The little prince had more than thirty armed merchant ships, more than forty warships, and more than twenty warships left.

Where does the second prince still have more than a hundred ships, this time they are out of the nest, the two of them discussed, the little prince with some armed merchant ships that are not seriously injured in the front, the second prince with a large army in the back, the total strength of 2780 ships.

In a day and a half, they came to less than a hundred nautical miles off Saigon, where there were no patrol vessels because the Fifth Fleet was almost completely destroyed.

Maybe there were still some ships in the port, but in the face of the huge Huaxia sailors with more than 200 ships, they would definitely not dare to fight in the harbor.

Hong Hongxiu said to the little prince: "You take thirty armed merchant ships to lure them, we are in ambush outside your thirty nautical miles, the weather is not very good today, it is impossible for them to see the sea thirty nautical miles away, if you see the enemy, try to lure them, if they take the bait, you will send a signal, I will lead the fleet to rush into the enemy's harbor, I heard that there are a lot of good things here, population, weapons, artillery, more funds, we can reorganize our family." ”

The little prince said to Hong Hongxiu: "Dad, I know, I will do it." Look, we're going to kill all those Huaxia cubs. ”

"Smack, what Huaxia cub, aren't you the Yanhuang descendant of Huaxia? Remember that no matter where we go, we are all Han people, all the descendants of Yan and Huang in China, we must not forget our identity, although we are in trouble, but we must remember that our roots are in that land. ”

The second prince angrily corrected his son's thoughts, and a loud slap hoped to wake his son up.

The little prince complained in a low voice, "We are already from the Lu country, and now the Lu country is dead, and we have run away to a broken island in Borneo, Nanyang, what Han people, what Huaxia, are we still human?" ”

The second prince angrily shouted at him: "Get out of here, hurry to the port of Saigon, or I will pick your skin." ”

The little prince got off the ship very reluctantly with emotion, took a small boat to a thousand-ton warship, and fired at his men, "Open the boat, let's go to the port of the Chinese people has been blown up." ”

An hour later, less than twenty nautical miles away, news suddenly came back from the front of thirty ships that a patrol ship of the Fifth Fleet had been discovered.

The little prince was very happy, "Catch up with it and sink it." ”

There was one patrol vessel, which was one of the three 180-ton wayfinding vessels that Zhang Qiang put in front.

Thirty armed merchant ships, plus a thousand-ton warship, pursued the patrol ship with all their might, and after an hour it had run twelve nautical miles, and the patrol ship plunged headlong into the clear fog of the distant sea.

The little prince shouted: "Can't let it escape, chase, chase quickly." ”

Lei Gang, the military general beside him, said: "Your Highness, we are too far away from the large army led by your father, at least twenty-five or six nautical miles away, at this time there is a small fog affecting the field of vision, the sky above the head is relatively dark, even the sailors on the watchtower can't see fifteen nautical miles away, and the prince's ship is too far away, in case something happens, I'm afraid we won't be able to wait for their support." ”

The little prince glared angrily, "Listen to yours or to me?" ”

Lei Gang lowered his head, "Your Highness is in charge, and the last general will not dare to take the place of His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

The little prince glanced at him, and Lei Gang had no way to order the pursuit.

Thirty-one ships quickly burrowed into the fog, through a green fog, the vision in front was quite good, and thirty ships pursued the Huaxia Navy patrol ship in a zigzag shape.

In the distance, the Second Prince's fleet was blocked behind the green mist, and they were not noticed turning around.

The two sides were more and more separated by each other, reaching thirty-five nautical miles, and further and further apart.

In the distance, thirty nautical miles, a fleet approached head-on, at an overall speed of five knots, and the wind at sea was not small, but the entire fleet maintained a speed of five knots.

After drawing a semicircle on the sea, and then turning, the whole fleet sailed in three columns in parallel, with 28 1,000-ton warships as the main force, in the middle of the route, five 600-ton battleships on the left flank, and fifteen 300-ton warships in front of and behind the five 600-ton warships, and Zhang Qiang's Huaxia 310 ships and fifteen 300-ton warships on the right flank.

On the left flank and on the right side there was a 180-ton patrol ship following at a distance of five nautical miles from the rear flank, a 180-ton patrol ship in front was piloting at the front eight nautical miles, and the other was seen by the little prince, cruising around at a speed of six knots, probing for the surrounding dense fog for the enemy, and the farthest range of activity was fifteen nautical miles, which was exactly the farthest point of sight of any outermost ship.

The range of the entire fleet is six nautical miles, the nearest visual distance of the lookout is six nautical miles, and the farthest telescope can see from eight nautical miles to fifteen nautical miles, because some places can see far, and some places are not far because of the fog, so it is necessary for a patrol ship to constantly patrol around the whole fleet in those fogs, so that the enemy does not rush out of the fog to attack the flank of the fleet.

At this time, the patrol ship took the enemy out of fifteen nautical miles, and made a great circle, and began to pursue the fleet with all its might, and the fleet turned so that it was more than twenty nautical miles behind the fleet, and it passed through a cloud of fog, and it took an hour and eight knots at full speed to reach the end of the fleet ten nautical miles, and with a reflector, it reported to the other patrol ship five nautical miles of the last fleet the number and direction of the enemy it had found, the distance, and the movements it had made.

On the Huaxia, Zhang Qiang listened to the news from the watchmen from high places, and learned that a fleet of 31 armed merchant ships under the banner of the Little Prince of the Hong Family, which was somewhat damaged, was heading for the Saigon base of the Fifth Fleet at a distance of 20 nautical miles from their flank.

Through a thick fog, an hour later, the ships on the left flank of the eldest prince and the right flank of Zhang Qiang's fleet, that is, the fifteen three-hundred-ton warships led by Zhang Qiang, discovered each other.

For a while, both sides were very nervous, Zhang Qiang ordered the six-hundred-ton battleship on the left flank to go forward to cover in front of the thousand-ton battleship, so that the thousand-ton battleship could move closer to the enemy, while he slowed down and prepared to raid the enemy's fleet in front.

The fleet shifted from a zigzag pattern to a figure-of-eight pattern, with the figure-eight opening facing the middle of the flanks of the enemy's zigzag fleet.

Towards the side of Zhang Qiang's Huaxia Naval Division's fleet, the enemy's two-mouthed battleship formation began to turn and kill them.

Because they have so many ships.

The scattered fleet of the Chinese Navy looks smaller, and the number of ships in one of their fleets is one of the openings on the enemy's side.

Both sides are moving to the other's flanks to gain the upper hand.

Eight nautical miles,

Five nautical miles,

Three nautical miles,

1 kilometer,

800 meters,

600 meters,

The enemy opened fire first.

Zhang Qiang found that he didn't know whether it was nervousness, or the enemy's lack of combat experience, in short, they liked to fire outside the range of direct fire from the ship's guns, with the old naval fleet artillery they had, they had to fire at least 400 meters before they could hope to hit the enemy, that was the maximum distance when Zhang Qiang sold them artillery.

What is sold to the enemy, of course, is the reduced allocation of weapons and equipment, it cannot be the best, at least it cannot be more advanced than the Huaxia Army and Naval Division, and their artillery operability or advanced nature is lagging behind that of the Huaxia Military and Naval Division, and these artillery pieces must be guaranteed to be at least 400 meters, and generally can hit or severely damage the enemy at 380 meters.

The average European's current optimal horizontal distance is 180 meters, or even 50 meters, and 30 meters directly bombards the enemy, and after the British defeated the Invincible Armada, the maximum bombardment distance between the two sides is 300 to 320 meters.

Like now, it is because Zhang Qiang used the technology provided by the system and the talents he trained to improve the artillery of the Huaxia Army Naval Division, which has added a lot of stability details, and with the addition of experienced naval divisions, he can ensure that he can hit the enemy at a distance of 400 meters.

And the accuracy rate can basically guarantee about 15 percent, the closer the higher the accuracy, when reaching the distance of 300 meters, it can generally reach 40 percent to close to 50 percent.

This is a crazy accuracy indicator, even the advanced naval warships of later generations do not necessarily say that they can reach 100 percent in a single salvo, and it is powerful to reach 50 percent, and in this day and age, 50 percent is basically a myth and legend.

The average is that after a dozen rounds of mutual strikes, the efficiency of hitting one or two enemy shells in one round can be achieved.

At five hundred meters, the flotillas approached each other, and the enemy formation began to disperse, ready to be overwhelmed by the numerical pattern, or to surround the Huaxia Naval Division's fleet.

The naval fleet began to circle in place, made a large circle of 200 meters, and then lined up in a column, with the 1,000-ton battleship in front, the 800-ton battleship following behind, and the other warships formed a second echelon behind the 1,000-ton battleship with Zhang Qiang's side, followed behind the battleship, and began to fire at the enemy at a distance of 400 meters from the enemy.

While following the movement of the fleet, striking the enemy with a battle line towards the enemy's rear.

A lot of gunsmoke came out of both fleets, but the second prince's fleet was facing Zhang Qiang with the bow of the ship, and Zhang Qiang was facing them with the side of the hull, while moving towards the front to seize the upper hand, which could make the ship faster and maintain a speed advantage with the enemy.

After the third round of artillery, the thousand-ton battleship and the enemy fleet had already gathered 380 meters, and the accuracy of the fourth round of artillery began to rise, and the artillery had already hit the enemy.

The small tonnage fleet led by Zhang Qiang was mostly 300-ton ships, a total of 33 ships plus Zhang Qiang's Huaxia 310 ship, a total of 34 ships, 400 meters away from the enemy's fleet.

Three neatly arranged armed merchant ships rushed straight towards the Huaxia, and the shells fired from their bows kept smashing at a distance of 400 meters in front of the Huaxia, or a little more than 300 meters, and none of them hit the Zhongxia.

While the Huaxia is advancing, it bombards the enemy with the side artillery, the high and low pitching device allows the gun to adjust the angle of the muzzle at will, the width of the left and right ten degrees, so that the gun can hit the enemy's firing range is very wide, and the use of the guide rail makes the gun can quickly retreat to remove the recoil of the gun, and then the spring-like soft device on the surface can also quickly push the gun forward and reseat with the help of the residual force of the recoil, reducing the time for the gunner to push the gun back into position.

When the enemy fires one shot, they can fire three shots.

So after the fifth round of firing, Huaxia fired a side-spin salvo of more than 30 shells fell on the three ships, forming a close miss, a shell directly hit has changed course, while fighting with them, while driving diagonally, ready to approach the Huaxia Naval Division, give full play to the numerical advantage of the three warships where the second prince is located.

The ship on which the second prince was located was a thousand-ton warship, and on the other side of the zigzag, when the fleet began to turn, he ordered the ships on this side to move backwards, and then turned to prepare to outflank the Huaxia sailors.

(End of chapter)