The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

The reason for switching to this small-caliber continuous-fire artillery piece designed by Luo Chenguang was to complement the slow-firing main gun. You must know that there are no high-tech devices in the main turret of this ironclad ship. The ammunition needs to be loaded manually, so even if a skilled gunner is used to load it, it will take more than a minute, and If it were half-baked amateur gunners like Ye Tianlong and others, the reloading time would probably be extended to more than two minutes.

Therefore, in order to make up for the slow rate of fire of the main gun, Ye Tianlong proposed to replace the secondary battery of the ironclad ship with the small-caliber continuous artillery designed by Luo Chenguang.

Compared with the main guns, there are more such small-caliber secondary guns, with a total of forty in total, located on both sides of the battleship, twenty on the upper deck, and twenty on the lower deck.

In order to protect the gunners, a semi-open simple turret was welded with steel plates on the gun positions located on the upper deck, so that the gunner could hide in the turret, load ammunition, and fire.

As for the gun positions located on the lower deck, protected by the thick side armor of the armored ship, they naturally do not need any turret protection. The gun positions are usually hidden. The steel plates in front of each of the above gun emplacements will be pulled apart, revealing the artillery pieces installed inside.

Ye Tianlong looked at the ironclad ship in front of him that had not yet been painted, so the hull still exuded a silver-white metallic luster. He took his guards and boarded the warship first and began to familiarize himself with the various operations of the warship.

After a while, dozens of fishermen who had already hid the fishing boats dared to come over, boarded the battleship, and became the temporary crew of the ironclad ship.

Finally, the armed militiamen and prisoners of war who had been notified arrived one after another, plus the team members Ye Tianlong recruited from reality, a total of more than [-] people, and finally they were barely able to make the armored ship aboard. Some positions are filled.

Fortunately, there was no high technology on this ironclad ship, so it took Ye Tianlong and the others some time to figure out how to operate this big thing. The boiler located in the middle of the hull was also successfully ignited, and black smoke began to flow from the thick chimney above the boiler. came out.

However, it is not that easy to really make such a large battleship move, because the boiler still needs a period of time to warm up. After all, the steam engine relies on the power of steam. If the boiler is not hot enough, Where can I get enough steam for power?

Unfortunately, the enemy was already in sight at this time, and there was no more time for Ye Tianlong and the others to slowly heat the boiler.

Fortunately, just as Ye Tianlong thought at the beginning, even if this battleship cannot move for the time being, it is lying in the port and can be used as a fixed fort.

At this time, the armored ship was parked sideways in the port. The only twenty secondary guns that could be used to attack the enemy were on the left side. However, the twelve main guns could all participate in attacking the enemy after the turret was turned.

After Ye Tianlong saw the arrival of the enemy warship through the telescope, he immediately ordered his men to adjust the direction of the main turret. Since there is no advanced electric rotating gun device like modern warships, this extremely heavy main turret can only rely on manpower. to adjust the direction and angle.

For this reason, Ye Tianlong sent all his personal guards to the main turret, and also sent his team members summoned from the real world. After all, most of those team members have also begun to practice martial arts, and their strength is stronger than ordinary people. The soldiers are much stronger.

After working hard to adjust the direction of the main turret, Ye Tianlong and the others loaded the same extremely heavy shells in, preparing to bombard the enemy warships.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was still more than three thousand meters, but they were already within the range of the battleship's main gun. After all, the caliber of the gun was there! Even if the [-]mm caliber heavy artillery lags behind, it still has a range of only [-] meters.

On the other hand, the range of the [-] mm caliber secondary guns is a little closer, only about [-] meters.

"Fire! Hit me!"

Under Ye Tianlong's loud orders, the twelve main guns on the armored ship fired a salvo at the enemy's flagship in the distance. After all, the opponent's flagship was the largest and must have the strongest combat effectiveness. There must be the opponent's commander. If the opponent's fleet commander can be directly killed with artillery, the opponent's fleet will lose unified command and its combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

It's a pity that the cannonballs fired by Ye Tianlong and other half-baked gunners are really accurate. Not one of the twelve cannonballs hit the enemy's flagship. The nearest cannonball was about a hundred meters away. distance.

On the other hand, the opponent had a small warship and a medium-sized warship, which were hit by Ye Tianlong and others pointing east and west.

The small warship was hit on the bow by a cannonball. The cannonball carrying huge kinetic energy shattered the entire bow of the ship on the spot. After that, the cannonball continued to move forward without losing power, killing several crew members and soldiers on the warship. It was smashed to death, and finally hit the mast hard, breaking the mast of the battleship.

While the mast with the sail on it slowly fell down with a creaking sound, the small battleship also began to quickly take in water from the huge breach in the bow. The entire battleship quickly lost its balance, and the stern began to rise high. It tilted up, and finally the heavily flooded bow plunged into the sea water. Most of the crew and soldiers on it were swept into the sea water by the warship before they could escape.

The medium-sized warship was luckier. The shell hit the side above the waterline. Only a big hole was made in the hull, and a few rowing slaves were killed. Its own combat ability was not good. too affected.

However, the enemy was able to attack them from such a distance, which still surprised Ramon, who had already put on armor and came to the bow deck. You must know that a large bed crossbow with the longest attack range on these warships, then The range is only about [-] meters! At this time, the distance between the two sides is still about three thousand meters! The opponent's firearms were already able to attack their warships.

After being surprised, Ramon couldn't help but get even more excited. After all, if he could successfully capture this weapon and then imitate it, his power would definitely increase several times again, and he would be able to unify Calradia by then. On the mainland, it is not impossible to recreate the glory of the Kalad Empire!

With these in mind, Ramon immediately ordered the fleet to continue moving at full speed, leaving only a small warship there to salvage the crew and soldiers who fell into the water.

On Ye Tianlong's side, after firing a cannon, they began to hurriedly load ammunition for the main gun. When they finally loaded the ammunition, the enemy fleet was already approaching within two thousand meters of them.

Looking at the enemy fleet getting closer and closer, Ye Tianlong hurriedly yelled and ordered to fire, and after a huge blast of cannons, twelve powerful solid shells roared towards the enemy fleet again.

Because the distance was much closer, this time the main gun salvo finally hit the enemy's flagship with one shell. Unfortunately, the flying height of this shell was too high, and it just missed the top of the deck and killed it. After capturing several crew members and soldiers of the other party, it became heavily stuck in the stern of the ship.

On the opposite flagship, Ramon watched the cannonball that quickly passed by him and smashed clouds of blood mist on the deck. A lot of cold sweat broke out on his head. If he had stood still just now, A little further to the right, he would be like a few unlucky guys, being smashed into a pile of minced meat by the cannonball.

After trying to calm down, Ramon tried his best to look at the enemy ship on the opposite side. He found with some disbelief that the opponent's warship seemed to be made of steel. Under the sunlight, the opponent's hull really radiated light. Obvious metallic luster.

But how could this ship made of steel still float on the water? And it’s such a large battleship?

Before Ramon could figure out the reason, several of his subordinates who had also come to their senses stepped forward and pulled Ramon away to the room located in the center of the battleship. After all, the location of the bow deck was too dangerous! Unobstructed and unblocked, if the opponent's next artillery attack hits here again, their boss may not be so lucky and still survive.

Ramon naturally knew that it was very dangerous to stay on the bow deck, so his body was cooperating with his men to retreat to his room, but he was still deliberately shouting: "Don't pull me!" I want to stay here, I want to stay with my soldiers! I want to face the enemy's fire with them!"

When the surrounding soldiers heard the boss Ramon's words, their morale improved a lot, and some of the uneasiness caused by the cannonball just scratching the deck was quickly eliminated.

Compared with the good luck of Ramon's flagship, the three medium-sized warships around it that suffered a lot of disasters were not so lucky. One of these three warships had its mast broken by a cannonball, and the thick mast was The crash caused the death and injury of more than a dozen sailors and soldiers.

On the other two sides of the medium-sized warships, one was hit by a cannonball on the bow. The strong iron-wrapped ram on the bow was as fragile as paper in front of the cannonball, and was directly broken. Afterwards, a large number of wood splinters were destroyed. The shells hit the bow of the ship and shot out in all directions, causing more than [-] casualties.

The most unlucky thing was the third medium-sized warship. The shell hit the waterline on the side. After the shell smashed a big hole there, a large amount of seawater immediately began to quickly pour into the cabin of the lower part of the hull.

The rowing slaves who were chained in the cabin below faced this change and could not even escape. They could only watch as the large amount of seawater surged in and soon drowned them.

When a dozen soldiers came down with some wooden boards and tools to repair the holes, they found that the sea water below was already more than one meter deep, and most of the slaves who were chained to their positions were already gone. They were drowned and turned into corpses with faces full of fear and death.

In the end, although the loopholes in the battleship were barely repaired, the speed of the battleship was greatly reduced due to a large amount of water. In addition, the loopholes were not patched very firmly, and the crew did not dare to let it go. It drove too fast, and had no choice but to break away from the fleet with the medium-sized warship whose bow had suffered heavy damage, and slowly retreated towards the rear.