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The Emissary Ship is a fast closing ship. When the ship approached Liu Pei's fleet, Liu Pei on the deck also saw him. At the same time, Liu Pei also saw the warrior who kept waving his arms at the bow of the boat.
Liu Pei smiled and said very maliciously: "Wait for that ship to enter the range before raising our flag." ”
The guard smiled and went to give the order. The samurai was still worried about being attacked, but when he approached cautiously, the other party did not move, which made him feel safe.
But when the ship came into precise range, all the ships raised the skull flag with a black background almost at the same time! That scared the hell out of that samurai! As a garrison warrior in the port, no matter how stupid he is, he knows what the black-background skull flag represents?
At the same time, he was in Nagasaki, and of course he also knew Nagasaki's observance, how Tanigawa Gonroku treated the envoy of the Red-eyed Dragon King roughly. Tanigawa Gonroku not only did not hand over Zheng Zhilong's property, but also whipped and expelled these messengers. As a result, now the Red-Eyed Dragon King has come to take revenge himself!
The warrior knew what was going to happen when he saw the flag, and he immediately ordered the ship to turn around and return to port. Japan's Sekibune sail and oars are dual-purpose, and the speed is still very fast. But no matter how fast he is, he can't be faster than a cannonball!
Under Liu Pei's order, the three battleships closest to the ship fired a salvo almost simultaneously. Sixty shells hit more than forty of them, and the ship was torn to shreds in an instant!
Now all the widows in the harbor know the purpose of this fleet! This expression is simply too clear! Tanigawa Gonroku stood on the castle tower walls and witnessed the tragedy through a telescope. Cold sweat instantly covered his face!
To be honest, he's kind of regretting swallowing those properties now! The reason why Tanigawa Gonroku swallowed those industries was because of greed. On the other hand, he didn't want those industries to fall into the hands of others in vain, after all, those industries were left by his friend Li Dan.
But at this point he has no way out! If he bowed to Liu Pei and handed over those properties, he might be able to avoid a war. But his prestige will take a major hit. When the time comes, I'm afraid that his position in Nagasaki will not be guaranteed, not to mention, said
Maybe you will be ordered by the Edo shogunate! So he can only fight this battle head-on.
However, Tanigawa Gonroku was also once a fierce warrior on the battlefield. After he calmed down, he immediately ordered the sailors to go out to sea to set up a formation. At the same time, he also ordered all the ships in the harbor that could fight to go to sea together.
He could see that Liu Pei was not in a hurry to attack Nagasaki, just to give him a deterrent. Wants to defeat his fleet in front of everyone. But it also gave him a chance to die and survive. As long as he can defeat Liu Pei's fleet, then his prestige will not only not be hit, but will be greatly improved.
In fact, he was right. Liu Pei let the fleet only wander in the open sea, just waiting for the sailors of Tanigawa Gonroku to defeat them in a dignified manner, and give him and the Nagasaki defenders a profound lesson, a huge intimidation!
Under the orders of Tanigawa Gonroku, Nagasaki's sailors and the collected ships assembled outside the harbor, and then slowly met Liu Pei's fleet. They have to. You can't always defend for grievances when you fight at your own doorstep, that's too embarrassing for the samurai of the Japanese country!
The fleet of Nagasaki was about 100 ships. But the actual fleet of real warships is only about seventy. The rest of the ships were all improvised, and their combat effectiveness was not high.
The samurai who commanded the fleet also knew this, but they took the initiative to attack, driven by honor. The naval battle unfolded in Nagasaki with all eyes on it.
Liu Pei is well aware of the psychology of these widows. The more you beat them upright, the harder you beat them. The more people who kill them, the more honest and admirable they will be to you. So Liu Pei not only did not take advantage of their build-up to attack, but instead retreated some distance when their fleet set sail, giving up enough sea. Liu Pei's move made the Nagasaki fleet and the soldiers on land breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, they also admired Liu Pei's courage to do so.
Liu Pei did not start the war immediately, but took advantage of the speed of the voyage to go around two circles at sea. As a result, the habit of the Japanese people swarming to fight and fighting, coupled with the lack of coordinated training of the fleet, was immediately exposed.
Now run to the front
Almost all of them are relatively fast, but relatively thin ships. The other building ships and vermilion ships fell behind. Seeing the fighters, Liu Pei immediately ordered the fleet to turn and start attacking.
Liu Pei divided the fleet into two branches, left and right, approaching the city wall fleet in two directions, and actually put on a surrounding appearance! This made the samurai on the ship very angry! They had never seen such a thing as encircling a large fleet with a small number of them! They insisted that it was a humiliation! Therefore, the samurai on the ship were mad and desperately instructed the soldiers to speed up the ship and get closer to the opponent. As a result, the fleet was further dispersed.
Liu Pei may be humiliating for them to do this, but for Liu Pei, it is a correct assessment of his own strength.
Just when the flotillas of both sides approached 400 meters. The Nagasaki fleet was the first to open fire. However, there was no war for a long time, and the sailors of the Nagasaki fleet lacked training and fired shells. It's scattered. In addition, the caliber of the artillery of the Nagasaki fleet is relatively small, so even if the ships that Liu Pei thinks are concentrated, they will be bounced off by the hard planks!
The Nagasaki fleet opened fire, but Liu Pei's fleet never fired. They just kept adjusting their course and speed, and slowly approached the Nagasaki fleet. When the fleets of the two sides approached more than 300 meters, Liu Pei's fleet finally began to shoot!
After the flagship was raised, all the battleships fired a dense barrage of shells at the Nagasaki fleet! Liu Pei had just beaten the Spaniards, the Netherlands and Liu Xiang, and his morale was at its peak. And the sailors have experienced real combat, and their experience and gunnery have improved a lot. So their shells are much more accurate than the Nagasaki fleet!
With the rumbling cannon, the sound of the sea cannon expanded countless times for a while! Gunsmoke also filled the sea. Dense shells burst through the smoke and roared from the sky across the sea between the two fleets, smashing heavily on the enemy's ship!
Liu Pei felt that the first target to shoot was all Guan Ship. Because in order to pursue speed, the ship had to sacrifice the ship's defense capability. At the same time, they were closest to Liu Pei and were in the most powerful range of the naval guns, so under the first round of blows from Liu Pei's fleet, the ships that rushed to the front suffered heavy losses!