The Li Jing was one mile behind the twenty vanguard patrol ships.
The reason why it was so close to the front was that Li Hu could command the fleet more conveniently.
Nowadays, fleet command relies on drums and flags, but if the fleet commander does not know the situation in front of the formation, there is no point in commanding.
Li Hu saw the enemy's formation in the telescope and couldn't help sighing.
This North Korean navy was quite capable.
He really put up a decisive battle posture with the big ship in front.
Li Hu did not interfere with the fleet's operations, and the fleet continued to move forward.
He just stood on the deck and looked at this huge fleet composed of more than a hundred warships, and a surge of pride and ambition surged into his heart.
How did Li Hu go from a small guard to the commander of a navy with more than 100 warships and nearly 20,000 men?
Without him, he just followed the right person.
It is precisely because of the heroic figures like the Second Young Master who dare to think and do what he and the captains are today.
Now that Mr.
Zhao Lie is not in Jeju, he, Li Hu, is going to use a Dasheng made it clear to the adults that he has not and will not live up to their expectations.
The two fleets are getting closer and closer, and now they are within three miles.
At this time, Li Hong, who was on the right, completely saw this Ming Dynasty force.
Good guy, what about forty or fifty Western barbarian warships?
What the hell is this spying done?
You don't know how to count them.
This is just his ship.
There were dozens of ships twice the size, and dozens of warships about the same size as his own ship.
Li Hong was completely cold at this moment, and he had a premonition that he was going to die.
Not only Li Hong, but other North Korean generals were also shocked by the huge Jeju Navy.
However, it was impossible to retreat at this time.
The only way was to fight in advance to see if the fireships behind had a chance to defeat the enemy with fire. , as for the defeat of the enemy warships in front, that is just a joke.
Sun Zhengzai, who was in the middle of the formation, had a livid face.
He did not expect that the situation was not only as dangerous as Wen Quantai said, but also extremely dangerous.
He only saw dozens of large Xiyi warships standing like hills.
This battle was bound to be defeated.
Undoubtedly, he suspected that the warships ahead might be defeated in a single battle.
He eagerly used drums and flags to urge the fire fleet behind him to advance.
It doesn't take a clever mind to figure out that the key to the North Korean Navy's victory in this battle was the sudden fireboat fleet on C.
The only hope of success is that before the battleships in front are defeated, the fire fleet joins the battle and takes advantage of the chaos to set fire.
If the fire fleet continues as slowly as it does now, it will be too late to do anything.
While he was busy, the drums and trumpets of the Ming army sounded in the distance, and the Ming army's fleet began to change its formation.
The patrol fleet in front of the Ming army was divided into two and surrounded the Korean navy on the left and right.
The huge warships behind followed them and also moved separately.
The North Korean generals are all confused.
How is this a method of fighting?
Water battles are always about big ships eating small boats.
The confrontation between the two armies is nothing more than mutual shelling, boarding battles, and fire attacks.
However, no matter how they get close, they can bombard them.
Fire attack, what kind of tactics is this?
Sun Zhengzai had forgotten to command the fleet.
He just watched stupidly.
Besides, he couldn't change his formation.
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Could it be divided into two parts like the Ming army?
The calm was quickly broken because the Ming warships came within two miles.
At this moment, both sides began shelling almost simultaneously.
The side window of the Polu Navy warship opened, and the cannon sprayed out large streams of smoke and projectiles.
With a roaring sound, the projectiles rushed toward the Korean warship with whistling sounds.
Almost at the same time, artillery roared from the Korean warships.
Although each of their ships could only have four or five cannons to bombard them at this distance, and only the first few ships, they still had to bombard them.
No one wanted to just get beaten.
Several Korean warships raised large plumes of smoke.
The ship's planks were broken in many places, and some of the mainmasts were damaged and torn apart.
The shelling of Korean warships also achieved results, and some warships of the Polu Navy were also hit by projectiles and raised smoke.
However, the destructive effect of the Thousand-pound Furlong Machine on the thick planks of the Galen ship was really limited.
In addition to the broken upper sail, which made the Jeju Navy a little embarrassed, the rest only left some deep bullet marks on the side of the ship.
As the two fleets continued to approach, the captain of the Li Jing issued a warning and asked the commander Li Hu to enter the lower deck to escape.
Li Hu had no choice but to obey.
This was stipulated by the Polu Army Navy, and he had no choice but to obey this command.
Lan San's Nishiura had just completed a bombardment.
The Swanzai on the side of the ship came up, opened all the portholes, and then let out a full roar.
Ten long-barreled cannons and ten Tiago cannons sprayed out from the side.
Large plumes of smoke.
From Lan San's point of view, it looks like a small volcanic eruption, violent and awe-inspiring.
At this time, more than forty Sui-class and Tang-class warships in both directions had arrived at the bombardment position.
Suddenly, more than twenty small volcanoes in front erupted, and four to five hundred artillery pieces fired one after another within a few dozen breaths. .
The smoke that rose up after the propellant powder burned temporarily covered the entire sea surface, and many missed projectiles hit the sea surface with large water columns, which was quite spectacular.
Some of the projectiles plunged into the side of the Korean warship with a whistling sound, making a huge cracking sound.
The broken shipboards scattered like flowers and rain, but what they brought to the Korean soldiers was death.
Many soldiers were hit by the rain of wood chips.
Howling for life, the scene was bloody.
Wen Quantai's face was ashen as he looked at the warships on both sides of Gyeongsang Province, which seemed to have been dismantled, with broken bodies everywhere, and even some people's bodies were hit and fell into the sea.
His ship was in the middle and survived.
Wen Quantai was not thankful because it would be a matter of time.
The two naval forces gritted their teeth and persisted, waiting for the fire fleet to enter the battle.
However, the Jeju Navy continued to move forward along the left and right wings of the North Korean Navy.
The twenty warships behind them came up and opened fire, almost completely destroying several Korean warships on the outer edge.
The side of each ship was full of damage. d.
The mainmast and mainsail were broken into pieces and almost stopped adrift on the sea.
Seawater began to seep into the ship from the broken place.
Almost all the artillery on the Korean warships were destroyed, making counterattack impossible.
A large piece was cut off on the left and right sides of the North Korean fleet formation.
The Jeju fleet continued to move forward fearlessly to the north.
Li Hong was about to get scared.
When had the Weihai Navy ever experienced such a bloody and cruel battle?
The Jiannu Navy was simply a decoration.
In the Dongjiang Liaodong Navy, it was a transportation brigade, transporting soldiers, food, grass and baggage, and then fighting. pirate.
Today's scene of thousands of cannons firing in unison that shook the world completely shattered their fighting spirit.
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When the vanguard of the Jeju Navy arrived nearby, more than a dozen Weihai Navy warships nearby opened fire impatiently.
The roar of more than a dozen Hongyi cannons and fifty or sixty thousand-pound furlong machines was also spectacular.
As for the effect, only God knows.
A quarter of the artillery hit the target at a distance of one mile, but the projectiles of the thousand-pound furlong machine were more like tickling, while the nine-pound and twelve-pound Hongyi cannons were nothing more than scratches.
It just left deep bullet marks on the side of the opponent's ship.
Only fragments of the ship's rigging showed the results of their battle.
At this time, the warships of the Jeju Navy opened fire one after another.
The results of this battle were the same as before.
The warships of the Weihai Navy proved to be just made of wooden boards.
Under the bombardment of hundreds of artillery, half of the projectiles hit these ten Several warships opened countless broken holes like cans, causing heavy casualties among the soldiers.
Li Hong watched all this in horror from the inner side.
How could this battle be fought?
The rockets and kerosene on the ship were simply not enough, and the few cannons were not enough to scratch the itch.
Just keep going like this?
All his hopes now are pinned on the fire ship that will catch up immediately.
The Jeju Navy's left wing bombardment encountered some problems because they encountered turtle ships.
These heavy ships wrapped in thin iron sheets blocked the impact of many projectiles.
Although some projectiles still penetrated the armor, most of them were Deformed by impact, or embedded between the iron sheet and the wooden board below.
This also made Sun Zhengzai, who was holding the battle here, breathe a sigh of relief, hoping that the damage to the turtle ship was not serious.
At this time, the fire ship was already level with the turtle ship, and it was time to stand out and attack the enemy.
Sun Zhengzai gritted his teeth and looked fiercely at the enemy ship opposite.
He ordered the fire ship and the warship to attack the enemy ship together.
Success or failure depended on this.
At this moment, the enemy's warships also sounded drums and trumpets, and the enemy warships began to turn their bows one after another.
Of course, there is a process for turning around.
At this time, the oarsmen of the North Korean fireboat fleet rushed towards the enemy ship with all their strength.
Four hundred steps, three hundred steps, two hundred steps, we are here.
The enemy ships have turned around and left.
Although the recent fire ship even fired rockets and ignited some sails and rigging, that was all, and there was no possibility of getting closer.
The Jeju fleet sailed away.
Wen Quantai, Sun Zhengzai, Luo Tiehu and others looked on the verge of tears.
Why the hell did they leave?
This, the hell shouldn't be, shouldn't be.
Li Hong felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
It was over.
He had always been very quick-witted.
He could tell at a glance that the enemy was planning to use cannons to blow up the entire fleet, and had no plans to engage in boarding or fighting.
Li Hong's guess was absolutely right.
What Zhao Lie said most to the naval generals was that the only thing that could threaten the Polu navy on this sea, whether it was the Japanese navy or the Korean navy, was fire ships.
Therefore, against this The two countries just strike and leave, never engage in close combat, and do not give their opponents a chance to fish in troubled waters.
Li Hu completely followed the tactics arranged by Zhao Lie, which was to take off with one strike, destroy some of your warships in one strike, attack the enemy several times, and eat the enemy in several bites, and never be greedy for credit.
Sun Zhengzai watched blankly as the enemy ships left in the distance.
He also knew the enemy's tactics and what to do.
He had no moves at all to meet the enemy, so what should he do?
At this time, the drums and trumpets of the Weihai Navy of the Ming Army in the west were blaring.
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Under the command of the drums and flags, the Ming Army warships began to turn northwest and move forward, even several warships that were broken and seriously injured were no exception.
At this time, Sun Zhengzai felt a little moved in his heart.
Damn, the soldiers of Shangguo are brave.
This is a decisive battle with Jeju Mingren.
It is indeed the style of Shangbang, a great country.
However, the Weihai Navy sailed in the wrong direction and actually gave up on the enemy due west and sailed straight to the northwest.
Damn, you are trying to escape, Peat.
Do you want to show the face of the sovereign state?
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