Chapter 1003: Maritime Supremacy (12)

These are already the strongest combat forces that the Kumano Navy can fight in the open sea, and they are even three times stronger than the Maori Navy and the Shimazu Navy combined, which is why the two families are so afraid of the Kumano Navy Army, such strength is not something they can defeat at all.

It's just that after these ships sailed into the sea, although the number was more than that of the Li family's navy, in terms of momentum, they were much worse than the other party.

Although the other party has fewer ships, they are huge, not only are the Ming Kingdom sails much larger than the Ataku ships, but even the medium-sized sailing ships are also larger than the Guan ships.

At this time, the naval battle was different from a hundred years later, so when the two fleets met each other, they did not have the intention of stopping, but continued to rush towards each other, for the era of cold weapons, there were only two ways to fight at sea, either after approaching, throw out the rope and board the enemy ship to fight on the ship, so that the battle, it is more about wanting to capture the enemy ship, and in addition, there is also a kind of two sides when they are close to the position of more than 20 meters, throw each other and bake, no matter which way of fighting, As long as there are more people and more ships, the side naturally has a great advantage, and naval warfare is a war in which more people bully fewer people, and this is much more obvious than land warfare.

But although the Kumano Navy has slightly more ships than the other party, it does not have an advantage in numbers, so this battle Nine Ghost Jialong directly gave up the combat method of boarding the enemy ship, especially the opponent's Ming Kingdom Dafan is so huge, it is obvious that there must be a lot of enemies on this ship, if you board the ship to fight, maybe even the two Ataka Naval Army are not as many as the people on one ship, so when the two fleets met, the Nine Ghosts Yoshitaka immediately issued an order not to fight hard with the other party, but to continuously attack the other party with baking around the other party's ships.

"Father, the enemy is trying to play a game of hide and seek with us." On a ship decorated a little larger than other Ming galleons, a young man dressed in Ming Guo said with a smile, this person is Li Dan's sister-in-law Li Guozhu, the reason why he wants to bring his son here this time is that he knows in his heart that this Kumano Navy is the largest fleet in the mainland, although the strength is not very good, but the victory is huge, he wants his son to have a good look at how large-scale naval battles should be fought, and he can inherit his mantle in the future.

"It's just some clowns who jump off the beam, and immediately order the musketeers to prepare, since the other party is not willing to fight hard, it is very good, and it seems that the money will be easy to get." Li Dan stood on the deck and looked at the enemy ships in front of him had been divided into two, sailing towards both sides of his fleet, it was obvious that the other party did not intend to fight with him, and this was what he wanted to see, this time he was just collecting money to do things, naturally the smaller the loss, the better, and now it seems that everything is going in the way he wants.

And when the Nine Ghosts Jialong led half of the ships slowly approached the other side to almost a hundred meters, at this time, in addition to the sailors who were rowing on each boat, the other sailors had already gathered on the plywood, as long as they were close to a distance of about thirty meters, they would ignite the roast in their hands and throw it at the many ships.

Soon the distance of one hundred meters has been shortened to one hundred meters, ninety meters, just when the Nine Ghosts Jialong and the sailors under his command all felt that although the Ming Navy looked strong but was actually average, suddenly the sailors on the other side of the ship got up, only to see the cabin wide open, and countless sailors poured into the splint from the cabin, if this is not surprising, then next, the scene of the Nine Ghosts Jialong and the sailors under his command feeling frightened appeared, I saw that these Ming Navy soldiers were not holding this kind of weapon in their hands, but... It's an iron cannon.

And not one or two, but each with an iron cannon in his hand, which... How many are this, if there is one person, it is thousands, I am afraid that only the Gaoshan family can have such a number of iron cannons, and when everyone was shocked, those sailors on the Ming Sailing Ship had already lit the fuse, and in an instant, only to hear the loud sound of "bang bang bang" kept coming out, because there were too many iron cannons, this sound was simply earth-shattering.

Not only the sound, but at the same time as the Li family's naval army fired its iron cannons, the water troops of the Kumano naval army, who were already standing close to their side, also fell in pieces, although the iron cannon was no longer a new weapon at this time, but the other party took out so many at once, so it was enough to cause the panic of the Kumano naval army, they had never fought such a water battle.

In the past, it was either to board the ship for battle, or to throw the roast at close range, but now there is still a distance of nearly 100 meters from the enemy ship, and although the roast in the hand is not sinking, it is simply impossible to throw it at such a distance.

And when the iron cannon fired a salvo, seeing that the companions who were still standing by their side just now fell one after another, how could they dare to take the lead, so the sailors who were not hit at the first time lay on the deck one after another, and they still had the idea of wanting to attack.

But this is not the end, don't forget that at this time they have the roasting and torches in their hands, those sailors who were hit were shot at the same time, the roasting and torches in their hands also fell on the ship, although the roasting has not been ignited, but when it falls on the deck, most of them are also shattered, and the torches in their hands suddenly ignited the fire oil that flowed out of it, and suddenly the more than 20 ships and three houses closest to the left and right sides of the Li family's fleet were completely ignited, and the raging fire immediately rose from these ships, This is not one or two baking that is ignited, but dozens of baking oil flowing out, and it is simply impossible to put out the fire in this situation.

Seeing that it was impossible, the sailors on board immediately jumped into the sea and swam towards their own ships, which had not yet been attacked. The scene was suddenly chaotic.

However, due to the suddenness of the incident, the follow-up ships of the Kumano Navy did not stop the boats, and still approached the enemy ships, and at this time, the iron cannons of the Li Family's Navy had already been prepared, and as soon as these ships approached, the second salvo was also fired.

After the loud sound of "bang bang bang" came again, the second wave of ships of the Kumano Navy was also set on fire as before, fortunately they had just seen how the ship in front of them was attacked by the enemy, so except for some slow reactions, there were not many casualties this time, but although there were few people who were shot, the roasting and torches in their hands still ignited the ship.