Return to the Three Kingdoms with the Empire System

Chapter 495
Although the island nation's fleet said it was stunned by Zhou Tai and the others, with the Kyoto fleet as an example, the island nation's other fleets gradually let go of their fears and turned to fight with Zhou Tai's fleet.

The main function of the thirty fire-breathing ships is to deter the opponent. When one's own side has the upper hand, it can harvest the battlefield, and when one's own side loses, it can stop the enemy from pursuing.

However, at this time, the island nation's fleet saw that the ships of the Kyoto fleet actually allowed the burning ships to collide with those fire-breathing ships or those huge turtle ships, and they were immediately encouraged.In other words, they were immediately inspired and rushed to die.

The ships that collided with the fire-breathing ships were okay. At least they were able to pull one on before they sank. Although those fire-breathing ships needed to be hit by several island nation fleets at the same time due to the material problems they were built with. Sunk with it.

As for those island country ships that chose to crash into the turtle ship, they were just doing some useless work.How can the defense of the turtle ship be broken by a few ships?
However, even though the twenty turtle ships can rampage among the island nation's fleet, it is difficult to stop the fate of the thirty fire-breathing ships behind them turning into big fireballs one by one and finally disappearing in the sea water .

Zhou Tai led fifty warships and rushed towards the island nation's fleet. After seeing those fire-breathing ships being sunk one after another, Zhou Tai urged the boatmen to speed up more than once. .

Sailing on the sea, although many times it can be followed by the power of wind or water.But at this time, the role of the boatman is highlighted.

In the war at sea, don't look at Zhou Tai and the others before they met the enemy, they fired a few cannons to knock out the courage of the enemy fleet by three points.Even if it is close, the heavy crossbow and bow and arrow are enough to make the enemy drink a few pots.

However, the real naval battles of this era still cannot be separated from board battles.During the boarding battle, if the boatmen on that side are strong and durable, that side can take the lead.

In the past, Zhou Tai felt that the boatmen on his side were very powerful, but this time, when watching the opponent surround and kill his own ships, Zhou Tai wished that the warships under his feet could fly.

After great difficulty, Zhou Tai and the others finally arrived on the battlefield, but at this time, less than half of the fire-breathing ships still fighting on the battlefield were gone.In just over a quarter of an hour, more than a dozen fire-breathing ships were buried in the sea.

Fifty warships may seem like a lot, but for the nearly five hundred warships fighting in the battlefield, it is not enough.However, even so, it is impossible for the navy of the island country to ignore Zhou Tai's new fleet that joined the battlefield.

Seeing the arrival of Zhou Tai and others, the island nation's fleet immediately detached a part of its warships to stop Zhou Tai, not wanting Zhou Tai to affect their plan to capture those turtle ships.

That's right, even if the island nation's fleet is enduring huge losses at this time, they still want to capture one of those turtle ships.It's not that the island nation's fleet doesn't have this strength. After all, the huge gap in numbers is enough to make the island nation's naval commander have such an idea.

At this time, seeing that the twenty turtle ships were somewhat weak, but Zhou Tai and the others rushed up, the admirals of the island country would naturally not want Zhou Tai and the others to make trouble.Moreover, at this time, several of those turtle ships were already on the verge of collapse, and they seemed to be dying.

This is like the general from the island country went to a spring courtyard, and the girl had the posture of sinking fish, the appearance of fallen leaves, and finally took off her pants, and the girl came to be an aunt.

Although this analogy is not very good, but the mood is the same.

Therefore, in order to prevent the warships that came behind Zhou Tai and the others from causing trouble, the naval commander of the island country also tried to keep Zhou Tai and the others out of the battlefield regardless of losses.

At this time, Zhou Tai watched those fire-breathing ships being sunk continuously, and his heart was full of anger.At this time, seeing that the island nation's fleet dared to take the initiative to come out to seek death, Zhou Tai naturally would not let it go.

With one order, fifty warships greeted the oncoming island nation fleet with heavy crossbows in turn.Before the two armies joined forces, the navy of the island country was the first to lose almost ten warships.

Seeing that Zhou Tai and the others had only [-] warships coming to help, naturally the generals of the island nation would not send more warships to meet the battle. Similarly, they only sent [-] warships.It's just that the island nation's navy generals didn't expect that this is still far behind, and nearly ten warships have been lost. How should they fight next?

Sure enough, after the first round of attacks, Zhou Tai and the others also quickly started loading heavy crossbow bolts while there was still a distance between the two sides, and then launched the second attack before the boarding battle.

In two rounds of strikes, the island nation's fleet lost almost twenty warships.Especially in the second round, because the distance is short, it is much easier to aim.And at this distance, almost five heavy crossbow arrows hit the warships of the island country, and they can penetrate the bottom of the warships of the island country.

Those heavy crossbow arrows are not ordinary crossbow arrows either. After contacting the enemy ship, the arrows are sharp enough to penetrate the wooden board of the enemy ship.After the crossbow arrow penetrated the wooden board, a large number of iron pieces were ejected from the arrow body of the crossbow arrow.

In this way, several island warships seemed to be fine, but they just stopped in place and drifted with the waves.And those warships were extremely unlucky. After the heavy crossbow arrows penetrated the wooden boards of those warships, the iron pieces ejected killed almost all the boatmen in the ship, and those ships could not continue to fight because of this. .

After being boarded, Zhou Tai's advantage was reduced a lot.

Under the leadership of Oda Nobunaga, the island nation focused its military development on the navy.Therefore, the navy of the island country is much stronger than the army of the island country in terms of training and equipment.

Although Zhou Tai and the others are also well-equipped and well-trained, they have no advantage compared with the navy of the island country.At this time, they were fighting side by side, if Zhou Tai and the others hadn't been able to achieve a small victory just now, the battle would have been extremely anxious.

At this time, even if the island nation came to stop Zhou Tai and the others, their island fleet was sunk and destroyed nearly [-] warships before the confrontation, but after the boarding battle, the island nation's navy still brought some troubles to Zhou Tai and the others.

However, it is just some troubles.

Although Zhou Tai and the others fought with the navy of the island country, they either directly bombarded them with gunboats, or fired a salvo of heavy crossbows, shooting the naval warships of the island country into sieves.But after this side-to-side battle, it made the navy of the island country understand another terrifying weapon of the Han's navy-the light crossbow.

Zhou Tai and the others had no chance to demonstrate the power of the light crossbow before, but this first boarding battle caused the navy of the island country to suffer a lot.

Generally speaking, soldiers in the navy don't wear too heavy armor.After all, anything can happen at sea. If the armor is too heavy, if a big wave hits the person and goes into the sea, there is no chance of being rescued, and he will sink directly into the sea.

Therefore, even if the soldiers on the warship led by Zhou Tai were equipped with light crossbows, it still made the soldiers of the island nation miserable.

While Zhou Tai and the others were suppressing the island nation's fleet, the turtle ships encountered some trouble at this time.

The turtle ship is too large, making it difficult to increase the speed of the turtle ship.One of the methods of turtle ship combat is to use the advantage of size to crush.

In this naval battle, Turtle Ship also used this method to fight.However, with the passage of time, and the number of warships of the island countries that were crushed seems to be a bit large, the speed of the turtle ship was slowed down.As for the slowed down turtle ship, at this time, in addition to using the artillery equipped on the ship to blast a few shots, it used crossbow bolts to prevent the enemy from approaching.

However, how long can it be blocked just by crossbow arrows?As time went by, the twenty turtle boats were also slowly forced together, which made it even more difficult for those turtle boats to do anything.

All of a sudden, those originally extremely safe turtle ships fell into a huge crisis.

(End of this chapter)