Super Chief - Chapter 686

The commander in charge of this improvised squadron is Rear Admiral Baron Lager of the Royal French Navy. The French Navy has an additional three-tier battleship. In addition, Baron Lager took the initiative to ask for it, so this one The squadron was handed over to him to command.

　　 Lager and Julian Luc, the former commander of the Guadeloupe fleet, are good friends and fellows, and the relationship between the two is very good.

　　 Julian Luc lost his life in that naval battle in the Chesapeake Bay. After the bad news spread back to the French mainland, Lager was sad for a long time.

　　 Now he finally has a chance to avenge his old friend, he can’t wait.

Lager looked at the two lonely black warships five kilometers away, a sharp light flashed in his eyes, and ordered the signal flag for the assault of the whole army to be raised. The twenty sailing warships were opened in a very short time. After finishing all the sails, it began to accelerate under the impetus of the sea breeze.

Lager is also a very experienced senior navy general. He led his squadron to participate in several battles of Gibraltar. His fleet and the Spaniards united in the sea off Gibraltar and fought against the Royal Navy several times. attack.

　　Experienced Lager naturally knew that the Yanhuang tribe had a long-range artillery, so his first order was to advance at full speed. Because only by getting closer, this squadron can take advantage of the number of artillery to completely kill those two strange warships.

The Mystic River and the Charles River converge on the east side of the Boston Fortress, forming a channel with a width of more than one kilometer and a length of more than five kilometers, with a northwest-southeast direction as a whole. This channel will be called “Boston Lord” in later generations. channel”.

Now the warships that the two sides are fighting are located in the main channel of Boston. The squadron of Lager is located to the northwest of the main channel, and the two steel warships of the Yanhuang tribe are located at the exit of the main channel in the southeast. The distance between the two is More than five kilometers.

　　The attention of the people watching the battle on both sides focused on the two fleets, especially the many officers of the joint fleet, almost all of them were watching with monoculars in their hands.

As a result, something they did not expect happened. Lager’s fleet just hoisted the flag of full-speed advance, and dozens of huge splashes of water suddenly rose on the sea not far from Lager’s fleet, and then it was a kind of A strange scream sounded, followed by the muffled sound like thunder in the distance…

　　Almost all officers of the United Fleet who were watching this naval battle felt a numb scalp, and an almost identical thought emerged from the hearts of these officers—Christ that Jesus, can this group of indigenous artillery shoot so far?

　　 Even Abbasnot, Cirencester, Perez, and Sebastian were taken aback by the sudden shelling.

　　 They only knew that the Yanhuang tribe had a long-range artillery, but none of them had seen this artillery in person.

　　 Now this kind of artillery fires at a distance of five kilometers, and it fires so accurately. Obviously, the range of this artillery is far more than five kilometers!

　　 This situation really frightened all naval officers.

　　 But on the Navajo and Pueblo, the respective gunners are bearing the roar from the captain.

　　 “How did you aim? How come the first round of the volley is so bad? Give me a bit of energy, aim well, and let the gang of Vasichu see how powerful our Yanhuang fleet is!”

Navajo and Pueblo are two newly launched Cherokee-class steel battleships. Like the Cherokee-class battleship’s first ship, Cherokee, these two battleships are equipped with four double 105mm ships. The main gun, there are six twin 76mm guns as secondary guns, and sixteen 76mm mortars as rapid-fire guns.

　　 A warship is equipped with 36 artillery pieces. Although the range of the 76 mortar is far inferior to that of the 105 main gun and the 76mm gun, the range of this mortar can exceed five kilometers.

　　 And compared with the main gun and the secondary gun, the firing rate of the 76 mortar is much more terrifying. It is the most suitable to supplement the gap between the main gun and the secondary gun.

The shells of the 　　 76 mortar are naturally not as strong as the armor-piercing capabilities of the main and secondary artillery shells, but this kind of extremely fast firing mortar is the best for washing the deck. And after all, it is a 76mm high-explosive grenade, once it can hit one, it is enough to cause huge damage to the wooden sailing warship.

　　 Compared with the main gun and the secondary gun which are aimed at an enemy ship respectively, the 76 mortar relies on the rate of fire to make a covering strike.

　　, with a rate of fire almost every four seconds, quickly formed a barrage on the route of the enemy ship.

　　 Unlike the precise shooting of the main gun and the secondary gun, the 76 mortar is purely based on quantity.

　　 But obviously, at this distance, the number is more effective than precise aiming.

　　 Because just when the 76 mortars started the third round of salvos, two 76mm high-explosive grenades landed on the decks of two enemy ships.

The ballistic curvature of the 　　 76 mortar is very large, so it is destined that it is difficult for this type of gun to penetrate the side of the enemy ship. Most of the 76 mortar shells directly attack the enemy deck.

　　 The same is true for these two high-explosive grenades. One shell landed on the bow deck of a second-class battleship, and the other shell hit the middle deck of a cruiser.

The high-explosive grenade that landed on the second-class battleship directly cleaned the bow deck of the second-class battleship by one third, and scattered fragments swept through that area in an instant, and more than twenty Spanish sailors were killed or injured. .

　　 However, this second-class battleship has shown the hardness of its second-class battleship ~ www.mtlnovel.com~ This shell only caused casualties to the sails on the bow, but it did not make the warship lose its combat effectiveness.

　　 But the cruiser that was hit was unlucky because the high-explosive grenade not only pierced the middle deck, but also ignited the ammunition on the lower deck. So this cruiser with only two decks, first a big orange fireball came out from the middle of the deck, and then it made a huge explosion. The whole battleship exploded in an instant. The forty-meter-long cruiser was fried to pieces.

　　 The hundreds of French sailors on this cruiser didn’t even have a chance to jump off the ship, so they turned into gray.

The scene of 　　 ammunition exploding is certainly spectacular, but it depends on who is watching the scene.

　　 The mortarers on the Navajo and Pueblo were naturally cheering, but the combined fleet was dead.

　　None of them thought that a cruiser disappeared on the sea just half a minute after the signal flag was raised at full speed. If we continue to fight in this rhythm, perhaps these 20 warships will not be able to get close to those two warships at all, and they will be broken by others…