New Ming Empire mixed in America

"Change to armor-piercing bullets...quickly change to armor-piercing bullets!"

Orders sounded from the turret, causing all the gun crew members to move faster.

The sudden appearance of this armored ship also made the navy of the Xinming Empire taste the depression of other warships facing them.

After the shell hits the opponent, it will be ruthlessly bounced away. In addition to causing some damage to the soldiers on the opponent's deck, it cannot penetrate the opponent's armor at all, so the turret began to urgently change to armor-piercing shells.

However, the effect of solid armor-piercing bullets is also somewhat unsatisfactory. Although the hollow structure at the rear allows the armor-piercing bullets to produce some fragments after penetrating the armor, other than that, they cannot cause other substantial damage to the opponent.

So the current situation between the two sides is like a replica of the ironclad battle between the North and the South.

No, at least now the Xinming Empire can cause some trouble to the opponent with its armor-piercing bullets.

Now all the artillery of the new ironclad ships are aimed at the Black Prince's gun windows, using armor-piercing shells to continuously hit the opponent's gun cabin.

However, the Black Prince, which was slightly longer than the Xin Ming Empire's ironclads, was still firing back with its naval guns after receiving dozens of rounds of armor-piercing bullets.

"Keep getting closer and launch torpedoes!"

After fighting for more than ten minutes, Song He couldn't bear the attack, which was like tickling the opponent, and prepared to use torpedoes after getting closer.

After receiving the order, the four ironclad ships began to turn and accelerated toward the opponent's stern.

Because Song He discovered that the other party was also driven by the propeller at the stern, otherwise it would not have been able to run side by side with his warship for so long.

As soon as he turned, Song He's eyes lit up. Although the opponent's warship was fairly fast, its steering was a bit inflexible.

The turning arc drawn on the sea is much larger than that of the Xinming Empire's warships. The Xinming Empire's warships have already completed their turns, while the other side is still making a detour.

"Haha, I didn't expect that although their battleships are thin, they are not flexible."

A smile finally appeared on Song He's face, he picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered:

"Leave this thin man to me, and you continue to act according to the plan."

Afterwards, Song He's ship rushed towards the Black Prince.

The design of the Black Prince borrowed the structure of some clipper ships to increase speed, so its hull was greatly elongated, and it was a battleship with side gun ports, so it looked a bit thin.

Although this kind of warship can reach about 16 knots under the hybrid power of steam and sail, it also requires more space and distance to complete the turn.

So Song He saw exactly this and wanted to seize this opportunity to eliminate the opponent in one fell swoop.

Seeing three armored ships separated from Song He's battleship formation, rushing towards the second-level ship that had just approached to let the fleet commander transfer, the Black Prince's chimney emitted a thick black smoke and began to accelerate.

It is going to fight tooth and nail. If it cannot stop the opponent, then this second-level ship is likely to follow in the footsteps of the flagship.

As for why the Black Prince was not set as the flagship, it was because the Black Prince's hull was a bit short, making it inconvenient to use semaphore to command the entire fleet.

And its speed can easily separate the flagship from other battleships in the fleet.

Moreover, the Black Prince is only classified as a frigate, and the commander of the expedition fleet led by Ying did not want a frigate to serve as his flagship.

But after encountering the attack by the Xinming Empire's ironclad ships this time, I believe that the future fleet commander who leads the British army will probably consider abandoning his own dignity and consider using a frigate as the flagship.

But if the Black Prince wants to return reinforcements, it has to ask Song Contract first if he agrees.

Because of the melee just now and Song He's attack on the flagship, the formation of the British expedition fleet is now in chaos.

The distance between the ships has been widened, so now the 'Reserved King' has started a temporary battle with the remaining warships in its formation.

But this situation will end when the flagship flag is raised on the new second-level ship. At that time, each ship will launch a counterattack under the command of the flagship.

But can Song He give them a chance?

Obviously it was impossible. After catching up with the Black Prince, the two sides started a face-to-face artillery battle again.

This time, because of the close distance, all types of artillery on the Song He ship joined the attack sequence.

The same goes for the Black Prince, and all kinds of artillery on the deck also started firing.

But the rate of fire of the artillery is directly related to the intensity of the firepower.

Relying on the advantage of its rate of fire, Song He's ship actually gained an overwhelming advantage in the deck artillery battle.

As for the 26 68-pound forward-loading smoothbore cannons on the Black Prince, they were even worse. After firing, they would lower the muzzles and load the shells from the muzzles into the barrels.

Then raise the muzzle again, aim, fire, and repeat the above steps.

If they can fire one shot in twenty minutes, their artillerymen are very agile, so don't look at the Black Prince's large number of side guns.

But the number of hits during artillery battles was much greater than that of Song He's warships.

And after the two sides got closer, Song He ordered to launch torpedoes.

Although there are 10 110-pound Armstrong breech-loading cannons and 4 40-pound breech-loading cannons on the Black Prince, their shooting speed is still impressive.

And their biggest weapon, the Martin Molten Iron Incendiary Bomb, had no effect on Song He's battleships.

These cannonballs, which can penetrate and ignite wooden battleships, are useless when encountering ironclads.

The armor cannot be broken by solid bullets, let alone these hollow cannonballs with molten iron added.

Apart from leaving some cosmetic damage on the armor of Song He's ship, which looked like chewing gum, it was of no use whatsoever.

Just like when one party spits at the other party during a fight, the sarcasm level is directly maxed out.

But after several armor-piercing shells penetrated the Black Prince's hull armor, shattered the partitions of the watertight compartment and hit the Anderson furnace device, the Black Prince finally suffered internal damage for the first time.

After the explosion, the Anderson furnace turned all the soldiers in this cabin into cooked prawns.

And the molten iron flowing out also caused unimaginable damage to the wooden floor in the cabin.

Soon the Black Prince began to smoke from the inside, and as more and more solid armor-piercing bullets hit it, it was finally hit by an armor-piercing bullet that hit the opponent's boiler.

The Black Prince slowly lost power and began to sail at a speed of less than 10 knots.

"The torpedo is ready. Do you want to launch it?"

Just when Song He was about to make persistent efforts to completely make the opponent lose power, the voice of the torpedo team sounded on the intercom.

"Cancel the launch plan. We need to capture this battleship alive, send a signal to the armored gunboat, and ask them to come over and start boarding operations."

Just kidding, if torpedoes were used, the Black Prince would be immediately delisted. How could such a good warship be wasted?

"Let the secondary guns on the deck set fire to the opponent's mast. We will stop them completely on the sea!"

Soon, the Black Prince lost its steam power, and the sails on the mast were ignited by incendiary bombs.

The gunners on the deck of the Song He ship who controlled the secondary guns and rapid-fire guns all used delayed fuze shells.

This kind of projectile contains white phosphorus and aluminum powder in the warhead, and explodes directly out of thin air after flying near the opponent's mast.

The flying pieces were mixed with the ignited white phosphorus, and successfully set the opponent's sail on fire.

At this time, the Black Prince finally slowly stopped on the sea.

"Captain, shall we open the sea valve?"

A sailor on the Black Prince gritted his teeth and asked.

If the sea valve is not opened now, it will be difficult for the Black Prince to find the same good opportunities as now.