The struggle of the reborn prince

After the fierce battle, the battlefield was in a mess, the dark sky reflected the pitch blackness of the sea, and from time to time there was the sound of sinking enemy ships. Burning ships, scattered ship boards and dead bodies rose and fell with the waves, and the cold sea breeze blew past. People couldn't help being horrified, Song Shuijun sent small boats to and fro on the battlefield to find the Jin Army sailor who was still alive and boarded him, and the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners was also implemented in the navy.

"Although the former army of the Jinshui Division was completely wiped out by us, it must have alarmed the Chinese army. I am afraid they have already fled. The most urgent task now is to find out their location!" After crossing the boat and meeting on the Shenwei, Cheng Xishou said with a sullen face that his plan was to wait for the Jinshui army to enter the ambush circle before starting the war. Unexpectedly, the enemy's front army broke in first, and the main force did not touch it.

"Dutong, the Jinshui Army is a bird of fright now, and the weather has turned cold again. He must want to escape back to the country first!" Zhai Cheng said.

"Then which direction will they go? This sea area is close to the Liaodong Peninsula, and the Jinshui Army has many ports to choose from, but the vast sea is hard to capture!" Tian Yang pointed out on the sea chart.

"According to the location of our annihilated Jinshui army, I think the Jin army has two choices. One is to flee to Zhenhai, which is the closest to the battlefield, but there is no river into the sea. They can't go deep inland to escape our attack. And it is not conducive to avoiding winter; the second is the Yalu River Estuary, which is their best choice. After entering the Jiang Estuary, it will be their territory of the Kingdom of Jin, and there are many large lakes in the waterways, which can accommodate their fleet in winter, but we have no pace. The coastal protection of the cavalry cannot go deep into the inland and fight for a long time!" Cheng Xishou drew a rough range on the sea chart.

"Well, I'm also inclined to the judgment of Dutong. It's just that the Jin army has discovered that our brigade wants to encircle and destroy it, so it will definitely cover its tracks. Now it's downwind, and it's only a day's voyage from Jiangkou. It's difficult for our army to catch up and capture it. Fighter planes may also pass by each other!" Zhai Cheng said.

"That's right. Now the two armies are half a day apart. If they retreat with all their strength, it will be difficult for our army to catch up in a short time!" Cheng Xishou nodded.

"Dutong, the general thought our army could catch up with the Jinshui army!" Zheng Hai interjected.

"Oh, tell me!" Cheng Xishou said in surprise.

"Dutong, we fought several battles with the Jinshui Army after we arrived in the Gulf of Korea. In the end, we saw that the army lacked training. The sea skills are unfamiliar, and we don't know the hydrological conditions of this sea area. Our army is just the opposite. They have all performed sea patrol missions here and know the hydrology of this sea area like the back of their hands. Besides, it will be cloudy tonight, the sky will be covered by clouds, and the Jin Army, which lacks hydrological data, will easily get lost if it only sails southward, so the speed of the ship will not be high. Too fast. In addition, most of the flagships of the Jinshui Army are high-rise ships, tall and bulky, slow in speed, and low in combat effectiveness. They can only be escorted by other warships, which slows down the speed of the entire fleet, so the general thinks that the chance of our army catching up with them is still It's huge!" Zheng Hai talked eloquently.

"Very insightful, but the premise is that the enemy fleet must be found first!" Cheng Xishou nodded in praise.But he is not optimistic. He knows that even with precise calculations, it is not easy to follow the plan as planned on the ever-changing vast battlefield.And if they want to find the enemy fleet in a short time, it is like finding a needle in a haystack.

"Du Tong, there will be a plan in the end, I don't know if it will work!" Zhai Cheng pondered for a moment and said.

"What time is it? It's just a secret, so hurry up if you have something to say!" Tian Yang said impatiently.

"Okay, okay..." Zhai Cheng looked at his companion with a pale face and said with a wry smile. "When the emperor conquered Xixia, the enemy army was defeated. The emperor personally led the army to pursue Chage. He used the method of several columns going hand in hand. No matter how the fleeing enemy changed its route, it would eventually hit the pursuit road. As long as it was entangled, the nearby A few roads can quickly rush to encircle it!"

"The emperor's use of troops is really like a god. How could he come up with such a brilliant idea, and use this strategy to chase the enemy!" Cheng Xishou sighed, but he didn't know that this tactic was a replica of the wolf pack tactic of the German submarine force back then, but it was copied by him. to land.

"Dutong, the general has another worry. According to the plan, the Mingzhou navy should have sent the landing troops ashore at this time, and they are on their way back. Although they dispatched a lot of ships, most of them are transport ships. There are not many warships, the speed is slow, and the combat power is weak, and their return route is overlapping with the return route of the Jinshui Army, if they happen to meet the main force of the Jinshui Army, I am afraid they will suffer a loss!" Tian Yang said with some concern.

"Although the Mingzhou Navy's combat effectiveness is relatively weak, it is not a soft persimmon. There is no problem with self-protection. I hope they can escape this disaster!" Cheng Xishou said. The two fleets could not communicate at sea and could only fight on their own. up.

Then Cheng Xishou ordered the whole fleet to carry out the last replenishment, and reorganized the two fleets. The forty battleships of the Yongzi were divided into five groups, each with [-] battleships of the Weizi to form a team. Cheng Xishou personally led a team to support them. Ten miles apart, the column formed a trapezoidal formation and searched along the Liaodong coast. After discovering the enemy fleet, they communicated with the sound of artillery.The remaining ships returned to Dengzhou Base.

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Xiemao Ali's Chinese army was about fifteen miles behind Uyan Puluhun's front army. When he found that the front army was ambushed by the Song Shui army, he did not step forward to rescue him, but immediately drew a circle. After turning the bow of the ship, the army changed to the former army and fled northward, at the expense of the former army in exchange for their own chance of escape.As previously judged, the destination of the Jinshui army was the mouth of the Yalu River. At this moment, they didn't know that the Song army had captured Baozhou, and the way home was blocked.

The night fell quickly, and the stars and the moon used as navigation were all hidden behind the thick clouds, as if deliberately opposing Jin Jun. The only thing that could guide them was Si Nan, and this thing was not very accurate on the bumpy boat.In order to prevent the lights on the ship from becoming the navigation mark of the Song army, the entire fleet implemented a blackout control, and only lights were placed on the bow and stern of the ship to show their positions and avoid collisions.

Because Xiemao Ali's flagship is not very useful, the speed is slow, and he doesn't understand the "barrel" law, he is reluctant to give up his comfortable flagship, so the entire Chinese fleet has to slow down to accompany it.Although Jin Jun made some preparations, chaos still occurred on the pitch-black sea.The rear army, which became the front army, walked faster and faster, and gradually separated from the brigade. At midnight, the last light had disappeared into the night.

The Jinshui army is still in the initial stage of shooting bows and arrows and fighting side by side, so it is equipped with many small warships specially used to carry soldiers.It is difficult to control the distance between each other in the undulating waves, and it is inevitable to collide with each other when encountering swells, resulting in overturning.Due to the small size of the cabin and the large number of people, they could only crouch and huddle in it to avoid the biting cold wind. Once the boat capsized, there was no chance of escape.

What's even more unfortunate is that when big waves appear, those large warships can't see the small boats under their own shadows at all. When they fall from the top of the waves, they smash those small boats that are still at the bottom of the valley into powder. Even if some people survive, who can find the darkness? Among them, hearing their screams, what awaits them is the unfathomable bottom of the sea, the belly of fishes and turtles... Finally, the dawn came and the chaos ended, but the former army no longer knew where they were going. Ali was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, but there was nothing he could do!

When it was dawn, Chizhanhui, who had become the former military commander, also found that he had deviated from the course under the guidance of the unreliable Sinan, and the Chinese army who had followed behind him was nowhere to be seen.Unable to determine his position for a while, he immediately sent four fast boats to search in all directions to find the location of the Chinese army, and ordered the fleet to guard southwest to prevent being caught up by Song Shuijun.

"Control, Song Army Fleet!" Chi Zhanhui, who was determined to prevent being chased, was suddenly stunned by a scream, and a huge fleet appeared in the north of them, approaching them.

"My sons and daughters, in this battle of life and death, I am invincible, and I will fight to the death!" Chi Zhanhui immediately realized that this battle was inevitable, and when he fell into death, he aroused the bravery in his heart, gnashing his teeth and roaring, leading the army to meet go up...

Chizhanhui was not the only one who was jumped down. The fleet on the opposite side was also quite surprised by the Jinjun fleet that appeared in front of them. They were the Mingzhou navy who had completed the delivery mission. Turning the corner, they found each other almost at the same time.

"Control, what to do?"

"What else can we do? Fight!" Liu Han, the commander of the Mingzhou Navy, licked his lips and said helplessly. The encounter has happened, and now they are sailing against the wind, while the enemy army is with the wind, they cannot run away from the opponent, and they have to fight if they don't fight.

Liu Han quickly calculated his own capital. The most combat-capable ones are ten Yong-class warships including his own ship and thirty Wei-class medium-sized warships, but there are more than 200 ships in his fleet. Transport ship for a small number of self-defense weapons.The opponent saw that there were about [-] to [-] large and small warships, and the combat power of his own single ship was far superior to the opponent's, but he still felt like he was no match for four hands!

"Let the transport ship sail westward at full speed, quickly leave the battlefield, and all the warships line up to meet the enemy and entangle the enemy!" Liu Han saw the golden army's warship hitting his fleet head-on at full speed, he also adjusted the formation, and the warship turned around Line up in a column to face the enemy on the starboard side, cover the evacuation of the transport fleet, and first withstand the first wave of attack by the enemy ships.

"Fire the guns and block the enemy ships!" Seeing that the Jin Army fleet entered the range, Liu Han issued an order, and immediately [-] broadside guns from [-] battleships rang out together, and the two fleets that were panicking each other started an encounter... …(to be continued..)