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"This, this is the Geng family's horsetail navy?" Shimazu Hisao clearly saw the appearance of the opposite fleet from the binoculars, and was suddenly startled. Didn't the Geng family only have five Western sail warships? Those five were bought back from the far west. Why is it that there are more than 100 sail warships on the opposite side now, and they are still so huge? Could it be that the Geng family is so rich that they have bought back a large number of warships from the West? This shouldn't be, they have been in contact with the Dutch many times, and no one will sell you a large number of warships, and no one is so stupid.

"Order, rush directly into the enemy formation, engage the enemy in a melee fight, do not disperse, and move forward!" Shimazu Hisao glanced at the Mawei Red Army fleet, which was approaching from the upwind direction at high speed, forcibly suppressed his fear, and quickly issued the battle order. Looking at the formation, his own sailor is definitely not an opponent, but this is a battle of life and death, and he must go up hard. "Gather the small warships, sprinkle the fire oil on the deck for me, and prepare for the fire attack!" As the flag commander on the mast of his ship waved the small flag, the battle order was quickly issued to the ships. In just a moment, the sailor fleet, which was originally relatively scattered, immediately took action, and the scattered formation began to close, rushing towards the Mawei naval base in front.

This started with sixty third-class warships, and quickly headed towards the Japanese sailors. Compared with the number of giant ships, the Mawei Navy has an absolute advantage, and even the artillery also has an absolute advantage. Whether it is battle line tactics or side melee, the Mawei Navy at this moment does not instigate the Japanese sailors, and it can be said that the victory is in hand. Important: With the huge hull of a third-class battleship. It can directly ram and sink most of the warships of the Japanese Naval Division. This. Shimazu Hisao has already learned it at the mouth of the Min River!

On the side of the Mawei Navy, the 3rd and 5th Squadrons in front of them were a little puzzled when they heard the order, why they didn't put up a T-shaped battle formation and wait for work. Look at the sailors on the other side, but they are driving towards them with full horsepower. However, as excellent soldiers, the ships still carried out the orders seriously.

At this moment, on the entire deck of the Zhenyuan, Geng Jingzhong, Zeng Yangxing, Tang Zhi and others were the most free. They don't have to worry about anything. Just hold your own binoculars and watch the battle. Zeng Yangxing also felt a little strange when he heard Wang Zhenbang's order, although he was a general of the Marine Army, but the battle formation was figured out, and he had also studied the difference between some naval battle formations and land battle formations. He knows this T-shaped naval battle array, and it seems that it is very good to have a T-shaped battle formation at this moment.

"Shizi, the sailor on the other side is attacking, shouldn't we put up a T-shaped battle formation to wait for work? Why do you have to rush straight up? Zeng Yangxu was a little puzzled, and asked Geng Jingzhong.

"There's nothing wrong with us putting up a T-shape, but it's better to rush up. The Japanese sailors put on such a posture of a brave attack. Apparently deliberate. I guess they don't think they're our opponents. Be prepared to take a desperate gamble to die with us. Also, after all, this is Kagoshima Bay, which is their home turf, so it is very likely that the Japanese will use fire attacks. Like the dragon boats at our Mawei Gate, those boats are perfect for this. Based on this possibility, we could not launch a battle formation on the spot, but took advantage of the shelling when the two fleets were staggered, so as to maximize our artillery superiority and reduce unnecessary losses. Geng Jingzhong put down the binoculars, glanced at Zeng Yangxing, and then said while continuing to raise it to look into the distance.

Zeng Yangxing couldn't help but nod his head when he listened, there are really a lot of ways to fight at sea. The direction of the wind, the currents, the coordination of large and small ships, and the coordination of light and heavy firepower are no less than land warfare. At this moment, it seems that the Japanese sailors have the idea of dying together, but the Mawei naval fleet cannot let the Japanese achieve their intentions. Generally, the fleet that is in the upper hand position can only be in an offensive posture, and the Mawei Navy does not need to seize the limelight at all, and is naturally in the upper hand, which is conducive to attacking. And the Japanese sailors are so eager to seize the upper hand, it is estimated that they want to recklessly shoot at close range or engage in combat, or fire attack!

Zeng Yangxing suddenly thought of some questions, and asked again: "No, Shizi, we are in the upper hand, and the Japanese are in the lower hand, if they want to attack, I'm afraid they will burn themselves!" ”

Geng Jingzhong also glanced at him again, and said with a slight smile: "It's not like this Uncle Zeng, you also found out that the wind is very small today, and it is because of this that the Japanese are rushing this way." As long as they rush to us, they can make our ships burn together. Even if this is not the case, after a stagger, they will become the upper hand, and it will not be long before they can carry out a fire attack? You don't think that just one staggered shot, these more than 100 Japanese warships will be wiped out, right? You'll have to do it two or three times! At this time, enough for them to set fire! ”

Hearing this, Zeng Yang couldn't help but be stunned, this is indeed the case. Just like in the open sea, the entire fleet continued to shoot six or seven rounds of artillery bombardment before sinking the forty Japanese sailors. And now, there are more than 100 warships of the Japanese Navy Division on the opposite side, so it is not possible to destroy them in three or two clicks. The key thing is that if the fireships are used to advance at the same time, dozens of fireships will come at the same time, and no matter how dense the artillery fire on these warships is, it will not be possible to prevent all the fireships from approaching. Cutting into the enemy's array to engage in combat with a horizontal team has always been the only way for sailors to fight their lives.

"Yes, our ships are large and numerous, and the number of artillery is far greater than that of the Japanese Kou, no matter which wind direction we are in, we will win!" Zeng Yangxing clenched his fists and said loudly. The surrounding warriors were also encouraged and shouted, "Victory!" Win! ”

"Okay, morale is available!" Wang Zhenbang shouted loudly on the side. "We work hard to revitalize, the most important thing is morale, we are here with the determination to win, if we can't even win the Shimazu Satsuma Domain, how can we go to fight Edo, the capital of the Japanese Kingdom! Win! ”

On the warship of the Japanese Naval Division, although Shimazu Hisao and Shimazu Keihisa were on different ships, they were both in the same mood. In the face of such a huge Mawei naval fleet, it seems that it will not be easy to survive this battle, and I don't know how the team is assembled over there. Where did the clipper sent back to deliver the letter again? But the horsetail navy on the other side is too cunning. There was no formation of the battle line. Instead, like them, rushed up! Do you want to engage them in battle? No, they want to do their best to play to their artillery advantage! "Yaga!" Shimazu Hisao couldn't help but scold angrily.

Although he had not witnessed the power of the Western sail warships, he had heard detailed descriptions, and when he saw the two rows of black holes in the muzzles of those huge hulls through the telescope, he could completely imagine that so many warships fired a salvo. What will it look like? Even if it wasn't a sail battleship, the Geng family's other warships still had that kind of powerful artillery. I've had enough of the suffering of that kind of artillery, and I definitely don't want to learn it again.

However, Shimazu Hisao and they have no way out, their sailors are the barrier of the Shimazu family on the sea, and they are the guardian saint of the Shimazu family, and they must prevent the Mawei Navy from landing on the shore. I'm afraid that Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the head of the Satsuma Domain, didn't expect the Mawei Navy to be so strong at all, otherwise it is estimated that he would be reluctant to send the sailor fleet to death. If I had known earlier, it would have been better to drive the sailors to the innermost part of Kagoshima Bay and move all the heavy artillery down to block the narrowest water between Loujima and Kagoshima Castle. Over there. The east and west sides are only two kilometers wide, and most of the heavy artillery can be quickly placed on both sides. It is definitely possible to make the Mawei Navy dare not enter.

Looking at the huge fleet slowly approaching, the muscles on Shimazu Hisao's face twitched a few times, it's only been two years, how can the Geng family have so many sail warships? How did such a large fleet come into being? No matter how much you think about it at this time, it's useless. It's just that I want to run away to delay time, and it's completely impossible. The speed of the opponent's sail warships is much stronger than theirs, and once they are chased by the enemy, the consequences are unimaginable.

Nervous, unbeatable tension. The fleet of the real Japanese sailors had already lined up in a vertical column and rushed into the mouth of the V-shaped formation, and without slowing down at all, they rushed straight towards the naval headquarters. Shimazu Hisao found that he had initially rushed into the enemy formation, and Bao shouted in a deep voice: "The left and right sides will fire immediately, and all the ships will continue to move forward without stopping, and they will storm the opposite large formation, and prepare for a fire attack!" The other warships, followed up, prepared to jump off the board for a long time! ”

As soon as the order was given, the entire Wako Sailor Division immediately resounded with a neat shout: "Martial arts for a long time!" "Martial arts are long!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

This time, it was the Japanese who fired first, and Siran was a little anxious, but he gave himself courage. The round of artillery fire was a little haste, and not a few shells landed on the Mawei naval battleship, and most of them fell into the sea, splashing high columns of water.

The 3rd and 5th Squadrons were not far behind, and when the Japanese entered the formation, the captains of all ships gave the order almost at the same time: "Open the gun!" ”

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

The forty warships of the 3rd and 5th Detachments were the first to open fire, and in terms of the quantity and quality of artillery, these two detachments alone surpassed the Japanese naval divisions in front of them. The 40 warships of the two detachments had more than 1,500 guns on them, while the warships of the Japanese sailors had few small guns, and the total number of guns was only 1,500. Although the quantity can be equal, the difference in quality is huge. The same artillery, but the guns of the Mawei Navy were two or three grades stronger than it. The number of artillery guns of 18 pounder and above on the side of the Japanese was very small, and there were no artillery guns of more than 30 pounder. In fact, the eighteen-pounder artillery was already a heavy artillery in the Wa Kingdom.

On the battleships of the Mawei Navy, especially on the three battleships, there were the most 18-pounder guns, and 10 30-pounder guns and 10 60-pounder guns. In the eyes of the Mawei Navy, only thirty-pounder and sixty-pounder guns can be counted as heavy artillery, and eighteen pounder can only be regarded as average.

The loud shouting of the wolf on the other side was irritating, and there was a lot of chatter, and I couldn't understand a word. On the Zhenyuan, Zeng Yangxing opened his mouth and asked around: "Who knows what they are shouting about?" ”

Tang Zhi has been sent to the country many times, and he is proficient in Japanese, and Tian Xin is the same, or Tang Zhi is a little more old-fashioned, and quickly explained next to him: "They are shouting martial arts for a long time, and it is the slogan of their bushido, and they usually shout it before the decisive charge." ”

"Hehe, is this a morale boost? It's not a good tactic, and I think they are making a suicidal charge. Zeng Yang couldn't help but chuckle and mocked.

Wang Zhenbang didn't care what the Japanese wanted, but when the Japanese warships approached, they were already bombarded by the 3rd and 5th fleets and the 1st and 2nd fleets that followed. On the right side of the third and first fleets, and on the left side of the fifth and second fleets, a total of more than 1,600 guns opened fire, causing many of the Japanese warships to stop along the way, and a few smaller ones were directly sunk. Before he got close to the Fourth and Seventh Squadron and the Yuanzi Shuai Team, he had already suffered such losses, and Shimazu Hisao, who was watching, was bleeding in his heart.

Their naval warships did not cause much damage to the navy, mainly as a result of insufficient training. In the process of both sides moving quickly, it is really difficult to aim and shoot, without a lot of training, there is no accuracy. Even the Mawei Navy, which has undergone a lot of training, now has a hit rate of only three layers. And the Wako Sailor is even more miserable, with only a hit rate of about one layer. (To be continued......)

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