"All on combat alert!" Pan Motang, who was sitting at the bow of the boat, had just changed into dry clothes, and was drinking a bowl of steaming ginger tea at the moment, ready to sweat and force out the wind cold that had just invaded his body. Hearing Ruan Er's roar, he stood up, raised his hand, threw the bowl in his hand into the sea, and said sharply.

"Sailors in position!"

"Set sail!"

Ruan Er stood on top of the high Diao head, waving the signal flag in his hand vigorously, and in his eyes, hundreds of warships raised their main sails and auxiliary sails in unison, and a snow-white white covered the sea in an instant, and the scene was extremely spectacular.

"Set sail!" With the help of his own soldiers, Pan Motang had already changed into a battle armor.

"Soldiers in position!"

Bands of soldiers poured out from the battleship, silently began to bust themselves on the ship. In order to withstand the storm, all the weapons that could be removed from the deck were removed and put into the inner compartment, and now they need to be reassembled in the shortest possible time. Some of the weapons that have been immobilized, such as the slapstick, also need to be put back into combat mode. One by one, the stone bullets were lifted, and the crossbows were quickly reinstalled all over the deck, and boxes of crossbow arrows were placed aside, tearing open the oiled paper packaging, revealing a faint blue light.

"Full speed ahead!" Pan Motang's iron hook slashed through the air with a bright light, pointing straight ahead.

On both sides of the Dingyuan ship, the waves suddenly began to surge, and the oars slowly rotated, faster and faster, under the dual action of the sails and the oars, the battleship chopped the waves and went all the way forward.

In front of them, it was indeed the huge fleet of the Lingnan Naval Division, under the leadership of Zeng Shou, they came all the way to Liangzhe, but their luck was very weak. This big storm not only patronized Pan Motang, but they were naturally not spared.

And their warships are much worse than the Tang Army's naval divisions.

Except for Zeng Shou's own ship, which was a new type of warship just built by the Lingnan Shipyard, all the other naval warships, including the ships of the Fujian pirates that Zeng Shou had just acquired, were basically transformed from merchant ships. The ability to resist this level of wind and waves is much worse than that of a serious battleship.

There are four or five hundred materials for the large battleships, and only more than 100 materials for the small ones, and the difference is uneven. Zeng Shou's skills are not bad, otherwise he would not have become the second leader second only to Pan Motang in the mix. Like Pan Motang, he also sensed this big storm in advance and gave the order to prepare in advance. But the problem is that except for the Lingnan Sailors, the other pirates who have just joined are not very tame.

When the storm rose, Zeng Shou found that he still underestimated his terrible.

The fleet of more than 300 ships completely lost contact with each other in the storm, and could only fight separately to meet the baptism of the storm.

The ending was very painful.

The seemingly sturdy warships were vulnerable to the storm, and the lack of communication between the ships caused them to collide with each other in the process of fighting the storm.

There are also many Hokkien pirates who intend to take advantage of this opportunity to get rid of Zeng Shou's control, and intend to sail away, anyway, at this time, everyone is taking care of themselves, if they can escape away, the vast sea, the two sides may not meet again.

When the water subsided and the sea returned to calm again, Zeng Shou's fleet, which had more than 300 warships, lost a third. As far as the eye could see, there were broken planks, scarred corpses, half-floating and half-sunken sails floating everywhere above the sea, of course. There are also sailors who survived and barely floated on the surface of the water to cry for help.

A storm caused the fleet to lose one-third, and Zeng Shou really wanted to cry without tears.

It was also at this moment that his whereabouts were discovered by Ruan Er on the Dingyuan.

It's a pity that Zeng Shou didn't have telescopes and other far-sighted tools, so at this distance, he couldn't spot distant enemies.

When Pan Motang came violently, his entire fleet was still floating in the east and west on the vast sea.

It's so tired, everyone just wants to get a good night's sleep.

So, when they found that white sails were emerging on the sea level, they jumped up in horror, only to find that it was too late.

With the help of wind and manpower, Pan Motang's fleet outpaced the galloping horses at sea, cleaving the waves and slashing the waves.

The Lingnan sailors' only reaction was to raise their sails and prepare for battle.

Individually, of course.

At this moment, if they want to reorganize the formation of warships, they don't have time at all, even if they are next to Zeng Shou's flagship, they are only following only twenty warships.

Dingyuan, Fuyuan, and Zhenyuan were the arrows of the charge, and more than 100 warships of the Tang Army rushed over unstoppably. Faster than them were the stone bullets fired from the ship, and the strong crossbow arrows.

At this moment, the Tang Army's warships are still only half of the Lingnan Naval Division.

It's just that these more than 100 warships huddled together and formed a powerful fist. Although there are many warships of the Lingnan Naval Division, they are scattered and shapeless.

Although the Tang Army's warships were few, they were all ships built specifically for battle, and every design of his was to have a greater chance of surviving on the battlefield and to kill and injure the enemy to a greater extent. More than ninety percent of the ships of the Lingnan Navy Division were converted from merchant ships. Compared with the warships of the Don Army, it is not at all above the same level.

This is like a professional boxer encountering a wild road player, even if the wild road player has the determination to fight to the death, but the gap in vision and strength, as soon as it comes into contact, it will collapse.

After only half an hour of fighting, Zeng Shou decided to flee.

He has been a pirate with Pan Motang for many years, and he was once a general trained by Pan Motang, and he still has this eyesight, and it is indeed the tradition of pirates to flee if he can't beat it, so when Zeng Shou found that it was impossible to reverse the situation, he immediately issued an order to all the ships to break through, and then turned the bow of the ship, and took the dozens of warships gathered around him, and ran wildly.

This person does have the ability, and the routes he chooses are precisely to avoid the areas where the Tang army focuses on attacking.

However, Pan Motang did not let him go, leaving two detachments to continue to beat the Lingnan warships that were fleeing in all directions, but he himself led the detachment led by the Dingyuan, biting Zeng Shou's fleet in hot pursuit.

This chase and escape is not something that can be ended in a while.

Pan Motang now hates Zeng Shou and other guys from the past. When they parted ways, Pan Motang didn't feel any guilt about them, thinking that he had left these old guys, so when Pan Motang was developed, these guys begged for food on his territory and did some illegal things, and he also turned a blind eye, as long as it wasn't too excessive, it was just that.

But they went to Lingnan to go to Xiangxun, which made it clear that they were their enemies.

I have clearly explained this to them through Fan Chang, but they still chose this path, so don't blame yourself for being unreasonable.

Pan Motang felt that as long as these people existed for a day, their faces would hurt hotly for a day, and if they were not cleaned up for a day, his face would not be able to be lifted in front of his colleagues in the Tang Dynasty.

In his life, he actually cultivated a group of opponents who were enemies of himself, how can this be embarrassing!

He knows the skills of Zeng Shou's gang, not to mention that he has completely obtained his true inheritance, but he has always learned seven or eight things, and now they are not complete with guys, if they also have a fleet that is exactly the same as their current one, then it will be difficult to say whether they will win or lose in the sea battle in the future. Besides, he is already old, but Zeng Shou and his gang are in the prime of life! Fighting at sea is no better than a land general, and experience is really much more important than bravery.

Taking advantage of his illness and killing him, it is necessary to nip the danger in the bud while their strength is still very weak.

With this in mind, Pan Motang handed over the command of the battlefield to the captain of the Fuyuan through the signal, and then took his detachment and chased all the way.

This chase is a full two days.

One after another, the warships fell behind and were beaten by the Tang Army's sailors, to deal with these stragglers, Pan Motang's handling was extremely rude, that is, to kill all the people on the ship, and then let these ships drift on the sea, if he could still find these ships when he came back, it would naturally become his trophies, if he couldn't find it, it didn't matter.

The next day, the warships of the Lingnan Navy Division suddenly understood a truth, the Tang army was chasing Zeng Shou, and some people tentatively changed their course and stayed away from Zeng Shou's fleet, but unexpectedly found that the Tang army ignored them at all, which made him overjoyed, and he fled away immediately.

With the first lucky one, the second, and the third came one after another.

Pan Motang turned a blind eye.

His target is Zeng Shou.

Of course, it is not for nothing that Zeng Shou is closely followed, that is, a group of friends from Zeng Shou in the past. They knew very well that Pan Motang would not let them go.

Zeng Shou decided to return to fight.

The performance of the Tang Army's warships is better than theirs, so there is no way out at all if they escape, they will always be chased by Pan Motang, above the sea, few people who are bitten by iron hooks escape, Zeng Shou does not think that he will be an exception. What's more, if Pan Motang only needs to do himself, then it may not be long before these friends who are still following him will also abandon him, and at that time, he will really have no luck.

Now desperately, maybe there is a glimmer of life.

When he saw Zeng Shou's warship crossing a long arc on the sea and turned around, biting into his ribs, Pan Motang laughed loudly.