"Here we go again, do you want to try it?" Ma Yuan spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm into the river water, "All artillery positions!" Get on the ammo! ”

"People say that if you don't hit the south wall, you won't look back," Lu Lun looked at the boat opposite, and scolded with a smile, "I see that these turtle grandsons don't look back after hitting the south wall, they have to come to die, so we have to accept it." His words caused a burst of laughter in the hands of the firebolt. In the two battles just now, the "Fubo" fired more than 100 shells, sank two large pirate ships, and the mine-throwers burned several smaller ships, and the pirates did not even stick to the edge of the deck of the "Fubo" ship. Therefore, the atmosphere before the battle was very relaxed.

"Ammunition on each gun position—"

"Loading ammo-" "Moving ammo!" ”

The battle flag hanging on the mast fluttered, and Ma Yuan's military orders were quickly broken down and executed by the gang commanders.

Zhao Xingde did not have much selfishness towards the South China Sea Naval Division, so he was eclectic in employing people and promoted many capable officers, including Liu Wengu, Ma Yuan, and Feng Yuan, as well as Zhou He, Ding Ban, and Meng Ying. A naval officer like Lu Lun had never entered Zhao Xingde's vision, and as long as the soldiers on the ship were promoted, he would be appointed by the escort envoy. Upward and downward effects, the sailor has formed an atmosphere of meritocracy regardless of personal temperament and position.

Ma Yuan commanded the "Fubo" ship for some time, and he did not dare to live up to Zhao Xingde's heavy use, and he had to take care of all the affairs on the ship, grasping all the affairs on the "Fubo" ship in his hands and mind, and quickly built up his prestige among the captains and sailors. The officers and men on the Fubo ship elected Lu Lun as a military envoy. Lu Lun is an officer from the army, not only did he not reject horse aid, but he cooperated very much, if the two did not get along, it was the officers and soldiers who suffered, and if they missed a major event, neither of them would be able to please him. Therefore. The commander of the ship and the escort made the cooperation pleasant and won the hearts of the military.

This kind of happy situation is the most common among the sailors, and it is the officers and men on the ship who benefit.

The sky was cloudless, the view above the river was excellent, and the clairvoyant mirror could see every hideous or apprehensive face standing at the bow of the pirate ship.

"It's not good." Liu Zhijian said in a low voice, "With such a dense fleet, you can hit any shell!" ”

"This is not land, just wait and see." Zhao Xingde frowned and ordered, "Prepare to use the word 'self' to snake the formation." ”

Liu Zhijian nodded and immediately passed down the military order. Several colourful pennants representing the tactics of the word "self" were raised to the top of the mast.

"'Own' snake formation!" Meng Ying, the commander of the Pinghai ship, said in a deep voice, "Report to Zhao Dudu - obey the order!" ”

"The word 'self' is in a snake formation-" The chess and card officer conveyed the general's order. The sailors below, the helmsman immediately got busy.

The double-column wild goose parade is the most important tactic of the South China Sea Naval Division, and since the formation of the naval division, it has repeatedly practiced this formation at sea. The "self" character snake marching formation was a maritime tactic formulated by Zhao Xingde according to the characteristics of the Song army's artillery far exceeding that of the opponent, and on the basis of the original double-column wild goose marching array. At this time, the gunboats of the second column opened fire, and at the same time covered the movement of the first column, and when the first column of gunboats drove to the middle of the word "self", they just aimed the side of the gun window that had not opened fire at the enemy.

At this time, the second column began to move in a zigzag shape, and the first column of gunboats began the second round of firing.

When the gunboats in the second column sailed to the middle of the "self" formation, they also aimed the window of the side of the gun, which had not opened fire, at the enemy. When the second column of gunboats opened fire on the enemy, the first column of gunboats moved towards the third horizontal hook in the shape of "self", and again aimed the gun window of the side of the ship that had been loaded with shells at the enemy.

This cycle repeated, and the two horizontal columns of the South China Sea Naval Division covered each other while retreating, and at the same time firing at the enemy ships.

Because each ship made a serpentine movement in the array, it was named the "Ji" serpentine array by the South China Sea Naval Division.

This formation can maximize the distance between the enemy and our ships, avoid broadside battles, and give full play to the superiority of artillery to strike enemy ships.

When the enemy ships retreated, the South China Sea Navy Division would step forward in a serpentine shape and bombard the backward enemy ships with artillery.

Because of the extreme wind and waves at sea, it is extremely difficult for warships to simply follow the "one" line or column a word goose formation, let alone the zigzag serpentine formation, so even in the South China Sea naval division, not all warships are in their own zigzag serpentine formation. Zhao Xingde transferred the most meticulous Sinan captain, sail captain, and helmsman to the gunboat, and the sailors and helmsmen on the ship practiced repeatedly, and they were barely in a row. However, this section of the Pearl River is gentle, and the wind and waves on the river are much smaller than those on the sea.

Zhao Xingde saw that all ships waved the banner of "obey orders", and his face looked very relaxed.

Judging by the number of pirates on the opposite side, the day of fighting was long. It is inconvenient to command the ships on the water, and it is not easy to array and control the warships, and the most taboo thing is that the commander-in-chief commands the ships too carefully, or frequently changes the military orders, so that the ships are at a loss. Therefore, after Zhao Xingde issued the military order, he had nothing to do. The entire naval division is like a clock, each performing its own duties, as long as it is within the overall tactical range, it is much better to let the subordinates be free and handle their own affairs than to interfere with their command at will.

The river was so quiet that the officers and men of the sailors were holding their breath, and this time, the pirates did not shout.

The enemy ship was getting closer and closer, and suddenly, a heavy cannon sound broke the silence, and Zhao Xingde followed the prestige, only to see a swarthy cannonball pierce the sky and land on a pirate boat, which then provoked chaos and screams. Because the formation of enemy ships is very dense, hitting is no longer a problem, and the judgment of distance becomes the key. The ships of the first column judged the distance to the target on their own, and the first to fire their guns was the "Fubo" ship. The first cannon sound echoed on the surface of the river, followed by the second and third shelling, and more than 10 gunboats in the first horizontal column of the entire South China Sea Naval Division fired all their guns in unison, and the cannon sound rang out one after another, and the whistling of shells tore through the air and fell into the opposite fleet.

"This guy," a smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Xingde's mouth, "It's not bad." ”

The sun rises into the sky, and the light is very bright. Without the help of a clairvoyant mirror, as far as Zhao Xingde's eyes could see, the entire river seemed to be full of pirate ships heading towards him. On the side of the South China Sea Naval Division, rows of cannon muzzles flashed continuously, and clusters of gunpowder smoke rose into the air, and the cannonballs fell into the formation of the pirate ships on the opposite side one after another, and the river seemed to be boiling. As the smoke gradually thickened, the sky over the river where the battle was fought soon filled with smoke.

Everything seemed to be unclear, only the constant devastation and screams came through the smoke.

In the thick smoke formed by the firing of cannons, the pirate ships sometimes rushed out individually, sometimes in groups, and a few small boats passed through the shallow water close to the naval warship, and then the gunboat ships on the flanks of the ship resounded with a firm and pleasant "thud...... Bang-bang-bang", in the dense sound of fire, occasionally mixed with the explosion of earth-shattering thunder,

In the dense sound of cannons, the sound of fire was chaotic and weak, but to count the pirates on a small boat, it was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

The first round of shelling was completed, and Zhao Xingde made a boat and hung up the first horizontal column to do the "self" character snake flag.

The gunboat slowly turned its direction, and at this time, there were still some pirate boats left beside it, the hull of the huge gunboat turned, and the undulating waves made the boat avoid it in a hurry, and one small boat was just in front of the bow of the "Pinghai" ship, but it was ploughed by the iron-clad bow of the Pinghai ship, and the whole boat was almost smashed into pieces. Water warfare has always been based on the big and the small, and the big ships of the pirates cannot get close, and these small boats are tantamount to mosquitoes and flies to the big ships of the South China Sea sailors.

As soon as several arsonist boats started a fire, the sailors were killed by the earth-shattering thunder, and smoke billowed from the river.

For the pirates, it was like tormenting in hell, as the South China Sea sailors retreated, the pirate warships in front of them had sailed into the smoke formed by the opening of the cannons, and the river was not completely invisible, but it looked the same in every direction, and in the smoke, there were chaotic ships everywhere, and on the ships were sailors and soldiers running around, their faces were panicked, and the black round iron cannonballs whistled down from the sky, breaking the masts, shattering the shipbuilding, smashing into the deck, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere the shells passed, and the flying fragments of the planks also killed and injured some pirates. To the pirates in the rear, the smoke in front was as terrifying as the miasma that the legendary devil spewed.

"Don't go, don't go any further!" A pirate crouches on the deck with his head in his hands.

"This man is crazy!" Rolling Sea Dragon Li said with a calm face, he waved his hand, and his henchmen stepped forward with knives.

A moment later, a bloodied head was hung from the side of the ship.

The pirate leaders knew that the officers and sailors were powerful, and they wanted to escape from this deadly water area and never return. "Now there is still a chance to escape, if this momentum is gone, the sea route will be broken!" "There are so many of us, rush forward together, the artillery may not hit me, right?" Driven by luck, driven by fear, the pirate leader drove the even more feared minions to rush towards the mouth of the Pearl River, which was no longer fighting, but rushing to flee for their lives. However, no one knows how long this dense shell-weave dead water will be, or how dead end will it will be.

"What are you doing?" Saifuddin kicked the oarsman and almost threw him into the water.

Looking at the Song people, who were almost scared to death, Saifudin muttered and scolded: "Damn it! ”

He stared viciously at the smoke in front of him and cursed in a rough voice, "Damn it, infidels! ”

The big cannibal squeezed in the center with a shield scimitar, surrounded by the oarsmen of the Song Kingdom.

"It's Satan's magic! Just rush over! Let them paddle faster, faster! ”

"Keep left, stroke left, right, right!"

The oarsmen did not understand the Great Food Language at all, but this did not prevent the Great Cannibals from directing them to row with the handle or blade of their knives. When Qiu Darui handed over the boat and oarsmen to the Great Food Navy, they had the status of slaves. "That's it, that's it, early death and early reincarnation." Someone thought discouragedly. Fronted by cannonballs whizzing through the smoke and blood-drenched blades beside them, the oarsmen turned pale with fright, but could only row the boat forward desperately.

Author: There is more today, sorry to the relatives who are waiting for more.