The strait near Kagoshima is the narrowest, and various Japanese forts have been set up here. It is estimated that the dozen or so national collapse projects that fired less than 10 pounds of projectiles were not enough to blockade the strait, and at this time, Japan urgently dispatched eight national collapse from other places and placed them on various forts.

At this time, the collapse of Japan's various equipment could not be regarded as artillery in the real sense, at best, it was just a larger gun, which could only be regarded as better than nothing.

The Japanese were also aware of these conditions, and realized that it was not enough to rely on the forts alone, so they gathered all the warships that could collect and catch up with the waters off Kagoshima, and even took out the Ataka ship that was docked near Kyoto as a shogun's ship, and installed a large barrel and placed an iron artillery team as the main force of the fleet. I heard that the collapse of the Ming Empire was very sharp, and I urgently added ironclad to reproduce the ironclad ship of the Warring States Period.

In order to prevent the Ming army from attacking on land, each also gathered 70,000 ashigaru troops and stationed them on the Miura, Yokosuka, Kanaga, and Edo lines, including 3,000 iron artillery teams. Even if the Ming army came to invade more than tens of thousands, it would be enough to resist.

From Edo Castle to Edo Bay to Kagoshima, the shogunate, feudal domains, and townspeople were united in their efforts to prepare for war, and the history of the whole of Japan working together to resist the Mongol invasion seems to be repeating itself. The shogunate also issued a notice to the feudal clans that the time before the war was too tight to gather the armies of the feudal domains, so there was no need to send out troops, but gold and silver were needed.

February of the eighth year of Seika, Kagoshima.

On this day, the so-called "Ming Army Torrent" in Japanese history books happened on this day!

The black and red hull, the huge sails painted with the golden wave of the sun and the moon of the great tomorrow, and the huge warships like clouds like dragons rushing out of the cracks in the region, slashed into the calm waters off Kagoshima, followed by the four giant ships, and fifteen small warships, but each of them was larger than the ironclad Yataku ships on the Japanese side.

Hundreds of ships, carrying nearly 10,000 oarsmen and soldiers, watched this fleet come through the waves, and in the rear of this Ming fleet, there were still many auxiliary warships. The heroic and unyielding cannon sound sounded in the direction of Uraga Chong, and the power of the collapse of the country was immediately revealed, and the huge sound seemed to tear the sky, and more than a dozen water columns rose on the surface of the sea, lifting everyone's falling hearts.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

But then, the dense column of smoke that erupted from the black and red battleship shattered the hearts of the Japanese who were soaring.

Sixty thirty-pound guns, thirty-four twenty-pound guns, and eighty twelve-pound guns, this is only the number of guns on the side of the ship's hull, and the fierce fire suddenly rose up a dense gunsmoke, making the sea like a fairyland.

At this time, even if all the artillery of Japan is pulled, I am afraid that the number of artillery equipped by the Ming fleet is not as large, these Japanese have never heard such a dense cannon, let alone heard the low roar of heavy artillery such as twenty or even thirty catties of guns, and the Uraga Fort is wrapped in a huge column of smoke, and the scene is enough to show the power of these Ming "national collapse".

"Is this the collapse of the Ming Dynasty? We can't resist it! ”

"It's over! Finished! ”

"Japan is finished, and the world is doomed!"

Under the bombardment of the artillery of the Ming fleet, the samurai and soldiers of the shogunate shouted in despair, and when the second round of shelling covered Uraga Chong, there was no one standing in the shogunate fleet gathered in the sea ten miles away.

"We've seen such a ship, we've also seen such a national collapse, it's just that the ship is a little bigger, there are more cannons, and Kikumaru is wearing iron armor, what else is there to be afraid of? As a samurai, isn't it a lifelong dream for you to achieve military exploits? What are you waiting for? Rush up to them, hold our sword high, and cut off the heads of the Ming army like Susanoo slew the Yachi Orochi! ”

This time, Numata Taro, who was in charge of leading the Japanese fleet to meet the battle, drew his sword and roared, driving the ironclad Ataka ship as the flagship to rush towards the Yellow Sea Fleet of the Beiyang Fleet. The bravery of the Kazumaru also inspired the other ships, and more than 210 ships followed.

"Didn't completely scare them......

On the flagship of the Yellow Sea Fleet, Emperor Han Jing, Feng Xiang, who came to supervise the battle, put down his binoculars, and the corners of his mouth hooked up with a trace of disdain.

"Probably they think that relying on that iron ship, there is still the strength to fight."

Fan Jingyu, the captain of the Han Jingdi, said, indeed, although the four second-class battleships and fifteen third-class battleships are already an invincible force here, although the appearance of the battleships is very shocking, and although the unison of more than 100 guns shocks the world, they are all understandable to the Japanese after all.

At this time, as Numata Taro said, the fleet of the Ming Dynasty was only larger in ships and larger in artillery...... That's it, but soon, they paid for this "that's it"!

Draped in iron plates, like a black tortoise, the Kazumaru slowly met up, followed by more than 100 ships, and this group of brave and fearless combatants became the best target of the Yellow Sea Fleet's exercise.

After leaving four third-class battleships to continue to bombard the Uraga Battery, all the remaining battleships of the Yellow Sea Fleet continued to maintain a long snake formation, and began to bombard the Japanese fleet in a daze.

The Kazuki Maru rushed ahead with more than 100 ships, and more than 1,000 warships, large and small, came to their senses and followed.

"Hurry up!"

The Kazuku Maru's plate was hung with an iron plate, and Numata Taro kept shouting while looking out through the hole of the board, and he was only five or six miles away from the head ship of the Ming fleet, and under the tall sails, the pointed bow mast was already clearly visible.

Unfortunately, whether it is an otaku boat or a closed boat, the sail is only an auxiliary power, and the main power is still all due to the oars. At this time, Japan, the level of naval warfare was extremely backward, and the Ataka ship, which was once the main force of naval warfare, also had the function of relying on the ship to connect with the gunwale, and there were hundreds of iron gunners and dozens of sword-wielding samurai gathered behind the board, waiting to fight on the enemy ship, and had no concept of speed at all, what was the use of running so fast? In the end, don't you still have to fight together?

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Numata Taro still has great hopes, as long as courage has courage, all difficulties can be eliminated, this battle may not be lost, as the shogunate Daifan, weekdays garrison Edo Castle, wartime is the vanguard, the powerful Chinese army, in front of the brave Japanese samurai will definitely retreat.

But then his courage was frozen by the column of water that was suddenly pulled up on the side of the boat, what kind of collapse is that, can you hit it so far?

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The continuous column of water rose and got closer and closer to the Wakimaru, and the samurai on the ship were in a commotion, this was not a war they were familiar with, and it felt too bad to be under artillery fire before they saw the face of the enemy.

"Boom!"

After a loud bang, a straight line of blood splattered, and Numata Taro crashed out of his body, and the pain had not yet arrived, and the optic nerve had already transmitted the lost half of his body, plus the blood line connected to the body, to the brain unmistakably.

At this time, a fist-sized hole was exposed on the board, and the iron sheet was curled. The planks cracked, the hole getting smaller and smaller, and Numata Taro fell on the plank, lying next to several other corpses with broken limbs and bones.

The general of the shogunate, Numata Taro, hit the big lottery, and on the way to the Ming fleet, he was hit by a 12-pound cannon, which was also the first shell of the Ming fleet to hit the Wakimaru.

Then, about a dozen more shells hit the Wakikumaru, and the actual lethality was very small, with less than twenty casualties except for the hapless Numata Taro.

There were still three or four miles away from the other party, and they were hit by sharp artillery fire, and even the iron armor on the board did not work, plus the general ascended to the sky in the first shot, which made the soldiers and samurai on the Wakikumaru be wrapped in great panic.

They clamored to turn the rudder quickly, but where could the bulky Ataka ship turn so easily?

When the Kazumaru slowly turned its head in an arc, the battle line of the Daming fleet had sailed to a distance of less than two miles from it, and the twenty-pound gun crew on the upper deck on the front side of the ship's hull and the thirty-pound gun crew on the gun deck were unwilling to let go of this good target that entered the firing angle and faltered, although it was a little far away.

For veteran gunners, this is not a big distance, and the firing table of army artillery is twice that of naval artillery.

It's almost instantaneous, and there's no aftermath. And this long-distance bombardment, only one of the more than ten shells hit, and only twenty catties of shells were fired, but it brought a continuous rumbling sound, and the square platform on the upper deck of the Kikumaru was smashed with a corner, and more than a dozen people flew away with a large amount of broken wood and iron plates, and a ball of salute flowers bloomed on the hull.

The slender and elegant Daming battleship sailed past the Wakimaru, which was slowly spinning because of extreme panic, less than half a mile apart, and the mixed cries from the "ironclad ship" could be heard clearly, but there were also Daming guns called "big barrels" by the Japanese roaring, and some fanatical iron gunners were firing arquebuses in vain.

They had already received several shells, and the layer of iron could not block the penetration of the three-inch gun, nor could it block the round bombardment of the 20-pound or 30-pound gun.

At this time, the battleship ceased fire, like a warrior who was coldly watching the enemy's dying struggle, took a deep breath, and then, the ten 30-pound guns on the gun deck and the six 20-pound guns on the upper deck bombarded a rain of bullets with a very short gap.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Less than 500 materials, the Ataka ship was wrapped in a column of boiling water, and pieces of iron and wood flew out of the water curtain, and when the water column fell, the whole hull could no longer be seen on the sponge, and only two pieces of man-made objects that had broken down into strange shapes remained, and they sank head-to-head and tail-up and waist-down.