"Hey, do you think the Shimazu family can hold on to their homeland this time?" One of the businessmen asked with great interest, "Can't Japan's powerful feudal lord be wiped out like this?"

"I don't think so. The war with the Three Kings of the East China Sea didn't cause any damage to the Shimazu family. Maybe there are still many elites in Satsuma Kingdom. If they are not aggressive enough but can defend the city, they will not destroy the country."

." Another person didn't quite believe it.

"Hey, you are talking about whether the Choshu Domain on the other side will send troops to intervene. After all, the Satsuma Domain also saved them in the first place. Maybe the Choshu Domain will save the Satsuma Domain for the same reason this time. After all, the lips are dead and the teeth are cold!

"The third businessman also made his own remarks.

"I don't think so..." The first businessman was unconvinced, and several people started to argue. They were all doing business here for a long time. They had met and cooperated with Zheng Zhilong in the past, so they were naturally quite confident.

He is knowledgeable enough, has a deep understanding of Japan, and can see many problems.

Therefore, this debate has a lot of useful information and attracted many people to watch.

Some Chinese businessmen gathered around here, making comments and listening to each other. Some people found a point of view that they supported and participated in it, making the place quite lively and making some Japanese civilians passing by take a look with envy.

this.

Except for the samurai master, anyone else who dares to gather together like this will definitely be scolded and beaten. However, these Ming people can talk about things they don't know like the samurai master. This is something they have never done before.

privilege.

These Japanese civilians just stopped for a while and looked around. They didn't dare to stay for a long time and planned to leave. However, staying like this for a while saved their lives.

Nagasaki is a port city, so it naturally has good coastal defense. However, how advanced cannon casting technology can the Japanese have? If they have some craftsmen who can cast muskets, they have no experience in artillery at all.

These shore guns were all purchased from Portugal. They are defective products eliminated from warships. The range and power can be imagined. The reason why Portugal is doing honest business here instead of looting is because there are few others.

And after landing on the shore, it is still unclear whether you can defeat the shogunate's army.

After all, the shogunate at this time had just ended the war for more than ten years, and there were still two to three hundred thousand troops in Japan, which was simply not something that one or two thousand Portuguese soldiers could plunder.

The cannons on the naval fleet are all the latest. They are all cannons cast with the latest technology this year. They all have a range of more than five kilometers, which is not comparable to the old Japanese shore artillery.

The sea level outside Nagasaki is vast, so when the Haijuan fleet first appeared, it was discovered by the Japanese in Nagasaki. Soon several ships came up to guide them. They thought that the other party was also a merchant coming to trade, but

The fierce and unstoppable momentum immediately made them realize that something was wrong.

This was an enemy attack, but they couldn't send out a message for a while, so they could only hope that Nagasaki's guards could see it.

Shen Yourong's advance was not covered up, and he did not need to cover up. He was not here to occupy this place, but only to demonstrate and bomb.

Seeing the menacing enemy, the Nagasaki port reacted quickly. Dozens of warships sailed out and left the port, trying to intercept the opponent. However, when the two sides were close and compared with each other, the Nagasaki side suddenly felt heartbroken.

Cool and cool.

The largest ship on their side is only comparable to the opponent's smallest ship, the destroyer, while the opponent's twenty or thirty tall warships are like giants, looking down at them.

Especially at this time, the gun window opened on the side of the opponent's ship and the black gun barrel deep inside made these Nagasaki navy feel bad.

These dozens of warships are not all gunboats. This is a military force that even the Portuguese and Dutch do not have.

However, what made them despair was that this was the case. They saw these strange warships making a circle on the sea, and then formed a formation that was extremely familiar to them.

This formation was a line formation that they would only use when shooting with muskets. Seeing this formation, the shogunate general who commanded to go to sea to meet the enemy was immediately frightened. He was very familiar with the power of this formation. If

Replace it with a more powerful cannon.

This... He simply couldn't imagine this scene. It must be a desperate hell demon. In his eyes of extreme fear and despair, countless firelights bloomed in the daylight. Even the blazing sun could not

Cover up these bright lights.

Amidst the rumbles, countless loud noises exploded, and this naval battle, which was hailed as the beginning of Japan's loss of the country, broke out.

Facing dozens of Japanese ships, Shen Yourong did not relax at all. The flag signals were sent out quickly. The captains also paid special attention to them. They cheered up and used 100% of what they had learned in daily training.

Some panic and unfamiliar techniques were used to seize the T-shaped formation.

What surprised these captains was that the fleet on the opposite side almost showed no reaction at all, watching them go around in circles and seize a favorable horizontal formation.

However, this situation is not uncommon. When facing those pirates, they reacted the same way, not knowing the consequences of letting them occupy the T-shaped horizontal formation.

Until they took advantage of their speed and stood in the windward terrain, the Japanese fleet on the opposite side still didn't react much. They just kept rushing forward, as if they wanted to start a gang fight.

But, how could Shen Yourong let them get what they wanted!

"Fire!" He gave the order calmly, and was then passed to other warships by the staff through a semaphore.

boom!

There was an obvious sequence. Each warship started bombarding. Battles at sea were almost like this. It was a boring bombardment. If you had better skills and luck, the shells fired would hit the enemy first.

After discussing the bombardment, almost all of them were transferred into the sea. None of them hit, and there was nothing they could do. The Ming fleet had a long range, so the battle naturally started in the distance. But how accurate can the front-loading artillery be? Although the launcher has

Switched to a flintlock engine, there wasn't much delay, but it wasn't accurate enough either.

"Is the distance too far?" After looking at the results of the battle, Shen Yourong gave a decisive order, "Continue to get closer and fight at close range."

"Sure enough, it still doesn't work. I wonder when I can test the power of the T-shaped formation." The T-shaped tactic was proposed by Zhu Youxiao. He said it was an artifact of naval artillery warfare. Shen Yourong had always wanted to try it, but there was no chance to destroy pirates.

He originally thought that the Japanese Navy would have a chance this time, but this was the first time he fought with a country's navy. Out of caution, he opened the distance to the maximum, but all of them missed. The power of the T-shaped formation could not be seen at all.

After his judgment, it seemed that the opponent did not have artillery. It was basically an old-style navy that used gang fighting as its main attack method like pirates. In order to save ammunition, he gave up the opportunity to experiment with tactics, shortened the distance, and got closer.

attack.

Soon, a certain battle line formation was still maintained. The battleships and cruisers gathered together, began to circle, and then gradually approached. As for the other destroyers that came with the ship, they took advantage of their flexibility and spread out.

Around the battlefield, waiting for opportunities.

Just after the sound of the cannon, the Japanese naval general who found that nothing happened had no time to rejoice, but was immediately shocked by the opponent's dazzling operation. The opponent's speed was very fast, and his ship could not keep up at all, and could only circle around in circles.

, let the opponent move, just adjust the bow of the ship in time to maintain the attack direction.

The boring time has begun, but since it is the first time to fight a regular army, the officers of the entire fleet do not care about this boring time, but concentrate on implementing their own operations, although they are also aware of the weakness of the Japanese navy at this moment.

, but this is an excellent opportunity to accumulate experience, which is more important and serious than a real battle.

The same goes for Zheng Zhilong and Yan Siqi. They are each the captains of a cruiser, and they are also seriously conducting experiments at this moment. They have been drifting on the sea for a long time, so they naturally know how powerful this kind of Western plywood ship is, and the artillery is really long.

The eyes are the same, and they drill directly into people. Now that I have the opportunity to operate such a boat, I naturally have to learn better. In the future, this kind of boat will dominate the world.

boom!

About a quarter of an hour later, the roar of artillery sounded again, and the second exchange of fire, uh, no, it should be a unilateral pouring of firepower started again.

This time the distance was much closer. There was no long-range way to bully the Japanese navy. The Ming fleet directly approached to about 100 meters and started to fire. This was really a bullying distance. The Japanese navy still had a long way to get closer.

After a certain distance, after this distance, the Ming Dynasty's artillery had already blasted the ship into a sieve.

Boom boom boom!

There was a continuous sound of gunfire. The gunners carefully aimed and adjusted the angle, then turned the fusilier, ignited the propellant, and fired the lead bullets.

With the rumbling sound, sawdust flew everywhere, and the Japanese navy could only be beaten in despair. They wanted to close the distance, but they couldn't reach it. The opponent was fast and maneuverable, and they couldn't get close at all.

In just half an hour, there were broken wooden boards floating on the entire sea surface. Almost all the ships were blasted into the bottom of the sea by the excited gunners, leaving no one intact.

This naval battle lasted only a short time, but its impact was huge. Nagasaki had no defense force at all. The only final defense was those poor shore batteries. However, these poor shore batteries only had a range of one kilometer.

How could it be the opponent of the Ming Dynasty fleet’s 12-pound cannon with a range of five kilometers?

They saw that these fleets that frightened them sailed into the port after annihilating the navy, and then formed a row calmly and calmly, facing the entire port with their broadsides, and the black muzzles made people suppress fear.

Boom!
Chapter completed!