While cutting off the flying claws, the sailors on the ship kept firing firecrackers and crossbow arrows downward to block the Japanese soldiers from climbing! But even so, the Japanese soldiers continued to follow the rope without fear of death.
I tried to climb onto the boat! However, due to the bumps of the boat and the dense plumes of lead bullets and arrows, the climbing Japanese soldiers fell like raindrops!
Liu Haojia saw that the two cruisers could still cope with it and still struggled to rush out. He reluctantly relaxed! However, he had already made up his mind. In the future, more of this new type of warship would be produced, and only three of them would be produced.
The cruiser is completely unable to exert its combat effectiveness!
However, he was worried about the cost of building such a new ship! Just the copper used to cast the cannons alone would cost a lot! Taking into account the ships and accessories, it was a big number! But in order to open up sea routes in the future, this amount of money would still have to be spent.
Flower!
Thinking of this, Liu Haojia turned to look at the battlefield. At this time, both sides on the battlefield were completely crazy! Especially the Japanese were extremely crazy! After all, their own flagship was set on fire, how could they not be crazy!
At this time, the most intense fighting on the battlefield was the Ming fleet, led by Ling Ling and Zhang Zhiyong respectively. Therefore, the fighting styles of the two squadrons were very different!
Li Wenliang took advantage of the large number of firearms on his own ship and worked steadily. He arranged his ships to form a team of two or three to cover each other and cover each other. He tried to keep a certain distance from the Japanese and used 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 hard, and then set the ships on fire when they retreated! In a short period of time, one or two enemy ships would return to the battle line, which is quite like a general.
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And Zhang Zhiyong is in another state. Although this person is arrogant when talking, he is extremely brave when fighting! Basically, he fights head-on with the Japanese!
The number of large ships on both sides was almost the same, but the Ming army suffered the disadvantage of not being able 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 ships and deliberately slowed down to lure them.
Let the Japanese attack! Then keep killing the opponent while the Japanese climb up and attack!
Moreover, this guy was so fierce that when he got excited, he actually used himself as bait! He led his fleet to forcefully break into the battle group and surrounded an Anzha ship. The Japanese were expecting them to approach. When they saw him approaching, a large number of them immediately
His flying claws were thrown over to hold 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, a dozen samurai and soldiers rushed onto the ship, but were
Zhang Zhiyong led his men to cut down everything, but instead attacked the Anzhai ship!
It turned out that Zhang Zhiyong actually ordered all the soldiers on board to wear armor, and he and more than ten soldiers were all wearing heavy armor! Therefore, he naturally had the upper hand in hand-to-hand combat!
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 Anzhai ship and mobilized their men and horses to get on board. Naturally, Zhang Zhiyong also had a large number of sailors boarding the ship to fight, so the Anzhai ship had become a
It’s a land 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 reinforcements of Japanese ships from the periphery! They first used artillery to clear the decks and then set them on fire.
Ships, there were no less than 20 ships, large and small, burned by him! So among the entire battlefield, Zhang Zhiyong's victory was the most successful, but he also suffered the most casualties!
At this time, the sound of artillery 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 a heavy fog!
However, it seems that Liu Haojia still has the upper hand! Now his own shipyard has lost seven or eight ships, and the Japanese's losses are at least four times that of his own!
At this time, the other two Zhangjia ships had already escaped the siege of the Japanese and were catching up. Although the hull was mottled and bruised, it seemed that the damage was not great! However, there was a dark spot on the No. 3 cruiser, which seemed to have been damaged by someone.
Arson!
Seeing this scene, Liu Haojia was also secretly frightened! If the Japanese hadn't carelessly chosen an open sea to fight this time, his own cruiser would have been 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 boats. One of the characteristics of these sailing boats was their extremely fast acceleration and steering in a short period of time! However, the new cruisers did not have oars, and their movements relied entirely on wind power.
Although the speed of the sailboat is much higher than that of the sailboat after getting the wind, it is not as flexible as the sailboat when turning and accelerating in a short period of time! If it is 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. He lured them into the bay, used the terrain to limit the maneuverability of the sail warships, and then besieged them with small boats to defeat them!
Thinking of this, Liu Haojia wrote down this idea and ordered the fleet to turn around and rush to the battlefield again. However, this time he did not dare to approach the center of the battlefield again, because Huashan Jiugao's ship was surrounded by large and small people.
There were thirty Japanese ships, and soldiers rushed on board to help put out the fire, but with little success. After all, it was refined kerosene, not ordinary goods.
So Liu Haojia cut through from the periphery and used the artillery on the lower deck to bombard the opponent's ships, while the artillery and deck guns on the upper deck were loaded with shotguns to kill the personnel! Along the way, the artillery of the three cruisers fired continuously, leaving many wounds on the ships that were busy with the rescue!
Just as they circled around the center of the battlefield, the news that Huashan Jiugao Formation was busy finally spread among the Japanese! Now their low morale completely collapsed! Some who had been on the periphery and did not participate in the battle
The ration ship 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, and hurriedly ordered people to blow drums and flags and order a full-scale counterattack. At the same time, he asked everyone to leave as many Japanese ships as possible! He also 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. When they heard the order from their general to counterattack in an all-out way, their morale was even higher. Even loading the artillery was faster! However, it didn't matter if the Ming army returned to attack.
The ships that could not be evacuated were blocked!