Chapter 421: The Surprise Attack of the Japanese People
At the beginning of the second day, all the soldiers of the Broken Prisoners had a full meal, and everyone ate as much as they could, and the next meal was the same as yesterday, and I don't know when it will be time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Li Hu ordered the fleet to turn around and sail to the southeast, looking for a decisive battle with the Japanese fleet, and since there could only be one winner, he certainly hoped for a quick victory.
Li Hu sent more than a dozen flying clippers to search to the east, and the Grand Fleet followed behind, and at the same time, he did not relax his vigilance on the two wings, and sent flying scissors to cruise on both wings to warn the Grand Fleet at any time.
Li Hu was not disappointed, and soon found traces of the Japanese fleet more than 20 miles to the southeast.
The Breaking Army Sailor immediately sailed forward, Li Hu hoped to make a break today, and he didn't want to dream a lot at night.
Zhang Huan stood at the bow of the ship and watched the fleets of the two sides approaching as yesterday, he looked at the Cheng Zhijie, Hou Junji, Li Guangbi, Chai Shao, Li Xiaogong, Qin Qiong, Shan Xiong Signal, Gao Xianzhi, Hei Zhi Changzhi and other more than 40 Tang-class warships spread across the sea, as well as the huge Yue Fei surrounded in the middle, thinking about his family from a fisherman to a member of this powerful fleet, he couldn't help but be deeply proud.
"Captain, look at the fleet of our Broken Army, it's really exciting." The first mate Shi Chong greedily stared at the battleships traveling around him.
"Why, I want to take charge of a ship." Zhang Huan said with a smile.
"This ,。。。" Shi Chong is very embarrassed, although he is one year older than Zhang Huan, but he is also very young, and he also belongs to the Shaozhuang faction, he is now the first mate, and he is within reach of the captain's position, but if he is unlucky, he will be promoted in a few years.
"As long as you make military achievements this time, it will be a quick thing. Like me. Zhang Huan pointed to himself.
"Your subordinates will obey your orders. Strive for more meritorious battles. Shi Chong arched his hand. He thought of Zhang Huan's promotion. I can't help but hope that the captain in front of me is an example of continuous promotion of military merit.
"Alright, tell the brothers to prepare." Looking at the place where he came to more than three miles again, Zhang Huan ordered to be on guard and went to war.
The two sides engaged in battle as yesterday, but as soon as they engaged this time, Li Hu noticed the difference, and the shogunate sailors tried their best to avoid the long-distance exchange of fire from the captives. It's just not too close, not like a decisive battle.
However, they did not withdraw, but only kept a distance of two or three miles from the fleet of the Broken Army, and the ships of the Broken Army's naval division approached, and they immediately moved away from some.
The ships of the Naval Division were relatively fast, but as soon as they approached and began to turn to the side of the enemy, the Japanese warships took the opportunity to stay away and keep this distance unchanged, although the water was still rising on the sea and the artillery roared deafeningly. But the intensity was far worse than yesterday's.
Li Hu sneered in his heart, it seemed that he was about to make a move.
Tohi Shigeru commanded more than 40 Ataka ships, more than 60 Seki ships, more than 150 Kohaya ships, and three Nanban ships of the Satsuma Domain to the northeast.
to where it is today. He estimated that it would not be too far away from the Ming people's fleet, and what he was most concerned about now was whether the general was pestering the Ming people's fleet, and if the ship type such as Guan Ship and Xiao Haya encountered the Ming people's Nanban warships, it would be a search for death, but if the general led the Nanban warships to entangle the Ming people's fleet, and he led this fleet to stab out, then the chances of victory would be greatly increased.
In his fleet, the Ataka ship and more than 20 ships were complete, and the other 40 ships and almost all of the small ships were fireships, in order to reduce the weight and increase the speed of the ships, all the large ships and armor on these ships were eliminated, and these nearly 200 ships were all burned, and it was a victory to be able to die with the Ming warships.
Standing on the bow of the iron-clad Ataka boat, he kept looking northeast with a telescope, in fact, although he was in front of the battle array, he still couldn't see the direction too far, after all, the surrounding sea was full of moving warships.
Tohi Shigeru had been looking around to see the dozen or so small morning boats he sent out to investigate ahead, this was the only small morning that was not used as a fire ship, this was his eyes, and it was up to them to find the Akito fleet.
There were two Xiaozao in the far sky, they kept waving the flag, and Tu Feimao let out a sigh of relief, and found it, and as soon as he saw this flag, he knew that he had found the Mingren fleet, which they agreed to find the Mingren fleet to wave.
Tu Feimao immediately ordered the whole fleet to be on alert, that is, to prepare desperately, their fleet is here for this, and I believe that this fleet will basically cease to exist after this battle.
Half an hour later, countless sail shadows appeared in the northeast direction, and when they came, Tu Feimao knew at a glance that it was a Nanban warship, and his sail shape was completely different from that of a hard sail.
He carefully observed it with a telescope, and sure enough, it was a Ming warship, but although there were a lot of them, the ships were not too big, what was going on.
The samurai on the side reminded that there was a voice in the distance.
Tu Feimao listened carefully, this is not an easy task in the Grand Fleet, he faintly heard some noises, it was the sound of cannons, yes, it was the sound of cannons, although it was extremely weak, but it was definitely the sound of cannons.
Tu Fei Mao immediately knew that the main force of the Ming battleship on the opposite side would not be the main force of the Ming battleship, but the ship guarding on the side, and now the main force of the Ming fleet must be fighting fiercely with the general general.
Only by rushing over, the Ming warships in front of him are all burned down, and it is useless, but it is just a partial division, without affecting the overall situation, and only by rushing over to find the main force of the Ming people who are fighting with the general to set fire to the ship, there is hope for a big victory.
He immediately teleported this command, and in an instant, the nearby warships began to pick up, all the oarsmen began to row, thousands of huge oars broke through the sea, and there was a loud sound everywhere, and the debris of the sea splashed, which was also magnificent.
Gao Shuicheng stood on the deck of the Qu Tutong and looked at the chaotic sailors of the Wa Kingdom on the opposite side, these ships seemed to be old rivals, but Gao Shuicheng did not dare to be careless.
Especially after he saw many small mornings, he was even more vigilant, after all, the Broken Army Sailor was really not afraid of big ships, but he was extremely vigilant about small boats, and now the sea was covered with small mornings, and the speed of the ship was very fast, this must be a fire ship.
Li Hu's order was to block the Japanese reinforcements or fireships at any cost, so that the main fleet could have no distractions in the decisive battle, after all, the current Broken Capture Army wanted to annihilate the Ming warships in one fell swoop.
Gao Shuicheng estimated his own warships, the Tang Jiaqu Tutong, the Han-class Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, Ma Yuan, Li Guang, four warships of more than 300 tons to 500 tons, as well as 20 patrol ships and 12 flying clippers.
Takasui Castle ordered the entire fleet to move forward to meet the enemy, and at the same time warned the captains to pay attention to the other party's fireboats, which was the biggest threat to them, and Takasui Castle did not pay attention to the Ataka ship and the Sekibun.
All the warships of the Broken Army hung up the Tiger Head Banner and rushed towards the Japanese Naval Division, and when they were three miles away, more than 20 Anzhai ships and Guan Ships in the middle of the Great Formation of the Japanese began to bombard, but their old-fashioned big barrels had little impact on the Broken Prisoner Battleships, and the sails of individual Broken Army Battleships were broken, and the sailors were only killed or wounded.
When the enemy was repelled for a mile, the warships of the Naval Division of the Broken Army began to turn around and face the enemy with their side sides, and at the same time, the gun window opened, revealing the black hole of the gun.
In the face of the aiming of more than 200 artillery pieces, these Japanese warships did not flinch, but still rushed forward, and the order given to each bow of the ship was that it was necessary to break through the defense of the Ming army and break into the main fleet of the Ming army and set fire to the ship, otherwise the samurai and ashigaru of the navy would wait for the disembowelment after returning.
Boom, boom, boom, more than 200 cannons began to bombard the Japanese warships competing with each other, and this southwest sea area also began to roar and boil like the northeast sea area, and smoke, fire, and water columns continued to appear.
A small early was hit by a thirty-six-pound Thiago cannon projectile and instantly shattered, the projectile of this huge cannon was not something his thin body could resist.
A converted arson ship was also hit by two projectiles, one of which happened to ignite the oil, and the ship was covered in smoke and flames.
The upper deck of an Ataka ship that was returning fire was hit by two projectiles and immediately fell apart, and the upper deck was all damaged, but the sailor's cabin on the lower level was fine, so the ship continued to move northeast with a dilapidated and torn house.
The flotilla led by Takasui Castle sent more than a dozen Kozao into the sea with three salvos, and four Ataku and Sekibune were paralyzed on the water.
At this time, the Japanese warship was less than 200 paces away from the warships of the Broken Army, and some large crossbow arrows began to fire rockets towards the Warships of the Broken Army.
The slightest rocket pierced the sails and decks, some went out, and some burst into flames.
The ships of the Naval Division of the Broken Army began to turn northeast, and it was unwise to wait for the warships of the Japanese to rush at this time.
The ships of the Broken Navy Division began to circle in a large circle within a radius of ten miles, and while letting the sailors extinguish the fires, they prepared to re-infantry and bombard the side of the ship five or six miles away.
In the next six miles, the scene was repeated again, and after some shelling by the Broken Army, more than 20 Japanese warships were sunk or broken.
Rao is like this, the warships of the Japanese Navy are still fighting bravely, they know before sailing, if they are defeated this time, I am afraid that they will only have the end of disembowelment.
This was repeated four times, and a total of sixty or seventy Japanese warships were broken or silent, and four clippers and two cruisers were damaged by the fire, and they had no choice but to withdraw from the battle.
But after this, it has reached the battlefield of the main force of the Broken Army and the main force of the Japanese Naval Army, and more than ten miles away, the roaring cannon sound came clearly, and even the continuous splashing of water columns was faintly visible.
At this time, the detachment divisions of the Japanese Naval Army were swarming forward like chickens, and their hope of victory was just around the corner, but of course there was one last obstacle in front of them, once again across the battleships of Gaoshui Castle in front of them. (To be continued.) )
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