Chapter 322 The Battle of the Han River Estuary
Eighty fast crab boats rushed back and forth in the North Korean navy fleet, killing the North Koreans.
Park Xingtong had no choice but to order that all the ships used should be extinguished and sailed towards the Han River Estuary with the help of moonlight. However, after extinguishing the lights, the speed of the North Korean fleet became as slow as a turtle climbing, and it was less than twenty miles from Ganghwa Island. However, the Korean navy, who had the turtle speed, probably wouldn't be able to arrive until dawn.
The main navy of the Zheng family army caught up from behind. When it was dawn, the main navy of the Zheng family army caught up with the Korean navy.
The Wanli Korean War was called the Ionchen Japanese riot by South Korea. In later Korean films and TV shows, it was filmed as Goryeo Kanzi fighting against the devils alone. The Ming Dynasty was simply a decoration. In fact, without the Ming Dynasty, the Kingdom of Korea would have been destroyed by the Japanese long ago.
Regarding the navy, how is the Korean Navy the opponent of the Ming Navy? Especially the Zheng Family Navy, which was the strongest navy in the Far East that had been with the Dutch! Although the Koreans' slab boats and turtle boats were very strong, they were far inferior to the Zheng Family Army in terms of naval use and tactics. This time, the Zheng Family Army taught Gao Li a good lesson.
Zheng Sen, who was standing on the flagship, ordered: "All gunboats attacked the stick turtle ship with gunfire, and rushed forward with fire attack ships and clutches!"
Zheng's flagship took the lead and rushed to the first place. When they met the Korean small sampan and the fast ship, they directly crashed into the sea, sank the Korean small boats into the sea. So the North Korean fire attack ships attacking from all directions, Zheng Sen's flagship fired all out, like a fire hedgehog on both sides, rushing among the enemy ships, with fast crabs and sampans covering them.
The North Korean navy's fire attack ship desperately rushed to the Zheng family's cannon mount and the Dafu ship, but they were all stopped by the Zheng family's fast crabs and sampans, and various rockets shot over, and soon ignited the North Korean fire attack ships that were trying to approach their own large ships.
The swarms of rockets on the small sampan, the rockets shot by the fire dragon and bow, and the turbulent oil cabinet on the fast crab boat are all nemesis of the North Korean fire attack ship. Although the range of the turbulent oil cabinet is too close, the turbulent crab boat is flexible. It is almost impossible for the turbulent crab boat to hit the turbulent crab boat. Before the turbulent crab boat approaches the turbulent crab boat, the six-pound cannon on the fast crab boat fires shot shotgun. The sailors used bird guns, bows and arrows, and light Franc aircraft to kill and injured the Korean soldiers on the fire attack ship. Then the turbulent oil cabinet is approached from the side. The turbulent oil cabinet and the rockets are launched at the same time.
Although the North Korean navy's turtle ship and slab boat had strong firepower, the range was not far. Zheng Sen's flagship and Dafuku ship equipped with Red Baron cannons bombarded the North Korean navy's turtle ship and slab boat from afar.
The whistling artillery cabin smashed hard towards the North Korean navy fleet, landing in the sea, and a series of water columns soared into the sky. From time to time, shells hit the platy boat and the turtle boat. The wooden boards on the platy boat were broken, and the wooden boards in the cabin were subjected to a powerful impact force, turning into countless wood pieces and spraying into the cabin. The soldiers in the cabin screamed and fell down a large area.
Panya boats and turtle boats fired counterattacks at the Zheng family's gunboats and Dafu ships, but they had too few Tianzi guns with long range. Each Panya boat or turtle boat only had one Tianzi gun. With the accuracy of this era, if there were not enough cannons to fire, it would be impossible to hit the target at a long distance.
In the 16th and 7th centuries, the Koreans' naval battles were close-range artillery attacks, while the Japanese were mainly engaged in the battles of the platoons, because of the poor accuracy of artillery in this era.
The problem of poor artillery accuracy has not been solved by Westerners, but Westerners adopted multiple artillery volleys to make up for the accuracy with firepower. Therefore, from the 16th century to the 19th century, the Westerners' naval warfare model was the mainstream of naval warfare until the end of the 19th century, when high-precision rifled guns and solid ironclad ships appeared.
However, the early ironclad ships were still equipped with a large number of artillery on the side. Although they had entered the era of rifled guns, they still adopted a layout similar to sail warships. Later, after the spinning turret appeared, this naval combat mode was changed.
The Zheng family army's naval battle mode is to suppress the opponent with the firepower of many lucky ships, and then let the small sampan, fire attack ship and fast crab attack to attack. After all, most of the warships of the Zheng family army do not have the fire density of the same as those of Western warships, so the main attack method is still mainly fire attack, but the range of fire attack is close, so when facing Dutch armed merchant ships, the Zheng family army won several times the price.
When the Zheng family army met the Dutch, they were behind this era and could only use people to pile up. However, when dealing with the North Koreans, they easily abused the Korean navy.
The Dafu ship, a combination of Chinese and Western gunboats, made the Korean turtle ship unable to counterattack. Although the turtle ship was strong, it was hit by twenty-four pounds of red cannon shells in succession, and the outer iron armor was still peeled off one after another.
The Tianzi Gun on the turtle ship is actually a cannon weighing only 600 kilograms and a caliber of 120 mm. Although the range can reach more than 600 steps, the accuracy of the long distance is really terrible. The North Koreans also invented a way to put rockets into the barrel to launch, with a range of more than ten miles, but can they really hit more than ten miles? The rockets flew more than ten miles, but they didn't know where they flew.
As for the name of the Shengzi Gun, it is a copy of the muskets from the Hongwu period more than 200 years ago in the Ming Dynasty, with a range of only twenty steps. In the Ming Dynasty, this weapon can only be used as a sound-sounding thing during the New Year and the Festival. The Koreans also regarded this thing as a treasure.
During the Wanli War against Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea, the Ming Dynasty assisted many Francos in North Korea. Now there are Francos on the North Korean turtle ships. However, Francos, a weapon, appears to be less powerful in naval battles and basically does not have any effect.
The 24-pound Red Cannons equipped on the Zheng family's gunboats and the Dafu ship were equipped with advanced naval guns of this era, with high accuracy and great power. Each shell hit the boardhouse, and could hit the turtle ship, smashing the iron armor on the outer layer of the turtle ship to pieces, revealing the wooden boards inside.
Under the continuous bombardment of the Zheng Family Navy's naval army, the North Korean naval army's naval boat and the turtle boat were seriously injured. In fact, their naval boat and turtle boat were not very big. Their general length was about ten feet and their width was about four feet. However, more than one hundred sailors were crowded in such a small cabin. As a result, they were attacked by the Zheng Family Army's heavy rain shells, and the North Korean sailors on the ship were seriously injured.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of his own firepower to suppress his opponent's slab boat and turtle boat, the Zheng family's fire attack ship, small sampan, and fast crab boat rushed up quickly, approaching the Korean slab boat and turtle boat.
A small sampan approached a slab boat, and the Zheng family sailors threw pottery bottles into the North Korean ship. After the pottery bottles hit the slab boat, a huge fire immediately ignited.
This is a moor bottle used by Zheng's army. It is filled with tincture oil. After ignition, it can be thrown out and burn the opponent's warship.
The attacked slab boat ignited a raging fire and soon began to slowly sink in the flames.
The shell of a North Korean turtle ship that was continuously bombarded was broken, and the shells of the turtle ship were constantly hit, just like a big hammer hitting the turtle shell, gradually smashing the turtle shell. The North Koreans on the ship were naturally killed and injured.
Four fast crab boats and more than ten sampans surrounded the turtle ship. They swarmed rockets, fire dragons came out of water, bow-shooting rockets, fierce oil cabinets and other firearms greeted the turtle ship fiercely. The scarred turtle ship immediately ignited a huge fire. The remaining Korean sailors on the ship cried and shouted at their parents, jumping into the sea.
In the blink of an eye, a turtle boat and two slab boats began to sink in the flames.
Seeing that he was no match at all, Park Xingtong had to say, "Prince, the navy of the pirate Zheng family is so powerful. We are not an match, what should we do?"
Shuose said: "Why don't we run away?"
Chapter completed!