Hundreds of rounds of explosive bullets rushed out of the barrel and shot straight into the hull of the houseboat in the front row. The hull made of thin wooden boards could block iron cannon bullets, but it was pierced in front of the 18-pound cannon.
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After the ship's hull was broken, wooden pieces and splinters from the cannonballs splashed in the crowded cabin. The kinetic energy of the cannonballs fired from 200 meters away was too great, and these wooden splinters became sharp weapons for killing people. I don't know how many pieces were cut off.
The blood vessels of the Japanese navy.
Of course, the more terrifying thing was the cannonball itself. The sixteen-pound cannonball rushed through the crowded cabin like a god of death, crushing everything he encountered. Whether it was an officer wearing samurai armor or a sailor wearing only ashigaru armor.
, in the face of extremely fast cannonballs, it will be pierced at once. If it is hit in the torso, the entire body will even be broken by the cannonball.
Blood and minced meat instantly stained the front row of the Anzhai ship with blood red, and screams rang out at the same time. The seriously injured soldiers dragged their mutilated bodies on the ground, howling and twitching, as if they were crawling out of hell.
It can penetrate four or five layers of a human body or a ship's planks before it loses kinetic energy and stops.
Almost every one of the more than thirty Anzha ships in front was hit by seven or eight shells, and the hull was in a mess after being hit by explosive shells.
Then, these shells covered in flesh and blood exploded.
The shock wave shattered the shells of the explosive shells, and the flames and iron projectiles burst out violently. The continuous shock waves seemed to overturn the hull of the Anzha ship, and blew the navy soldiers in the hull forward and backward. At least there were
The hulls of ten Anzha ships were blown open by artillery shells, leaving horrific holes.
The heat emitted by the shells when they exploded ignited several Anzha ships, and the flames suddenly jumped to the hulls of the ships and burned them.
The iron pellets ejected after the explosion of the cannonballs flew everywhere in the cabin, cutting all the fresh life into pieces in an instant. One after another, the explosive shells exploded, and the Tokugawa Navy soldiers who were crowded in the cabin were completely helpless.
They dodged everywhere. The iron bullets easily broke through their ashigaru, penetrated under the armor, penetrated the muscles and organs, and tore all these fragile human tissues into blood.
There was blood everywhere, and the wounded lying on the ground howled and rolled loudly. The soldiers who did not want to die like this grabbed the survivors' ankles, opened their eyes and asked for help. Then how can such trauma be treated in this era?
The survivors could only open their eyes while the wounded bled out and died.
The cabins of more than thirty Anzha boats in the front row turned into a hell on earth in an instant.
Basically, these thirty-odd front-row Anzhai ships have lost their combat capabilities at once. Although the shells did not kill all the crew members, this unprecedented heavy damage has caused the soldiers on these thirty ships to suffer a psychological collapse. Before
None of the Anzha boats in the platoon had the courage to continue fighting, so they turned their oars and began to escape back.
Some burning ships still needed to put out the fire. One by one, the surviving Tokugawa navy soldiers rushed to the bow of the ship to fetch water, and then poured buckets of water onto the growing flames on the hull. However, the wooden Anzha ship
Once it burns, it becomes a fire, and it is difficult to put out the fire. One of the seven Anzha ships that caught fire was extinguished, and the other six ships were engulfed in raging flames.
The Tokugawa sailors took off their armor, jumped into the sea one by one, and swam toward other Anzha ships in the cold December water, hoping to find a way out.
After the steamer in the front row completed one shot with its broadside, it began to clear the chamber and load ammunition in preparation for the second bombing.
The Anzha boats in the front row lost their fighting spirit and fled back, but the Anzha boats in the back rushed up without mercy. While the ship's gunner was reloading, about forty Anzha boats rushed close to the ship and tried to engage in a boarding battle.
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In fact, the overall design of the Anzha ship was designed to maximize the power of the matchlock gun. Although the Anzha ship is best at approaching and firing matchlocks, it is obvious that Li Zhi's cannon is more powerful than the matchlock gun. On the Anzha ship
The samurai who commanded the ship were not stupid. They knew that it would be foolish to use an house ship to approach the gunboat and shoot matchlocks. The only hope of victory was to rush up to the gunboat and engage in a battle.
There are a large number of hooks and locks on the Anzhai ship, and there are soldiers holding long guns standing on the top deck of the cabin. These configurations are all prepared for boarding battles.
But the gunners on the ship did not let these Japanese naval forces succeed.
The gunners loaded the shells without allowing the barrels to cool completely. It only took forty seconds for the more than forty ships in the front to open fire again.
This time, the Anzha ship in the front row was closer to the ship. The ship almost hit the Anzha ship and bombarded it fiercely. The hit rate of the shells was even more amazing. More than 300 shells were fired, and each Anzha ship was hit by an average of nine rounds and ten.
Fire cannonballs.
How could these two-hundred-ton boats withstand ten rounds of bombing?
The shells were like wild beasts, rushing through the unstable hull of the Anzha ship. The shells smashed the hull and the deck of the ship, killing countless soldiers who were preparing for a broadside battle in the cabin. Under the pressure of steel and gunpowder
Human beings are so insignificant in the face of power. Some Japanese Ashigaru did not even see the shells, and their bodies were torn apart by the shells.
Heart-rending screams came from the Anzhai ship that was hit. Li Zhi stood on the Yangwei, more than a hundred meters away from the nearest Anzhai ship, and could hear the screams from the ship.
Then the eighteen-pound cannonball exploded. If one cannonball was not enough to cause heavy damage to the hull of the Anzha ship, ten or even more than ten cannonballs exploded inside the ship, causing huge damage.
From Li Zhi's point of view, the hull of the Anzhai ship, which was trying to rush towards the ship, shook again and again, and then suddenly somewhere was exploded by a cannonball, shooting out huge sparks. The wood fragments shattered by the cannonballs looked like
The petals of sparks were thrown towards the outside of the ship, flying twenty or thirty meters before stopping.
In such a series of explosions, I don't know how many sailors in the cabin could survive.
The bottom of an Anzha ship was also blown open. Presumably the front shells blasted through the deck of the ship, and then other shells rolled into the bottom compartment and blew open the bottom of the ship. Sea water poured into the ship from the bottom of the ship. The Anzha ship
It sank quickly under the sea water. Several large whirlpools formed around the sunken ship, swallowing the Tokugawa sailors who jumped off the ship.
The second batch of Anzha ships also lost their fighting spirit. Except for the few that were sunk, all the others turned around and fled for fear of being hit by another round of shells.
Behind these escaping Anzha ships, fourteen large Anzha ships carrying Dutch-made cannons appeared.
According to Li Zhi's estimate, these large Anzhai ships have a displacement of more than 300 tons. In Japan, these are already veritable giant ships.
