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Chapter 1053 Nagoya Naval Battle

There are only a few artillery pieces in the fort of Nagoya Castle, two of which are the most powerful cannons, and the other artillery pieces were brought to the front line by Iemitsu Tokugawa.

The soldiers on the fort watched nervously the fleets of both sides facing each other on the sea.Although there are many ships on our side, most of them are small boats. Facing the opponent's behemoth, there is no hope of winning.

"Their ships are too big, and there are so many cannons. Are their ships so huge? How can our navy fight against them?" The defenders on the fort always found it incredible that the gap between the two sides was so big. It's like a moat.

"I think the defenders on our fort still have to be prepared to join the Kyushu Army. If the navy is defeated, how can it be possible to defend only with the hundreds of defenders on our shore." Many soldiers in charge of defending the fort felt despaired.

Although the artillery on the sailboat and the artillery on the ground fort suffered a disadvantage when they fired at each other, they couldn't stand up to the large number of artillery of the Zhili fleet, and it was easy for a fleet with hundreds of artillery to suppress ordinary forts.

On the Da'an house ship used by the shogun, the admiral of the navy gathered the bannermen of the navy to discuss the countermeasures against the Zhili fleet.

"Forgive me, we are not their opponents with strong ships and guns at all, we are not as good as us..." A bannerman looked at his colleagues anxiously, for fear that someone would object to his proposal to surrender.

"As a samurai, how can you surrender without a fight? It is not impossible to destroy the opponent's fleet. We have a large number of ships, and we can break them with fire!" When the northwest wind blows, we can destroy them by sacrificing a hundred small boats filled with hay and gunpowder and setting fire to their main formation. The fire attack strategy has changed many historical existences.”

"Fire attacking ships is indeed a commonly used trick. If you can use the wind direction to defeat enemy ships, what's the point of sacrificing more than 100 small boats."

Historically, both the East and the West have widely adopted the tactics of attacking ships with fire, and it is generally used by the defensive side.

Nelson was even more familiar with the fire attack ship tactics. Looking at the shogunate navy crowded in the waters near Nagoya, he said to the sailor in charge of the semaphore: "Let the fleet start attacking, and don't give them time to deploy a counterattack."

"The whole fleet attack!" The mast of the Victory hoisted the banner of a full-scale attack.

More than a dozen gunboats sailed into the waters near Nagoya, and the artillery on the decks aimed at the dense shogunate navy fleet.

"Fire!!" The artillery battle on the deck gave the order to fire!
boom!White smoke came out of the gun bore, the strong recoil caused the gun to move backwards, and the salvo from the port side shocked the huge hull!
The Zhili fleet had hundreds of cannons on one side of the ship. The artillery fell on the Anzhai ship and the Guan ship. The thin wooden boards were easily penetrated, and the sailors in the cabin of the wooden ship were smashed into blood by the solid bullets smashed into the cabin.

More shells fell into the sea, splashing columns of water, and the water splashed onto the uppermost deck, making the sailors on the deck even more panicked.

"They don't intend to give us a chance to deploy!" The bannermen of the shogunate navy hurriedly ordered the ships to disperse to avoid the dense artillery fire on the opposite side.

"Terrible ammunition consumption!" A bannerman watched as the solid bullets penetrated the wooden boards on both sides of the Anzhai boat.The wooden plank is as fragile as paper under the blow of a 12-pound naval gun.

A volley is hundreds of shells. For the shogunate navy, the ammunition consumption is unimaginable. Their productivity does not allow them to use gunpowder and shells so extravagantly.Moreover, they still bought their Frang machine guns from the Frang machine man, and the reliability of the imitated artillery was far lower than that of the purchased ones, and the bombing of the guns occurred from time to time.

boom!boom!The artillery is still continuously bombarding the enemy ships in the Nagoya waters. Each salvo consumes several tons of gunpowder, and the continuous shells sink wooden ships one after another.

The admiral looked at the Guan ships that were being sunk one after another, and the two Anzhai ships suffered heavy losses, and knew that they would all be sunk if they did not fight back.The number of artillery on the shore is limited, and the damage that may be caused to the enemy ship is not much.

"All ships immediately attacked the enemy ships, burned them with rockets, climbed onto their decks and seized their big ships!" The admiral, who originally planned to use fire attack, had to launch a joint battle on the water with the current ship configuration.

More than 200 ships that were still in good condition marched towards the Zhili fleet under the desperate oars of the sailors.

The archers on the Ataka ship readied their rockets.In their view, the sailed battleships of the Zhili fleet are only wooden ships after all, so the arrows on fire can still destroy the opponent's hull and sails.

"The enemy ship is approaching!" The sailor in charge of observation on the deck of the Victory shouted.

"There may be fire attack ships among the opponent's ships. Do we need to temporarily avoid the battle?" A naval officer asked Nelson for instructions.

"No, the small boat stepped forward to block and continue to destroy the enemy ship with firepower. The gunners first attacked the opponent's fire attack ship and the big ship, and the opponent may not be ready to fire attack." Nelson didn't care.

At this time, the artillery of the Zhili fleet was too powerful, and the fire attack ships of the shogunate might not be effective in the face of hundreds of artillery.

"It's flooded!" An Ataka ship was shot and spilled into the sea, and the sailors had to dive after they found they couldn't get the water out of the ship.

More than 200 large and small ships sailed with artillery, and the water jets splashed. From time to time, ships were hit by bullets. The sea was covered with broken planks and floating shogunate sailors.

From a bird's-eye view, the battlefield at this time looks like a large group of ants encroaching on more than a dozen large objects, and ants are wiped out in the artillery from time to time.

The shogunate navy wanted to fight in close combat, but they were devastated when they approached, and they forcibly withstood the bombardment of thousands of shells. Even in the floating sea, the artillery's hit rate was very low, but they couldn't stand the large number of shells. The shogunate The Navy also has a large number of ships, and many fragile boats will be severely damaged once they are shot.

When some shogunate ships broke through the naval gun blockade and came in front of the Victory and other giant ships, the archers above bent their bows and set arrows, intending to use rockets to burn the Victory.

"Prepare the hand-cranked machine gun!" The Victory has installed a modified ship-use hand-cranked machine gun to enhance the sailing ship's melee capability.

The two hand-cranked machine guns on the port side aimed at the archers on the Anzhai boat. The condescending machine gunner shook the handle, and the six barrels of the Gatling machine gun turned violently. Clean up!
(End of this chapter)