Return to the Three Kingdoms with the Empire System

Chapter 496
Although those turtle boats were in danger of being surrounded heavily, the soldiers on the turtle boats did not give up.

It's just that they can't take advantage of the ships, but the broadswords and swords in their hands are not things to burn fire.At this time, it’s nothing more than fighting for your life.

The navy of the island country slowly approached the besieged turtle boat, but at this time they discovered a very embarrassing problem.Because their generals told them not to sink those turtle boats, so there was only the possibility of boarding battles to seize the ships.

However, if you want to seize the ship, at least you have to get on those turtle boats.However, the turtle boats were much taller than their warships, which made it much more difficult for them to climb onto those turtle boats.

If it's just that, then forget it.But the key problem is that when the navy of the island country lowers the masts of the ship and puts them on the turtle boats, and wants to use those masts to climb up the turtle boats, it has to meet the arrow rain from the inside of the turtle boats.

The reason why those turtle boats are called turtle boats is because their defense is like that of a turtle.In addition to the thick plate armor on the top of the ship as protection, there are only some perforations around the ship.

The soldiers on the turtle boat are now using the perforations on the turtle boat to make the soldiers of the island country look at the surrounded turtle boat, but there is no way to do it.

In desperation, those local navies of the island country can only ask for assistance from the Kyoto Fleet.As one of the three main fleets of the island nation, the Kyoto Fleet will naturally not be as helpless as the local navy.

The most important thing is that the Kyoto fleet is equipped with gunpowder weapons, so even if the turtle ship is used as a defense, if it is under concentrated fire, it will inevitably sink.

At this time, the admirals of the island nation really wanted to capture those turtle ships, so they did not use artillery for a long time.But at this time, since the local navy has asked the Kyoto Fleet for help, the Kyoto Fleet naturally cannot continue to hide its clumsiness.

Although artillery is not used, muskets can still be used.After all, it seems a bit whimsical to want to sink a turtle ship with muskets.

However, the gunpowder gun cannot sink the turtle boat, but it is enough to cover the island nation's naval soldiers to climb onto the turtle boat.If the soldiers on the turtle boat continued to use the shooting holes to shoot crossbow arrows to attack the soldiers of the island country, then the soldiers on the Kyoto fleet could use gunpowder guns to kill those who were shooting arrows.

Because the gunpowder gun fires fast enough, the bullets fired are almost in a straight line.In this way, even the soldiers on the turtle boat hiding behind the shooting holes suffered heavy casualties.

And after being boarded by the island nation's navy soldiers on the turtle boat, the defense on the turtle boat is equivalent to disappearing.After all, the defense of the turtle ship is mainly to defend the place with arrows or stones.

Now that the naval soldiers of the island country boarded the turtle boat, the soldiers on the turtle boat raised their weapons and prepared to fight.As long as one of them is alive, it is impossible for the navy of the island country to capture these turtle ships.

Zhou Tai was also extremely anxious at this time. After they defeated the first batch of island nation warships that came to stop them, the second batch of island nation warships also quickly surrounded them.After they surrounded them, they restrained Zhou Tai and others from the battlefield, unable to help the surrounded turtle ships and only two or three fire-breathing ships that were still lingering.

In his anxiety, Zhou Tai even ordered the gunboats behind him to ignore them, and probably just bombard the warships aimed at the island country directly.But even so, the navies of the island country still kept the fifty warships led by Zhou Tai out of the battlefield without fear of life or death.

"boom!"

Just when Zhou Tai was still thinking about how to rush into the battlefield and disrupt the formation of the island nation's fleet, there was a loud noise from the center of the battlefield.

The sudden sound made Zhou Tai and the island navy stop their movements at the same time outside the battlefield, and looked towards the battlefield that made the loud noise.

Zhou Tai also has a telescope, so he can see the situation on the battlefield more clearly.

From the scene seen through the telescope, the hull of a turtle ship has been cracked and is about to sink into the bottom of the sea.

Just seeing this situation, Zhou Tai is still not very clear why this happened.But soon, Zhou Tai understood what happened just now.

Before Zhou Tai put down the telescope in his hand, another "boom" explosion sounded from the battlefield.

It turned out that although the soldiers on the turtle boats fought bravely, they couldn't hold back the large number of enemies. At the same time, there were soldiers from the Kyoto fleet sweeping around with muskets.The soldiers on the turtle boat did not want the turtle boat to be captured by the navy of the island country after they died. Therefore, when almost all the soldiers on the turtle boat died in battle, they detonated the explosives accumulated on the boat, killing the enemies on the turtle boat with the turtle boat. Sent into the sea together.

Watching this scene, Zhou Tai's eyes widened, almost popping out.

When he brought these more than a hundred warships to conquer the island country, he did not bring those people to die.But now, the fire-breathing ship has been completely wiped out, and even the turtle ship, which is the main force, now looks like it is about to sink into the sea.

How could Zhou Tai remain calm like this?

"Give me the order, the whole army will press on! If you can't get the trapped brothers out, they will all die here!" At this time, Zhou Tai, who was so angry, also issued orders to the ships.

All of a sudden, the fleet led by Zhou Tai and the others swarmed forward, completely ignoring the loss of warships.Even the gunboats parked behind were pressing forward at this time, with full firepower.Under Zhou Tai's onslaught, the island nation's fleet soon showed its defeat.

At the same time, the navy of the island country could not stop fighting around those turtle boats. Even if they were about to wipe out the soldiers on a turtle boat, the remaining soldiers would detonate the explosives on the turtle boat.In this way, the soldiers of the island country paid huge casualties, but got nothing.

Seeing that the soldiers on the besieged turtle boat still had no intention of surrendering at this time, the general of the Kyoto fleet sighed and planned to order the artillery on the ship to fire and send all the turtle boats to the bottom of the sea.

But at this moment, in the rear of the Kyoto fleet, there were bursts of explosions again.

"What's going on?" After hearing the explosion, the general of the Kyoto Fleet immediately asked the warships behind for news.

After a while, the news reached the general's ears.It turned out that the demolition ship sent by Zhou Tai to make a detour finally circled behind the island nation's fleet at this time.After going around, they didn't launch an attack immediately, but waited until the attention of the island warships was attracted by the turtle ship, and then rushed out.

After the blasting ships rushed out, they also found their targets and slammed the blasting ships into the target ship.

However, even if those blasting ships were somewhat prepared, they were also sneak attacks on the island nation's warships. However, when the people on the blasting ships used small boats to escape, they were still discovered by people on the other island nation's warships.In the end, less than 100 of the soldiers on the [-] demolition ships escaped.

Even though the blasting ship suffered heavy losses, it played a role in turning the tide of the battle.

The gunboats of the island nation's Kyoto fleet are basically placed at the rear.A round of attack by the demolition ship sank more than a dozen Japanese gunboats.As a result, the island country could not afford the loss.

In addition, the general of the Kyoto Fleet did not know how many demolition ships Zhou Tai and the others had. Therefore, seeing that the results of the battle could not be expanded in a short period of time, the general had no choice but to order a retreat.

(End of this chapter)