The enemy who can't be seen is the most terrifying, and the frightened He Yongfei told his subordinates every day that no one should be broken on the high mast, and that there should be a sergeant with excellent vision to keep an eye on it every day, asking for the first time to find the enemy's traces.

Zhu Qing also had more than 2,000 ships, although they were ships collected from all over the country, different in size and different from the old and new, and even some fishing boats were remodeled on the spot, lagging behind the fleet of the Great Song Dynasty Naval Division, which was mainly based on standard naval warships.

However, Zhu Qing had already laid out in advance, and the movements of the main fleet of the Song army had always been controlled by Zhu Qing, and he had already spread a large net on the sea and waited for the prey. Zhu Qing considered that the strength of the two sides was equal, and his fleet was still slightly behind in terms of performance, so he secretly reported to Zhang Hongfan that Pu Shougeng's latest warship was delivered, so the two conspired to encircle Zhang Shijie and annihilate him at sea.

"General, a sail shadow was found in front of the right, it is suspected to be a Yuan soldier warship, please make a decision quickly!"

He Yongfei slapped his thigh and shouted: "Turn the rudder left at full speed to avoid the enemy, continue to observe the enemy's situation, and report at any time!" ”

The fifty tiger-headed clippers of the Song army seemed to be frightened rabbits, and turned to speed up and prepared to avoid the fleet in front of the right, but the traces of the Song army had been discovered, and Wang Kui, the leader of the pirates, was willing to let go.

"Haha! Keep an eye on me, don't let that fleet run away, and order all the oarsmen to rotate in three shifts and speed up to catch up! ”

Wang Kui's face was excited, he had been leading the team at sea for more than a month, and he had never touched a tough battle in direct contact, and the big knife behind his back was already hungry and thirsty. Wang Kui followed Zhu Qing to kill people and cross goods at sea in his early years, and he was a bloodthirsty lord, especially like to go into hand-to-hand combat in person, and liked the excitement of seeing blood with a knife. In recent years, he has either been recruited by the Song Dynasty or surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, although he has been chasing Zhang Shijie for a long time, but it has not been his turn to fight once, and the killing heart in his body has been suppressed for too long.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey!"

The sound of the trumpet came and went, as was the case on every boat, and the long wooden oars sticking out from both sides beat the sea vigorously, maintaining the speed of the warship.

The sea breeze in early spring was still bitter, and the oarsmen in the reinforcement cabins were sweating like rain, and the rows of strong men resting beside them were shirtless, and the already narrow space was crowded with people, and shochu and dried meat were piled up everywhere.

The speed of the Tiger Head Clipper of the Song Army was slightly superior, but the pursuing Yuan Army borrowed the wind, and the distance between the two sides slowly approached, and the size of the opponent's fleet could be clearly seen by relying on eyesight.

"Damn, I'm scared to death, I don't know if there are still a large number of warships behind them!"

He Yongfei had already seen clearly that Wang Kui's fleet seemed to be smaller in number, with thirty or forty boats, but the hull was one size smaller than that of the Tiger Head Clipper, and there were also some fishing boats that had obviously been transformed into warships, like a motley pirate.

He Yongfei only saw it clearly now, and relieved himself a little, Wang Kui began to chase after the boat when he saw it, he didn't think about the other party's combat effectiveness and quantity, and now it was his turn to worry. This is obviously a problem developed when the pirates are not working, and they don't do any ship, so they will catch up first.

"******, why are there so many boats, Lao Tzu is choked enough to fight!"

Wang Kui immediately ordered the speed of the ship to be reduced, and was not in a hurry to catch up and start the battle, but began to observe He Yongfei's fleet from a distance.

"General, they have few small boats, do you want to catch up with them, the province is always following us."

He Yongfei's lieutenant generals were gearing up, ready to turn the bow of the ship and fight Wang Kuigan.

"Regardless of them, let's continue to approach the direction of the coast, in case the enemy is cheating, in case they are entangled, and the Yuan army behind them comes to make dumplings, and you and I will die without a place to be buried."

Seeing that the Song army did not respond to the battle but continued to move closer to the shore, Wang Kui stepped on the rough idea with a slight turn of his mind.

"Hahaha, they're afraid, haha, they're afraid that our descendants will be too powerful to fight with us and won't be able to get out. The little ones continued to chase me, not too close, hanging from a distance. ”

Wang Kui stood at the bow of the boat, holding his machete in both hands, pondering the other party's possible tactics. If he sticks it up now, how will this Song fleet respond to the battle, will it leave a few ships to block the enemy, and the rest of the fleet will flee in the desert.

If this is the case, then it is in his arms, when Song Junfanying was discovered in the early days, he had already sent clippers to report to Zhu Qing's flagship, and it was believed that a large number of main warships would soon be sent in this direction. If He Yongfei really turned the bow of the ship and wanted to fight him to the death, he would definitely be the first to escape, and he would not have an advantage in quantity and tonnage, and he would be the one who suffered in the fight.

The first meeting of the fleets of the two countries in the South China Sea produced such a strange effect, the superior forces of the Song army did not dare to fight, and the seemingly weak Yuan army did not give up. One didn't have the determination to fight, and the other belonged to the scoundrel who wouldn't let you go if he didn't let me take a bite, so he drove on the sea and confronted the shoreline.

On that day, Song was followed by 8,000 cavalry, unhurriedly walking on the official road leading to Sihui, most of the trees on both sides were burned in black and light, and the villages and towns on the side of the road were deserted and only the broken eaves and broken walls remained, these are the masterpieces left by Li Heng's army when he retreated last time.

Sihui was originally a famous place, the place where four rivers meet, and it has been a place where people have lived since ancient times, and people live and work in peace and contentment. When there was no war, Sihui set up a yamen, and the road belonged to Duanzhou, that is, Zhaoqing Road belonged to Guangdong Road.

The population has 130,000 males, more than 80 natural villages, according to legend, the six ancestors of Zen Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty Hui Neng came to Sihui, hid in the hunter team in Fulu Mountain, and lived here for about 15 years.

In just over a year after the invasion of the Yuan army, the county seat of Sihui was destroyed and burned, less than one-third of the original inhabited villages were inhabited, and eight out of ten people were gone, and the entire Sihui almost became a barren land.

After Li Heng's defeat, the team left Guangzhou in a hurry, and the defeated Yuan army washed almost everything that could be seen in blood, but only a few thousand people really died in their hands, and most of them were scared away.

"General, five days have passed, and we haven't reached Sihui yet, isn't it a little too slow!"

The lieutenant general of that day kindly reminded him that he had to arrive in Guangzhou on the tenth day? Isn't it better to be a day earlier, and besides, the troop carriers on the waterway are going down the river, maybe they will arrive first, and without the military cover on the shore, where will they land from!

That Risong looked up at the sun that had not yet reached the west, and unconsciously laughed and said: "Pass the order, the weather is late, find an open place ahead to camp, bury the pot and make rice!" ”

"Yes!"

The adjutant general also looked at the sun, why is it getting late in the middle of the day, is there something wrong with the general's head, and he can't distinguish between day and night?