The fighting was vigorous on land, and the sea was also very lively. In order to support Kato Kiyomasa, the entire Kumano navy of Kuki Yoshitaka was dispatched. More than 200 warships were densely packed almost all over the sea outside Nagato.

I don’t know how they contacted each other, but when Kato Kiyomasa was attacking, Kuki Yoshitaka also started his attack!

Ten ships equipped with Folan cannons rushed to the front. The hulls of these ships were all covered with iron sheets. Their protection against firecrackers was very strong. As for bows and arrows, they had no way to deal with such ships.

After summarizing the last naval battle, Kuuki Yoshitaka found that the Pido navy's cannons were sharp. But there seemed to be no cannons on the ship, so he escaped unscathed. This time Kato Kiyomasa learned his lesson and let the warships equipped with Folang machine cannons

Charge at the front. Although this so-called "iron-armored ship" is very slow, it is better because of its sharp cannon fire and thick skin. Ordinary fire cannons cannot penetrate the iron-clad side of the ship.

Jiugui Yialong believed that this perfectly restrained the advantage of Pidao Navy. As for the bombing of Huang Taiji's boat last time, Jiugi Yialong felt that his Fo Lang machine gun definitely had a farther range than that kind of cannon.

The mighty fleet sailed into the Nagato Inland Sea, facing the pitifully small combined fleet.

There is one navy warship on Phi Island, and the rest are warships converted from cargo ships. Moreover, the cargo ships only have trebuchets and no other naval warfare weapons at all. Once someone joins the fight, they will basically be useless.

The Maori navy, which started as a navy, is very elite. Unfortunately, the Maori navy has been short of finances in recent years and has suffered a serious loss of personnel. Currently, there are only about fifty ships equipped with two Fran cannons.

However, the Maori navy looked extremely tough, with two warships equipped with French cannons rushing at the front. The remaining warships were filled with naked guys with only a loincloth covering their bodies.

These guys were waving knives in their hands and shouting like madmen. Li Xiu rolled his eyes!

He didn't even have a piece of armor on his body, and when a row of muskets were fired at him, he didn't know how many people were going to die. Only this bunch of heartless people could think of how to die.

Li Xiu ordered his warships to line up in a row, and the trebuchets on the ship were ready to launch at any time.

On the opposite side, Jiuki Jialong's warships were also lined up, with ten "iron boats" rushing at the front.

"Boom", "boom", "boom"...! Relying on the sharp fire, Jiuki Jialong opened fire first.

The Fran cannons of today are almost the same as muskets. They are not accurate at any distance! When the shells are fired, God knows whether they will hit. Even the best gunners dare not say that on rough seas.

The first hit. If you want to hit the target hard, you can only shoot in volley.

Jets of water surged up all around the fleet!

The Nagato Inland Sea is a much bigger one, with dozens of ships crammed into it. It is inevitable that there will be a few unlucky ones! This unlucky guy is the leader of the navy of the Mori family, Ezuo Shinyuemon

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This guy commanded a warship equipped with a Franco machine gun. He immediately fired back when he saw the enemy firing. His cannonballs didn't even touch the enemy's hair, but the enemy discovered him. The ship equipped with a Franco machine gun

Warships will definitely be given priority.

I don't know if Ezuo Shinyuemon has the physique to attract cannonballs, or if he is particularly unlucky today. The other party just fired a salvo, and his boat was hit by three cannonballs.

There were screams and debris flew everywhere, and one of the cannonballs hit the sail of the ship. The mast, which was thicker than an elephant's leg, was suddenly broken from the middle. The fallen mast killed three panicked sailors.

It hit the sea.

Fortunately, the cannonballs in these days were all big solid iron balls, otherwise the ship would have been basically useless if it hadn't sunk.

Seeing that the enemy's artillery fire was attracted by Jiangzuo Shinyuemon, Li Xiu estimated the distance.

"The bronze cannon is aimed at those warships covered with iron sheets!" Li Xiu knew that the biggest threat to him from the Xiongye Navy was the warships equipped with Fran cannons. The first target of the bronze cannon was aimed at them.

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In order to increase the hit rate, Li Xiu's boat sailed very slowly. The hull was kept as stable as possible!

This is very dangerous, and the slow-moving ship is basically a target, but now the opponent's firepower has been attracted by Ezuo Shinyuemon.

"Boom!" The copper-barreled cannon roared, and the shells came out of the barrel like lightning.

"Bang!" The cannonball shattered the iron-clad side of the ship and shot directly into the cabin of the warship. Immediately afterwards, there was a huge roar.

The iron boat of the Kumano Navy exploded like a big firecracker. The huge explosion lifted the superstructure more than ten meters high. Thick black smoke rose into the sky and shot straight into the sky, which looked very scary.

Li Xiu also didn't expect that he was so lucky that it exploded. The first shell shot into the enemy ship, and it seemed that it shot into the ammunition compartment. When the shell exploded, it also ignited the enemy's ammunition.

The unlucky warship sank quickly before the fire even started to burn. Li Xiao saw many people with fire on their bodies jumping into the sea water!

Kuki Yoshiro felt a cold chill on his back. What kind of thing did the opponent use? He actually killed a ship with one shot? The Maori warship opposite had been hit by six or seven shots, but it was not hit at all.

Accomplish this virtue.

"Charge, the whole army charges." Jiugui Jialong immediately ordered.

Having experienced countless battles, Jiuki Jialong knew that he should rush over and engage in close combat with the enemy at this time. If the two armies were mixed together, the advantage of the enemy's firearms would not be brought into play. If he fought with long-range weapons, even if his entire army was destroyed, he would not be able to take advantage of it.

Can't beat the opponent.

Countless speedboats passed over the slow-moving iron boats and rushed toward the combined fleet crazily. At least ten ships rushed toward Li Xiu, and their copper cannons sparkled in the sun, making them very conspicuous.

The iron boats fired continuously to cover the fleet approaching the Maori family. As long as the two armies were mixed together, with their huge numerical advantage, the Kumano navy would almost definitely win!

Li Xiu still maintained a slow speed. After reloading, he fired again. This time he did not hit the enemy ship. He only fired a near-miss! Even so, the water column that exploded and shot into the sky scared Jiuki Jialong.

.This thing can actually explode in water!

The gunners reloaded nervously, but a Japanese pirate ship was already approaching about a hundred steps away.

"Boom!" The clipper ship at the front exploded in a burst of fire, and the blazing fire sent up large plumes of black smoke.

Li Xiu's ship was surrounded by more than a dozen modified cargo ships. There were two trebuchets on the decks of these cargo ships, and they fired Li Xiu's improved cannonballs.

This kind of cannonball is full of thorns, even if it is thrown on the side of a local ship. Under the action of inertia, those spikes will nail the cannonball to the side of the ship. Once the fuse is set, a huge explosion will tear the wooden side of the ship apart.

The broken hull fragments can fly more than a hundred meters away, and even people can be blown up.

Ezuo Shinyuemon looked at the Kumano Suijun warships that kept exploding in surprise. It turned out that trebuchets could still be used in this way. Although Japan was underdeveloped, its army had also been equipped with trebuchets. But with the introduction of firearms, trebuchets

This thing has been gradually phased out. The powerful princes prefer the guns of the Franco-Japanese people rather than the outdated trebuchets.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"...! As the trebuchet was launched, the Japanese speedboats emitted flames and thick smoke one after another. The broken corpses of Xiongye navy were everywhere on the sea, and there were also

There are fragments of the wreckage of the warship. No one could have imagined that the Kumano navy, which had not been able to take a chance just now, was now in such a mess.

Although the Piedao navy fired at the fastest speed, many Kumano navy's fast boats rushed up. They rushed into the Maori family's fleet, and as long as the ship was close, the arquebusiers began to fire.

, and even closer, countless flying claws hooked onto the side of the ship. Some tough guys actually stepped on the rope and rushed towards the opposite ship.

By this time, crossbows were also useful. Although they were not as powerful as muskets, they were faster in firing.

People kept getting hit by arrows and fell off the ropes and fell into the sea! Even if they fell into the sea, these people still swam towards the enemy warships with knives in their mouths.

The Kumano navy was indeed powerful, and they had only been engaged in the battle for half an hour. They had already killed no less than ten Maori warships. The dead were thrown into the sea, and the sharks that usually only swim in the open sea immediately

There were more of them. The sea surface became more noisy, and the splash of sharks eating carcasses was very big.

More than a dozen ships formed an iron barrel formation, and trebuchets continued to throw hedgehog bombs! Twenty kilograms of blasting shells were used for long distances, and fifty kilograms of blasting shells were used for short distances.

The fifty kilograms of explosive bombs are so powerful that just one can blow the opponent's ship apart. The fragments from the ship can even fly to Li Xiao's ship. A broken arm was almost smashed

On Li Xiu's face. This was the biggest threat Li Xiu had ever received in this battle.

If the opponent gets too close, some strong guys will use the cover of the ship's side to start throwing incendiary bombs. This thing is not much different from a grenade, except that it will not explode, but will burn violently.

The biggest fear of wooden ships is fire. As long as a few incendiary bombs are burned, the opponent's warship will immediately emit thick black smoke, and no one can stay in the cabin. As long as they stay in the cabin, they will either be burned to death or killed.

Choked to death.

The incendiary bomb developed by Li Xiao is a mixture of potassium nitrate and fried sugar. Not to mention wood, even steel can stick to it and burn. And this type of incendiary bomb has a characteristic, that is, it cannot be extinguished by water.

.Japanese soldiers in this era were generally superstitious. Generally speaking, fire that cannot be extinguished by water falls into the category of divine fire.

Instead of putting out the fire, many soldiers knelt before the Hachiman Bodhisattva on the sail and begged for their lives!

The most unlucky person is the guy with the incendiary bomb exploding under his feet. The flames are like a life-threatening hook, burning the soul and biting the bones. The person whose body is full of flames lets out heart-piercing screams. He is driven crazy by the pain.

The man, like a madman, chopped everything he could see with the knife in his hand, including his comrades and relatives!

The result of doing this is to be torn apart by random blades, and the flesh and skin are thrown into the water and are still burning until the sea water completely submerges the flames!

Li Xiu's iron barrel formation was like a glutton, mercilessly devouring the lives of Japanese soldiers. There were no less than a dozen burning warships surrounding the iron barrel formation. The trebuchets were busy working, as long as there were enemy ships approaching.

It will be hit by a bomb with iron spikes, and then turn into another pile of debris floating in the sea water.

The Maori family's warships were quite discerning. As soon as they saw the power of Pidao's warships, they immediately retreated to the sides, rear and wings of Pidao's warships, specifically picking out those ships that were half damaged by the bombing.

Jiuki Jialong's eyes were as red as a rat infected with the plague. Broken warships were everywhere on the sea. Most of them were his warships. There were also sharks in the sea that were constantly devouring human corpses. There were even sharks that started to eat.

Attacking a living person, he watched his men being dragged into the bottom of the sea by sharks. Large amounts of blood surged on the sea surface, and Jiuki Jialong wanted to tear up the Ming army warships on the opposite side immediately.

But he had no choice. Six of his ten warships equipped with Folan cannons had been blown up by the copper-tube cannon commanded by Li Xiu. The remaining four were likely to be destroyed if they continued to shoot at each other like this.

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The Fran cannon was not without any achievements, but the solid projectile from the Fran cannon hit the warship. It only made a hole in the ship and injured a few people inside. It was difficult to cause fatal damage to the warship.

harm!

The copper-barreled cannon was different. One shot would tear his warship in half.

"Water! Water quickly!" The continuous firing made the temperature of the copper tube gun very alarming. Li Xiu had to order to pour water on the gun tube. Li Xiao had told Li Xiu that seawater is corrosive. Water it now

The stuff on the gun barrel is all fresh water. Anyone who travels at sea knows how scarce fresh water is. Fortunately, it is relatively close to the shore. If it were an ocean-going ship, no one would be willing to do this.

"Boom!" Another Pidao ship was hit by a Folang machine cannon. Two sailors were hit by the big solid iron balls and flew up. There was a hole in the chest as big as a bowl. The white ribs were exposed, and their mouths were exposed.

The man kicked his legs without even saying a word.

"Load! Fire!" The copper tube cannon cooled down a little, and Li Xiu immediately ordered to fire. There are too few of these cannons, and more of these cannons will be cast in the future. They are so damn useful, especially at sea.

It is simply a nightmare for any warship!

The copper cannon roared again, and the shells accurately penetrated into a ship.

"Retreat! Retreat!" Jiuki Jialong ordered with red eyes.

We have lost enough today and we cannot lose anymore. If we continue to lose like this, the bones of the Kumano Navy will be broken. In just half a morning, he lost no less than fifty ships and thousands of soldiers.

Fierce sailors.
Chapter completed!