While cutting off the flying claws, the sailors on the ship also fired firecrackers and crossbow arrows downwards to block the Japanese soldiers from climbing! But even so, the Japanese soldiers were still brave enough to follow the rope and try to climb onto the boat! However, the turbulence of the ship and the dense plumes of lead bullets caused the climbing Japanese soldiers to fall like raindrops!
Liu Haojia saw that the two cruisers could still cope with it and still struggled to rush out, so he reluctantly relaxed! However, he has made up his mind that more of this new type of warship will be produced in the future. Only three cruisers will not be able to exert their combat effectiveness at all!
However, he was worried about the cost of building such a new ship! Just the copper used to cast the cannon alone knows how much it costs! Including boats and accessories, the number is huge! But in order to open up sea routes in the future, the money that should be spent still needs to be spent!
Thinking of this, Liu Haojia turned his head and looked at the battlefield. At this time, both sides on the battlefield were completely crazy! Especially the Japanese are extremely crazy! After all, his flagship was set on fire, how could he not be crazy!
At this time, the most intense battle on the battlefield was the Ming fleet, led by Ling Ling and Zhang Zhiyong. Therefore, the fighting styles of the two squadrons are very different!
Li Wenliang took advantage of the large number of firearms on his own ship to move forward steadily. He arranged his ships to form a team of two or three, covering each other, trying to keep a certain distance from the Japanese, and using the advantage of firearms to continuously weaken his opponents!
And occasionally they would organize a few ships to launch a counterattack, surround one or two ships, beat them severely, and then set the ships on fire when they retreated! In a short period of time, one or two enemy ships can return to the battle line, which is quite like a general!
And Zhang Zhiyong is in another state. Although this person is arrogant in his words, he is extremely brave in fighting! Basically, they were fighting head-on with the Japanese!
The number of large ships on both sides was almost the same, but the Ming army suffered a disadvantage because it had no way to carry small ships on long voyages, so it always had to face two or three times the siege of ships. Zhang Zhiyong, on the other hand, took advantage of the high freeboard of his own ship and deliberately slowed down to lure the Japanese to attack! Then when the Japanese climb up and attack, they keep killing their opponents!
Moreover, this guy is so fierce that when he gets excited, he actually uses himself as bait! He led his fleet to forcibly break into the battle group and surrounded an Anzha ship and fought fiercely. The Japanese were expecting them to approach, and when they saw him approaching, a large number of flying claws immediately threw them over and held his ship firmly!
Those Japanese people were so happy that they never imagined that this was Zhang Zhiyong's plan! After the two ships got closer, the Anzhai ship lowered its wooden shield and boarded Zhang Zhiyong's ship. Immediately, more than a dozen samurai and soldiers rushed onto the ship, but Zhang Zhiyong and his men chopped them to pieces and attacked the Anzhai ship instead!
It turned out that Zhang Zhiyong actually ordered all the soldiers on board to wear armor, and he himself and more than ten soldiers were wearing heavy armor! Therefore, in hand-to-hand combat, he naturally has the upper hand!
Seeing that the two ships were connected, the other Japanese started a boarding battle that they knew they were good at. Naturally, they moved closer to the rear of the Anzha ship and mobilized their men and horses to the ship. Naturally, Zhang Zhiyong also had a large number of sailors boarding the ship to fight, so the Anzhai ship had become a place of flesh and blood strewn with corpses! If Zhang Zhiyong hadn't often thrown corpses into the sea, there wouldn't even be a place to set foot!
However, Zhang Zhiyong was not a simple warrior. When he attracted a large number of Japanese, his fleet followed his instructions and bombarded the reinforcing Japanese ships from the periphery! He first used artillery to clear the decks and then set fire to the ships. There were no less than twenty ships of various sizes burned by him! Therefore, in the entire battlefield, Zhang Zhiyong's victory was the most successful, but his own family also suffered the most casualties!
At this time, the sound of cannons was rumbling on the battlefield, and the sound of firecrackers and iron cannons was continuous! The black smoke produced by the burning ships hovered above the sea, and then mixed with the smoke of gunpowder, making the entire battlefield look like heavy fog!
But it seems that Liu Haojia still has the upper hand! Now we have lost seven or eight ships, and the Japanese have lost at least four times our own!
At this time, the other two Zhangjia ships had escaped the siege of the Japanese and were catching up. Although the hulls were mottled and bruised, it seemed that the losses were not great! However, there was a dark spot on the No. 3 cruiser. It seemed that it had been set on fire!
Seeing this scene, Liu Haojia was also secretly frightened! If the Japanese hadn't carelessly chosen one this time,
Fighting on the open sea, your own cruiser is really in danger of being surrounded and killed!
It should be noted that at this time, all the ships of the Ming army and the Japanese were sailing galleys. A major feature of these sailing galleys was their extremely fast acceleration and steering in a short period of time! However, the new cruiser has no oars and relies entirely on wind power to move.
Although the speed after catching the wind is much faster than that of the sailing boat, it is not as flexible as the sailing boat when turning and accelerating in a short period of time! If you are intercepted in a narrow area, it is likely to be a situation of being besieged!
In the near future, the great sea merchant Zheng Yiguan won the battle with the Westerners by luring them into the bay, using the terrain to limit the maneuverability of the sail warships, and then besieging them with small boats to defeat them!
Thinking of this, Liu Haojia wrote down this idea and ordered the fleet to turn around again and rush to the battlefield. But this time he did not dare to get close to the center of the battlefield, because there were twenty or thirty Japanese ships of various sizes gathered next to Huashan Jiugao's ship. Soldiers kept rushing on board to help put out the fire, but with little effect. After all, it was refined kerosene, not an ordinary product.
So Liu Haojia cut through from the outside and used the artillery on the lower level to bombard the opponent's ships, and the artillery and deck guns on the upper level were loaded with shotguns to kill the personnel! Along the way, the artillery fire from the three cruisers continued, inflicting serious wounds on the ships that were busy with the rescue!
Just as they were circling the center of the battlefield, the news that Huashan Jiugao Formation was busy finally spread among the Japanese! Now their already low morale completely collapsed! Some ration ships that had been on the periphery and had not participated in the battle took the lead in retreating. But their retreat got off to a bad start. Some Japanese ships that had been discouraged also began to retreat when they saw this!
Liu Haojia was overjoyed when he saw this. He hurriedly ordered people to blow drums and flags and ordered a full-scale counterattack. At the same time, he asked everyone to leave as many Japanese ships as possible! And sent two other patrol ships to reinforce the pirates.
At this time, the soldiers of the Ming army had already noticed that the Japanese were not very willing to fight. Their morale was even higher when they heard their general's order for a full-scale counterattack. Even loading the artillery was faster! However, it didn't matter that the Ming army returned to attack, but they stopped the ships on the battlefield that could not be evacuated!
