Chapter 730

El Salvador de Mondo is a class I windsurfing battleship with three decks and a displacement of 2108 tons.

The ship was built in 1786, the year before last, from the dock of Royal astrillo shipyard in Havana Bay.

In this era, the salvadore de Mondo windsail battleship with 112 guns, including 32 42 pound guns (French pounds), 32 24 pound guns, 32 12 pound guns and 16 6 pound guns, is undoubtedly an extremely powerful windsail battleship.

El Salvador de Mondo has a length of 64.3 meters, a width of 17.6 meters, a draft of 8.2 meters and a crew of 900.

Without the steel warship of the Great China Empire, this class I battleship with 112 guns is definitely a deterrent force in the whole Caribbean region. As the flagship of the famous Spanish upwind fleet, El Salvador de Mondo deserves such praise.

Because of the defeat in the offensive and defensive battle of the fort of gibraltarian, the Spanish authorities had some different ideas. Plus the false prosperity that Carlos III brought to Spain during his reign, even if it was false prosperity, it was prosperous at least, wasn't it? Let the Spanish leadership decide to build more warships.

During the ten years from 1779 to 1789, the Spanish Navy madly built up to eight class I windsurfing battleships. This kind of construction speed is undoubtedly extremely crazy.

By the time El Salvador de Mondo was built, the brutal offensive and defensive battle of gibraltarian fortress was over, so instead of crossing the Atlantic to take part in the offensive and defensive battle of gibraltarian fortress, the ship stayed in Havana and became the flagship of the upwind fleet.

When the fleet of the great Chinese Empire arrived about four kilometers outside the Gulf of Havana, the Spanish watchman also found the menacing fleet.

By this time, the Spaniards already knew that the Great China Empire had started war against Spain. However, although there was no declaration of war between the two countries, everyone knew that the two countries were in a state of war now.

The army of the great Chinese Empire killed all sides in Mexico, and now their fleet has come to Havana, but no one thinks that this fleet is playing. Now that they are here, let's fight!

However, during the battle of Boston, many Spanish Navy officers saw the strength of this steel warship, so the news about the steel warship of the Great China Empire spread among the Spanish Navy early. So when the Spanish Navy stationed in Havana learned that the steel warships had arrived in Havana, they immediately responded.

Hundreds of warships of different sizes moored in Havana Bay quickly set sail, ready to go out to fight with the steel fleet.

Although the Spanish Navy knows that this kind of steel warship is very powerful, there are only seven steel warships in the fleet to Havana this time. They have more than 120 sailing warships stationed in Havana Bay.

In the understanding of the Spanish Navy, with the overwhelming number of its own warships, the siege alone was enough to defeat the fleet of the great Chinese Empire.

The officers and men of the Spanish Navy are ugly, but they think they are beautiful

The huge Salvador de Mondo class I windsurfing battleship is the first time to take part in the sea battle since it was launched. But it is precisely because the upwind fleet has such a powerful battleship that the officers and soldiers of the upwind fleet feel very at ease.

When the fleet raised all the sails and prepared to go out to the open sea along the Central River to fight against the fleet of the great Chinese Empire, they suddenly found that their fleet could not get out.

The reason why Havana Bay is one of the few natural deep-water ports in the whole Caribbean is that it is deep in the interior of Cuba island. Although the area of the bay is not small, there is only a central channel about two kilometers long and less than 300 meters wide connecting it with the open sea.

That is to say, if someone blocks the central channel, the whole Havana Bay will be blocked.

They noticed this when the Spaniards occupied the island and set Havana as a naval base on the island. So on both sides of the mouth of the Central River, the Spanish had built two strong fortresses to protect this important central river.

In order to protect the central channel, the Spanish began to build fortresses on the promontory on the North Bank of the estuary as early as 1555 because the French captured Havana.

The fortress at the mouth of the river is called morrow fortress. Later, the Spaniards felt that this fortress alone could not completely protect the central channel, so in 1590, they built another fortress, San Salvador de la Ponta, from the Cape on the South Bank of the estuary.

After the construction of these two fortresses, they have been defending the central river channel more than 200 meters wide, which has become a powerful barrier for Havana Bay.

Later, in 1630, copper chains were laid in the river course between Fort de la Ponta and Fort Moro to prevent enemy ships from rushing into the bay.

All in all, in this era, after more than two centuries of Spanish construction, the whole Havana bay can be called an iron wall.

But the Spaniards never thought that there would be cheating cannons such as 122mm dual cannons and 105mm dual cannons in this era. After the successful test of the Empire's 122mm cannons, the Cherokee class warships had been reloaded with the fastest speed. Now the main guns of the seven Cherokee class warships have been replaced by 122mm dual artillery.

In this era, any fortress has a large caliber fortress gun or even a super large caliber mortar gun. Whether it is a large caliber fortress gun or a super large caliber mortar gun, its power is undoubtedly very powerful. This kind of gun has absolute lethality against windsurfing battleships, even to the steel battleships of the upper Great China empire.

In fact, not to mention fortress guns and super large caliber mortar guns, even the 32 36 pound guns on El Salvador de Mondo can pose a great threat to Cherokee class warships.

Of course, the premise is that your cannon can fight my warship!

Now the most powerful fortress gun used by European powers is the 64 pound gun. The range of this large caliber fortress gun can reach an amazing 3500 meters. Of course, at this distance, the accuracy is extremely low.

In fact, even a 36 pound naval gun can reach a range of nearly 2000 meters, but the distance that can guarantee the firing accuracy is only 500 or 600 meters.

On the Cherokee class warships, even the 76 mortars with the closest range have an effective range of more than five kilometers. As for the 76mm guns, there are 105 guns and 122 guns, which can surprise all the Europeans.

So when the seven Cherokee class warships began to block the central channel with their guns, the Spaniards were immediately dumbfounded

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