The two clippers in front of the whole fleet were sailing back, and they sounded their sirens as they returned, knowing the whole fleet, and the Japanese sailors came. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Two flying clippers came to the vicinity of the Yue Fei in the rear array, and reported to Li Hu with letter arrows, and a Japanese sailor appeared more than 20 miles to the southeast, estimating more than 100 warships, including dozens of Galen warships.

After reading the letter, Li Hu immediately ordered the battle flag with a red hideous eagle head to be hung, which was a sign to the entire fleet of more than 20,000 soldiers that he would fight a decisive battle and never stop fighting to the death, and at the same time using drums and trumpets to inform the entire fleet to approach the southeast.

Although the Naval Division of the Broken Army is extremely large, distributed over the sea within a radius of more than ten miles, the soldiers who have been trained in battle for a long time are still quickly passed on Li Hu's orders.

All the ships flew the battle flag with the red eagle head, and at the same time adjusted their course to the southeast, and all the soldiers were put on alert and ready for battle.

Two hours later, Lan San's forward saw the distant sky with the shadow of sails, and he could see at a glance that this was a large fleet, and the shadows of the sails and ships covered the entire eastern sea.

Lan San looked closely through the telescope, and there were more than a dozen round ships in the shape of Dutch ships in front of him, with the family crest of the Tokugawa family in the shape of black clover fluttering on them.

The old opponent is the shogunate sailor, Lan San suppressed the happiness and excitement in his heart, and ordered the artillery deck to be on guard.

Yue Fei's huge body appeared in the ranks of the second-echelon Tang-class battleships, Li Hu had to let himself go as far forward as possible, so as to grasp the eastward direction of the enemy's army, if a commander did not know the situation of the entire battlefield, it would be like a blind man and a blind horse.

Li Hu estimated the size of the shogunate's sailor forward warship in the telescope. It is estimated that it is larger than a patrol ship. That's a quarter of what it looks like. I believe that there will be big ones in the back, but can they be bigger than Yue Fei.

Li Hu looked at the sail shadows that were still appearing in the distant sky, this must be the biggest naval battle he had ever experienced, and it was the pride of the younger generations of the Denglai sailors to be able to represent the decisive battle with the old enemy of the Japanese people, and to avenge the predecessors of the sailors who were damaged in Korea in the war decades ago.

Li Hu calmed down his agitated mood a little, and ordered an artillery salvo to warn the whole fleet.

Compared to Yue Fei's 800-ton size, the number of his cannons was not too much. There are only sixty-six gates.

But all of them were large-caliber cannons and Tiago guns, the smallest was also a twenty-four-pounder gun, and the rest were thirty-six and forty-eight pounder guns, especially eighteen forty-eight-pounder guns, which were really militaristic weapons.

Boom, boom, boom, Yue Fei's huge body trembled and spewed out a large stream of smoke and fire, and his whole body was shrouded in smoke and dust.

A low, loud roar echoed throughout the sea, and almost all the warships of the Broken Army heard these roars, and they knew that this was Li Hu's general order to go to war.

It wasn't just the soldiers of the Broken Army and the Naval Division who heard the roar of Yue Fei's artillery. Mukai Tadakatsu, who was in front of the shogunate's sailors, also heard these roars.

The cannon, judging by the roaring echo, was a cannon. Mukai Tadashi sighed, although the number of warships under his command was not much more than the number of warships under his command when he saw it from the telescope, but the battleships were larger than those under his command, and at the same time, the artillery was also larger.

The hope of this battle is all in the fireboat, Xiang Jing Zhongsheng looked at the southeast direction, that is the direction of the Kohaya fleet and the Seki ship fleet, there is no way, in order to borrow the southeast wind, the sub-fleet can only approach from the southeast, so the same brigade is divided into two places.

It was led by his lieutenant Tohi Shigeru, and was the best hope of winning the battle.

When the distance was three miles, Mukai Tadakatsu ordered the fleet to turn south, side to the enemy, and prepare for artillery bombardment.

Li Hu saw the other party's turn, but the range of the Tyago cannon of the Broken Army was determined, and the Broken Army Naval Division had to approach within a mile in each artillery battle to give full play to the best power of the cannon, so in between, he could only continue to move forward under artillery fire.

The battleships of the Kung Fu Shogunate Naval Division with a stick of incense turned their bows, and boom, boom, almost all of the battleships roared, because on their right side were the battleships of the Broken Army Naval Division, and the number was too many after all.

The roar of hundreds of cannons resounded through the heavens and the earth, and a large number of projectiles rushed towards the warships of the Broken Army and Naval Division with a whistling sound.

More than 20 warships in the vanguard where Lan San was located bore the brunt and became the target of the Japanese people.

Lan San listened to the constantly piercing whistling sound and saw the rising water column near the left side of his battleship, and his heart was also shocked, after all, he had never experienced such a fierce artillery battle before.

There were two muffled bangs, Lan San knew that he had been shot, a projectile hit the side of the ship of the Shi Wansui, and a projectile hit the upper deck of the Shi Wansui, shattering the solid cedar planks on the deck, but fortunately did not hurt the sailors.

Lan San crouched on the fender of the bow of the upper deck, and he used his telescope to observe the movements of the Japanese warship.

Lan San saw several 200-ton ships on the opposite side spewing out thick smoke and fire, and the Japanese began shelling again.

This time, Lan San's and the battleship were not hit, but were just washed onto the deck by a splash of water, and all the people on the deck were drenched.

The rear mainmast of a cruiser in front of Blue Three broke was broken, and its upper sail fell into the sea, carrying a sailor on it.

Lan San looked at the sailor, only to see that he had come out of the water, the temperature of the water was just right, and he was constantly paddling.

Lucky boy, Lan San smiled, he turned around and looked at the flags of the fleet behind him, because the two sides were close to a mile.

The Yue Fei in the back waved the flag of turning southward, and Lan San immediately ordered it to do so.

When the more than ten warships of the forward began to turn, the warships of the Japanese began to bombard again, and this time they were very close, and the destructive power of the Japanese artillery increased greatly.

With a bang, the front diagonal sail of the Vanzai was shattered, and it all happened a few steps in front of Lan San.

Lan San was checking the damage to the front inclined sail, and the hull of the ship shook violently twice, and Lan San immediately knew that he had been hit by a heavy artillery shell, otherwise the Shi Wansui would not have been so shaken.

He ran to the right fender and looked behind him, only to see that the artillery deck behind him and the deck on which the sailors on the upper deck rested had been hit, and a shell had rushed into the gun deck, and a projectile had been embedded in the upper side.

Lan San immediately knew that the Japanese also had a heavy cannon, although it was far from the Tiago cannon, but it was still much stronger than the earlier cannon.

Lan San guessed correctly, when the Broken Army began to collect taxes, it clashed with the Japanese sailors several times, causing the Japanese sailors to suffer heavy losses, and the shogunate also spent a lot of money to buy twenty-four and eighteen-pounder cannons from the Dutch and Portuguese, and equipped the Nanban warships with this kind of giant cannon.

Suddenly, the first mate came to report that a projectile rushed into the gun deck, but fortunately the thick cedar planks on the side of the ship worked, and the castration was exhausted after the projectile entered, and only one gunner was injured.

Lan San nodded without words, the projectile entered the cabin and only injured a gunner, he was only glad in his heart, there was nothing more satisfying.

Lan San ordered the artillery deck to wait for him to give the order to counterattack.

Zhang Huan controlled the Duan Zhixuan, and after Yue Fei, he turned south, keeping pace with the enemy ships.

"Sushuagua, alright, keep course." Zhang Huan shouted to the sailor, who was busy under the mainsail.

Suzugua, who was in her early thirties, said yes loudly.

Zhang Huan turned to look at the Cheng Zhijie and Shan Xiong signals behind him and also turned the hull, when the Chai Shao and Zhang Yichao behind also turned behind the ship, Zhang Huan looked at the flagship Yue Fei, and there was still no movement on the Yue Fei.

Boom boom, the warship cannons of the Japanese are no longer a salvo, and several bombardments have made the various gun groups of each ship have been in unison, and now they are firing their own guns, which can be regarded as the beginning of another bombardment.

Bang bang bang, two projectiles bombarded the left side of Duan Zhixuan's ship, the boat shook, Zhang Huan didn't care, it was impossible not to hit the cannon at a distance of less than a mile, and now Zhang Huan, who is an old sailor, didn't frown.

As for whether the projectiles of the Japanese can break through the hull of Duan Zhixuan, it must not, you must know that the battleship is huge, not only the belly is large, but his planks are also thickened to strengthen protection.

But Zhang Huan still came to the port side and held on to the fender to look back.

Zhang Huan's eyes almost didn't bulge out, only to see two projectiles embedded in the hull of the ship, the special Japanese had heavy artillery, Zhang Huan was shocked into a cold sweat, that position was the position of the artillery deck.

Once it breaks into the cabin, the consequences are unimaginable, no, you can't be beaten like this.

Zhang Huan immediately looked at the lookout of Yue Fei, but there was still no movement, it seemed that the main general Li Hu was really calm.

It wasn't until Guo Ziyi and Su Dingfang in the back also turned around that the salvo signal flag of red flames on a black background on the Yue Fei was finally raised, which gave a pass to all the captains of the Broken Army warships, which was equivalent to Li Hu telling the captains under his command that the boys could fight back and beat the generals hard.

Suddenly, the roar of artillery continued to sound, dozens of active volcanoes on the sea began to erupt, for a while smoke and fire flashed everywhere, and the ****** in thousands of artillery pieces pushed the projectile out like lightning, and everywhere was the whistling sound of the projectile breaking through the air.

A mile around the warships of the Japanese rose up columns of water, some of the warships of the Japanese sails were broken, some of the mainmasts were broken, these seemed to be very tragic, in fact, the most dangerous thing was the projectiles that hit the board of the broadside ship, they may not be as loud as the above, but the consequences were very serious.

The interior of a two-hundred-ton warship suddenly burst open, and a huge fireball rose from the deck, and the personnel rose like rag dolls, and even the mainsail and mainmast were torn apart, and smoke and orange flames rose ten feet high from the lower deck.

Mukai Zhongsheng looked at everything in front of him expressionlessly, this was all in his expectation, and he didn't care too much, his fleet task was to entangle the main fleet of the Ming people, until the arrival of the fire fleet, in order to win, it was to destroy these Nanban warships, and he recognized them. (To be continued.) )

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