The armored commander of the North Holland, the commander of the Dutch fleet, Segail, looked at the plain sea in front of him and the Faspisian joint fleet arranged in battle lines.

Although he ordered the attack, the decision was actually made by Major General Van der Wel, who had four steam assisted power warships and three impact frigates, and was also a loyal fan of impact tactics in the Dutch Navy.

It’s not that Sigail believes that the impact tactics are wrong. On the contrary, he also attaches great importance to impact tactics, especially now that the firepower and defense of the country’s fleet are completely disproportionate. In the Irish naval battle, he personally experienced the impact tactics of the ironclad ships, but he was the one who was hit.

As a major general, Van der Were of course valued tactics, while Sgael is the commander-in-chief of the navy and the secretary of the navy. What he has to consider is naval strategy. In his opinion, the greatest significance of the navy is existence. As long as the fleet exists, everything has room for maneuver, and the impact is obviously extremely dangerous.

In the Battle of Ireland, Chinese warships hit wooden battleships, and their tonnage was obviously not as good as themselves. The Dutch Navy wanted to hit iron armored ships with a weight similar to their own and heavy armored ones. Will both be injured?

It is precisely because of this that before implementing the impact tactics, Sigail adjusted his position and adjusted the first fleet he commanded to the back line, in order to allow these seven most important warships to the Netherlands to impact the enemy wooden battleships, so as to preserve the backbone of the Dutch Navy in naval battles.

In fact, there is another reason why Segel ordered the implementation of impact tactics, that is, the attitudes of Sweden and Portugal. As long as the Dutch navy wins and severely damages the French navy, Sweden and Portugal will join the Grand Alliance against France.

Rumble!!!

A continuous sound of shelling came from outside the commander's tower, interrupting Sigael's thoughts. Then he saw the Faspisian joint fleet shrouded in smoke and dust caused by the explosion of black gunpowder. Then, some shells fell into the Dutch fleet and burst out water splashes, but no warships were found to be damaged.

"Are the French crazy?" a staff officer exclaimed.

Because the two sides are at least one thousand meters away, only rifled guns equipped with Chinese warships can hit their own warships at such a long distance, and even Chinese warships will not fire at this distance, because large-scale rifled guns equipped with 178 and 203 caliber rifled guns cannot effectively penetrate the armor of Dutch naval ships at this distance.

Surprisingly, the signal officer walked in and reported: "General Van derville requested fire!"

"Reject, only effective shelling is allowed." At first, Segel did not understand why the French opened fire, but after hearing Van der Welch's request, Segel understood.

Whether it is the French Navy or the Dutch Navy, many of the young officers graduated from the Chinese Naval Academy, and some commanders have also received training from Chinese naval consultants. When naval battles are used to open fire in the enemy's phase, it is a tradition of the Imperial Navy, called fire deterrence or force deterrence.

This tradition has emerged since the pre-Imperial era. The reason is actually very simple. In the pre-Imperial era, although the navy was not large in size, it could always maintain the single-ship firepower advantage. In the middle, not only did the single-ship firepower have advantages, but the entire naval fleet also had great advantages. Therefore, it is very effective to carry out a volley before the two sides contacted each other and show their own firepower far exceeding the enemy.

Later, the Imperial Navy generally had large tonnages, many artillery and large caliber, so it also liked this kind of display. In the era of Iron Crafts, because of the large-scale replacement of large-caliber rifled guns, the number of artillery guns was significantly inferior to that of wooden battleships, but the gun sound was significantly larger and the range was significantly longer. This tradition was still maintained.

As the Dutch fleet became closer to the Faspisian joint fleet, the atmosphere on the ship became more and more tense. Until at 2:35, the collision frigate Amsterdam, which was charging forward, burst out with the first roar of artillery bombardment. A distance of 600 meters, two fifteen-inch bottle cannons opened fire and shot two 325-pound grenades directly at the French flagship Prince. However, due to the fuse problem, only one exploded, but the momentum was extraordinary. The exploded sea water splashed the front half of the Prince Prince.

The two collision fleets that charged with the two wings also opened fire, especially the impact ship The Hague, the most successful. A shell hit its target directly. The French Navy Paris, an armored frigate with a tonnage of 2,700 tons. The grenade hit the middle of the deck and directly exploded the two life-saving boats, splashing and dust. When the Paris rushed out of the smoke, the chimney located in the middle of the hull broke, and the spewed black smoke filled the entire upper deck.

Subsequently, seven provincial frigates opened fire one after another, using flowering bullets. The two cannons in their cannons could be fired forward and were not blocked by any field of vision when the sails were closed. The battleships with only four steam-assisted power were relatively low-sounding, and there was only one 68-pound cannon arranged at the bow of the ship, and there was no flowering bullet for a suitable use.

When the two sides entered a distance of 400 meters, the ships of the Faspis Combined Fleet also opened fire. The ninety-pound wine bottle cannon and the sixty-eight-pound cannon spit out flames. In addition to the flowering bullets, there were also molten bullets. The other wooden battleships could only use short heavy artillery artillery with an effective range of only 200 meters.

The Faspis Combined Fleet had many artillery artillery and the shelling speed was very fast. Water columns were blown up on the sea. While Dutch ships opened fire, they unswervingly collided towards the Faspis ship. The sea was filled with smoke and dust. Because the wind was not strong, it quickly covered the battlefield. The people of the empire who were watching the fun on the beach stretched their necks, but they could only see orange-red sparks appearing in the white smoke. It was the flames when the cannons fired.

Occasionally, a thunder sounded, a huge ball of flame appeared, and then accompanied by the rising smoke and dust, it was a bad guy who was hit by a large-caliber grenade.

The appearance of the battlefield smoke makes people confused. What they see in front of them is blurry, and only the sound of cannons is heard in their ears. Everyone looks at each other, and now no one can tell whether they win or lose.

"This is a fight between two people in a tent without lights. It depends on who can get beaten. But speaking of this, when people fight in chaos, the French will definitely win this time."

"Otherwise, it's up to whoever punches. I think the Dutch's fifteen-inch tube is more powerful. Once it is fired, the Frenchman's broken ship will be over."

"You guys asked if you would get close to the gang? I heard that the gang was very common at that time. The gangs of the Navy were all cruel people who killed all the decks with a sword."

"Just brag, in what era is the jumping gang. Even if you jump gang, the French will take advantage of it. They have more boats and more people..."

"No, no. There are many French ships and many of them make up the numbers. They are all old wooden ships. The ironclad ships crashed directly into the air, but they didn't even break them in half..."

Just as the people were chirping on the beach, several warships suddenly broke out from the smoke and dust, and the black smoke from the chimneys was particularly conspicuous on the sea. Almost in an instant, a cheer broke out on the beach, because when the two sides were fighting, most of them believed that the winner would break through the smoke and enjoy the sun, while most of the people on the beach bets for the French Navy.

But no one expected that when more than a dozen French warships ran out of smoke, several Dutch warships followed and crashed into France regardless of the consequences. The huge collision sound was louder than the sound of cannons and explosions. Even when standing on the beach, you can clearly see that the impacted battleship was compressed a large piece, and the entire hull was tilted a lot.

The expected jumping gang did not appear, and the Dutch warship left as soon as it hit and immediately reversed, leaving a large hole several meters wide for the hull of the French and Western battleships. On the wooden battleships without watertight gates, this large hole directly means sinking.

This is true. After being hit, the French and Western warships quickly tilted significantly and then quickly sank to the bottom of the sea. In a few minutes, the mast disappeared.

The Prince of Prince was already in a mess. After the battle broke out, Turville regretted the use of bullshit fire as Chinese tradition. The reason was very simple. Now it was windless weather. The whole fleet carried out fire volleys, which directly caused the fleet to be shrouded in smoke and dust. The Prince of Prince was still in the center of the battle line. Therefore, when it was discovered that the Dutch fleet was carrying out impact operations, Turville immediately ordered a turn, the battle line was disbanded, and the avant-garde and defender flagships took over the command of the fleet.

But the problem is that the signal flag was shrouded in smoke and dust, and only a very small number of warships saw it, which directly caused the battle line to be cut off in half. The most unlucky ones were the backbone and the guard fleet. This was the focus of the attack of Dutch ships. Most of the warships did not avoid the impact and were hit hard on the hull. Although the Prince of the King avoided it, the situation was still not optimistic.

Van der Were personally commanded the Amsterdam, chasing the Prince of Turville, and vowed to sink her. The Prince of the French Navy is a newcomer to the speed of the Amsterdam and cannot be hit in a short period of time. However, the two fifteen-inch heavy artillery of the Amsterdam were not idle, and they bombarded the Prince of the King at a speed of one and a half minutes.

Grenades filled with black gunpowder kept hitting the hull of the Prince. Every time they exploded, hundreds of debris swept across the hull, and in an instant they tore up to pieces. Although the armored commander tower in Tourville was dozens of meters away from the stern of the shelled ship, the violent explosion still made him unstable and collided with several staff officers. His ears were buzzing and he could not hear anything clearly. Outside the window there were shouts and shouts of help.

Black gunpowder ignited the flammable items on the ship, and the crew responsible for rescue quickly put out the fire, but whenever a shell fell on the deck, it was swept down in pieces.

Fortunately, a cruise ship came to the side of the Prince, but the 36-pound short cannon on the ship was completely tickling the Amsterdam and could not help at all. At about three or four, a shell shot from Amsterdam hit the armored commander tower, and a large number of debris burst into this huge armored can. When the captain came to the commander tower from the seafaring bridge, most of the people in the room died, and even the commander Tulville fell in a pool of blood.

His chest was stained with blood donation, and a calf was cut from his knees. At the last moment of his life, Turville ordered a retreat order and saved some French warships.

In order to get rid of Amsterdam, the captain of the Prince of the Prince ordered a slowdown. When the ships of the two sides were about to collide, he suddenly turned left and cut across the route of his cruise ship, which led to almost being hit by his own warship. Fortunately, the two sides passed by, but the Amsterdam hit the cruise ship firmly because of the steering. The corner of the collision and the small half of the bow were cut in, and they were entangled, and they would not be separated for a while, giving the Prince of the Prince a chance to retreat.

When the French warships saw the signal from the flagship, they fled in scattered places. Some fled to the Bay of Vigo, while others rushed directly to the Strait of Gibraltar and fled to the Mediterranean. The Prince was a ship that fled to the Mediterranean. She sailed directly from the sea outside Tangier, and everyone on the beach could see her miserable situation.

One of the two chimneys had broken and collapsed, and the other one was full of holes. The originally white-coated superstructure was densely packed with bullet marks, and it was obviously scattered by debris shot from large-caliber grenades. The snorkel was blown away, the lifeboat and traffic boat were in a mess, and the stern was even blown up. There was a large hole with a length of more than three meters wide. The grenade must have been shot in from the window, and the explosion inside was generated. A camp bed was still hung outside.

There were flesh and blood everywhere, and some places were burning. The tragic appearance made some women on the beach start to be scared and vomit.

The pursuit continued until the evening, but at around 4 pm, there were no ships to be seen. During the period when the audience was watching, some results had been recorded. At least twelve French and Spanish warships sank in front of everyone, most of which were sunk after being hit, while two Dutch warships sank.

A wooden battleship with steam assisted power was a wooden battleship. She collided with an iron armored ship. Although it sank the other party, the hull suffered large-scale damage and began to infiltrate water. Although it was rescued, it still sank in the end.

Another sister ship was unlucky and could not escape for a while when it collided with the same type of warship. Then a Spanish sail warship hit her. Just when the audience thought they were about to watch the battle on the sidelines, the Spanish warship exploded and the three ships sank at the same time. It should be that the Dutch warship hit the Spanish warship's gunpowder depot with 68 pounds at close range.
Chapter completed!