The weather was good the next day.
The bright red sun rose early, dispersing the fog at night and bringing the warmth of winter.
However, Mukai Tadakatsu felt that the morning sun was like blood, indicating that today's return journey would be bumpy.
He thought about it all night and found no good counterattack method.
Rockets and kerosene were of no use at a distance of nearly one mile.
Only large tubes could be used to attack.
However, the power of the large tubes of the shogunate navy was too weak, and there was no big result in hitting them.
The fire ship The premise is that if you are close, Akito will move away with one strike.
To put it bluntly, he will not give you a chance to attack with rockets and fire ships.
Unable to sleep well that night, Tadakatsu Mukai looked pale and his eyes were stern, so he had no choice but to rush back as soon as possible.
The pain and humiliation of defeat tore at Mukai's heart, because he became the first Japanese to be defeated by this ancient Western empire since the Tang Dynasty.
What a humiliation.
Even when the Yuan Dynasty fleet made an aggressive expedition to Japan, it failed to gain any advantage and was almost completely annihilated.
It was not even defeated by Japan.
But today, he commanded the most powerful fleet in Japan and was defeated miserably.
He was really shameless.
Of course, the fact that the hurricane was the main cause of the destruction of the Yuan Dynasty fleet was automatically omitted by him.
The Japanese people always only remember what they need to remember and ignore everything else.
Mukai did not delay, and the shogunate navy and the chief daimyo's navy immediately evacuated.
Mukai Tadakatsu demonstrated the bloodiness and dignity of a Japanese samurai.
He personally led more than 20 Anzha ships, including five ironclad ships, to be escorted back.
The warships no longer cared about their formation.
They all set sail and headed eastward with the wind.
No one wanted to stay behind and wait for death.
At this time, there were really tens of thousands of people fighting around Yiqi Island.
Dozens of miles of sea were covered with warships, all scrambling to advance eastwards.
The glory of the samurai and the rage of the general are just clouds, and it is true that he can escape back to Japan.
When Zhao Lie led the fleet to cut in from the north, he saw such a situation.
Even when the Galen battleship attacked, many Guanzhou and Xiaozao did not resist, but just immersed themselves in the east.
The navy of the Polu Army swept through all the enemy ships in front of them.
The cannons of the ships of the Polu army roared continuously.
Bombard enemy ships like target practice.
Feel free to express yourself without risk.
Throughout the morning, dozens of warships were sunk in the strait one after another.
The seawater was full of broken wooden boards and debris and the corpses of the Japanese navy.
As the waves drifted, large numbers of sharks were attracted to enjoy this.
A rare feast, a scene of doomsday.
Mukai Tadakatsu, who was holding the line at the back, heard the constant roar of artillery in front and knew that the cunning Ming army was making a sneak attack from the front again, but there was nothing he could do.
The speed of the Anzhai ship just couldn't be increased.
A mere few knots of speed was really killing people.
Anzhai boats originally had heavy oars and large boats, usually forty paces long.
It has three or four decks, the main sail is smaller than the hull, and the duration of human-powered oars is too short.
In short, it is not a ship suitable for long-distance voyages, just like the oar-driving ocean-going ships of the Carthage period are suitable for the big bathtub of the Mediterranean.
Likewise, Anzha-bune and Kanbune-bune are suitable for small bathing areas like the Seto Inland Sea.
When more than twenty Anzha ships arrived in a dense formation.
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They saw the miserable scene of the doomsday again, and Mukai Tadakatsu was already numb.
He fell down on the upper deck and watched blankly as a ship slowly sank into the sea.
All the crew on the ship jumped into the sea and swam to other ships.
There were also some injured crew members who cried and screamed as the ship sank, and their blood slowly sank. of drifting away.
All this happened less than a hundred meters in front of Mukai.
But Mukai's ship could no longer save people.
The sailors rescued all morning had filled the ship's cabin deck, and more than twenty Anzhai ships could sail eastward without hesitation.
In the middle of the afternoon, huge sails began to appear behind them, and all the sailors in the fleet fell silent.
Mukai Tadakatsu used his telescope to see one gray-black devil ship after another appearing in the camera lens.
Akito's The fleet is coming.
Thinking about it, it's time to come.
The largest remaining fleet in Japan in this area is probably under his own command.
At this time, the Anzha ship no longer has the escort of the fire fleet, and they have already fled.
Mukai Tadakatsu had no idea of escape at this time.
The speed difference between the ships was too far, and the north wind was now strong.
The Ming army fleet at the rear was full of sails and pursued at twice the speed of Mukai fleet.
Escape was impossible.
Mukai Tadakatsu The ships were ordered to approach, and the navy prepared for war with all their strength.
At this time, Mukai was just thinking about dying in battle with honor, and said that Mukai's Miao character should not be humiliated.
The Hou Junji rode the wind and waves towards the Shogunate Navy in the south.
Gao Shuicheng held his hand on the side of the ship and visually measured the distance between the two sides.
Well, it would take a stick of incense to engage in the battle.
Gao Shuicheng turned his head and looked at the various wrecks of Japanese pirates that covered the sea.
Bloodthirsty joy filled his heart.
At this time, he couldn't help but think of his father's death without a burial place, and their family was in trouble because of this.
The few taels of pension money issued by the court could not last for more than a few months.
After all, a family of six or seven people had to eat.
Life was very hard at that time.
They could only eat real food for two or three months a year.
The rest was Bran uses wild vegetables and weeds to deal with them.
After finally reaching adulthood, he joined the military, and was favored by Mr.
Zhao and became his confidant.
This gradually improved the family situation.
However, the youngest sister still died of hunger and illness in the most difficult days.
When he thinks of this, Gao Shuicheng becomes extremely angry.
The dead bodies floating everywhere in front of him might frighten others, but he only felt extremely happy.
"Master Gao, we are about to engage in a battle.
Do you want to enter the lower deck?"
The sailor elder immediately stepped forward and asked.
After all, the lower deck is much safer.
Needless to say, the Polu Army Navy also stipulates that during artillery battles, the captain goes down to the lower deck and uses the porthole to observe the command to prevent the captain from being killed and leaving the group without a leader, while leaving the deck to the boatswain.
"No need, Lao Ma, I'll leave the deck to you.
I won't care about it, but today I will be here to watch how the cannons on the ship defeated the Jiannu.
I will take the blame in the future."
Gao Shuicheng shook his head and stood firm.
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He straightened his waist.
Lao Ma didn't try to persuade him any more.
As an old man from Weihai Navy, he knew Gao Shuicheng's background and knew that trying to persuade him would be useless.
During the meal, the opponent's fleet was two miles away.
Mukai ordered the big guns to fire.
Dozens of 12-pound cannons, 18-pound guns and Japanese-made big guns were fired.
The projectiles fired flew towards the Ming fleet, The three smaller battleships in the lead, the Peng Yue, were each hit several times.
The projectile hit the ship's deck and made a banging sound.
One of the mainmasts of the Feng Yi was shattered.
The net ladder and mast and sail were tilted.
The ship's speed immediately dropped, and its course also turned at an angle of 90 degrees.
Feng Yi No. took this to withdraw from the battle. before getting close to within a mile.
The shogunate navy fired another salvo.
The horizontal sails on the Peng Yue and Zhou Yafu were damaged, and the side of the Zhou Yafu was broken by an 18-pounder gun projectile, causing one gun crew casualty.
Then, the bombardment of the two warships began.
A total of twenty cannons on the sides of the two ships opened fire.
Most of the nearly ten Tiago cannons hit the target.
Except for one iron-clad house ship, which was hit with a big dent, the other two ships opened fire.
The middle decks of the two Anzhai ships were immediately shattered, and three projectiles each wreaked havoc.
After opening up three bloody paths, the sailors who were huddled together after being rescued escaped from the cage and entered the tiger's den.
The middle deck immediately became a hell of blood and fire.
Then the Anzha ship and the following Galen ship began to bombard each other with heavy artillery, and the sound of the cannons shook the strait for a while.
Thick smoke came and went.
Qian Er lit the match, and the 48-pound Tiago cannon in front of him trembled and sprayed out projectiles and thick smoke.
The sports car stepped back to release its force.
Qian Er did not see the huge impact caused by the Tiago cannon on the enemy ship more than 300 meters away. of damage.
He missed, and just when he was about to look back, a huge hole appeared in the opponent's upper deck, and another gun crew hit.
The crowds on the upper deck were thrown into the air in strange shapes, a large barrel was knocked off the deck, the mainmast was tilted, and the sunflower family crest was flying everywhere.
At this time, Qian Er heard the sound of banging hitting the cabin.
Fortunately, the five-hundred-ton warship was used for the decisive battle with the Dutch and French fleets in the future.
The ship's planks were thick and the eighteen-pound Apart from leaving deep marks on the outside and sending out plumes of smoke and dust inside the cabin, the projectiles did no major damage.
The twenty left gun groups on the deck loaded the artillery step by step, and then roared again.
Zhang Huan and two other sailors climbed up the ladder to sort out the upper sail that was shattered by the Japanese pirate cannon.
Zhang Huan cursed the Japanese pirates while climbing, but accidentally broke the upper sail.
The upper sail was farthest from the deck and repairing it was the most troublesome.
After reaching the top, , Zhang Huan discovered that the upper mast installed on the upper sail was cracked and needed to be replaced.
Zhang Huan ordered the other two sailors to go down and carry an upper mast part to replace.
He waited on the net ladder to disassemble the upper mast and removed the upper mast.
The upper mast fell to the deck with a cautious voice.
Zhang Huan took a moment to look around.
I saw the Wei Qing continuing to walk in the middle of the queue, and the lower artillery deck continued to spit out thick smoke.
The ship was constantly shaking due to the bombardment of the artillery, and the sides of several Anzhai ships on the east side were immediately shattered.
Zhang Huan looked at the scenery very much.
Zhang Huan felt that he was very adaptable to the current life.
The excitement was intense and sometimes frightening, especially when repairing damage during war.
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Sometimes it was very satisfying and satisfying to see the enemy being beaten hard.
At this time, two sailors, one after the other, were climbing up the ladder with the upper mast, which was not too long or too heavy.
Zhang Huan looked up and saw that there was still a few meters left.
Suddenly, a sailor was hit by a projectile.
Knocked away, blood and flesh sprayed everywhere, even on Zhang Huan's legs.
The topmast fell, and the accompanying force took the sailor at the other end of the topmast away from the ladder.
After falling a few meters, the sailor reached out and grabbed the ladder beside him, and then his body stopped falling.
In shock, he realized that his face was sticky.
It was muddy, and when he wiped it with his hand, it turned out that it was the blood of the sailor who was shot up above.
This made him almost vomit at an altitude of twenty meters.
Zhang Huan watched as the corpses of the sailors who were smashed into the sea slowly fell behind the ship.
This was not the only death he had ever seen, but this was the most tragic one.
With a whoosh, a scorching bullet flew past Gao Shuicheng less than two steps in front of him, causing his face to hurt.
Gao Shuicheng didn't even blink, and he didn't move at all.
"Tell the artillery deck that the shots should be fired more uniformly, and some of them are already scattered."
He turned to order a guard.
The guard hurriedly stepped down from the deck to report.
The Wei Qing was also hit many times.
Zhao Lie's guards, led by Zhao Da and Yu Dabao, nervously guarded Zhao Lie in armor and shields.
Zhao Lie was wearing armor all over his body at this time, mainly to prevent damage from fragments of wooden planks.
As for the intrusion of heavy artillery projectiles, he was resigned to fate.
If the projectiles directly hit him, the iron shields and armor of the surrounding guards would be nothing but clouds and would have no effect at all.
Of course, Zhao Lie was not born with strong nerves.
He was also tied up tightly during the first sea battle.
However, as time went by, he also figured out that there was nothing he could do if he was hit in the back.
There was no point in being frightened.
As for the boat, Zhao Lie just resigned himself to fate.
Besides, the Japanese pirates did not have heavy artillery larger than a twenty-four-pounder, so the reinforced bow cabin of the Wei Qing should be fine.
After nearly an hour of exchange of fire, the Galen fleet faced the hot cannon on the side of the Anzha ship and could only stop to dissipate heat for more than half an hour.
The Galen fleet began to turn around and planned to use the other side of the ship's cannon to meet the enemy.
At this time, there were only about ten complete Anzha ships on the sea, and the other ten or so Anzha ships either began to sink or were damaged and paralyzed at sea.
The five armored house ships were damaged in many places, and there was even a projectile embedded in the armored scull plate.
However, there was no major incident, except that half of the heavy guns on the upper deck were destroyed.
At that time, the warships in the East all placed artillery on the upper deck without covering it.
The Galen warships were often severely damaged.
Mukai Tadakatsu watched the Ming fleet turn around with a gloomy face.
He knew that he would definitely not be able to withstand the next attack.
The armored scull board was penetrated in many places when it encountered the enemy's heavy artillery, but it was not demolished like other Anzhai ships. , but it’s just a matter of time.
As usual, the sea is covered with corpses and sailors still swimming.
They will die of hypothermia after a few hundred breaths at this low temperature.
But this time, no one really cares about them.
They can only fend for themselves. .
Mukai has been through battles for a long time and is not afraid of death, but he doesn't want to die in such a miserable way, but it seems there is nothing he can do.
Mukai Tadakatsu tidied up his black gear, ordered the entire navy to fight to the death, and planned to station all the troops in Biarapo.
The shogunate naval forces were filled with fear as they watched the black fleet of the Ming army adjust sails and lead the whole team from a distance.
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The corpses on the sea were the next outcome.
However, the pride built up by the shogunate for more than 20 years prevented them from surrendering.
Silently waiting for their outcome.
After a meal, the black boat silhouette turned around and came back at full speed, riding the wind with the fearlessness and pride of a victor.
At this moment, strong winds came up and heavy rain fell, which really made the situation worse.
The shogunate naval artillery without cover could not be used.
The forward battleship of the Ming army fired, and the guns of several battleships demolished two Anzha ships in an instant.
The shogunate navy made few counterattacks, and most of the guns misfired.
Next, two iron-clad house ships were defeated.
The power of the 48-pound Tiago cannon could not be stopped by a thin iron plate.
The more than ten Tiago cannons of several Tang-class battleships in advance showed their power.
As the fleet continued to move forward, Mukai's ship was hit by two projectiles, one of which shattered and entered, causing huge casualties on the middle deck.
Then a shell passed over the upper deck and hit the edge of the cabin.
The splintered wood splinters were scattered in all directions.
Mukai Tadakatsu's left arm and right leg were numb, with a piece of wood splinter stuck in each.
Just when Mukai closed his eyes and waited to die, the heavy rain turned into rain and fog, and there was no trace within a hundred steps.
The battle between the two sides stopped.
Galen's fleet immediately lowered its sails and slowed down.
It would not be a joke if two giant ships collided.
The remaining Anzha ships of the shogunate navy were on the contrary.
They rode the strong wind and rushed eastward without hesitation.
Any collisions or running aground were just clouds.
The only thing that escaped and ascended was real.
Mukai Tadakatsu knelt down tremblingly and thanked the God of Hachiman.
He vowed at the top of his lungs to take revenge if he survived
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