"Ignore them, let's go before we figure it out." Zhang Qiang is now confused.

But he didn't dare to let less than twenty warships get close to the fleet led by the little prince of the Hong family, who had more than a hundred warships.

So the whole fleet circled around the fleet of more than 100 ships of the little prince of the Hong family, about fifteen nautical miles, and then continued to move in this formation in the direction of Qiong Island.

The sun had slowly set, and in the last afterglow, the Hong family's fleet was still following, about seven or eight nautical miles away from them, and the Hong family's fleet could catch up with them if they worked hard for more than an hour.

The captain said, "They are still following us, what should Your Majesty do?" ”

Zhang Qiang snorted coldly, "Obviously, they have bad intentions, let's speed up, go to Qiongdao, and ignore them." By night, we'll be able to get rid of them. We don't know who we are, and we'd better stay away from them. ”

Not far away, the little prince looked at the fleet far away, looked at the royal flag fluttering on the weird-looking new ship in the distance, and sneered, "I didn't expect the king of the Huaxia Kingdom to be a coward and actually see us run away." ”

Lei Gang, a Han official, was a new sailor general of the Lu State, heard the words of the little prince, and whispered: "This person is too cautious, if he dares to come up, we can surround them with more than a hundred warships, with the loss of some old ships, as long as we can kill him, then the kingdom of Huaxia will fall apart, and we can return to the land of Huaxia with our troops." ”

The little prince shook his head, "It's not so easy to deceive him, he can become a generation of heroes from a small soldier, it's not a thing that can be won by a random strategy." ”

Lei Gang said: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, then why did we form an alliance with the eldest prince, Zheng Zhi, and the Spaniards this time?" Is there anything strange about this? Can we really fight against the Huaxia Kingdom? Even if their sailors are weakened, they are not enough that all of our forces combined can defeat. ”

The little prince didn't blame him for talking too much, because Lei Gang was his confidant general, this person only listened to him and didn't even listen to his father Hong Hongxiu, in order to let him assist himself wholeheartedly, the little prince was heartfelt to Lei Gang, at least on the surface, so he said to Lei Gang: "With Du Ge's plan of that traitor in China, didn't we deceive the Fifth Fleet, and then suddenly attack and annihilate his Fifth Fleet in one fell swoop?" ”

Speaking of the Fifth Fleet, the little prince was obviously glad to have taken it at such a small cost, and had also earned nearly forty ships of the Fourth Fleet.

Although the Fifth Fleet fought back desperately and destroyed more than a dozen of their armed merchant ships, Zheng Zhi and his three six-hundred-ton warships and one thousand-ton warship, as well as the eldest prince's three six-hundred-ton warships and eleven armed merchant ships, they made a lot of money.

Three hundred and eighty warships and battleships of the Fifth Fleet, as well as more than a hundred armed merchant ships, three thousand eight hundred marines, three thousand eight hundred sailors and gunners were captured.

Of course, the Fifth Fleet also suffered considerable losses, twenty six-hundred-ton warships were sunk, fifteen thousand-ton warships were heavily damaged, thirty armed merchant ships were heavily damaged, and five were sunk.

The others were also a little injured, but in the end, facing more than 100 warships and battleships of the Spanish fleet, facing the 300 warships of the second prince, Zheng Zhi's 270 warships, battleships, finally surrendered.

Two of the forty ships of the Fourth Fleet escaped, most of the others were sunk and five were captured.

The four families divided all the remaining ships of the Fifth Fleet and the Fourth Fleet fleet, each of which received about seventy ships, and the other damaged ships were bought by Zheng Zhi, and with these warships and warships of the Fifth Fleet, the strength of the four was greatly increased.

Not only did it make up for their previous losses, but it also greatly increased their strength, each of them exceeded fifty warships, one hundred and eighty warships, and the other armed merchant ships increased by twenty.

The most profitable is Zheng Zhi, it is really because of his cooperation, winning over each family, in order to let everyone succeed, in Du Ge came up with the idea, Zheng Zhi in the middle of the series, the Spaniards abandoned the previous suspicion to help, the British assisted, the Dutch played a bitter meat plan executor, Du Ge said that he would repay and supplement their losses, an anti-Chinese kingdom alliance was established.

Zhang Qiang never imagined that he wanted to use the contradictions of all parties to suppress the surrounding forces, but the surrounding forces united with common enemies because of various contradictions, and gave him a disadvantage.

In order to let Zheng Zhi help attack Du Ge and them, he dismantled his Sixth Fleet and sold it to Zheng Zhi, weakening his own naval division, the Fifth Fleet due to the stupidity of the commanders, did not follow the rules, fell into the enemy's tricks, buried the Fifth Fleet, and also caused disaster to the Fourth Fleet, and now the situation of the Huaxia Kingdom in the South China Sea is very bad, and Zhang Qiang and all the fleets, as well as the officials stationed in the South China Sea, and the sailors do not know the enemy's conspiracy.

Zhang Qiang underestimated the wisdom of the people of this era and paid a heavy price.

There was still a glimmer of light in the sky, and in this glimmer, a huge fleet appeared ahead, and the Spanish flag hanging on the mast of the huge fleet was very dazzling.

There was Spain in the front, and the little prince of the Hong family in the back, and the enemy had more than 300 warships.

"Turn, go to Saigon," Zhang Qiang had a headache, and Spain came head-on in front, what does this mean? Is the heavens going to kill me?

As the fleet turned, the Hong family's ships also caught up from behind.

The two sides were getting closer and closer, and the fleet grazed them and fled outside.

There were still 1,300 meters away, and the Hong family's ships opened fire fiercely, and dozens of shells in the sky smashed towards the naval fleet of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Zhang Qiang sneered, "You finally don't want to pretend." ”

"Combat readiness, prepare for battle, fire close to five hundred meters, four hundred meters through the tail of the enemy's fleet, and fire with all your might." Zhang Qiang shouted.

As the fleet turned, the Huaxia 310 fell from the first to the fifth, and the eight-hundred-ton battleship in front began to lead the way.

The lookout shouted: "The Spanish fleet is coming towards our flank, twelve nautical miles away. Speed six knots. ”

Zhang Qiang shouted: "Leave them alone, let's sail in the direction of Saigon and block them with the Hong family's fleet." ”

After saying that, he was annoyed, there were not many warships on Qiongdao, even if they went, the enemy could catch up, the coastline of Qiongdao was too long, and he couldn't keep the ships wherever he went, so he had to abandon the ships and go to the Fifth Fleet, at least any time a fleet went out, there would be enough warships and warships left to protect the port, plus the ships of the coastal naval division garrison composed of retired ships, at least there would be dozens of warships that could fight, so that his victory rate would be high, at least he could escape to the port, It is impossible for the enemy to attack any port at will, because the garrison port of the naval division must have shore artillery, so that the undefeated and the ships can be guaranteed.

Now that we are close to Qiong Island, but we are farther away from Saigon, do we still have to play hide and seek with the enemy at sea?

No, it should be a competition for speed, maybe they can outrun the Hong family's ship, but the Spaniards' ships, Zhang Qiang is not sure, their ships may outrun their own warships that can only be fastest eight knots.

It was already slightly dark, and the view from the sea was not very good, but the enemy ships were approaching.

The lookout shouted: "The distance between the Hong family's fleet is eight hundred meters, and the distance of the Spanish ships is five nautical miles, and their speed has increased to eight knots. ”

(End of chapter)