Chapter 686

The commander in charge of this temporary sub fleet is the major general of the Royal French navy, Baron Laguerre. The French navy has an extra class III main ship, and Baron Laguerre has volunteered, so this sub fleet is under his command.

Laguerre and the former commander of the Guadeloupe fleet, Julian Luc, are good friends and countrymen, and their relationship is very good.

When Julian Luc lost his life in the naval battle in Chesapeake Bay, Laguerre was sad for a long time after the bad news came back to France.

Now he finally has a chance to avenge his old friend. He can't wait.

Laguerre looked at the two lonely black warships five kilometers away, flashed a sharp light in his eyes, and ordered to raise the signal flag of the whole army's assault. Twenty sail warships opened all their sails in a very short time and began to accelerate driven by the sea wind.

Laguerre is also a very experienced senior general of the Navy. He led his sub fleet to participate in several naval battles of gibraltarian. His fleet and the Spanish fleet united to resist several Royal Navy attacks in the open sea of gibraltarian.

The experienced largeer naturally knew that the Yanhuang tribe had a gun with a long range, so his first order was to advance at full speed. Because only by shortening the distance, the sub fleet can completely kill the two strange warships with the advantage of the number of artillery.

Mistick River and Charles River confluence in the east of Boston fortress, forming a channel with a width of more than one kilometer and a length of more than five kilometers, which is generally northwest southeast. This channel is called "Boston main channel" in later generations.

At present, the fighting warships of the two sides are located in the main channel of Boston, the sub fleet of lager is located in the northwest of the main channel, and the two steel warships of Yanhuang tribe are located in the southeast of the main channel. The distance between the two warships is more than five kilometers.

The observers on both sides focused on the two fleets, especially the many officers of the combined fleet, almost all of whom were watching with a single telescope in their hands.

As a result, what they didn't expect happened. As soon as Laguerre's fleet hoisted the flag of full speed, dozens of huge water splashes rose on the sea not far from Laguerre's fleet, and then a strange shrill sound was heard, followed by the distant dull sound like thunder

Almost all the officers of the United Fleet who were watching the naval battle felt numb. An almost identical idea floated from the bottom of their hearts - Christ that Jesus, how far can these Aboriginal guns hit?

Even abbasnott, as well as cyrencester, Peres and Sebastian, were also startled by the sudden shelling.

They only knew that the Yanhuang tribe had a gun with a long range, but none of them had seen it with their own eyes.

Now this kind of gun even fires five kilometers away, and it is so accurate. Obviously, the range of this gun is far more than five kilometers!

This situation really scared all the naval officers.

But on the Navajo and the Pueblo, their respective Gunners were under the roar of the captain.

"How did you aim? Why is the first round of Volley so far away? Cheer me up, aim well, and let those vasichu see the power of our Yanhuang fleet! "

Navajo and Pueblo are two newly launched Cherokee class steel warships. Like Cherokee, the first ship of Cherokee class warships, these two warships are equipped with four dual 105mm main guns, six dual 76mm guns as auxiliary guns, and 16 76mm mortars as rapid fire guns.

A warship is equipped with 36 guns. Although the range of 76 mortar is far less than that of 105 main gun and 76mm gun, the range of this kind of mortar can also exceed 5km.

Moreover, compared with the main gun and the auxiliary gun, the firing speed of the 76 mortar is much more terrifying, and it is most suitable to supplement the firing gap between the main gun and the auxiliary gun.

The shells of mortar 76 are not as strong as the shells of main gun and auxiliary gun in penetrating armor, but this kind of mortar with extremely fast firing speed is the best for washing the deck. And after all, it's a 76mm high explosive grenade. Once it can hit one, it will be enough to cause huge damage to the windsurfing warship with wooden shell.

Compared with the main gun and the auxiliary gun aiming at the enemy ship, the 76 mortar relies on the firing speed to do the covering attack.

The firing speed of almost four seconds quickly formed a barrage on the enemy ship's forward route.

Unlike the accurate firing of the main gun and the auxiliary gun, the 76 mortar simply depends on the quantity.

But it's clear that at this distance, numbers are more effective than precision targeting.

Because at the beginning of the third round salvo of 76 mortar, two 76mm high explosive grenades landed on the deck of two enemy ships.

The ballistic curvature of 76 mortar is very large, so it is difficult for this kind of gun to directly penetrate the side of the enemy ship. Most of the 76 mortar shells directly attack the enemy deck.

The same is true of these two hit high explosive grenades. One shell landed on the bow deck of a class II battleship, and the other directly hit the middle of the deck of a cruiser.

The high explosive grenade that landed on the class II battleship directly cleaned one third of the bow deck of the class II battleship, and scattered fragments swept that area in an instant. More than 20 Spanish sailors were either dead or injured.

However, the second class warship showed the hardness of the second class main ship. The shell only caused casualties to the sailors in the bow, but did not make the warship lose combat effectiveness.

But the cruiser that was hit was unlucky, because the high explosive grenade not only penetrated the middle deck, but also ignited the ammunition on the lower deck. As a result, this cruiser with only two decks first came out with a big orange fireball from the middle of the deck, and then it made a huge explosion. The whole warship exploded in an instant, directly destroying the cruiser more than 40 meters long.

The hundreds of French sailors on the cruiser had no chance to jump off the ship, so they turned to ashes.

Although the scene of ammunition dying for explosion is magnificent, it depends on which side is watching the scene.

The mortars on the Navajo and the Pueblo were cheering, but the combined fleet was dead.

None of them expected that a cruiser would disappear on the sea just half a minute after the full speed signal flag was raised. If we fight at this pace, maybe these 20 warships can't get close to those two warships, and they will be destroyed by others