In the nameless waters of the East China Sea, in the dark night when you can't see your fingers, the seabirds have fallen asleep, and the silence of the night is frightening, except for the sound of the waves from the sea, nothing can be heard.

At this moment, a starry fleet sailed to the west, breaking the silence of the sea and making the place lively, although a fleet once passed here, but their gray and gray figures did not dare to hold the lights, obviously compared with the starry fleet.

In the south of the stars, the constellation is like a large number of stars, densely packed and dazzling.

The lights shone on the huge, sea-like fortress-like five-masted ship, which was one of the flagships of the entire fleet, and the two generals were standing in the bow of the flagship, one of them holding a crystal telescope in his hand, and kept watching.

"Han Dudu, there is still no harvest, the deep sea is full of dangers, and Zhou Tai is not afraid of dying in this deep sea!"

A young man who was obviously much younger put away his monoculars and complained in his mouth, but his face was pensive.

Han Ji, the governor of Handu, arched his hand at the young man in contemplation, and said with a respectful face:

"Zhou Tai is not dead until the south wall! But now that they have gone deep into the sea, it is easy to get lost in the dark night, and it doesn't matter if the pirates die! We......

Wu Dudu, are we going back? Zhou Tai's strength has been greatly damaged this time, and besides, can the monk still run the temple? ”

Wu Dudu is Wu Peng, who is very young, almost the same as Cao Xing, that is, in his twenties, but he is the most authoritative person under Cao Xing, the naval division of the Chu army, and most of the naval generals were under his command.

Han Ji, the governor of the East China Sea, and Zou Tao, the governor of the South China Sea.

Wu Peng, who was in deep thought, did not notice Han Ji's salute, nor did he reply to his words, just like that, Han Ji kept bending over and remained silent.

After a while, Wu Peng's eyes lit up, and then he realized that Han Ji was still doing something, and hurriedly went over to help: "Rude and rude!" Han Dudu, please get up! ”

As soon as Han Ji got up, Wu Peng waved his hand at the herald:

"Pass the order! All the ships are lined up in a horizontal formation! I'm going to be like a fish in a net, and I'm going to net Zhou Tai! ”

"No!"

The heralds used red, yellow, and blue lanterns alternately, passing on orders like flags.

Hundreds of Chu army ships began to change their formation according to the language of the lights, the front team slowed down, the rear team increased speed, the squadron spread on both sides, a long dragon from north to south, a long line of horizontal rows slowly put out, two hundred steps between the ships and ships, the length of the dragon reached 20,000 steps, like a big net, towards the direction of Zhou Tai's escape.

Another big ship, the most powerful ebony keel five-masted ship in the entire world, Vice Admiral Zou Tao hummed a little song, and did not forget to praise the old boss:

"Hmph, Wu Dudu is really a veteran of naval warfare, this big net, I see where he Zhou Tai is fleeing, wait to be captured obediently!"

The main general, Jiang Qin, looked at the governor of the South China Sea Fleet and showed a wry smile.

The big net was opened, and after two or three hours, the harvest was obvious, and the small ships of the sea who saw that there was no way to escape began to break through, and then they were frightened by the salvo of the bed crossbow and surrendered, becoming a member of the glorious prisoners of the Chu army.

However, there were fewer and fewer pirate boats entering the net behind, but in the last hour, not a single pirate fishing boat had been encountered.

"Whoa~"

The sound of the waves crashing against the hull of the ship became louder and louder, and the swing of the ship became more and more violent, and the two five-masted ships of the Chu army had already met, and Jiang Qin and Zou Tao passed through the small boat and got on the five-masted ship where Wu Peng was.

As soon as he got on the boat, Zou Tao had already rushed towards Wu Peng and hugged Wu Peng deeply: "Dudu! ”

Wu Peng patted him on the back:

"Long time no see!"

"Long time no see!"

Zou Tao replied, hugged Han Ji and Zhang Bao again, and finally hugged the Admiral of the North Sea Fleet, Bian Xi:

"Haha! My big brother Bian! The fifth fierce general of the Cao Army, I haven't seen him for three years, how are you doing? ”

Bian Xi looked at Zou Tao and was also delighted: "Don't make fun of my brother and me, now that the lord is like a cloud, I can call it the fifth again, but your kid is a lot stronger, how about it!" Martial arts can be refined, we practice! ”

"Don't dare! Can't beat it! ”

"Haha~"

Zou Tao's answer was called a frank one, which caused the most serious Wu Peng, Han Ji, and Zhang Bao to laugh.

Seeing Zou Tao come to a happy scene of recognizing his brothers, Jiang Qin just silently kept smiling and smiled at all this.

Jiang Qin bowed to the young Wu Peng, who was a little excessive: "Under Jiang Qin, participate in the governor of Wu!" ”

"Oh, it turned out to be Jiang Dudu of the River Fleet, disrespectful and disrespectful!"

Wu Peng greeted him politely, and when he saw that the time was not early, he talked about business:

"From dusk to now, more than two hours, compared to the speed of our ship, at this time has penetrated hundreds of miles into the East China Sea! It seems that Zhou Tai is Wang Ba is the iron heart of eating the scales, and there is no result if he chases it down, maybe there is a big wave, Zhou Tai and they are going to feed the fish!

This is the life of the Han people! It's time to withdraw!

Tomorrow morning, go to the pirates' lair to find them! ”

"Wu Dudu is wise!"

Han Ji, Jiang Qin, Zou Tao and others put away their smiling faces and replied seriously.

The return of the Chu fleet meant that Zhou Tai had escaped from his pursuers, but it did not mean that he was safe.

Watching the stars behind him go away, the moon happened to climb into the sky again, the soft moonlight sprinkled on the sea, and the ships of the pirates became looming.

"Little ones, we've gotten rid of our pursuers! Gather! Flotilla assembled! Head south! ”

Zhou Tai shouted in the moonlight, and the pirates on the deck hurriedly read his words and passed his orders out in all directions.

The surrounding Haikou ships began to repeat Zhou Tai's orders, and the Haikou ships slowly began to gather, looking at the Chu army fleet that could no longer see the lights, Zhou Tai finally gave an order:

"Palm Lamp! Speed up the collection! The army goes south! ”

The long-lost lights of the Haikou ship turned on, and the stragglers suddenly had a direction, and began to assemble with their lights, and around Zhou Tai's new dhow, more and more Haikou ships gathered.

Zhou Tai roughly counted: "Two thousand!" Less than 2,000 lights! A fishing boat with more than 10 people has one light, a dhow with more than 50 people has two lights, and more than 100 people have four lights, so there are only 20,000 people!

Fifty thousand! Nowadays......"

Zhou Tai's heart was like a knife, but he couldn't do anything, according to memory and astrology, Zhou Tai found the south, and the army began to continue south.

The pirates don't have a compass, and sometimes their memory is unreliable, and the stars just give a general direction.

What Zhou Tai didn't know was that this deviation to the south actually came out, a slight deviation to the east.