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Chapter 225 Real Naval Battle!Domineering color domineering!

The speed of the Jackdaw was so fast that when the merchant ship tried to turn away from the range of its artillery, it had already charged straight ahead, passing the bow of the ship.

The shivering sailors on the merchant ship could even see the greedy eyes of the crew on the Jackdaw, the gleaming gold teeth in their mouths, and the sunlight reflected from the sharp weapons in their hands.

Flames shot out from the side of the Jackdaw, metal ripping through the air.

"boom--!"

When the shell hit, the hull shattered!

In the already cloudy and rainy day, the pervasive gunpowder smoke made the surroundings feel like night. The gunpowder smoke choked into the lungs of the merchant crew members, making them cough again and again, breathing stagnantly, and exacerbating their confusion and panic.

The feeling of earth shaking emerged on the deck, and the crew members wondered from time to time whether they had been shot, whether they had died, or whether they had already gone to heaven.

"Forward! Adventure!"

Amidst the gunfire, Cotton's parrot was also cheering.

And this seemingly smooth battle to stop the merchant ship actually contained a lot of great wisdom from Chen Feng.

First of all, when chasing the merchant ship, Chen Feng directed the crew to adopt the tactic of destroying the mainmast of the enemy ship.

This is a risky tactic because the tail boom is hard to hit.

The tail boom is supported by a lock, and the reason why the mainmast of an enemy ship is destroyed is to disable the enemy ship so that they cannot run.

Secondly, when commanding the crew to board the opponent's ship, Chen Feng adopted the charge leader to lead by the bowsprit, and the rest of the crew followed by planks and rigging in batches.

Because warships have something called sheer, the shape of the two walls of the hull is actually not vertical up and down, and the hull will bend slightly inward.

That is to say, when the two ships are close together, the distance between the two decks is actually very long.

The mast jutting out from the bow is important for supporting much of the ship's rigging.

It is very effective to ram the enemy ship from the ship first, and then board the enemy ship from the bowsprit.

Boarding battles take a lot of risk. When you board an enemy ship, you must be confident enough in your own combat power.

Because if you go to the boarding battle as the inferior side, your ship may be captured instead.

If you don't want to engage in a boarding fight in the first place, you probably won't be captured.

The more common approach is to fire the cannons at a distance, then take over the enemy ships once they surrender.

But there is one thing to say, the boarding battle is indeed more enjoyable than the bombardment between two ships.

In the process of chasing the merchant ship of the East India Company, Chen Feng also discovered another point that was quite different from what was depicted in the movie.

That is, it is very easy to turn the steering wheel in the movie, but in real naval battles, two people are needed to really turn the steering wheel.

Because you're turning a huge wooden part that's submerged in water.

So when you turn the wheel, the wheel turns the rope, and the rope connects to the tiller, which connects to the rudder, and ultimately the rudder controls the course of the boat.

But without manipulating the sails, the boat can only turn a little bit, and there's a lot of other work to do, and the wind has to be just right, and it takes a while.

And when the enemy ship moves to a suitable position, the opportunity left for you to fire is very short.

So the final result is probably that you can only scrape Sha, and then miss the enemy ship.

The air is filled with flying debris after shelling, which is dangerous and can hurt you.

The chances of you being hit by a shell are actually small, but not impossible.

Debris is the real threat.These fragments fly around like bullets.

Ammunition magazines are where gunpowder is stored, and if the ammunition magazine catches fire, there will be a massive explosion.

Iron shells will not explode, there is nothing inside, just a solid iron ball.

Therefore, the shelling of the enemy ship is unlikely to cause the ammunition depot to explode, and there is no way to deliberately aim at the ammunition depot and fire.

It is more likely that the ship caught fire and then spread to the ammunition depot.

All of the cannon on board required a spark to ignite the gunpowder in the chamber to fire the shells.

So the gunpowder on the ship was surrounded by sparks that could cause a fire if things went wrong.

There is another point that Chen Feng also finds fresh, that is, most of the artillery used in the early 18th century had no rifling, and they were basically smoothbore guns!

That is to say, the diameter of the projectile is slightly smaller than the diameter of the barrel, and when the projectile is launched along the barrel, it will be subjected to wind resistance.

Therefore, the shell will bounce in the barrel as it advances, and finally exit the chamber.

Therefore, the accuracy of this gun is not high, which is the same reason that the accuracy of smoothbore guns is much lower than that of rifled guns.

Still, the cannon had a great range.

The shell fired by the 32-pound gun used by the Jackdaw has a muzzle velocity of about 457 meters per second, or Mach 1.3 (1.3 times the speed of sound), which shows that the Jackdaw can shoot some objects from a mile away!

As for whether you'll be able to hit what you're aiming at a mile away, not likely.But at a distance of a mile, if you can get the point of impact very precisely, you can use the bounce of the shell to hit the target.You can let the shells shoot so far.

Ideally, it's best to keep the distance between the two parties within a quarter of a mile.

These guns only slowly retreated when they fired, and they looked non-threatening. In fact, the 3.1-ton guns would retreat 10 to 11 feet (about 3 meters).

You can't even see this process with the naked eye, and the speed of the rear seat is extremely fast.

Because things shot out of the muzzle have a muzzle velocity of Mach 1.3, which puts a lot of pressure on the walls of the ship.

Because the bolts fixed on the wall are subjected to a pulling force of 16 tons inward every time the gun is fired.

One thing people have learned over time is not to have all the cannons on a ship firing at the same time.

Let the cannons fire in turn, so that each carriage on each side of the ship is not simultaneously subjected to a 16-ton pull.

Simultaneous fire won't necessarily tear the ship to shreds, but it certainly puts a lot of pressure on the pass if you don't take turns firing

To fire a cannon, a slow-burning match was brought into contact with the pilot hole, which ignited a stream of powder that burned down the pilot hole.

Ignite the gunpowder in the chamber and within the next 2 to 3 seconds the cannon will fire.

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