Chapter 832: The new wind is strong and urgent, Yang Fanwei is all over the world (3)
The first fire of the Ponu Navy Navy's whistle ship achieved results. It not only opened the Japanese navy's horns, but also kicked off today's naval battle. The conch horn of the Japanese navy's attack floated on the sea and the passionate war drums urged the Japanese warships to face the powerful enemy. The oaring Japanese sailors raised their oars, and the heads of the squats of the black-clothed squats sounded the drums that adjusted the speed of the squat. Hundreds of Japanese warships began to speed up amid the sound of the squats. Flying seagulls flew into the distance in horror, and they had to escape from this dangerous area. The seagulls in the sky saw hundreds of warships plowing out a white splash in the light waves under the morning sun. Compared with the huge fleet of hundreds of warships in Japan, the Ponu Navy's several gunships seemed a little lonely.
The target of the Japanese warships tracking and attacking was very obvious. Several half-sailed gun ships on the sea outside were the targets they would attack in the naval battle today. The Japanese naval general Yokoyama Jinichi, who had fought with the naval navy many times, knew that the artillery of the Pound Army was extremely powerful. If they could not enter and fight near the Jugang, bombarding Japanese warships from a distance would not be the opponent of the Pound Army Navy. In the view of Zhang Sen, the captain of the Pound Army's "Ping's" gunship ship, the Japanese warships were indeed not suitable for naval battles. The square bow and square hull, chasing the Pound Army's sentry ship, encountered a headwind, which really made people feel like they were crawling at a speed.
Zhang Sen could only laugh at the Japanese navy in his heart. If he was too arrogant and unrestrained, then he would be the captain. The young Zhang Sen was a child soldier from Zhang Dashang in his early years. He participated in the Baishan War and was injured many times but did not go to the front line. After the war, he worked as a staff officer in the General Staff for more than a year and was immediately transferred to the navy to train in the fish sea. Because he had performed outstandingly in the war against the Japanese sea, he was promoted to the captain of the Pingzi Ship. This "Ping'an" gunship named after Zhang Dashang was the first cannon ship of the Po Nu Army Navy and the pride of the Po Nu Army Navy. Of course, Zhang Sen could be a captain. When he saw the Japanese ships rushing towards him and "Pinghu", he first ordered the use of the no-risk cannon on the enemy with the head of the ship.
The reason why the Pou Nu Navy called the main gun of the bow is that these ten-pound cannons are not very useful in actual combat. After years of naval battles, the powerful cannon of the Pou Nu warship is not easy to hit the target in the ups and downs of the waves. The gunship of the enemy ship is focused on shooting multiple guns. It is difficult for a cannon to hit a moving warship, which is more difficult than a blind cat to hit a dead mouse. Perhaps it was because the captain of the "Ping An" gunship was only thinking about fighting in the past few days, and the five girls used to relieve fire to the little brothers. Only the character broke out once. The "Ping An" bow of the "Ping An" actually hit a Daguan ship moving six miles away.
Tenjin* is very powerful, and it hits the bow of the ship. The double fuse exploded in its cabin the moment it penetrated the board in front of the ship. The huge explosion tore the entire bow of the ship, and its shock wave exploded the bottom sealing cabin. The ship was seen as the ship stern stern erected on the sea after the explosion. The Japanese sailors fell from the stern of the ship into the water. The explosion came too suddenly. A small dawn ship followed behind the ship without having time to avoid it. It plunged into the bottom of the ship, which was about to sink and high. The sinking ship sank with the small dawn ship inserted in its stomach. Now, the "Ping An" gunship blind cat met two dead mice and overturned two Japanese warships.
Seeing the achievements of his warship, Zhang Sen, who was standing on the rudder, looked at the telescope for a long time, rubbed his eyes and thought he was dazzled. Although this once young man wanted to show his calmness, the corners of his mouth, which had been tanned all year round, betrayed him his heart. The blind cat touched the dead rat, and it was time to do the job. Zhang Sen ordered the forward fleet to hang sails, first turn south and then northeast. The flat-shaped cannon boat is much more bloated than the whistle boat, and can speed up to the wind to the south. The two flat-shaped ships must go east to north to the wind to move quickly in the wind.
In fact, the navigation experience of the Ponu Army Navy comes from the oral narratives of the descendants of the Zheng He fleet in Nanzhili. There are many shipbuilding craftsmen in the Ponu Army from Nanzhili. Although many of them were kidnapped by Xu Yian, the commander of the detective and Investigation Office, Zhang Dashuai was really willing to give them money and status. Each of the craftsmen who worked in the Nuer Du Shi Shibo was assigned to Japanese slaves, and several skilled craftsmen were treated no worse than the Ponu Army Qian Zong. People were all walking to a high place, and the craftsmen with low status in the Ming Dynasty suddenly had a significant increase in status and had more money and were willing to go back. These people often donated some of the sailing books he passed down from their families to the Ponu Army Navy to help the Navy improve their skills in navigating at sea.
The Pou Nu Army warships use a mixture of hard sails and soft sails, the front sails and front spinnades use soft sails, and the rear two masts use hard sails. Although this shipbuilding technique is somewhat alternative and cannot be practical, the soft sails are more efficient than hard sails during normal navigation, but the advantage of the easy turning of the sails when sailing against the wind is obviously more than twice as strong sails. The Pou Nu Army can decide on the alternative of this strange ship type. Of course, only Zhang Dashang, who acts very freely and freely, can be used by me as long as it is practical. After several years of exploration, the Pou Nu Army has its own rules when sailing. Of course, although these rules are different from the military rules of the Pou Nu Army, they are also the navy regulations set by Zhang Dashang himself.
Two Ping-word warships were walking slowly in front of the Japanese navy. They saw that the Japanese navy was walking slowly and would stop and shoot a few guns. About two hours later, Zhang Sen could see clearly the opponent's naval tactics, which was to determine the speed of the entire Japanese navy with the speed of the fire ship. In fact, the Navy's Navy warships of the Possess Army were still relatively afraid of the Japanese fire ship. Last time the Possess Army Navy was attacked by fire, and almost lost a Ping-word warship. In this naval battle, Zhang Sen would never want to repeat the same mistake. Zhang Sen used the flag language to order the "Pinghu" gunship two miles away to use the powerful firepower of the two gunships to create a passage for the sentry ship. Then the six sentry ships quickly approached the Japanese navy's fire ship and used the fast-fighting and fast-running tactic to solve the Japanese fire ship.
The captain of the "Pinghu" quickly replied in flag language and according to Zhang Sen's tactics, and the sentry boats cruising around the "Ping'an" gunship also understood their combat targets. The two flat-font gunships three miles away from the Japanese fleet once again aimed the bow of the ship south, lowered the ship's speed in the lower half, and pointed the eighteen fireboats sideways at the slow-moving Japanese fleet. The deputy general manager of the two warships in charge of artillery shouted on the upper deck: "The enemy ship is three miles and forty feet, raise the gun three degrees, fire the guns one by one, and fire them one by one!"
Following the command of the deputy general manager of the gun position, the commander of the deputy general manager immediately repeated the command loudly. The main gunner in the gun position adjusted the firing angle according to the command, and the deputy gunner ignited the leads in order from left to right. The lower gun positions of the "Ping'an" and "Pinghu" gun ships opened fire first, and the rumbling sound of cannons in the mist of gunpowder instantly resounded through the battlefield. The five kilograms of the slave army flew to the Japanese fleet three miles away, and soon launched huge water columns in the enemy fleet.
Affected by the waves, dozens of shots did not hit an enemy warship. However, the Japanese warships were spliced with thin wooden boards. As long as the Pound Army exploded near the Japanese warship, it would produce a near-blast shock effect. The Pound Army double fuses exploded immediately after the shells hit the sea. Although the flying shrapnel may not necessarily cause damage to the enemy, the shock waves generated by the explosion air waves can tear apart the outer walls of the enemy ships several feet away.
Several Japanese fire ships were damaged by the shock waves caused by the explosion, and the gushing sea quickly tilted the entire warship. The Japanese ship and Nobunaga Iron Armored Ship both focused on the upper layer of the warship, which also made the entire hull heavy. When the lower slabs broke, the ship soon tilted and fell on the sea. From a distance, Japanese sailors jumped into the sea like panic ants and escaped, and the scattered ants swarmed in broken wood pieces. The sea water in spring was very cool, and the humanoid ants lost their power to flap without struggling in the cold water for a long time. The floating corpses and debris were plowed by the ships behind the back and left red waves on the blue sea.
Zhang Sen saw that the battle was good and ordered the fire again. The fierceness of the Ponu Army made the Japanese fleet lose the courage to attack. At this moment, six urns waiting for the fighter plane rushed up. They lined up in a long snake formation on the sea and cut into the center of the Japanese fleet from the upper vent. The Ponu Army's sentry ships were all young officers. They were very smart in fighting naval battles, and they directly crushed the Japanese small early ships blocking the ship. The urnon-narrow armored ships and the Guan ships were specially kept at a certain distance from the Nobunaga iron armored ships and the Guan ships. They used artillery on both sides of the ship to attack the enemy ships at close range. At the artillery firing distance of less than 60 feet, the artillery accuracy of the Ponu Army's sentry ships was much higher than that of the flat warships. With the several artillery bombardment of the ships, seven Japanese fire ships ignited a fire, and the scorching fires heated the battlefield.
The six urns attacking ships cut into the enemy fleet and they were soon trapped in the siege of the Japanese fleet. The leader of the urn ship, Wang Huhou, also calmed down from the excitement of the artillery battle. He asked the flag bearer to send a signal to attack with me and hung up the sails to the southeast to rush out of the enemy formation. The Japanese warship was a rocketer who shot rockets at the Ponu Army's urn, and the flying arrows rushed towards the attacking ship with orange-red fireballs and black trails. On the battlefield, the Ponu Army's urn was spraying firelight and white smoke and intertwined with flying arrows. The sound of conch attack and shouting to kill the enemy were mixed together, forming a fierce naval battle scene.
The last of the six whistle ships was particularly attacked by rockets. The burning rockets were firmly placed on the mast and deck of the sentry ship. The fire on the deck was easy to extinguish. The sailors of the Pokémon Army could quickly extinguish them with sand and wet cloth, and the fire on the towering mast was not so extinguished. A sailor tied a wet cloth to climb to the top of the mast. Before he could reach the fire, he was shot by the flying rockets. He screamed and fell from a high place and fell to the ground and saw that he had no breath. The sentry ship was in distress and saw that Zhang Sen saw sweat on his body. He ordered two flat-font gunships to approach the Japanese fleet despite the danger. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!