Silva asked curiously, "How does this kind of ship fight?" I'd love to know if their sailors can see us? ”

Murong Longcheng shook his head: "I only saw this kind of ship occasionally a few years ago, and I haven't seen its performance in naval battles. One thing is certain, however, that the sharp cone on the back of the ship looks sharp, presumably to prevent broadside fighting. With this arched hull, the hook claw could not find a stable force point, which was a problem to climb on, and the foot board would be punctured by a sharp cone if you stood on it......"

Silva asked, "Will the North Koreans attack us?" It looks like their approach isn't friendly. ”

Before Murong Longcheng could reply, a turtle boat slowly approached the "Shandong", and a door opened under the bow dragon, and a person who looked like a North Korean official poked his head out of it, craned his neck and shouted: "We are the people of the North Korean sailors, and we are patrolling the island on the orders of Renzu (Note 1). He speaks fluent Chinese, and his pronunciation is much more correct than Silva's.

"Forbidden area? Isn't this the station of Dongjiang Town in the Ming Kingdom, why has it become a forbidden area again? Murong Longcheng frowned and replied, "Also, this is obviously Phi Island, why did it become Xun Island again?" ”

The official waved his hand impatiently: "Hugh is verbose, you can't get close to it, don't you understand?" The official saw that you were a ship from the kingdom, so he said a few words to you, otherwise he would have been expelled long ago. Hurry up and get out of here, or don't blame us for being rude. ”

Silva cracked his mouth and smiled, revealing his snow-white teeth.

"Hey, I say, your ship is just a little bit before us, where is the confidence to drive us out?"

The officer looked at the nine small ships—there were no gun emplacements on the decks of the battleships, and the gun windows on the sides were closed, and it looked like they were merchant ships—and smiled contemptuously: "What's the use of being big, it's stupid." If you don't want to measure yourself, this official can let you see the power of this dynasty's sailor. Do you think that in the first battle of Mingliang back then, the ironclad ships of the Wa Kingdom were invincible, and they were not defeated by the hands of Zhongwu Gong (Note 2)? ”

As soon as these words came out, the deck burst into laughter. The Choan navy was invincible in all seas, and the invincible Zheng Zhilong and Hongmao were all defeated, and the Korean sailors were only a few Anzhai ships of the victorious Japan, and they actually wanted to expel them. You must know that a fleet composed of Yongle-class and eight Wuyi-class warships is an invincible existence in the Bohai Bay area and even the entire Chinese coast, even if Zheng Zhilong comes back from the dead, the red hair goes and returns, and sends the most elite main fleet, it is not an opponent, not to mention a dozen turtle ships in this area?

Silva held his stomach aching from laughter and asked Murong Longcheng for instructions: "Boss, it's hard for us to explain to them the difference between gunboats and small sampans, so why don't we just sink them?" ”

Murong Longcheng also showed a rare smile and said, "Don't worry, you might as well see how the North Korean sailors fight?" "No matter why the DPRK is hostile to the Ming fleet, since it intends to occupy Phi Dao, the DPRK sailors who are close at hand will inevitably have to deal with each other, and in the case of absolute superiority, we might as well take the opportunity to find out the details of the DPRK sailors. Even if the opponent is weak, it's always not a bad thing to know more.

Seeing that the other party did not retreat obediently as he said, the official pointed at his own side, as if he was sneering, annoyed and angry, waved his hand, and shouted: "That's all it takes, since you don't know what to do, let you see our methods!" ”

After saying that, he returned to the cabin, and the hatch slammed shut.

With the sound of a cannon, the thirteen turtle ships lined up in a horizontal formation, approaching the Qiong naval fleet, and aimed their bows at the right side of the battleship.

Under the condescending gaze of the people on the deck, a pale yellow smoke suddenly erupted from the mouths of those hideous dragon heads, and the right side of the fleet was suddenly enveloped in this smoke. However, the turtle ship's dragon head could not reach the deck height of the battleship, and the smoke lingered in the side gun windows for a moment before being dispersed by the sea breeze, which had no effect on the people on deck.

Silva asked suspiciously, "What kind of weapon is this?" ”

Murong Longcheng sniffed lightly the smell coming from the air, thought for a while, and said: "It is estimated that it is something like sulfur and nitrate, which can be sprayed towards the enemy after being ignited, firstly, it can make the enemy panic, and secondly, the smoke is poisonous, and it can also hurt the enemy......"

Silva was dumbfounded, there is still such an operation in naval warfare? He had become accustomed to the non-contact combat of the Joan navy relying on great firepower, and this primitive tactic seemed to him simply incredible.

Seeing that the poisonous smoke was ineffective, the turtle boat knocked the boat horizontally, revealing the hole on the side, accompanied by the sound of "crackling", Qi Brush shot out offensive weapons such as fire arrows and iron sand, and it was estimated that there were a lot of guns inside. These fire arrows and iron sand hit the thick hull of the ship, making a "puff" and "ding-ding" sound, and most of them fell weakly into the sea, and a few of the fire arrows were inserted into the lower part of the hull, burning for a while, and finally extinguished in the splashing waves from time to time. The turtle boat didn't seem to expect the opponent to be so difficult to deal with, and he was a little helpless, and he didn't see any new moves for a long time.

Murong Longcheng waited patiently for a while, and when he saw that the turtle ships had these means, and the donkey skills were exhausted, he gave an order: "Raise the flag, and all the warships will fire a salvo of Kalong guns on the right side." "At such a close distance, a large-caliber short-range Caron gun is the best choice.

The gun windows on the right side of all the ships were brushed open, revealing the muzzles of the black holes.

Although the attack power of the North Korean sailors was weak, they were obviously knowledgeable, and they were taken aback when they saw such a dense cannon port, and all the turtle boats turned around and tried to escape, but their movements were not as neat as when they were in formation just now.

Murong Longcheng sneered disdainfully, he wanted to run at this time, but it was too late.

"Boom, boom, boom" –

The deafening sound of cannons resounded across the sea, nearly a hundred 32-pounder Caron cannons let out a neat roar, and the heavy spherical solid shells turned into a metal storm and flew towards the chaotic turtle ship.

The sound of "crackling" came and went, and the seemingly sturdy turtle boat was smashed open by a 30-pound iron ball, and the "turtle shell" was smashed out of a large hole, sawdust was splashed, and the screams in the holes were endless. A few unlucky turtle boats were smashed into the waterline, and the sea water slowly poured in, and the hull began to sink slowly, and the soldiers inside scrambled to climb out, and jumped into the sea like dumplings, which was very lively.

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Note 1: Joseon Injo, named Yi Jung, was the 16th monarch of the Joseon Dynasty of the Lee family.

Note 2: Chungmu Gong is the honorific title of Yi Sunsin, a famous naval general of the Joseon Dynasty, who led the Korean sailors to defeat the Japanese sailors in the Minjin Rebellion in the 16th century at Jindodo in southern Korea and the Myeongyang Strait in the Myeongyang Strait in the Korean mainland.