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Chapter 362 Grape Bombing

The Koryo people's slab boats and turtle boats were originally designed for the Japanese jumping tactics. The two types of ships had strong shells and fierce firepower. After getting close, with their fierce firepower, they could prevent the Japanese from jumping to board the ship to fight.

However, when the platy boat and the turtle boat meet a Western warship, there is no chance of winning. The Zheng family army's flagship firepower configuration is a real Western warship, and the Yue Fei is even more powerful, a giant ship that combines the advantages of China and the West.

The Yuefei was like a sharp knife, inserted directly into the formation of the Qing Dynasty navy. The two sides entered a big melee. The North Korean fire attack ships could not encircle the Yuefei and the Zheng family's flagship. Because the Ming army's main ships were protected by fast ships and sampans on both sides, the North Koreans could only use one or two to block the Yuefei's fire attack ships from the front.

But only one or two fire attack ships could not stop Yue Fei. On the upper deck of Yue Fei, countless Ming army sailors stood. The bird guns and rockets in the hands of the sailors could kill the Koreans' fire attack ships. If the fire attack ships could not form a siege against Western warships, one or two rushed towards the giant ships, which would be like a moth to a fire.

Two of the 64-pound short-barrel cannons on the upper deck of Yuefei cannons can be turned. When Yuefei rushed forward, the two 64-pound short-barrel cannons turned their muzzles to aim at the front, and two North Korean fire attack ships appeared in front.

"Fire the cannon!" Zheng Sen yelled.

"Boom boom" two doors spit out flames towards the sixty-four-pound short-barrel cannon in front of them. The grape bombs flew out of the muzzle. After the grape bombs tied with ropes flew out of the muzzle, they immediately dispersed. Countless iron beads scattered towards the two fire attack ships like rain.

The grape bomb swept across the fire attack ship, sweeping away the North Korean soldiers on the fire attack ship.

The fire attack ship that had lost control was spinning on the sea, but was hit in the middle by the Yue Fei and collided in two pieces in the waist. The fire attack ship, which was burning with a raging fire, sank to the bottom of the sea. The flames were extinguished and could not pose any threat to the Yue Fei.

The Yuefei battleship was approaching a North Korean slab boat. A row of cannons sounded from the starboard side. Twenty-eight shells almost shot and all concentrated the hull of the slab boat. Only a series of wooden slab boards were heard were heard. Water was inflowing from many places in the slab boat and began to slowly sink in the flames.

A turtle ship appeared in front of him. Yue Fei turned and the port side of the unfired port faced the turtle ship. Accompanied by a row of roaring cannons, the 64-pound cannons on the upper deck and the 24-pound cannons on the upper deck opened fire at the same time. The heavy rain-like shells hit the turtle ship. The turtle ship board, which was claimed to be indestructible, broke. Then the Yue Fei hull turned, and the hull, which was much taller than the turtle ship, crushed over and directly hit the turtle ship.

Only a turtle ship of more than 200 tons was like a child meeting a strongman in front of the 1,500 tons Yuefei, and was crushed to the bottom of the sea.

Impact tactics is the most efficient tactic for sinking enemy ships in this era. With their own large ships and strong advantages, they can easily send opponents' ships to the bottom of the sea. In fact, the Koreans' turtle ships and platy boats are also good at impact tactics. In the Mingliang Sea Battle and the Dewliang Sea Battle, the Koreans used turtle ships and platy boats to hit the Japanese Anzhai ships and achieved major results.

But this time the North Koreans met the Yuefei, which was stronger than themselves. Their slab boat and turtle boat were like toys in front of the Yuefei. They were immediately crushed when they were hit or crushed directly to the bottom of the sea.

The Yue Fei directly slashed into the main battleship team of the Koreans composed of turtle ships and platy boats. The artillery bombarded, the bows hit, and the bows were fired from left to right, killing one by one, and the Zheng family's flagship behind followed closely and re-gunned the turtle ships and platy boats. After the two giant ships passed, the large North Korean ships had lost most of their resistance.

The Dafu ship that followed also followed, and the artillery on the side of the ship was bombarded violently. Originally, the Red Cannons of the Dafu ship were only equipped with the head and tail, and only six pounds of general guns or thousand kilograms of Franz, the two sides could not penetrate the turtle ship. However, the turtle ship, which was bombarded by the Yue Fei and the Zheng family's flagship, was already full of holes. The Franz cannon shells fired by the Dafu ship easily drilled into the turtle ship, killing the cabin, causing blood and flesh to fly across the cabin. The shells drilled into the bevel caused great damage to the people inside.

Then the Zheng family army and the Laiden Navy's clutch followed, aimed the turtle ship and the slab boat, and spewed out scorching fire dragons.

The Korean warship sprayed by the fierce ignition cabinet immediately ignited a huge fire and began to sink in the flames.

Zhao Peng, who was standing on the rudder of the Yuefei, was holding a single-tube thousand-mile mirror and observing the situation of the enemy fleet on the sea ahead. At this moment, he suddenly discovered that three miles ahead, a largest slab boat was fleeing west desperately.

"That's a big rod boat, it should be the largest boat. It's at least eighteen feet long and almost ten feet wide." Zhao Peng put down the Qianli Mile Mile Mile, pointed to the extra-large slab boat and said to Zheng Sen.

Zheng Sen looked at the slab boat and saw that the slab boat was indeed not small, about eighteen zhang long and eighteen zhang wide. The main deck on the lower floor was not high, and there was only one floor above the waterline. Countless oars extended from the hull and were rowing desperately. On the main deck was a two-story slab house with two rows of gun doors open on the slab house, and one cannon extended the barrel from the slab door. Each floor had two cannons facing the front, two cannons facing the back, four cannons on each side, and twelve cannons on each floor, and there were twenty-four nine-pound red cannons in the two floors.

On the top of the slab house is the upper deck, which is full of sailors holding bows and arrows and bird guns. On the upper deck, there is a mast in front and behind, and the sails hanging on the mast are not very large, so if this kind of boat does not rely on manpower to paddle, the speed will be very slow.

In the middle of the upper deck, there is a two-story command tower. Zheng Sen picked up the thousand-mile mirror to observe the command tower of the boardhouse. He saw a general wearing a phoenix-winged helmet and golden armor standing on it, and a guy wearing a golden lightning rod helmet, a red white-edged cotton armor, and a red copper leaf armor on his back.

Zheng Sen knew at a glance that this plating boat must be the flagship of the North Koreans. The two generals on the command tower on the ship must be the commander of the North Korean navy, and the other one must be the prince of the Qing Dynasty, Bell, or the like.

At this time, the twenty-four-pound long-barrel cannon in the deck of the gun door was still loading, and it was not loaded so quickly. The power that could be relied on was the sixty-four-pound short-barrel cannon on the upper deck of his ship.

"Short-barrel cannon loads grape bullets!" Zheng Sen gave the order.

The sixty-four-pound short-barrel cannon is much faster than the twenty-four-pound long-barrel cannon. The gunners have cleaned the cannon's chamber and completed the cooling.

Hearing Zheng Sen's order, the gunners immediately stuffed the fixed charge pack into the barrel, then wrapped a bag with canvas, and tied it with ropes to the barrel of canvas.

This is the grape bullet. The canvas is covered with dozens of iron eggs and stones, and there is also a round plate made of cork at the tail of the shell to seal the gunpowder gas.
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