Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

"Concentrate firepower! The target is the Zhenwu, the flagship of the Chinese army!"

At ten o'clock in the morning, the closest distance between the two sides reached about 9000 meters.

John Jervis gave the order to fire.

Dozens of British cannons opened fire almost simultaneously.

The solid armor-piercing projectiles fired by the 330mm main gun were like meteorites, roaring towards the battleship Zhenwu.

Boom boom boom! !

In the first wave of shelling, one of the shells landed eight meters from the bow of the Zhenwu.

Huge water columns rose into the sky, forming a small storm.

However, the officers and soldiers on the Zhenwu did not panic.

As the officers and soldiers of the most core warships of the Ming Empire, they are all elites selected from the best among naval soldiers and officers.

Many of these officers are the second generation of the Ming Dynasty's honorees - the biggest source of the Ming Dynasty's honors is of course the heroes who followed the Emperor Guangfu to expel the Tartars and restore China, but some of them are honors from the previous Ming Dynasty. Noble descendants.

Because the inheritance system of the Ming Dynasty is completely inherited by the eldest son.

and so.

Those noble descendants who are not the eldest sons have to find their own way out.

Among them, branches such as naval officers require relatively high cultural knowledge.

It has attracted a lot of second-generation nobles - don't you see, even the third son of the Ming Dynasty emperor came to work on the warship.

Therefore, everyone knows that the difficulty of hitting in the first round of shelling is comparable to being struck by lightning.

The accuracy of naval guns of this era is very problematic.

Basically, if you can hit one out of a hundred shots, it's considered good.

Whether you can hit or not depends largely on luck.

So the advantage of rapid-fire cannons is here - the hit rate is not high, but the number and quantity make up for it.

Cum a few more times.

There's always a chance of hitting the target.

The British army's large-caliber retractable artillery fires one round every few minutes, while the small-caliber rapid-fire artillery equipped by the Ming army fires several rounds per minute, which is almost a tenfold difference.

Even with the same hit rate, the advantages of rapid-fire cannons are very obvious - this excludes the situation where small-caliber cannons are more flexible and the shooting angle is more convenient to adjust, resulting in a relatively higher hit rate.

Based on the fundamental differences in the naval concepts of the two sides.

Therefore, the current British naval equipment generally has a very slow rate of fire, but it can fire large-caliber solid armor-piercing projectiles - because solid projectiles cannot explode, the only way to ensure power is to increase the caliber as much as possible.

In fact, if a solid projectile with a caliber of 330 mm penetrates the armor of a battleship from the waterline, the power is quite considerable - but it comes back to another problem. It is difficult for current artillery to hit, so how can it be guaranteed? What about hitting the waterline accurately?

Compared to the British Army.

The Ming Navy chose basically rapid-fire cannons. Battleships are generally equipped with rapid-fire cannons. Even the main guns are [-]-inch rapid-fire cannons, which use bombs as the main means of damage.

Zhang Bao, the governor of the Ming Dynasty's Indian Ocean Fleet, breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that the opponent's round of shelling did not hit.

"The British's next main gun salvo will be five minutes later. The Zhenwu has already taken a roundabout turn."

Zhang Bao thought.

"Now we have to see if God will be on our side!"

Chen Huacheng took a deep breath.

It was different from what John Jervis expected.

The poor students of the Ming Navy have no intention of letting the more flexible cruiser/frigate fleet go roundabout.

Instead, he directly chose to let twelve town-level battleships take a detour! !

so.
If the Zhenwu and other battleships detour back to the side.

The Hong Lie, which has lost half of its power, will be exposed to the threat of the British main artillery.

How could the Honglie, which was only 330 tons, withstand the bombardment of a [-]mm cannon?

"Mr. Governor, you can turn around!"

At this time, a staff officer reminded loudly.

"Turn around!" Zhang Bao took a deep breath.

There is no one who does not die in a war.

If the Hong Lie was sunk.

The children of Deng Huanzhuang and the Deng family in Guangzhou will be well taken care of by the Ming Empire!
And if Deng Huanzhuang survives.

Then with his merits in this battle, he may even have a future as Minister of the Navy in the future, and may even have the possibility of becoming a lord and a nobleman - he has a clean background, was born in the Naval Academy, and was gradually promoted due to his merits, and it was still very early. An old revolutionary whose whole family follows him must have a chance with such a background.

just now.

It all depends on Deng Huanzhuang's own luck.

"Full right rudder!!"

Zhang Bao's order quickly reached the captain of the Zhenwu, Zhu Yixian, who had a broken arm.

Zhu Yixian was also slightly injured and could not leave the line of fire.

He even stood injured on the command tower, letting all the officers and soldiers on the ship see that the emperor's son had died fighting on the ship, so what reason did everyone have not to fight to the death.

The huge Zhenwu ship suddenly turned to the right.

This scene.

Admiral John Jervis and his deputy Will Smith, who stood in the control tower of the Vostok and had been observing the opponent's movements with telescopes, were stunned.

what happened?

Why did the battleship turn instead of the cruiser as everyone expected?

In the control tower.

A sentence came to mind among the staff officers of the British Empire's Indian Ocean Fleet: It's over, the commander guessed wrong again!
Ok?
Why do we need to add another one?

Everyone looked at John Jervis.

This admiral may be the unlucky guy who ruined the maritime supremacy of the British Empire.

Everyone is lamenting in their hearts.

The enemy's unexpected actions disrupted all previous plans.

John Jervis is also confused.

He turned to look at Will Smith: "Is this the student you taught? How did you teach? Who told them that in a double column, use the slower battleship to turn around and let the weak cruiser go? Being bombarded?!"

John Jervis really can't figure it out.

How stupid are the Chinese people opposite us?

Will looked at the scene in front of him blankly: "Zhang Bao! This guy must have deserted when he was in school! This guy's grades were not good when he was in school. He became the governor of the Ming Dynasty's Indian Ocean Fleet because of his father's work. Relationship! It must be like this!!"

Boom boom boom! !

Just now.

The roar of artillery made all the officers in the command tower pull their chaotic thoughts back to the battlefield.

16 British battleships completed another salvo.

The well-trained British gunners took 4 minutes to fire a volley.

But this time the bombardment was even worse.

Because their previous target, the Zhenwu, was very ungrateful and turned away.

And in just a few minutes, it was impossible for John Jervis to let more than a dozen warships complete the tactical movements of adjusting their aim.

In particular, the shooting angle of the exposed turrets of the dozens of battleships arranged in a horizontal formation was very narrow.

If the Zhenwu can rush over as they expected.

Then it will receive a frontal bombardment from dozens of huge main guns.

but now
People turned.

Thus.

Not to mention that the gunners of the British battleships had no time to adjust.

Even if they have time.
The narrow shooting angle also did not allow them to complete their aiming. The battle formation had to turn as a whole before they could continue to aim at the Zhenwu.
Therefore, this round of shelling only made a sound, and the water splashed by the shells falling on the sea did not even splash onto the Ming Dynasty's warships (End of Chapter)