Armed with three, four, or six cannons and oars, these large Ataka ships rushed towards Li Zhi's fleet at full speed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoApparently, the officers of the Tokugawa naval forces were very confident in these large Ataka ships, believing that they were stronger and would be able to hold out until the moment of the battle.

The large Ataku ships were full of sailors, and there were at least 400 people on one ship. In order to avoid Li Zhi's flowering bombs, all the Tokugawa sailors in the cabin left the cabin and stood on the top deck.

Li Zhi's flowering bullet surprised the Tokugawa family's sailors. The sixteen-pound shells were already extremely destructive, and they had to explode again, a weapon that the Japanese sailors had never heard of. This epoch-making weapon even made the sailors at the bottom fearful.

But the samurai in Japan were very calm. As professional officers, they calmly observed the dozens of bombed houses in front of them, and quickly figured out ways to reduce the lethality of the flowering shells.

When a shell is fired at the hull of an Ataka ship, the shells usually go into the high hull and rarely fall on the top deck. It was very difficult for Li Zhi's gunners to shoot shells into the thin deck on the top floor of the Ataka ship. If you aim like that, you will probably send the shell flying high.

The samurai figured out a way to deal with the flowering bombs - the cat was on the top deck. The sailors who are ready to jump in hand-to-hand combat on the top deck can not only facilitate the waiting side battle, but also reduce casualties.

As long as these dozen or so large ships can get close to Li Zhi's ship, the Japanese sailors who are good at hand-to-hand combat will deal a heavy blow to Li Zhi's fleet. If you are lucky, it is possible for the Tokugawa naval army to win the war by engaging in broadside battles.

Fourteen large Ataka ships adjusted their personnel positions and rushed over with more than thirty small boats in a menacing manner.

At a distance, more than forty steamships in the front row aimed at the dozen or so large ships in the lead and opened fire. Hundreds of shells were fired like lightning into the cabin of the large Ataka ship, and many of them hit their targets and exploded in the wooden cabin.

But these larger Ataka ships were more sturdy, and the shells were not able to sink them. And because the Japanese sailors were hunched over and hid on the top deck, the shells that exploded into the hold did not cause major casualties.

The Ataka boat uses both sails and oars, and the speed is very fast, and it doesn't seem to take thirty seconds to cross the distance. Even if they were hit by another round of artillery before the broadboard, these large Ataka ships would be able to hold out until the moment they jumped.

Indeed, the samurai in Japan did not make any tricks - gang fighting was still the mainstream of naval warfare in the 17th century. Although the Western countries of this era were full of cannons on their sailing ships, the battle between the sea fleets and the battle was often divided by the battle between the two sides. The role played by artillery in this era was often an auxiliary role before the broadside battle.

It wasn't until the eighteenth century, with the advent of more powerful artillery, that broadside warfare was really replaced by artillery warfare.

However, the sailors of the Tokugawa family did not know that the Li family fleet they faced was not a product of this era at all. Li Zhi's fleet is a new product that mixes 18th-century technology with 19th-century products. In this era, it can be said that it is a monster that has never appeared.

The steamship covered in iron armor is what the Japanese have ever seen in this era?

The ironclad ship, covered in ironclad and powered by surging steam turbines, has turned a new page in history. The ancient tactic of broadside warfare, because of the ironclad ship, will no longer happen to Li Zhi's fleet.

"Woo~~"

A long whistle sounded, and ten ironclad ships rushed out of the line line and rushed towards the oncoming Tokugawa Ieyataku ship.

It wasn't until Li Zhi's ironclad ship rushed over in a daze that the sailors of the Tokugawa family saw these ten sea beasts clearly. The towering chimneys, the power to move forward at high speed without the need for paddle wheels, the sharp and protruding ramming angles, and the iron-clad hull of the ship all shocked the Japanese sailors who had never seen the world.

For a three-hundred-ton Ataka ship, a five-hundred-ton ironclad can be said to be a behemoth. Such a monster rushed over in iron armor, making the sailors of the Tokugawa family feel the fear of death.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The cannon on the Ataka ship opened fire. Dozens of shells were fired at high speed at Li Zhi's ironclad ship, and the distance was very close, and seven or eight of them hit the ironclad ship.

However, the structure of the ship itself meant that it could not be loaded with heavy guns, and the cannons on board could not be more than 18 pounds in size. These cannons did not shoot through the ironclad of the ironclad ship, and only made a few dents in the ironclad ship, and then the bullet fell into the water.

These ironclad ships, which the Japanese had never seen before, were invulnerable.

The cannon had no effect, and watching the ironclad ship grow bigger and bigger in the field of vision, the samurai of the Tokugawa family panicked. They howled and told the helmsman to turn the rudder and duck to the side. Whether it was a Daian otaku ship or a small boat, the reaction of the Tokugawa family's ships was to dodge and avoid this monster covered in iron.

However, in the vast sea, where is it so easy to turn around and dodge?

The Ataka ship failed to avoid the ironclad's onslaught. At a distance of three hundred meters, two hundred meters, and a hundred meters, ten ironclad ships slammed into the Tokugawa family's Ataka fleet at a high speed of ten knots. The Yangwei took the lead, slamming the iron bow into a large Ataka ship full of Japanese sailors.

The bow of the Yangwei protrudes forward, from the bottom to the top of the ship. The bow of such a shape is like an inverted plough that gives the slammed sailboat a tremendous force to tip backwards. The Yangwei is larger and taller than the larger Ataka ships. His bow landed on the side of the Ataka ship, and in an instant it rolled the ship to the side.

The Ataka ship was originally an in-sea warship that could not sail far, and the center of gravity was very high. On the bottom of the ship, where the draft was very shallow, the Japanese built a whole four decks from the bottom up. These decks can increase the lethality of iron cannons in coastal combat, but in front of Li Zhi's advanced ironclad ship, this unstable center of gravity of the Anzhai ship was ploughed over.

The Majesty struck a large Ataka ship, and the body of the Ataka ship fell violently, and all the four hundred Tokugawa sailors on the top deck overturned at once. The sailors on the starboard side were even more unlucky, and were thrown directly into the sea by the huge force that tilted to the right.

But something even more terrible was yet to come, as the Younger's steam turbines pumped and pumped mechanical force onto the stern propeller. The propeller drains the water backwards, sending a huge reaction force to the Yangwei's hull. The Yangwei continued to squeeze forward, and finally overturned the 300-ton Ataka ship.

A scream was heard, and 400 Japanese sailors and samurai fell into the icy waters of December along with the capsized ship.