March 1, the second year of Tianqi, Tsushima Island.
The strong southeast wind swept over the coastal rocks, making an unsettling whistling sound.
Looking around from Magaodai, the commanding height of the island, you can vaguely see the outline of the gable wall of Busan Castle in North Korea.
Turning your gaze slightly to the south, thousands of warships were dotted on the east-west Tsushima Strait.
This area is less than five miles away from Tsushima Island and is the main battlefield of the Kaiyuan Navy and the mercenaries of the four countries.
In the past, the busy merchant shipping around Tsushima Asama Port has disappeared. Today, it has become a world of iron and fire.
Above the sea, there was smoke and gunfire.
On Tsushima Island, half of the artillery regiment's artillerymen were busy, moving the cannon back and forth like ants, correcting the target, firing the ignition, and cleaning the barrel.
With Ma Gaotai as the center, within a radius of three miles, there are sixty Type 22 Hongyi cannons hidden. The muzzles are covered with dead branches and trees for camouflage, leaving only the muzzles facing the northern sea.
The new cannon weighs 56,000 kilograms, has a maximum range of five miles, and fires 15 to 25 kilograms of iron balls. In the hands of excellent artillerymen, it can fire two rounds per minute. Based on comprehensive data from all aspects, it has reached Coast defense artillery level.
The Type 22 Red Coat Cannon was the focus of the workshop's development project last year. Eighty of them were shipped this time to accompany the army on the Eastern Expedition, but they have never been used on the battlefield - to deal with the shogunate army, field artillery and divine fire flying crows will suffice.
Before the Battle of Tsushima began, Marquis Pingliao ordered all sixty cannons to be transported to Tsushima Island, preparing to surprise the fleets of the four countries.
At this moment, aiming at the opponent's fleet on the sea four miles away,
A mixed fleet of more than 2,000 ships, consisting of lucky ships, bird ships, wave sailing ships, red seal ships, and flat-armored ships, bites the opponent like a pack of wolves, with cannons, flanges, and divine fire flying crows firing continuously. , the sea surface is sometimes filled with white mist burned by gunpowder, and sometimes turns red and flashes with red flames.
Compared with the Kaiyuan Navy, the mercenaries of the four countries have less than 500 ships. Except for a hundred Galen warships, the others are basically Zhuyin ships and lucky ships.
The Galen battleship was equipped with forty-eight large-caliber naval guns. It was a Qianton-class heavy ship and was the main ship type in European naval warfare during this period.
Compared with such a giant on the sea, the bird boats and wave boats surrounding them are too small.
Not only were these ships small in size, but the power of their artillery fire was also obviously insufficient. Liu Zhaosun saw several times that Fran machine cannons hit the sides of the giant ships, and the iron balls were actually embedded in the hull, without causing any damage to the target.
Once the Galen ship took aim and hit its opponent, a twenty-pound cannon instantly punched a big hole in a bird boat. After two hits, the boat immediately disintegrated.
After several rounds of shooting, almost all the bird boats and wave boats rushing in the front were destroyed, and hundreds of them were sunk in an instant.
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Only the fifty-six thousand-ton flat armored ships brought by Wu Aheng could barely compete with these giant ships.
The so-called century-old navy is not an empty lie. No matter how advanced shipbuilding technology or sophisticated tactical maneuvers are, it will be difficult to make progress if they are divorced from actual combat.
The sound of cannon fire from both inside and outside Asaku Port continued,
Therefore, when the Dutch saw two large ships capable of carrying 36 guns, they did not suspend their actions out of fear. Because ancient South Indian-style seagoing ships require a large number of redundant support structures inside, it is not conducive to deploying large artillery.
Therefore, these battleships, which are called the most powerful in the history of the Ming Dynasty, can actually only be equipped with small anti-personnel aircraft.
Of course, before they were completely finished, the East India Company's ships had arrived in advance.
As the defenders quickly gave up resistance, the Dutch also chose to set fire to solve the problem in order to save ammunition. In the end, some ships of the Kaiyuan Army were destroyed at the cost of one person being killed.
