The battle lasted from noon on the first day until dawn the next day, and when the sun once again showed its true face and shone on the ocean, it was already drenched in a faint scarlet color.

The battle of thousands of men throughout the night had almost come to an end, and by the time the Hongmen "Yang Fan" ship fired the last ammunition in its stockpile, and began hand-to-hand combat with the Satsuma, the situation on the battlefield was already clear.

Of the thirteen "Yang Fan" warships belonging to Hongmen, only eleven can still float on the sea, and the two that are missing have sunk into the bottomless sea like other ships in this sea area.

Among these eleven warships, four were seriously damaged and could only barely float on the sea, relying on the help of friendly ships around them to support themselves; And Wu Shu's Shark Division's eleven 400-material warships suffered heavy losses, and now they are floating around the "Yang Fan-style" warships doing defense work, which is all of them, and after careful counting, there are only three.

However, Hongmen suffered heavy losses, but the main battleships were still intact, on the other hand, Shimazu Hisao's rice-shaving sailor division was now not even organized, only a few seven or eight warships, and a dozen or so small fishing boats were confronted with Hongmen.

The battle has been fought so far, in fact, the victory or defeat has been clear at a glance, and the Satsuma Navy, which has lost most of its warships, can now almost only passively defend against the attack from the Hongmen fleet.

However, Hongmen Lu Yu also had scruples, in the naval battle of one day and one night, in order to kill the opponent's living force, Lu Yu's warships did not have the slightest reservation, and almost all the shells carried by the ships were exhausted, so that the current results were achieved, but if they really wanted to continue to exterminate the Satsuma Fan sailors who were holding a group on the opposite side, it was necessary to let the "Yang Fan" warships engage in a string battle.

In fact, Lu Kui was not afraid of losing, but it was a great threat to take more than ten suicide ships among the Satsuma Navy, and when the ammunition was exhausted, the Hongmen fleet wanted to resist the attack of the opponent's suicide ships, except for dodging one way, there was only one way left.

It is a fact that the armed armor of the "Yang Fan" warship is strong, but no matter how strong its defensive strength is, there is a limit, and it is impossible to resist the attack of the opponent's suicide ship all the time!

After actual combat testing, the armed armor of the "Yang Fan" warship can only withstand the attack of three suicide ships at most, and it is not possible to let the opponent burn it closely.

Therefore, there are still more than ten suicide ships left at this time, and it is conservatively estimated that the Hongmen fleet will have to lose at least four or five warships before it can be consumed, not to mention that there are still seven or eight Samoto warships to be cleaned up.

The Hongmen fleet came from afar, not to lose both, and at this moment it seems that the losses of Hongmen are also very large, but in addition to the losses of warships, the casualties of Hongmen are actually not much.

Naturally, the Samobans had always targeted the warships of the Hongmen fleet, and as soon as they found that the sinking of the Hongmen warship was a foregone conclusion, they would immediately change their targets, and they would not care at all, or rather bother to care about the sailors who were about to sink the Hongmen warship.

As a result, many of the sailors of the Hongmen fleet escaped and swam towards their ships by means of small boats on their own ships or planks floating on the water around them.

During the war, Lu Yu and the others naturally did not care about counting the battle losses, but the number of Hongmen sailors rescued from the sea along the way was still considerable, and it was roughly estimated that the number of Hongmen lost and missing by now was less than 1,000.

This is already a very good result, you must know that the enemy they are facing is a Satsuma Navy, numbering more than 5,000 people, and their casualties are probably several times that of the Hongmen fleet.

Lu Yu was indecisive and swayed from side to side, but Shimazu Hisao opposite him had long been determined to fight to the death.

It was not easy to survive the Hongmen "Yang Fan" battleship running out of ammunition, and although his side is now in danger, it is also the best opportunity to severely damage the powerful naval division of the Hongmen fleet.

Shimazu Hisao, as the son of a Samoto daimyo and one of the wise generals of Satsuma, has a more thorough understanding than other Sasuma generals.

If the Hongmen fleet cannot be severely damaged in this sea area at this time, and most of them will be left here, then it means that their Satsuma coast will never be peaceful in the future.

If he had known that the opposing fleet was so powerful, Shimazu Hisao would never have made the idea of going to sea so easily, but would rely on the fortifications along the coast of Satsuma for passive defense.

Now that the last of Samosa's sailors has been wiped out here, it means that their gate to the Satsuma Sea has been opened, and it will be impossible to stop the Hongmen from coveting and harassing their Satsuma territory from the sea, just as they had done to the Ming Dynasty back then.

Therefore, Shimazu Hisao wished that Hongmen's generals would attack his remaining fleet, and then create an opportunity for some suicide ships around him to sink a few more "Yang Fan" ships.

Shimazu Hisao believes that no matter how powerful Hongmen is, like the "Yang Fan-style" warships that are now showing off their might in this sea, they cannot have too many, and it is likely that there are only ten warships in front of them.

Although there are as many as 13 "Yang Fan" warships here, three of them are completely different from the other 10 in terms of firepower, and their lethality is stronger than that of the Hongmen 400 warships, but it is also limited.

Shimazu Hisao expected that he had a good idea, the ten warships under Lu Qi were indeed the most powerful armed forces built by Hongmen, and it was indeed impossible for the industry to build warships of the same strength in the short term.

If Shimazu Hisao really sinks five more "Yang Fan-style" warships in this sea area, he may really be able to win a development period of half a year to a year for Satsuma!

However, he also looked helplessly at the Hongmen fleet on the opposite side, which was only more than 300 zhang away, and watched them stay on the surface of the sea majestically, and suddenly fell into silence, allowing this sea area to gain temporary peace.

Hongmen wants to fight, if they want to leave, Shimazu Hisao and they can't keep people, with the performance advantage of their fleet warships, even if Shimazu Hisao wants to fight with others, it depends on whether people are willing or not, so unless the commander of the Hongmen fleet orders to attack his wreckage, Shimazu Hisao can only confront the other party with passion and death.

(End of chapter)