The Anzha ship was first hit by firepower from the highest open-air deck, and it was the deck guns on the open-air deck of the cruiser that attacked them! These deck guns contained double the amount of lead bullets, and these lead bullets were the size of fingernails.
Specially designed for cleaning decks!
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's basically a condescending strafing!
As the artillery fired, a dense burst of lead bullets swept across the open-air deck of the Anzha ship. Most of the soldiers who were exposing their upper bodies to shoot at their opponents were immediately mopped down! Each fallen soldier had at least five or six lead bullets on his body. Only
Those soldiers who hid behind the parapet had a lucky escape!
Then the shells from the artillery deck hit! At close range, each shell could penetrate the wooden planks outside the Anzhai ship and hit the inside of the ship's house! The rapid shells and the spurting wooden spikes almost destroyed the ship's house.
It's become a living hell inside!
At such a close distance, the cannonball can still penetrate two or three people after penetrating the board, and it will even take three or four people to lose its power! And those who are lucky enough not to be hit by the cannonball will be pricked with blood by the wooden thorns! The entire first
The first floor ship building 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 received. 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, and it was because the cruiser only had two artillery decks.
Otherwise they would suffer 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 had become a hell! The three-story ship building, including the open deck, was already filled with mourning, everywhere
The stumps and arms were dripping with blood! Especially the drain hole reserved on the open deck was filled with blood like a fountain, which was very shocking!
It can be said that under the first round of strikes, the two Anzha 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 impact point of the artillery of its companions in front, so in addition to preparing to use
The deck guns continued to clear the open deck on the top of the Anzha ship. Both gun decks received orders to aim all the guns at the other side's side and the lowest deck!
The bombardment of Liu Haojia's flagship had just ended, and Liu Haojia immediately ordered: "Immediately signal the No. 2 ship and ask him to go to the right around the Anzha ship in front and focus on attacking the Anzha ship between the two ships! That is their flagship!"
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The ship Liu Haojia was talking about was Huashan Jiugao's flagship, which was now more than 300 steps in front of him! Liu Haojia was able to recognize it because Huashan Jiugao's flag was still hanging on the mast in a grand manner.
!Since 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 followed Liu Haojia's track and inserted itself between the two Anzha ships. The captain of the No. 2 cruiser had already seen the flagship showing off its power, so he was ready to work harder.
Defeat them completely!
Soon the three ships staggered each other. At this time, the counterattacks of the two Anzhai ships had become sparse. The 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 had already been trapped.
Chaos!
As the captain gave the order with a grin, the cannons on the cruiser fired one after another! At such a close distance, the Anzhai ship could not withstand the artillery blows, and the bottom deck and ship side were completely cleaned!
Because the ship's side is made of relatively strong wood, and the thickness is increased for load-bearing, the damage is not large, only a few breaks. However, the wooden boards used for defense on the bottom layer are densely covered with large and small breaks.
, the screams inside were endless, 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 attack Kutaka Kaguyama's ship with the flagship! But he had just attacked two Anzha ships.
The misfortune 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 cruiser No. 3 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 so that they would leak, and the upper decks would
Gun deck and deck gun free fire!
In this way, the two Anzha ships were hit by three rounds of saturation attacks in just ten minutes. More than half of the personnel inside were killed and injured, and they were close to losing their combat capabilities. Fortunately, the helmsmen were not hit. They were unable to see the situation.
The best thing to do is to dodge to the left and right. But this is tantamount to giving up the channel 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 stable as a rock, but there was already a storm in his heart!
Because although he knew that this kind of Western gunboat had extremely strong combat capabilities, he never expected it to be so strong! Although he couldn't see the specific situation from a few hundred steps away, he could see from the shaking hulls of the two Anzha ships.
You can tell from the cracks in the wooden shield that it must have been severely damaged!
Moreover, the two ships actually moved out of the waterway, one to the left and the other to the right, which meant that they had either lost their combat capabilities or their command capabilities! What was even more frightening was that the three huge warships were charging towards him menacingly.
come over!
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 the next target of the attack would be him!
However, Huashan Jiugao was still very decisive. He thought quickly and then 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 opponent's ship immediately!"
It must be said that Huashan Jiugao's response was very clever, and he was able to give full play to his own strengths. However, in his eagerness, he forgot one problem, that is, Anzhahuan's mobility is extremely poor, and 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 a
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!