Lu Ming

Chapter 194 The police are here
Accompanied by the blazing tropical sunshine, strong sea breeze, and clear and transparent sea water, the 10 sailors on the Yuandou were firing guns at the Galen ship under the blue sky and white clouds.

In order to avoid the smoke caused by free shooting and the loss of accuracy caused by the heaving of the hull, the 10-man shooting team now shoots at the same time, and the squad leader will only give the firing order when the hull shakes to the highest point.

Therefore, the current situation on the sea is: every half minute or so, a row of white smoke will rise neatly from the side of the sand ship. Half a minute later, the gunpowder smoke has already been blown away by the sea breeze, and then the gunshots start again, and so on.

The only downside to this approach is the reduced rate of fire.Erba Dagai, which could shoot 8-10 rounds of lead bullets per minute, can only shoot 1-2 rounds at a slow speed.

However, the Spaniards on the Alicante did not think so.

In 5 minutes, in just 5 minutes, the monster possessed by the devil on the opposite side fired 10 crazy rounds of lead bullets.These terrifying bullets spanned a distance of 400 meters and sent four sailors to the west. Wrong, it was heaven.

As for the artillery fired by the Galen ship in a panic, even the gunner didn't know where the iron ball flew after temporarily increasing the dose.

Second Lieutenant Sandoval saw that the situation was not good, and once ordered the ship to approach the opponent. However, this strange ship, with a puff of blue smoke from the stern from time to time, quickly relied on its strange speed and the advantage of the wind with its hard sails to regain its strength. The distance between the two sides was widened, and the gap was widened to 450 meters.

Traditional Chinese ships have the advantage of maneuvering in turbulent winds, but due to the limitation of the total area of ​​hard sails and dead weight, the speed of the ship is flawed.However, Yuandou, a monster ship that combines dexterity and speed, made Second Lieutenant Sandoval feel powerless and helpless.

Faced with this unprecedented and weird fighting mode, the second lieutenant, who was quick and wise, issued an ostrich order: everyone hides behind the deck, and the ship moves on.

The clever second lieutenant saw the opponent's weakness: relying on the advantages of the ship's speed and range, they were unwilling to fight hand-to-hand with the Alicante, which had an eight-pound gun.

Since this is the case, let’s keep the status quo: the Galen ship is sailing straight with full sail now, lead bullets can’t penetrate the deck, so shoot whatever you want, at worst, add a few more holes in the canvas.
The second lieutenant's order worked quickly.Facing the seemingly empty situation on the deck, the opponent stopped firing the "bird gun".

The next moment, a loud "dong dong" sound suddenly sounded from the sea.The M2HB heavy machine gun with the flash hider removed, even in the glare of the noon sun, still sprayed out high-brightness gun flames and fiery red tracer bullets.

The Spaniards, who stuck out half of their heads from the side of the ship, easily saw the trajectory of the tracer bombs—before they understood what this meant, the 12.7mm armor-piercing incendiary bombs plunged into the poop of the Galen ship.

In the movie clips that people are familiar with in later generations, there are always some cool pirate captains, drinking rum, while smartly turning the wheel in front of them, and steering the sailboat.

However, this kind of picture did not exist before the 18th century.

Before the 18th century, the helmsman controlled the course of the sailing ship by operating the tiller attached to the rudder stock.The whole system is a simple "7"-shaped horizontal switch. The helmsman operates the horizontal side of the 7, and the tail rudder and rudder stock are the vertical side.

This system is primitive and in bad weather it sometimes takes 4 people to withstand the pressure of the bar.Moreover, this kind of rudder stock is placed on the semi-open deck in the stern cabin, unlike the wheel rudder in the movie, which is directly on the open deck.

It only needs to be positioned a little bit behind, and Lei Jian, who is lying on the stern of the Yuandou, can clearly see the position of the floor of the girth handle in the stern of Galen: because only the stern of this floor is smooth. It's open.

Therefore, using short bursts of machine gun ammunition, the level of the tail rudder was quickly tested.

When Lei Jian was in Africa, he could often play AK.Later, in the training stage before the time travel, the ignorant and fearless Lei Jian used all kinds of machine guns, and after time travel, he knew the sinister intentions of a certain chairman who invited him to play machine guns for free.
At a distance of 450 meters, the 12.7mm warhead shattered the deck like tofu. The next moment, the wood chips and warheads wrapped in energy knocked down the sailors in the rudder cabin.

The Alicante then turned a corner on the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The gunfire stopped quickly, and less than 30 rounds were spent.

After seeing the trajectory of the tracer bullets on the sea, Second Lieutenant Sandoval, who almost subconsciously bent down and ran into the stern cabin, was stunned by the tragedy at this moment.

There are human body parts and internal organs all over the floor, a large amount of blood, and the warrior who is still crawling forward after losing his lower half.
After stopping the sailors who came running in, the second lieutenant had an epiphany at this moment: "Stop the ship, lower the sails, raise the white flag, we surrender."

An hour later, the Alicante sailed again.

Naturally, the exploration team had enough translators on their voyage this time.There are not only Spanish translations, but also two small Fujian businessmen who had dealt with the natives of Taipei before.

When the interpreter who came to Galen’s ship in a small boat told Lieutenant Sandoval about the origin of the Yuandou and the request of the exploration team leader Pan Mingzhong, the Spaniard looked at the broken body on the ground, and had no choice but to bow his head and obey. up.

As a result, the Alicante re-moored and sailed towards the officers, while the Yuandou naturally followed behind and started the journey to escort the prisoners.

At this time, there is no need to turn on the wood gas power system, and in fact, the Yuandou can no longer play - the energy density of wood is much lower than that of diesel and coal. After more than 3 hours of chasing and going, the cabin The little fuel stored in the boat has bottomed out, and if you want to play cats chasing mice again, you will have to burn the boards.

Then there was the scene where the police uncle arrived: two soft-sail schooners with hull numbers 301 and 302 arrived head-on shortly after the Galen boat turned around from Cape Kenting and headed north.

The two police ships are based on the 17th-century two-masted schooner, a new type of sailing ship after the ship design company recalculated the line shape.

According to the naming rules of the Navy, these two newly manufactured sailing ships, due to their small tonnage, fell into the class of third-class destroyers: the number starting with the hull number is 3.As for when the second-tier cruisers and first-tier battleships with larger tonnages will be installed, this is out of the question.

Ship No. 301 is 30 meters long and has a displacement of 150 tons. The streamlined hull endows it with the ability to shuttle at high speed on the sea.

The speed of western sailing ships increased from the 17th century to the 18th century, mainly due to the increase in sail area, more and more sails, and higher and higher masts. However, the design of the underwater line progressed very slowly, and the appearance of flying shears , is a thing of the 19th century.

The parts below the waterline of the two new verification destroyers built by the traversers have been optimized through computer simulations of later generations.Although the keel does not recede like a clipper ship, the speed of the new ship is still very high. Without the gas power system, the speed can reach 13 knots per hour with full sail in the wind.

In addition, the sails of the two destroyers have also been changed: the mainsails on the front and rear masts are similar to the gaff sails of Chinese ships, but the hard sails have been changed to white canvas soft sails.

Topsails above the mainsail, whether square or jib, are cancelled.

Europeans need to increase the sail area as much as possible to gain speed, but crossing does not.The speed gains from trimming and adding auxiliary power far outweighed the complex rigging and topsails.

Therefore, the newly released cruiser is not equipped with clumsy square sails that are only suitable for sailing in the wind, but a flexible gaff sail is installed on the mainmast.In addition, on the sword-like long bowsprit of the destroyer, there is a triangle sail suitable for traveling against the wind.

This simplified sail outfit, coupled with the application of the pulley block, makes the destroyer not only flexible and fast, but also has a small crew: 9 combatants + 1 engineer, which can meet all sailing needs.Even with the addition of two artillery crews, 20 people will be full.

As for the armament on the destroyer, there are two imitation Napoleon guns installed on the front and rear decks with rotating mounts and auxiliary aiming equipment.A 12-pound caliber and a 6-pound.

Use the 19th century smoothbore gun to compete with the 17th century ancient red cannon, well, this is bullying, very suitable for traveling through the crowd.

The Napoleon cannon, like Erba Dagai's prototype gun Sharps, belongs to the pinnacle of this field.

A standard 12-pound smoothbore Napoleon gun weighs 556 kg. It can accurately project a 12-pound iron ball to a distance of 5 meters with a 1500-degree firing angle.If the firing angle is increased to 10 degrees, the distance can reach 1900 meters.

At a shooting distance of 1500 meters, the shells of the Napoleon cannon can accurately hit the opponent's artillery, and there were many examples of hitting the opponent's soldiers in the Civil War.

The rate of fire of the Napoleon guns is very fast, and a skilled gun crew can fire 4 rounds per minute-this is more than all the indigenous artillery and firearms in the 17th century.

Therefore, the Napoleon cannon is a highly mobile, fiercely fired weapon that is extremely simple and effective to manufacture and use.Compared with the original snake guns and red cannons in the 17th century, after 200 years of development, the Napoleon cannon, which is perfectly integrated in all aspects, can easily beat the old predecessors.

Even if it is through the crowd, they can only make a fuss about metal smelting now, but there is no way to change the appearance of the Napoleon cannon.In fact, the performance of the first batch of cast iron cannons produced in the kiln area is not as good as that of the bronze Napoleon cannons. It can only be said that they are a little higher than the cast iron cannons of the 19th century.

Throughout the naval battles of this era, including those cannons over 24 pounds, the effective distance will not exceed 700 yards.

Although the maximum range of many large-caliber guns can be as high as 3000 yards or more, at a distance of more than 700 yards, especially in naval battles, the ships of both sides are in their own movements, and the hit rate is appalling.

If they want to achieve a passable hit rate on undulating seas, then the captains must shorten the engagement distance to within 400 or even 300 yards.

In fact, the captains of the British Empire were more inclined to engage in battle at a distance of 150 yards. Even the brown bass can exert its power at this distance, and some captains clamored: put the muzzle on the enemy's face and shoot!
Therefore, the Napoleon guns currently owned by the crossing public have both speed of fire and accuracy. Also within a distance of 1000 meters, the destroyer guns with optical sighting equipment can preemptively strike and use a large number of shots to make up for the hit rate. Opponent ships buried.

At noon the next day, the exploration ship Yuandou, which represented the first time the traversing forces set foot on the coast of the outer island of Taiwan, just caught a small fish and came back.

(End of this chapter)