Chapter 730 (2/2)

The reason why Havana Bay is one of the few natural deep-water ports in the whole Caribbean is that it is deep in the interior of Cuba island. Although the area of the bay is not small, there is only a central channel about two kilometers long and less than 300 meters wide connecting it with the open sea.

That is to say, if someone blocks the central channel, the whole Havana Bay will be blocked.

They noticed this when the Spaniards occupied the island and set Havana as a naval base on the island. So on both sides of the mouth of the Central River, the Spanish had built two strong fortresses to protect this important central river.

In order to protect the central channel, the Spanish began to build fortresses on the promontory on the North Bank of the estuary as early as 1555 because the French captured Havana.

The fortress at the mouth of the river is called morrow fortress. Later, the Spaniards felt that this fortress alone could not completely protect the central channel, so in 1590, they built another fortress, San Salvador de la Ponta, from the Cape on the South Bank of the estuary.

After the construction of these two fortresses, they have been defending the central river channel more than 200 meters wide, which has become a powerful barrier for Havana Bay.

Later, in 1630, copper chains were laid in the river course between Fort de la Ponta and Fort Moro to prevent enemy ships from rushing into the bay.

All in all, in this era, after more than two centuries of Spanish construction, the whole Havana bay can be called an iron wall.

But the Spaniards never thought that there would be cheating cannons such as 122mm dual cannons and 105mm dual cannons in this era. After the successful test of the Empire's 122mm cannons, the Cherokee class warships had been reloaded with the fastest speed. Now the main guns of the seven Cherokee class warships have been replaced by 122mm dual artillery.

In this era, any fortress has a large caliber fortress gun or even a super large caliber mortar gun. Whether it is a large caliber fortress gun or a super large caliber mortar gun, its power is undoubtedly very powerful. This kind of gun has absolute lethality against windsurfing battleships, even to the steel battleships of the upper Great China empire.

In fact, not to mention fortress guns and super large caliber mortar guns, even the 32 36 pound guns on El Salvador de Mondo can pose a great threat to Cherokee class warships.

Of course, the premise is that your cannon can fight my warship!

Now the most powerful fortress gun used by European powers is the 64 pound gun. The range of this large caliber fortress gun can reach an amazing 3500 meters. Of course, at this distance, the accuracy is extremely low.

In fact, even a 36 pound naval gun can reach a range of nearly 2000 meters, but the distance that can guarantee the firing accuracy is only 500 or 600 meters.

On the Cherokee class warships, even the 76 mortars with the closest range have an effective range of more than five kilometers. As for the 76mm guns, there are 105 guns and 122 guns, which can surprise all the Europeans.

So when the seven Cherokee class warships began to block the central channel with their guns, the Spaniards were immediately dumbfounded

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