Chapter 731

The fleet of the Great China Empire stopped about four kilometers from the Central River, but did not anchor.

When the lookout man on the observation platform said that a Spanish sail warship was preparing to sail out of Havana bay through the central channel, the fleet's guns roared.

Seven Cherokee class warships have known for a long time where their warships' guns should be fired by using flag language and radio.

The firing area of the 122 mm dual main gun with the farthest effective range is at the other end of the central channel, and the coverage area is at the junction of Havana Bay and the central channel.

The firing area of the 105mm dual naval gun is the whole central channel. The 105mm guns of each of the seven warships are responsible for the channel about 300m in length. The 76mm guns cooperate with the 105mm guns.

The 76mm mortar is responsible for the estuarine area of the central channel.

Of course, the first to fire was the 122mm dual main gun on seven warships.

Since the main guns of Cherokee class warships were replaced, each Cherokee class warship now has six 122mm dual turrets in the first three and the last three, and eight 105mm dual turrets. As for the original 76 mm dual turret, it has become a single gun. Each ship has eight 76 guns. Of course, there are still 24 76 mortars with extremely fast firing speed.

That is to say, there are 12 122mm main guns, 16 105mm guns, 8 76mm guns and 24 76mm mortars on a Cherokee class warship.

These naval guns, whether they are main guns or auxiliary guns, fire high explosive grenades!

It's too extravagant to use armour piercing projectiles to deal with this kind of windsail warship, and high explosive projectiles are the best.

The fleet of the Dahua Empire stayed just outside the range of the fortress gun. The big caliber fortress gun is just about 500 meters away from the fleet, but the fleet's naval gun can easily block the Central River.

This situation is very interesting.

Although you have a large number of cannons and a large caliber, you can't hit me. Your cannons are the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf

On the other hand, the imperial fleet, with 84 122 mm main guns on seven warships, sprinkled the shells evenly on the other end of the central river channel at a firing rate of two shots a minute, and directly blocked the central river channel, which was only over 200 meters wide.

The first bad luck was a Spanish privateer, which was a class four windsurfing ship, also known as a cruiser.

The ship tried to drive out of the bay at its own speed, but as soon as it got close to the central channel, two 122 mm high explosive rounds hit the iron headed privateer one after another.

Two cannonballs directly crippled the privateer, two of its three masts were broken, and two huge holes appeared on the front and rear decks.

The ship didn't hold on for long, so the sailors on board abandoned the ship to escape.

The end of the privateer made all the sailors on the Spanish warships jump. They never thought that the gun range of the seven warships was so far, and they could maintain such a high percentage of hits at such a long distance!

This time, all the Spanish warships gathered in the Gulf did not dare to run forward.

As long as the Spanish warships did not move, the main guns of the imperial fleet would not fire. But as soon as a boat wants to run out, there are tons of shells falling down.

Even in the shape of El Salvador de Mondo, the class I battleship was afraid to move forward.

The first-class battleship is also a wooden hull battleship. In front of 122mm high explosive, it's a vegetable delivery ship!

Compared with the dense sailing warships in the Bay, the seven Cherokee class warships in the open sea are so lonely. But it happened that seven warships blocked more than 120 windsurfing ships directly in the bay.

On the sea at this time, only those big caliber fortress guns in the two fortresses fired in vain towards the sea at a shooting speed close to two minutes. However, the projectiles fired by these powerful large caliber fortress guns can reach more than 500 meters away from the seven warships

But none of the seven Cherokee class cannons would pay attention to the two fortresses.

As the commander of the fleet, he got the order from the boss before he came, that is, try not to damage the facilities of Havana. After all, if it is damaged, he will have to repair it himself later.

As for the Spanish fleet, they also tried to block them into the Gulf. If you can force them to surrender, that's the best.

The range of Cherokee class guns is enough to cover the whole of Havana Bay. If the imperial fleet really wants to attack these Spanish warships, it will be enough to destroy at least one-third of the Spanish warships by the fact that these warships are now densely packed together. It only needs the fleet to carry out more than ten rounds of saturation attacks.

As for the two fortresses that can't move at all, if the fleet wants to fight, the two solid fortresses are just two living targets.

Now the main task of the fleet is to blockade the Gulf and prevent the Spanish warships in Havana Bay from leaving the port.

Therefore, the confrontation between seven steel warships and more than 120 Spanish sail warships across a two kilometer Central River is really weird and funny.

Of course, another important reason why the seven warships of the Empire did this was to let the 22 armed merchant ships behind them quickly approach the coastline to the west of Havana, and then let the soldiers of the five regiments of the first division land in Havana!

Later, the Spanish warships in the Gulf may have been landed by the soldiers of the first division, so these warships began to rush out.

The imperial fleet's guns roared again. However, compared with the slow shooting before, this artillery attack directly turned into saturation artillery attack.

Within a minute, there were more than 300 rounds of 122mm high explosive and more than 500 rounds of 105mm high explosive, which directly blocked the whole central channel.

More than 30 Spanish warships were hit and set on fire in just two minutes, and four windsurfing warships were completely turned into a pile of garbage floating on the sea due to the explosion of ammunition.

As for the largest Salvadoran de Mondo class I windsurfing battleship, it has also been the focus of attention.

Even though the ship had been hiding behind, Navajo focused on the largest windsurfing warship.

So, in just a few minutes, the brand-new salvadore de Mondo was hit by four shells, which directly hit the class I windsurfing battleship and did not dare to rush forward

The narrow central channel used to be the best protected channel in Havana Bay, but now it has become the death passage for Spanish headwinds and privateers.

The blockade lasted for nearly a day. With sufficient ammunition, no Spanish warship could get out of the central channel.

When the seventh and eighth regiments of the first division of the bear army captured Havana early the next morning, and quickly set up hundreds of 76 mortars on the wall, Havana could not be saved, and Spain's upwind fleet could not be saved