Before Shimazu Tadaro had time to inspect it, the Da'an house ship next to him, which had been hit by an eighteen-pounder cannon, and two flotillas on the left and right flanks of the Ming army, each with 100 12-pounder red-coated cannons, began to fire in turn.

The loud sound of "boom" resounded throughout the Osumi Strait, and the side of the Ming gunboats kept spraying orange-red flames, and white smoke rose one after another, and the scene was grand and spectacular.

The battlefield unfolded in the Osumi Strait, within a radius of dozens of miles, and the Ming army's side guns opened fire in turn, igniting the Satsuma warship, and the black cannonballs drew a straight line, hitting the Satsuma warship with sawdust splashing.

The Ming army is like a fierce lions hunting sheep.

With the sound of cannons, the hulls of the ten three-masted gunboats of the Ming army continued to tremble, and the guns with black holes on the side suddenly retreated into the gun windows one after another, and the entire Osumi Strait seemed to be shaking with the shelling.

In some fishing villages along the coast of the Osumi Domain, the people of the village, who had never seen such movement in their lives, listened to the roar of the cannons that never stopped, and they flocked to the sea, looking at the surface of the sea, and felt as if the gods were fighting.

In the small boat that was still fishing in the sea, the fishermen who cast their nets could not help but straighten up and look in horror in the direction from which the cannon fire came.

Shimazu Tadaro's Toranomaru, at the forefront of the Satsuma Navy, was completely exposed to the artillery attack of the Ming army, and he didn't have time to look at it, and the Ataka ship, which was almost crippled by the Ming army's cannong, saw iron bullets rushing out of the white smoke and shooting rapidly towards the Toranomaru against the sea.

Without waiting for Shimazu Tadaro to react, with a bang, the port side of the Toranomaru was hit by a cannonball, and the ship's plank, which was wrapped in iron plates, made a huge collision sound, and the iron plate that was hit quickly dented, and the wooden planks behind it flew wildly, and several iron cannons were immediately beaten upside down and flew out.

The iron plate unloaded the impact of the cannonball to the entire side of the side, and the port side of the Toranomaru was smashed high, and then fell back again, and the Satsuma samurai on the deck fell to a piece, and Shimazu Tadaro also slid along with the seat to starboard, and his body was thrown out, and he slammed down the starboard side.

Toranomaru is definitely the top warship in Japan, and the board wall is wrapped in a layer of iron sheet, making it difficult for bows and arquebuses to break through his defenses, but under the bombardment of the red-clothed cannons of the Ming army, the invincible Toranomaru has to be like a toy.

Shimazu Tadaro was helped up by the samurai, and he immediately glanced at the port side that had been hit, although the cannonball was covered by iron sheets, but the entire port side had been completely deformed under the first shot.

He couldn't help but be a little glad that if he had been closer, he was afraid that the iron sheet would be torn apart directly by the shells.

Toranomaru was protected by iron sheets and did not cause devastating damage, but the other Satsuma warships were not so lucky, next to an Otaku ship, hit three bullets in a row, and the entire board wall was destroyed, and on the sea around the hull, more than ten huge mutilated corpses were floating on the sea, and the surrounding sea water was red.

Another warship was knocked into the compartment from under the water by a cannonball, leaving a huge black hole in the side of the ship, into which seawater poured in, and the ship quickly sank.

Nearly 200 iron bullets roared into the fleet of the Satsuma navy, most of them fell into the water, and only a few and a half hit the ships, but every ship that was hit suffered extremely heavy losses, and some of the small ships with weak defenses and fast speeds became a pile of sawdust.

The Ming army fired a round of artillery salvo, sinking at least one house, two closed ships, four small mornings, seriously wounding more than ten ships, and startling hundreds of water columns.

Three or four miles away, they suffered from the fierce bombardment of the Ming army's artillery fire, and the Satsuma Navy and even the Japanese Navy had never encountered such a naval battle, and their thinking was still stuck in the era of hand-to-hand combat.

Shimazu Tadaro looked around, listening to the samurai tell him in Japanese, the loss situation, the Ming army almost destroyed his combat strength in one fell swoop, which made his back chill, and his heart was frightened and angry.

"Yaga!" Shimazu Tadaro roared angrily and shouted, "Fire Artillery Counter 撃する!" ”

"明の船を狙って射撃する!" The samurai on the ship reacted, fiddling with a twelve-pounder cannon that had been removed from the Ming army's Fu ship, and immediately began to counterattack.

The heavy artillery was erected on the Tiger no Maru, and suddenly let out a roar, and the Tiger no Maru was immediately filled with white smoke, Shimazu Tadaura picked up the clairvoyant mirror, through the white smoke on the bow of the ship, stared at the direction of the Ming gunboat, but did not see any reaction, it turned out that the shell missed and fell in front of the Ming gunboat formation, more than 100 zhang away.

The other five Da'an houses, equipped with a twelve-pounder red-coated cannon, also opened fire at the same time, and the shells flew out, but the result was even more off than Toranomaru's, and the Ming Dynasty gunboats did not even splash the water.

One hundred and fifty Shimazu warships, combined, the artillery is not as much as a three-masted gunboat of the Ming army, and the only thing they can use to attack the Ming army is the six twelve-pounder red-coated cannons that were removed from the Ming army's Fu ship.

Seeing this, Shimazu Tadharo was really annoyed in his heart, fortunately after the Ming army's shelling, it would take time to refill, he knew that the distant strike, the Shimazu naval army was definitely not the opponent of the Ming army, they had to enter the battle, close to the Ming army's warships!

"Big Cannon が爆撃する! The warship is divided into three ways to meet the Ming army! (The artillery continued to bombard, and the warships met the Ming army in three directions!) ）

Shimazu Tadaro's forehead was bruised, he shouted, and gave an order, wanting to take advantage of the gap between the Ming army's artillery bombardment to close the distance with the Ming army!

On the Ying Yuan, Man Dazhuang stood on the command platform of the shipbuilding, observed the effect of the artillery bombardment with a clairvoyant scope, and saw that several cannons of the Satsuma Navy had fallen far away from the Ming army, and there was a sneer on his face.

"Governor, the Satsuma Navy is separated, and one is rushing towards us!" Xu Junsheng paid attention to the situation on the battlefield, and saw that the Satsuma warships gathered together were divided into three teams, one group of nearly fifty ships continued to move forward under the leadership of Toranomaru, and pounced on ten Fu ships such as Guangjia and Guangbing, and the other team of more than forty ships pounced on the formation formed by the Guangzhou, and the rest all rushed towards them.

Man Dazhuang looked at it and shook his head, Satsuma's naval army is too naïve, the two armies gather three miles together, the Ming gunboats can put a round of artillery every half a mile, and the Satsuma naval army has to eat at least six rounds of artillery before it is possible to get close to the Ming gunboats, but this is the situation that the Ming army does not move, and now the Ming gunboats are also faster than them, so it is possible to let them get closer, they must use the speed advantage, keep a certain distance, and beat the Satsuma warships with artillery fire.

Man Dazhuang looked at the situation, the only thing he was a little worried about was the ten Fu ships, which were troop carriers and supply ships, and the artillery equipment was not as good as the battleships, so there was a certain danger, but he believed that with the speed of the Fu ships, it would not be so easy to be bitten by the Shimazu warships, and the Satsuma Navy had not yet caught up with the Fu ships, and his side had already solved the more than forty Satsuma warships that rushed over.

On the command platform, Man Dazhuang waved his hand and shouted, "Order, swing the rudder to the right, keep your distance, the artillery will continue to bombard, and sink them all!" ”

More than 40 Satsuma warships, by the Ming army a round of artillery to understand the huge difference between the artillery between the two armies, in front of the Ming gunboats, most of them are also more than 100 tons of small guys, and the Ming army's three-masted gunboats, the large ones are more than 1,000 tons, and the small ones are also 7 or 800 tons.

Not only are they not as big as the Ming army, but the Ming army is also sharp artillery, and the speed is much faster than them, the Satsuma samurai have realized that this time I am afraid that the attack will not be successful, but to bury the bottom of the sea, they want to ask for a chance to get a chance, only to take advantage of the gap between the Ming army's artillery bombardment, desperately close to the Ming army, as long as the distance is one point closer, their chances of survival will be one point greater.

Choosing between life and death, the sailors in the Satsuma warship desperately manipulated the oars, and despite the cold air at sea in early November, the oarsmen stripped naked and bare-chested, sliding the oars with all their might, causing the warship to rush towards the Ming army.

Just as the Satsuma Navy was desperately rushing forward, the artillery on the side of the Ming army was finally filled.

Man Dazhuang was extremely excited and gave the order to open fire again, and in a series of "boom" explosions, nearly 100 shells rushed out of the flames again, whistling in parallel, and smashed towards the Satsuma naval army.

A cannonball, smashed through the front of an Ataka ship, burrowed into the cabin, swept everything, and with an irresistible force, knocked over all the rows of oarsmen on the right side of the cabin, and then broke out of the cabin from the stern.

In the entire cabin, the stump and broken leg were in a mess, because the right side lost power, and the left side was still rowing hard, and the straight Ataku ship suddenly turned, and knocked over a small morning next to it, and the Satsuma samurai fell into the sea one after another, and suddenly a miserable scream sounded.

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