157. Backward Water Warfare Tactics (3rd Watch)

Yi Sunsin was very familiar with his defeated generals, and was also very familiar with some of the ships commonly used by the Japanese army, he introduced that the Japanese fleet was mainly composed of three kinds of ships, the largest one, called the Anzhai ship, which was eight feet and one foot long, one foot five feet wide, and four feet eight inches deep, divided into 16 cabins, two masts, four oars, twelve pennies, and two iron anchors, and he had only seen one, which was sunk by him in a previous naval battle. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The remaining main battleship is called Sekibune, which is a smaller Ataka ship, with similar functions, except that there is no deckhouse, and the helmsman is at the helm on the deck, as far as he can judge, this is indeed the main battleship of the Wako Naval Division, because when fighting with the Wako Sailor, the ship that has encountered the most is the Sekibune.

There is also a small boat similar to a reconnaissance ship, which is mobile and flexible, called the small morning boat, which is smaller and has little defense, but it is very fast, and the large ship of the sailor will be close if he is not careful.

The main mode of combat of the Japanese army is to use iron cannons at long range, direct hand-to-hand combat at short range, their ships have shallow drafts, small tonnage, and insufficient impact power.

The more ferocious way was to collide directly, and the Japanese ships were always unable to hit his turtle ships and itaya ships, and his previous victories had also relied on this tonnage and stiffness advantage.

"All in all, the ship of the Japanese Naval Division has a small, light, and shallow weakness, if it collides with our ship head-on, it is definitely not an opponent, the only advantage is that it is slightly faster, it can quickly approach our ship, and it is not easy to be hit, but with our turtle ship colliding with it, ten deaths are dead, so the advantage of the Japanese fleet is only in the large number, and the number of the fleet of the Marine Division under the command of the last general is small, at this time, there are only forty warships."

Yi Sunsin admitted his shortcomings, but immediately said, "If there are 200 warships under the command of the last general, the Japanese naval division can be wiped out!" With 500 warships coming, the Japanese sailors will be defeated! ”

Xiao Ruxun was overjoyed and said: "How can General Li grasp it, the governor is naturally very happy, but I don't know, how much does General Li know about Tsushima Island, if our army lands in Tsushima, can it be successfully taken?" ”

Li Sunsin pondered for a moment and said: "More than 100 years ago, our general Li Congmao was ordered by our king to lead 20,000 troops to the east to conquer Tsushima Island, and successfully defeated the Japanese invaders entrenched on Tsushima Island, so that the clan family accepted our official position, but due to some problems, the occupation was not realized, but the map that landed on Tsushima Island should still be there. ”

"That map is important, and if it does, it will be a huge help for us."

Faced with Xiao Ruxun's demand, Li Sunsin was a little embarrassed: "At that time, the expedition map should have been stored in the palace of Wangjing, if it was a year ago, it would probably be found, but now it ......."

Li Sunsin's words were not finished, but Xiao Ruxun also understood what Yi Sunsin meant, and I was afraid that the map was also reduced to ashes in the fire of burning and looting by the Japanese invaders.

"Of course, we are not ignorant of Tsushima, and after that, when Tsushima was mentioned many times, the last general vaguely remembered that Tsushima was mountainous, plain, high, rugged, and not suitable for cavalry combat."

Xiao Ruxun nodded: "There should be a military port on Tsushima Island, right?" ”

"That's natural, the Japanese transported grain, grass and ordnance materials, and they took the road from their mainland to Tsushima Island and then to Busan, and they originally tried to capture the waterway of Jeolla Province, but the last general guessed that the Japanese originally planned to transport supplies by two routes, one was to take the current road, and the other was to take the waterway along the western coastline.

Xiao Ruxun expressed his appreciation: "Well, General Li has done a very good job of this, especially commendable, and he can still insist on resistance under such circumstances, so that the Japanese have to transport grain all the way, so that their strategic reserves are far from enough to launch a full-scale attack on Korea, General Li has made great contributions, what is General Li's experience in trying to attack Busan before?" ”

At the mention of the defeat in Busan, Yi Sunsin gritted his teeth.

"Someone must have leaked the plan of the last general to attack Busan in advance, when the last general's fleet arrived at the port of Busan, there were only 400 empty ships of the Japanese invaders, all the crew and soldiers landed, relying on the Japanese city to attack our naval division, with fire and iron artillery to attack our naval division, our naval division was caught off guard, unable to engage with it, can only set fire to their empty ships and hurriedly retreated, the last general's naval division lost nearly half, the strength was greatly damaged, and it was unable to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese at sea, so it could only attack and disturb it."

Xiao Ruxun looked at the map of the sea route and asked, "Do you have a big fire in the city?" ”

"Yes, absolutely, at that range, the firecrackers on my sailor's ships are not comparable."

"Although the number of firearms of the Japanese is small, it must not lose to my Ming in terms of range, it seems that the only way to suppress them in terms of quantity, and to oppress the Japanese in absolute numbers so that they cannot fight back and cannot leave the port, is the best way...... Originally, the Governor had also conceived a two-pronged attack on Busan Waseong from land and sea, so that the officers and men of the naval division could land and assist in the battle, but now it seems that the casualties in this way would be too great. ”

Yi Sunsin agreed: "The last general of the Busan Waseong also got a glimpse of it, it is really strong and terrifying, quite interlocking, and attacking a Waseong City also needs to take into account other Waseong, this kind of city-building technique is indeed good, and it is true that it should not be underestimated." ”

"In this way, in addition to a long-term siege to force him to surrender, it is really unwise to storm it, General Lee, from now on, I need you to send a fleet to constantly monitor the connection between the Busan Japanese and Tsushima Japanese Bandits, and before the army captures Tsushima and cuts off the grain transportation channel of the Tsushima Bandits, you must ensure that the Busan Japanese Sailors will not raid our Sailors from behind, and the fleet under your command, the Governor will arrange the Franc machine for you and train the gunners, and the only requirement is to strike at the Busan Yaks when the Bunko Sailors are dispatched."

Yi Sunsin was overjoyed when he heard this.

"The last general will do his best!"

In the afternoon of the same day, Xiao Ruxun ordered the transfer of 100 medium-sized Franc machine guns and corresponding gunpowder shells that had not yet been modified to be delivered to the headquarters of the Korean naval division Yi Sunsin, and personally explained to Yi Sunsin the use of these cannons and shells, told Li Sunsin the difference between solid shells and flowering shells, and then directly dispatched ten Ming gunners as instructors to arrive at the headquarters of Yi Sunsin's naval division to teach the officers and men of the naval division how to use artillery, how to fire artillery on ships, how to reduce recoil, and so on.

Although Hsiao Ruxun praised Yi Sunsin's exploits in defeating the Japanese sailors, he was quite disdainful of Yi Sunsin's ancient gang-jumping tactic of "rushing at close quarters" that Yi Sunsin repeatedly mentioned.

Today, the gang-jumping tactic is completely unable to adapt to the needs of naval warfare, at least against the Spanish and Portuguese fleets, and the gang-jumping tactic is difficult to use.