When Liu Cang's left flank fleet formed a T-shaped formation, separating the 'Prince of Xiangyang' from the fleet, the superiority of the lateral fire of nearly 200 catapults on more than 70 ships was brought into play, and the 'Prince of Xiangyang' would be fatally attacked with just one salvo.

When Li Yu's main fleet of Great Xia arrived, the Fujian Road Navy finally got rid of the brink of death, all the surviving sailors on the general warship were churning, Hu Lian was wounded all over his body, the most fatal injury came from his right leg, and a huge arrow shot from a bed crossbow cut off his left leg from the knee, and the blood did not stop.

The doctor on the Li Mu was urgently bandaging, and the deputy general Chai Ang temporarily handed over the command to Hu Ye, and he came to Li Mu by boat, and saw that Hu Lian had finally woken up from his coma, and hurriedly asked for advice, and reported the current situation to Hu Lian.

Hu Lian knew that this large-scale naval battle was his last expedition, and his fleet was paying such a high price, if he couldn't get himself and his sons in exchange for the corresponding merits, wouldn't he make a wedding dress for others, just like a scholar looking forward to the title of the gold list, which military general didn't want to be famous for a hundred years and seal the marquis of ten thousand households.

"Order all the active warships, muster up the last courage, bravely advance, cooperate with the main force, and annihilate the Hulu fleet."

Chai Ang was taken aback: "Marshal, now that our warships are all wounded, it is really not suitable to fight again, it is better to hand over the battlefield to General Li Yu!" ”

"Needless to say, follow my decision. The flagship Li Mu is the angle of attack, and the geese of the other battleships are lined up, rushing with me. ”

The battlefield is often shifted by personal will, and a decision often affects the entire battle situation, Liu Cang is, and so does Hu Lian. No more than land battles, sometimes the trend of naval battles is more unpredictable.

Just when Li Yu was at a loss, wanting to avoid the enemy's attack and join the brigade, when the "Prince of Xiangyang" was about to carry the devastating blow of the Yan State Naval Division, a fleet happened to crash into the battlefield and inserted diagonally into the middle of the "Prince of Xiangyang" and Liu Cang's left flank fleet.

Li Yu reacted quickly, ordered the gunners, raised the firing angle, one by one the shells whistling through a beautiful arc, the shells dealt a heavy blow to the Liu Cang fleet, the command ship driving in front was immediately hit hard, a shell hit the middle deck of the Liu Cang command ship, killing more than 40 people on the spot, and destroying the main force of the ship's catapult.

Most of the good warships of the Yan Army's naval division are concentrated in the middle and front, and the left flank led by Liu Cang and the right flank of the fleet are all old ships, but the poor people of the Yan people who can't even afford to lose a small sampan before this have strong shipbuilding capabilities like the southerners, Fan Sui, who was sitting on the Zhendong, immediately ordered the fleet in the rear that had not yet completed the U-turn to speed up to the rescue.

However, the main battleship in the front and the Liu Cang fleet were 10,000 meters apart, and the water could not quench the thirst of the near, and in the face of the artillery fire of the Great Xia Naval Division's 'Prince Xiangyang', the Zhenxi soon caught fire and burned. Most of the other battleships were sunk and damaged by the arriving Great Xia battleships, and Liu Cang's command ship immediately broke away from the battle line, extinguishing the fire while turning left in an attempt to escape.

But Liu Cang's wise decision was not without effect, because the distance between the two sides was only less than thirty steps, half of the more than 100 stone bullets fired in an instant hit Li Mu, and Li Mu was hit with thousands of holes, and in less than a stick of incense, it was declared sunk.

The veteran general Hu Lian, the deputy general Chai Ang, and more than 400 officers and soldiers of the Fujian Navy Division were all killed.

Seeing the sinking of the command ship, Hu Lian's eldest son Hu Ye and more than 1,000 sailors on the remaining more than 20 warships on the Fujian Road, all with red eyes, under the leadership of Hu Ye, launched a death charge against Fan Sui's main force, the two warships walked in the opposite direction, and collided together in an instant, whether it was a soldier or a sailor, all turned into springboard warriors, climbed onto the enemy ship, and fought hand-to-hand.

Although the Fujian Navy Division battleships were all wounded, and their speed slowed down, and they could only reach about eight knots, they were still chasing the old and equally wounded Yanguo left-wing ships, and after turning left, the side of the hull was exposed, and they were immediately hit by fire oil bombs one after another, and the general Liu Cang was burned to death on the spot, the power compartment was penetrated, and the left-wing command ship that lost its speed had become a lamb to be slaughtered

After dropping the two wounded ships that were slower and approaching the enemy's left flank command ship to make it completely finished, the other warships continued to move forward, intercepting the remaining left flank warships, forming a T shape again, and with the assistance of the ultra-long-distance cannonballs of the 'Prince Xiangyang', the left flank fleet of the Yan State Navy Division was also a dead end at this time.

The ships of the Great Xia team quickly followed, the distance between the two sides was shortened to two hundred paces, and a cannonball fired a large battleship of 3,000 stones, the captain was killed, the adjutant was seriously injured, the whole ship was flooded in many places, and the hull was tilted to the right.

However, the rabbit was in a hurry and still biting, the boulder fired by the large catapult of Zhendong hit the side of the 'Prince of Xiangyang', a ten-pound naval gun was blown away, and the surrounding gunners disappeared together, and a huge hole was formed in the middle of the hull, fortunately, the position of the hole was on the three-layer board, and there was no major impact on the entire hull.

Just when the Great Xia Naval Division attacked the left flank, the Zhendong that followed behind led the main force of the Yan State to turn right and insert it from the left wing of the Great Xia Fleet.

On the other side, the battle between the Great Xia fleet and the right flank of the Yan Navy Division was damaged, Wang Jian under the leadership of Shi Gui, first cruised in the periphery, when it was found that the main fleet team cooperated with the guerrilla fleet to eat the opponent's left flank, in order to buy them more time, quickly rushed to the position of the head of the wild goose where the Zhendong was located, Lian Po and the three ships on the left and right side ships, grabbed the Zhendong, entangled it to fight to the death, the flagship of the Yan fleet Zhendong was hit by two ten-pound iron bullets, but fortunately, the Zhendong originally had strong protection capabilities, the hull was huge, and the damage was not big, More than 20 people were killed, and a main trebuchet was disabled.

And Lian Po couldn't stand it well, a stone bullet from Zhendong hit the bottom of the main mast, which not only caused Lian Po to lose most of its mobility, but also caused the entire mast to fall, and the collapsed front mast affected the bridge, and Shi Gui was seriously injured.

Seeing that the Lian Po was damaged, the Yan fleet was jubilant, but so far, the battle losses of the two sides are basically the same as the total number of their own fleets, and the two sides have returned to the same starting line.

Since the beginning of the war, nearly 200 ships have been sunk and damaged.

And the Great Xia lost as many as one hundred and fifty ships.

At this time, seeing that the leading Yan fleet had sailed out of its own range, the special detachment dominated by Wang Jian turned around and went straight into the middle army of the Yan State Naval Division, and was once again in front of the Yan State Naval Division.

The 1st Guerrilla Fleet decided to take advantage of his illness and began to project all its firepower on the Central Fleet of the Yan Kingdom, which was shrouded in smoke and flames.

At this time, the various branches of the Yan Fleet, which had been copied by the Yan Fleet, had basically become their own battles, and the Zhendong next to it had to be one enemy and five, with a displacement of 5,000 stones, four feet high, and five floors up and down, even if it was the largest giant ship in the world now, it could not cope with it.

At this time, there were only some small ships under 2,000 stone that could still cooperate in battle, and seeing that the flagship was in danger, the 100 terminal detachments that had not been able to find fighters turned around from the right flank under the leadership of Fan Sui's nephew Fan Xilin, and rushed towards the First Guerrilla Fleet, and the other ships in the middle of the country also followed.

In the face of the rushing Yan Naval Division's ship group, the First Guerrilla Fleet unhurriedly adjusted its guns and concentrated fire on the Zhenxi Ship, the flagship of the Yan Army. In order to give full play to the sideboard firepower, the guerrilla detachment began to turn to the right one after another under the command of the command ship's flag, and other ships that could not see the flag from a long distance also began to turn their rudders.

As a result, the shells of the Great Xia ships in the process of turning the rudder were inaccurate, and although they exploded a column of water around the Zhenxi ship and its fleet, none of them hit, and the turning point became the best target.

At this time, the front main gun of a medium-sized battleship of 2,500 stones, Zhao Hao, made a stroke of genius, and the frigate of 3,000 stones following the Zhenxi ship was hit by two ten-pound shells when it passed through the turning point, and the two shells hit the same place one after another, hitting the side keel in the middle position, and the whole ship was cut off from the middle, the bow and stern; Both ends were cocked at the same time, and the middle sank as if pressed into the water by an invisible giant hand.

The ship's more than 300 sailors and its appendages flew into the sky and then fell into the sea, leaving not a single survivor.

At this time, the Great Xia guerrilla fleet was in the process of turning, and the route of the main force following behind was blocked. In order to circumvent the guerrilla fleet and prevent it from disrupting the formation of the guerrilla fleet, Li Yu quickly issued a flag and ordered the fleet to quickly turn to the right, which caused the first guerrilla fleet and the main force to be disconnected and divided into two independent fleets again, and they were temporarily separated from each other.

At this time, the huge body of the Zhendong appeared in front of the Zhao Hao, and the commander of the Zhao Hao, Gan Wulang, the son of Qimen Hou Ganjing, ordered the gunners to gather fire and attack the Zhendong, but what he didn't expect was that the Zhendong was hit by many of his own shells during the battle, except for the weaker part of the three-story building protection area above the middle of the hull was broken and broken, the other parts could only be regarded as some damage, and the shells that hit the side hull were all in vain.

In the construction of this ship that was ready to be the flagship of the Great Xia Naval Army, the senior craftsmen of the Great Xia Ministry of Industry spent a lot of thought, from the selection of materials to the construction of the best of the best, especially on the outside of the main hull, inlaid with two layers of iron bamboo, the ability to resist attacks is unparalleled in this era.

Since the cannonballs were weak, in the face of this giant ship that actually posed the greatest threat to the Yan Navy, Gan Goro issued a heart-wrenching order: "Crash into Shen Zhendong!" ”

On the sea from Xiamen to Shuangqi Island, the multinational combined fleet led by Gan Tang sailed on the endless sea, due to the light snow and night sailing, and encountered heavy fog at night, the visibility can be imagined, and on the morning of the third day of the straight, the visibility began to improve.

At this time, it was less than a hundred nautical miles away from the twin-engine engagement zone, and although the fleet was about to leave the foggy area, by this time, when everything was unknown in front of it, it was estimated that it was not far from the engagement zone, and Gan Tang ordered the fleet to slow down again.

Sailing slowly at a speed of eight knots, the area where it is located - since the outbreak of war between the two sides, the navies of the two countries have invariably sent some reconnaissance ships under 400 stone to patrol the sea area of 50 miles.

The Yan navy has always been relatively close to the sea observation of the Great Xia mainland, and the merchant ships of Great Xia and the civilian ships fishing in this area have not been able to enter this sea area for four days.

Most of the time the ships that were deployed in various key areas before the war were disguised as merchant ships, and in this case, Gan Tang's intelligence on the battlefield was always dark-eyed, and this arrangement could greatly extend the time for Yan to fight at sea without being harassed.

Soon after lunch, Gan Tang finally learned the basic situation of the battle between the two sides, and it was indeed a bit of a fluke to get information, a damaged Yan warship, in the case of all the sailors killed, only seven Yan sailors on the ship survived, but they were no longer able to control this broken ship, which was drifting on the sea for four hours, did not sink, and was indeed lucky.

Being met by the multinational fleet on the vast sea became the first result of the multinational fleet, and the actual commander of the fleet, Colonel López, shamelessly thought so.