In this battle, Shen Jingchao only brought 32 gunboats and warships over to meet the battle, while the other hundreds of empty ships that were ready to enter the Yalu River to transport troops were left on the sea more than ten miles away, and they would sail towards the mouth of the Yalu River after the victory of the naval battle.

Thirty-two warships, of which twelve are Shenwu-class warships and twenty Shenwei-class warships!

The Shenwu class is a warship equipped with an old-style Shenwu cannon, and the firing range is mostly about two thousand meters.

The Kamui class is equipped with a new type of cannon that uses new gunpowder and firing shells, and has a range of more than 3,000 meters.

Although the types of cannons on the two types of battleships are different, the number of cannons is the same, both are thirty-six guns per warship.

And because of the faster reloading, the more powerful and long-range shells using the new gunpowder, the combat effectiveness of the Shenwei-class battleships is more than four times that of the Shenwu-class battleships.

Although these thirty-two warships are not the entire strength of the East China Sea Fleet, such a strong strength is enough to deal with the North Korean naval army.

As the ship sailed, the two sides got closer and closer.

The two armies are about to fight, although they don't take the North Korean naval army in their eyes, but the lion fighting the rabbit is still doing its best, and Shen Jingchao doesn't dare to be too big.

Shen Jingchao carefully used a telescope to look at the movements of all the North Korean naval vessels, observed the formation of the North Korean naval forces, and looked for the easiest direction to attack.

After a careful observation, Shen Jingchao's face couldn't help but show a hint of strangeness.

If you want to say that this formation of the North Korean naval army, Shen Jingchao also recognizes it, it is a classic formation in naval warfare, with both offense and defense! This is not the reason why Shen Jingchao is weird.

"What are the North Koreans doing?" Shen Jingchao couldn't help frowning and said: "How can such a formation be arranged at the mouth of the river, and besides, don't the generals of the North Korean Navy know the current direction of the wind?" Although it is only a slight wind, it seems to have no effect, but the two armies are together, as the battle progresses, it is easy to reveal fatal flaws, the commander of the North Korean naval army has not been kicked by a donkey, or has never commanded the actual battle at all, how can he make such a low-level mistake and omission! ”

I have to say that Shen Jingchao really guessed correctly, Li Yumin, the commander of the North Korean Navy, has indeed never commanded actual combat, and in terms of naval combat experience, he cannot compare with Shen Jingchao, an old fritter who has commanded the Ming Navy for nearly 20 years.

"Could it be a fraud?" Shen Jingchao couldn't help but wonder.

After only a few breaths of time, Shen Jingchao shook his head, no longer suspicious, no matter what, the strength of the East China Sea Fleet will inevitably crush the North Korean naval army, no matter whether he is fraudulent or not, one shot will go down, and he will immediately appear!

"Order, all ships are ready for war!" Shen Jingchao solemnly ordered.

With the waving of the herald flag, the 32 warships of the Ming East China Sea Fleet did not even bother to swing their formation, and drove directly in the direction of the Korean naval forces in front of them at full speed, and the gunners on the ship began to urgently adjust their muzzles and measure the distance one by one.

Six miles, five miles, four miles

Two thousand meters is the range of all the cannons on the battleships of the Ming Navy, and the engagement distance set by the Ming Navy is two thousand meters.

Now that he had entered the combat distance, Shen Jingchao did not hesitate.

"Ships ready!" More than 1,000 cannons on 32 warships, and hundreds of North Korean naval vessels of various sizes were all 2,000 meters away.

"Fire!" Shen Jingchao brazenly ordered.

As the herald's flag fell, thirty-two battleships opened fire at the same time.

"Boom Boom"

Thousands of artillery pieces were fired in unison, and thousands of shells flew towards the North Korean navy as if they could cover the clouds and cover the sun.

On the side of the North Korean navy, seeing that the distance was getting closer and closer, Li Yumin was still thinking about whether to send 60 tortoiseshell ships to attack first, tear apart the enemy army, or send hundreds of ships of different sizes up to launch a sea attack.

When he saw that the Ming Navy only had thirty-two warships, Li Yumin was quite confident and felt that he had won, after all, the ships of their North Korean Navy were more than eight times that of the Ming Navy, and with his command Li Yumin, there was no reason to be invincible.

Li Yumin still has a confident smile on his face.

Suddenly, there was a rumbling cannon sound, and Li Yumin's eyes instantly widened, and he opened his mouth wide to watch the black and oppressive cannonballs in the sky flying towards them.

"No" Li Yumin's face turned pale, and before he could shout such a word, thousands of shells fell on the North Korean navy.

"Bang! Boom! Countless huge columns of water exploded on the surface of the sea.

"Boom Boom"

"Click!"

"Ahh

At least 30 ships were more or less hit, sawdust flew sideways, masts were blown off, and many soldiers of the Korean navy were directly thrown into the sea by the tremendous power of the shells.

The wooden hull could not withstand the attack of shells, many ships had begun to smoke, and some smaller ships were even directly hit by a shell and the hull was tilted, and it seemed that it was about to sink.

After only a few breaths, the twenty Shenwei-class warships of the Ming Dynasty finished loading and opened fire again!

Although there were many fewer shells in this wave of shelling because of the lack of 12 Shenmu-class warships, nearly 800 shells were also black and oppressive, and they once again exploded among the Korean naval forces with terrifying might.

"Bang! Boom! "Bang" and countless columns of water exploded on the seashore, and with it, more than two dozen North Korean ships were hit.

In just two rounds of shelling, more than a dozen North Korean ships sank, including two tortoiseshell boats that the North Koreans were proud of, and more than forty more were more or less hit.

In that year, because Yi Sunsin led more than a dozen tortoiseshell ships to meet the fleet of more than 100 Japanese ships, won the battle of Mingliang with less, and repelled the Japanese fleet, the tortoiseshell ships were immediately held up to the sky by the Korean government and people, and were regarded by the North Korean people as invincible weapons at sea.

In fact, this tortoiseshell ship may be in a face-to-face battle, when it is mainly ramming and touching, it may be a good maritime weapon, but unfortunately in the current era, naval warfare has already moved towards long-distance artillery warfare, and the tortoiseshell ship has undoubtedly been greatly backward, and even a small gunboat equipped with only five or six cannons can be abused, and the Koreans still regard it as a treasure, and they also think that it is an invincible weapon in naval warfare.