As time passed, the wind on the sea surface continued to increase, and the slightly undulating waves had reached a height of more than a meter.

Another headache for Fan Sui was, but don't forget that the goal of the Great Xia people this time was a huge fleet with more than a hundred ships. As long as they are willing, they can slowly torture these warships whose speed has decreased due to injuries outside the range of the Great Xia warships, and if Fan Sui orders the disbandment of the fleet and breaks through separately, it will be even more in the hands of the Great Xia people.

When he heard the first explosion of the Great Xia cannonball, Fan Sui felt a sudden cramping pain in his chest. But his healthy body allowed him to support tenaciously and after relieving himself.

The veteran, who had lived almost all his life on the water, ordered his adjutant: "All warships that affect the speed, be prepared, form them individually, and be ready to sacrifice at any time." ”

Fan Sui knew how well he had a chance of success in his unbeatable move, and before his fears became a reality, the Great Xia artillery had achieved an astonishing advantage in firing accuracy at its maximum range, overshadowing the Yan naval army.

In order not to make the morale of the entire fleet fall to the bottom at once, Fan Sui had to order the bed crossbow and catapult to fire in the direction of the enemy fleet that appeared - God knows where the stones flew, and in short, the artillery bombardment of the Great Xia fleet was not affected in the slightest.

Half an hour later, the two warships that had sent a tentative attack returned that they had already determined the type of the other ship by visual inspection, which was a small fleet of more than 100 tons of less than 1,000 stones, and flying the flags of many countries.

Although the enemy was not very strong, Fan Sui was very cautious and tried to take advantage of his tonnage to crush and take the initiative to attack-if it was only these ships, he could force the opponent back.

It is a pity that this time they once again encountered a soft sail ship with an extremely fast rate of fire and an extremely flexible response, and the previous strategy of dealing with the approaching attack of the Yangtze River Naval Division was ineffective in the face of these Western ships.

After several rounds of tentative attacks, several warships were sunk by the opponent, and the opponent took advantage of the characteristics of small hull, flexible steering, and fast ship speed to always maintain the distance between the two sides like a ghost, forming a situation of unilateral beating.

Fan Sui's dry hand like tree bark was trembling slightly, a few days was nothing for a person's long life, but in front of the wolf-like Great Xia fleet, wave after wave of blows made him seem to be ten years old, but the current situation had to be considered more, he reluctantly let his subordinates give orders to the entire fleet: "Keep in formation, beware of enemy surprise attacks, break through to the north, and quickly break away from the opponent's blockade area!" ”

With the development of Bactria gunpowder technology, when the heavy artillery fires in unison, the thick and choking black smoke always renders the killing.

The rumbling sound of cannon reverberated on the undulating sea, and when the black iron ball broke away from the barrel at twice the speed of the stone, a large puff of smoke and dust from the incomplete combustion of the projectile erupted in an instant, forming an irregular huge smoke screen in front of the Great Xia battleship.

"Stop shooting!"

Before the smoke cleared, Gan Tang issued a new order from his command ship. Prior to this, the entire fleet had been firing for more than an hour, and at an average rate of one shot per two minutes per gun, more than 100 warships' main guns had fired nearly 3,000 shells at the Yan fleet, but behind this astonishing figure, because the distance between the fleet and the target was far beyond the ordinary sea combat distance, the shell hit rate was also surprisingly low -- so far only more than 30 Yan warships had been sunk.

The smoke of gunpowder quickly dissipated in the sea breeze, and the captains of various countries also breathed a sigh of relief, there were already copper cannons deformed due to heat, and Gan Tang had already seen their doubts. In the eyes of most people, since the battle strategy prepared by Gantang before the battle was a wolf pack tactic, and it was not for the purpose of time to quickly solve the battle, but in the past hour or so, their generals used nearly half of the ammunition of the entire fleet to fight a battle with more momentum but little actual effect.

If this continued, they would have to end the war early because of the lack of shells.

Gan Tang raised his head slightly, due to the distance between the two sides, the Yan Navy did not pose any threat to the combined fleet, which also allowed Gan Tang to make a further assessment of his opponent.

"The position of us and the Yan country's fleet!"

"We should move to the south of the Yan Fleet!"

And the direction of the main guns from the battleship also confirmed his speculation.

Gan Tang thought for a moment and ordered: "The whole fleet turns five degrees to the left and lowers the course to thirteen knots. All guns are ready to shoot! ”

Fired again?

The eyes of the generals on the flagship showed such questions, and López, who had always been calm, stood aside silently, he didn't understand Gan Tang's strategy very much, but he had to accept this order unconditionally.

The sea is still sunny in the morning. At this time, it had become a sea of irritability under the dark clouds, and the fierce sea breeze swept up more than a meter of high ground and the waves were surging, and the powerful power from the sea could also be felt on the battleship. After about a quarter of an hour, thunder resounded on the sea. In the rain, large clouds of black gunpowder smoke rose desperately, and then were ruthlessly swept away by the sea breeze, and finally completely dissipated in the dripping rain.

Either way, he'll face the toughest challenge, because he's facing an extraordinary fleet commander.

Some of the warships in the vicinity were different, they were not as thick-skinned as the Zhendong, and when the shells exploded, it also meant that danger followed, although the entire fleet formation was still intact and had not been scattered, but people had been praying incessantly, praying that God would not abandon them on this distant sea.

"Won't the Nanren never run out of shells?" A centurion muttered to himself as he looked at the boiling sea again and again.

Fan Sui had to keep an eye on his warship on the one hand, in case he fell into the attrition trap of the Great Xia people, and on the other hand, he had to keep an eye on the entire fleet, in the deepest part of his mind, Fan Sui did not give up trying to find a third way out, but God never extended a helping hand to him.

The cannonballs of Great Xia came as scheduled, and the sound of their whistling was like the bagpipes of the Grim Reaper, and the cannonballs were not interested in the battleship in the middle and front at all, and the cannonballs were far away from the area where it was located, and the rear of the fleet became the key target of the Great Xia ships.

Whenever the Great Xia cannonball fell into the water and exploded, Fan Sui always pretended to stand calmly in place, but he paid great attention to the first reaction of the subordinates around him, whenever his subordinates exclaimed, it meant that the Great Xia cannonball was enough to make a certain battleship suffer, at this time, his facial muscles would always twitch a few times inadvertently, and his heart seemed to be directly whipped by the enemy.

In the midst of two minutes followed by another, Fan Sui felt that his body and mind were rapidly aging, and he would rather go to the duel arena like a samurai and let fate determine the final victory than to suffer as he did now. At the same time, in his heart, he longed for Daxia to make a heroic mistake and rush in front of him, because it was entirely possible for him to deal a heavy blow to the other party, so that he would have a chance to successfully escape - even if he lost half of the ships, the Yan Navy would still be able to get a chance to breathe.

When the three hours came, Fan Sui received a very bad news from his adjutant: "The crew's efforts to repair the broken bulkhead have failed, the displacement is far from keeping up with the speed of seawater inflow, their navigation is slowing down, if effective measures cannot be taken in time, I am afraid they will have to abandon the ship!" ”

With years of experience and his own qualities, Fan Sui made the last wise decision: "I ordered to abandon the ship, let a ship of 1,000 stones come up to rescue the crew, and board another small warship with the overseers."

Fan Sui had to make a very painful decision, ordering all the ships to disperse and break through, and escape one by one.

This painful decision marks the complete shattering of Yan Guo's dream of a navy that has been planned for many years.

It is extremely difficult to rely on a simple eye on a rainy sea, unless something large and special exists—such as a large amount of smoke produced when an object is not fully burned.

The rumbling cannon still sounded every two minutes, and more than a hundred warships had already crossed the route of the Yan fleet, and at this moment, Gan Tang was less than a hundred steps away from the leading Yan flagship, Zhendong!

Seeing that the time had come, Gan Tang decisively ordered: "All the participating countries should take each country as an individual, form several small fleets, and prepare for small-scale tactical maneuvers!" ”

After the order was given, it took only a few minutes for all the ships to adjust their course, and the execution of tactics was a key to victory.

The operation of ravaging the Yan people from a distance was suspended. After the adjustment was completed, such a scene appeared on the rough sea, and many of the escaping Yan Kingdom ships were dragging a few small tails behind them.

In the vast ocean, in this final battle, the Great Xia Navy seemed to be possessed by the soul, and only a few warships returned to Tianjin Port......

Gan Tang took advantage of the opponent's "heart-to-heart warfare" to take advantage of the huge blows he had suffered one after another in the past few days.