"Oops!"

Princess Kunxing was finally startled, because a flowering bomb hit the conning tower of the Shanghai ironclad, and the violent explosion startled many people in the command room, including Princess Kunxing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The explosion was deafening, but the conning tower was heavily armored and had no effect at all, only a slight black mark on the location where it was hit, indicating that it had been hit by a flowering projectile.

"Look, Lord Commander, they seem to want to surround us."

The opponent had many warships, several times the number of Zhang Feng's ships, and several Japanese warships made a detour from both sides of Zhang Feng's flanks, trying to form an encirclement of Zhang Feng by virtue of their numerical superiority.

Zhang Feng said: "What if we are surrounded, they still want to sink us, but when they see that the ship is not, sink it!" ”

Zhang Feng was referring to a large Japanese warship, estimated to be 2,000 pieces in size, and the shell that hit the conning tower just now was fired by the Japanese warship.

The fact that the opponent's shells were able to hit the conning tower of the ironclad ship Shanghai shows that the ship is not far from the Shanghai, and it should not be difficult to sink it.

Following Zhang Feng's order, several 150-millimeter guns on the Shanghai were aimed at the battleship, and the Japanese sailors on the battleship were completely unaware of the danger and were still firing their cannons there, and some Japanese samurai or sailors on the ship, armed with katanas, or bows and arrows, screamed, and seemed to want to lean over and try to board the Shanghai.

One hundred and fifty mm guns, the muzzles of the black holes moved slowly, and then they all pointed at the Japanese warship not far away.

On the bow deck of the Shanghai, a second lieutenant officer of the Navy was personally commanding, holding a saber in his hand, pointing at the Japanese warship from afar, and shouting loudly: "Aim for me, you must hit." ”

A gunner next to him said loudly while aiming: "Don't worry, such a big target, a blind man can hit it." ”

As soon as the sound fell, two loud bangs sounded one after another, deafening, and with two "boom, boom", two shells whistled out and directly and accurately hit the target.

"Okay, fight beautifully, just like that!"

Seeing that he had successfully hit the target, the second lieutenant shouted happily with a happy face, while the sailors next to him immediately cleaned the barrel, then charged, loaded, and prepared to continue firing.

A cylindrical piece of black powder, long rolled in oiled paper, was loaded from the muzzle, sent to the bottom of the barrel with a strip, and then put in the flowering shell.

In addition, some sailors used thin iron bars to insert through the small hole in the bottom of the gun barrel, pierced the cylindrical roll of oiled paper, inserted the fire rope, aimed, ignited, and fired, and the whole process was relatively fast and not slow at all.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The cannon fire was incessant, and the Japanese warship was soon torn apart, its hull broken and broken, flooded in all directions, burned and fired, and slowly sank.

On the Shanghai, not only were there sailors aiming at the targets to carry out artillery bombardment, but at each firing position, a sailor holding the latest rear-loading gun, aiming at the target, and constantly firing, "bang, bang, bang" shooting sound.

This kind of gun, compared with the previous front-loading gun, the rate of fire is much faster, and it is much easier to use, it is not necessary to stand up and reload from the muzzle, but to lie on the stomach, or half-squatting can easily complete the loading, because as long as you pull the bolt, you can load the paper shell bullet from the back of the gun.

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Shimazu Nobuyoshi relied on the large number of his warships, and took advantage of the Shanghai and Suzhou to meet them, and after paying the price of sinking and wounding, the rest of the ships surrounded the Shanghai and Suzhou, and kept firing at the two ironclad ships.

The other party has an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and if he fights this one and can't take care of that one, he can't change anyone, he can only be surrounded, Shimazu Nobuyoshi saw that his warship successfully surrounded Zhang Feng's two ironclad ships, and he suddenly became happy, excitedly holding a katana, and shouting loudly.

"Kill to !! Sink them for me. ”

As a result, there was such a scene on the sea, whether it was Shanghai or Suzhou, surrounded by at least five or six Japanese warships, and two ironclad ships were constantly being shot.

The situation of the 3,000-material warship was slightly better, because almost all the Japanese warships were focusing on dealing with the Shanghai and Suzhou, and the 3000-material warship kept a long enough distance to fire a few shots from time to time to support the Shanghai or Suzhou to a certain extent.

"Yo Si! They're dead, dripping! ”

Shimazu Nobuyoshi stood in the command room of his warship, watching the battle at sea, with a happy face. Nodding his head from time to time, in Shimazu Nobuyoshi's view, the victory or defeat is certain, and there is no suspense.

"Your Excellency Shimazu, this time we have finally taken revenge."

"Hmm." Shimazu Nobuyoshi nodded, watching his more than ten warships besiege pleasantly, as if this rumbling cannon sound was the most beautiful music.

Shanghai.

Zhou Weixing looked a little anxious, and said loudly with great concern: "Lord Commander, there are too many warships on the other side, we are being attacked on all sides, whether to retreat." ”

Zhang Feng sneered and said: "Withdraw, why withdraw, since they sent it themselves, then sink me one by one!" ”

Zhang Feng's words were cold and full of confidence, the "012A" type ironclad ship Zhang Feng personally designed, and knew that this kind of ironclad ship was powerful, if it was sunk by several old-fashioned warships with wooden structures on the other side with old-fashioned front-loading casting cannons, it would not be an ironclad ship.

On the surface, it seems that Zhang Feng is at an absolute disadvantage and is besieged by Shimazu Nobuyoshi's warships, but in fact, Zhang Feng is at an advantage, and Shimazu Nobuyoshi is at an absolute disadvantage.

No, soon a Japanese battleship was sunk, hit by several 150-mm guns, the Japanese ship exploded, and then fell apart.

Shimazu Nobuyoshi can't figure out how his own artillery bombardment will be ineffective until now, obviously a cannonball hit the Ming Dynasty warship, but the egg is useless.

"Oh, Amaterasu, how is this possible!"

Shimazu Nobuyoshi shouted in his heart with grief and indignation, unable to accept such a reality for a while, and not far away, another Japanese warship was sunk.

The Japanese warship was not very large, and after a few shots, it began to break into the water, and after a few more hits, it simply broke in two, and then completely fell apart.

On the sea, a number of Japanese warships have been sunk, and they are slowly sinking, or they are falling apart, and broken wooden planks are everywhere, and on the sea, with the undulations of the waves, you can see a scattered Japanese sailor.

The Japanese are not without opportunities, there is a warship that is sailing close to the Shanghai, the Japanese warship has an advantage in numbers, the Shanghai has strong firepower, yes, but it is impossible to cover everything, no, there is a Japanese warship approaching.

"Look, Lord Chief, a Japanese warship has appeared on our flank, and it is rapidly approaching us." Zhou Weixing, the captain of the Shanghai, shouted loudly.

Zhang Feng turned his head and saw that he was about two or three hundred meters away from him, and there was really a Japanese warship with full sails, and it was leaning over by the wind.

There was even a Japanese sailor who seemed to be very strong, holding a hook and shaking it vigorously, ready to throw his hook over and hook the Shanghai as soon as he got close.

"They're dreaming!" Zhang Feng was contemptuous for a while, and then said loudly: "Turn, drive full power, and sink them." ”

The Shanghai made a large radius turn on the surface of the sea and quickly crashed into it, reaching a speed of at least fifteen knots. Zhang Feng chose to collide, mainly because he saw that the opponent's warship was not large, and the size of a thousand materials was only about one-third or one-quarter of the size of the Shanghai.

"Kill you!"

Zhang Feng thought fiercely, soon, the Shanghai really collided with this Japanese warship, in front of the steel giant Shanhai, this wooden structure of the Japanese warship was small, almost broken by the waist, the hull was seriously damaged, and it was seriously tilted.

Many Japanese sailors on the ship fell directly into the seawater, and these Japanese sailors were greeted by bursts of musket fire, were hit by bullets, and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.

Whether it is the Shanghai or the Suzhou, these two ironclad ships are simply unstoppable, one by one the Japanese warships were sunk, and the 3,000 warships were slightly worse, but if it is one-on-one, or one-on-two, it can still occupy a great advantage.

After all, the 3,000 warship was very large, more than twice as large as most Japanese warships, and with good maneuverability and strong firepower, this ship performed well.

Zhang Feng stood in the command room, his vision was very good, Zhang Feng roughly counted, the other party had lost more than half, and Zhang Feng also saw it, the other party seemed to want to escape.

Shimazu Nobuyoshi is really running away, running away if he can't win, this seems to be Shimazu Nobuyoshi's "fine tradition", this guy has been defeated by Zhang Feng several times, but he has escaped several times.

It's the same this time, seeing that he lost more than half of his own, the two strange ships on the other side are like a turtle shell, and he is not afraid of his cannon fodder at all, Shimazu Nobuyoshi knows that he has lost again, and he is still a fiasco.

Although he was unwilling and even angry, Shimazu Nobuyoshi adhered to the concept of "staying in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood", and turned his head and wanted to run.

The flagship of Shimazu Nobuyoshi was running at the front, followed by two warships, one on the left and one on the right, and the remaining warships were still there to shell the Shanghai or Suzhou.

After the storm, the originally calm sea was already windy again, and the sea breeze was not small, and the warship that Shimazu Nobuyoshi was riding was full of sails and ran fast.

When Zhang Feng found out, the ship Shimazu Nobuyoshi had run out of the sea for several nautical miles, leaving only a small black dot, and this small black dot was gradually disappearing into the sea level.

Zhang Feng pointed to the distance and said loudly, "See, they want to run!" ”

Zhou Weixing also saw it, nodded and said: "He is xx, he wants to escape if he can't win, what kind of hero is this." ”

Zhang Feng said with a smile: "They don't estimate that the bears are not counted, from this point of view, it is estimated that Shimazu Nobuyoshi is on that warship, this guy runs away every time he can't win, and he can't let him run this time." ”

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