Chapter 731 (1/2)

The fleet of the Great China Empire stopped about four kilometers from the Central River, but did not anchor.

When the lookout man on the observation platform said that a Spanish sail warship was preparing to sail out of Havana bay through the central channel, the fleet's guns roared.

Seven Cherokee class warships have known for a long time where their warships' guns should be fired by using flag language and radio.

The firing area of the 122 mm dual main gun with the farthest effective range is at the other end of the central channel, and the coverage area is at the junction of Havana Bay and the central channel.

The firing area of the 105mm dual naval gun is the whole central channel. The 105mm guns of each of the seven warships are responsible for the channel about 300m in length. The 76mm guns cooperate with the 105mm guns.

The 76mm mortar is responsible for the estuarine area of the central channel.

Of course, the first to fire was the 122mm dual main gun on seven warships.

Since the main guns of Cherokee class warships were replaced, each Cherokee class warship now has six 122mm dual turrets in the first three and the last three, and eight 105mm dual turrets. As for the original 76 mm dual turret, it has become a single gun. Each ship has eight 76 guns. Of course, there are still 24 76 mortars with extremely fast firing speed.

That is to say, there are 12 122mm main guns, 16 105mm guns, 8 76mm guns and 24 76mm mortars on a Cherokee class warship.

These naval guns, whether they are main guns or auxiliary guns, fire high explosive grenades!

It's too extravagant to use armour piercing projectiles to deal with this kind of windsail warship, and high explosive projectiles are the best.

The fleet of the Dahua Empire stayed just outside the range of the fortress gun. The big caliber fortress gun is just about 500 meters away from the fleet, but the fleet's naval gun can easily block the Central River.

This situation is very interesting.

Although you have a large number of cannons and a large caliber, you can't hit me. Your cannons are the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf

On the other hand, the imperial fleet, with 84 122 mm main guns on seven warships, sprinkled the shells evenly on the other end of the central river channel at a firing rate of two shots a minute, and directly blocked the central river channel, which was only over 200 meters wide.

The first bad luck was a Spanish privateer, which was a class four windsurfing ship, also known as a cruiser.

The ship tried to drive out of the bay at its own speed, but as soon as it got close to the central channel, two 122 mm high explosive rounds hit the iron headed privateer one after another.

Two cannonballs directly crippled the privateer, two of its three masts were broken, and two huge holes appeared on the front and rear decks.

The ship didn't hold on for long, so the sailors on board abandoned the ship to escape.

The end of the privateer made all the sailors on the Spanish warships jump. They never thought that the gun range of the seven warships was so far, and they could maintain such a high percentage of hits at such a long distance!

This time, all the Spanish warships gathered in the Gulf did not dare to run forward.

As long as the Spanish warships did not move, the main guns of the imperial fleet would not fire. But as soon as a boat wants to run out, there are tons of shells falling down.