PS: Happy Army Day! I wish all the brothers who have been soldiers, brothers who have been soldiers, and brothers and sisters who have had green dreams a happy holiday!

Night finally fell on Nanao Island, and the people in Yandun Bay let out a long breath.

This arc-shaped harbor is located in the southeast of Nan'ao Island, only two miles from Songjing, Yun'ao Town. The mouth of the bay faces south, the coastline is about seven or eight miles long, and the water area is less than three miles, but more than 20 ships of all sizes are gathered.

Shi Lang watched the night shroud over the sea and the earth like a black veil, and the lights on the sea were like a group of beasts watching their prey.

After a day of fierce fighting, the people did not care to rest, and were busy inspecting the ships, repairing sails, rigging, replenishing gunpowder and shells, and moving those ships that were still intact to the position directly facing the mouth of the bay, so as to prevent the night attack of the naval division of the Nanyue army.

Several small boats busily traveled back and forth between the fleet and Songjing, sending the wounded to the shore to find Lang Zhong to be treated, and by the way, fresh water was brought from Songjing to supply the people on board.

The battle in the afternoon was fought between the more than 20 Daqingtou led by Shi Lang and the seven or eight fifth-class ships led by Li Huamei, led by the Aomei battleship, and several wind ships, and the seven Kelon gunboats were like hyenas waiting next to the lioness to eat some leftovers, staring at the battlefield with green eyes, and found that which ship could not support under the bombardment of the cannons, and immediately pounced on it and bombarded it with the Crane cannon, not turning the Zheng family's ships into planks floating on the sea.

However, the number of such times is not very much.

Under the leadership of Shi Lang, a commander who understands the characteristics of the ships of both sides and has a detailed firepower. The big green heads are also playing well.

"Get the upper hand! Grab the upper hand! ”

Shi Lang constantly used the command flag to issue orders to the big green heads, ordering his ships to take advantage of the hard sails to give full play.

He knew very well that most of the main ships in the Nanyue Army were soft sailing ships, although the speed and vitality far exceeded that of the big young men under his command, but there was also a defect that was usually inconspicuous, but it was very fatal at the critical moment. That is, you can't sail against the wind completely head-on. A 12-metre-long soft-sailing boat can sail upwind at an angle of 12-15 degrees to the wind. If you want to go head-on in the direction of the wind, you must sail in a zigzag course. When driving against the wind, the smaller the angle between the boat and the wind direction, the slower the speed. If the helmsman sails in a zigzag course at a large angle, the boat will speed up faster. However, the range will be longer.

So. The increase in the range gives the hard sail as the main source of power, and it is claimed that it can make the big green heads of the eight winds create a huge opportunity! And the Zheng family's experienced helmsmen, sailors, and sail operators have found a place to use!

They woke up from the state of being stunned by the heavy artillery fire of the Nanyue Army, and calmly operated the sails and rudder rods. Weave your way through the wind, waves and artillery fire. The twelve-pounder cannon mounted on the bow of the ship fiercely attacked the bow of the fifth-class ship, which was struggling to move in a zigzag shape against the wind.

"Say hello to Lao Tzu ruthlessly! They also had only two or three guns in the bow. Let's go up from the side! Its artillery is not easy to move! ”

The captains of the big green heads shouted and cursed each other with flags.

Find the weakness of the other party. This gave them a morale boost.

"Chain bombs! Chainbomb! ”

Shi Lang on the flagship kept waving the flag, ordering the captains of each ship to use chain bullets in the first column of gunfire! "Hit the target, the sails of the Aomei and the ships of the Nanyue Army!"

Joke. I've already discovered that soft sails are not good for headwinds, how can I not use this weakness of yours to help you continue to expand? Hitting the sails with a chain bullet is the best way to do it!

Two small shells, smaller than the caliber of the breech, were chained together and loaded into the breech. When such a cannonball is fired, one cannonball will drag another cannonball and fly out of the cannon, just like the meteor hammer used by the knights, and everything in its path will be pierced. Therefore. The main target of this shell is the sail. She would tear a hole in the sail or tear the rigging to make the boat incapacitated.

This is undoubtedly worse for the soft sailing ships of the Nanyue Army, which could not fully exert their speed advantage.

"Put!"

The sailors lit the torches in their hands at the tail of the tube, and the thrust generated by the violent combustion of the gunpowder pushed the two chain shells out of the barrels, and the two little devils dragged each other and rushed towards the huge and wide sails of the Nanyue army.

Dozens of twelve-pounder guns lined up in the bow and stern of the big green heads all used chain bullets in this way, and dozens of chain bullets flew towards the nine capital ships of the Nanyue Army. Suddenly, almost every ship was hit.

Some of the sails were hit, tearing out a huge hole and hole, through which a strong sea breeze passed. Some of the sail ropes were cut by high-speed chains, the sails fell silently on the deck, and a cannonball cut off the waist of a sailor standing on the crossbar, and the people on the deck were drenched with blood and scraped flesh!

"Commander! Our ships all have sails that have been hit! ”

"Miss! What to do?! ”

Listening to the anxious shouts of the officers and looking at the sails falling from the mast, Li Huamei, who was already extremely angry, suddenly laughed instead of being angry, and a bright smile appeared on her fair face.

"Shi Lang, you are really good! In the end, it came out of my Nanzhong Water Master School! ”

Aji and Ao Lei Yilan on the side were a little dumbfounded, people beat us like this, do you still have the heart to praise him?

"Let's give you a way to give back to the other today! I'm worried about how to break your hard sails! You've got me an idea! Li Huamei's face suddenly seemed to be covered with a layer of frost.

"Attention all ships, all the chain bombs are replaced! I aimed at the sails of the Shiro fleet! Let's see who's more afraid of chain bombs! ”

"Tighten the sails and flank the enemy! The whole ship fires! ”

Chain bullets staggered back and forth in mid-air, struggling to cause trouble on the sails, masts, and rigging of the other side. From time to time, the rigging was cut by the chain bullet, and a thick cable that I didn't know what to do with the road drooped down in frustration, and occasionally there was a short and terrible scream on the horizontal beam, which was a sailor who was unfortunately hit by the chain bullet, followed by a sporadic rain of blood falling overhead.

However, the lethality of the chain bomb for the soft sail is huge, but for the hard sail with the strut soaked in tung oil as the skeleton, the lethality is limited, and the brace minimizes the loss of the chain bomb to the sail.

But. In the face of eight or nine huge (compared to the big green head of this kind of Fu ship of the improved type. Tier 5 ships are huge ships. The gunboats kept firing airtight chain bullets with artillery fire, and Shi Lang's fleet gradually became a little unable to support it.

Looking at the sails on the mainmast, foremast, and backmast of the ship on the opposite side were mostly broken, and it could be regarded as a loss of power, Shi Lang couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

"Pass me the order! Ships ......"

"Why don't you go up and give them some power?"

An officer excitedly approached Shi Lang. Although his official position is much higher than Shi Lang's. But. Now fools can see Shi Lang's status among the Fujian sailors. What's more, Zheng Sen and Zheng Zhibao before retreating to Dongshan Island with the red-haired boat and the lucky boat. Handed over Zheng Zhilong's sword seal letter to him?

"Did I say that?" Shi Lang glanced at the man, "Raise the flag, order all ships, open the distance from the Nanyue army, and prepare to retreat!" ”

"Da Lang!" In desperation, the officer called Shi Lang's nickname, "Now that we have the upper hand, why do we want to withdraw?" ”

Shi Lang didn't bother to argue with this man, but just took the sword on his back in his hand, and when everyone saw it, they had to go to the order in a stupid manner.

Shi Lang's big green flotilla took advantage of the sudden strengthening of the north wind, and tried to control the ships to slowly retreat eastward, half of which was real, and half of which was a little weak, but the speed of the fleet to the east was not fast, even these soft sailing ships under Li Huamei could catch up with the wind.

At first, seeing Shi Lang's fleet slowly withdrawing from the battlefield under the cover of the east, Li Huamei's captains were briefly happy, and called a flag to ask, "Is it possible to pursue?" ”

However, Hua Mei smelled a hint of danger and conspiracy from Shi Lang's retreating formation.

"He put all the badly wounded ships in front, the ships that were still fighting were in the back, and there were several sails that he deliberately lowered. It wasn't that our troops destroyed his sails! This guy is pretending to be defeated, and he plans to play a drag trick on me! ”

Shi Lang forgot. Li Huamei not only studied in the Sailor Academy, she also had a private school teacher who taught her all kinds of ghost tricks at sea.

This person is Zhang Xiaohu, who even Zheng Zhilong has to call the sixth brother when he sees it.

Over the years, Li Huamei always pestered Zhang Xiaohu to tell her stories at sea when she was free, and Zhang Xiaohu taught Li Huamei the faces he had shown over the years, the losses he had suffered, the glory and failure, and various events of pouring beans on the sea.

With such a personal teacher, although Li Huamei is not very old, she also has rich experience and knowledge of maritime warfare. After several actual battles, the things that Zhang Xiaohu told her quickly deepened from superficial stories into experiences, theories, and rules in her mind.

Shi Lang played this method, if he used Zheng Sen, who had an impatient personality, it would be even better. But it's a pity that he met Li Huamei, who is like an old thief!

"Flag Slogan! All ships must not move rashly, order the rocket ships in front, and the Ronn gunboats in the back, go up! ”

"My lord! Let these little boats go? ”

"Not bad! Let the rocket ship go burn it! Shi Lang can't make up his mind now, so I just used the rocket to help him make up his mind! ”

Sure enough, six rocket ships formed a sharp arrow in front, and more rocket ships in the back swooped down against the wind on the wide sea towards Shi Lang's fleet.

Because they are all small boats, the traditional hard sails are used, so that there is no technical gap between the rocket ship and the big green head. On the one hand, he slowly retreated and planned to lure the enemy deeper, but on the other hand, it was advisable to chase after the poor man with the remaining bravery, so he naturally pulled up the full sail and chased after him. The distance shortened rapidly, six, five, four, three, and became closer and closer.

"My lord! The rocket boats of the Southern Army and those damned gunboats caught up! ”

When it was less than two miles away, the rocket ship began to ignite and launch rockets.

One rocket after another flew in the air against the north wind, but. Soon it was slanted by the strong sea breeze, and after a short flight, it fell into the water and burned on the surface of the sea.

"Forget it! This eldest lady of the Li family is not a good match! Don't be fooled! The order went down, and the boats pulled their sails and returned to Nanao Island to rest! ”

Seeing that the Nanyue army was not fooled, but instead sent rocket ships out to lure the enemy, which immediately disappointed Shi Lang. But I was relieved in my heart, and I seemed to be very relieved that the Nanyue Army Navy Division was not fooled.

"My lord! Why don't we pounce on these ships and kill them? Or a captive?! ”

"Killed? People are waiting for you! Shi Lang stuffed the telescope tube in his hand into the officer's hand very angrily, "You go and see for yourself!" The Cron gunboats lined up. Sweep behind the rocket ship. I'll bet you a hundred silver dollars. If you go up to deal with these rocket ships, first, you will definitely be greeted by the rockets, and secondly, you will be beaten by the Cron cannon! Do you dare to bet?! ”

Shi Lang's words. The people present fell silent. After all, life at sea. They have a lot of wariness and taboos. For example, you can't say words that are homophonetic or close to them, and you can't eat with the bottom facing up, etc.

That's why there is a proverb like being careful to sail a ship of ten thousand years.

"Withdraw! Evacuate to Nanao Island! ”

The minds of the people quickly united.

As for why Wei Lu didn't go to Dongshan Island to join the main force led by Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Sen and his son, no one thought of it. Even if someone thought of it. It will also be fleeting, replaced by an answer like this, "It's too far to Dongshan, I'm afraid that the fleet can't hold on to it at the moment, and we must go to South Australia to rest!" ”

Checking the loss, Shi Lang couldn't help but show a wry smile.

There were more than 20 big green heads, and the neat line at the time of departure, but now there were only 17 boats, and most of them were damaged and damaged. The gun emplacements, not a single ship had a complete gun emplacement, and the sailors, almost every ship lost at least a dozen people, not counting the wounded. The sails of each ship are hard sails, otherwise it will be difficult to support Nanao Island.

Immediately after anchoring at Yandun Bay, Shi Lang sent men to the island to find carpenters and other craftsmen to buy wood and canvas and to trim the ships.

At the same time, the guns on the three most damaged ships were removed and replenished to the two ships closest to Shi Lang, and the sailors were also replenished to these boats, keeping them fully manned.

But that's not the worst thing.

"Your Excellency. Two ships of the Nanyue Army arrived at Guanyu. ”

Guanyu, just like a door latch, is across the access channel of Yandun Bay, and the top mountain and the south corner on both sides of Yandun Bay are to rush into a three-legged trend. When the ships of the naval division of the Nanyue Army arrived here, it was no less than strangling the passage in and out of Yandun Bay, blocking the waterway, which was not very wide, and using the guns on both sides of the ship to continuously fire a salvo, the detachment of barely ten ships that could be regarded as combat effectiveness could be annihilated here.

When Shi Lang heard this, his face couldn't help but change.

"What kind of ship is it?"

The ship that came was not the fierce fifth-class ship that Shi Lang and his men thought it was, not even a rocket ship or a Tron gunboat. Just two ordinary cargo ships came.

"The eldest lady said that Shi Lang played well during the day, and he didn't lose the face of the Nanzhong Water Master School. The brothers of the Fujian sailors were in a hurry, presumably there were not many supplies on the ship, so the eldest lady ordered us to send some food, meat, oil and salt, fruits, vegetables and so on. This Nanao Island is a cramped place, and there is nothing to buy on the island, so don't bother the folks on the island. ”

The two officers led by the two officers, after the blindfolded black cloth was untied on the prince's tower where Shi Lang was temporarily stationed in the festival, talked without humility or arrogance. At the same time, he handed a list of items to the two officers in front of Shi Lang.

"In duplicate. Things were the same for both of us. After a while, the senior can send someone to the beach in South Point to accept it. ”

"A thousand pounds of pork. 1,000 pounds of beef. Twenty stones of japonica rice, five jars of vegetable oil, 200 catties of salt, 2,000 catties of vegetables, and 10,000 catties of various fruits. ”

To be honest, there were not many things, only enough for two or three thousand people to eat for a few days, but they made the officers and sailors present happy. At the very least, you don't have to worry about going hungry these days.

Although the sea near Nanao Island is a good fishing ground, you can catch mackerel, pomfret, real sea bream, grouper, although it is winter at the moment, you can also catch oceanic, thousands of catties to nearly 10,000 catties of catfish sea sharks, hundreds of catties of sunfish, nutritious, delicious swordfish, tuna. But how many fish and shrimp do these thousands of people need to eat?

Moreover, small molecule protein foods such as fish, shrimp and seafood can be eaten once in a while, and for sailors and laborers with high physical exertion, they are still willing to eat pork or beef. As for those vegetables and fruits, they are indispensable luxuries for people who are adrift at sea.

Now with these two boats of 4,000 catties of meat and tens of thousands of catties of vegetables and fruits, the brothers can settle down a little.

What made the officers and soldiers of the Fujian Navy Division even more excited was that in addition to these meat, fruits, grains and vegetables, "The eldest lady knew that there were many brothers who were injured in the battle during the day, and I am afraid that there were not so many medicinal materials for a while, so we came to bring 500 life-saving bags and 50 jars of spirits this time, which can treat the wounds of the brothers, and secondly, the brothers have a hard time in winter, and they can also drink wine to warm up!" ”

Hearing this, everyone's hearts immediately warmed. "A war is a war, and after the war, you are still a brother!"

"It's over! The hand of this girl of the Li family is even more powerful than her cannon! Shi Lang felt a chill in his heart. He wanted to refuse these things, but seeing the happy looks of the people around him, he had to sigh secretly, knowing that this was a dose of poison, and he had to drink it with a smile. (To be continued......)