The highest level open deck of the Anzha ship was the first to be hit by fire. It was the deck guns on the cruiser's open deck that attacked them! These deck guns contain double the amount of lead bullets. These fingernail-sized lead bullets are specially used to clean the deck!
What's even more disadvantageous for the Japanese soldiers is that the freeboard of the cruiser is higher than that of the Anzha ship! So it is simply a condescending shot! ap.
As the artillery fired, a dense burst of lead bullets swept across the open deck of the Anzha ship. Most of the soldiers who were exposing their upper bodies to shoot at the opponent were immediately swept away! Each fallen soldier had at least five or six lead bullets on his body. Only those soldiers who hid behind the female wall were lucky enough to escape!
Then the shells from the artillery deck hit! At close range, every cannonball can penetrate the wooden planks outside the ship and hit the inside of the ship! The rapid cannonballs and the spurting wooden spikes almost turned the inside of the ship building into a hell on earth!
At such a close distance, the cannonball can still penetrate two or three people after penetrating the wooden board, and it may even take three or four people before it loses its power! And those who were lucky enough not to be hit by the cannonballs would be pricked with wooden thorns and drip with blood! The entire first floor of the ship was hit by more than a dozen artillery pieces from the opposite side. Half of the people inside were killed or seriously injured, and half of the remaining people were also injured!
As for the next floor of the ship, the same treatment was given. It was swept by the last artillery fire on the second floor of the cruiser's gun deck! Only the soldiers in the ship on the lowest floor escaped, or because the cruiser only had two gun decks, otherwise they would have suffered the same fate!
At this time, Liu Haojia's flagship had passed by them and was unscathed! But the Anzhai ship on both sides of him has become a hell! There were already cries of mourning inside the three-story ship building including the open-air deck. There were broken limbs and blood dripping everywhere! Especially the drain hole reserved on the open-air deck was filled with blood like a fountain, which was very shocking!
It can be said that under the first round of attacks, these two Anzhai ships have lost most of their combat effectiveness! But this is not the end. The No. 2 cruiser following the flagship has already seen the landing point of the artillery of its companions in front. Therefore, in addition to preparing to use deck guns to continue cleaning the top open deck of the Anzha ship, both artillery decks have received orders. All aim at the other side's ship side and the bottom floor of the ship!
The bombardment of Liu Haojia's flagship had just ended. Liu Haojia immediately ordered: "Immediately signal the No. 2 ship and ask him to go to the right to bypass the Anzha ship in front and focus on attacking the Anzha ship between the two ships! That is their flagship!" "
The ship Liu Haojia was talking about was the flagship where Huashan Jiugao was located, and it was now more than three hundred steps ahead of him! The reason why Liu Haojia was able to recognize it was because Huashan had hung the flag on the mast for a long time! Now that he has brought his neck under the knife edge, Liu Haojia doesn't care about cutting it off!
After the order was conveyed, the No. 2 cruiser had already inserted itself between the two Anzhai ships along Liu Haojia's track. The captain on the No. 2 cruiser had already seen the flagship showing off its might, so he was ready to work harder to defeat them completely!
Soon the three ships staggered each other. At this time, the counterattacks from the two Anzhai ships had become sparse. The feather arrows and lead bullets fired from the ships were more than half of what they were at the beginning, and they were completely inaccurate! It can be seen that the two ships have already fallen into chaos!
As the captain gave the order with a grin, the artillery on the cruiser fired one after another! At such a close distance, the Anzhai ship simply could not withstand the artillery fire, and the bottom deck and ship's side were completely cleaned!
Because the ship's side is made of relatively strong wood, and its thickness has been increased for load-bearing purposes, the damage is not significant, with only a few cracks. However, the wooden boards used for defense on the ground floor were densely covered with large and small holes. Screams could be heard inside, and even the shooting came to a halt!
Seeing that the attack had the desired effect, the captain of the No. 2 cruiser immediately ordered to turn the bow to the right, preparing to flank the ship of Huashan Jiugao with the flagship! But the bad luck he had just hit against the two Anzha ships was not over, because the third cruiser had followed the trajectory of the previous cruiser and rushed between the two ships again!
At this time, the captain of the No. 3 cruiser saw that the sides of the two Anzha ships were almost smashed, and he could not give any deliberate command. He could only order the bottom artillery deck to focus on the sides of the ships.
Let them leak, upper gun deck and deck guns fire freely!
In this way, the two Anzhai ships suffered three rounds of saturation strikes in just ten minutes. More than half of the personnel inside were killed and injured, and they were on the verge of losing their combat capabilities. Fortunately, the helmsman was not hit. Seeing that the situation was not going well, he dodged to the left and right. But this is tantamount to giving up the waterway to the Ming army fleet that is following closely behind, and they will suffer the consequences soon!
Huashan Jiugao, who was on the ship at this time, although he looked very calm on the surface, even standing on the deck was as steady as a rock, but there was already a storm in his heart!
Because although he knew that this kind of Western gunboat was extremely capable in combat, he never expected it to be so powerful! Although he couldn't see the specific situation from a few hundred steps away, he could tell from the trembling hulls and holes in the wooden shields of the two Anzhai ships that they must have been severely damaged!
Moreover, the two ships actually moved out of the way, one to the left and the other to the right. This shows that they have either lost their combat capabilities or their command capabilities! What's even more frightening is that the three huge warships are rushing towards him menacingly!
And he could see clearly that the artillery that had been retracted after firing had been pushed out again! The densely packed gun barrels on both sides told him that he would be the next target!
However, Kaguyama Kugao was still very decisive. After thinking quickly, he loudly ordered: "Go up to them and get close to them! Be prepared to hook them with flying claws. Once you get close, rush to the other side's ship immediately!"
Huashan Jiugao's response has to be said to be very clever, and he can give full play to his own strengths. But in his eagerness, he forgot one problem, that is, Anzhao's mobility was extremely poor. It would not be easy for him to take the initiative to meet it!
Just when his ship put down its oars and prepared to approach Liu Haojia's flagship, he saw the other party lightly turning the rudder and drawing a beautiful arc on the sea in front of his bow, turning his efforts into For nothing!
Just when Liu Haojia's flagship reached the top of the arc, the artillery on the deck fired first, and the dense lead bullets rushed over like a swarm, punching holes in the bodies of all those blocking the way on the open deck!
