Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1043 Tang Ship Incident ([-])

Ten gunboats, five on each side, opened like a pair of iron tongs. Yingyuan turned to the left, followed by four three-masted gunboats, forming a long line. The white waves are magnificent.

There are white clouds in the sky, and a magnificent picture appears under the clouds. Nearly two hundred warships are faintly visible under the clouds. The two fleets will have a duel in the Osumi Strait.

After the ten gunboats lined up in two teams and separated Yang Yang, Man Dazhuang walked up to the ship building and went up to the five rows of sailors and gunners of the Yingyuan on the deck, and said loudly: "Brothers, I want to ask you, since you became an army, the imperial court has owed you food and wages! Is it ever unfair for me to register credit for someone."

?More than 200 men shouted in unison: "No!"

"Then have I ever punished you for no reason?" Man Dazhuang asked loudly.

"No!" The men shouted again in unison.

Man Dazhuang nodded in satisfaction, and then said loudly: "Since the imperial court and I, Man, are not mean to the brothers, then you have to show me well this time, and show off the prestige of my Donghai division! If he doesn't give me a good performance, let the court down, I am full of someone, and I must make him look good."

After finishing speaking, Man Dazhuang pulled out a self-generated pistol from his waist, and shot at the sky, "Do you understand!"

This kind of self-sounding handgun is modified according to the self-generated firecracker. At present, only one hundred pieces have been produced, and each one is very exquisite. The value of collection is greater than actual combat. Wang Yan asked the Ministry of Industry to produce it to reward generals who have done meritorious service. When he went to Nanjing to install a new cannon, Wang Yan approved one for him.

The sailors and gunners on the deck were startled, reacted, and howled in unison: "Understood!"

The Ming army on the current deck immediately dispersed, each took their respective seats, and waited for the order to attack with full concentration.

Man Dazhuang stood on the podium, picked up the binoculars again, glanced at the Satsuma navy in the distance, and suddenly turned his head and asked, "How many miles away?"

Xu Junsheng on the side immediately stretched out a hand, raised his thumb, squinted his eyes and looked in the direction of Sailor Satsuma, and said after a while: "We are all together!"

"So it has already entered the range of the new cannon!" Man Dazhuang frowned, and then ordered: "Send the order, let the big snake gun fire a few shots!"

The Ming army built a new [-]-pound gun with an effective range of more than four miles and a maximum range of twelve miles, which can be called a magic weapon.

"Captain, you can't hit at such a long distance!" Xu Junsheng questioned after hearing this: "What if the Satsuma navy is frightened and they run away?"

Man Dazhuang shook his head, "It doesn't matter, let's have a shot. Now that we met, do their oarsmen still want to run past us? If they want to run, we just chase and fight, wouldn't it be great!"

Hearing the words, Xu Junsheng came to his senses, and then he also smiled. The Ming army's ships were much faster than the Satsuma's ships. Now that they met the Satsuma's navy, they shouldn't even try to escape.

While speaking, the five new cannons on the bottom floor were ready. Each of these cannons weighed more than 4000 kilograms, so they had to be placed on the bottom floor.

At this time in the Dayumi Strait, 150 Satsuma warships on the sea formed an arrow array, and the three divisions of the Ming army formed a "V", like a big mouth open. Although there were few ships, they were ambitious to fight Japanese ships eat them all.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..." Five huge cannons sounded in succession. Man Dazhuang and Xu Junsheng only felt that the warship under their feet trembled several times following the violent cannon sound. The eight-pound guns exited the gun ports one after another, and five huge clouds of green smoke instantly rose from the side of the battleship.

Four miles away, ten feet away from the Toranomaru of Shimadzu Tadaro, five huge water columns rose continuously on the sea. Sitting on the deck, Shimadzu Tadaro never expected that the Ming army would suddenly bombard them. Not to mention that the Ming army's cannons could hit so far, and they were stunned in an instant.

In the binoculars, Man Dazhuang saw the rising water column. It was a pity, and he immediately shouted: "One shot missed, aim and shoot again!"

With such a long distance and the ship is moving, it is really not easy to hit it, but Man Dazhuang still feels a little pity.

At the bottom of the cabin, after the first shot, the gunners quickly cleaned the barrel, loaded gunpowder, and pushed more than ten kilograms of iron bullets into the barrel. Several gunners worked together to reset the gun carriage, and then readjusted the muzzle. A soldier Immediately igniting the fire, the cannon suddenly exited the gun window again, and was pulled by the iron chain to the gun mount, causing a violent vibration.

The five giant cannons fired one after the other, and the shells whizzed out of the thick smoke, one after another flying rapidly against the sea surface, creating gusts of hurricanes.

The cannonball that flew at the forefront, whistling and approaching the Samo fleet, got into the sea surface, startling a four-foot-high water column.The other four, followed by two, also fell into the sea. One passed over the head of a large Anzhai ship and hit the water. Cleaned up the light-footed samurai on the Da'an house.

The light-footed warriors on the Da'an house saw the huge water column. After the armor was soaked, the warriors couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat. If such an iron bullet was hit, the entire superstructure of the ship would probably be destroyed. Beat badly.

Before the Satsuma warriors on the Anzhai boat had time to rejoice, there was a sudden "bang", the last iron bullet hit the side of the big Anzhai, and the guard board exploded suddenly. Sweeping across the deck, a Japanese iron cannon Qingzu was hit by an iron bullet and hit his chest. Qingzu's body was instantly torn into pieces and scattered around. Splashed all over the face.

The iron bullet tore through the corpse, but the remaining power was not exhausted. The iron bullet rushed out of the blood mist and tore up everything on the deck. Countless pieces of wood were splashed. He fell to the ground with a long scream, and rolled violently on the deck, while the iron bullet broke through the other side of the ship's side and fell into the sea, splashing a few feet high water column.

"what!!!"

Blood was smeared on the deck, and the deck was painted scarlet, and the broken limbs were scattered everywhere. Several light feet fell in the pool of blood, rolling, and screaming inhumanely.

That creepy scream pulled back the stunned Satsuma warriors on the ship, but they looked at the messy deck and the howling soldiers, but they didn't know what to do for a while.

The warriors hadn't fully recovered from the tragedy, when suddenly a series of loud bangs came, and the distance between the two teams narrowed to three miles, and the Ming army gunboats on the left and right wings began to fire at the same time , Blossoms of white smoke, accompanied by the sound of the cannon, rose one by one from the side of the gunboat, and black iron bullets rushed out of the white smoke one by one, and more than a hundred iron bullets carried a destructive momentum. , quickly flew to the Satsuma warship.

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