Previously, the Navy's Wuzhou-class frigates and Lianzhou-class cruisers had a large number of seven-kilogram naval guns, because when designing these two warships, the Tang Dynasty could not even mass-produce nine-kilogram guns, so it had to be equipped with a large number of seven-kilogram guns.

But now, the nine-pound artillery has been mass-produced, and the seven-pound artillery has been discontinued, so the navy has also taken this opportunity to adjust the deployment of the seven-pound artillery.

By increasing the allocation of nine-pound artillery and five-pound artillery, the seven-pound artillery was withdrawn, and the replaced seven-pound artillery was concentrated in several coastal defense batteries for use.

After adjusting the artillery layout, the Wuzhou-class frigate will be equipped with two 14-kilogram guns, 10 9-kilogram guns, and eight 5-kilogram guns, bringing the total number of anti-ship guns to 20.

The Lianzhou-class cruisers, after adjusting the gun layout, will be equipped with six 14-kilogram guns, 14 9-kilogram guns, and eight 5-kilogram guns, bringing the total number of anti-ship guns to 26.

At present, the Datang Navy has three Lianzhou-class cruisers and six Wuzhou-class frigates, and the total number of main warships has reached nine, and these warships have formed two sub-fleets, namely the first sub-fleet of the first fleet and the third sub-fleet of the second fleet.

And these two detachments are also the core and main force of the current Datang Navy, and they are ready to be used as the main force for the attack on Nanao Island.

At the beginning of July, at the Hong Kong Naval Base, a large group of naval officers, including Rear Admiral Bao Yifen, saw off the sailors who were about to leave for Nanao Island!

At noon on the same day, a mobile fleet composed of nine main warships as the core and 23 armed merchant ships as the auxiliary officially set sail for Nanao Island.

Leading this huge fleet was Vice Admiral Ouyang Gui, Earl.

This person is also a veteran figure of the Tang Navy, and when he was the commander of the Second Fleet earlier, he commanded the Second Fleet to successfully cover the landing of the army on Qiongzhou Island, and was seriously injured in this battle.

For a long time in the future, he was recuperating from his injuries in Zhaoqing, and during the period of recuperation, because of his outstanding military achievements, but also because of his loyalty to the monarch and his style of not being afraid of strong enemies, Li Xuan rewarded him many times, and the title was even mentioned as an earl.

In May, the Datang Navy formally prepared the Nanao Island plan, and for this purpose, the capital ships were transferred from the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, and then a mobile fleet specially used for the Nanao Island strategy was formed.

He was personally transferred by Li Xuan to serve as the commander of this mobile fleet, and at the same time was promoted to vice admiral by Li Xuan, becoming the first vice admiral of the Tang Navy and the fourth vice admiral in the entire Tang Dynasty.

The first three are Hao Bonian, who was promoted first, Li Chunjing, who was promoted last year, and Wang Chaohong, who was only promoted at the beginning of this year, all army generals.

As a vice admiral, Ouyang Gui was able to suppress a group of rear admirals and commodore in the mobile fleet.

After the mobile fleet went to sea, Ouyang Gui summoned the commanders and captains of all the sub-fleets in the mobile fleet to his flagship on his flagship, the Lianzhou, for a meeting.

This meeting is not really a strategy meeting or anything like that, but a rather old-fashioned mobilization meeting to motivate and motivate morale!

After all, the general strategic plan has actually been formulated a long time ago, and the specific details will not be known until Nanao Island, after all, although the Tang Dynasty has continued to conduct reconnaissance on Nanao Island, but after all, there are many Ming troops on the island, and it is also separated by a sea, so the effect of reconnaissance is only limited to the superficial situation.

According to the early reconnaissance, the Ming army on Nanao Island was composed of many parts, including the remnants of the defeated and retreated soldiers of Liangguang, the naval division, the original defenders on Nanao Island, and the reinforcements from Fujian.

Among the above-mentioned troops, the sailors had more than 100 large and small ships, of course, most of them were small boats, and there were only 20 or 30 sea vessels of more than 100 tons.

The ground forces are about 13,000 people!

Although it seems that the total number of troops is not much, far less than the Ming army on the northern front, but Nanao Island is a little bigger, so many troops are crowded in, in fact, the density of troops is quite large.

At the same time, because of the sea separation, if you want to capture this place, you must first expel or eliminate the sailors of the Ming army, which is actually quite difficult for the Tang Navy in the past.

In order to capture Nanao Island and fight against the Ming army sailors above, the Datang Navy can be said to have tasted courage for two years, and then it came up with a mobile fleet.

After the mobile fleet led by Ouyang Gui expelled or simply annihilated the Ming army's naval division, then it was time to cover the army's large-scale landing! For this reason, Ouyang Gui's mobile fleet also brought more than 1,000 people from the navy's own two marine battalions, and also brought more than 1,000 people from a mixed infantry battalion of the Guards.

In addition, the 1st Mixed Regiment on the Chaoshan side will also send a part of its troops to participate in the battle, and the scale will be about 2,000 people.

That is to say, the ground forces for the landing operation will reach more than 4,000 people, and the use of so many troops is to capture Nanao Island in one fell swoop, especially to capture the island before Yu Dayou on the Fujian side reacts.

In this way, there will be enough time to deal with Yu Dayou's counterattack!

Three days after going to sea, the fleet had already come to the sea not far from Nanao Island, and if it went further, it would enter the cordon of the Ming Army and the naval division on the island, but Ouyang Gui did not let the fleet stop, but continued to advance.

This time, the main force of the Tang Navy poured out, and the fleet was not weak in terms of size, and there was no reason to sneak around, it was so open-minded to force the Ming army sailors to leave or come out for a decisive battle.

However, as it gradually approached the waters of Nanao Island, the mobile fleet also increased its vigilance accordingly, and the formation of the fleet was no longer the loose formation before, but formed a dense formation.

The vanguard was the cruiser Qiongzhou and two frigates belonging to the Third Fleet, followed by the six capital ships of the First Fleet, and as for the armed merchant ships, because they also carried more than 2,000 marines and guards, they still had to be further behind.

The mobile fleet of the Datang Navy came towards Nanao Island with a murderous spirit, which was naturally discovered by the ships of the Ming Army sailors who would soon patrol outside the island.

After discovering the huge pseudo-Tang Thief Army Navy Division in front of him from afar, he didn't dare to stop at all, and ran back directly.

More than an hour later, even the Ming army on the island could be seen, and there was a huge fleet coming at high speed on the sea more than ten kilometers away.

At this time, the port on Nanao Island was chaotic, and a large number of ships of the Ming army began to set sail, ready to leave the port to meet the battle.

Nanao Island General Military Mansion, when Qin Zhifu heard that the puppet Tang thief army was attacking, he was so frightened that he directly collapsed on the chair, and muttered in his mouth: "The puppet Tang thief army killed these days, if you don't come sooner or later, you just come at this time!" ”

Qin Zhifu has always had a bad life on Nanao Island, and he has been elevated, except for his own thousands of descendants, he can't interfere in the other Ming troops at all, and he doesn't dare to say that he has no power at all, but he is definitely not a real power general soldier.

So he has always wanted to transfer out of this place, but the current Nanao Island is not a good place, and other people are not willing to come, so this transfer is quite difficult.

In the end, Qin Zhifu gritted his teeth, spent a lot of money to dredge up the relationship, and prepared to be transferred to Shandong.

But at this node, the pseudo-Tang thief army is attacking on a large scale, and this pseudo-Tang thief army is deliberately unable to get along with him!

But scolding the mother is scolding the mother, this resistance to the pseudo-Tang thief army still has to resist, otherwise it will die.

immediately stabilized his mind, and then said: "Go and let General Lin, General Chen, and General Zhao face the battle."

The two people in his mouth, one is the commander of the water division, the other two are the commander of the remnants of the two Guangzhou, and the commander of the Fujian reinforcements.

But as soon as he said this, a thousand households on the side said with an embarrassed look on his face: "Lord Qiqi, General Lin has already gone to the dock to command the sailors to meet the enemy, and General Chen and General Zhao are also preparing for their own battles!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Qin Zhifu was sulking, numb, he hadn't given the order yet, these people acted on their own, obviously they didn't put themselves in their eyes.

But at this time, the thousand households also said: "Our people and horses have also been assembled, just waiting for your order!" ”

Hearing that his more than 1,000 descendants were still waiting for his orders, Qin Zhifu was also relieved, but he still had soldiers under his hands, and immediately said in high spirits: "Then what are you waiting for, pass the order, put on armor and line up, and go with this official to kill the enemy!" ”

However, at this time, the thousand households said again: "My lord, now the sailors of the puppet Tang thief army are coming, I'm afraid it will take a few hours, and if they want to land, they have to pass the level of General Lin's sailors first, and now they are wearing armor, is it a little early?" ”

After hearing the prompts of his subordinates, Qin Zhifu also reacted, yes, although the pseudo-Tang thief army is here, but if they want to land, they have to break through the interception of the sailor first, it is impossible to do so much before and after a few hours, and he can't stupidly wear dozens of catties of armor and board on the beach for so long a day!

However, the armor is not needed first, but the formation preparation is still needed!

Soon, Qin Zhifu took a group of his subordinates, first went to the barracks of his own troops, and then went to the port with more than 1,000 troops.

After arriving at the port, I landed on a high ground, and then I saw the sea in the distance, although the fleet of the puppet Tang thief army was not large, it seemed that there were only thirty or forty ships, but each of them was a big ship, on the other hand, General Lin's sailors who went to sea to meet the battle, although there were hundreds of ships, but there were a lot of small boats!

I don't know if General Lin's sailors can stop it!