Verse 25 Battle of Tsushima - Good luck for Fuso
It's no wonder that the Nine Ghosts Naobo has little confidence. Since Toyotomi Hideyoshi returned from the defeat of Korea, the Fuso naval army has been declining in the shogunate army. In addition, the frequent promulgation of the act of locking the sea, the naval army's naval combat drills are even less, and the strength of the entire naval army is no longer one or two of the majesty of its ancestors, and even in its heyday, it is not capable of resisting the full force of the Korean naval army, not to mention that it is now facing the navy equipped with epoch-making equipment of the Shenzhou Army.
As time passed, the warships of the two warring sides took up their positions, and the wind was getting closer and closer. The battle formation of the Shenzhou Army was getting closer and closer to the middle group of the Nine Ghosts, which was slow-moving, so close that almost both sides could see the situation with binoculars.
"There was not a single person on their deck! Will such a ship also move? The Nine Oni marveled at the fact that their "big barrels" and the rest of the light firearms were almost completely useless, as they were not powerful enough to penetrate the ship's planks, and their purpose was merely to kill the sailors on the deck.
Sun Mingyang's flagship, Nei Huang Kehui, gave the order.
"All the battleships' afterburner systems were activated and moved at full speed...... From a safe angle, you can sweep through the current main enemy formation and approach the troop fleet behind the enemy! ”
The rope slides quickly in the sound of the pulley, the large spinnaker is quickly and accurately positioned according to the command, and the human drive system moves at full strength. The dispersed force is transferred to a large flywheel with inertial acceleration and then smoothly transmitted. At the stern of the two torpedo floats, the steel screw slurry more than one person high rotated, pushing the seawater, and the speed of the battleship became faster and faster, and two tracks composed of snow-white spray appeared behind the hull.
The Nine Ghosts were still sitting on the general's seat on the stern of the ship, his eyes staring at the strange ship in front of him through the northwest wind that seemed to be a little hard. His speed surprised him, he had grown so big, he had commanded a naval army all his life, and he had never heard of a warship being able to have such a high speed and slowness.
Although he was surprised in his heart, his face still respected the way taught by his father, and his expression did not change at all. Use cannons and changing flags to contact your ships to intercept them.
In naval warfare, the advantage gained by the upwind warship is incomparable to that of the downwind warship, otherwise the upwind would not be used to describe the war situation. Under the combined high speed of the "afterburner system" and the "sail system", the destroyer of the Shenzhou Army quickly changed course.
Relatively speaking, the Fuso Navy, which is at a disadvantage, is not ordinarily difficult to get up at high speed.
First of all, the transmission of information by drums, trumpets and flags under the surface of the sea will be delayed, but fortunately, the Fuso Navy under the command of the Nine Ghosts is still quite elite. The entire fleet was divided into small groups, and the transmission of information was also possible. It's just that the range of action in these directions is shorter, which leads to the fact that the warships are quite close to each other.
Secondly, because they are in a headwind position, even if the rudder and pulp move together, it is difficult to ensure the speed of the warship to turn around, not to mention the close distance between the warships, it is even more difficult to maintain the formation.
Therefore, according to the order of the Nine Ghosts, the Fuso Navy turned the bow of the ship and intercepted the destroyer fleet of the Shenzhou Navy completely failed, and watched the destroyer sail straight towards its own troop carrier.
"Yaga!" The nine ghosts scolded out hatefully. In the cold sea breeze, he felt a sense of frustration, he thought of almost everything about this naval battle, the only thing he didn't expect was that the enemy warship could reach such a high speed with the help of the wind. In his mind, even a downwind ship could not reach such speeds. Now the enemy warships are rushing straight at the marines they are carrying. How can this be good, the whole army turns around and intercepts? That must be in a big disorder, and it will inevitably be attacked by the enemy army and abandoned by the enemy! What did you do when you ran to the Tsushima Strait!
Fortunately, this may be the jurisdiction of the "great god" of Fuso, and luck seems to be on the side of the Fuso people. Just as the destroyer fleet was about to bypass the main enemy group, a group of arsonists rushed out of the enemy fleet, crossed the side of the fleet's advance, and swooped down on the destroyer fleet, driven by the rapidly rowing long pulp.
Driven by two rows of long pulp like centipede legs, rowing neatly on the water, about forty or so arsonist ships rushed towards the destroyer like crazy.
Huang Kehui looked at the "formation" on the chart, and the staff officers continued to put up according to the information, and said coldly: "Order, use 60 mm guns to launch blocking fire on the enemy's arson ship, and the direction and speed of the whole fleet will remain unchanged, and continue to attack." ”
With Huang Kehui's order, the sound of the 60-mm cannon firing was relatively crisp and continuous, and the sound of sharp shells cutting through the air once again raged in people's ears.
At this time, taking advantage of the northwest wind coming from the side, more than 40 arson ships lined up in a plum blossom formation learned from the Ming Dynasty naval army and rushed towards the destroyer fleet. The open cabin was piled up with ignition that had been poured with fire oil, and the long steel thorns with barbs flashing at the bow of the ship were sticking out, and as long as the arsonist ship got close to the enemy's ship, the steel spikes would pierce into the hull of the enemy ship, and then ignite the ignition behind it, and naturally it could burn the jade of the enemy army.
The paddlers were all dressed in light leather armor and carried a sword on their backs, and each of them followed the drum sound at the stern of the boat, and their mouths couldn't stop making "hi babble...... Hi babbling ......" roar. The paddle hand standing opposite, according to the command of the drum, either bowed his back or leaned his body, and moved the paddle handle fiercely to transmit the power. They worked hard and kept encouraging each other to send their lives and their companions' lives to another world as soon as possible.
Soon they were within 60 meters of the 60-mm gun, and columns of water rose around the ship. Due to the fact that here was the ultimate range of 60-mm guns, very few arsonboats were hit. Occasionally, a cannonball hits the ship, and a cloud of smoke immediately erupts, and then the igniter is ignited, and the whole ship is instantly in flames.
The paddlers cried and fled from the middle of the burning ship to the bow and stern, or jumped directly to the side of the ship into the icy waters. They have little hope of life, in such icy waters. Without grabbing the enemy ship, they had only two options: either freeze to death in the sea or stay on board and die on fire.
The distance of 600 meters is not worth mentioning for the "arsonist ships" traveling at high speed, and soon they approached more than a hundred meters of the destroyer. However, it was a gateway to purgatory, because they were faced with not only the more accurate fire of the 60mm guns, but also the seemingly numerous "flying crossbows" and "slingshot grenade generators" that seemed to be numerous. ”