Chapter 168: One Blow Away

In just over half an hour, only a dozen warships were left in the dozens of ships, five of the others were sunk, and the remaining ten ships were seriously damaged. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Unless there is no gun, as long as the cannon is badly damaged, Kurosui Changzhi personally boarded a disemboweled, disemboweled, blackened blood, splashed skin and flesh made Kurosui Changzhi vomit.

It wasn't that he hadn't been through battle, but the casualties there were incomparable to those on this ship, a disembowelment slaughterhouse, not to mention the result of throwing corpses into the sea.

Kurosui Nagaji ordered the fleet to move closer, treat the wounded, and rescue the ships, but he was tired, nauseous, and worried about the defeat, so he didn't eat dinner or rest well at night.

Early the next morning, he greeted the arrival of the main fleet in the rear, the Ataka fleet, with two panda eyes, and Mukai Tadashi was among them.

Yesterday afternoon, Mukai Tadashi heard the incessant roar of artillery in front of the fleet, which rang for more than an hour, and when it was getting dark, the sound stopped.

Several sailors in the front, including the Tsushima Domain, Matsumae Domain, and the Mori Family, reported that the Tsushima Clan's ship commander Yamamoto Kado was even seriously injured and unconscious, and most of the ships were damaged and unable to fight again.

General Xiang Jing Zhongsheng is suspicious, the power of the cannon of the Nanban warship is extremely great, but it will not reach such a point, and the sturdy oars of the ship can also resist one or two, but if it is a bitter meat plan implemented by several families, this is also a bit too much, and even the ship is about to hang, not to.

At night, the ships sailed and sailed slowly, and as soon as the sky was bright, Mukai Tadashi led the main fleet of more than 170 Ataka ships to the front to watch the results of yesterday's battle.

Before he got close to the front line, he saw broken ship planks and flags floating everywhere on the sea. Even the dead corpses were all of these sailors, and after approaching the front, the miserable scene of these sailors made him dumbfounded.

It was by no means a bitter ploy, seeing the grinning teeth, the tattered ships, and the sluggish and painful faces of several ships. Mukai Tadashi is also sympathetic in his heart, Nima, how can the Ming fleet be so ferocious.

This is more powerful than the guns of the Nanban warships, beyond what he has always realized. Of course, Mukai Tadashi didn't know the ferocity of the Tiago cannon, which was a well-deserved militaristic weapon, a can opener.

At this moment, a faint sound of cannon was heard in the far northwest, and Mukai Tadashi was rewarded for exploring the small hayafri, and the Aketo fleet came again.

At this moment, Xiang Jing Zhongsheng has no intention of eradicating dissidents. After all, they are all people, the rabbit dies and the fox is sad, at this time, defeating the Ming people and saving the hearts of the army is the most urgent.

Xiang Jing Tadasheng collected the heart of the enemy, and nearly 200 Ataka ships rushed in a dense formation in the direction of the sound of cannons, and at the same time, Xiang Jing Tadashi ordered a powerful subordinate to command dozens of small early fire ships to mix in the middle of the formation, waiting for the opportunity to move.

It was less than ten miles ahead. A long snake formation of the Ming army battle formation appeared in front of him, and it was the first time for Mukai Tadashi to see such a large-scale Nanban fleet.

Towering masts and sails block the view to the west. Unlike the upright mast of the Oriental ships, the bow of the ship is inclined to the sky, and the wide black hull gives the impression of full armor, but the hull that seems to be heavier than the Ataku ship is driven by the soft sails full of wind to sail quickly towards it, and a wave of coercion also comes to the surface.

Approaching a distance of three miles, the Xiyi warship deflected to the right with a agility disproportionate to its bulky hull, facing the shogunate navy with its sideboard. At the same time, the first Xiyi warship within a mile spewed out large puffs of smoke and scorching projectiles amid the roar of artillery.

The middle deck of the two Ataka ships in front of them burst into two large holes, and the projectiles that burst into the hold brought blood and death, and at the same time, dozens of large cylinders on more than a dozen Ataka ships within two miles of each other roared and fired dozens of fiery iron balls at the Ming warship.

But. Most of the iron balls missed, and a small half of the iron balls hit the side, deck, and even sails of the opposing fleet, causing damage to Zhao Lie's fleet for the first time.

Mukai Tadakatsu saw several projectiles hit the second Nanban warship in the single-pass telescope, leaving several obvious marks on the hull, and one projectile shattered one of the opponent's upper sails, and Mukai even saw a faint figure floating down to the sea with the upper sail.

Immediately after that, the four warships in front of the opponent fired a salvo almost at the same time, and the large smoke even briefly closed the sea, and the oars of more than ten ships in front of them shattered one after another, and the fragments of the oars and the fragments of the human body took off.

This violent scene stunned Mukai Tadakatsu, no, the enemy has a powerful heavy artillery. The shogunate also purchased and copied some of the Nanban's twelve- and eighteen-pounder cannons, and tested them.

The eighteen-pounder Nanban heavy artillery could bombard the heavy oars of the Anzhai ship with multiple bombardments from a long distance or at close range, but it was definitely not so easy, but the result of repeated bombardment, this kind of heavy artillery was far more powerful than the Nanban heavy artillery he had seen.

Oh no, this is the most vicious enemy that Mukai Tadashi has encountered in his water war career, and sent a signal to Mukai that more than 20 Ataku ships, including ironclad ships, that had placed Nanban heavy artillery and imitation heavy artillery in the shogunate's main formation, moved closer to the west.

At this time, more than ten Ming Nanban warships passed through the right edge of the shogunate's naval array, and the continuous bombardment injured more than ten Ataku ships, and even two of the most severely injured Ataku ships were shattered, and the armor and human body splashed out.

Then the battleships that were two sizes larger than the previous Nanban warship arrived one after another, and the shelling of one after another, the dull sound heralded the roar of the larger artillery, and the upper decks of the two Ataka ships were completely shattered, and the oars leaked everywhere, and Mukai Tadakatsu looked at the family crests of the Maeda Domain and the Satsuma Domain hanging above them in the telescope, and he could only mourn silently.

It was so surprising that the enemy's artillery was so powerful, and Mukai had a premonition that this battle was dangerous.

Fortunately, at this time, dozens of large barrels of more than ten Ataku ships close to the battlefield behind roared, causing some damage to the enemy ship, and one of the main sails of one of the ships was broken, and it spread out, and the speed of the ship decreased, and even turned to the right and left the formation.

Xiang Jing cheered loudly, and finally let out a bad breath since the start of the war. However, then the enemy fleet began to roar again, and several more Ataka ships were disemboweled.

At this time, more than 20 shogunate heavy artillery ships approached, and more than 60 12-pounder and 18-pounder guns roared, of which more than 10 heavy guns hit the target. Broken planks and dust flew from the striking Akito battleship, one of which broke through the side of the ship and rushed into the hold, and another projectile embedded in the side of the ship.

In this way, the two sides began to fight against each other, and after hitting each other several rounds in succession, the small early fire fleet in the rear approached the battle line and began to detour on both sides.

The paddlers on the lower deck paddled quickly with the strength of milk, and the small morning boat itself was lighter. The ship was again piled up with oil and pine resin, of course, briskly, and soon a dozen fireships were close to more than a mile, but at this time, something happened to the shogunate's sailors.

The Akito fleet turned its bow to a series of drums and trumpets and headed southwest to ride the wind, without any nostalgia. He didn't care about the broken shogunate paralyzed on the sea and the daimyo's Ataku ship, so he simply left. Let the little early fire ship that had recently arrived only half a mile from the Akito fleet be called in vain.

After all, paddling is a short start, and if you can't catch up with the enemy ship on the boundary of most than half a mile, the sailor's physical strength will be exhausted, and as for the small loss of sails on the shogunate's big ship, don't count on it.

Xiang Jing Zhongsheng watched the duck fly with his beak, and it was really painful. It's like picking up a gun and getting on a horse, and you want, well, that's it, and the horse is gone. So what about men. So the shogunate navy was hung here.

Nima, Xiang Jing hated it very much, with such a huge ship and cannon, this Gan Ming man actually hit and run, it was really a scoundrel, and he couldn't have the dignity of a samurai, which made his siege and burning strategy all in vain.

Of course, Zhao Lie couldn't let the little hayaboat get too close, the little hayaboat had already fought several times, and he was not an opponent at all, and he couldn't even stop the action of the Galen battleship, but so many small haya ships approached together, it was obviously a fireboat, so he ordered the ship to turn, use the speed of the ship to avoid the fireboat, and take the opportunity to lick the wound too.

The captains and boatswains of the ships had been told of this repeatedly before the war, and as soon as the order was issued, of course, they tried to avoid these nasty boats.

As the fleet headed southwest, the sailors took the opportunity to repair the battle damage, and many of the sails were broken, and even the masts were damaged, which needed to be repaired, and even injuries.

Fortunately, it only caused less than ten deaths and dozens of injuries, which was a minor casualty for the fleet, after all, the opponent's ship was more than ten times that of Zhao Lie.

Of course, Zhao Lie's fleet suffered few casualties, and Xiang Jing Zhongsheng's fleet was miserable and miserable, when two hours later, the battle sank twenty-four Anzhai ships, 32 ships were heavily damaged, more than 20 ships were lightly damaged, more than 1,000 people were killed in the battle, and more than 1,000 people were seriously injured.

Yesterday, more than 100 ships were sunk in the battle of closing the ship and Xiaozao, and more than 1,000 people were killed in the battle.

In addition, there are only about 100 Ataku ships left in the whole fleet, more than 200 Guan ships, and more than 300 small early ships.

What to do, Xiang Jing discussed with his left and right hands for a long time, but he didn't decide, at this moment, there was another rumbling cannon sound from the side and rear of the fleet, and Xiang Jing Zhongsheng understood that the Ming army's fleet was coming again.

So Xiang Jing ordered the heavy artillery ships to move closer to the southwest, and the fireboat fleet also moved in behind him.

When Xiang Jing Zhongsheng arrived with dozens of Ataku ships, all he saw was more than 30 Guan ships, the wreckage of the small morning boat, which was extremely miserable, and Zhao Lie's fleet turned into it again.

Nima, can you bravely duel once, come with me once, holding the heavy cannon of the giant ship in his hand but playing extremely slippery, slippery and not sparing, scoundrel.

Xiang Jing Zhongsheng's tears of pain are about to fall, it is really aggrieved, since the beginning of his teens, he has never fought such a battle, it is so aggrieved.

Xiang Jing Zhongsheng cleaned up his mood and ordered the fleet to return to sail, it can't continue, the Ming fleet is going to use this piecemeal rogue tactics to fight, until it drags itself less and thin, and if it goes on like this, I'm afraid that there are not many naval warships that can return to the pass, especially the slower Ataka ships and Guan ships.

Towards dark, Zhao Lie's fleet returned again, sinking seven Ataka ships, more than a dozen closed ships, and more than a dozen early ships in the half-hour battle, and even the ship of the Tosa Domain was killed.

"My lord, it's getting dark, is it better to avoid war?" Muñoz asked.

Zhao Lie didn't answer for a while, he was sneering at the warships and corpses of the Japanese who were all over the sea, and the Japanese sailors who were still struggling in the icy water.

"Order, before dark, the whole team marched north, and besides, not a single widow who fell into the water, let them float in the sea." Zhao Lie ordered while picking up the telescope and admiring the tragic situation of the shogunate sailor in the distance.

Muñoz's face twitched, as a Portuguese he could not understand this way of fighting in the East, he raised his eyes to see the floating corpses of many stiff and floating pirates floating on the sea, changed a cross on his chest, and turned back to convey orders.

It was completely dark, the battle stopped for a while, and the two sides slowed down their ships, waiting for the dawn to come, one sharpening its sword and eagerly trying it, while the other was terrified and tormented with fear. (To be continued.) )