367 Zhanlu Unsheathed
I don’t know who called out that sound, but only heard the continuous ups and downs, and many people on the boat were shouting.
New banners were set on dozens of huge kites, and dozens of super flying swallow boats on the periphery sped around.
The Japanese general Ashikaga Yoshimasato didn't know about the war.
The most typical case in Japan is the following, and this time is no exception.
Yu Qian was drawing circles at the sea chart, but he didn't understand, very much. Why did the Japanese have only a few small boats surrounded by them? Can this small broken boat block the huge Great White Shark? Even if they didn't use weapons, they could only watch them. But no matter what, the Japanese still attacked.
Bai Minghe stood on the roof deck of the highest floor of the Dafu ship, and the sword tip of Zhanlu stood down in front of Bai Minghe.
"I can't understand the Japanese naval battle." Bai Minghe turned around and asked Chen Ada behind him: "What do you think? Why did they send a hundred and ten single sailboats here? They should use their superior forces to attack. Kill my ship is the best strategy."
Chen Ada shook his head, but he couldn't understand it either.
The Japanese navy was not able to produce so many ships in one family. Thousands of ships came from Thirteen Daming and the fleet of the General's Mansion. They had unified command personnel, but no unified command.
Some ships wanted to pick up the ingots and silver, while others thought they had won and the Ming people had already escaped.
Only the general's mansion understands that killing Bai Minghe can be the end of this naval battle.
"Everyone, the Ming people only threw down iron and silver. The big ship drank so deep, and what they pulled was a ship of gold. For the sake of gold, go forward." The captain of the general's mansion kept passing such orders everywhere.
Finally, the Japanese fleet began to formally assemble and quickly chased Bai Minghe.
It's getting dark, and it's impossible to fight a naval battle at night, because you can't see the other party's ship and you can easily hurt your own people by chance. Therefore, the Japanese's combat plan is to just surround the fleet of Baiminghe before dark.
If you look down from a high altitude, the Japanese fleet seemed to have opened their arms and surrounded the Baiming Crane's ships layer by layer in the sea area of nearly 100 square kilometers in Fangyuan.
"The game begins!" Bai Minghe took Zhan Lu back his scabbard and turned toward the Chuankuang.
Chen Ada shouted: "Round formation, defend the enemy!"
The ship that guarded the White Crane was only ten warships with 2,000 materials. At this time, it began to form a circle around the Great White Shark. The outer armor began to be installed on the outside, pushing all the artillery fire to the outside. For the convenience of counterweight, the steel ingots brought on the ship were transferred to the inside, and the entire ship was anchored, and there was no intention to move again.
The Nanjing Navy at Naha Port began to head north quickly, but once they received the signal, their mission was to block the sea area on the east side of the Yongliangbu Island in later generations.
"Duke, the flagship has come with a signal, Zhanlu is out of the sheath!"
Xu Chengzong, who led the team personally, was stunned for a moment. This order was a bit strange. But when he thought about it, he could understand that it was probably the young man Bai Minghe who drew his sword and shouted excitedly to start the war, and then the following transmission turned into this. Although Bai Minghe was arrogant, he was not so uncontrollable.
"Tell me the words, Zhan Lu is out of the sheath!" Xu Chengzong repeated and continued to order: "It is estimated that the decisive battle will be tomorrow dawn. All gunners will clean up the boreholes, count the gunpowder, and polish the shells."
Why do you need to polish the shells? This cast iron ball needs to be oiled. This can reduce the friction on the barrel.
To the east of the sea, about a hundred miles away from the white-famous crane. Lei Jingtian from the Guangdong Navy was sharpening his knife. He was naked under the moonlight and sat on the deck, grinding his sword forcefully again and again.
The adjutant couldn't bear it anymore and stepped forward and said, "Tomorrow morning, let us shoot with cannon wheels, and we are not allowed to approach the war. What Xiaobai said is that the future naval battle is a war of cannons, and there is almost no possibility of two ships fighting with knives by the side."
"I like sharpening my knife!" Lei Jingtian cursed.
Looking at the battle knife in his hand, Lei Jingtian thought about it and stuffed the knife to the adjutant. He kicked a soldier on the deck who was rubbing the cannon chamber aside, snatched the cavities and brushed them again and again, and was very powerfully brushing the cannon chamber.
The adjutant signaled that the soldiers could flash their lives and that the cannon belonged to the general.
"It's been a long time since we started fighting." Lei Jingtian suddenly stopped and sighed.
War! Many people were sighing that Lan Hai was also sitting on his flagship, playing with a string of shells in one hand and holding an unlit cigar in the other.
"General, the order given by the above is inaccurate. He only said that it was a siege to start a war, but he did not say who would fire the first shot first. Should we wait until the big ship starts and then take action, or should we fire the shot first according to tactics."
A good question, Lan Hai didn't realize this, and it is definitely a matter of who fired the first shot.
"In theory, it should be the first shot of the main flagship. But tactical, we completed the job of plagiarism, and the shooting is telling everyone that they can start a war. So, the team responsible for the raid was arranged to lie behind the opponent, and there was no first shot, and they all fired three rounds of volleys."
“Then…”
"Xiaobai is not a person who cares about such trivial matters. If he cannot teach the Japanese a lesson, he will probably curse people."
The Ming Dynasty's ship was sharpening its knives, and both sides were looking forward to the moment when the sun rose.
But the Japanese were singing. They all saw the big ship of Baiminghe being surrounded by them. They only thought of rushing up to dawn, stealing silver, and robbing women.
The sky finally dawned, and a touch of white appeared on the east side.
"Kill it!" The real main force of the Japanese fleet, Da'an Zai Ship, is 15 meters long. It has only a huge sail and has nearly a hundred oars. Its speed is much slower than the real speed of the great white shark. The White Crane really doubts that this thing dares to come to the sea, it is just a flatbed.
Forty Da'an House ships are open at the same time.
Bai Minghe's heart suddenly rose. They were thinking about whether the layer of steel armor they gave to those warships temporarily can withstand the enemy's shelling, and it would be bad if they hurt themselves.
The soldiers on the ship here were not afraid at all, and began to skillfully load and fill in bullets, waiting for the order to fire the gun.
Suddenly, countless thin musket barrels stretched out from the Da'an House boat!
Bai Minghe almost fell from the top of the building: "What is that? Is it a musket?"
"Sir, it's a musket, but it's a very old musket. It should be a musket we smuggled from our Ming Dynasty and we no longer use now." An escort said from the side.
"What kind of war is this? Let a group of kittens besiege the tigers. Order each ship to control the artillery. Each ship allows a total of fifteen guns to be fired. This will assign the forty slow snail-like ships to see who sinks the most." Bai Minghe gave a strange order.
However, the order is an order, and this order was quickly passed to ten warships surrounding the great white shark.
The full number of 16 unilateral cannons of a warship of two thousand materials is sixteen. In addition to the bow cannon and stern cannon, up to 18 cannons can be fired on one side.
The Japanese opened fire first, and the volley of hundreds of muskets on forty boats was also very spectacular.
The people on the warship here were hiding behind the armor and heard the occasional sound of lead bombs hitting the steel plate.
"Prepare, each artillery position!" As a red flag waved down, the Ming warship fired. A volley, 150 artillery shells made the wood chips of the Anzhai ship on the Japanese island fly all over the sky, but only two of them began to sink the ship because the shells fell on the waterline. The rest heard only screams, but there was no fire.
The Ming Dynasty shells were a must-have pig iron bomb. They could be crushed and injured, but they could not make them burn.
The Japanese were a little panicked. They could not imagine what a weapon with such a huge impact. They only heard loud noises and saw the smoke of gunpowder. Then the sea overlord-level Da'an sabbatical ship they were proud of was seriously injured. Any attack could completely penetrate their ship.
Although there was no fire, dozens of casualties were killed and at least one-third of the water above the ship was destroyed.
The musketeers were frightened, the oarsmen lost their command, and they only wanted to escape, and they let the ship spin on the spot. The two Anzhai boats that were about to die deeper jumped into the sea to prepare to escape.
Many twenty-meter-sized ships that were preparing to attack on the outside stopped and were in a mess.
After seeing this devastating power, they felt scared.
"Sir, please give an order!" Chen Ada asked Bai Minghe on the side.
Bai Minghe stared at the sea and was a little dazed. This situation was so different from the war he imagined. It was a mess in one round of artillery attacks. According to the documentary he had watched, it should be rushing to the front and bombarding at this time, and then occupy the upper hand and fight with the advantage of quantity.
"Wait!" Bai Minghe spitted out a word for a long time.
Wait! What kind of order is this? Stop casually during a war will affect morale.
Seeing that Chen Ada didn't understand, Bai Minghe explained:
"No hurry, let's delay the time now. See if they will come to rescue these people, and order the gun positions to reload the bullets. Prepare the stone catapult, prepare the incendiary bombs, prepare the bed crossbow, prepare the bow and crossbow!" Bai Minghe continued to order. He did not intend to put himself and others in a tough battle, especially in hand-to-hand combat.
As he was talking, artillery fired from all directions and rolled up and down, but Bai Minghe only had one volley.
Nearly 500 warships of the regular army of the Ming Navy were surrounded and suppressed the 1,000 ships that were pieced together in chaos on the Japanese island. What surprised Bai Minghe the most was that there was no artillery in the entire Japanese fleet.
"Why don't they have artillery?" Bai Minghe didn't understand.
Chapter completed!