Hundreds of flowering shells burst out of the barrel and shot straight into the hull of the front row of the Yataku boat. The hull of the pen, fun, and www.biquge.info thin planks of wood could hold off the bullets of the iron cannon, but it was pierced in an instant in front of the eighteen-pounder cannon.

After the hull was broken, wood chips from the shells flew in the crowded cabin. The kinetic energy of the shells fired from 200 meters away was too great, and these wooden blocks and sawdust also became sharp weapons for killing, and I don't know how many blood vessels of the Japanese navy were cut.

Of course, what is even more terrifying is the shell itself. Sixteen-pound shells sprinted through the crowded cabin like a grim reaper, shattering everything he encountered. Whether it's an officer wearing samurai armor or a sailor wearing only ashigaru armor, it is a one-time piercing in the face of extremely fast shells. If you are hit in the torso, you can even break your entire body with a shell.

Blood and minced flesh instantly stained the front row of the Ataku ship with blood red, and screams rang out at the same time. The badly wounded soldier dragged his mutilated body to the ground howling and convulsing, as if he had crawled out of hell.

It is enough to penetrate four or five layers of the human body or the plank of the ship, and the flowering bullet loses its kinetic energy and stops.

Almost every 30 or so Ataka ships in front of them were hit by seven or eight shells, and the hull was smashed into a mess by the flowering shells.

Then, the shells, covered in flesh and blood, exploded.

The blast blast shattered the shells of the flowering projectiles, sending flames and iron projectiles out violently. The continuous shock wave seemed to overturn the hull of the Ataka ship, blowing the sailors in the hull back and forth. At least ten of the ships were blown open by shells, blasting out terrible holes.

The heat from the explosion of the shells ignited several Yataku ships, and the flames rushed to the hull and burst into flames.

Iron projectiles shot from the explosion of the cannonballs flew in all directions in the cabin, and in an instant they shredded all the living life. One after another, the shells exploded, and the Tokugawa sailors who were crowded into the cabin had nowhere to hide. The iron projectile easily sliced through their footlight, piercing beneath the armor, piercing through the muscles and organs, tearing all the fragile human tissues into blood.

There was blood everywhere, and the wounded lying on the ground howled loudly and rolled. The soldiers, who were unwilling to die like this, grabbed the survivors' ankles and opened their eyes wide and said help. And then how can such trauma be healed in this day and age? The survivors could only watch the wounded bleed to death.

The cabins of more than 30 Ataka ships in the front row turned into hell on earth in an instant.

Basically, these thirty or so front-row Ataka ships have lost their combat capability at one time. Although the shells did not kill all the crew, this unprecedented heavy damage had already caused the soldiers on these thirty ships to have a psychological breakdown. None of the Ataka boats in the front row had the courage to continue fighting, so they paddled around and began to flee to the back.

Some of the ships that caught fire also needed to be extinguished. One by one, the surviving Tokugawa sailors rushed to the bow to fetch water, and then poured the bucket after bucket of water onto the flames of the ship's hull, which grew larger and larger. However, once the wooden Ataka ship burns up, it is a fire, and it is difficult to extinguish the fire. One of the seven Ataka ships on fire was extinguished, and the other six were engulfed in flames.

The Tokugawa sailors took off their armor and jumped into the sea one by one, struggling to swim towards the other Ataka ships in the icy waters of December, hoping to find a way out.

After completing one shot from the side of the steamer in the front row, it began to clear and reload in preparation for a second bombardment.

The Ataka boat in the front row lost its fighting spirit and fled back, but the Ataku boat behind rushed up without knowing whether to live or die. While the ship's gunners were reloading, about forty Ataka ships rushed to the close side of the ship and attempted to engage in broadside combat.

In fact, the overall design of the Ataka ship was designed to maximize the power of the arquebus. Although Ataka is best at shooting arquebuses in close proximity, it is clear that Li Zhi's cannon is more powerful than the arquebus. The samurai who commanded the ship on the Ataka ship were not stupid, they knew that it was stupid to shoot arquebuses with the Ataka ship close to the gunboat, and the only hope of victory was to rush up to engage in the broadside battle.

The Ataka ship had a large number of hook locks, and soldiers armed with spears stood on the top deck of the cabin. These configurations are all prepared for broadside battles.

But the gunners on the ship did not allow these Japanese sailors to succeed.

The gunners loaded the shells without allowing the barrels to cool completely, and in only forty seconds, more than forty ships in the front row opened fire again.

This time, the Ataka ship in the front row was further away from the ship, and the ship almost hit the Ataka ship, and the hit rate of the shells was even more amazing. More than 300 shells were fired, with an average of nine or 10 shells per ship.

Where can these two-hundred-ton boats withstand the bombardment of ten shells?

The cannonballs were like beasts of predators, rampage through the sturdy hull of the Ataka ship. The shells smashed through the hull, smashed the deck, and killed countless soldiers in the cabins preparing to engage in broadside battles. In the face of the power of steel and gunpowder, human beings are so small. Some Japanese ashigaru were torn apart by the shells without even seeing them.

Heart-rending screams came from the bulleted Ataka boat. Li Zhi stood on the Yangwei, more than 100 meters away from the nearest Anzhai ship, and could hear the screams coming from the boat.

Then the eighteen-pound shell exploded. If one shell is not enough to inflict heavy damage on the hull of an Ataka ship, ten or even more shells explode inside a ship, and the damage caused is enormous.

Looking at it from Li Zhi's point of view, the inside of the hull of the Ataka ship, which was trying to rush towards the steamer, shook again and again, and then suddenly somewhere was blown open by a cannonball, bursting out with huge sparks. The pieces of wood shattered by the shells were thrown overboard like petals of sparks, flying twenty or thirty meters before stopping.

In such a barrage of explosions, it is not known how many sailors in the cabin will survive.

The bottom of one of the Ataka ships was also blown open. Presumably the front shells blew through the deck, and then the other shells rolled into the bilge and blew the bottom open. Waters poured from the bottom of the ship into the ship, and the Ataka ship sank under the sea at a rapid pace. Several large whirlpools formed around the shipwreck, devouring the Tokugawa sailors who jumped off the ship.

The second group of Ataka ships also lost their fighting spirit, and except for a few that were sunk, all the others turned around and fled, for fear of another round of shells.

Behind these escaped Ataka ships, fourteen large Ataku ships loaded with Dutch cannons appeared.

According to Li Zhi's estimates, these large Ataku ships have a displacement of more than 300 tons. In Japan, this is already a veritable giant ship.