The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 285 Maritime Military Revolution
On the ocean filled with gunpowder, Admiral Nelson of the British Empire looked at the sinking of the battleships with Union Jack flags in despair, and gave an order to retreat helplessly.

He never dreamed that he would encounter a marine military revolution!
The seemingly weak Sauron Empire Navy not only put the stable flowering bombs on the battleships, but even developed the nailhead flowering bombs.

This kind of nail-headed flower bomb can be fired with a long-barreled cannon, and the nail head on the shell is used to impale on the wooden battleship, and then there is a 'bang'...

No matter how strong the warships of this era are, they can't change the nature of wood. How can a pile of wood block the explosion of the flowering bomb?
As a result, it was no surprise that the wooden battleships of the British army were accurate with one shot, and even explosive shells like explosives could open a hole in the huge battleship.

The first-class battleship of the King of the Sea class, which the British army is proud of, can only carry five or six explosive bombs at most.

This is only the limit of the sinking of the battle. Generally speaking, a first-class battleship loses most of its combat effectiveness after two or three rounds of explosive bombs. The lucky sailors on board can only survive the fire.

Of course, although the navy of Sauron's fleet on the opposite side won the victory, it also suffered a lot of losses.

There are many reasons, the main ones are that the sailors have too little combat experience, the hull is not big enough, and the ability to resist shells is weak.

Even if the British Navy doesn't have stable explosive ammunition, solid ammunition and grape ammunition alone are enough to send the bombardment gunships of the Sauron Empire to the bottom of the sea...

However, precisely because the naval bombardment gunboats of the Sauron Empire are small in size and low in cost, they are faster and more maneuverable, and most importantly, they are not afraid of losses!
Let alone one British battleship for one bombardment gunship of the Sauron Empire, even if ten bombardment gunships were exchanged for one battleship, the Sauron Empire would not lose money!
The main battleships of the British army, due to their huge size and inflexible maneuverability in this naval battle, became standard targets instead.

The original rough skin and thick flesh turned into a large torch in front of the flowering bullets. Under the siege of many small and medium-sized bombardment gunships of the Sauron Empire, it quickly suffered heavy losses.

This was a naval battle that hurt both sides, but the Sauron Empire won completely, because the small and medium-sized bombardment gunships of the Sauron Empire had formed a complete shipbuilding production line, which could be launched into service in a few months, and several production lines were rushing to work at the same time.

Therefore, the Sauron Empire only needs more than half a year to make up for the loss of this naval battle, and the sailors accumulated by the Sauron Empire for more than ten years are enough to cope with the loss of the crew.

In addition, small and medium-sized bombardment gunships also require a small number of crew members.

A small bombardment gunship has less than ten bombardment gunships, and the small size of the ship will reduce the number of maintenance personnel...

Because of this, after the decisive battle at sea, the British Royal Navy no longer dared to enter the offshore waters of the Sauron Empire to fight fiercely.

Otherwise, the Sauron Empire would frequently send bombardment gunships to fight sea battles like Dui Zi, and within a few months, the Atlantic Fleet of the British Empire would be out of ships...

What the British Empire didn't know was that the Sauron Empire didn't use its full strength in this naval battle, and the main force of the more expensive and larger ocean-going large bombardment gunships did not join this naval battle.

Compared with the small and medium-sized bombardment gunships that are easy to produce, the production cycle of large bombardment gunships is longer, and the Sauron Empire's navy cannot afford to lose.

Admiral Nelson's remaining thought at this time was to send the news of this naval military change to the Victorian government.

Overnight, the wooden battleships of the Royal Navy of the British Empire can be eliminated...

In the face of bombardment gunboats, the main force of battleships is not as good as small frigates.

At least, small frigates are small in size and strong in maneuverability, making it easier to avoid nailhead bombs.

The explosive power of the nail-headed bombs turned the wooden battleship into a one-time consumable. Except for the large battleships of the first and second ranks, other warships are basically hit by one shot. Even if they do not sink, the ammunition will be detonated by the flames. The entire ship was set on fire by means of gunpowder kegs in the warehouse.

And every time the flower bomb explodes, it is a bloodbath for the crew and sailors. In front of the flower bomb, the precious sailors become consumables that are cheaper than battleships!

After defeating the British Royal Navy, the Sauron Empire immediately dispatched a larger ocean-going fleet, the main force of which was composed of large bombardment gunships, to escort a troop carrier filled with the elite of the Imperial Legion to the island of Ireland.

Facing the naval operations of the Sauron Empire, the British Royal Navy did not dare to intercept them at all, and only carried out a tentative harassment. As a result, five of the ten warships sank and one was captured...

Under the bombardment of nailhead shells, it has become more difficult to capture warships, because wooden warships can easily be ignited into torches...

This record forced the British Royal Navy to stay away and at the same time frantically called the Victoria government.

The Royal Navy must reform its warships in the shortest possible time!
The technical content of the nailhead bomb is very low. When Admiral Nelson sent several dud bombs to Brittany, the Royal Academy of Sciences imitated the exact same nailhead bomb in just one week.

At the same time, I also understood the magical effect of this weapon.

However, to be clear, the Royal Navy is still caught in a dilemma.

Because according to the research on nail-headed bombs, from now on, wooden-hulled warships will become consumables in naval battles. Even if the ammunition depot and powder barrels are separated, the difference is only that they can take one shot. The shell has evolved to the point where it can take two shells...

The most important thing is that the emergence of bombardment guns makes wooden-hulled warships no longer focus on size, but pursue maneuverability. Naturally, the hull cannot be built as big as possible.

However, the hull cannot be made too large. In order to prevent the gunpowder barrels from being exploded and ignited by explosive shells, the gun bays have to be isolated and modified, and a large number of sandbags must be stuffed in to isolate and extinguish the fire...

This undoubtedly further eroded the space for artillery.

Naturally, the era of wooden battleships with hundreds of cannons on a ship has passed. Ordinary ocean bombardment gunships are generally not equipped with more than ten bombardment guns, even large bombardment gunships. In order to maintain mobility and not become a large target , and can only be equipped with a few dozen bombarders.

And this kind of large bombardment gunboat is of little value in offshore operations, and it is far less useful than the numerous and cheap small and medium-sized bombardment gunships.

Anyway, everyone is a guy who will be finished after one or two shells, so naturally we have to start with the number.

Naturally, the Royal Navy did not want to become a consumable for naval warfare, so the ironclad battleship project that had been secretly developed was put on the table.

(End of this chapter)