Lord of Ming Dynasty

At this moment, the eighty traffic boats had already merged with the enemy's small warships. On the sea surface of nearly a dozen miles, the ships of both sides shuttled back and forth, constantly firing at each other. is in full swing.

"The enemy's fireboat over there took the east wind and went to the limelight. When the west wind turns, they can go down the current and attack our flank." Zhao Hui said to Feng Quan.

"Don't care about them, let the traffic ships around you deal with them and divide some of the 180-ton warships to help them deal with it. We will continue to advance towards the enemy." Feng Quan said to Zhao Hui while observing the enemy's movements, and at the same time said to Zhao Hui said the orderly.

The warships on both sides have already started fighting with the enemy. They have formed a battle line with the enemy. They are only 500 meters away from the enemy, about one mile away. , more than 32 shells landed around the enemy fleet, stirring up a water column more than ten meters high. Some enemy warships shook violently in the sea water, and some sailors on the top of the mast of some unsteady sailing ships could be seen like dumplings. Falling from a mast more than ten meters high, those who fell into the sea were fine, but those who hit the deck of the ship were either killed or seriously injured.

After the line of battle, there were more shells coming and going between the two sides, some hit, some missed, the sound of the guns rumbled, the smoke was confused, and the entire battle area became an area surrounded by fog, which had already affected the sight of observation.

"The enemy warships are still very brave. Their shells are closer than ours, about 50 meters away. Their artillery is still not as good as ours, but they are bravely approaching us despite our artillery fire. They will be able to hit us if they are 150 meters away." Feng Quan said happily.

Zhao Hui said with a smile: "In fact, they can also hit us, but they may want to get closer to improve the accuracy."

Generally speaking, the artillery of the Xinlu Mansion has a longer range and lighter weight than the artillery of the Lu State, because Zhang Qiang asked them to hand over to them to replace the old imitation Huaxia Army artillery on their ship. At least Xinlu Mansion belonged to the Huaxia Kingdom in the hands of Feng Quan, so Zhang Qiang had to improve their combat effectiveness, so he gave the Xinlu Mansion Navy the artillery used by the Huaxia Navy.

The artillery used by the enemy will be more complicated. There are the original imitation artillery of Lu State, the Qing army provided their imitation Lu State artillery, and the Qing army produced its own new artillery with the technology provided by the Dutch and Portuguese. 20 years is enough for the Qing army to get out of the closure of Daming and try to use new technologies and new artillery.

The two separate fleets brought two or three hundred warships of different sizes to fire and join the battle line. However, the navy of the State of Lu, now it should be said that the navy of the Four Kingdoms, because of the large loss of personnel and the old warships, In fact, their artillery is not as good as that of the Huaxia Army, so they also adopt a large-scale chaotic battle mode, trying to approach the Huaxia Army's Xinlu Navy, relying on chaotic warfare and jumping to win.

This is just like the beginning of the Qing army's cannon fodder braving the firepower of the Jinhua rebels' platoon guns, using their own flesh and blood to shorten the distance between themselves and the enemy, and it is as tragic as hand-to-hand combat.

Here, the second prince looks at the sea, feeling distressed that he is about to die. The naval force supported by the Japanese, the Anzhai ship is the largest transportation ship that is no bigger than his own, and his own navy has many old ships. These ships The same fishing boat went to the limelight to set fire, but the enemy's traffic boat had enough power to intercept them, and the two separated fire boat teams suffered heavy losses.

In less than half an hour, nearly [-] fireships were sunk by the enemy, and the fireboats that were going downwind were dodged by the enemy again. When they wanted to go to the limelight again, the fire on board was already confused, and the sailors could only Jump ship, soak in the battle zone and wait for rescue.

It's like dumplings in a pot, ups and downs by shells. Even if they want to leave here early, there is no way, because it is a time of war, and the ships of both sides shuttle back and forth. Anyone who stops will wait for the shells. Didn't dare you to stop and save them.

When nearly a hundred warships from the two Xinlu Mansions on the left and right passed by, these people basically turned into corpses, floating on the sea surface, looking horrific, the blood and even the sea water were dyed red, and the burning ships kept burning. More and more of them flowed down, burned themselves, were hit and burned, and were blown to pieces. Of course, it was not without merit. Several [-]-ton warships that had no time to dodge were hit and slowed down. Then the fire boat was nailed to where it was, and the fire suddenly ignited.

At 350 meters, the second prince saw that after half an hour of hard work, his fleet narrowed the distance with the enemy after losing 180 fire ships and dozens of large and small warships, and their shells began to gain accuracy. At this time, the enemy's [-]-ton ships that were swimming close to them began to be hit, one, two, and the enemy's small warships began to be sunk and damaged, but he was still not happy because their losses were still great .

The enemy's artillery is too strong, and the enemy's organization is too good. After helping the Chinese army destroy nearly [-] fishing boats converted from fishing boats from the left and right, and suppressing the harassment of the traffic boats on their own side, the two roundabout fleets They rushed directly into the fleet supported by the Japanese, and formed a crushing situation without firing cannons. Many Japanese fishermen, samurai, and sailors began to jump off the boat. They were killed if they didn't jump. May be rescued.

For an hour and a half, 20 small boats basically disappeared without a trace. The wounded escaped, the crushed ones were broken into pieces floating on the sea surface, the sunk ones were also broken into pieces, and the captured ones were thrown into pieces. Brought to the rear and protected by the Chinese army, the fleet on his own side lost more than [-] thousand-ton warships, and the other side only lost five or six thousand-ton warships. The entire fleet was overwhelmingly suppressed and retreated to the shore.

Warships were constantly being sunk and captured. The enemy's two squadrons sank all of their navy and fishermen, merchant ships, merchant ships supported by the Japanese, fishing boats, and warships, and lost about [-] ships. vessel.

This is already all the ships and sea forces of the four countries. The remaining more than 100 warships fled one after another, but they were entangled by the enemy and could not retreat quickly.

He has no choice now, he doesn’t have a single boat in his hand, and the hundreds of fishing boats and merchant ships reserved are what he plans to use for trade and fishing in the future. Shikoku Island is an island, Although it is close to the land of Japan, there is not enough food to eat. These 400 million people are a burden.

Two hours later, a few warships ran crookedly into the port, and the enemy surrounded other warships to attack. After three hours, the naval battle came to an end. The sea was full of burning warships of the navy, and soldiers who fell into the water like dumplings. and sailors.

The Huaxia Army's New Lufu Fleet began to arrange ships to salvage the prisoners. The rest of the fleet tentatively sent one or two large ships to explore the surrounding water depth. They stopped at a distance of seven miles and bombarded the docks and ports with the 32-pound cannon on the bow. .

The second prince, the little prince who had completed the mission, and the ministers of the four countries, the generals looked at the sea expressionlessly. They lost their superiority in the sea. Wounded ships that had entered the harbor were subsequently either shattered to pieces by enemy artillery, or sunk after being hit.

Shikoku has no navy anymore, and the enemy is still bombarding the docks and harbors with more than 24 pounds of artillery. Some ships are close to the coastline five miles away, trying to bombard the fishing villages and county towns on both sides, as well as coastal defense fortifications, and barracks. It was Japanese civilians running around, soldiers from the four countries, and the casualties were rising steadily.

Chapter 741 The Misfortune of Shikoku Island 4

Three hours wiped out the navy of the four countries, sunk 580 large and small ships, destroyed 230 large and small ships, damaged 140 and seven large and small ships, captured 270 large and small ships, captured 800 enemy sailors, and captured two enemy soldiers. Thousands of 200 people were killed, and Feng Quan was very satisfied with the result.

Because the Xinlu Mansion suffered little damage, but only ten warships sank, and half of them that could be called warships were over [-] tons, those under [-] tons were called warships, and those under [-] tons were called warships. Patrol boats, traffic boats, this is the classification of the ships in the Chinese navy. The ten sunk ships were all sunk during the battle, and several were burned to pieces by the enemy's arson ship. , disintegrated, and several were seriously injured and forced to withdraw from the battle.

This is the loss of the thousand-ton warships brought by Feng Quan of the Xinlu Mansion. They still have 57 or eight thousand-ton warships that can perform tasks.

Two 28-ton warships were sunk, seven were set ablaze, five were seriously injured, 33 were slightly injured, [-] [-]-ton warships were lost, and over [-] ships were lost under [-]-ton.

On the whole, the fleet that came this time lost over [-] large and small ships, but they also captured more than [-] large and small enemy ships. Although they were also injured, they can still be used as armed merchant ships after repairs, and many structures and artillery are removed for sale. For those merchants, this is a way for Xinlu Mansion to make money.

Feng Quan is already considering selling those fishing boats with minor injuries and little loss to the people and merchants of the Xinlu Mansion, as well as the merchant ships. Some of the warships will be left to enrich their own fleet to make up for the losses, and most of them will be handed over to the Huaxia Kingdom to compensate them. The Huaxia Kingdom's aid money is for the Huaxia Kingdom to sell by itself.

He set his eyes on the shore of Shikoku Island, looked at the smoky wharf and the warehouse beside the wharf that were bombarded, his heart was bleeding, it was all money, with this money, he could repay it to the Huaxia Kingdom as soon as possible, Then restore the loss of the Xinlu Prefecture Kyushu Island that was raided by the Four Kingdoms.

"Let the fleet find a suitable place to get close to some shores, and attack the enemy's fortifications, barracks, and soldiers' gathering places on the shore. Don't blow up those warehouses and villages, and even county towns don't need to be attacked."

On the opposite side, the eyes of the second prince were blazing. The pier was destroyed, the ships that could not be evacuated in the pier were sunk, blocked the channel, and the trestle was collapsed. It is impossible to go to the shore in the future. To repair these, Shikoku In terms of income, it is impossible. Many coastal fishing villages have been destroyed, and a large number of Japanese people have fled.

"Where are our coastal defense cannons? What about the second-hand goods that the Dutch sold us? Even if you can't hit the enemy, you have to ring for me, hit me, and sink the enemy. A fishing boat rewards ten Huaxia yuan. One thousand Huaxia Yuan will be rewarded for a merchant ship, ten thousand Huaxia Yuan will be rewarded for sinking an enemy warship, one hundred thousand Huaxia Yuan will be rewarded for sinking an enemy warship, and the officer will be promoted to three ranks." The second prince roared to the officials and officials around him. The general shouted loudly.

The yelling was not fruitless, it was useless, and soon the 24-pound artillery from the shore opened fire. This is the artillery that was dismantled from the bow of the Dutchman's ship. The second prince bought five for one hundred thousand silver. This kind of giant cannon can't be imitated, and the requirements are too high. Without advanced cannon casting technology, they can't make cannons that exceed [-] pounders.

With the firing of the shore defense artillery, the small warships five miles away from the coast, those 180-ton traffic ships and [-]-ton warships were like moving forward in a stormy sea, and they were smashed one after another. Many of them were hit by the enemy's coastal defense artillery. It's like a bird's nest that was stabbed at night, so many headless flies flew out all at once, and nearly [-] small warships that were infiltrating the entire coastline, probing the water depth, or bombarding the shore fortifications fled the vicinity one after another. coastal.

And the entire fleet seven miles away also began to spit out deadly flames. This time they used flowering bombs. Feng Quan was very annoyed at the enemy's tenacious resistance, so he used the small amount of ammunition in reserve, Huaxia Kingdom's flowering bombs, Suddenly on the sea, sparks flew from the shore, guns rumbled, and gunpowder smoke filled the air.

The bombardment went on for a whole day and night, and the entire west-facing coastline of Shikoku Island was bombarded. From the woods, to the turf, to the thatched cottages, to the inner courtyard of the imperial palace, to the exquisite Japanese buildings, they were all burning. They shot almost all the shells they brought, and moved all the shells from the four countries on the captive ship to their own artillery, but they ran out of strength.

As a result, there were no people within five miles of the coast of Shikoku Island. The coastal defense artillery was blown up, and the artillerymen were killed and injured.

Of course, the Navy of the Xinlu Mansion was not without damage. Nearly a hundred of the main bombardment warships over [-] tons were more or less injured, and some even suffered heavy losses. And food ships, troop carriers escorted by good warships, returned to Kagoshima County for supplies and maintenance.

In comparison, the four countries suffered heavy losses. All villages, towns, counties, coastal fortifications, coastal defense artillery, population, and troops on the west coast of the coast were destroyed.

Such a large loss country, their sneak attack on Kagoshima County caused the loss to Xinlu Prefecture several times higher. The important thing is that the 3 militiamen near the coastal fortifications killed and injured more than [-], and their morale was broken. Troops without morale are not bad. troops?That's lamb.

The navy was annihilated, the capital belonged to the second prince and the 3000 militiamen under their direct control were demoralized, and 5000 troops were killed or injured. Even the regular army directly under them also fired at the shore artillery. More than [-] artillerymen died and more than [-] were injured. None of the remaining artillerymen dared to fiddle with the cannons, and the confidence of the other soldiers was also shaken. There were deserters, and as soon as they took off their clothes, they turned around and fell into the darkness.

The little prince was very anxious and shouted to his father: "Father, you can't do this anymore. We have to fight back. Isn't the Dutch fleet in the inner bay? Let them fight, and I will lead the team. We must give the Chinese army Xinlu Mansion The naval fleet is a good looking one, sneak attacking them, they don’t have many warships available now, they have no shells, and they can’t wait for their ships escorting the captives to come back to bring supplies, otherwise, we can only be with them on land tomorrow It's a decisive battle."

The second prince sat still, and said leisurely: "We just want to fight the enemy on land. What we lost was the coastal defense cannons. Those cannons are useless for land battles, but we still have mobile field cannons, and There are 6 soldiers in the regular army, 20 of the 400 militia belonging to Kochi County, and more than 200 militia belonging to our capital. This is [-] troops. The enemy landed with at most tens of thousands of troops. The enemy, hit the enemy head-on, the enemy can destroy our coastal cities, docks, and coastal fortifications, but they cannot kill all of us, we still have [-] million people, if you pull it casually, there are [-] million soldiers ready to fight."

The little prince shouted anxiously: "Father, why are you so confused? What you fight now is firepower, firearms. As long as there are enough firearms, cannons and muskets can make an enemy army several times larger than you lose their combat effectiveness. They are a bunch of lambs, a bunch of walking corpses."

A Japanese official left behind by a Japanese daimyo general said cautiously: "Your Highness, why don't we negotiate peace with the enemy?"

Chapter 742 There Are Too Many Japanese to Handle

Zhang Qiang looked at the dilapidated warships returning one after another, and listened to the report from the prefect of Xinlu Prefecture, "One hundred sixty-ton traffic ships sank, two hundred were damaged, and 500 casualties were left. 700 wounded and unfit for combat were found, and the ships that transported the prisoners returned with this time.

120 warships of 180 tons were sunk, 160 were damaged, and the damaged ships also returned. The casualties were 500, of which 100 were missing, and the others who were found also returned.

Thirty warships of 790 tons were sunk and 300 were injured. The damaged ships lost a total of [-] nine people and [-] wounded.

28-ton ships sank 37 ships, 500 were injured, and [-] people were killed or injured. Those who were slightly injured have been diverted to other intact ships, and those who were seriously injured were brought back. The combat personnel also returned.

22 ships of 77 tons were sunk, 4000 ships were damaged, [-] of them were seriously injured, and the casualties were [-] and [-] people. The slightly injured ships and personnel were still on the battlefield, and the seriously injured and unsuitable ships and personnel were also returned. up.

Seven thousand-ton warships suffered casualties, and 23 were slightly injured. They all stayed on the battlefield, and the injured returned.

Hundreds of enemy warships, large and small, as well as passing merchant ships and hundreds of fishing boats were captured, and they have been escorted back one after another. "

From the bottom of his heart, Zhang Qiang is not optimistic about this expedition, because the Xinlu Mansion is still very fragile, and 80.00% of their people are Japanese people. They are Japanese. In fact, the Xinlu Mansion is also a foreign regime, a team of Han Chinese from Lu State. They landed in Japan The island is equivalent to an event like Jurchen Dajin's invasion of Ming Dynasty. They are now similar to the Qing Dynasty, using 90.00% of the population and ethnic groups to control the remaining [-]% of the enemy's native ethnic groups.

The Japanese nation is well integrated. In the thousands of years of history, those tribes and nationalities in Japan have long since disappeared. The Japanese have long been a Japanese nation. It can be regarded as the epitome of a Chinese nation, with low self-esteem and small peasant style. The cunning, arrogance, conceited, a little achievement, proud of not knowing what to believe, floating up for a while and then being beaten into a mess by a more powerful nation, after a painful experience.

Because they are small in size, they devote themselves to development and want to surpass them. The enemy will not exterminate them because of their size. Therefore, they have countless opportunities to rise up, but the Chinese nation is not good, and their size is too large. It is very difficult to reverse it in a short period of time, and it will take three to four hundred years.