A flag embroidered with thunder and lightning striking on the ocean on the flagship rose to the ground, followed by the sound of the big drums, and the war drums everywhere followed, and the heaven and earth were full of passionate war drums.

"To the southwest, against the wind! Get the upper hand! Yan Changwu ordered.

This was the established plan, and the flagship, flying the flag high, slowly accelerated, while the speed of the sixth-class fast cruisers in front of them had already gone up, and they began to make a violent maneuver, turning the rudder to the left, and the stern spinnaker was tensioned to assist the bow turning, and in the intense work of the sailors, the foremast mainmast sails also turned, and the sails were stressed and sailed against the wind.

They dispatched 3rd class (2 ships), 5th class (4 ships) and 6th class (18 ships) warships, commanded by Yan Changwu, and the other ships were mixed together with a hodgepodge of ships, jointly commanded by Li Ying and Storm.

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Seeing from a distance that there was such a big warship in the Southeast Mansion, Yu Shihao shouted angrily: "Good thief! ”

There is no regret in my heart, I knew that the other party's strength was strong, and I would not have fought in the sea.

Zhu Yifeng was also shocked in his heart, he knew that he was not in a hurry, and waited until Yu Shihao knew that now at sea, he couldn't escape.

After all, he was a big official, and when he saw the generals around him looking frightened, he shouted: "There is no way back now, generals, for your life, glory and wealth, there is only one fight!" ”

A word woke up the dreamer, everyone woke up, if this battle is lost, everything will be over!

Qianhu Ma Sheng said: "The matter is urgent, I am willing to be a pioneer and break the enemy in front!" ”

Governor Zhu said happily: "Benfu cheers for General Ma!" (Qianhu has not reached the level of the general's honorific title, Zhu Yifeng is not wrong, but promises that once the victory is won, the general Ma Sheng's honorific title is expected)

Yu Zhihao nodded, and gave a few orders, Ma Sheng hurriedly took a small boat, led a fleet of nearly 100 ships to turn the right rudder, and he would take on the heavy task of dealing with the enemy's main fleet.

He pulled away nearly two-fifths of the team, Yu Zhihao's team looked thin, Zhu Yifeng saw this, was ruthless, and ordered: "Today's battle, there is victory and no defeat, when the day of success, Ben Fu opened the treasury silver, the participants each two taels of silver, the officers five taels, if the arson ship burns an enemy plywood ship, a reward of 100 taels of silver (16 people on the arson ship). ”

This price is not low, the monthly salary of the seventh rank official of the imperial court is only five taels of silver, after the news was spread by speedboat, the morale of the Ming officers and soldiers was restored, and they all said: "Fight!" ”

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Both forces are approaching, and whether Ma Sheng's troops can now gain the upper hand before the main force of the plywood ships in the southeast province will be the key to victory.

You must know that naval warfare is nothing more than interception, collision, artillery bombardment, and fire attack, although the current artillery bombardment is beginning to show its grandeur, but it has not completely changed the battlefield situation (Yan Changwu's eighteen battleships fired a lot of artillery, but only sank only five ships is a clear example), so the fire attack is the most powerful, and the enemy is not overfired, and it can often be used to determine the victory or defeat.

The current sail warship is wooden, and the canopy, rope, sail, board and other things on the ship, all of which are flammable, such as the Red Cliff of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao's sailors are connected, and the flag covers the river, but it can't resist the fire of Zhou Lang, resulting in the annihilation of the whole army, which has since changed Chinese history.

Arsonist ships and rockets pose a great threat to sail warships, and although there are various means to prevent them, as soon as the ship catches fire and is blown by the wind, it becomes a prairie fire, which is really terrifying.

Don't look at the current Yan Changwu battleship Niu 13 coaxing, as long as the Daming Sailor has the upper hand, Yu Zhihao dares to say that he will send him to see his cheap father!

Ma Sheng led the team to attack, and kept urging his subordinates to rush to the wind, and now it is still blowing the southwest wind, Ma Sheng is going against the wind, and the opponent is against the wind.

The thought of being able to burn the opponent's big ship with an arson ship made Ma Sheng's heart pound, this is an immortal achievement!

was dreaming of Huang Liang, and the little school next to him pushed him anxiously and said, "Lord Qianhu, look! ”

Ma Sheng looked at it fixedly, and saw that the plywood ships of the Southeast Fleet were rapidly accelerating, as fast as galloping horses!

Ma Sheng is in a hurry! Roaring to let the warship grab the wind, grab the wind!

Yu Shiwan was stunned, her lips trembled, and she couldn't say a word for a long time.

Zhu Yifeng was not familiar with maritime affairs, and when he saw it from a distance through the telescope, he asked strangely: "Has the direction of the wind changed?" ”

He saw that the direction of the fluttering on the ship was still the southwest wind, although it had weakened, but the southwest wind was still blowing firmly.

The flotilla is blowing a gentle southwesterly wind, and the northeast wind is blowing over there?

Yu Shihao said astringently: "Yang Baihu, you come and explain it to the governor!" ”

Yang Shijue said: "There must be undercurrents in the waters of this place to drive the boats to walk. ”

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"Ren Er has calculated a lot, how can he calculate the undercurrent here!" Yan Changwu was on the flagship, and felt that the undercurrent was like the big waves of the Yangtze River pushing the big ship to accelerate incessantly, and he forced himself to press his youthful nature, while the others had already cheered.

As the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake of the ground, Yan Changwu operates here, as a future soldier, he does not know that his fleet must have a "hydrographic exploration ship", the work of this auxiliary ship is to record the chart, climate, wind direction, ocean current, temperature, salt concentration, etc.

Exhaustive records to escort the battleship.

It turned out that there was a reef like the Great Wall outside Beigang, which blocked a torrent under the water and changed its direction, and the direction was towards the mainland, and now the Southeast Fleet used this current to push the wind to beat the blowing direction!

Everyone knows that there is an undercurrent, but where the undercurrent originates, where it ends, and how powerful it is, it is not something that a ship boss can clearly describe, and the result must be obtained by an exploration ship, and the effect of the exploration ship is here.

When the three cruisers rushed to the upwind, the fastest boat in Ma Sheng's formation could also be rushed, this was the most skilled ship boss drove the boat to rush, and the ships behind were still a hundred meters away.

So tragedy happened, and the three cruisers opened fire one after the other!

The gunners quickly fired three broadside salvos, and the sawdust of the ship was scattered, and it was riddled with holes, and although it was not sunk, it had lost its ability to move and was carried away by the current!

The captain of the Kaohsiung No. 1 ship at the beginning raised the leader flag on horseback, and the battleships behind rushed in, one after another, into the battle line!

A series of artillery fire poured into the Ming army!