The flagship of Gaoshui City, the Qu Tutong, raised the battle flag with a black eagle head on a red background, and this battle flag showed that one step would not retreat, and that the battle would not be fought to the end. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Qu Tutong, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Li Guang, and eighteen patrol ships lined up in a long line, separating the main battlefield from the Japanese fireboats, and these warships lowered almost all their mainsails and diagonal sails, separated by a hundred paces, and used themselves as mobile batteries.

Boom boom, more than 200 guns bombarded frantically, at this time there was no gap in heat dissipation, and the guns of each ship were loaded and fired, because more than 100 Japanese warships flocked to the place more than a mile away.

The frantic fire of the artillery sank or paralyzed fifty or sixty Kozao, Seki, and Ataka ships at sea, but there were still a hundred or so warships that approached within a mile.

The guns on the Japanese ships were fired frantically as if they didn't want money, and they also had twenty or thirty large barrels, although they had little impact on the warships of the Broken Army, but they still caused damage to the sailors and sail lines on the upper deck, and the sailors of the Broken Army began to suffer a great deal of damage.

At 200 paces, some of the warships of the Japanese Kingdom began to shoot rockets at the warships of the Broken Army, as if it was raining fire in the world, although they were all small fires at the beginning, and the damage to the battleships themselves was limited, but the sails of all the warships of the Broken Army were almost burned, and now the Broken Army warships were not good to go even if they wanted to.

The guns in the warships of the Broken Army also began to replace with scattered bullets and fired at the Japanese warships, a large number of shotshots almost swept away the sailors and armor on the decks of the Japanese warships, and the rockets almost disappeared, and the decks of many Japanese warships were full of flesh, blood, stumps, and corpses. Bloody.

But these warships had oarsmen. They were all on the lower deck. Scattered bullets really couldn't hurt them, and some of them had already approached the warships of the Broken Army.

The remaining sixty warships of the shogunate navy, which had been circling with Li Hu's main force, suddenly approached the warships of the Broken Army, and the artillery roared at the main fleet led by Li Hu, and the main warships under the command of Li Hu certainly would not let go of this opportunity to strike at close range, and the sound of artillery on both sides almost covered up all the sounds in this sea area, and even the sky began to change color, and the wind and clouds surged.

Mukai Tadashi also hung the battle flag of the duel at this time, they knew. Entangled the Ming warship, waiting for the fireship to break in, as long as the main battleship of the Ming people was hit hard, there was hope of winning the battle, as for the total annihilation of the Ming fleet, he never thought about it, both sides wanted to fight a decisive battle here according to their own wishes, and immediately the battle in the north and south directions became unprecedentedly fierce.

At this moment, there were sail shadows in the far northern sky, and they were not downwind, so they were not very fast. But their sails are huge, and they are soft. The old sailor could see this at a glance.

Mukai Tadashi has been constantly observing the changes in the battle situation, and of course he will not miss that sail shadow, who is it, could it be the Dutch, they know the news of the decisive battle and come to help.

Mukai Tadakatsu insisted on staying on the deck despite the fire of the Broken Army, and he kept observing with his binoculars as the ships turned southeast.

This is, this is the rhythm of copying the back road, and an ominous premonition rose in Xiang Jing's heart.

At this time, the shogunate and the fireships of various daimyo did not have so many ideas, and they couldn't take care of this now, and there were more than sixty ships that approached the fleet to which Takasui Castle belonged.

Many of them were already in dilapidation, and they had passed through more than ten rounds of bombardment of heavy artillery projectiles and scattered bullets on the shipwrecked warships, many of which were already at the end of their crossbows, but they were also close to the enemy.

Some of the fireships immediately ignited the firewood, grass and oil on board, and immediately the fire and smoke filled the entire southern sea, and then the southwest wind enveloped the warships of Takasui Castle in it.

None of the ships of the Naval Division of the Broken Army had evacuated, and they used their bodies to block these fireships.

Bang bang

All the gunners on the ships of the Naval Division of the Broken Army used their guns to shoot wildly at the Japanese sailors who jumped off the ships, in retaliation for their arson.

At the same time, the guns of all the warships continued to fire a large number of shotguns at the ships that followed the Japanese people.

At this time, there were only about 20 fireships left behind and about 20 Anzhai ships and Guan ships, and Tu Feimao already knew that there was no hope of victory in the fireship attack at this time, and these fireships just rushed over, and they couldn't burn many Ming warships, and they didn't have to do anything about the overall situation.

But the dignity of the samurai allowed them to break through the mostly immobile Akito warships to the north, and they had just passed through them, and the later Qu Tutong had already raised its mainsails on both sides and approached them.

Although he couldn't stop all the warships that were numerous, Takasui Castle still had to do his best to block as many Japanese warships as possible, and this was his duty.

Tu Feimao immediately ordered the remaining ten or so Azhai ships and Guan ships to meet the general together with his ship, and his purpose has always been one, to cover the remaining fire ships to rush towards the Ming army brigade, and to cause the greatest losses to the Ming warships as much as possible, and the Anzhai ships and Guan ships under his command used to deliver food to the Ming people.

Tu Feimao's attention at this time was all on this, and he didn't realize that the brigade at this time was gone.

Xiangjing Zhongsheng's desperate struggle with Li Hu's fleet really didn't take much time, but it was this less than half an hour, his fleet suffered heavy losses, a total of more than ten warships were disemboweled, paralyzed in the sea, the power of the heavy artillery of the Ming warships was still unmatched, his battleships only hit the three cruisers in Li Hu's fleet, the Sui-class Yang Su, and the Tang-class Hou Junji, and the other Ming warships were only slightly damaged.

And those warships that turned to the east had already arrived only six or seven miles away from the battlefield, and at this time the hideous features of these warships were revealed, they were all Ming warships, and they were all huge ships as big as the largest warship of the Ming general.

These ships swooped down on Mukai Tadakatsu's fleet in a zigzag manner against the wind, and their sheer size moved all the Japanese soldiers into despair.

Seeing about twenty or thirty fireships rushing over, Mukai Tadashi already understood that there was no hope of victory, and you must know that it often takes three or four fireships to deal with an enemy ship, and these ships are no longer useful, not to mention that there is no hope of winning when these behemoths suddenly rush out.

Mukai Tadakatsu did not hesitate for a moment, and immediately ordered the fleet to rush north, the south was blocked by the burning warships of the Broken Army, and the west and east were the warships of the Broken Army, and his only way to survive now was the north, as long as he broke out of this encirclement, it would be a victory.

Mukai is decisive and decisive, and he is not ambiguous, he is a pure samurai who adheres to the spirit of the samurai, and he is not a too qualified sailor general, and his naval combat experience is still stuck in the old-fashioned gangside battle.

Therefore, he felt extremely aggrieved in several battles with the Broken Army and Naval Division, and all the battles ended before the broadside battle.

This time, he led the fireboat fleet to break through the Ming army's battle line, and his hope now is to board the Ming army's warship and fight happily, and die without regrets.

His ship and more than a dozen other ships and ships flocked to the Qu Tutong.

These warships frantically fired rockets and arrows at the Qu Tutong, and of course the large barrels on their ships.

The guns of the Qu Tutong were also bombarded quickly, and their four-round guns destroyed the three Ataku and Guanship, especially the 36-pounder gun, which was fierce, and in an instant, the Antaku and Guanchuan were dismantled, allowing them to float on the sea and become real dead ships.

Then the artillery fired steel and fury at the other ships, but the poor rate of fire of the smoothbore guns made them powerless against the other Yataku ships that surrounded them, and at the same time, there were two other ships in the front and rear directions that were not closed in the direction of their firing, and the sails on the Dutu Tong ship were basically broken, and the speed of the ship was basically impossible to talk about, so they could only watch a group of Japanese warships surround them.

A feather arrow swept past the head of Gao Shui City, Gao Shui Cheng's eyes did not blink, his heart was full of anger, more than ten warships burning in the distance, he was resentful, the Broken Army and Naval Division had never suffered such a big loss, and the loss of nearly twenty warships this time was the warship under his command, and it was also his shame.

"Bring the spear." Gao Shuicheng said in a deep voice.

"My lord, there are armored soldiers in front of you, isn't it..." The guards had just been halfway through persuasion, but were forced back by the angry eyes of Takasui Castle.

Gao Shuicheng picked up his spear and walked with ten guards to the military formation on the deck.

The formation of seventy armoured and musketeers on the deck had been completed, and as usual the first two rows were the musketeers, who were waiting for the enemy to board the ship.

The addition of Gaoshui City made their hearts even more stable, and the leading role of the military generals was here.

The light arrows of the Japanese did not cause much damage to the armored soldiers, but the rockets were very troublesome and were not easy to extinguish when sticked, so there were soldiers holding shields to protect them on the periphery and above.

With a loud bang, a house ship slammed into the left bow of the Qu Tutong, and many of the captives were wearing armor, but fortunately, the formation was tight, supporting each other, and there was no fall.

The Japanese sailors on the Ataka ship were even worse, after all, their boats were small and rocked even more, but they also stabilized in a moment.

The second deck of the Ataka was still more than a foot away from the upper deck of the Qu Tutong, and the Japanese on the Ataka ship threw the iron hook and hooked the side of the Qu Tutong.

Immediately, some of the Japanese began to climb upwards with hooks and ropes, and their movements were extremely skillful, and they were not inferior to the well-trained shogunate sailors.

But the Broken Munitions of the Qu Tutong above them immediately fired, and more than a dozen projectiles flew away, knocking out nearly ten sailors on the deck of the Ataka ship.

The second row of musketeers fired again, and nearly ten Japanese sailors fell to the ground howling for their lives, and by this time more than half of the sailors had died.

A few of the sailors who climbed the deck were quickly dealt with by the pikemen, and only a few of the soldiers were slightly injured by the arrows and were able to fight.

Bang, two loud bangs in succession, and the Qu Tutong shook violently again. (To be continued.) )