"Fire the cannon!" The 68-pound cannon located at the head of the ironclad ship was fiercely bombarded the enemy ship in front of him!

This 68-pound cannon, which was loaded for the first time, weighed 4.8 tons, had a caliber of 8.2 inches, and the initial speed of the cannon reached an astonishing 481m per second, with a maximum range of more than 3,000 meters!

In the early sail battleship era, where 12-pound and 24-pound guns were generally used as the main force, the power of this naval gun was brutal!

A small galleon on the right wing of the Ottoman fleet was hit by a giant cannon, the deck broke, and it was covered in blood and was damaged in an instant!

"Accelerate forward and break through the enemy's formation with lines!"

Zheng Zhibao, who owns the giant ship, issued an order to attack the final attack!

The workers in the boiler room struggled to add coal to the steam boiler. The marine steam engine was hot. The flywheel, piston, and crank connecting rod mechanism were operating rapidly. The instruments that detected all indicators of the steam engine were trembling! The speed of the ironclad ship was increasing step by step!

The ironclad ship is like a cheetah that has escaped the imprisonment of iron chains. The maximum speed of the explosion reaches an astonishing 14 knots, breaking through everyone's imagination!

The Iron Craft still retains the impact angles used for melee combat, and are all metal terrifying and sharp impact angles!

As General Fubo made every effort to advance, the battleship of the Eastern Wu took over the ironclad ship that had left the line and became the flagship of the left wing line. It led the left wing line quickly followed behind the ironclad ship!

As long as the ironclad ship breaks out, the left wing line can quickly win an overwhelming victory!

"No! What kind of monster is this! It swallows clouds and mists, it's speed is too fast, it's coming towards us!"

The flagship of the Ottoman right-wing commander Huoshan Zand Pasha is an 800-ton sailing ship. He was originally full of confidence in his flagship, but he found out that he was wrong!

An almost black monster drove towards the fleet he was commanding with rolling black smoke!

The most terrifying thing is that this monster deliberately makes a harsh whistle sound, which makes the scalp numb! It's like a terrible monster from the depths of the Mediterranean!

"Destroy it with artillery!" Huoshan Zand Pasha shouted hysterically.

He really dared not fight the unknown black monster head-on!

The 70 sailboats on the right wing and the gallops were moving in a hurry due to the raid of the ironclad ship.

The artillery of the galleon is mainly concentrated in the bow and stern, and has a structure similar to the city wall. Here the gunners hurriedly adjust the firing angle of the artillery.

"Destroy the sea monster!" The Turkish artillery lit the fuse in fear!

A series of white flashes appeared in the Ottoman fleet, followed by loud thunderous sounds, followed by thick smoke covering the sky and the sun. Solid iron shells covered the iron armored ships sailing at full speed with the whistling sound of breaking through the air!

Boom!! More shells fell on the sea, but more than a dozen shells roared into the ironclad ship!

"Hit the black sea monster!" The Turkish gunner cheered!

How could it cause considerable casualties if you were hit by more than a dozen shells? If you were lucky, they might severely damage the black sea monster and lose their combat effectiveness.

However, they were all wrong!

The thick smoke produced by the launching shells dissipated, and they dispelled the remaining smoke in front of them. They could clearly see that the ironclad ship was not only unscathed, but also closer to them!

"Impossible! More than a dozen shells did not damage it at all!" The Turkish gunner was almost crazy!

The rise of the Ottoman Empire relies on the messile guns and artillery. Each of their gunners had to undergo an average of several years of training to maintain a high level of combat effectiveness. At this time, they were like seeing ghosts, and they felt incredible about the result of their own artillery bombardment!

"Don't stand there, continue to load shells! It's coming!" the cannon leader urged.

After a round of fire, the Turkish gunners have to clean the barrel and reload the gun from the front of the gun. Even the most skilled gunners operated by the gun have intervals.

And during such intervals, the black ironclad ship, which was like a nightmare for them, quickly approached them!

The movable turret on the bow of the General Fubo ironclad ship, the gunners were operating 68 pounds of artillery to destroy the enemy's large warships one by one.

The bow of the ship has semicircular armor protection. When it is bombarded by Turkish artillery, the 68-pound artillery is difficult to destroy by the opponent's artillery.

The dozen or so shells just now were bounced off by the armor of the hull, and the iron armor was lined with two layers of teak boards, which could also slow down the impact when caught.

"Don't use artillery to send some small boats to the opponent. We should try our best to destroy the enemy's command ship. Seeing that there is a large sailboat there, just hit it!" The commander of the turret used a telescope to observe the enemy's fleet gradually approaching.

He was not interested in some small and medium-sized galleys like small fish and shrimps, but instead discovered the 1,000-ton large galley in Huoshan Zand Pasha, which was directing other small boats to shell the shelling.

Destroying such a large sailboat may have the effect of capturing the thief first!

The gunners hurriedly turned the turntable to adjust the direction and angle of the cannon.

This simple mobile turret designed is not that mature yet, and the turret rotates slowly. When the ironclad ship advances at full speed, the gunner needs to predict with rich experience.

"That one must be the other party's flagship, let me see the angle..."

Huoshan Zand Pasha didn't know that his 1,000-ton sailboat had been targeted by the 68-pound cannon on the ironclad ship. He was watching the ironclad ship get closer and closer under the shelling of his fleet!

His fleet, 70 large and small sailboats, and galleys continued to shell the ironclad ships, but they achieved very few results!

Occasionally hit the deck can cause casualties to soldiers without protection on the top deck, but it is basically ineffective against command rooms, hulls, and artillery with armor protection!

If Huoshan Zandpasha knew that it was a complete iron ship, he would understand it, but he did not know that the black sea monster opposite was an iron armored ship, and he thought that the wood was painted with black paint.

This caused great misleading to him and his men!

They thought this was a deep-sea monster that was inaccessible to guns, otherwise they would not be able to explain why the cannon could not traumat it!

Boom! Accompanied by a sharp whistling, a galleon on the left side of the large sailboat where Huoshan Zand Pasha was located was hit by a 68-pound cannon!

The high-speed shells pierced the thin hull of the sailboat, pulling out a terrifying blood mark inside, and several cannons inside were destroyed by the shells!

"The power of this shell is really huge!" Huoshan Zand Pasha was scared and sweated coldly. He had a intuition that the shell was probably coming towards him, but it lacked accuracy and landed on the sailboat next to him.

"What a pity, I didn't hit the enemy's flagship, but unexpectedly I won!" The commander of the bow turret of General Fubo said to the gunner.
Chapter completed!