The camera pulls back to the battlefield, judging from the number alone, Li Xiuyuan has no chance of winning, and may even be buried directly at the bottom of the sea before he even knows who is attacking him, but the people on the ship except for those Japanese students who are under house arrest in disguise, no one takes the huge number of enemy fleets too seriously, Li Xiuyuan stood on the bridge, raised his binoculars and scanned the ships opposite, and from a distance, he could only see people in various costumes running around under the shadow of the sails, and several small guns also exposed the muzzles of black holes.

"The right rudder is full, sail to the northeast!" In fact, Li Xiuyuan's heart is not as calm and relaxed as it seems, and the seemingly casual order is the result of his careful consideration, judging from his current position, he seems to be sailing against the coast of Awaji Island, and the enemy is in his north-west direction, according to the speed difference between the two, it is likely that they will not be able to stop them at all and return to Osaka Bay again, so that he should be able to get help from the Japanese side by virtue of his status as a diplomatic envoy.

But Li Xiuyuan didn't dare to go back to Sakai Port at all, such a huge fleet appeared out of thin air in Japan's inland sea, who dared to guarantee that the Japanese were not involved, otherwise he would not have to impose house arrest on those Japanese students, and more importantly, he remembered that when he came out of the Akashi Strait, the crowded Japanese ships behind him had blocked the sea route, so he didn't believe that this was just a coincidence, so the northeast was just used to confuse the other party, and the real way out was only another strait in the northwest, he guessed that the enemy could send so many ships to intercept himself, then there must not be much backup, because in the entire Chinese waters, in addition to their own Chinese navy, this is almost the limit that the stragglers can make up, as for whether the Japanese shogunate will send ships to intercept him, he is not worried at all, not to mention that the Japanese invasion of Korea since the Wanli year The vitality of the navy has been greatly damaged, that is, it can still make up the fleet of the year, those small ships without artillery like paper paste, can not cause substantial damage to themselves, the only thing to pay attention to is to sail out of the Seto Inland Sea in one go after breaking out of the encirclement.

When the other party saw him turning, he seemed to think that he was going to flee back to Sakai Port, so the chaotic change of formation began, and this horizontal pull must have lost a lot of kinetic energy, of course, people are not stupid, in order to block the Takamatsu that may run from the northwest, some of the slow ships staggered north, ready to completely block Li Xiuyuan's two ships in this triangular sea area, and our old captain still smiled contemptuously.

"These people are not stupid, but it's a pity that they are unlucky for our Dinghai." Putting down the binoculars, Li Xiuyuan looked at the sailors who were waiting for battle, or his old brothers were calm, and there was no chaos at this critical time. I originally thought that this time I would come out to complete Lord Jiang's entrustment, and secondly, let the old brothers see this new ship, and if we really change ships in the future, we might as well arrange a position for them, but now it seems that this step is the right one.

The rhythm of naval warfare in the era of sails is slow and dull, because of the relationship of speed, it takes a long time for the two sides to close the distance to the artillery battle, but this kind of long-distance interaction has become different because of the speed advantage of the clipping boat, even if it is driving in the crosswind, it is much faster than the enemy, and the other party can only send a group of small boats to row desperately, hoping to shorten the distance difference with the Chinese fleet, and at this moment, the corner of Li Xiuyuan's mouth showed a contemptuous smile.

"No need to hide and tuck, the left full rudder is going full speed and passing through the middle of their formation!"

In the surprised eyes of the enemy, the two ships tilted their hulls at an extremely strange angle, the port side was almost close to the sea, the sailors on the ship, including Li Xiuyuan, all grabbed the railing around them, and when they saw that the ship was about to capsize, the ship completed the turn at a very small angle, quite the momentum of a sports sailboat turning sharply, Jiang Tian desperately piled up the advantages of the design of later generations, with the help of the keel and the outward drift freeboard, the ship's anti-capsizing moment was much higher than that of the warships of this era, plus the design of the porous rudder invented in China, These two ships are at the peak of maneuverability among other warships in the world of the same tonnage, so it is easy to let Li Xiuyuan play this kind of sharp turn. And that's not the most surprising thing, because after turning the wind was better, the two boats began to run at their own speed.

In just this moment, the enemy fleet began to panic, and in the face of the situation that the performance completely exceeded expectations, they were a little overwhelmed and did not know how to fight this battle. At this moment, the enemy's flagship, which had been in the rear, also beat the drums of war, encouraging the fleet to turn north and flank it. And it was this drum sound that made Li Xiuyuan's expression stern, and he grabbed the binoculars again and carefully searched the enemy's formation, he wanted to see who was directing the battle, because this drum sound did not sound like a Japanese style.

The two sides were approaching rapidly, and he also found his opponent, and the other party was also looking at him with a monocular, and the two enemies looked at each other for a while, and almost at the same time lowered the binoculars, because even if the clipper was fast, in this narrow inland sea, there was no guarantee that they would be separated until they escaped. When the two sides were close to a kilometer together, they didn't need binoculars to see the torches raised by the enemy gunners.

"Your Excellency, shall we open fire?" The one who questioned was the gun chief, which was a position created by Jiang Tian.

Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "Before going to sea, Lord Jiang instructed that even if we encounter pirates, we can't shoot the first shot, and go back safely to tell those who build ships about the advantages and disadvantages of this ship, which is more important than anything else." ”

The gunner stared at the sea with some regret, and at this distance he was sure to hit a few shells. But they couldn't fire the first shot first, so that their firepower advantage could not be played normally, but he didn't wait long, just when the two sides were close to seven hundred meters, although those small boats could not attack them without artillery, but behind them there was a Cangshan ship that Li Xiuyuan was very familiar with suddenly opened fire at a distance of more than eight hundred meters, and a burst of fire flashed over the surrounding ships, so they also opened fire, and the ping-pong was lively. But at this distance, I want to hit with those small cannons, which definitely requires character.

A vote of iron balls visible to the naked eye flew to a distance of more than 100 meters from the Dinghai and fell into the water one after another, except for stirring up a small splash, it had no effect. Li Xiuyuan shook his head again and said, "The rabble! ”

It is indeed a rabble, and firing in advance because of nervousness was one of the stunts of the Ming army before. Now you don't need to order everyone to know what to do, the guns on the port side have long been impatient, although there are only three guns on one side of the Jinghai, but our guns are faster than the other party in terms of range and reloading speed, and as long as a grenade hits, it is sure that a Cangshan ship will directly lose its combat effectiveness, but at this time, the naval battle still depends on luck when it comes to long-range shelling, and it is a pity that our first salvo did nothing.

Glancing at the impact point, Li Xiuyuan was not surprised: "It's not bad, aim for a longer time and then fight, the rocket is ready, light a wall of fire for me three hundred meters away on the port side!" ”

His order is still very useful, the other party has so many small boats, even if they are close to themselves and set fire rifles, bows and arrows, in fact, the lethality is limited, but the reason why so many ships are still sent is that these guys are fire attack ships, and this tactic is an effective way for us to deal with foreign ships, and the one on the other side obviously wants to continue to use this tactic to keep himself.

The artillery was still firing, and the enemy boats were getting closer, and the sailors could be seen paddling desperately, trying to catch up with the enemy. Just when their front was still two hundred and fifty meters away from the two big ships, and many sailors were preparing to set fire, the big ship on the opposite side rose with smoke without warning, at first the big guys thought that it was the enemy ship was hit by their own artillery fire, but immediately found that it was wrong, as the smoke rose, a ticket of rockets that had never been seen before also flew out, and they were surprised to find that there was a problem with the flight trajectory of these rockets, and these rockets could not hit their heads, but ran behind them. Just when they were still laughing at each other for being as inaccurate as themselves, a crackling explosion sounded, and a raging fire spread where the rocket fell into the water, and the formation of the arson ship was cut into two sections, you must know that their ship was full of flammable arson, so as long as they could turn around, they had to avoid this wall of fire quickly, and even if they reacted quickly, the inertia of the ship itself was not so easy for them to escape, so more than a dozen ships that were too close to the fire point were ignited without accident because they didn't have time to turn aroundIn the end, the crew could only desperately jump into the sea to escape, but fortunately, in their own tactics, there were ways to jump into the water after arson, so just abandon the ship and there will be no danger to their lives, the real danger is the shock wave and flying debris caused by the gunpowder detonation noise on the arson ship, I have to say more here, as long as the righteous party jumps into the water to escape in similar episodes in many movies and TV series, the ship explosion will not hurt these people. However, in reality, unless it is a gasoline explosion, a few kilograms of explosives can reach a depth of 10 meters, and human beings cannot survive within this range.

The arsonist ships that rushed to the front didn't rejoice for long, on the surface they would not be swept into the fire hell behind, but they were greeted by an absolutely impassable death line at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters! After the weapons operators who finished firing the rockets, they quickly dismantled the steaming firing nest, took over the improved six-barreled thunderbolt full of ammunition from the ammunition man, and then fired the projectiles in turn and sprinkled them on the enemy ships rushing to the front, this kind of thunderbolt is different from the Ming military, not only the accuracy has been greatly improved, but the range and power have been significantly improved, and at one hundred and fifty meters it was suppressed by the eight machine gun positions of the two boats, and all the arson boats that rushed through this dead line were all stumps and blood. Even if one or two uninjured bandits set the ship on fire, they would no longer be able to maneuver the boat to catch up with the two ships that were fleeing at high speed. This bloody, crazy and helpless scene is not only the enemy stunned, but the naval officers and men on the two ships are a little incredulous, the enemy ships can't chase, catch up, fight, can't get forward, and at this moment, the Dinghai's broadside main gun finally made a contribution, a grenade impartially hit the first Cangshan ship, the original 75mm caliber, even if it takes a few shots, it will not sink, but this is a grenade, it is the Zenith star technology that will appear very late in this world, and the time-delay fuse is not new, The compressed black @ fire @ medicine contained in it is quite deadly. It was not uncommon to see sawdust flying across the mast and plunging headlong into the ship's hold, as long as it didn't kill the captain or break the mast. But then a dull explosion came out, even more than a thousand meters away, you could see the ship's plank being lifted open and billowing smoke coming out of it, and a few seconds later, an even louder explosion came, and the entire small hull of the Cangshan ship seemed to be torn apart by an invisible hand, which was the result of the gunpowder in the ship being ignited and detonated.

The explosion brought both sides of the battlefield to a standstill, and now the naval battle finally had something a little different from its time. Although there are not many guns on the two ships, and there are only four guns on the side of the Jinghai that can fire, and more than 1,000 meters is also the limit of this 75mm front-loading smoothbore gun, but the power of sinking a ship with such a shot against the sky still made both sides of the war not expect, Li Xiuyuan then remembered that he and Jiang Tian had engaged in that exercise, it was obvious that the prince and the prince had released the water, otherwise his ship would have been blown up and there would not be even slag left. However, the two sides were not involved in this matter too much experience, and soon the rocket nest was launched again to shock the warring parties, in order to avoid the wall of fire, a part of the arson ships crowded the emergency turn, so there was inevitably a collision and congestion on the sea, just when they turned hard to charge the enemy again, they quickly ran out of the gun position of the thunderbolt and picked up the rocket nest again, this time using the standard 2+2 configuration mode, two arson bombs with two anti-explosive bombs, and a round of dozens of rockets flew out, The smoke from the launch choked the people on the deck, but when the rockets landed on the bows of the still crowded boats, the people on the battlefield understood one thing, regardless of their position, that arson tactics could be extinct in the seas of East Asia...... Whoever saw the flying shrapnel tearing the sail into strips of rags, the fireball bursting in the air lit a qiē that could burn something, and the desperate cries before dying seemed to penetrate the ocean and reach everyone's heart, and the remnants of the small ships after that did not need orders, they just wanted to escape from these two terrible warships, and run as far as possible.

Without the arsonist ships, no one in the interception fleet could catch up with them, and it seemed that they could escape, but at the beginning, the enemy transferred more than a dozen slow ships to the Takamatsu Strait, on the one hand, they were not competent for the pursuit battle, and on the other hand, they were also worried that Li Xiuyuan would run too fast It was an insurance plan, and the strait that was originally in the rear was now in front of Li Xiuyuan, of course, there were more than a dozen interception fleets composed of fortune ships and Guangzhou ships at the entrance of the strait. Although there is still a strait in the north, it is too far for the enemy to block in other narrow places in the Seto Inland Sea, so it is necessary to rush out before the other party can not react, so it means that the real battle is coming soon.

The first to fire was the avant-garde Jinghai, the rocket nest at the bow of the ship was very accurate in three hundred meters away to force back the approach of a lucky ship, and the water column around itself also rose from time to time, which was the result of the enemy ship finally sailing into the range of the artillery, fortunately, Jiang Tian took into account the firing angle when designing the main gun position, although there were not many guns, but the flexibility of the cannon was far better than that of the warships of this era, just slightly adjusted the angle, and a total of eight main guns on both sides fired for the first time, this time their opponents were not only close, but also all of them were lucky shipsNot far away, a large target such as the Guangzhou ship, the result was not waiting for the Dinghai to fire, the first result came out, not far away a Guangzhou ship claimed to be as hard as iron iron wood plank was torn apart by the explosion, the grenade that fell on the deck caused a certain amount of damage to the sailors, seeing that it seemed to ignite the sail The enemy ship began to smoke, and there was no further result here, the Dinghai also sailed into the line of fire, and shot at the enemy ship and beat the water dog, only to see a few water columns rising around the enemy ship, but then another grenade exploded on the deck, The towering mast began to tilt and gradually collapse into the sea, and the ship was incapacitated.

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"In this battle, our fleet sank 6 enemy ships, damaged 4 large ships, killed the enemy and sank small ships, the last enemy ship was about 100 meters away from our ship was sunk by the combined fire of two ships, our side was slightly damaged by the enemy's shelling, 28 officers and soldiers were killed and wounded......" At this report, Li Xiuyuan still paused unconsciously, he was sighing for his old brothers.

Zhang Tao sat on his dragon chair and nodded: "You have worked hard, you can fight your way out of the encirclement in the midst of the encirclement, it can be seen that you are still calm and calm on the battlefield, and you have brought out the full performance of the new ship, it is not in vain that Lord Jiang recommended you, as for the dead and wounded officers and soldiers, I will return to them to seek justice!" ”

This founding monarch is well-known for protecting his shortcomings, and when he heard this, Li Xiuyuan didn't dare to think about anything wrong, so he could only kneel on the ground and thank the weeping Lord Longen. However, his work was not over, and he was asked to return to Tianjin immediately after reporting the situation, not only to supervise the maintenance work of the two ships, but also to be responsible for the improvement of the follow-up ships, and at the same time mobilize the entire Northern Fleet of China into a state of combat readiness, ready to go to the battlefield at any time, so he was promoted by the next level and appointed to the post of commander-in-chief of the East China Sea bandits.

After Li Xiuyuan withdrew from the imperial study with the holy decree in his hand, Jiang Tian, who had been sitting next to him, spoke: "I originally wanted to use the Northern Expedition to improve the army's logistics and mobilization system, but now it has become the navy first, but who is our enemy?" ”

Zhang Tao glanced at his son, who had been serving beside him, and knew that this was Jiang Tian's intentional and knowingly question, so he followed his words and asked, "Who do you think did this?" ”

"To be honest, Japan, the Netherlands, the Zheng family, all three of them have motives, but none of them can make up so many ships, but there is no evidence that they have anything to do with this matter, especially after they broke out of the siege and boldly docked at Nagasaki again, and the Japanese side did not stop it, this can be seen as the effect of military deterrence, and it can also be explained that they don't know about this matter, the key is whether the daimyo in charge of Nagasaki has the same heart as Edo? But for us, it doesn't matter who does it, what matters is what we get out of it! Jiang Tian seemed to say something, but in fact he didn't say anything.

Zhang Tao scolded secretly and slipped his head: "Since this is the case, then we have to make good use of this opportunity, the emperor, you have worked hard, go to the ministers who are guarding me outside the noon gate, and when you see them, you will say that I am angry and let them all be careful!" ”

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As an aside, I've been struggling with whether to write this novel seriously, and don't bully people like some works, because from an objective point of view, hundreds of thousands of troops are often redressed, and the modern combat system is not something that an agricultural country can afford, so some book friends complain that the plot has been flat, I can only say who asked me to update so slowly, and sometimes it takes a long time to pave the plot. As for the issue of entering V, although this book became an A-level contract early, but because I don't advertise, and I never ask for any support from book friends, the collection has never been enough for a thousand, so naturally it can't be put on the shelves. But isn't it also convenient for those who like to read pirated books?

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