On the afternoon of October 3, 1703, Lieutenant Colonel Huang Jiandong finished lunch slowly.

As the head figure on the ship, his lunch was pretty good, including meat, fish, eggs, and seafood cakes specially fried by the chef. Overall, it was very good. The only disadvantage was that the fish was pickled and not fresh. However, considering that before the departure, he ordered the ban on the ship's officers and soldiers to fish in their spare time and confiscate their fishing rods, there was nothing we could do, so let's just eat salted fish.

Lieutenant Colonel Huang Jiandong is 47 years old this year, the most golden age of a senior naval general. He has no shortage of physical strength, energy, and experience, and has a strong desire to fight. When he was the captain of the Iron-Captained Battleship of the "Daming", he served as the commander of the Portuguese Combined Fleet in East Asia. He was already a middle- and senior officer, and he was in charge of the party and was extremely majestic. However, when he learned that he had the opportunity to compete for the position of the Iron-Captained Fleet, he was immediately moved and abandoned the position of the commander of the Iron-Captained Fleet and tried every means to get the captain of the "Daming".

There is no way, the ironclad ships tempted too much to the naval officers! No man with ambition can resist the temptation of such a big toy, and Huang Jiandong naturally cannot avoid the vulgarity, so he gave up a commander of a miscellaneous fleet and chose men's romance.

After discovering the Spanish fleet in the morning, as the temporary commander of this task force, I am sorry, the Caribbean Squadron did not give me the position of this position, so I went directly to the Cape Verde Islands to report that he immediately ordered the "Frost Desert" guard gunboat to raise the command flag and coordinate the overall situation. His "Daming" lowered the flag, like a hunting shark, chasing the fish that fled in panic.

The pursuit on the sea is still very different from the land. It is not like the land that depends on the physical strength, will, terrain, environment, etc. of the pursuit on the sea is very simple, just to compete for speed. To see who runs faster, there is almost no place to take advantage of. For example, if the escaped ship is 4 knots, the pursuit of the ship is 6 knots, and the two ships are twenty nautical miles apart, then theoretically, the rear ship will take at least ten hours to catch up with the front ship. Such a long time is likely to come to night, which gives the pursued ship the possibility of escaping while the night is covered. After all, there is no radar, no searchlight, and no water reconnaissance aircraft in this era. It is very difficult to pursue a ship that has turned off the lights and escaped with all its strength at night.

The "Daming" iron-armored warship was very fast. During the morning's pursuit, it once had an extreme speed of 11.5 knots. The length of the engine was so scared that it looked like a dirt, fearing that the boiler would explode. Fortunately, the speed remained at around 10 knots, which made him feel a little relieved and he didn't have to worry about dying before he could succeed.

It took almost three hours for the "Daming" to approach the Spanish fleet of transport that was running away. During these three hours, he seemed very relaxed and even had time to return to the cabin to write a routine work report. He then went to the Officer's Restaurant for lunch and chatted with the soldiers of the military band who played music in the restaurant. Finally, he returned to the bridge with satisfaction and watched his baby warship work hard to shorten the last distance from the enemy.

"Send a signal and ask them to surrender!" After watching for about twenty minutes, Lieutenant Colonel Huang Jiandong ordered. A young staff officer quickly walked out of the bridge and sent an order.

"Captain, the enemy has no response." After another ten minutes, the high-speed "Daming" had sailed to a position roughly parallel to the "San Sebastian" transport ship. The four side guns had entered the range. The soldiers loaded the ammunition and waited for the firing order.

"Then let's shoot." Huang Jiandong waved his hand, raised the telescope in his chest, and began to look for the next target.

The first mate stood attentively and saluted with excitement, then ran out of the bridge and passed the order to the gunman who was waiting on the deck. Soon, four side guns fired one after another. They did not use special bullets, but chose solid oval shells. After being fired by the rifled gun, the shells rotated forward at high speed, with a sharp and harsh roar.

The four artillery shells did not hit all of them. Two of them passed by the deck and landed in the sea on the other side. One shot hit a cannon truck, destroying one of the only six artillery on the "San Sebastian". Only one shell hit the side side. Although there was no explosion (solid bomb), a big hole was still pierced on the side side of the hull. The shells that drilled the holes were still cast. After wiping half of a unlucky sailor's body, they finally pierced into a pile of sacks filled with corn. Only then did they completely consume the kinetic energy and stop moving.

The Spaniard looked at all in front of him, unable to believe that the side hull was easily penetrated. Yes, because the cost and speed need to be considered, the hull of the merchant ship is relatively thin, but it is not so easy to penetrate, which is no different from a paper-smalled one. Is this still a solid bullet? How can the solid bullet have such power? The Spaniard's heart is full of collapse.

The artillery baptism of the "Daming" continued. Four more shells came, and only one shot was missing this time. One shot hit the superstructure at the stern of the ship, and it still penetrated the walls simply and neatly. Then it destroyed several pieces of furniture in the room in succession, which exhausted its energy and hit the wall on the other side. The other two shells hit the side hull, continuing to create two terrifying holes. Unfortunately, one of the holes was located near the waterline.

The Spanish sailors rushed over frantically, holding everything they could get to block the crack. The salty and fishy sea water poured in frantically, wetting everything nearby. A large amount of goods were soaked in the water, but no one felt distressed. Everyone's attention was attracted by the crack in the waterline, and they tried every means to block it.

Another sharp whistle came, and a 120mm oval shell tore the hull and plunged into the bottom cabin. The sea water poured in in a carnival, as if to use their enthusiasm to embrace everything in the bottom cabin, whether it was people or cargo. Another team of Spanish sailors rushed over, holding cotton, skins and even cloth to block the huge hole. The human pump also started to operate, and the sailors tried their best to slowly drain the sea water pouring into the bottom cabin. Now no one cares about the cargo, and everyone is thinking about how to keep the ship and how to survive. There are too many sharks in the Caribbean, and no one wants to be their food."

"It seems that the solid oval bomb is very powerful against a wooden hull without armor protection, and the effect is not worse than that of special bombs." After seeing the results of the battle through the telescope, Lieutenant Colonel Huang Jiandong said with emotion.

Yes, when the high-speed rotating pointed warhead hits a wooden hull, it can almost easily break a gap. It is more "skilled" and more efficient than a spherical bullet that relies entirely on kinetic energy to break the gap. This is the power of a rifled gun. It is the dimensionality reduction attack of a comprehensive crushing smoothbore gun. The Spaniards were fortunate to taste all this, and it should be a smile in the underworld.

Of course, if you use special bombs, the effect will be very good when hitting. A violent explosion will tear open the boat plate near the center point of the explosion and form an irregular radial notch, which may be larger than the gap caused by a solid pointed bomb. But you have to consider the huge cost difference between the two, and then you will understand who is more cute.

While Huang Jiandong was speaking, the "Daming" fired several more shells, and this time they all hit the bridge. One shot hit the bridge. I don't know if there were any casualties. The other three shots hit the side hull, creating a hole above the waterline and two holes below the bottom, and the sea water poured into the ground even more powerfully!

"Start up and send this ship away, we will continue with our next goal." Huang Jiandong ordered.

More shells began to fly towards the "San Sebastian". The holes on one side of the hull were dense, and the water at the bottom of the cabin had already passed through people's knees. The barrels destroyed by the east coast shells also fell to the ground and flowed outwards, making the busy sailors worse. Finally, they realized that they could no longer save the ship, so everyone scattered and rushed to the deck, rushing to untied the lifeboat, put it into the sea, and then jumped in one after another.

The people of the East Coast looked at these people coldly without attacking their last shelter. The Navy of the East Coast is a soldier with a sense of honor, not an inhuman killer. In fact, if these Spaniards did not have lifeboats, the people of the East Coast would put them down and then tell them to surrender to the warships that would lead to their lives.

The speed of the "San Sebastian" was already very slow at this time. Huang Jiandong didn't need to look at it, and knew that in just over ten minutes, the ship would completely sink to the seabed and become a paradise for fish and aquatic plants, and it would be difficult for the gods to save it. Therefore, he decided not to care about it anymore and ordered the "Daming" to chase another Spanish transport ship, the "Hongshan", and must be solved in the shortest time. For this reason, even if some special bombs are consumed, it will be spared.

The attack on the Red Mountain was similar to that of the San Sebastian, but there were some differences. The East Coast people used special bullets to plow the superstructure in the first round of artillery, which destroyed it to pieces, and even caused a fire. The ship's side on its left was also hit with eight or nine holes, and the sea water was frantically poured in, flooding the gunpowder, rifles and cannons in the bottom cabin. After working hard for a while, the Spaniards finally gave up and continued to do useless work to break up, abandoned the ship and fled, hoping that they would be lucky enough, and the food and fresh water they carried could also make them last to Cuba Island.
Chapter completed!