Chapter 43: Impact
"It's not a good thing! They seem to want to hit our ship directly! Koizumi Kogoro, the general of the Kobayakawa family, saw a clue and immediately sent his men to report to Kobayakawa Takakei through the flag, and Kobayakawa immediately received this information. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"What? It turned out to be like this, not good, the whole army continued to disperse the operation, and all the ships retreated at full speed, without mistake. After Kobayakawa Takakei learned of Kuroda's intentions, he immediately ordered the entire army to retreat in a vain attempt to preserve the strength of the Mori family's navy.
However, both Kobayakawa Takakei and the Mori family's sailors underestimated the speed of the Kuroda family's ship, although the ship looked huge and clumsy, but the three masts and sails on the ship ensured that the ship's speed would not decrease, and today's wind direction was biased in favor of the Kuroda family, which happened to be blowing easterly, which was conducive to the Kuroda family's pursuit of the Mori family's ship.
Because the two sides were already very close just now, the Maori family's fleet had just turned around, and Kuroda Fukufune had already caught up, and the speed of the Fukubune was much faster than that of the Maori family's Xiaozao, not to mention the Ataka ship, which was originally relatively slow, and a Maori Ataku ship was quickly caught up by Fukufune.
"Oh my God! Why is the Kuroda family's ship so huge? Is the family going to lose this time? A Maori sailor looked at the Fukubune catching up behind him and said, the huge hull of the Fufu, the shadow cast by the Fufu's huge hull slowly enveloped most of the Ataka ship, not only this sailor, but also many of his companions showed shocked and frightened expressions.
"Damn, hurry up and fill the left rudder, pick up speed and go full speed." The general of this Ataka ship is Koizumi and Ichiro, the younger brothers of Koizumi Kogoro, an important figure in the Kobayakawa Naval Army, and he has already noticed the situation behind him, so he gave the order as soon as possible, hoping to escape the control of Fukufune. But no matter what he did now, it was too late, because the huge fortune ship behind him had already crashed into the not-so-small Ataka ship.
With a "boom", the sharp ramming angle made of fine iron at the bow of the Fufune accurately slammed into the stern of the Ataka ship. The impact caused by the impact for a while made the Maori sailors on the ship stagger, and it was difficult to stand firm, and of course the unsteady footing could only be regarded as the best result.
"Steady, steady," Koizumi and Ichiro shouted loudly, but his shouts had no effect on the current critical situation, and the panicked sailors were now thinking about how to survive, who would have time to pay attention to the orders of his ship admiral, although even if they did, it would be useless.
Seeing the successful blow, the general on the Kuroda iefu ship shouted, "The ship begins to retreat." With his order, the Fukubune began to slowly retreat, "crunch, crunch" when the Fukufune hit the angle was pulled out, the place where the Ataka ship was hit finally revealed a huge gap, and the sea water quickly poured into the ship, and it was basically impossible for the Maori family to remedy it.
"Lord Koizumi, the cabin has begun to enter the water, and the hole is too big, there is no way to remedy it, and now the ship has begun to sink, so I can only abandon the ship." A sailor immediately came to report to Koizumi and Ichiro.
"That's all we can do, let's leave in a small boat and order everyone to abandon the ship." Koizumi and Ichiro immediately ordered.
"Hey!"
The Kuroda family's fortune ships are like large carnivores that pounce on their prey, and the crazy chasers of the Maori family's large and small ships, whether it is a small morning, or a relatively large Sekifune or Ataka ship, as long as they can hit the object, are their targets, and soon several ships of the Maori family were hit and sunk by the Kuroda family's fortune boats.
It's not that the Maori family doesn't want to fight back, on the contrary, at this time, the Maori family's sailors are gritting their teeth in the face of the Kuroda family's pursuit, which is really powerless! Some sailors also wanted to fight back with baking bombs, and of course these counterattacks were effective, killing and wounding at least a dozen of the Kuroda family's Ming Guo sailors, but after they threw the baking bombs, it meant that they were very close to the Kuroda family's ships. If you're lucky, the captain will be flexible, and you can avoid the Kuroda family's impact by adjusting the course, but if you're unlucky, you'll be directly hit and sunk by the Fukubune, and some boats will even be directly hit in half and sink directly into the sea.
Don't forget, in addition to the large ships, the Kuroda family also has some small Fukubunes, they are all lined up in front of the big ships before the start of the naval battle, to protect the big ships can safely carry out artillery attacks, in the first and only round of attacks of the Mori family still suffered a lot of blows, although there are no sunken ships, and no ships are taken, but the casualties are still not small.
After Xu Shouguang gave the order for the big ship to ram the enemy ship, the small boats began to cruise to the side and rear of the big ship, or simply hide behind. They are not avoiding the battle, on the contrary, they are now hyenas hiding behind tigers, waiting for the opportunity to bite the enemy and deliver a fatal blow to the enemy who has slipped through the net.
Because there is no artillery installed on small ships, most of the Ming sailors still use steel knives and other Ming weapons, the Ming water war has relied on a strong bow since ancient times, and the naval arrows seem to be a tradition that has been preserved, of course, there is no shortage of bows and arrows on these small boats, and some sailors still hold iron cannons or guns made in the Ming Kingdom, iron cannons are purchased or manufactured locally in the Ming Kingdom, and most of the Ming countries are captured in battles with the Ming army, or obtained in the towns of the Ming Kingdom, There are also smuggling from government-run factories, and as long as you have money in this era, you can still get official goods, such as Ling Wei and Xie Tianqi are the bosses who smuggled official-made firearms, and the bosses were framed by their bosses in order to avoid being traced.
A sailor who was skilled in the bow and arrow of the Ming Kingdom, after the Xiaofu boat approached a small morning, suddenly drew his bow and arrows, the muscles of his left hand bulged, and pulled the bowstring to the full, aiming at a well-dressed Japanese sailor in the morning, of course, it was only relative, because the other Maori sailors were wearing too miserable. He squinted his eyes as he took aim, and after a rough estimate of the advance, his right hand loosened with his bow.
After the arrow left the string, there was a sound of breaking the sky on the sea, and he rushed towards the Maori soldier, and the distance of twenty meters was instantaneous, and when the Maori family's Xiaozao bow saw the bow and arrow, it was already too late, and he had no time to dodge, so he could only look at the bow and arrow with his eyes. (To be continued.) )