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The left column of the boat division of the bureau rushed left and right in the Xiaozao boat formation, I don't know how many small boats were smashed and overturned, and the sporadic arrows were itching the huge Dakang warship, and basically did not pose a threat.
These little early boats are the poorest of the pirates of the country, unable to be equipped with roasting arrows and hugging cylinders, they are vultures of the sea, who live by picking up the leftovers of predators, but now they are ruthlessly crushed by ruthless characters, just because they are in their way.
The Bloodbird ship began to drop its speed and sail in a zigzag pattern, waiting for the ships of the follow-up division to break out of the encirclement.
Hosokawa Yoritoyo's clumsy ship formation made the Sai Guo Navy only move forward, forming a hedge with the Saiju Boat Division, and they could not avoid the collision of the pirate ships, so they could only face the artillery fire. The good thing is that the pirates of the country are tied together, and except for the sporadic ships at the very edge, the rest of the sailors have no possibility of escaping.
When a ship was violently knocked apart and sunk, and his neighboring ships were also bruised by the guns, no one had nowhere to dodge but to meet them, fantasizing about breaking through the rain of bullets and jumping onto the enemy ship, and solving the problem with the swords and spears in his hands, and the friendly forces around him could give them little support.
As a result, they will be violently rammed again and again by pirate battle columns, and few will be spared.
Unless they were lucky enough to encounter a pirate ship with very weak firepower, this kind of ship was not equipped with cannons, only firearms, this kind of musket was very slow, and after a salvo, the opportunity to jump into the gang came.
When a large number of foreign naval troops rush onto a pirate warship, the pirate ships behind will not stop to participate in the battle. The greatest support given by the pirates to their companions was to bombard the adjacent ships with cannons, temporarily preventing more servants from rushing into the gang, and then sparing the tragic white-knuckle battlefield one after another.
If the pirate ship that was successfully jumped is lucky, and the follow-up friendly artillery fire is fierce, they may be able to kill the enemy and stagger to follow the ship's division. If there were too many sins in the first half of his life, and he was not favored by the three mothers-in-law, and the artillery fire of the follow-up friendly forces could not stop more and more shogunate sailors from jumping into the gang, then there would only be the fate of destruction.
It was impossible for Chongwen to see the battle situation of the rear team, he did not know how many ships and how many troops he had lost. Behind him, the Hammer, the Bowl, the Turtledove, and the Bird were still roaring violently, with large roars at intervals, and he knew that he had not yet lost the most powerful sentry ship, which kept his beating heart from spurting out of his chest.
When he rushed out of the rear of the shogunate navy about 2 miles, his vision became clear, and although the sky was still gloomy, he was far away from the smoke of war. It was when there was a tailwind, Chongwen ordered the rudder to turn to the east, trying to find and meet the right column.
He felt that in the thick smoke of the sea, the rear of the shogunate's naval army was churning in pain, and it must be that the right column was breaking through the enemy's main formation. But looking behind him, his left column was much shorter, and I don't know how many boats and warships were stuck in the enemy line and could never get out again.
The Bloodbird ship was speeding along the armor position, the foaming waves were tumbling, rolling in tattered masts, broken oars, flag ropes, and countless tattered ones, and from time to time there were people who were overboard and floating in the water crying loudly, and large red stains drifted on the surface of the sea, and then dispersed with the waves.
The sailors of Longwang Island had no curiosity to identify these things, and no one was in the mood to fish for ingots, they just wanted to meet with the second on the right side and lock in the final victory.
Finally, Chongwen saw the fluttering battle flag of the Rolling Sea Dragon King. About 1 mile southeast of him, he was turning his rudder in the direction of Jiayin, drawing an arc-shaped white track on the sea. Behind that vessel, there were one broken boat after another, which was the right column that had broken out of the enemy's position, and was spreading out horizontally according to the pre-battle deployment.
Then, the Bloodbird ship heard the rumbling of war drums, which was the second out of sea greeting the friendly forces on the left, indicating that everything was in order and that it was time to start adjusting the array.
At this moment, from the smoke of the shogunate ships, there was a faint singing: The poor island is lonely, and the hurricane is cold. Who can live in Yongdongxi, forgive me for dying... Woohoo tide sect yixi, meet Sang Tugan...
Chongwen's heart is like a knife, this is the battle song of Longwang Island.
The boats and warships in the military formation must have been taught by the guns of Longwang Island, and this war song was passed on to the brothers on the same boat. In the desperate situation of being trapped and helpless and having no hope of survival, the surviving brothers are using this song to say their final goodbye to the boat master and to the world.
The enemy position is boundless, and it is difficult to rescue them no matter what, so they can only watch them besieged and killed.
The drumming of the column on the right stopped, and someone from the Bloodbird Boat sang loudly: The poor island is lonely, and the hurricane is cold... Gradually, the sailors on board began to sing, and there was no sadness, only suppressed anger. There were also people singing on the boat behind the Bloodbird ship, and not far away, angry war songs were also heard from the right column.
Chongwen did not give the order to beat the drum, nor did he speak, but waved his hand to order the bloodbird ship to turn around and turn around.
He was afraid that once he spoke, he would not be able to restrain himself from going berserk. He thought he was ruthless enough with this army, but he wasn't, he was the founder of this army of pirates, and he was also a part of these pirates, and when his comrades died in battle, it was like his limbs were cut off, how could he not be emotional.
with the dead and the dead, i.e. brothers... From this day on, the Ark Division was truly an army, not a large group of sea bandits. In the vast East China Sea, there are countless pirate gangs, and the shogunate navy is no exception. Yesterday, they had the belief to fight for fairness, and today they have more love for life and death.
There was no need for him to say anything, everyone knew what to do now, which was to immediately turn around, pull out the battle column as fast as possible, and bombard the enemy position with gunfire from the side of the side. If it is fast enough, it may be possible to save a few surviving brothers.
This is also the time when the pirates are most vulnerable, because the boat division is adjusting the battle columns, and each ship does not have a clear battle position. The second went to sea to lead the right column to sail to the open sea, and the big sea led the left column to the coast, and eventually a one-word battle column was formed, which had two dragon heads, pulling the entire boat division back and forth.
It's a pity that the shogunate navy has long been in chaos, there is no command, no direction, no organization, no order, no one knows what to do, and they can't do it if they know, so they can only watch the boat division calmly adjust, and then slowly force up from behind their butts.
Since it was headwind, after the deployment was completed, the two leading warships had to lead the whole army separately, see-sawing back and forth behind the shogunate navy, constantly bombarding the enemy ships with broadside fire, forcing the shogunate navy to not turn around, but to move forward.
This is not a thin battle line, this is a sea dragon that constantly spews iron and fire. It was an angry dragon, a terrifying dragon roar from the wounds, and this roar grew louder and stronger, until the roar of 7,000 people shook the sky and the sea, and the anger swept through the entire shogunate army like a violent wind.
Who can live in Yongdongxi, forgive me for dying. Woohoo Chaozong is embarrassed, and he will meet Sang Tugan.
This is the battle song of Longwang Island, and it is also the war song of the General Administration of Trade and Trade of the United Kingdom, and it will also become the battle song of the entire East China Sea merchant group in the future. With blood and tears, with despair, with death, the soul is more terrifying than sharp steel.
At the end of the afternoon, the pirates finally finished deploying, and a long dragon of guns and cannons tightly wrapped around the shogunate ship formation from behind, and the two dragon heads were on the left and right flanks of the huge ship formation, and the shogunate army was actually surrounded on three sides.
This long dragon approached the shogunate's navy, squeezing the huge array of ships southward from the back to the front. This process will be very long, until tens of thousands of people are driven into the turbulence of Otsushima, and the 10-odd miles of sea route is not destined to be uneventful.
Although the shogunate navy intercepted more than 20 ships and killed hundreds of pirates, they were in an even greater predicament, and when the pirate boatmen completed their tactical actions behind them, they were already bound to be defeated.
The strongest Ataka ship of the shogunate army was in the center of the ship array, and they were originally going to attack the front of the pirates, but who knew that the boat division disbanded the formation and turned into two columns from the east and west, breaking through the weak wings of the shogunate navy, and coming out of the dense ship formation.
By the time the Ataka ship rushed over, there was no boat in front of it, only the endless sea. Hosokawa Yoiho punched a blow into the air, but because the ship formation was too dense, he couldn't turn around to meet the enemy, and was brutally blasted by the pirates.
The main force of the thieves had already reached the rear of the shogunate army and began to fire their side guns and bombard the rear of the ship. The little hayafune behind had nowhere to escape, so they could only squeeze forward desperately, trying to escape the blows of the deadly iron and fire bricks, which forced the front to rush forward as well.
The strongest combat power of the shogunate army was squeezed by its own men on three sides, and there was almost no space between the ships, becoming a sandwich pie, without the slightest room for maneuver.
The shogunate's navy was extremely unfavorable, and Hosokawa Yoritomo was faced with a dilemma.
He may order the disbandment of the ship, and everyone will disperse on the sea. In this way, the strength advantage of the shogunate's naval army could not be brought into play, and it was bombarded by the guns of the bureau's boat division, and there was no chance of siege, no opportunity to jump gang, and no chance to fight more and less in close combat.
Or he ordered to move on, get out of the way of the enemy behind his ass, and find a way to turn around against the enemy.
Hosokawa Yoritoshi chose the latter, believing that now both sides are driving in the same direction and are both in a headwind situation. And the servant boat is mainly oars, and in the headwind state is faster than Kang boat, he has the possibility of getting rid of the enemy behind the butt.
It's a pity that it was his decision that sent the largest naval army in the history of the country to the point of no return. He was not familiar with the waters in this area, and he did not know that the direction he was heading was the most treacherous turbulence and reef area in the Dongqi Sea, a shipyard graveyard.
Hosokawa Yoritoyo's subsequent order caused his rear to collapse completely. He ordered more than 700 small early ships behind him, and more than 10,000 sailors immediately turned around to attack the enemy battle columns behind, so as to buy time for more than 400 large ships in the front to break away from the boat division.
This order can't be executed at all, those rear formations of Kohaya are not cannon fodder for the shogunate, it is the capital of the water army to eat, how can it be easily broken.
Everyone followed the shogunate army, the fundamental purpose was to gang up to rob, I heard that these Kang merchants had money, who knew that these Kang people were so vicious, and the loss had already made the water army jump. What? Admiral Lai Feng sent our ship to death in the torrent of iron and fire?! Is that bastard crazy?!
The morale of the shogunate's navy began to waver, and many naval leaders began to observe the battlefield and look for a way out. It's a pity that at this time they have no chance, and the shogunate navy is surrounded from behind on three sides, and there is no way to escape except directly ahead.
The best opportunity for the shogunate army was actually when the left flank of the ship formation turned the rudder to the east and pursued the guerrillas in the open sea direction when the boat division was attacking from both sides. That was the weakest link of the boats, with small ships, weak firepower, and heavy baggage boats to drag them down, and in the event of a close fight, the shogunate's superiority in strength came into play.
Once the shogunate ship formation dispersed, there was also room for maneuver inside the ship array, which was conducive to the shogunate army besieging the Shogunate boat division. It was a pity that Hosokawa Yoriho always wanted to use the phalanx against the boat division, and he believed that the guerrilla force was Chongwen's trick to induce him to disperse his forces, and he was unwilling to be fooled.
Therefore, a strange phenomenon appeared on the battlefield, and the two assault directions of the boat division were fighting in the dark, and the other ships could only watch. The guerrillas in the open sea only fought sporadically and basically watched the whole battle.
Until the second right column out to sea spared the left flank of the shogunate army and blocked the guerrillas behind them, the shogunate army had completely lost the opportunity. At this time, the boat's fire was in full swing, and the periphery of the shogunate's naval army continued to shrink inward, and the already crowded space became even more crowded.
The battle column of the Shogunate was pulled back and forth along an arc, unhurriedly oppressing the shogunate sailors, like experienced sheepdogs, driving disobedient sheep into a large herd, and the sheep would find the sheepfold themselves, and finally be trapped there and unable to move.