The Ming fleet immediately divided into two groups, each team of sixteen warships, they formed a column, and marched diagonally towards the Satsuma fleet, just like a big mouth that slowly opened, to swallow the Satsuma fleet in one gulp.

The flagship of the Second Squadron was a 3rd class sail warship with a total weight of 1,200 tons, named the Gingo, which was armed with a total of 72 guns.

Huang Binqing was the deputy commander of the Jinghai Fleet and the vanguard of this battle, and the second fleet was led by him, and he obtained the command of the first battle by drawing lots.

In this battle, Huang Binqing made up his mind to show off and get a beautiful first achievement!

"The enemy ship has a three-foot waterline!"

"Prepare for shelling!"

"Fire!"

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ....."

With Huang Binqing's order, thirty guns on the port side of the Jingo opened fire together, and more than ten columns of water rose on the front and back of the Satsuma warship a mile away.

Five more shells hit the hull, causing the ship to shake violently, shattering wood chips and screaming the Satsuma soldiers on board.

The Japanese ships were small in size and did not pay much attention to their protective capabilities when they were manufactured, so they were very vulnerable under the bombardment of the Ming fleet.

The first Satsuma warship to be hit, the left side of the ship was directly opened, forming a hole the size of a bucket, and the cracks in the hull spread all the way below the waterline, and a large amount of seawater poured into the hold, which was cool at the beginning.

Tadaura Shimazu saw it very clearly in his boat, and he was very surprised.

Generally speaking, it is difficult for a solid shell to sink a wooden warship, and often the two warships bombard each other for a long time, and do not sink a single one, unless the shell penetrates the hull below the waterline, causing a large influx of seawater.

But this Ming army's cannonball is a bit fierce!

The artillery equipped by the Ming Royal Navy is divided by the weight of the projectile, mainly five types of artillery: 12 pounds, 18 pounds, 24 pounds, 32 pounds and 42 pounds.

The caliber of the 32-pounder cannon is 16 centimeters, and whoever will suffer from this cannon will know.

Rao is opening was unfavorable, Shimazu Tadaro still gritted his teeth and insisted, he grew up listening to the braggadocio of his family ancestors.

The ancestors often talked about how brave they were on the battlefield back then, how desperate they fought to the death in the face of a strong enemy, and finally achieved victory.

Tadaura Shimazu hopes that he can create a miracle like his predecessors.

Standing on the deck of the flagship, he drew his saber, waved it in the air, and shouted: "Attack, close to them!" ”

Unfortunately, his fierce fighting spirit could not make the ships of the Satsuma Domain bigger, nor could he make the caliber of the cannons bigger.

In the era of giant ships and heavy artillery, caliber is justice, range is truth, and the heavy artillery of the Ming Royal Navy smashed the beautiful illusion of Tsushima Tadaro to the ground.

In the sound of the artillery of the ships of the Ming army, the hissing roar of Tadaro Tsushima was completely muffled.

The cannon roared on the sea, the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the water column soared into the sky.

The Satsuma warships were bombed everywhere, and the sea was full of wrecked and broken masts, and Satsuma soldiers who had fallen overboard.

Despite this, Satsuma's warships still desperately approached the Ming army's fleet, and the Japanese principle of naval warfare was to get closer, cast rockets, and then jump ship.

The closer you get, the more intense the cannon becomes, and the quicker you die, and none of the Satsuma ships can survive ten rounds, and none of them can fight.

Thirty nautical miles from Miyako Island, Mina Island, is dotted with sailing ships and is home to another Japanese naval warship.

The main general, Kayama Hisamori, was a man of about thirty years old with a mustache, and he was waiting for the arrival of the Qing navy.

said that the Nissin would defend together, and he came to help the field today, but he didn't wait for the arrival of a Qing demon for a long time.

Birch Mountain Jiushou was very disappointed, and felt more and more that this group of demons was unreliable.

At this time, a Japanese soldier ran into the camp tent guarded by Huashan in a panic, and said anxiously: "Report! General Kayama, a fleet of Daming is already engaged with General Shimazu on Miyakojima! ”

Birch Mountain Jiushou sneered: "They are really punctual, saying that the second day of the fifth month is the second day of the fifth month!" ”

Before the soldiers could react, Kayama Hisamori immediately said: "Order all warships to enter combat readiness and go to sea to fight in a quarter of an hour!" ”

"Yes, General."

Kayama Hisamori wanted to look in the direction of Miyakojima, and snorted: "How fast do you guys come, my Satsuma Navy is not a paper paste!" ”

Kayama Kumoru is a retainer of the Shimazu clan and is deeply used by the Shimazu clan.

His father, Kayama Hisadaka, also participated in the Wanli Korean War, defeated the Korean army of Yi Sunsin, and was the general who led the Satsuma Domain to occupy the Ryukyus by force.

His father is so powerful, and he is quite proud of his birch mountain Jiumori, who claims to be a naval admiral, and has long wanted to compete with the Ming Navy.

During the First Sino-Japanese War, the head of the Japanese Navy's Command Department and Japanese Navy Admiral Shikinori Kayama was a descendant of Kayama Kumori, who personally planned and commanded the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and after the First Sino-Japanese War, he served as Japan's first "Governor of Taiwan."

The sea area of Miyako Island.

After a few rounds of masturbation between the Ming Royal Navy and the Japanese Navy, the Japanese Navy was abused into a ship-type, several ships were sunk, the sea was full of floating corpses of the Japanese, and the Ming warships were also scarred, but fortunately, the ship was strong and durable.

Shimazu Tadaro had no time to pay attention to the floating corpses on the sea, and he was both excited and depressed at this time, because the two columns of the Ming army actually took the initiative to meet them and took the initiative to insert themselves into the queue of the Satsuma fleet!

Although I can't understand what the main general of the Ming army is crazy, Shimazu Tadaro is very happy, the Satsuma warship has a numerical advantage, and if it can't be picked up from a distance, the melee advantage is shown.

Capture the thief and capture the king first, this truth is understood by anyone who knows a little bit of military affairs, Shimazu Tadaro targeted the flagship of the second squadron: the Jingo!

In the process of slowly approaching the Jinwu, he was very lucky, several shells of the Ming warship fell in the sea water only a few feet away from him, although the hull was hit by three shots, but they were not fatal.

Seeing that he was only more than twenty steps away from the Kingo, Shimazu Tadaro was even more excited, and at the same time he felt that something was wrong.

After approaching the flagship of the Ming army, he found that the height of the other party's ship was a full and a half higher than his own, and the soldiers could not jump on it at all......

"Coming?"

Shimazu Tadaro looked up and found that there were soldiers of the Ming Army greeting him.

"Fast-fire rockets!"

Tadashi Shimazu shouted, directing the Satsuma soldiers on the ship to launch rockets at the Kingo.

Before the Satsuma soldiers' rockets could be fired, they heard the sound of gunfire like beans on the Kingo, and the bullets rained down like dense rain.

The warships of the Ming army already had a condescending advantage, plus this burst of dense strafing, and there were grenades thrown.

Just a few rounds later, the Japanese soldiers on the deck of the Satsuma warship waiting to change jobs were almost swept away, and the corpses were lying all over the place.

Even the main general Shimazu Tadaro didn't dodge, not only was his leg blown off, but there were more than a dozen blood holes on his body, and he had already died of anger.

As for Shimazu Tadaro's car, it was bombarded by more than 30 guns on the side of the Kingo in a short distance, and in the blink of an eye, it was so shattered that it was about to fall apart.

It turned out that Huang Binqing felt that it was too boring to bombard each other, and the Ming warships could only shoot from one side, and the other side was almost useless, so it was better to rush into the enemy group, blossom on both sides, and fight quickly.

This method of battle was quite reckless, but unexpectedly, the enemy was even more reckless than him, and rushed directly forward.

The whole battlefield was completely one-sided, and the Satsuma fleet was almost powerless to fight back, and was hung and beaten by the Ming Navy, at most it was to shoot a few rockets, which was not as good as the original Zheng family sailors.

The small boats of the Satsuma fleet are compared to the warships of the Ming Navy, like a few wild dogs barking in front of the tigers, and they cannot be bitten to death by using the tactics of the group of dogs.

As a result, less than an hour after the battle, more than 20 of the 40 ships of the Satsuma fleet were sunk, the flagship was also destroyed, and the main general Shimazu Tadaro took the initiative to give his life, and the rest of the ships fled in all directions.