Horse on the World

Chapter 380
"The volcanic rock island is composed of five islands, large and small. There is a group of pirates gathered here. The scale is slightly larger than that of Yuan Gang. After testing several times, this person is extremely fierce and bloodthirsty. In the past, robbing ships cost money and life. All his men are desperadoes, and he has no family members to encumber him. Therefore, it is unlikely that he will join us. Therefore, I am going to Take him down." Zheng Zhiyuan looked around at the generals and said, "Look, everyone, apart from this, what else do I mean?"

Song Fang stared at the sand table and said, "General, volcanic rock is the place we must go to build a deep-sea island chain."

Zheng Zhiyuan smiled, "Yes."

Yuan Gang thought for a while, then looked at the location of the volcanic rock islands, and suddenly realized, "General, the volcanic rock islands are surrounded, but it is very easy to ambush ships. Ships of our current scale are hidden inside. Can't find it at all."

Zheng Zhiyuan laughed, "Exactly! Everyone, although Lianshan Island is extremely important, it has a huge disadvantage, that is, the enemy can see our details at a glance, and we cannot hide our size from others. Therefore, I want to lay down volcanic rocks and hide our main force here. On Lianshan Island, I will only put a small number of ships to lure the enemy. Think about it, if the Southern Army navy finds that Lianshan Island is only our small Small fleet, what will he do?"

"Of course they came to clean us up!" Song Ming said with a smile.

"That's right, I'm indeed here to clean us up!" Zheng Zhiyuan knocked on the edge of the sand table, "Everyone knows what I'm going to do, right?"

All the generals laughed contentedly.

Ten days later, on a sunny morning, although it was already September, the weather did not look hot under the blowing sea breeze. A patrol fleet of the Bozhou Navy was swimming in the depths of the black water ocean. The navy is composed of three three-thousand-material warships and five thousand-material warships, plus some small boats. For ordinary pirates, this is already a very powerful force. The commander of this patrol team is Zhong Xiang's son. Zhongli, the southern navy is basically controlled by a family of generals, father to son, son to grandson, Zhongli is just [-] this year, but he has worked hard at sea for more than ten years, he is a veteran with extremely rich experience in naval warfare .

Since he discovered the traces of the Fuzhou Navy, Zhongli was extremely careful when he went on patrol this time. The number of ships equipped by the patrol team was twice as large as before. It has been almost ten days since he came out. Except for the occasional civilian ships, Zhongli found nothing. Seeing that it was time to return to replenish supplies.His father Zhong Xiang's tireless exhortations made Zhong Li full of vigilance towards the Fuzhou Navy. Indeed, he also saw the corpses of those soldiers who died. The equipment of the navy is too good.

The encounter between the two sides was so sudden that the slow-moving Bazhou patrol fleet suddenly discovered a fleet sailing from behind a small island with a radius of several miles less than ten miles away. The three thousand-material warships and the flag of the Fuzhou Navy flying high above the opponent's flagship made Zhong Li jump up.

"Accelerate, go up, and prepare to fight!" The alarm bell rang in the patrol team of the Bozhou Navy, and the warships accelerated together, approaching the Fuzhou Navy fleet on the opposite side.

The ship of the Fuzhou Navy, which was painted with two eye-catching black letters of Black Eagle on the side of the hull, was obviously caught off guard. After a moment of hesitation, it turned around suddenly and headed for the depths of the Black Water Ocean.

"Pursuit!" Zhong Li waved excitedly. This opportunity is great. This is obviously a part of the advance team of the Fuzhou Navy that his father talked about. It seems that they are also out for cruise. Watch them cruise. The scale of this fleet should not be large. After taking a look at his own fleet, Zhongli will definitely catch up and destroy the fleet in front. As long as he can capture some soldiers from the other side, the size of the Fuzhou Navy's selection team should be small. Can figure it out.

Although excited, Zhongli did not completely lose his mind. He ordered the flag bearers to play flags, and sent a thousand warships to sail back to Bozhou. During the battle, if the opponent's main force came to help, and he was unable to support himself, he could also fight at sea to delay them. As long as the main force of the Bozhou navy arrived, the opponent would be the softshell.

Zhongli never considered that the opponent's advance team would be stronger than their Bazhou navy, because it was impossible, and it was impossible for the Fuzhou navy of Lao Shi's expedition to gather in Heishuiyang in a short time. Such a large-scale fleet, moreover, such a large-scale fleet cannot hide its traces.

On the Black Eagle, Yuan Gang stood behind the parapet on the top floor of the battleship, looked at the Bozhou navy who was chasing closely, and said with a smile: "The fish is hooked, pass my order, keep this speed, and head towards Lianshan Island." move."

After giving the order, he stretched out his hand to pat the neck of the black hawk that was parked on his shoulder, and said with a smile, "Little Heizi, go, tell the general that the enemy has taken the bait!" However, this bird that suddenly flew up from the opponent's ship did not attract Zhongli's attention at all.

Both sides were sailing with the wind and sails, and the speed of the ship was extremely fast. Zhongli stood on the top floor, although there was a trace of worry in his eyes, but more of a fanatical will to fight. It was obvious that the other party's skill in manipulating the ship It is also very strong, at least on this point, compared with the Bozhou navy, it has been chasing with all its strength for so long. Although the distance between the two sides has not been widened, it has not been approached at all.

The whole morning, both sides were chasing and fleeing. The Black Eagle didn't intend to turn around at all, but just fled desperately forward. However, since the speed of the two sides was about the same, he couldn't get rid of Zhongli's pursuit.

The afternoon was still spent in the process of chasing and fleeing. The long-term pursuit made the soldiers of the Bazhou Navy gradually relax their vigilance. In addition to the sailors who manipulated the ships, more soldiers who were in charge of fighting slowly gathered On the deck, he laughed and scolded the fleeing Black Eagle in front of him.

Under such circumstances, the Lianshan Island Base appeared in Zhongli's field of vision. When the ship turned from one side of the steep cliff to the relatively flat side, Zhongli was stunned by the situation in front of him. Suddenly turned the bow of the ship and faced him directly. The Black Eagle stopped escaping and could no longer arouse Zhongli's interest. breakwater.

"Oh my God!" Zhongli exclaimed.

Before Zhongli could finish his admiration, two more three-thousand-material warships sailed out from the huge dock. In this way, the enemy army on the opposite side was equal to him on the large-scale warships, but the thousand-material warships However, it is a favorable situation where he has the upper hand, and at this time, he still has the upper hand.

Carefully looking at the dock not far away, and confirmed that there were no other warships there, Zhongli decided to fight a battle. His father was right, this is indeed an advance fleet, it seems that their main task is to Dive into Heishuiyang and build such a base to prepare for the arrival of large troops. Fortunately, I found this place now. As soon as my father's troops arrive, I can capture this island and destroy this advanced base of the Fuzhou Navy. No, it should be an occupation. If the Bazhou Navy takes over here, it will directly cut off the opponent's strategic purpose of trying to bypass the Black Water Ocean.

On the fortress on Lianshan Island, above the docks and behind the breakwater, there were constant figures swaying, Zhongli was secretly on guard, with this scale, the opponent had at least a thousand land-based soldiers defending, and this kind of water fortress would definitely not lack large Long-range attack weapons, I must not get close to these places during the battle, otherwise it is not fun to eat a stone cannon.

"Attack!" Zhongli ordered loudly.

The Black Eagle led the fleet, lined up in a long snake, and zigzagged to the other side. Zhongli knew that the other party wanted him to seize the upper hand. If the two ships were about the same size, the upwind and downwind positions would rise. to an extremely important role.

At this time, some of the warships tied behind the large ships on both sides ran first, and the small ships such as Chima untied the cables, carried soldiers, and quickly shuttled between the fleets. With the cover of these small ships, the large ships Ship formations are more flexible.

The size of the fleets of the two sides is almost the same, and Zhong Li's command level is not bad. Yuan Gang has changed several times, but he has not been able to seize a better position of the upper hand. The small boats of both sides, these boats are extremely fast, and the skills of the sailors on both sides are extremely tested. Otherwise, if they collide head-on, both sides will end up capsizing and falling into the water. This is almost a death sentence in a large-scale water battle.

Even if the collision is avoided, once the two sides meet, it will be a more brutal hand-to-hand combat. The big ships on both sides are still separated by a certain distance, and the small boats are already engaged in fierce fighting.Approaching to a distance of more than ten feet, the soldiers operating the boat have already raised the long pole with an iron tip, and poked it fiercely. With such a short distance, the possibility of avoiding it is very small. Every small boat is equipped with At this moment, more than a dozen soldiers have already drawn their bows and arrows, and are desperately shooting at each other.Under such circumstances, what is tested is the quality of the armor of both parties.

At this point, the Fuzhou Navy has a great advantage. Both sides are shooting arrows like rain, but the soldiers in Fuzhou are all wearing iron armor. Most of the soldiers of the Bozhou navy were wearing leather armor, and they fell into the water one after another under the shooting of the opponent's powerful bows and crossbows.In this round of shooting, the Bazhou navy suffered a great loss, but the Fuzhou soldiers suffered very little loss.

But under the condition of extremely fast speed of the ship, this kind of shooting can only shoot a few arrows, and the two sides can easily meet the ship to fight. The sailors suffered a great loss, and the huge impact caused them to fall into the water one after another. After the impact, the Bozhou sailors jumped up, and the two sides immediately started hand-to-hand combat on the rickety boat.

Zhong Li frowned as he watched the fierce battle between the small boats of the two sides. Within a moment of the battle, his side was already at a disadvantage. It wasn't because his soldiers were bad, but because the other side's equipment was really good. The only thing is that the armor is damaged, but his own soldiers are already dead.

However, the fight between small ships is just a prelude, and the victory or defeat still depends on the contest between large ships.

"Prepare the ballista!" Zhong Li calmly ordered.

(End of this chapter)