"The enemy ship has arrived?" The sound of the ship's alarm bell woke Zhao Hao, and he turned over and sat up and rushed out of the cabin to ask.

"Your Highness, the sentinel ship reported that it found a large group of ships coming south thirty miles northeast of Qizhou Island." Zhang Hao hurriedly stepped forward and said.

"What time is it, has the sentinel been found?" Zhao Hao took the map and spread it on the ground, and asked while looking at it.

"Your Highness, it's past midday, and the sentinel ship should not have been spotted as soon as it found the fleet about ten miles away." Zhang Hao replied.

"Well, this battle is under the command of Chen, you don't have to worry about this king, just follow his orders!" Zhao Yu said, silently calculating in his heart how much time he had to get to their ambush point.

"The fleet is approaching us, about seven miles, it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and us, there are orders for control, and all ships are ready for battle." The Guantong hand reported to the captain through the microphone pipe.

"All the ministries are in place!" Zhang Hao's then conveyed the order to all battle positions.

"Lifter in position!"

"The helmsman is in place!"

"The oarsman is in position!"

"Ballistae in position!"

"Soldiers in position!" The echoes of each post were then transmitted back to the command platform.

"Anchor, offshore!" With the sound of Zhang Hao's command, the two anchors before and after the winch was rotated, the penny hand left the shore and sailed into the waterway with a long penny, and the oarsman raised the oars and rowed the warship to the west of the island, hidden behind Beizhi Island.

Worried that he would affect Zhang Hao's mood, Zhao Hao returned to his cabin, because the view was blocked by the island, and they could only learn about the situation outside through the lookout post set up at the commanding heights on the island. Two quarters of an hour after the Destroyer entered the battle position, the vanguard of the imperial fleet sailed quickly on the east side of the island, without the slightest intention of stopping, and the large group of ships guarding the imperial boat followed after half an hour passed through. He couldn't see it, but he could imagine the panic of the imperial fleet from the messy sound of drums and long trumpets.

"Get ready to attack!"

"Light the fire, get ready to release the smoke!" Thinking about the battle with the enemy under the disparity in troops, Zhao Yu, the first brother who went into battle for the first time, couldn't help but be nervous, and the wait seemed to be even more tormenting, his palms were full of sweat, and he drank cup after cup of tea. But when the order to prepare for the attack was given, he felt a sense of relief, and the nervousness and cowardice disappeared without a trace, but there was a kind of excitement that was eager to try......

After the ships of the Destroyers rushed out of the cover of the island, they immediately turned to the northeast and stabbed diagonally to meet them. Zhao Hao was also able to see the whole picture of the battlefield at this time, they were about three miles away from the enemy's fleet, the shouts of killing and the sound of war drums could be heard clearly, and nearly a thousand warships were scattered on the sea in a radius of several miles. At this time, the imperial brigade had drifted away, and the Song fleet behind the palace was fighting with the enemy troops who had caught up, but they were in a position against the wind, so the attack was weak, and they could only barely support under the collision of the enemy warships, trying to delay time to cover the brigade to go farther.

"Smoke!" At the sound of the order, one of the sailors opened a hatch, revealing the stove hidden in the bow, and threw a bag of medicine into a cauldron on the fire, and then closed the lid. When heated, the fuming agent composed of camphor, sulphur and phosphorus powder produces a large amount of smoke, which is sprayed through a pipe in the lid of the kettle from the dragon head standing on the bow of the ship, obscuring the hull. Zhao Yu thought that this thing actually had little effect except to scare people, and he didn't dare to mix toxic substances in the fume, for fear that he would not be able to hurt the enemy but would smoke himself to death in the closed space.

The drum beat of the 'tom tom ......' was like a burst, and the dragon boat formed a horizontal formation, gradually accelerating with the Warrior as the center, and quickly approached the enemy formation. At a distance of a thousand paces from the enemy ship, ten rocket ships immediately behind began to launch. They will carry out long-range attacks as planned, disrupting the enemy's march, and the dragon ships will take the opportunity to quickly approach and launch an attack. This kind of heavy rocket has a larger charge than the one used in the attack on Guangzhou, and the firing range is long, and if it hits vertically, it is enough to blow through the deck, and if it hits from the side, it can blow through the gunwale.

In order to enhance the combustion effect, Zhao Yu also added a phosphorus powder medicine pack to it. Ten rocket ships, each equipped with five launchers, and fifty of them at a time, is also spectacular. But the old problem of poor accuracy of this rocket still exists, and no one knows whether it will hit the target when it is released, but fortunately, the enemy does not know where to hide.

Zhao Yu had been transferred from the cabin to the bow after the war, and in order to facilitate observation, there were two portholes on the left and right, which were not wide, and in order to prevent arrows from shooting through the observation window, an iron grille was also installed, and the middle was woven into a net with iron wire, and ordinary bows and crossbows could not get in. Of course, you can also put down the heavy guard plate covered with iron sheets, even if you are directly hit by a five-pound stone bullet, you can't penetrate it.

"Hehe, finally hit two small boats!" Zhao Yu held a whole army, which can also be said to be the only binoculars in the world, looking at the battlefield, when he saw two small enemy ships were directly hit by rockets falling from the sky, the ship was immediately blown up and sank in the explosion, and the sailors on it fell into the water one after another, and the enemy soldiers close to the explosion point became a pile of stump fragments, which made him laugh and laugh.

"Count them out of luck!" Zhang Hao also laughed, but he was somewhat helpless. In order to facilitate the steering and prevent collisions, the ships of the sea brigade should maintain a distance of about 100 paces longitudinally and about 50 steps horizontally. And according to the probability of the large ship being hit, there is more chance of being hit, but this time one of the big ships missed, but the two small boats suffered a disaster, which can only make people sigh that their ancestors did not accumulate virtue.

"Haha, they're scared, it's better to mess up more!" Zhao Yu saw that the enemy ships began to dodge to the east, obviously trying to dodge. It's just that they don't know if they're afraid of rockets falling from the sky, or dragon boats that spew clouds and mist.

'Boom, boom...... rockets scurried over enemy ships and rained down, and the sound of explosions drowned out the drums of war that resounded across the sea. The explosion that fell into the sea caused a column of water several feet high, which not only caused serious casualties, but also caught fire and spread by the wind.

"Bow artillery ready, two chain bombs fired!" When the dragon boat approached the enemy ship guarding the two wings less than 200 paces, Zhang Hao gave the order to shoot, and the other dragon ships followed suit. According to the agreement, Chen Renweng commanded the whole army with a thousand-stone warship as the general, and after approaching the enemy formation, he was handed over to the command of the Brave, and the reason why it was not handed over to the Warrior was because he was worried that His Highness would 'usurp power', so that he would seize power. At this time, the Brave gave the right order to fire the ballista...... (To be continued.) )