Super Chief - Chapter 687

Lager was also taken aback. He really did not expect that the firepower of the indigenous tribe warship would be so fierce.

　　 Looking at the cruiser whose ammunition exploded, Lagere felt very distressed.

　　 Although the Spaniard’s second-class ship also received a shot, Lager did not feel distressed. After all, it was a Spaniard’s warship. But this cruiser is indeed its own battleship, can’t you feel bad about it?

　　Especially after the War of Independence and the offensive and defensive battle of the Gibraltar Fortress, the number of battleships of the French Navy has shrunk greatly. Now even a Tier 4 ship is invaluable to the entire French Navy.

　　 But the battle didn’t even start for a minute. This Tier 4 ship that had experienced several sea battles just disappeared…

　　Lagel is very distressed, really distressed. But he didn’t feel distressed for much time, and the situation had already tilted quickly toward an abyss he could not imagine.

You must know that the edges of the main channel of Boston at this time are not as neat as later generations. In later generations, after more than two hundred years of construction, the river banks on both sides of the main channel of Boston have been occupied by piers and embankments. The drawing is the same.

　　 The two sides of the main channel of Boston are still uneven. The widest place can reach 1.5 kilometers, but the narrow place is only more than 800 meters.

　　 Twenty warships traveling in such a narrow channel will inevitably become very close to each other. Therefore, whether it is the artillery on the Navajo or the Pueblo, they can fire calmly.

Especially the extremely fast 76 mortar and 76 guns. Although the number of these two guns is far less than the number of artillery on the sail battleship, they can’t hold them. The rate of fire is too fast, and the 76 mm guns The lethality of high-explosive grenades is also extremely impressive.

An average of four or five seconds of a round of volleys made the water surface of Boston’s main channel seem to be raining grenades. Although most of the shells could not hit the target, huge splashes of water were thrown on the water. But once A single shot can immediately cause huge damage to the sailing warships of the combined fleet.

　　 After the first Tier 4 ship was shattered by ammunition exploded, the second battleship with ammunition exploded soon appeared.

　　 That is a third-class British ship.

This battleship was very unlucky. Originally, this battleship was ranked at the back. Compared to the front battleship, it was safer. As a result, the ghost knew the reason. The two 105s in the turret of the No. 2 main battery on the Navajo The shells fired by the main guns hit this Tier 3 ship in a flash.

　　 Although the 105 main gun is quite powerful, it is still unable to sink the warships of this era with a single cannon of Tier 4 or above under normal circumstances.

But this British Class III ship was a bit unlucky. The two shells almost hit the same spot, and then the two shells exploded at a distance of less than ten meters. The huge explosive force was on the upper deck of the Class III ship. A large and terrifying hole was opened on the upper floor, which was more than fifteen meters in length, and all the British sailors in this area disappeared.

　　 The huge explosion also terrified the captain of this third-class ship. The captain was standing on the middle front of the deck and almost entered the explosion range of the two artillery shells.

　　 Seeing that his battleship suffered such a heavy damage, the captain was also very distressed, but he felt more fortunate in his heart.

　　 The end of the French fourth-class ship just now, the captain has already seen his eyes. Although his ship has received two artillery shells, there is no ammunition exploded at any rate.

　　 Well, so lucky, so lucky! God is on my side today…

The captain had just milked himself in his heart, and felt that a majestic force burst out from under his feet. In a daze, the captain only felt that he was rising in the air, the last scene he saw in his eyes. It was that the middle of his battleship was swallowed by a huge flame that burst out suddenly…

　　 The explosion of this three-tier ship once again shocked everyone in the combined fleet.

If the bombing of the ammunition of the Tier 4 ship just now can be explained by the luck of the enemy ship, then as this Tier 3 ship is shattered to pieces, everyone understands that this originally seemed to be a crushed naval battle, the real result. I am afraid it is really crushed-but it is not the two strange warships that are crushed by the combined fleet, but the two ships crushing the twenty ships here!

　　 After all, it has been less than three minutes since Lager ordered the offensive signal flag to be hoisted, and now that the three ships have sunk two and one injured. And at the speed of a sailing warship, it can’t even get out of 600 meters in three minutes…

If we continue to develop in this rhythm, when these 20 warships rush to the distance where they can fire, it is estimated that at least half of them will have to be sunk by the two warships, and the two warships will not even move. Can do this.

　　 This is definitely an unacceptable fact, but even though the commanders of the combined fleet and those captains are more uncomfortable than eating a poop, they have to accept this fact.

　　 The stone bear on the Cherokee-class battleship, which was far away, saw this scene through the telescope, but his face showed a satisfied smile.

　　 Ishikuma never thought that sailing warships could cause any damage to their own steel warships. Steel warships far surpassed sailing warships of this era in terms of speed, defense and firepower. If there is anything inferior to a sailing warship, it is the voyage.

　　 There is no way, this kind of steel battleship that relies on burning coal to obtain power, the biggest restriction is on the voyage.

　　In terms of the power of the current steam engine, a fully loaded steel battleship ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Even at cruising speed, the maximum range is only 700 nautical miles…

　　 In other words, although the current steel battleship is far ahead of the sail battleship in other aspects, it is still far from being able to sail across the ocean.

　　 Steel battleships of this level can only be used to patrol and defend the coastline.

　　 But in this battle, the power of the steel battleship is still fully revealed. Especially after two of our warships used static shooting, the hit rate soared.

　　 The main channel of Boston can be regarded as a bay. It is calm and the waves are calm here. When shooting statically here, the hit rate will be much higher than when sailing. Coupled with the fact that the enemy ships lined up and charged forward again, this gave the two Cherokee-class warships an excellent opportunity.

　　 Ten minutes later, the original twenty combined fleet warships that had charged in a hurry, had to start to charge while doing a serpentine maneuver. But even so, in the voyage of less than two kilometers, there were six floating woods left on the water, and there were black smoke on the other nine ships. Of the twenty battleships that were intact at the time of departure, only five of them now remain in full shape…