The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 340 Decisive Battle in the Country of Sakura (13)

When the hull of Yamamoto exploded, a large number of ships of the Ming army and Japanese ships were already within 50 meters, or even 30 meters.

The guns of both sides are bombarding each other.

This is the most exciting and exciting battle of naval battles.

The navies of European countries usually call it "platooning guns".

The warships of the two sides approached and bombarded each other with artillery, to see who had the thickest armor, who had the most powerful guns, and who was lucky.

Bang, bang, bang, countless shells were flying in the air, and the artillery of both sides sometimes hit each other.

But it is obvious that the Ming army has more ship guns and is more effective.

Usually after a round of confrontation, the Ming army was hit by two or three shots at most, while the Japanese ship may be hit by five or six or even seven or eight shots.

Xilao was directly facing a small Japanese boat of [-] materials, and a volley of artillery fired with a bang, and at close range, seven or eight artillery pieces directly hit the small boat, almost breaking the boat.

His hull was also shaken violently, and he was hit twice by the opponent.

All warships have compartments, so as long as they don't hit vital points, only one compartment will be flooded, and it won't affect the entire warship.

"It's okay, it's okay, you can continue to fight." The person in charge of the inspection reported to Xi Lao Jing.

At the same time, someone suddenly shouted: "It's posted, it's posted."

It turned out that there was a [-] material ship of the Japanese army. After firing a row of guns on the left wing of Xilao, it accelerated and rushed up, and actually wanted to catch the string.

The ship of Xilaojing is a converted merchant ship of [-] materials, and it is also one of the largest ships on site.

Ding Yi only had four merchant ships with materials of [-] materials in total, two of which belonged to Shen Shikui, one was built by Zheng Zhilong for him, and one was bought in Songjiang.

Matsumoto He, the commander of the Japanese Kanda, saw that Xilaojing's ship was the largest, and decided to take over the ship.

He saw the opportunity and waited for Sirao to finish a row of shelling, so he immediately ordered to speed up and hit him before the opponent fired a second time.

Passing by the ship hit by the Ming army, I saw the Japanese soldiers on it crying desperately. Many people ran to the bow of the ship, waved to them, and signaled to save them.

Others saw that the ship might be falling apart and jumped into the sea.

"My lord?" A subordinate Matsumoto asked whether he could save him or not.

"Leave them alone, move forward at full speed, and take over the Ming army." Matsumoto He wanted to seize the ship, regardless of the casualties of his own people.

But right now.

Boom, suddenly the ship next to it made a loud noise and exploded on the spot.

The originally fragile hull was almost shattered in an instant.

"Damn it, hit their gunpowder?" Matsumoto just had this thought.

Boom, boom, there were explosions everywhere on the sea, and seven explosions sounded successively.

He turned his head and looked around in horror, and found that they were all their own boats. The bigger boats were okay, but the smaller boats were directly torn to pieces.

The soaring fire burned on the Japanese ship, and screams and cries were everywhere on the sea.

In a confrontation with the Ming army just now, seven of the Ming army's fuzed shells exploded, severely damaging many Japanese warships.

Matsumoto's ship was slightly affected by the explosion, but continued to rush forward.

He is a famous naval officer who can fight well, and the timing of the cut is very good, and the angle of the cut is even better.

At this time, the position of their bow is 45 degrees to the bow of the Xilaojing ship, just avoiding the range of the left and right wing artillery of the Xilaojing ship.

Silao was also quick to discover his motives.

He looked around and immediately ordered: "Turn left 120 degrees."

He was going to aim the guns on the right flank at Matsumoto.

His gun on the left wing had just finished firing and was loading, while the gun on his right wing hadn't fired yet.

Matsumoto saw that the hull of Xilaojing sank suddenly, and he knew that Xilaojing was turning his head at speed.

"Hit, hit, hit to the left." He quickly ordered, turning his head along with Xi Lao Jing.

His boat was small, and it was charging at high speed. It turned around, obviously faster than Xi Laojing's boat.

The two ships raced against time, and finally Matsumoto's ship returned to the 45-degree position of the Xilao meridian.

At this time, Xi Laojing knew that it was too late. After all, his ship was a converted merchant ship, and it was relatively heavy, with a lot of cannons installed on it.

"Ready to pick up the strings." Xi Laojing yelled backwards.

There were more than 100 musketeers on his boat, and they squatted down one after another to load their bombs.

When he said that the strings were connected, the speed of the ship began to slow down, because during the fast sailing, the musketeers might not be able to squat, and it would be inconvenient to load gunpowder and ammunition.

Seeing the Ming army slow down, Matsumoto was even more ecstatic.

At this time, his ship can be completely controlled to be out of the range of the artillery on the two wings of Xilao, and rush past at a 45-degree angle.

Xi Lao looked up and looked in all directions. After several hours of decisive battle in the morning, dozens of ships of the Ming army had intertwined with nearly [-] ships of the Japanese army.

There are about 100 large Japanese ships outside.

In addition, most of the Japanese small boats that wanted to use fire also surrounded the Ming army, and some even ran into the Ming army, but they failed to burn.

The Japanese army has found that this trick is useless, and many small boats began to retreat.

On the sea, in many close-range artillery battles, the Ming army used fuzed shells.

From time to time, there were explosions on the sea.

The warships of the Japanese army were sunk one after another. Although the Ming army had fewer ships, it had firmly gained the upper hand.

As long as the main ship is not destroyed, victory will come sooner or later.

At this time, he saw a Japanese ship finally appear on his right flank.

Immediately ordered: "Let go."

Boom boom boom, the artillery on the right wing was also fired.

The Japanese ship on the opposite side was less than 100 meters away from them. He fired nearly [-] shells and finally hit the opponent with two shells.

This time the guns on his left and right flanks were knocked out, and Matsumoto's ship was getting closer and closer.

He did not have time to turn the rudder, nor did he intend to.

"Continue to load the artillery, and the gunmen are ready to take over." Xi Laojing ordered again.

Creaking, amidst the violent shaking of the hull, Matsumoto's ferocious face appeared in front of the Ming army.

At this time, all the gunmen of the Ming army were squatting on the ground, because they were blocked by the deck railings, and the ships of the Ming army were relatively tall, so they could hardly be seen from the opposite side.

But Xilaojing saw hundreds of Japanese soldiers huddled in the bow of the boat on the opposite side, all of them waiting to pick up the bow.

Come on, let's show you how powerful it is, and Xi Laojing also grinned grinningly.

This Matsumoto is really daring, he actually wanted to snatch Xilaojing's boat, and it just so happened that Xilaojing also wanted to snatch their boat.

The two sides seem to have a tacit understanding, and at this time they are biting each other to death, and no longer care about others.

The surrounding ships seemed to reach a consensus quickly. The ships of the Ming army did not help Xilaojing, and the ships of the Japanese army did not help Matsumoto. There was a strange one-on-one situation on the field.

"Hurry up, hurry up." Bensong became nervous, and then someone screamed: "Ready to hit."

The Ming army is also shouting: "Get ready to pick up the strings."

Personnel from both sides were looking for something to grab at the same time.

The gunmen of the Ming army lay down on the ground one after another, kicking up their butt drums, looking very funny.

Everyone leaned shoulder to shoulder, and some even put their arms together before lying on their stomachs.

Boom, the two ships collided violently.

Katsa, Sirao was hit by a 45-degree bow direction into a big gap.

The people on both sides of the boat were staggering and in chaos.

After a few seconds.

"Long live the general."

"kill"

The Japanese soldiers shouted one after another, those who used hooks to hook the Ming military ships, and some began to climb forward.

Sudden.

Crash, a row of 15 gunmen stood up.

Bang, bang, bang, hit them on their backs.

The opposite side is also shooting guns and archery.

After the Ming army finished fighting, he squatted down quickly.

No one in the Japanese army did that.

Then nearly 30 people from the two rows of gunmen of the Ming army stood up.

One row was dedicated to hitting the opponent's musketeers and archers, and the other row was to hit the Japanese soldiers who wanted to turn over.

Bang bang bang, there was continuous white smoke at the scene, the sound of gunfire was loud, and the Japanese army was screaming, and everyone was turned on their backs.

They have always used bird guns, and only a small amount, and they have encountered such a fierce blow from gun soldiers at that time.

The first wave of those who wanted to pick up the strings and turn over were almost devastated.

(End of this chapter)