Chapter 645

"Sir, there should be a lot of guns from the Cherokees on the opposite side. When they fired their guns, they made a loud noise. It sounds like continuous thunder from here..." in the British observation post on fisherman's Island, frank, the observer, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and his mind seemed to return to the naval battle that happened at noon yesterday.

"I've never heard so much gunfire. And when the gunfire didn't ring for a minute, there was a bigger explosion on the opposite sea, and the French man's death of a cruiser exploded... "

Lieutenant commander Fogg and Colonel Jackson took a dry swallow. It's unthinkable that a gun fired at a distance of more than five kilometers can blow up the ammunition of a Frenchman's warship.

In this era, it's not difficult to kill the enemy's warships with solid ammunition in naval warfare, but it often takes a long time, and it's only possible after both sides get close to each other and shoot each other for many rounds.

However, it took less than a minute to kill the enemy's ammunition when firing from a distance of more than five kilometers. This is simply terrible.

Both of them think of the naval battle the summer before last year. According to the report of their subordinates, in that naval battle, a French class II main ship capsized because of the explosion of ammunition. And the naval battle was very short.

If French warships were replaced by British Royal Navy warships, the result would not be much better. Both officers knew very well that at this time, the performance of their warships was slightly inferior to that of the French warships.

At the thought of this, both of them shivered involuntarily, and then they realized that the aboriginal neighbor around them didn't look so docile as it seemed. This Aboriginal neighbor is obviously a wolf in sheep's clothing

Frank said so long, his mood seems to be relaxed, he licked his lips and continued: "there seems to be something wrong with the Frenchman's flagship, the speed has become very slow, and other ships, regardless of the flagship, are desperately turning to flee. But in the process, the Frenchman's warship was destroyed. All of a sudden, the Cherokee guns seemed to have found a more accurate target. After a series of salvos, the French warships were all ablaze... "

Frank watched from a position 17 or 18 kilometers away from the battle field. Although he was far away, several warships were hit and set on fire at the same time. It was like six huge torches on the sea. Frank could still see clearly.

As Frank said, six French warships, including the New France, which could still advance at full speed, were hit hard by the second battalion of the coastal artillery regiment in the process of turning. In the first few rounds of volley and did not hit the target well, the coastal artillery group boss water dog son angry.

After he roared and scolded in the hand-held magnet phone, the Gunners of the second battalion seemed to be open-minded and achieved incredible shooting percentage in the next few rounds of volley.

When the six French warships completed their turn, their warships also lost the chance to escape.

After all, even if they completed the turn, the effective range of Yanhuang tribe's 76 guns was eight kilometers, and the effective range of 105 heavy guns was ten kilometers.

Even if the French warships want to run, they don't have the chance to run out of the effective range of the coastal artillery.

The eight main ships of the Guadeloupe fleet sank in just ten minutes because of ammunition explosion, and the flagship glory became a live target because it lost power. So all the guns of the second battalion of the coastal artillery regiment were aimed at the remaining six warships.

After more than ten rounds of volley, the six warships were finally hit and burned.

The sailing battleships in this period were all wooden hulled battleships, because the guns in this era fired solid bombs or shrapnel, so the probability of warship fire was very small.

But what they met was the Yanhuang tribe who fired the Huahua grenade. This kind of high explosive grenade is not only very lethal, but also the most important thing is that once it hits the target, it will inevitably lead to a fire.

So, as Frank said, the six French warships have become huge torches when they finish turning!

Such a fire can't be put out at all. You should know that in the construction of warships, the wood used is dried before construction, and in order to prevent water leakage and seawater erosion, the wood of warships is coated with thick tung oil.

So once the warship is on fire, there is almost no way to put it out.

"Dumplings of human flesh" began to fall on the sea, and countless French sailors began to abandon their ships. But it's five or six kilometers away from the coastline, so these French sailors have to jump into the sea to escape.

Three warships died because the fire ignited the gunpowder on the lower deck. The huge hull was torn to pieces by the violent energy in an instant, which was extremely frightening.

Some French sailors who didn't have time to swim far were killed by the blast wave on the spot, while those who were lucky enough to swim far started to cry.

As for the other three warships, although there was no death explosion, the huge flame finally engulfed the three warships. After the end of the naval battle, they are no longer in the sea. The only proof that they have ever existed in the world is a piece of burnt black wood floating on the sea

Everything is in a mess. Under the control of a strong desire to survive, the Royal French navy, which should have been extremely orderly, has also become a headless fly.

The glory, which had been blown off two masts at the beginning, was temporarily the safest ship. Because of the loss of power, this huge two-stage windsurfing battleship became a huge wooden coffin, floating alone on the sea.

It was because the glory lost its power that the artillery of the second battalion of the coastal artillery regiment turned to other warships. In the end, the glory was the best preserved.

However, when Dahe heard from shuigouzi on the phone that there was still a French warship that had not been sunk, Dahe laughed and scolded and gave the order: "why do we stay with that kind of broken ship? When the target for the brothers to practice with it! We don't want that boat! You tell your brothers, I'll reward him for playing the best

When shuigouzi passed on the boss's order, the Gunners of the second battalion of the coastal artillery regiment immediately moved

So the poor glory, the flagship of the Royal French Navy's Guadeloupe fleet, became a floating target