The boat is thirty meters long and six meters wide, with a length-to-width ratio of five to one.
The size of Anzhabo is already quite large. This ship is the ship of Vice Admiral Ozohei.
According to Japan's naval establishment, the fleet at the east entrance of Tsushima Island consists of 120 warships, divided into three groups. They are the middle group and the left and right groups.
The supreme commander is General Takayoshi Fujiwara. He was born in the Northern family of the Fujiwara clan. He is a nobleman with a distinguished family background. The Fujiwara family is known as the queen's professional family in Japan and is a hereditary relative. It is similar to the surname Xiao of Liao Kingdom.
Especially the Bei family is the noblest among all the families. Most of the queens in Japanese history came from this family.
Since the emperor moved the capital to Heian (i.e. Kyoto) in the late 8th century, the Fujiwara family has relied on numerous political strategies to control the Japanese royal family for more than 300 years, and its power was overwhelming.
However, the power and prestige of the Fujiwara family were not achieved by being brave and proficient in fighting, but by strategy. In the long history of thousands of years, the Fujiwara family married female members of the family to the emperor, which meant that the grandson of the Fujiwara family was the future emperor.
As a result, the head of the Fujiwara family can influence Tsuna whether in court or in opposition.
His ship was the Shochikumaru, which was 40 meters long and 8 meters wide. The location is in the middle of the central group. There were three hundred sailors, samurai, and iron gunners on it.
The deputy general Da Zang's family background is also very prominent. It has a special status in Japan.
Because their family is from the Han clan. Direct descendants of Liu Bang. Although we don't want to admit it, the eldest son and grandson of the Han clan clan is in Japan. But there is nothing we can do about it, as evidenced by strict genealogy.
The descendants of Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, have always enjoyed titles. When his great-great-grandson Liu Azhi was in the Western Jin Dynasty, he felt that the world was about to be in chaos, and the power of the barbarians was rising, which might lead to chaos in the country. So, he persuaded his uncle to take his uncle's family with him. Liu Azhi led his son Liu Duhe and his clan members Liu Guoding, Liu Taozi, Liu Heming, Liu Xinzi and other men and women, a total of 2,040 people, to cross eastward to Fusang.
After they arrived in Japan, they gave lectures on ship culture, and later changed their surnames and became naturalized in Japan.
At that time, Japan was still very primitive and backward in all aspects, but among the people Liu Azhi brought, there were a group of highly skilled craftsmen and technical experts, as well as many Confucian scholars. Their arrival also objectively improved Japan's technological progress and prospered Japanese culture. Therefore, it is very respected by the locals.
Soon, their family was given the surname "Emissary of the Eastern Han Dynasty". During the reign of Emperor Nintoku, he was given the surname "Sakagami", and during the reign of Emperor Yuretsu, he was given the surname "Daizang". The Dazang clan has controlled finance throughout its long history. To this day, Japan's financial institution is still called the Ministry of Finance.
In addition, the branch Takahashi clan is also a noble family inherited from Japan for thousands of years. According to statistics from relevant scholars, in Japan in the 21st century, there are as many as 47 surnames with Liu Azhi as their ancestor.
These include Dazang, Itabata, Harada, Takahashi, etc. These surnames have developed well in Japan. For example, the Harada family is one of the oldest aristocratic surnames in Japan.
In recent years, China's national destiny has been growing rapidly, and Japan is worried about what they have done in history. A large number of Japanese families began to find various connections to get close to China. Among them are descendants of Han clan clan members. They took advantage of the good conditions provided by their ancestors and came back many times to recognize their ancestors and return to their clan.
In Japan, the descendants of the Harada family also built an ancestral temple to worship Liu Bang, the founder of Han Dynasty, in Fukuoka City, Japan. They also have family trees handed down from history. According to the family tree records, as of today, they have been passed down to the 93rd generation of Liu Bang.
As the deputy general of the entire fleet, Ozohei's ship is relatively large. However, a garbage ship with a weird design like the Anzha ship has extremely poor maneuverability. It's also very slow. Not to mention the high center of gravity, it is not yet solid. .
The Hengshan is a first-class battleship, built in accordance with the most stringent military standards. The keels, ribs, and transverse beams are all made of steel. And the bow also has a bulbous bow with a striking angle. The strength of the hull is very high.
The bulbous bow is not a high-tech technology. When Yang Fan designed the ship, he hired a modern design institute. We also conduct proportional model hydrodynamic tests of pools. It was finalized after repeated revisions. So it is very reasonable and scientific.
The greatest resistance of a ship during navigation is wave-making resistance. That is to say, the waves rise and fall, increasing the size of the sea on the side of the ship.
The contact area between the water and the ship's deck. This increases resistance. The solution is to add a spherical object to the bow.
This object can artificially create waves. But the crests and troughs of artificially created waves are exactly offset from the crests and troughs of ocean waves. In this way, the created waves will cut the peaks and fill the valleys of the natural waves. This makes the waves on the side of the ship smaller, reduces the contact area, thereby reducing friction and increasing the speed without increasing engine power.
At this time, Ozohei was sitting on the top platform of the Anzhai boat with great satisfaction. This boat was funded and built by the Ouzang family. There is also a castle tower with the family emblem on it. Ouzang was sitting on the seat of the castle tower, holding a fan in his hand, pointing forward, and said: "Go forward immediately and stop the big white boat."
He originally planned to wait for the white ship to get closer, so he ordered the sailors and samurai to use iron cannons. This kind of matchlock gun is one that Japan considers itself to be very elite and far ahead of other countries.
What is interesting to say is that the naval warships of the Ming Dynasty and North Korea had cannons but not guns. The equipment is all small general cannons with handles, Fran machine cannons, copper-fired cannons, eagle cannons, etc. On the contrary, the Japanese Navy has guns but no cannons. (The Spanish galleon was an exception.)
Therefore, in Wanli's water battle to aid Korea, the Japanese fleet was basically completely defeated. They are no match in terms of firepower, range, collision, or speed.
The Tibetan flat ship has three floors. The bottom is the bottom bin, which is the part with a triangular cross-section. All kinds of food, fresh water, cannonballs, gunpowder, etc. are piled here. This part is under the waterline.
There are three decks above. The cross-section of this layer is rectangular from the beginning. This level is the boating level. Dozens of large oars protrude from both sides, with sailors rowing inside. Increase flexibility and speed with human power.
Above is the second deck, which is the cabin of the iron cannons. The ship's sidings on both sides are densely covered with shooting windows for matchlock guns, which are also iron cannons.
Above this level is the first deck. This level is an open-air deck with guardrails. The castle tower is also built on this floor. This is the level of the warriors. They are generally responsible for fighting behind the gang and jumping from gang to gang. He is also responsible for protecting the nobles in the castle tower.
As for those small Anzhai boats, they don’t have so many floors. There is only a bottom warehouse and a wooden house, and the first deck is above it. The iron cannons and sailors were crowded on the first floor, and the iron cannon firing windows and oar windows were arranged in a staggered manner. Above are samurai preparing for hand-to-hand combat.
Usually there are one or two masts with sails hung here.
Because of the strong wind at sea, the effective range of the matchlock gun was only fifty meters, so they had to wait until the enemy ship was close to fifty meters before shooting. The long-distance attack of Anzha ships relies on bows and arrows and iron cannons. Then they rely on the helper to jump onto the enemy ship and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Their tactics were rudimentary due to the monotony of their weapons.
But he didn't expect that this huge black-smoking battleship would be so fast. Seeing that it had just reached a distance of fifty meters, Da Zangping's little fan had not had time to fall down and give the order to fire.
In an instant, the big ship squeezed out of the way of a nearby houseboat, causing the ship to shake violently and almost capsize. Then he bumped into his own ship, Nanami Maru, diagonally.
The huge bow and the underwater collision angle directly penetrated the hull at an angle, making a loud noise and sawdust flying. Da Zangpei watched as the other party's bow suddenly lifted up from the water and landed on his own boat.
The entire hull made a sour creaking sound, then tilted forward to the left, and watched as it tipped over little by little into the sea. The big ship directly pressed Nanami Maru into the sea, and with a click, the entire hull broke into two pieces.
