"Command...... The Haibo followed the flagship closely and cut in from the internal test, and used the starboard side to meet the enemy! The Quanzhou and Qiongzhou formed on their own, waited for an opportunity to turn, left the flagship, walked from the outside, met the enemy on the port side, and then went to join the Zhenzhou. "Now that there is no time to ponder the problem of the Bojiao, the Jinhe has opened its full set of sails, and by the crosswind on the port sidewind, it has increased its speed to eleven knots. Although the Haibo in the back was also full of sails, it was obviously a little slower than the Jinhe in terms of speed, and the distance gradually widened.

"Tell the Hypo that you don't need to chase me, it's the main attack, I'm just attracting the attention of the other party." Hong Tao also noticed that the Haibo was raising an extra front spinnaker, which was desperate, not necessary. He had already observed through his telescope that most of the Arabs had their bows rushing out, probably to defend the Zhenzhou.

That's easy to do, there aren't too many grenade launchers on the Golden River, ten on each side of the left and right sides, but the Golden River has a very powerful weapon, which is its own hull. With a hull of 80 millimeters thick, a length of nearly 50 meters, and a weight of thousands of tons, once it reaches speed, it is a locomotive moving at high speed on the tracks. And those slender galleys, which are no more than 20 meters long, are like miniature breads parked on the railroad tracks at the crossing, and the fire has been extinguished, and the only fate is to be smashed to pieces by the locomotive.

If you want to make a U-turn, it's unlikely, with such a tight formation, even if the outer ships have time to turn around, the inner ships don't have room to move left and right. Even if the opponent will find themselves at a distance of five nautical miles, they will only have twenty minutes left, and they want to spread out their formation and reorient themselves to meet the enemy within twenty minutes, unless they will teleport in place!

In fact, the distance between the two sides goes into five nautical miles. The Arabs still did not notice the fleet rushing from the north. Their main efforts were focused on the port of Cabalan in the south and the Zhenzhou in the west. In addition, the smoke from the fire in the harbor obscured part of the view, and it was not until the Golden River rushed to the vicinity of three nautical miles that Yusuf's sailors saw it. Then the horns began to sound in the large and neatly arranged fleet, and the ships on the outboard began to raise their sails, and then stretched out their oars, trying to spread them around, in order to make room for the ships in the middle to turn. Otherwise everyone is huddled together. Isn't it really a fixed target?

It's a pity that there is not enough time, or the Golden River is too fast. The Arabs' fleet had barely dispersed the first outer layer like an effervescent tablet, and it was already possible to see the lookout standing on its mast without borrowing any equipment. When I turned my head and turned my head again, I couldn't see anything but the hilly hull. The first slurry boat that was crushed by the Jinhe under the bow was directly hit into two sections, and there was not even a bubble, and the broken hull and the debris on it were sucked into the sea under the sea surface by the siphon phenomenon caused by the water flow discharged by the hull. Before everyone could scream, the hill swept in front of them. Cut off all the sterns of a row of galleys, not much. It's just over a meter long, and the problem is that if a ship doesn't have a stern, can it still be done.

"With a grappling hook! Grapnel! Hook it! "Yusuf is quite safe, because his ship is in the innermost circle, and there is no chance of being hit by the big ship. Seeing that the ships in the outer circle had been hit hard, the leader did not panic, he had already understood that although the hull of the other party was unexpectedly large, there were not many of them, only four or five, as long as he caught the largest one, it was a victory. The port of Cabaran can be noted, this ship can be brought back, and all the seas will be their own in the future.

"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......" grappling hook, thrown by manpower, the farthest is about 20 meters. These Arabs were so fierce that even though the gunners on the Golden River had begun to throw grenades down with their hands, they still braved the shrapnel and fireballs flying everywhere, and they playfully threw the rope attached to the grappling hook and threw it at the deck of the Golden River.

Can you catch it? That has to be. This thing is like an anchor hook, as long as you hook something, there is at least one hook on each plane to hook something, whether it is the side of the ship, the rigging or the human body, it will only get tighter and tighter. You don't expect to tug of war with the grappling hook, the other end of the grappling hook is not pulled by a person, but fixed to the hull of the ship, you exert yourself, the other party's hull will follow you until you are dragged to the point where you can't run, a bit like a whaling ship.

Does it work? If it's a ship like the Haibo, it rushes up at full speed, and if you don't grab a grappling hook of ten or eight, you really can't drag it. Replaced by the Jinhe, a thousand-ton behemoth, with a speed of more than 30 miles per hour, plus inertia, Hong Tao didn't know how many grappling hooks could drag it. Anyway, as long as you grab the grappling hook of the hull, there is only one end, that is, whoever connects the rope of the grappling hook is unlucky. The decks of the slurry boats were torn apart in an instant, and the taut thick ropes pulled the broken wood like a whip, whipping whoever broke their tendons and rubbed them to break their bones. And it wasn't one, it was carrying more than a dozen, and the Golden River at this time was like an underwater monster, waving a piece of rope, and even the strapping hit the inside of a piece of the Arabs' fleet. There was nothing left behind it, the ship was broken, the people were wounded, and there was a wail.

The tragedy was just beginning, and while everyone's attention was focused on the Golden River, the Haibo was also killed. Its captain is Kong Pei, this guy is an old navy, although his brain is not as good as Hongtao, but he has rich combat experience and is very stable. He would never let his ship be so close to the enemy, and the Haibo, under his command, staggered the Jinhe track by one position, and sailed more than thirty meters away from the Arab fleet, while a large iron ball flew out from the starboard side at the fastest speed. There is no need to aim at all, at this time it is much more difficult to miss the target than to hit, and you don't have to care too much about the length of the fuse, anyway, if you fall on the ship, you will be blown up early and late. Kong Pei saw the situation on the battlefield very comprehensively, and when he saw the Quanzhou and Qiongzhou that followed behind him began to turn westward, he understood Hong Tao's tactics. The real direction of attack is not the Jinhe and its own Haibo, these two ships are to attract the attention of the enemy, so what more accurate is it, the more you throw and the more lively the bombing, the safer the Quanzhou and Qiongzhou on the other side.

Kong Pei understood it very thoroughly, which was why Hong Tao let him follow him. Each captain has a different personality and experience, and it is these differences that cause them to have different thinking patterns and understanding. Kong Pei is this kind of person who can judge the situation, if he changes Carl, he is the bravest, every time he fights, he is the same as a knight, and he will definitely not give you an ass if he can fight head-on, so he is more suitable to attack on the other side.

Karl did it, and because the inside of the fleet was attacked by the Golden River and the Haibo, the entire fleet was in chaos, and everyone didn't know whether to continue to adjust the formation or fight separately. The explosion of those grenades seriously interfered with the transmission of orders from the Arabs, who could hear them when they were close to the means of communication in wartime.

Taking advantage of the chaos, the Quanzhou and Qiongzhou sailed past the outside of the Arab fleet, and the distance was very close, more than ten meters. However, when I think about it, there are very few people who have time to attack these two ships, and there are even fewer grappling hooks, one or two grappling hooks to grab the hull of a ship weighing several hundred tons and traveling at high speed, it is useless, either the rope is broken or the grappling hook is directly broken. The gunners on both ships were barely disturbed, and fired as many grenades as they could with maximum speed and accuracy. The target is very concentrated, that is, the boats that are squeezed in the middle, even if they are bombed, they cannot dodge, because there are boats all around, so they can only stand in place and be beaten honestly.

With a single charge, the Arab fleet was heavily damaged. More than a dozen ships on the inside were sinking because their sterns were all gone. The row of boats in the middle was burning, and they were hit from both sides, and each of them was hit with incendiary bombs, and once the sails were lit, it was a big torch in an instant, and it could not be saved. Only a dozen or so ships on the outside were still able to move, and they all managed to get out of formation. However, these Arabs did not know how to fight these big ships, and their leaders were fighting fires on the middle ship, and they did not have the time to give clear instructions.

In fact, it didn't matter whether there was a clear instruction or not, the four ships that rushed past and the one that had been parked in the distance converged and rejoined, constantly changing the sails on the mast, looking as beautiful as flowers. When they were finished, the bow of the ship turned around and began to accelerate back again. This time, the five ships did not separate again, but formed a long line of snakes, one following the other as they passed near the Arab ships. Then black balls flew all over the sky, either exploding into fireballs in mid-air and igniting the sails on the ship, or falling on the deck and blowing them up again, and whoever came close was a small one.

There were a large number of fierce soldiers over the Arab galleon, but it was a pity that whether it was cavalry or infantry, they could only stare and wait for the iron ball to fly over, and then choose one of the two: either you will jump into the sea, or you will cover your head and pray that this iron ball will not fall to your side. There are also more intelligent people who want to take advantage of the fact that galleys can sprint short distances to get close to those galleons, as long as they can meet the side battle, their side still has a chance of winning.

But the problem is that when you don't have enough tonnage, you can't stop even those galleons even if you get close to them. The Arabs lacked long-range weapons on their ships, and individual grappling hooks alone had no effect other than allowing a few people to be knocked over by ropes. The cavalry and infantry on these ships are even more waste, they have no target at sea, and after encountering a naval battle, they don't even dare to jump into the sea, wearing all kinds of armor, and if they jump down, they will not be killed. (To be continued.) )