Zhao Hao calculated that the enemy's main fleet had about ten warships in a horizontal column, and if he counted them as five hundred, there would be as many as fifty columns, and they would maintain a distance of 100 paces, and they would be discharged ten miles long not counting the length of the hull, thus forming a phalanx with a front width of two miles and a depth of ten miles. Their tactics of attacking the enemy's forward are like peeling an onion, taking advantage of the good mobility of their own warships to fight in circles, but if they still use this method to attack the enemy's central army, even if they do not move, the oarsmen will be tired and half dead when they turn down, not to mention have to deal with the enemy's counterattack.

"It's only a win in chaos!" Zhao Yu observed for a while and muttered. The widest part of the dragon boat is more than three zhang, and the oar is three zhang long, a total of nine zhang, about 20 steps. That is to say, with a width of 20 paces, the dragon boat can be unimpeded. The enemy ships were like a series of lanes crisscrossed by 100 paces, and the dragon ships could take advantage of their good maneuverability to insert into them, and the ballistas could fire at the same time, and the range of attack was doubled. In addition, their boats have thick skins and fireproof layers, which are naturally strong, so as long as they are not hit by the giant slapping rod, they will be fine.

"Turn due south, ram the enemy ships, cripple them and meet the Chinese army!" Zhao Hao visually measured that the enemy's Chinese army was about ten miles away from the battlefield, and even if their large warships were to sail at full speed at seven knots per hour, it would take more than half an hour. It was impossible for the brigade to maintain this speed in order to take care of the slow warships, so he still had half an hour to deal with the front army, but he did not need to sink them all, as long as most of them were incapacitated.

"Your Highness, the command is in the ship, and the command of the detachment is in the Brave, and I will not be able to respect the order!" Zhang Hao gritted his teeth and said. Although he was not killed by His Royal Highness yesterday because of the pilotage, he was scolded by the commander. He claimed that if this happened again, he would take his own head with his own hands.

"You ......" Zhao Yu has no choice, he is called cocooning and self-restraint, who asked him to promise not to interfere with the command before the war. And Zhang Hao is not bad, he is not his direct leader, and he has not lost his command ability, of course, he can't command beyond his authority casually, let alone kill people on this ground, I think Chen Renweng is also accurate about this.

"Please also ask Your Highness Haihan, if Your Highness has an accident, the Destroying Front Army will die a hundred times!" Zhang Hao lowered his head and waited for His Highness to get angry, but there was no sound for a while, and he looked up at His Highness who looked helpless.

"Hmph, is there nothing this king can do?" Zhao Yu snorted coldly and sat down, he knew that Chen Renweng's command was conservative, and he was on the boat; In addition, this is the first time that the Destroying Front Army has participated in actual combat after it became an army, and no one knows what the combat strength is, and besides, the enemy cannot but leave room for the present. But this battle cannot be reserved. But if you withdraw Chen Renweng and control it yourself, it will damage its majesty, and it will be difficult to control the Destroying Front Army in the future, which is really a dilemma.

"Your Highness, smoke rises from the Seven Star Mountains!" Zheng Yong suddenly reported loudly.

"Oh, great, reinforcements are expected!" Zhao Yu picked up the telescope and looked in the direction of Qixingling, only to see three pillars of smoke rising. According to his agreement with Liu Zhu, a puff of smoke was raised to indicate that the strait where the imperial court walked, and the second puff of smoke was going to Leizhou. And the three puffs of smoke don't need to ask, indicating that they have already brought in troops to help.

"Protect Your Highness, open the crossbow window, and shoot the approaching enemy soldiers!" Zhang Hao found that an enemy ship was taking advantage of the gap between the dragon boats to brave the rain of bullets, regardless of casualties, and immediately ordered the soldiers to be on guard to prevent the enemy ships from approaching. Because of the limitation of the elevation angle of the ballista, the light boats such as the approaching boats could not do anything after entering the shooting blind spot, and could only rely on the soldiers to deal with them.

Zhao Hao then looked out of the crossbow window and found that although the enemy forward was disrupted and some of the ships were damaged, they still had combat effectiveness. After the enemy general calmed down from the initial panic, he found that the enemy army had no more than 20 or 30 warships, and immediately divided dozens of light boats and medium-sized warships such as boats and oarboats to turn around and meet them, so as to buy time for the large warships to turn and seize the limelight.

"Eh, stop me!" Zhao Yu still wanted to take a closer look, Ni Liang waved his hand, and more than a dozen guards stepped forward with big shields to surround him in the middle, so as not to hurt His Highness by flying in through the crossbow window, so that his vision was completely blocked, and he couldn't see the situation outside even if he jumped high.

"Your Highness, stop yelling!" Ni Liang stood in front of His Highness and said in a deep voice.

"You...... You all bully this king a child, and when I grow up, see how you are! Zhao Hao was angry and scolded unabashedly, but he also knew that Ni Liang would not let go at this time no matter what.

"Hit them, those boats can't stop us, don't fight them!" Zhao Hao, who shouted for a while, saw that it had no effect, and at this moment the soldiers had already taken turns to shoot, but he could only hear the 'boom' sound of the bowstring being released, the knocking sound of the arrow hitting the gunwale, and the shouts of the enemy soldiers. Zhao Hao, who was anxious to see the situation outside, put down his body, took advantage of his small size to find the gap between the shields and peeked out, seeing that an enemy ship in front of him had already slanted over to try to intercept, and the Brave in front had been attacked by two enemy ships, he knew that once the dragon ship lost its mobility and combat effectiveness, it would be greatly reduced, and he couldn't help but shout.

"Alas, why avoid it, what a good opportunity!" Hearing His Highness's shout, Zhang Hao only hesitated, but still ordered to turn the rudder, slow down and pass the enemy ship, and ordered to suppress it with ballistas. This made Zhao Hao lament.

But at the same time, it also made Zhao Hao understand a problem, the Destroying Front Army used to be a local naval army, equipped with small and medium-sized warships, and generally did not dare to collide with enemy ships. After the modification of the dragon boat, although training in this area has been carried out and collision drills have also been carried out, where can the Shuai Fu army get a good boat and a big boat for them to really collide. Now after entering the actual battle, these officers know that it is a good time, but they still have difficulty in their hearts to pass that hurdle.

"Oops!"

"What's wrong?" Zhao Yu heard the screams and hurriedly asked.

"Your Highness, Commander Zhang has been hit by an arrow!" Ni Liang replied with a frown.

"Hurry up and save people, why are you still surrounding me?" Zhao Yu listened to the big urgency.

"How?" Ni Liang hesitated, but still let out of the way and let His Highness come out, but he still did not withdraw the shield array, but only expanded the range. Zhao Hao rushed to the front and saw Zhang Hao with an arrow stuck in his thigh, and hurriedly asked.

"Your Highness, it's not in the way, it's just that the flesh hurts!" Zhang Hao lifted his robe and said.

"The army listened to the order, Commander Zhang was injured, and this king took over the command for the time being!" Zhao Hao glanced at it, and the arrow cluster was not completely submerged in the flesh, which was obviously not serious, but he rolled his eyes and shouted loudly to seize Zhang Hao's power...... (To be continued.) )