Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 524 Unlucky Japanese Pirates 2
Shintaro, the samurai from Kumamoto, brandished his katana and roared loudly, asking his men to open fire quickly and kill the cargo ships. He was already on fire.

When he got close to the waters of Yantai, Shintaro looked at the merchant ships and fishing boats coming and going on the waterway, drooling, China, it is so prosperous, when will Japan be able to enjoy the extremely rich material like China, and enjoy the envious eyes of all countries ?However, before he could figure out who to attack, the Shandong fishermen found them first. They didn't even want their fishing nets, and they sailed away. There was no way, why did the Japanese pirates visit Denglai frequently?They were all afraid of being robbed, so they got experience.So many big fish ran away at once, Shintaro was disappointed, but in a blink of an eye, haha, there is still a fleet of four cargo ships that did not escape, there is nothing to say, rush up and grab his mother!When he recognized that it was a European ship, he was overjoyed. Idiots know that European ships bound for China are usually loaded with silver or precious stones. What's more, there are four ships!Get rich this time, get rich!
The Japanese pirates howled with excitement and rushed over.Seeing the Japanese pirates rushing towards them, the European fleet screamed unlucky, hurriedly reloaded and ignited, and bombarded the Japanese pirate fleet.It has to be said that the technology of the Europeans is indeed quite advanced. Even if there are only four merchant ships, the firepower is quite fierce. Those Japanese pirate ships that were howling with excitement collided with the shot put that hit their heads and faces, and one of them was unlucky. After being hit below the waterline by shells, a large amount of seawater poured into the cabin, and Dang even turned into a submarine and dived down, never to emerge again.The robbery was not yet successful, and it was fucked by others. The Japanese pirates were furious, and they also set up cannons to bombard the European merchant ships.These Kumamoto samurai are brave enough, but the guys in their hands are leftovers from Europeans. Those obsolete matchlock guns and smoothbore guns are basically sold to the Japanese, and they are cheap and expensive, and the quantity is not guaranteed.All kinds of their messy cannons fired at the same time, the cannons rumbled, and the momentum was huge. The few European merchant ships frightened them a lot, and they reloaded and fired desperately...

As a result, two more ships were sunk.

Shintaro was completely depressed. Dozens of ships had been besieging them for a long time, and no one was missing a hair. However, three of his own ships were sunk. Who was robbing whom?Fortunately, the ammunition of armed merchant ships is limited. If they continue at this rate, they will soon run out of ammunition on these merchant ships. By then, it will be time for those European devils to have a taste of their samurai swords!

It's a beautiful idea, but unfortunately it's very unrealistic.

Just when the Japanese pirates were about to launch a new round of offensive, the watchman of the flagship called: "Warship! Ming Dynasty's warship!"

Shintaro was taken aback, jumped to a high place and looked in the direction of the monkey's finger, and sure enough, he saw two warships rushing towards them at a frighteningly fast speed.He trembled, the navy of the Ming Dynasty was not easy to mess with, Zheng Zhilong was tyrannical, right?But he was just a pirate in Ming Dynasty, and he almost fattened up half of Japan!They ran to Daming's waters to rob, and when they saw the Daming navy attacking them, they felt a little guilty.But when he thought that he had more than 30 ships, he felt relieved again. If I have ten ships to beat one of your ships, I don't believe I can't beat you!He called: "Ming Dynasty Navy is coming, Shimadzu, take your fleet to deal with them!"

Immediately, twelve ships broke away from the main force and rushed towards the two Ming warships, six against one, I don't believe they can't deal with you!
However, when the twelve ships were still one kilometer away from the two warships, white smoke billowed from the bows of the two warships, and the sound of the guns was like rolling thunder, hitting people's eardrums with pain. The warship actually opened fire!The Japanese pirates all laughed. It seems that the navy of the Ming Dynasty is nothing special. They are just a bunch of recruits who think they have too many shells!this time……

Before the thought was finished, the warship rushing to the front shook violently, and a 120mm naval gun shell hit the deck firmly. Several Japanese pirates were smashed to pieces on the spot. The mast was knocked down, and the gunpowder barrels piled up near the artillery positions exploded, causing fragments to fly, and the entire warship was blazed into the sky in a blink of an eye!
A salvo of four guns killed a warship!
The Japanese pirates were suddenly dumbfounded, staring blankly at the exploding battleship, at a loss.

Before they could react, the four naval guns of the two warships fired again, and another salvo of four guns was fired. This time, none of the four shells hit directly. It passed by and exploded, sweeping away the Japanese pirates on the deck. Another round was a near-miss and landed below the waterline of the flagship of this fleet, the battleship of Yoshiji Shimadzu, who came from a samurai family in Kyushu. There was an explosion two meters away, and the strong water pressure tore apart the wooden hull at once, and the sea water rushed in, causing the flagship to be in chaos.

Boom boom boom!

The warships of the Ming army fired while approaching at high speed, the ghosts would know if they knew magic tricks. There were only four guns on the bow of the ship, but the fire density of ten guns was fired, and the shells with huge lethality spun out from the barrels. With astonishing precision, it slammed into the Japanese pirate fleet!They used all the explosive bombs, which were amazingly powerful. Once they exploded, blood and flesh would fly all over the ship, and the explosion would also cause a big fire, igniting the gunpowder barrels on the ship, and they would be finished with one shot!In an instant, four Japanese warships turned them into a modern flame mountain. The Kumamoto samurai was covered in flames and jumped into the sea screaming.

The beaten Kumamoto samurai became fierce and rushed up regardless of the cost, getting close to the effective range of his own naval guns, then crossed the hull, and pointed the naval guns on both sides at the Ming warship.At this moment, the Kumamoto samurai clearly heard a muffled bang, bang, bang, and before they could react, the shell weighing fifty catties screamed and smashed down, and then...

Then there was no more, the Japanese warships that crossed the hull and tried to attack the Ming army's warships with the two sides of the fleet were blown in two by the Ming army's mortars!It would be a little difficult to hit the target with a mortar if you were head-on, but now that they are so close, the Japanese pirates will automatically and consciously turn the hull sideways, and it will be really unreasonable if they miss it!

A Japanese pirate ship circled around the back of the Ming warship and crossed the hull... Before it could take a good position, it made two bangs, and two 120mm naval artillery shells flew over, firing two [-]mm diameter shells on its body. The six-meter-long hole was swept by the shock wave of the explosion, and the sail and the sailors flew into the air together.

Now everyone can see clearly that crossing the hull in front of these two warships and attacking with broadsides is purely courting death.
The problem is, no broadsides... what do they use?
(End of this chapter)