Chapter 358 The First Battle of Yue Fei
The Princess Kunxing raised its sails and rushed towards the Qing Dynasty Navy fleet at the highest speed of the inland sea of 16 knots. Soon after, Shi Fu saw the mast appearing on the sea level from the Qianli Miles mirror, which was the Korean Navy who came to meet him.
"Be ready for battle!" Shi Fu gave the order.
The gunners in the deck of Princess Kunxing began to load ammunition and put solid shells into the stove to heat them. After the fixed charge was packed, the gunners nailed a wooden board into the cannon chamber, and then before the two sides met, they stuffed the burnt red shells into the cannon chamber.
The Korean navy sailed east at a speed of six knots, and the Kunxing Princess sailed west at a speed of sixteen knots. The relative speed of both sides was twenty-two knots. Not long after, the distance between the two sides was less than ten miles.
He was about to enter the state of fire, Shi Fu found that there was no small boat in front of his opponent, and all the big boats were driving towards him. So he put down the Qianli Mile Mile, turned his head and ordered: "Right thirty degrees!"
The bow of the Princess Kunxing slowly turned, the hull turned around, aimed at the direction of the North Korean navy, cutting in at a large angle, preparing to bombard the North Korean navy.
Just when there were only about one and a half miles left on both sides, Shi Fu was surprised to find that the North Korean naval slab boat and turtle boat were actually spurting out flames, and whistling shells hit his ship!
"No, the stick has changed the cannon!" According to past experience, the cannons on the side of various ship types of Korean Navy were all four small cannons, namely the ground gun, the Xuan-sing, the yellow-singing, and the Sheng-singing gun. The range is short and the power is small, and the range is not even 15 miles.
But at this time, Shi Fu knew that the North Korean navy had replaced the new cannon.
"Left full rudder!" Shi Fu shouted.
The Kunxing Princess, which was originally cut in to the North Korean Navy, quickly turned to the north and left the North Korean Navy fleet as much as possible, because the North Korean Navy warships had been replaced, it was not something that a medium-sized ship like the Kunxing Princess could withstand.
In order to reduce weight and increase speed, the Kunxing Princess did not adopt three-layer ship boards like Yue Fei, but only a single-layer ship board. Even with solid ironwood, the single-layer ship boards were difficult to withstand the bombardment of the nine-pound cannon, so it was best to escape as soon as possible.
"Bang bang bang bang" The artillery shells shot from the Qing army's Korean navy fell into the sea, front, back and left and right sides of the Kunxing Princess, causing a series of water columns to soar. Two of them hit the starboard side of the Kunxing Princess. The nine-pound artillery shells hit the ship board. Although they failed to penetrate the iron-powered wooden ship board, the inner wall of the shot was broken at the position of the Kunxing Princess' shot. The broken ship boards flew across the cabin like shrapnel, causing the loss of one soldier being killed and two injured.
"Boom boom boom" The Princess Kunxing also opened fire, and rows of shells roared towards the Korean naval warship. Although four shells hit the target, the distance was too far, and the power of the four-pound cannon was still too small to cause much damage to the slab boat, or even unable to penetrate the slab boat's boards.
Shi Fu ordered Princess Kunxing to circle the formation of the Qing Dynasty Navy and try to find their boats to attack, but after a while, he found that the Korean Navy's boats and fire attack ships were all hidden in the center of the fleet, and the outer circle was full of large warships such as platy boats and turtle boats. Princess Kunxing could not find the enemy's weakness to attack.
The four-pound cannon cannot break the defense of the slab boat and the turtle boat. Even if it is replaced with flowering artillery shells, it will be useless, because the flowering artillery shells hit the enemy ship and cannot be shot through, and the shells will not be effective. The shells will bounce into the water, and the fuse will be extinguished when exposed to the water. If the fuse is cut off, the shells will explode before hitting the enemy ship, and it will not hurt the inside of the enemy ship.
If you change to a chain bomb to attack, the range of the chain bomb will be closer. If you forcefully approach the enemy warship, you may suffer heavy losses from enemy shelling.
So Shifu ordered: "Keep a distance from the enemy and do not get too close to the enemy!"
The Princess Kunxing kept a distance of two miles from the Korean Navy and followed the North Korean Navy fleet slowly. If the North Koreans dared to release small boats to deal with them, they would just be able to deliver vegetables to themselves.
Before receiving the firework signal sent by Shi Lang, the main force of the Zheng family army and the main force of the Laiden Navy sailed to the west at full speed, preparing to face the North Korean Navy and launch a sea decisive battle in the Bohai Bay. Just as the Zheng family army navy and the Laiden Navy were heading towards the North Korean Navy, they found an extremely huge white ship shadow appeared behind them, galloping towards their own direction.
"There is a very big red barbarian ship behind us!" A personal soldier reported to Huang Fei on the Dafu ship.
Huang Fei quickly turned his head, picked up the Qianli Mile Mile Mile, and looked at the white super-large "Red and Barbarian Ship" behind him. He saw that the ship was very huge, with sun and moon flags, the characters "Zheng" and "Zhao" flags hanging on the ship.
"It's our ship!" Huang Fei put down Qianlijing and said, "It's Zhongyonghou and Damu's ship."
The Yuefei was getting closer and closer to the main fleet of the Ming army naval division, and soon surpassed the Zheng family naval division and the Laiden naval division from the side. When the sailors on the Ming army naval division saw this huge ship, they were shocked: "What a big ship! During the Chengzu period, the Sanbao treasure ships were probably not that big, right?"
The huge Yuefei flying scissors-type fast battleship surpassed the Ming Navy, which was sailing at a speed of fourteen knots, and rushed towards the Tianjin waters to the west, leaving a white trail on the sea.
"That big ship runs so fast, so amazing!" The sailors on the Ming Navy ship all expressed their anger when they saw this huge warship.
About half an hour later, on the Qing Dynasty Navy's warship, Park Xingtong saw another "Red and Barbarian Ship" coming from the Qianli Mile Mile Mile Mile, heading towards his fleet. Because of the distance, Park Xingtong couldn't see how big the ship opposite was. He thought it was another ship similar to the "Red and Barbarian Ship" that followed him.
The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. Park Xingtong discovered from the Qianli Miles mirror that the ship opposite was very large, and seemed to be three times the size of the "Red Clipper" that had been entangling with him.
"The Red and Barbarians' Giant Ship!" Park Xingtong screamed in surprise.
The two sides were only five miles away, and the sailors on the North Korean navy ship could clearly see this mountain-like giant ship. As the distance got closer, the giant ship gave people a sense of oppression, which made them breathless.
At this time, in the artillery deck of Yue Fei, the gunners had loaded the set charge package and ordered a wooden board, preparing to take out the red shells from the stove and put them into the barrel.
"Fifteen degrees left rudder!" Zheng Sen gave the order.
The huge Yuefei fast battleship quickly cut into the Korean navy formation at an angle less than twenty degrees. The gun doors on the port side were opened one after another, and the gunners loaded the burned red shells into the barrel. Because of the isolation of wooden boards, the burned red shells would not cause medicine bags.
Only one or five miles away were left. With Zheng Sen's order to "open fire", Yue Fei suddenly spurted out flames on the port side.
The sound of thunder-like cannons sounded from the sea. The Koreans and Qing soldiers looked at the side of the super giant ship in amazement as if a flash of lightning had passed through the side of the super giant ship. The flames spewed out one after another, and white smoke filled with air rose from the side of the giant ship.
Chapter completed!