The Satsuma navy wanted to get close to the Ming army, but they underestimated the speed and flexibility of the Ming fleet.

Although the strait is not as wide as the sea, it is not a problem for the slender three-way gunboats to intersperse detours.

The left and right flanks of the Ming army adopted the same tactics, opening artillery bombardment while swinging the rudder to keep a distance from the Satsuma navy, wanting to rush through the gap between the Satsuma navy and the land, and then turn around and attack in circles.

More than 40 Satsuma warships, leaving trails on the sea, wanted to intercept the Ming army before the Ming army passed through the gap between them and the land, and carried out a ramming melee battle, but the Ming army ships were fast, they were bombarded by two rounds of shelling, sank five, ten were paralyzed, and the rest were still more than a mile away from the Ming army, the three-masted cannon ship in the shape of the Ming army's flute was blowing with the wind and sails, passing through the gap between the Satsuma navy and the land.

"Turn the rudder left and keep bombarding!"

The Ming gunboats rushed past the interception of the Satsuma navy and did not continue to move forward, but the fleet slowly turned, turned back again, and continued to bombard the Satsuma warships.

In the situation that the speed and range were not as good as the Ming army, the Satsuma naval army felt powerless, unable to chase and catch up, unable to fight, and it was impossible to even escape, and their hearts were extremely desperate.

The Satsuma naval forces on both sides had no suspense in the face of the Ming army's three-masted cannon ships, and the result was bound to be a total defeat.

As the distance narrowed, the nine-pounder guns on the top of the battleship also joined the bombardment line, and the three-layer guns, erupting in turn, startled the water column next to the Satsuma warship, and the warships broke one after another, turning into floating planks.

Shimazu Tadaro led 50 warships and pounced on the 10 Fukubunes on the front, including Guangjia and Guangbing, and the firepower of Fukubune was not as good as that of the three-masted gunboats, and the bullet rain was much sparse.

"舷前に兵士は暴露しないでください!" (Soldiers should not show their heads until they have a port.) ）

The speed of the Fu ship was not as fast as that of the three-masted gunboat, and the ship was full of supplies and soldiers, so the draft was very deep and the speed was relatively slow. The Satsuma warship rushed forward, gradually approaching the Ming army Fufufu, and Shimazu Tadaro shouted urgently. "知っている!" The samurai aboard the Toranomaru responded, their bodies lowered, and no one put their heads over the wall.

A hundred zhang away, ten Fukubunes released a round of cannonballs, seriously injuring three of the ships, and several small-caliber cannons hit Toranomaru on the top, and the iron plate in the bow of the ship was smashed into a dent, but it was not broken.

The Satsuma Navy also used a large barrel and six red-coated cannons to bombard the Fuku, but most of the shells did not hit, and many projectiles tore through the sails and fell directly into the sea, splashing the water columns, only one heavy cannon broke one of the auxiliary masts of the Guangjia, but it did not cause much damage to the hull.

The fleets of the two armies quickly approached, and on the Satsuma warship, a group of samurai held long knives in one hand and flying claws in the other, with a bundle of ropes attached to flying claws at their feet, and stepped on the tail of the rope with one foot, waiting by the side of the ship.

The other iron guns were already holding arquebuses, sticking their muzzles out of their holes and aiming at the Fukufune in front of them.

The iron gunners on the Satsuma ship had not yet fired, but on the deck and building of the Fukubune, groups of Ming soldiers began to shoot at Toranomaru and other Satsuma warships that rushed to the front.

The sound of "bang ~" sounded, and several Satsuma sailors in the morning suddenly stagnated and fell into the sea one after another.

A team of Ming soldiers generated their own guns, aimed at the Tiger no Maru, and hit a volley of guns, and the guns hit the iron plate, which was easily blocked by the iron plate, and the sparks splashed everywhere, without causing any damage.

Shimazu Tadōro was a little surprised to see the Ming army's iron cannon firing first, but he didn't expect that in addition to the artillery warships, the Ming country's iron cannon was also so sharp, you must know that during the battle of Korea, the Japanese iron cannon gave the Ming army a lot of casualties.

Looking at it this way, the Satsuma naval army, whether it is a warship, a large barrel, or an iron cannon, is not as good as the Ming army, and Shimazu Tadharo is even more urgent.

"Shooting, 轟殺しの明軍!"????" 殺す!! ”??“ Rumble! "Boom!" "Bah, bah!"

The distance was close, six heavy guns and more than forty large barrels on the Satsuma fleet, and nearly a thousand iron gunners began to shoot.

The Fu ships on the opposite side were hit one after another, and there were bursts of screams, and the Ming army on the Fu ships reacted very quickly, and the bullets of the counterattack immediately came, and the Satsuma fleet suddenly splashed sawdust.

Guangjia and other ten Fu ship ships, because they had to transport soldiers and more supplies, so the heavy guns on the ships were mostly dismantled in order to carry more water and food, and there were not many heavy guns on the ships, most of them were Franc machines.

Although it is a Franc machine, but it is also stronger than the big barrel of the Satsuma Domain, the Ming army on the Fu ship controls the Franc machine to fire quickly, the gunners of a group of three are skillful, they have fired a cannon, one pulls out the iron bolt, one person lifts the fired sub-gun, the other person fills in the new sub-gun, and the previous person inserts the iron bolt again, and then fires a cannon bombardment.

The Franc machine was faster than the self-generated firebolt, but the projectile of the Franc machine was too small to send sawdust to the Satsuma warships that did not have iron sheets, but it could not break through Toranomaru's defenses.

The other Satsuma warships were smashed to pieces, and soon they were in disarray, the guards were incomplete, and the light feet inside were killed one after another, but Toranomaru was only smashed into a dent in the iron plate, and sparks were scattered everywhere.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was only fifteen zhang, and the two sides of the firecrackers shot at each other, and the Satsuma warships were surrounded by board walls, and the Ming army ships were higher than the Satsuma warships, and the Ming soldiers could be condescending.

Shimazu Tadaro stood at the bow of the ship, his eyes fixed on the Hiroka in front of him, because of the broken auxiliary mast, the speed of the Hiroka slowed down, and he became the target of the Toranomaru to hit the melee combat.

“つかむ！” (Catch)

Seeing that the distance between the two ships was one after another, Shimazu Tadashi roared fiercely, and as soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen flying claws crossed the gap between the two ships and hooked the gang and guard plate of the Hiroka.

One of the flying claws just hooked the shoulders of a Ming soldier, the light foot of the Tiger no Maru suddenly pulled, the flying claw hooked through the shoulder armor of the Ming army, pierced into the back, and immediately the blood flowed, and the soldier had time to let out a wail, he was dragged by the flying hook and hit the side of the ship, suddenly dragged out of the side of the ship, fell into the sea, and then was dragged in the sea for a while, and the Japanese light foot on the opposite side found that it did not hook the ship, so it stopped dragging.

As the hook exerted its strength, the distance between the two ships quickly approached, and the spear-wielding soldiers on the Fukubune rushed to the side of the ship, ready to assassinate the approaching Satsuma warship.

Seeing that he was about to collide, Shimazu Tadaro immediately pulled out his katana and roared loudly: "Sudden 撃を準備する!" ”

The samurai on Toranomaru listened to the order and all rushed to the bow of the ship, and one of the samurai pulled the bolt on the ship's plank, but pushed it down but did not knock it down, because the iron plate was deformed by the cannonball, which made the ship's board jam.

"Suddenly!" Seeing this, dozens of samurai immediately shouted in unison, and they kicked with their feet, hit with their bodies, and hit the guard plate with a bang, preparing to rush out of Toranomaru and attack the Hiroko.

Then, at this moment, there was a sudden loud bang from the stern of Toranomaru, and the entire hull was suddenly smashed forward two or three steps away.

Shimazu Tadaro, who was standing at the bow of the ship, was thrown away by a huge inertia, and the whole person fell back violently and hit the cabin, all the samurai on the Toranomaru fell, and the oarsmen in the cabin hit the bulkhead one by one, and many oars were broken.

Shimazu Tadaro struggled to get up, stood up and looked back, an iron bullet weighing more than ten pounds tore the iron plate at the stern of the ship, smashed the two board houses on the deck, and slowly rolled towards the bow of the ship.

This is the masterpiece of the Ming army's eighteen-pounder cannon, the invulnerable Tiger no Maru, in front of the Ming army's latest heavy artillery, it is like a paper paste.

Shimazu Tadaro stared at the rolling iron ball with a dull gaze, and before he could come back to his senses, there was another loud bang, and another iron bullet bombarded the Toranomaru, and the iron bullet smashed on the iron plate, a huge concussion, knocking Shimazu Tadaro down again.

(Thanks to the five hundred of the last descendant of Saburo Shino, the reward of the unicorn dream!) Thank you all for your support)

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