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In the movie "Mingliang Sea Battle", Li Sunshin relied on his own boat, and the sailors and monks on the boat seemed to die endlessly. He didn't know how many Japanese boats came to him, and the densely packed Japanese warriors boarded the boat one after another. It was red, but it just didn't come down.

However, the reality is that as long as there are two small boats with bows and jade boats attached, there will be almost a hundred Korean soldiers on board, and the sailors will be unable to stop them. The fleet fought over.

Moreover, the matchlock guns of the Japanese are much more advanced than the Huomen guns of the Korean army. It is really like the square ship of the castle on the sea is close to the range of the artillery, and the rows of Japanese iron gunners on the top of the ship directly shoot down the dense bullets. , Amid the scalp-numbing buzz, Li Chao's archers immediately died in a row.

However, the Japanese have a weapon that makes Mao Jue quite interested. That is the cannonball jade they talk about. Amidst the explosions and roars of soldiers crying for their fathers and mothers, relying on this, the Japanese forcibly made up for the gap in firepower. A dozen cannonballs were thrown onto the wooden boat, and then the warriors with knives in their mouths could go up to harvest.

This thing is simply a primitive grenade.

There are also similar grenadiers in the West. It is estimated that these Japanese also learned from the Dutch and Portuguese they called Nanban. However, Mao Jue had never found this kind of troops in the army sequence of Ming Dynasty.

"Grenade!"

Taking out a small notebook, Mao Jue wrote it down again heavily.

On the battlefield, although the Japanese were brave enough and fearless of death, the whole situation turned for the better towards Li Shanhai. After all, Li Chao's navy had the upper hand here, regardless of the number of people or weapons, and the turtle ship array as the vanguard was already deep. Deeply plunged into the middle army of the Japanese pirate army.

No wonder Yi sun-shin wanted to use turtle boats to fight against Japanese pirates. This boat has no deck, only a roof, which is still covered with iron nails. Japanese big barrels, muskets, bows and arrows clank on it, leaving a mark at most, and jumping off the ship. The Japanese warriors who jumped up couldn't get in either, as if a dog biting a hedgehog had no way to bite, but the turtle boat bumped, and they either fell into the sea, or fell on a nail more than ten centimeters in length, and their hearts were pierced.

With such a tortoise shell, the turtle boat is simply domineering in the Japanese formation. Relying on its own strength, no matter what ship hits it directly, even some old Guan boats are directly smashed by them, and the Japanese pirates above scream Falling into the water, those bow Xiaozao and Paobaoyu Xiaozao were even more shattered when they touched them, and broke when knocked on them. After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the Japanese pirates were almost cut into two pieces, and they were completely surrounded.

However, if the battlefield was so smooth, it would not be called a battlefield.

Just when Mao Jue put down the binoculars and felt that there was nothing to learn, the situation turned again.

Without an open-air deck, the defense is up, but it also means that the vision is worse. The turtle ship has a detection port for looking forward just under the bow. He picked up something and suddenly bumped into his own side. At first, the Li Chao soldiers on the turtle boat didn't care. They wanted to rely on the nails to stick it on as usual, and then smashed the opponent's deck with bronze cannons. Before they could turn around, a terrifying force that could be called barbaric suddenly crowded over.

Amidst the terrified shouts of the Li Chao sailors, the hard shell of the turtle boat cracked and deformed, and then the whole ship tilted heavily from left to right, turned over with a bang, and the sea water instantly held the whole ship's soldiers in place. Among them, it was swallowed in the cold deep sea.

"Antaka boat!"

Beside Mao Jue, the Wenmeng veteran who had participated in the Wanli Korean War put on the awning and shouted solemnly.

This is the disadvantage of lack of investigation. A giant ship about 50 meters long, which is about the same size as Mao Jue's giant ship, and looks like a large Guan ship, took three large ships that were one size smaller than this kind of giant ship and more than [-] meters away from the inland river of Jeju Island. I don’t know when, I also arrived at the center of the battlefield. No wonder it’s called Anzhai Ship. The Japanese almost installed the castle tower on it. The wooden castle is almost two-thirds of the height of Mao Jue’s sail. There are these two palaces as high-end boat houses with pointed eaves, and this thing is actually covered with iron. The black and red iron plates wrap the entire boat in it. Compared with them, the turtle boat seems to be like a small beetle again .

Lacking vision, they didn't even see the flags waving desperately by the commanding ship behind them. Those turtle ships still slammed into several giants, and the ship nails on their bodies collided with the iron armor of the Anzhai ship, and immediately fired with bronze cannons. with.

But before they could pierce through, there was a deafening crash on the top of the head, once, twice, three times, even the iron-clad ship shed could not withstand such a huge force. Amidst the shouts, the boat shed collapsed, and it was also wrapped in steel. The crossbar with spikes rolled over the flesh and blood of countless people, and was pulled up again. Then, the jar of kerosene wrapped in straw was ruthlessly smashed. Throwing it down, the turtle boat without the turtle shell suddenly turned into a sea of ​​flames. The noble generals and untouchable soldiers who were on fire all screamed and jumped into the sea.

A mountain is always higher than a mountain, and the domineering ghost ship crashed into the armored Da'an house, which was even more domineering than them, and all they got was destruction. Once in the Tang Dynasty, when Tang Gaozong attacked Goguryeo and Baekje, the Japanese sent troops to help, 5 Many Japanese troops took advantage of the early hours, and let Liu Rengui thousands of Tang troops use tall building boats and heavy and heinous racket rods to kill a river of blood. In the battle at Baicun Jiangkou, the Japanese country was honest for hundreds of years. , also changed the way they built ships.

During the Warring States period of Japan, during the battle of Oda Nobunaga’s attack on Ishiyama Honganji Temple, the Maori family sailors came to the rescue. The pirate daimyo Kuki Masataka who took refuge in the Oda family built iron on the Da’an house ship, equipped with Western Fran cannons, and used armored houses. The ship defeated the Maori navy that was ravaging the Seto Inland Sea.

These things put the Japanese pirates in front of them together. On the upper floor of the ship building, Fran cannons and iron cannons sprayed wantonly, and Li Chao's wooden boats within a few hundred meters were all affected by it. It was so close that it weighed a thousand catties The nearly one-ton wolf tooth racket smashed down so hard that even the turtle boat had to be smashed to pieces. The appearance of these four giants directly defeated the offensive formation that Li Shanhai broke through in the middle, and the battle situation was quickly reversed. .

"General! Commander Li Chao sent a signal, let us join the attack!"

Putting down the binoculars, Mao Jue lazily rubbed his eyes.

"After all, it's a friendly army. Send an order to hoist the battle flags of this commander and Daming, and then go to the southwest corner!"

Just kidding, aren't you Li Shanhai awesome?Then you continue to carry on, Lao Tzu Mao Jue is not your father, so he will take care of you again. When you are almost exhausted, I will clean up the mess!

Above the head, the fiery red Ming battle flag and the Mao character battle flag flew high again, holding his arms. Mao Jue was thinking happily underneath, but he didn't know that this time, the two flags caused him trouble again. .

"General, Lord General! Those pirates seem to be coming after us!"

Chapter 138. The Era of Cannons and Giant Ships

The corner of Mao Jue's mouth was twitching.

The battlefield is really changing rapidly. Suddenly, the four armored house boats in the middle turned their bows and came towards their own direction. Immediately afterwards, those official ships also turned their direction and came towards them. It was even more exaggerated. Yes, even the youngest Gong Xiaozao gave up the battle with Li Chao's wooden houseboat and rushed to come by himself, mixed in with Li Chao's captive Guanchuan.

Like a huge fist, these Japanese pirates threw themselves at him regardless.

The right-wing Li Chao’s fleet of wooden boats couldn’t be stopped at all, or they didn’t want to stop them, and they deliberately turned to one side. It’s really a turn of events to let the Japanese boats attack Mao Jue. Just now Mao Jue was comfortable watching the excitement, so It was his turn to be unlucky soon, Li Shanhai watched the excitement.

"This bastard!"

Angry and itchy, Wen Meng slammed his fist on the mast, and then quickly ran to the bridge on the rear deck, and gave Mao Jue a military salute with one knee.

"General, let's fight!"

"Challenge ass!"

In the binoculars, Li Shanhai had no intention of chasing after him at all. He seized the time to beat the dog in the water, surrounded the injured and unable to move Japanese boats, and moved closer to the shore. Glancing at the Mao character flag that he hung high, Mao Jue muttered sadly to himself.

"Is my father so hated?"

Taking another look at the Japanese boat pioneer who was almost two miles away, Mao Jue waved his hand angrily.

"Don't be dazed, turn the rudder quickly! Let's retreat to the southwest! Send a signal to Fatty Su, and let him take the Dongjiang boat to retreat to the northwest!"

"General!"

Still a little unwilling, Wen Meng clasped his fist again, but Mao Jue rolled his eyes to the sky.

"Come on, give Wen a sampan and let him serve as cannon fodder for the Koreans!"

All of a sudden, Wenmeng was out of battery.

Needless to say, the boat was rowing fast. In this time, more than a dozen bows were already approaching the stern of the two battleships Heizhu and Baibaihe. At this time, the two battleships turned their heads sharply, and only heard a few crisp sounds. Gong Xiaozao and Paoluo Yuxiaozao were all caused by the shape of the hull to roll onto the side of the ship in waves, smashing into pieces, 100 Many Japanese pirates played fancy swimming sadly, and some of them were rolled under the hull and failed to come up.

Although these battleships are huge in size, they are not heavy at all. Sailor monkeys crawl around like that, and the three masts are adjusted to face the sea wind. They quickly reach a speed of eight knots. Just look at the back, the huge Japanese fleet In an instant, he was left behind, and the small Kobayakawa rowed with all his strength and only had six or seven knots, while the huge armored Anzhai boat was even slower, probably only three or four knots. In the rushing waves, a group of Japanese pirates watched Mao Juefeng Like a man, he floated out.

"Stop chasing, it's useless!"

On the bridge at the stern, Mao Jue held up his binoculars speechlessly, watching the samurai wearing ghost masks yelling and yelling, chasing desperately, paddling the oars like his grandma's legs Well, he turned a blind eye to Li Chaoshui, who was next to him, massacring his own wounded.

"What are you doing? Dogs chasing shit? It's not over yet!"

Putting down the binoculars, he glanced at the flag above his head. Mao Jue hummed sadly, and tilted his head. For some reason, Adelaine pinched her little nose and smiled like a crooked little vixen. Mao Jue's eyes widened in surprise.

"What's so funny?"

After chasing like this for almost half an hour, the battlefield was almost left far behind, and the distance between the two fleets was almost three miles or four miles. The Japanese oarsmen were exhausted, sticking out their tongues. , Seeing that they didn't want to chase, Mao Jue's fleet actually stopped.

In an instant, hope burst out in the eyes, and even the oarsmen seemed to have new strength in waving their whips. Go ahead.

Theoretically, a cannon with an elevation angle of 45 degrees has the longest range. On land, Mao Jue's cannon is about one and a half tons, and the 500-pound Hongyi cannon can hit three to three and a half kilometers. However, there are gun hatches and gun mounts on the ship. The highest can only hit about [-] degrees, that is, [-] meters, three miles.

The distance was almost opened, and the three warships suddenly turned sideways. Above, the heavy anchor was thrown into the sea fiercely. Below, the double-layer gun hatches were slowly pulled up by iron chains. Three ships, 180 doors About three meters in length, the 800-pound Hongyi cannon weighing more than [-] kilograms sticks out their dark barrels ferociously and viciously.

Mao Jue didn't have a dedicated crew yet, so he had to take pictures of all the artillery posts. Three people were in charge of a cannon. The personnel turned the handle in front of the gun body to raise the cannon to the highest elevation angle.

Even if it is not professional, the well-trained Mao Jue army still completed the launch preparation in about 30 seconds.

Mao Jue's cannon has a little new gadget. His muskets are all flintlock guns. Why can't the cannon be equipped with a flintlock device?Different from the traditional way of inserting a matchlock and then igniting the cannon, a trigger is also installed on the top of the cannon. The gunner pulls the trigger for a moment, and it can be effectively fired.