Because in the present era, it is the alternating time from broadside battles to long-distance firearms battles, and broadside battles still occur from time to time. If you wear armor, if you fall into the water, you will be carried directly into the bottom by the heavy armor, so no matter which side you fight, you will never wear armor when fighting on the water.

Soon, the distance between the two sides was close to a distance of four or five miles. At this time, Liu Haojia, who was standing at the bow of the ship, finally gave the order and said, "Raise the flag, let the ship in front of you get out of the way, and order our three cruisers to rush out with full sail!" Look at the book

It turned out that Liu Haojia was afraid of scaring the enemy away, so at the beginning, he wrapped the cruiser in the fleet and lowered it by half sail. In this way, from a distance, it is impossible to see that there are three new warships in the fleet, so that the Japanese can be caught off guard!

Now that the distance is close, the Japanese can't avoid this battle anyway, and they can finally release the three patrol ships! Moreover, Liu Haojia did not retreat into the cabin after giving the order, but only retreated to the highest point of the deck, and let his family wrap him in a thick iron shield.

Originally, according to the requirements of naval regulations, when the war began, the commander-in-chief had to retire to the cabin. However, Liu Haojia bullied the Japanese people for not having enough firearms, and the freeboard of the ship was lower than his ship, so he ignored this regulation.

As the sailors shouted and pulled up all the sails, the benefits of soft sails were revealed! The soft sails are large and the wind is strong, so the boats are fast, and in the blink of an eye, they form a long line and rush out of the channel vacated by the ships in front!

Their presence can startle the Japanese people on the other side! Especially Hisataka Kayama grabbed the railing, and his eyes almost flew out by him! He subconsciously came to a conclusion, that is, the Westerners and the Ming people colluded together!

However, he still reacted quickly, because he saw that the flag of the Ming army was still flying on the three big ships, and he was relieved! However, he still thought quickly, did the Ming army buy new warships from the Westerners, or did they build them themselves?

If it's a boat that they bought, it's acceptable, but if the Akito can build this kind of big ship by themselves, then it's dangerous for them! Because if the Ming Kingdom masters this way of shipbuilding, then in terms of the national strength of the Ming Kingdom, I am afraid that the sea will soon be covered with this kind of big ship, and where will there be a way for their own naval army to survive at that time!

But thinking of this, he became even more eager, and he immediately said to the samurai beside him: "Pass the order, you must block the opponent's attack, and entangle the three Western ships in front to death, and then order the samurai of each ship to rush forward resolutely, and at least capture one big ship and come back!"

Huashan Jiugao's arrangement is indeed good, but how can Liu Haojia do what he wants? These three cruisers were all equipped with sidesails and spinnakers, and with the help of the force of the crosswind, the ship was quickly lifted, completely throwing off the fleet behind it, and rushed straight to the middle of the Japanese navy!

And in the middle of the Japanese formation, there were already five Ataka ships lined up in the front two and three in the back, ready to block the cruiser. But they completely underestimated the speed of the cruiser! In front of them, the two Ataku ships were about to flank each other, and before the monofilament could get closer, Liu Haojia's flagship had already been inserted into the position among them!

As soon as he entered the firing position, he immediately ordered the ships to open fire! At the same time, a large number of bows and arrows, iron cannons, and large barrels were also shot at the Japanese people's house ships!

Because the Ataku ship tried to intercept Liu Haojia, the two ships were less than a hundred steps apart, and after Liu Haojia went from the middle, the distance between him and the two Ataku ships was only fifty or sixty steps! At this distance, the high hit rate of both bows and arrows, guns and artillery is terrifying!

But that's when the gap between the two sides comes in. Let's talk about the bows and arrows of the Japanese people first. The Japanese learned a lot from China, but they just didn't learn how to make bows! Because it takes at least a year to make a really good bow!

And the Japanese, who are eager for quick success, simply can't wait so long, so they generally use elastic bamboo to make bows and arrows. So don't look at their one-man tall bow that looks scary, but the lethality is completely negligible!

Therefore, on the battlefield of the Wa Kingdom, it is common to see samurai who are full of feather arrows like arrow targets and continue to fight vigorously, just because the lethality of bows and arrows is too low!

However, the low lethality of bows and arrows also gave rise to another problem, that is, the high proportion of Japanese firearms used in the army! Although firearms have the problem of rate of fire and cumbersome loading, their lethality is much stronger than that of bows and arrows! Therefore, in the Wa Kingdom, the iron cannon ashigaru was also born.

Besides, the so-called big cylinder in the Japanese mouth is nothing more than a bowl mouth gun compared to the Ming army! However, according to the exaggerated habit of the Japanese people, they directly called the bowl mouth gun a big cylinder. As for artillery, in their mouths, it is called the collapse of the country!

There is no way to name the mine chief like this, after all, the Warring States Period, which was the same as the heroes of the Japanese people, seemed to China to be nothing more than a group of village chiefs fighting, but in their eyes, it was already a great feat! So it's understandable to exaggerate!

So when Liu Haojia saw the dense feather arrows and lead bullets splashed over, he didn't care at all! The feather arrow was blown by the sea breeze, and it fell into the sea before it touched the hull! As for the buckshot hitting the hull, it was immediately blocked!

At this time, he wondered what kind of performance the invincible Ataka ship would have been, under the dense artillery? So after avoiding the Japanese to attack first, he stood up and looked out! At this time, his flagship finally began the first round of counterattacks!

When the officer standing at the hatch of the ship heard the order, he rang the bronze bell that was hung up vigorously! Hearing the sound, the gunner of the first gun immediately pulled the rope in his hand, and the gear at the end of the rope turned quickly, erasing a series of sparks on the flint! The spark ignites the gunpowder in the powder pool, and then burns all the way to the chamber of the cannon, where the gunpowder burns violently, pushing the cannonball out of the muzzle!

At the same time as the ships were staggered, Liu Haojia's ships shot at both sides one after another! The dense sound of artillery was so connected that it sounded like a long horn! Accompanied by the sound of artillery, heavy shells crossed the space between the ships, and thought of the ships of the warriors!

The three-story building of the Ataka ships was wrapped in a thick layer of wooden planks, and they were not afraid of the attacks of feathered arrows and ordinary lead bullets! But under the attack of a solid cannonball three points larger than a fist, that layer of wood is not much stronger than the paper paste!