Chapter 53: The Fall of the Wako (Part II)
Huang Wu, commander-in-chief of the East China Sea Fleet, picked up the monocular clairvoyant and looked at the Japanese ship. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
There were a lot of ships, hundreds of them, but Huang Wu didn't care. They were all small wooden boats, the largest of which was only 200 tons.
The sea is not something that these small wooden boats can sail!
Huang Wu pulled out his waist knife and roared: "Prepare to fight!" Send them all to me to feed the sharks! ”
"Prepare for battle!"
"Prepare for battle!"
Orders were passed down layer by layer, and the flag-bearers of the warships waved the flags in their hands desperately.
At 12:05, the East China Sea Fleet saw the former general-class warships in front and the 3-masted ships behind, forming a single column formation and killing the Japanese ships.
"Full speed ahead, T-shaped, seize the upper hand!"
"Full speed ahead and seize the upper hand!"
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At 12:50, the three main warships of the East China Sea Fleet took advantage of the speed advantage to seize the T-shape.
"Fire!"
The East China Sea Fleet lifted the raincoat wrapped in the artillery and pushed the artillery out of the muzzle.
After countless trainings, the soldiers of the Zheng family's navy skillfully carried out these operations.
The cannonballs continued to roar to the left and right of the battleship, and columns of water rose into the sky, and then scattered in mid-air, raining down on the Japanese ships.
Huge columns of water rose up one after another.
With a "bang", the shell hit a small boat, and the boat was instantly blown to pieces.
The ship sank, and the Japanese on board went straight to Hades without even making a sound or shouting.
Seeing that his ships could not withstand the fire of the East China Sea Fleet, Yamamoto Fifty-six, the leader of the Wakos, had red eyes and was full of alcohol.
Yamamoto Fifty-six pulled out his katana and said sharply, "Rush over, rush over and we'll win!" ”
When the other boats heard this, they rowed desperately to get close to the East China Sea Fleet as soon as possible!
In order to boost the morale of his subordinates, Yamamoto 56 roared angrily, "The reward for boarding the enemy ship first is ten taels of silver!" ”
At this time, Fusang was backward and poor, and ten taels of white flowers were silver! It's enough for them to marry a daughter-in-law and buy a piece or two of land!
These poor pirates went to sea just to risk their lives, and if they died, they would die early and be reborn, and the province would suffer from it. But if your life is great, then your good days are coming!
With this in mind, the Wako rushed forward desperately.
Seeing that these small wooden boats were still thinking of leaning over, Huang Wu smiled contemptuously.
If it was a river, maybe these wouldn't have a chance, but this is the sea.
The ships of the Wako and the East China Sea Fleet were not at all of the same grade, in terms of draft, speed and firepower.
These gangs are too backward, and they still want to defeat the Zheng family's navy with these small wooden boats, they are just a bunch of whimsical guys.
The other sailors of the East China Sea Fleet also noticed it, and they let out a burst of mocking laughter, and kept smashing shells at each other.
"A bunch of fools!"
Huang Wu said sarcastically: "Let them see what a battleship is, and pass on the U-shaped tactics!" ”
"Yes, U-shaped tactics!"
"U-shaped tactics!"
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Following Huang Wu's order, the arrows of the East China Sea Fleet turned to the left at a distance of 300 meters from the Japanese ships, and the entire East China Sea Fleet formed a large U-shape.
Naval warfare, fighting with land, are clearly two very different types.
A clever general on land can ambush, intercept and kill, win more with less, and defeat the strong with the weak.
On the sea, the outcome of a battle depends only on two factors - the performance of the ship, and the quality of firepower.
Under the impetus of Zheng Chenggong, the ships of the Zheng family navy have been improving and improving, and now they are now the largest tonnage and the most advanced warships in the design of the current era.
The average speed of a warship of the former general class is seven or eight knots, and it can even reach a speed of eleven or twelve knots at full wind speed.
What is the average speed of a small wooden boat rowed by manpower, but it is only three or four knots, and the sustaining capacity is not strong.
The mid-section lock ships of the East China Sea Fleet had already completed their turns, and the small wooden boats of the Japanese had just approached.
But when they finally got closer, they threw out the iron hook to hook the fortune ship in the stern of the fleet.
Huang Wu drank: "Sink them!" ”
When his subordinates heard this, they immediately issued orders with flags.
When the captain of the Fu ship heard that there was no turn, he rushed straight over, and the water on both sides of the ship was cut open like tofu.
Without the need for a clairvoyant, they could see with the naked eye that the faces of the would-be would-be on the ship began to show a look of horror, and they finally realized that they were wrong.
They were so frightened that they fled desperately, and they didn't even care about the fire-burning forage prepared on the boat, so they kicked them into the sea and rowed desperately to escape.
The iron-clad bow of the boat slammed into it, and the front and rear halves of the wooden boat were clearly bent at an angle, and at the same time there was a huge cracking sound of wood.
The would-be wrecked screaming and thrown into the sea.
After the Fu ship hit the people, it turned around, and the huge stern swept away another group of Japanese ships.
In order to prevent the follow-up ships of the Japanese from taking advantage of the opportunity to approach, the warships in the front section of the East China Sea Fleet were in full swing.
A cannonball from the Zhang Liao hit the Fuso, a small board ship of the main warship of the Japanese invaders, the mainmast was shot, the signal rigging was destroyed by artillery fire, and the head of the Japanese bandits, Yamamoto 56, who was supervising the battle on Kosaka, was seriously wounded.
At 13:08, a salvo of the locks of the second column smashed two 200-ton ships of Yoshino and Akagi on the right flank of the Japanese invaders.
At 13:20, Hashidate and Matsushima, which were slower in the Japanese fleet, became targets for the East China Sea Fleet.
At 14:20, the Fuso was hit by a bullet and caught fire and could not continue sailing on the battlefield, the Matsushima sank, and the Saikyo Maru was seriously injured and ran aground.
At around 13:30, the "Hashidate" sank.
At 14:55, "Zhang Liao", "Man Pet", and "Li Guang" hit "Chicheng" hard. The captain of the "Akagi" Sakamoto Hachiro was killed on the spot.
At about 15:15, the arrows of the East China Sea Fleet turned again, circled to the left side of the Japanese fleet, and formed a flanking attack with the lock ships of the second column.
The Japanese fleet was under attack, and the formation became even more chaotic.
At 15:50, after the cannon of the "Zhang Liao" ship sank the last remaining ship, the Naniwa,
At 16:07 in the afternoon, the sound of artillery finally stopped, but the smoke of gunpowder and the thick smell of gunpowder still hung over the sea, and blood stained the sea red. (To be continued.) )