Chapter 668

The heavy turret is turned by special soldiers by hand.

The motor has not been measured yet, so we can only use manpower to shake the deceleration equipment and then drive the turret to rotate.

There is no way to do this. Even if the stone bear knows the structure and manufacturing process of the motor, due to the material problem, it is estimated that it will take a long time for this thing to come out.

However, even if the turret is shaken manually, the rotation speed of the turret is not slow.

Under the command of the gunner, the turret soon turned to the angle where it could shoot, and then the pitching angle of the barrel could be adjusted.

When everything was adjusted, two 105mm shells weighing 26 kg were quickly loaded into the gun bore by two loaders. At the next moment, with two loud noises less than one second apart, the whole warship trembled and the two shells were launched.

When the No. 1 turret was launched, the No. 2 turret was launched immediately, and the bow main guns of the other eight warships were fired at the same time.

Even in the bridge, through the heavy glass windows, the stone bear can feel the violent energy impact of the muzzle.

The muzzle velocity of the shell is about 450 m / s, and the distance is 12 km. The shell needs to fly in the air for about 26 seconds!

Simon Noel is a captain of the Royal French navy. He also commands a sub fleet of two class III windsurfing battleships.

A month and a half ago, Simon Noel received an order to escort three Spanish merchant ships to the new world of North America and send a batch of urgently needed supplies to the American army.

At this time, France and Spain had been in alliance for six years, and it had been five years since the two countries joined hands to attack the fortress of gibraltarian. Because of this strong fortress, the relationship between the two countries had become unprecedented unity.

The Spanish dominated the attack on the fort of gibraltarian, while the French dominated the fleet of the British in the Atlantic. As for the delivery of materials to the army allies far away from the other side of the ocean, the two countries share the responsibility.

It was usually the French who sent warships to escort the Spanish merchant ships.

In the original historical time and space, the two countries have never cooperated so much. But in this time and space, because of the fort of gibraltarian, the cooperation between the two countries is much more than that in the original historical time and space.

Just last year, the main force of the British Navy began to concentrate on the fortress of gibraltarian. The French Spanish United Fleet had fought with the British main force several times in the Atlantic Ocean, and the losses of both sides were not small.

It is obvious that the British can no longer bear the pressure of the two-way war. George III should have made the decision to protect the gibraltarian fortress and give up the thirteen colonies of North America.

The French are naturally happy with the British decision, but the Spaniards are upset.

The main purpose of Spain's declaration of war on Britain was to recapture the fort of gibraltarian. Now the British abandoned the thirteen colonies of North America and concentrated their main fleet on the side of the fort of gibraltarian, which obviously greatly increased the difficulty of seizing the fort of gibraltarian.

But fortunately, this time the French did not pull the ribbon, their navy was still strong, and the combined fleet of the two countries also resisted the main fleet of the British navy.

The two sides have beaten hard several times near the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean, and now both sides are back to lick the wounds.

Under such circumstances, Simon Noel's sub fleet was sent out to escort three Spanish merchant ships to North America.

Although such a task makes Noel's soldiers unable to get a good repair, it is obviously a good task to get away from the meat grinder battlefield.

Simon Noel's sub fleet left the port and entered the Atlantic Ocean in the envy of his colleagues.

Now the British main fleet is concentrated in the Atlantic Ocean outside the Strait of gibraltarian. The whole North Atlantic route can hardly see the figure of British warships, so as long as you enter the Atlantic Ocean, then it is completely safe.

Although there are still British sub fleets in the thirteen colonies of North America, those warships are hardly at sea now. They are only responsible for the maritime safety of several cities occupied by the British. So far away from the coast, the British warships would not find Noel's fleet.

Noel himself thinks so, so when he approaches the North American coastline, Noel's fleet turns south and sails south about 60 kilometers away from the coastline.

As a result, seeing that there was still two days to go before the destination, the observation hand hanging on the front mast basket said that a strange mass of black smoke had been found in the distance.

In fact, Noel's sub fleet first discovered the Yanhuang clan steel warship fleet. The smoke from the boiler chimney forms a mass of black smoke in the air, which can be seen dozens of kilometers away.

But no one in the Noel fleet knows what it is. If in the future World War I period, once such a black fog was found in the distance, the fleet of merchant ships like Noel would immediately turn around and run away without hesitation. Because once there is such a large mass of black smoke on the sea, it means that there are a large number of warships sailing there.

So Noel missed the best time to escape.

When the steel fleet found Noel's fleet, they couldn't run any more.

Seeing a very strange fleet appear in the distance, Noel is also silly.

What kind of boat is this? The whole body is swarthy, but the ship is still emitting black smoke. The strangest thing is that this kind of boat can run so fast on the sea without sails.

What kind of boat is this?

The sailors on the five ships of noel fleet all came out to see the Western scenery. For these sailors, it's really strange that such a strange group of ships suddenly appeared in this boring voyage.

As the strange boats got closer and closer, a very strange scream suddenly sounded in the sky.

None of the sailors of noel fleet knew what the sound meant. They just looked up and tried to find the source of the sound.

But they can never find the source of the sound, and what they don't know is that the shrill sound is actually the grim laughter of death

About three or four hundred meters away from the fleet, dozens of huge water bursts out suddenly without warning, followed by a huge explosion. At this moment, it seems that there is a huge sea monster rioting under the water

Even by this time, no one in Noel's fleet was aware that they had been shelled.

On the Carlos more than ten kilometers away, the observer immediately reported the impact point he had seen.

"There is no straddle firing. The impact point is about 300 meters away from the enemy fleet."

With the message from the observation hand, the thick barrel of the main gun began to adjust slightly upward