Chapter 970 Afterglow of the Empire (26)

【Anchor into the sea, fix the battleship】

[Concentrate all kinds of naval guns and bombard the Japanese ships]

Before evening, Yi Sun-shin, who had completely met with the navy who had come to aid the Japanese army, issued two simple orders.

Although he is the general of Li Chao's fleet, through contact and learning, he is well versed in how to give full play to the advantages of the Ming army's warships and choose to stop the ships for combat.

First, the ships of the Ming army stopped advancing at extreme speed and stopped, which would increase the hit rate.

Second, it can attract more Japanese troops to attack the big ships and relieve the pressure on the relatively defective domestic warships.

The latter is not a way for him to preserve his own strength by deliberately sacrificing Ming army sailors.

You must know that the battle line is composed of allied forces. If the weak point is broken through, no matter how well the Ming army fights, it will not be of much use. He has to buy more time to attack Suncheon Wacheng and wipe out the besieged enemies.

In this regard, the veteran general Deng Zilong readily agreed.

After all, his combat experience is no less than that of Yi Sun-shin, and he can tell at a glance whether the enemy is good or bad. Whether it is climbing or shooting with small-caliber iron cannons, the Japanese army is always on the side of a feint attack. .

Sure enough, the large ship that stopped suddenly successfully attracted the Japanese navy to attack. This group of guys from Kanto who had not experienced too many water battles swarmed like ants smelling honey.

Then, a lesson was learned.

A considerable number of them were sunk by artillery fire on the way.

But in the end, he has never suffered a big loss. In addition, the battle situation in Shuntian is urgent, and more and more warships are rushing over, showing indomitable spirit.

After approaching, a large number of iron artillerymen stood on the deck and fired round after round at the nearby Ming warship.

The projectiles were like rain, and there were a few cannon shots mixed in during the period, but unfortunately they were only embedded in the hull.

At this time, Yi Sun-shin issued the third combat order without haste:

Combatants who can go to the deck, each with a three-eyed gun, crawled under the cards on both sides of the ship's side and waited.

The Kwantung Navy approached and fired for a while, and found that although their own iron cannons could not cause damage to the hull, they could drive away the Ming army standing on the deck.

Don't miss this opportunity!

The captains of each fleet made a decision in unison, and immediately arranged nearly a thousand Japanese pirates to board hidden boats and march towards the Ming army's fortress-like large ship.

Then... this group of guys who were not familiar with warfare were ambitious and climbed onto the side of the ship. As soon as they got up, they heard the sound of gunfire.

After firing three rounds, the three-eyed blunderbuss in his hand directly turned into a big hammer, smashing the first wave of Japanese soldiers who were already defenseless into the sea.

After the end of the wave, the well-trained navy soldiers quickly lowered their bodies to avoid the next burst of bullets from a distance.

This method of warfare is really simple, but the Japanese people's firearms are not good, and the warships are almost all short, so they can only stare blankly and cannot be cracked at all.

Because the bright ship is very high, and Japan has subconsciously cultivated a set of tactics called jumping ship attack for nearly a hundred years, but it is useless, and what is the use? Climbing up is the three-eyed blunderbuss, lightly pulling the trigger, or hitting hard, and the Japanese pirates who have gone through all kinds of hardships will go to see the Rizhao God.

After a few rounds, more than a thousand Japanese soldiers who tried to board the ship all fell into the sea, some of them died in Huangquan, and some died soon as time went by.

In the end, a battle situation similar to a stew was formed.

You have me I have you.

On the outskirts of the battle group, the coalition forces with superior forces pursued and fought fiercely around the Japanese, trying to open up the situation and make them unable to support westward.

Inside, a group of Japanese warships broke in and attacked the fleet of Yi Sun-sin and Deng Zilong without any casualties.

Through information gaps and equipment generation gaps, the coalition forces have gradually gained and expanded their advantages.

Why did such a crazy attack with an absolute superiority in force have no effect at all?

The iron cannon can't move.

What should the samurai do if he can't climb up?

The Japanese are at a loss from top to bottom.

Only Deng Zilong knew that the old general felt that he had lost the mulberry in the east, and that he was not able to go ashore to fight, but in the end he was able to fight fiercely at sea, and enjoy it again!

At this moment, he successfully repelled the siege again, and turned his head to look:

A fleet of large ships approached very stealthily behind.

Deng Zilong was overjoyed immediately, and urged Li Sunchen to give an order. Afterwards, the fleet pulled anchor one after another, and all of them withdrew from the deck.

do not fight?

what happened?

The Japanese army repeatedly encountered things beyond their inherent cognition, and their minds were a little confused for a short time. In fact, this was not a fight, but the trump card of the Ming army navy.

On those large ships that suddenly came up, the soldiers were all wearing heavy armor and holding strange objects in their hands. This was a large copper cylinder with a mouth in the front and a push handle at the back. When Lu Li saw them for the first time, he felt that they were very strange. Like the original squirt gun.

In Daming, they have an official name:

Spray can.

The principle is the same as Lu Li's cognition, it just sprays something out, but it's not water, but fire oil.

When he saw this thing for the first time, Lu Li couldn't help feeling that the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were indeed full of whimsy and whimsy, obviously already having the shadow of modern weapons.

Why would it be reversed and invaded by various countries hundreds of years later? The question is worth pondering.

Fierce fire oil tank, that is, a large copper cabinet, inside which are placed several straight tubes, with oil filling holes on the side and pistons pushed in from the rear.

Therefore, its working principle is very simple. Add fuel oil along the oil injection hole, and then push the piston, and the combustion-supporting liquid will be sprayed out along the straight cylinder.

At the front end, there is a part called the medicine building. When a liquid passes through it, the thrust will ignite the gunpowder, so that the fire oil becomes a jet of flame.

Based on this principle, the Ming army developed a series of spray guns, some large, some portable, not limited to spraying flames, but also capable of shooting poisonous gas, or both.

It is true that the Japanese are short-sighted, and it was also the first expedition of the Daming Navy to the peninsula, so they didn't know anything about it, but in just one confrontation, they have suffered so much, and now they see such a scene——

Strange objects appear.

The soldiers on the entire deck all died down.

The generals of the Japanese army couldn't help being suspicious, and they didn't dare to step forward, for fear that the coalition forces would show some new tricks.

Just when this group of people were in doubt, the Pyro rushed forward without any hesitation. They had nothing to worry about.

On the high deck, one after another fire dragons condescended to spray all the nearby enemy ships. Even if the priests who accompanied the army could change the sky, they could not respond in a short time.

Besides, the fierce fire oil does not consume any national luck, is it all sprayed out? Short body hides under the playing card, just continue to fill a large bucket, and the cycle repeats.

Besides, the Japanese have priests, so there is no Taoist from Longhushan on the side of the Ming army?

Escorting them all the way and confronting the priest from a distance formed a kind of tacit understanding.