Huashan Jiugao was still standing upright on the bow of the ship before the cannon was fired, but as soon as the cannon was fired, he was thrown to the ground, and he made absolutely no movement to struggle, and he did not look like a samurai at all!
Just when he fell to the ground, the crackle of lead bullets embedded in the wooden boards and the screams of the soldiers sounded almost simultaneously! Huashan Jiugao, who was lying on the ground, turned his head hard and saw that more than half of the twenty soldiers on the open deck had fallen down. Half of them were motionless and should be dead. The rest were still squirming and struggling in a pool of blood. !
Then he heard the sound of cannons not far away, and then he felt the hull of the ship shaking! He knew that this was the opponent's ship bombarding the ship tower at his feet. And he was lying on the ground, and he could clearly hear the faint screams and cries of the soldiers in the ship building below him!
Hearing this series of screams, Huashan Jiugao was heartbroken! Because this time he brought all elite soldiers and generals, especially his own ship, which was loaded with the elite forces of the Huashan family! Such large-scale casualties will severely damage your family's vitality, and may even make you unable to recover!
However, it rained all night. Just when he heard that the shelling had stopped and wanted to struggle to get up, the person on his back said loudly: "General, you must not get up now!" The second Chinese warship is approaching!"
However, Huashan Jiugao still felt that lying on the ground was really beneath the dignity of the general, so he struggled to sit up, leaned against the side of the ship and looked out!
I saw a huge warship on my right heading towards my starboard side! He knew that the right side of his ship that had not been hit was about to be bombarded! Then he also saw a third cruiser not far away approaching from the left side of his ship.
Fortunately, he was still conscious, and with the help of the samurai, he leaned over to the right side of the ship. If he had stayed on the left side, he would most likely have been hit by the shotgun blasts sweeping the deck from the right side! And it was foreseeable that after the opponent finished shooting at him, he would have to crawl back to the left to avoid the third round of attacks!
After all this torment, Huashan Jiugao felt that all his dignity as a warrior was gone! And what's worse than losing his samurai dignity is that he has already foreseen the failure of this naval battle!
He knew that as long as these three large ships cut back and forth in his fleet a few times, they would cut his formation into chaos, and at the same time, the dense artillery would cause great damage to the people on board! Then they will be at a disadvantage when they compete with other Ming ships!
And it doesn't matter that he failed, but he ruined all the elite members of the Shimazu family's navy. This was an unforgivable mistake, and he could only compensate for it by committing seppuku!
While he was thinking wildly, the second cruiser had already approached and started shelling his ship! Still in the same order, first use shotgun shells to clear the open deck, and then continue to attack others!
The soldiers still alive on the open deck had already obediently hid behind the side of the ship, so this round of shotguns did not cause any damage. It just killed all the dying soldiers on the deck!
But the situation in the ship building is different! After Liu Haojia's flagship left, the soldiers who came out were busy rescuing the wounded. Some of those brave soldiers were trying to find the enemy to fight back. So when the second cruiser came over from the other side, most of the soldiers who came out didn't know what to do. I don’t know that death is approaching!
Only when the shells hit the hull of the ship and then penetrated the wooden planks into the crowd did they know that another ship was approaching!
This round of shelling caused great damage to the soldiers in the ship building, causing the soldiers to fall into complete chaos! The samurai who came out to command had his right arm blown away by the shells during the first round of shelling. He was already struggling to death and was unable to issue any instructions. He could only watch the soldiers being beaten into pieces by the shells in the chaos!
Then the third round of bombardment came as scheduled, once again scanning Huashan Jiu's ship from beginning to end! Now the inside of the ship building can be described as a flesh and blood slaughterhouse!
Because there were few artillery in the Japanese country, someone who could use a bowl-mouth blunderbuss would be considered powerful and wealthy. Therefore, the Anzhai ship equipped with wooden planks was considered to be thickly armored and difficult to break in the Japanese country, but it could not stop the attack of close-range artillery! Therefore, the attacks of the three cruisers alone severely damaged three of the Shimadzu family's main anchor ships and slightly damaged two!
Although there were still several Anzha ships on the sea undamaged, the blow to their morale was truly unparalleled! In the mind of the samurai, Anzhaifune, who was like a fortress, was beaten like a toy by the opponent, with holes all over his body. He had no power to fight back. No matter how he looked at it, there was no hope of winning this battle!
At this time, Huashan Jiugao had already stood up from the deck. He shouted loudly to the people who were still alive around him: "Hurry up and order the people behind to entangle those three ships! The other side only has three such large ships. As long as you entangle them, Not to mention several times the number of other enemies!"
After hearing his order, the frightened soldiers calmed down a lot and immediately passed the order on through drums and trumpets. Moreover, this order was the same as the task assigned in advance, so no one objected.
At this time, Liu Haojia's flagship had already rushed far away and was about to pass through the opponent's battle line. At this time, seven or eight Guan boats and the same number of small morning boats had rushed up!
Although this new type of warship has an absolute advantage against Anzha ships, it is not that effective against the fast-moving Seki ships and Kozabune ships, because their speed is really fast! Coupled with the impressive hit rate of the current smoothbore cannon, it really can't cause much damage! However, two consecutive rounds of shooting from the cruiser drove away the rushing ship.
At this time, the squadron behind him had formed a column, followed their track and rushed in, cutting the Shimadzu fleet in half in one fell swoop! The fleet rolled to the left at the same time, intending to compress the Japanese's maneuvering space. The evil Japanese fought back, and the entire battlefield quickly entered a white-hot stage!
Bows, arrows, crossbows, iron cannons, and muskets were constantly shooting at each other between the two sides, and the artillery roared, spitting lead bullets and fire! Smoke began to fill the battlefield!
After the exchange of fire, the Shimazu fleet tried its best to expand to both wings, not giving the Ming fleet a chance to surround them, so the battle lines of both sides quickly formed an overlapping U-shape. Moreover, the tactics of both fleets are very similar, which is to attack the opponent from a distance as much as possible first, and strive to severely damage the opponent before getting close, and then the end of the fight will probably be a boarding battle!
