Chapter 143. Broken shells
It's really called the era of cannon giant ships, the coastal defense of the Japanese people is really called a piece of garbage, even those Japanese are not as good, but the last time the Japanese Kou's ironclad house still has Furlong machine artillery equipment, they don't even have a big barrel, this war can really be called tragic, a group of warriors with bows and screaming in the oarsmen can be called turtle speed, desperately shouting to attack the Ming army.
They were greeted by 180 Hessian twelve-pounder cannons.
Mao Jue was a little embarrassed to look at it, pulled Adriana to the other end of the boat, and followed the roar of the cannon to play with the ship's shock, it was the first time to see this spectacular scene of a hundred cannons firing in unison, Li Shanhai was full of sweat beads pinching the deck, the cannon was like that, and the wood pinched seemed to have two more handprints.
The roaring cannons have not stopped, and there is nothing technical to talk about in this battle, that is, relying on a long range to suppress the small short hands of the Japanese people, these Japanese soldiers are much braver than the obvious ones who defended Tsushima Island yesterday, and there are flags on each boat holding a katana to force their subordinates to rush forward, but now in the whole world, there is no artillery team like Mao Jue, and the sharp conical warhead no longer pursues ricochet to kill, what is pursued is to destroy the ship.
At the same time, there is no shortage of surface killing, in the past, the grenade hit far, the lethality is insufficient, the lethality of the shotgun is amazing, but the range is too close, this kind of shotgun wrapped outside the explosive, and then the entire explosive device is launched, which not only makes up for the range, but also contains the kill, which belongs to the nineteenth century technology in the Battle of Gettysburg in one breath defeated the famous Southern general Robert. Li's legion, for the Japanese people, is even more effective.
There is no most salvo, the middle of the Black Pearl anchored and did not move, turned into a sea fortress, just spray, Bai Baihe and the Red Peony divided left and right, constantly adjusting the angle of the sideboard, the three giant ships like flowers, actually wanted to surround dozens of Japanese warships, every time the cannon fired, hundreds of steel balls were scattered out every moment in the roar, and in the spray like raindrops, the first six ships had simply become a slaughterhouse, and the blood was dripping downwards in the bullet eyes of the ship's planks that were beaten like pockmarks.
This is different from the war against the Japanese at sea, the kind of Mongolian Mangu on the sea is useless, so he shoots at you so calmly. This time, there were more than thirty warships behind him, and on the flanks of the Black Pearl, thousands of old men had been gearing up for more than half a month.
The warship obviously does not have the accommodation conditions in the barracks, and the feeling of nesting in the dark and dull cabin is not much different from the small black room of confinement, the only comfort is that there can be sweating and bleeding comrades next to each other to rely on each other, these energetic soldiers have already been holding back and going crazy, standing at the bow of the ship, watching the Japanese warriors are about to kill, less than two hundred meters away from the Black Pearl, the second regiment garrison Liu Chong is simply excited to the extreme, raising his hand to shout like a flintlock maniac.
"Come on! Shorty! Grandpa's big gun is already hungry and thirsty!"
As if he felt a challenge, the first row of the boat in front of the left protrusion suddenly pushed away the iron shield, and a Japanese general raised a katana and screamed with a hideous face.
"Good guy, let grandpa ......"
With his eyes red with excitement, Liu Chong almost jumped off the boat, but his words stopped abruptly, and suddenly, a cone-headed bullet slammed into the bow of the ship, and seemed to hit the keel at once.
Not only this one, but in the five minutes of advancement, there have been thousands of bombardments, even if the marbles of the shrapnel are smashed too much, the ship shelf has been loosened to a critical point, it is really like a domino, the first, fourth, fifth, fifth and sixth in the front row of the ship collapsed under the artillery fire, in Liu Chong's stupid eyes, he had already rushed to the Japanese army in front of the Ming army with all his strength, and collapsed!
The oarsmen of the general sailing era were criminals, slaves! The Japanese country is similar, from the oars to see the boat next to him shatter, the samurai is fine, you can also swim to escape, but the criminal slave whose feet are tied to the iron chain can only raise his hand, and he screams in despair and sinks into the deep sea with the boat, this despair is too frightening, in the nervous scream, the close Guan boat rower is rowing directly backwards, and the Guan boat behind is not expected at all, and is still rowing forward, in the collision of ping pong, the fleet of the Nabeshima family first crashed into a ball by itself.
However, the speed at which the Japanese reached an agreement was fast enough, and in Liu Chong's dumbfounded eyes, the Japanese army that played the bumper boat as a whole made a 180-degree turn and fled backwards.
"Fuck, don't chase it yet!"
Almost didn't die of anger, as soon as he turned around and squeezed away the soldiers who stretched out his hand, Liu Han gave birth to the sails himself, at this time the sea breeze was not small, and then the wind speed, a thirty-meter-wide boat rushed out like a big white fish.
Watching the Japanese flee, Xiao Chunzi was about to continue roaring and bombarding, but more than a dozen Ming army ships rushed up, watching this scene from the observation window, almost choking her to death, and threw aside the small flag that was almost waved out in anger, and roared in annoyance.
"Turn off the heat!"
If there was a baptism of artillery fire when the Japanese sailors fled, the effect would definitely be extraordinary, but Liu Han rushed up, and the gun compartment of the Black Pearl had to be closed one after another, and Mao Jue was also helpless to return to the bridge command platform, and let Li Shanhai, who was sweating and almost cerebral thrombosis tied to this, help him back to the tail tower, and immediately shook his wrist, and waved his hand like a conductor.
"Pull the anchor and march!"
Four heavy anchors lifted large seaweed from the sea to the sound of galagara's chains, and the Black Pearl turned its bow around with the creak of wood.
Although the oars are flexible, the physical strength of the oarsmen is also a severe examination, just like the day when the pirates were beaten, the rowers who were tired before and after couldn't even lift their arms, even if they fled back, such a strenuous exercise, the oarsmen had to die in large numbers.
Their tactics are really similar to those of the Japanese people, on the deck, the neatly lined up Ming army muskets hit like a hornet's nest, and the samurai of the Nabeshima family who fell behind did not dare to show their heads at all, and the rear side of the ship did not know how many bullets were inlaid, and there were those who entered, and the oarsmen and the corpses of the samurai at the back fell there messily.
Behind, three sail battleships in parallel, the mighty Black Pearl walked in the middle with its head held high, and then behind, more than 20 warships and supply ships were surrounded by stars and moons, and in the telescope, the Iki Island in front of them was gradually bypassed, and one foot was on the box, even Mao Jue was a little complacent.
In the mind of the Li Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom is a terrifying country, extremely vicious, burning, killing and plundering, and even almost destroying itself, but in Mao Jue's heart, the Wa Kingdom is far less terrifying.
Now the Toyotomi family has been extinct for a few years, and the old fox of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who has lived more than half of the Warring States period in Japan, has also choked his breath, and he, the longest-lived person, has kicked his legs, and those Toyotomi Hideyoshi era have experienced the extremely cruel years of competition in Japan's Warring States, and those ruthless people have basically swallowed their breath and ascended to heaven, and the second generation who took over the Wa Kingdom was born in the period of stability in the world.
The difference between the two generations regardless of willpower, courage, and cruelty is really more than one or two points, and the world tends to be peaceful, and it is also a peace of mind, and the people have lost the spirit of fighting when Toyotomi Hideyoshi was fighting, and the Ming Dynasty is very similar, Ming Taizu relied on Jiangnan soldiers and horses, almost the first time to unify the north in the south, but in the Jiajing period, these Jiangnan warriors who had defeated the Mongolian army rampant in Europe, Asia and Africa have fallen to the point that more than 20 Japanese can chase 5,000 Ming troops all over the ground, and 50 Japanese almost beat the city of Nanjing.
Although it is impossible for the Wa Kingdom to fall so much, with the conservative attitude of the Tokugawa family, it is difficult for them to make the decision to capture the Ming Dynasty as arrogant and stupid as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, especially the national policy set by Tokugawa Ieyasu is to close the country, and the shipbuilding industry has been devastated.
And this goal is already looming at hand! The Iki Strait behind Iki Island is far less spacious than the Tsushima Strait, and as Liu Chong, the pioneer of the rush, bypasses Iki Island, a rather large port has loomed into view in Mao Jue's telescope.
Or is that sentence, why do you come and go to rob us? Lao Tzu is going to be Tang Kou again! Slowly taking his gaze off the telescope, Mao Jue's fist crumbled excitedly.
But this effort, after the afterglow swept over the telescope for a while, Mao Jue suddenly lay his eyes on the telescope again, and hurriedly lifted the telescope gun rack up like that and looked at it for a while, and he jumped to his feet and shouted angrily.
"Beat the flag, and let Liu Han's bastard come back to Lao Tzu immediately!"
More than a dozen heralds waved the flag impatiently at the bow of the Black Pearl Bird's Nest, however, Liu Han in front seemed to be too happy, and for a while, in addition to the two warships in the back approaching the back, the Guangchuan Fu boat in front actually did not have the slightest intention of stopping, and was still fighting around the Japanese ship.
At this moment, the roar of cannon fire like a collapse of the sky sounded violently behind Iki Island, and the Ming ship that was moving forward seemed to be electrocuted, trembling violently, and more than a dozen huge holes were exposed on the deck, even if it was equipped with cotton armor with stamped armor as the inner core, the Iron Righteous Army still couldn't bear this strange force, and the Ming army musket team that had just returned to Dafali City was beaten to pieces, and the Ming army on the side of the ship was also fluttering and fluttering and was shocked into the sea.
Behind Iki Island, along the coastline, four swarthy three-masted western sailing ships cut diagonally, and in the telescope, you can faintly see the red, white and blue flags flying fiercely, and waves of artillery fire are spraying out of the lower decks of these sailing ships, hitting their own troop carriers.
"Fuck it!"
The angry cheeks swelled, and Mao Jue smashed the telescope with a fist......
(End of chapter)