Chapter 510: Decisive Battle
"Island Master, this time all 64 warships loaded with artillery from Wufeng Island are dispatched, and the Black Shark pirates are doomed. Read М"
On the vast ocean, a huge fleet is slowly moving westward.
Among the many warships, the leading warship is particularly large, almost twice the size of the other warships.
At this moment, Wufeng Island Master Lu Zheng and Deputy Island Master Hua Chen are on this warship.
Lu Zheng nodded.
There are more than 300 warships of all sizes on Wufeng Island, but he only brought 64.
It's not that he is arrogant, but there are no artillery on other warships.
He knows very well that warships with artillery facing warships without artillery are basically the same as sending themselves to death.
"Don't underestimate the enemy." Lu Zheng looked serious.
Originally, he just disdained this Black Shark pirate.
Even if he knew that the Black Shark pirates sank all the Beidi warships, he didn't pay much attention to it.
After all, this is something that the Wufeng Island pirates can do.
But it was not until Huachen went to Beidi and Ulanba described the warships of the Black Shark Pirates to him that he began to take it seriously.
Because what Ulanba said was very similar to the sailing warships of the Portuguese in Yizhou.
For this reason, he mobilized all the warships loaded with artillery.
For him, this problem is very serious.
If the Black Shark Pirates continue to grow and more and more warships are coming, their Wufeng Island will be defeated step by step and eventually lose control of the sea.
Therefore, before the Black Shark Pirates grow stronger, he must completely kill the Black Shark Pirates when they are still seedlings.
Then focus on controlling the Yanzhou waters and not give the Black Shark Pirates the opportunity to go out to sea.
"Is there really a missionary from Europe around this King of Yan?" Lu Zheng murmured.
Otherwise, how to explain the warships of the Black Shark Pirates.
Or is it that a certain country in Europe secretly supports the King of Yan?
After all, Europe is not a monolithic entity, and they will fight each other.
Dongying currently has the support of Britain.
It is possible that other countries will not make trouble for Japan and Britain.
After thinking for a while, he really couldn't figure out this connection. He shook his head and just looked at the sea in the distance.
Waiting for the next war.
Since the battle with the Portuguese, forcing the Portuguese to split Iju into two, their Wufeng Island has never experienced such a big naval battle.
This time, the Goryeo Navy attacked Chrysanthemum Island to contain some of the warships of the Black Shark Pirates.
He hoped that this plan would go smoothly.
In this way, the warships of the Black Shark Pirates could be destroyed one by one.
Sailed west for another half an hour.
The soldiers standing in the small pavilion of the warship suddenly shouted.
Lu Zheng looked to the west and saw some black spots on the sea in front.
The black spots gradually became larger, and he saw the fluttering sails.
"The Black Shark pirates are coming!" Hua Chen's eyes flashed with a hint of ferocity, "Island Master, it's time to destroy the Black Shark pirates."
"Prepare for battle, divide the fleet into three routes, one route to encircle from the left, one route to encircle from the right, and the middle one will follow me to fight!" Lu Zheng instantly tensed up and gave orders one after another.
Upon hearing this, Hua Chen immediately asked the soldiers to raise three flags.
This is how they convey military orders.
Then the sixty-four warships separated and formed three routes to approach forward.
At this moment.
Zhou Yi was also on the flagship. Through the telescope, he could observe the warships of Wufeng Island more clearly.
Gong Ying also held a telescope and looked forward.
"It's very similar to the building ship, but it's different." Gong Ying said.
The warships of Wufeng Island are like a wooden box with a base.
There is also a small pavilion on the wooden box, similar to their observation tower.
In addition to the hard sails hanging in the front, middle and back, there are also oars sliding below.
But even so, their speed is very slow.
"This is called a Pingzhai ship." Zhou Yi put down the telescope and had a plan in mind.
"How did the general know?" Gong Ying was a little surprised, but he had never seen this kind of ship.
"My father told me." Zhou Yi said.
His father once saved a Japanese merchant at sea in his early years.
At that time, Japan was still in the era of war between feudal lords.
Because he was a general in the navy, his father asked about the warships of Japan.
The Japanese merchant then talked about this Pingzhai ship.
However, in his father's view, this Pingzhai ship was just a building ship with wooden boards enclosed on all sides.
In this way, Japanese soldiers could use iron cannons to shoot outward through the holes in the wooden boards.
This iron cannon is also a matchlock gun.
However, this happened decades ago.
Since there are cannons on the warships of the Wufeng pirates.
Then this Pingzhai ship may have been modified again.
But even so, this Pingzhai ship, which was built only for offshore combat, is still far behind them on the sea.
This can be seen from the shaking amplitude of the Pingzhai ship in the waves.
Now, the warships of Wufeng Island are basically swaying left and right.
This greatly affects the use of artillery.
However, the swing of their warships is very small, and basically will not be affected too much.
"Divide into two routes, east and west, and use the speed of our warships to counterattack them." Zhou Yi ordered.
Since we have encountered them, we must fight this battle to test the depth of the Wufeng pirates.
At worst, if they are defeated, they can also retreat, no longer fight a decisive battle with Wufeng Island, but fight guerrilla warfare at sea and defeat them one by one.
After the order was issued, the crew immediately moved.
The three sails were hoisted high, and under the blowing of the sea breeze, the soft sails swelled up like half a watermelon.
The wind immediately increased the speed of the warships, and they quickly approached the Wufeng Island fleet.
In less than half an hour, the distance between the warships of the two sides was less than 500 meters.
Zhou Yi and his team successfully launched a counter-encirclement, encircling the Wufeng Island warships.
In order to prevent themselves from being outflanked, the warships of the Wufeng Island pirates also tried to launch a counter-encirclement.
Their warships were ultimately unable to keep up, and they only lengthened their own team.
"Prepare for artillery fire." After successfully encircling the Wufeng pirates, the warships began to turn their sides to face the Wufeng pirates' warships.
The distance between the two sides was also constantly shortened at this time.
From 500 meters to 400 meters, and then to 300 meters.
"Boom boom boom..." At this time, a flat-house ship of the Wufeng pirates first opened the shutter on the muzzle.
Four cannons were extended from the side and began to shoot.
Then other flat-house ships also opened the shutters, revealing the muzzles inside.
However, because they were outflanked, most of the flat-house ships were squeezed in the middle, and only the warships on the outside could shoot.
But there were too few cannons on their warships, and each warship was far apart, so the shells were sparse.
However, some shells still hit Zhou Yi's warship.
"Bang!" A shell hit the mast, and the mast shook violently, and the place hit by the shell was slightly concave.
"The power of their cannons is average." Zhou Yi walked over to check.
If their shells were concentrated on the mast at this distance, the mast would basically break directly.
Zhou Yi had a plan for the Wufeng Island warship, and said: "Attack, even if only one ship is left, the Wufeng pirates must be annihilated!
His order was issued, and the sea surface seemed to shake for a moment.
The muzzles on the side of each sailing warship were exposed, and dozens of cannons fired at the same time.