation. He clearly had an absolute advantage in military strength.

He brought 70 Tier 1 sailing warships, which were absolute sea supremacy a year ago.

Each battleship has dozens of expensive front-loading guns, and each battleship can accommodate hundreds of brave and skilled soldiers.

But now, standing on his flagship, he couldn't even see what his enemy looked like.

More than [-] battleships are lying across the sea, and his battleship is probably at the front of the fleet.From this position, he couldn't see the tail of his battle line at all, and he could only watch helplessly as the chaos spread in his fleet.

As a sea general, he considers himself not an idiot. He has led troops for so many years and won many naval battles.

Before today, he was an extremely self-confident, even somewhat conceited general. He even once thought that he was the best naval commander—no one!

He knew that he couldn't give complex orders frequently in battle, because he couldn't mobilize the entire fleet in time because of the limitation of communication means.

But the opponent's strength beyond his cognition forced him to be unable to act according to the pre-arranged plan, and could only temporarily change his deployment during the battle.

(End of this chapter)