The first to be hit by the Ataka ships was the top deck, and it was the deck guns on the cruiser's open deck that attacked them! These deck guns are packed with double buckshot, and these fingernail-sized buckshots are designed to sweep decks!

And what is even more disadvantageous for the Japanese soldiers is that the freeboard of the cruiser is higher than that of the Ataka ship! So it's simply a condescending strafing! ap.

As the cannon fired, a dense stream of lead bullets swept across the open-air deck of the Ataka ship, and most of the soldiers who were shooting at the opponent with their upper bodies exposed on it were immediately swept down! Each fallen soldier also had at least five or six lead bullets on them, and only those who hid behind the women's wall escaped with it!

Then the shells from the artillery deck smashed over! At close range, every shell can pierce through the planks on the outside of the Ataka ship and smash into the inside of the ship! The rapid cannonballs and the bursting of wooden spikes almost turned the inside of the ship building into a living hell!

At such a close distance, the shell can penetrate two or three people after it has penetrated the plank, or even three or four people, before it loses its strength! And if you are lucky enough not to be hit by a cannonball, you will be pierced with blood by wooden thorns! The entire first floor of the ship was hit by more than a dozen guns on the opposite side, half of the people inside were killed or seriously injured, and half of the rest were also injured!

As for the next floor, the same treatment was given, which was swept by the last artillery on the second deck of the cruiser! Only the soldiers in the lowest-level building ship escaped, or because the cruiser only had two gun decks, otherwise they would have the same fate!

At this time, Liu Haojia's flagship had already staggered past them, and it was unscathed! But the ships on either side of him have become hell! The three-story building, including the open-air deck, was already full of mourning, with stumps and broken arms everywhere, and blood dripping from it! In particular, the drain on the open deck was full of blood like a fountain, which was terrifying!

It can be said that under the first round of blows, these two Ataka ships have lost most of their combat effectiveness! But this is not the end, the second cruiser following the flagship has already seen the gun landing point of its companion in front, so in addition to preparing to use deck guns to continue to clean the top open deck of the Ataka ship, both gun decks have received orders, and the guns are all aimed at the side of the other side and the bottom floor!

As soon as Liu Haojia's flagship bombardment ended, Liu Haojia immediately ordered: "Immediately raise the flag and tell the No. 2 ship, let him go around the Ataku ship in front of him to the right, and focus on hitting the Ataku ship between the two ships!" That's their flagship!"

The ship that Liu Haojia said was the flagship where Huashan Jiugao was located, and it was now more than three hundred steps in front of him! The reason why Liu Haojia was able to recognize it was because the flag of Huashan Jiugao was still hanging on the mast in a big way! Now that he has sent his neck under the knife, Liu Haojia doesn't care about cutting it down!

After the order was delivered, the No. 2 cruiser had already followed Liu Haojia's track and inserted it between the two Ataku ships. The captain of the second cruiser had already seen the flagship's might, so he was ready to work harder to defeat them completely!

Soon, the three ships were staggered, and at this time, the counterattack on the two Ataka ships had become sparse, and the feather arrows and lead bullets shot from the ships had dropped by more than half compared to the beginning, and they were inaccurate! It can be seen that the two ships have already fallen into chaos!

As the captain gave the order with a cruel smile, the guns on the cruiser fired one after another! At such a close distance, the Ataka ship could not withstand the blow of the artillery at all, and the bottom building and the side of the ship were completely cleaned!

Because the side of the ship is made of relatively strong wood, and the thickness is increased to support the load, the damage is not large, but only a small number of breaches appear. But the wooden planks used for defense on the bottom floor were densely covered with large and small breaches, and the screams inside were incessant, and even the shooting came to a standstill!

Seeing that the blow had its desired effect, the captain of the No. 2 cruiser immediately ordered to turn the bow of the ship and deflect to the right, preparing to flank the ship of Kayama Hidaka with the flagship! But the bad luck he had just struck at the two Ataka ships was not over, because the third cruiser had already followed the track of the previous cruiser and rushed between the two ships again!

At this time, the captain of the cruiser No. 3 saw that the sides of the two Ataka ships were almost broken, and he had no way to deliberately command, so he could only order the lower artillery deck to focus on the side of the ship, okay

Let them leak and the upper artillery deck and deck guns fire freely!

In this way, the two Ataka ships were hit by three rounds of saturation blows in just ten minutes, and more than half of the personnel inside were killed and wounded, and they were close to losing their combat capability. Fortunately, the helmsman was not hit. When he saw that the situation was not good, he dodged to both sides. But this is equivalent to giving up the channel to the Ming fleet that is closely following behind, and they will immediately suffer the bitter fruit!

At this time, although Birch Mountain Hisagao, who was on the ship, was very calm on the surface, and even standing on the deck, he was as stable as Mount Tai, but his heart had already turned up stormy waves!

Because although he knew that this kind of Western gunboat was extremely capable of fighting, he didn't expect it to be so strong at all! Although he couldn't see the specific situation from a few hundred steps, he could see from the constantly shaking hulls and the cracks in the wooden shields of the two Ataku ships that they must have been hit hard!

Moreover, the two ships actually gave way to the left and the right, which shows that they have either lost their combat capability or their command ability! And what's even more terrifying is that those three huge warships are rushing towards him with great momentum!

And he saw it even more clearly, the artillery that had been withdrawn after the shot had been pushed out again! The dense barrels on both sides told him that he would be the next target!

However, Hisataka Kayama was still very decisive, and after thinking quickly, he ordered loudly, "Go up and get close to them! Prepare to claw to hook them, and once you get on them, rush to the other party's boat!"

Hisataka Kayama's response has to be said to be very clever, and he can give full play to his strengths. However, in his eagerness, he forgot a problem, that is, the movement ability of the Ataka ship is extremely poor, and it is not easy for him to take the initiative to catch up!

Just when he put down the oars on his ship and was about to approach Liu Haojia's flagship, he saw the other party's light rudder, and drew a beautiful arc on the sea in front of his bow, which made his efforts come to naught!

Just when Liu Haojia's flagship reached the top of the arc, the artillery on the deck took the lead in firing, and the dense lead bullets swooped over like a swarm of bees, piercing all the people who stood in the way on the open-air deck through a few holes in their bodies!