Chapter 644 (1/2)

The second battalion of the coastal artillery regiment at point Henry has a total of 70 guns. These guns not only fire powerful flowering bullets, but also fire very fast.

For example, the 36 pound wallier system long gun used on the French sail battleship has a loading speed of about one and a half minutes to two minutes. Among the heavy guns of this era, this kind of gun has a relatively fast firing speed.

But this is far from being able to compare with the firing rate of Yanhuang tribe's 105 heavy guns, let alone the faster 76 guns.

So, when the Brittany was killed by ammunition, the violent energy of 42%, in the next shooting, the remaining seven warships of Guadeloupe fleet immediately fell into despair.

Most importantly, the flagship glory was almost destroyed, including the commander, major general Julian Luc, and the main officers of the fleet. The command system of the whole fleet was immediately paralyzed.

Although Murphy, the captain of the class III sail battleship ”New France”, soon took over the command of the fleet, it was too late.

The New France, a class III windsurfing battleship, is a main ship with a relatively early service time. It can be seen from the name of the ship that it served as early as when France lost its new France, that is, the eastern colony of Canada.

In fact, it is true that this class III windsurfing battleship, which was launched into service as early as 1754, is now 24 years old. His captain, Lt. greyman Murphy, also served on the ship for seven years. When he first served on the New France, he was a navy captain. Seven years later, he became the captain of the ship.

Murphy is indeed an excellent middle-level officer in the Royal French navy. If he is given enough time, he may grow into a brigadier general like Henry Antoine, which is almost the highest rank that a civilian officer can achieve.

But unfortunately, he met Yanhuang tribe at this time.

The fourth round, the fifth round, the sixth round

Thanks to the application of gun bolt technology, the gun loading speed of Yanhuang tribe was extremely fast. The 36 pound gun on the New France had not even fired a single shell, and the whole fleet was salvaged by seven or eight rounds.

Although the number of 70 guns is not large, they can't stand and fire too fast. The Royal French navy, which had never experienced such a high-speed gun before, was immediately stunned by the stormy attack.

The panic stricken French sailors could not figure out how many guns were firing at them. They only felt that countless shells were exploding in the sea water around the fleet, setting off one water column after another.

Of course, once one or more shells hit the warship, the hapless warship will be seriously damaged. The scene is more terrible than that of large caliber mortar artillery.

Greyman Murphy quickly made the decision to turn around and escape from this huge trap as soon as possible.

The New France immediately began to turn around, and hundreds of sailors burst out with amazing energy in this desperate situation. They tried their best to control the sails and try to turn the full speed class III ship around in the shortest time.

The third class ship named after the French colony was indeed very lucky in the early stage of the shelling. It did not receive a single shell in eight rounds of salvo fire. But the other warships in the fleet were not so lucky. Because the flagship lost two masts, the ship's speed soon fell down. The Brittany was directly sunk, and the other four warships also suffered from such injuries.