The second prince would never believe that the Huaxia Army would kill him, the Huaxia Army has a kind of Chen Dusk spirit of cherishing feathers in recent years, which surprised the surrounding forces, and then got used to the style of the Huaxia Army, anyway, the Huaxia Army will be thankful if it doesn't fight itself, let the Huaxia Army stop for a while, the Huaxia Army must be a war to destroy the country when it moves, and no one wants their kingdom to become the next target of the Huaxia Army.

The second prince took the little prince, who had just returned from the defeat of the Sinro province, and a group of ministers, to climb a mountain peak in the county of Kochi and observe the sea with a telescope, of course, a three-section bronze monocular, of course, which is slightly better than a flat mirror.

When he climbed the mountain, the fortifications built like Feng Quan in Xinlu Province abounded, and at this time, a large number of soldiers began to blow up like a honeycomb, and dense militia ranks poured from the barracks, from the county seat, from all directions to the nearby beaches, docks, and various towns, streets, and fortresses that needed to be defended.

"Quick, quickly push out the 8,000-pound cannon we got from the Qing Dynasty, push out the 32-pound cannon that the Dutch found for us, and push out all the cannons, ready, ready, Xinlu Mansion is going to fight us."

There was a mess below, the second prince stood on the peak of the mountain and carefully observed the fleet opposite, nearly eighty thousand-ton warships, one hundred eight-hundred-ton warships, one hundred and twenty six-hundred-ton warships, and there were many three-hundred-ton warships and sixty-ton transport ships behind, as well as many thousand-ton merchant ships transporting troops, this strength was almost more than twice that of all the fleets in their port, how could this be fought.

The sailor generals who knew how to fight naval battles around him shouted loudly: "The enemy's fleet still has twenty-five nautical miles to reach the port channel, and it has been determined that it is the fleet of the Xinlu Mansion family, and the ship is hung with the flag of the King of the Huaxia Kingdom, and the flag of the Xinlu Mansion is hung below, and there are two flags on the left and right, which are the Feng Zi Banner of Feng Quan, the Governor of Xinlu Prefecture, and the Battle Flag of the Naval Division of Xinlu Prefecture.

The enemy is traveling at a speed of six knots, and it is estimated that in four hours he will reach the outside of the fairway, Your Highness, what should I do? Do you want a sailor to fight? ”

"Father, let's go to war, if we don't fight, let them rush to the shore and bombard them like the previous times, almost eighty percent of our county will be destroyed." The little prince stood up and said to his father.

The second prince glanced at the little prince and said worriedly: "What's the matter, our fleet is already small, and after previous damage, our fleet no longer has much combat effectiveness, the ships are broken, the sailors are few, and the speed is still slow, these are all ships for several years, and the speed may only be four or five knots, and we can't beat the enemy." ”

The little prince said angrily: "Father, then we have to fight, desperately lose all the fleet but also protect the safety of the county town on the shore, the more fierce we fight, the more afraid the enemy is, dare not get too close, then we can rely on the stable advantage of shore artillery over sea artillery, bombard the enemy's ships with shore artillery, we can reduce at least 50 percent of the losses." ”

The general of the sailor said to the second prince: "We can mobilize the fishermen, drive their fishing boats into arson boats to attack, and now attack, we can seize the upper hand, and then go down the wind and release a lot of fireboats, even if we can't do it, we can make the enemy panic and mess up the formation, we can fight more with less, maybe we can keep half of the fleet and defeat the enemy." ”

The second prince looked at the envoy of the Qing Dynasty next to him, the envoy of the Qing Dynasty was a clan, Aixin Jueluo Zongdai, this person has a bit of a brain, he is a bit like a Han official in the Qing Dynasty, Zongdai looked at the eyes of the second prince, and did not say it, as if it was none of his business, his face was as usual, and his eyes looked at the enemy fleet that was gradually approaching on the sea, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

The second prince had no choice, and said to the general of the sailor: "You lead the sailor to attack, you must block the enemy in the open sea, and you can't let the enemy get close to our shore, even if the sailor is completely destroyed, you have to drag a few pads on my back." ”

Then he said to the little prince: "You immediately organize men to sail all the official ships of the Qing Dynasty, the Dutch ships, and our merchant ships out of the open sea, and enter the inner bay from the bay to take refuge." ”

Everyone on the shore was busy, on the sea, Feng Quan was also staring at the shore at the bow of the ship, and the fleet began to unfold, two thousand-ton warships with thirteen eight-hundred-ton warships and twenty three-hundred-ton battleships began to chase after them, and followed the fleet behind to form a fleet ready to land.

Eighty sixty-ton transport ships quickly hoisted their sails and flew towards the shore at a speed of up to eleven knots.

They are there to scout the enemy.

The remaining battleships were divided into 12 1,000-ton warships to follow the ship, surrounded by 12 800-ton warships, 36 600-ton warships, 45 300-ton warships, and 78 180-ton warships.

At this speed, it takes about three and a half hours to reach the sea off the city of Kochi, and the other warships are divided into two groups, each of which is stronger than the Chinese army, and their speed has soared to a speed of seven and a half knots, and at this speed, it is only two hours or more than half to reach the open sea, of course, this is impossible, because they have seen the enemy fleet rushing out of the port, that is to say, if the enemy also advances at a speed of seven or eight knots, the fleets of both sides will meet in an hour, Then they fought a little more than twelve nautical miles from the prefecture of Kochi.

The sea was cloudless, and as far as the eye could see, even without a telescope, it was possible to see three dozen nautical miles away, and the shadow of war was rapidly approaching Shikoku Island, and they had just dealt a heavy blow to Kagoshima Prefecture when the enemy came to retaliate.

And from the present point of view, the enemy's strength, at least the strength of the fleet, is two or three times the strength of their existing capable fleet.

Zhao Hui stood beside Feng Quan, "Lord Feng, it seems that the enemy is prepared, you see that the enemy's fleet came out so quickly, and there are not many merchant ships and fishing boats in the port, now those merchant ships and fishing boats are moving to the bay north of the land, if we don't land, we may not hurt them much, at most we will destroy some of their buildings in the distance, destroy some of the shore fortifications, if they are smarter, they will retreat some people, with the sea conditions around Shikoku Island, There is no way for our fleet to get close to the shore and carry out artillery bombardment deep into their interior. ”

Feng Quan clenched his fists, his eyes were firm, "Even if the old man is buried here, he will have to pay a heavy price for the Hong family, and he must be beaten to a clump of strength." ”

An hour and a half later, the Chinese army reached 12 nautical miles from the shore, and the enemy was already in strict position at eight nautical miles from the shore, and many Japanese ships were also spreading to both sides, and were engaged in a battle with the Chinese army's transport boats, and artillery fire was constantly coming out of the transport boats.

When Zhang Qiang changed the naval division of the Chinese army, these traffic boats, in fact, the previous Ming naval division warships were remodeled, changed to similar to the appearance of small ships of the Galen ship, added soft sails, and also retained hard sails, there were twenty sailors on the ship, a total of three captains and first mates, four maintenance workers, one doctor, fifteen officers and soldiers of the sailors who jumped to fight, and twelve gunners, a total of four six-pounder guns, six three-pounder guns, and one twelve-pounder gun. During the battle, the jumpers also joined the gunners, transporting the shells and helping the cannons to reset, while the gunners measured the enemy's distance and adjusted the cannons, all of whom were commanded by the second officer.

The sailor is the first mate who commands the ship, and the captain is responsible for directing the ship's movements, directing the helmsman, the engineer, and the entire crew.

Eighty transport ships shuttled through the enemy's boats, destroying many of the enemy's intercepting boats, and then passing through the boats to send the enemy's shore and fleet news to the rear fleets and command flagships for the commanders to make decisions.

(End of chapter)