War begins from the moment the two sides meet.

In fact, Ning Wangfan's Dinghai Fleet was the one who discovered the enemy first, and the observation posts on the high masts of the old sail warships gave the Dinghai Fleet a better view than Tianzhu's vanguard side.

So when Cheng Kexun found the proud and lonely Tianzhu Army vanguard fleet on the sea, the first thought that came to him was not, right? The vanguard army is just a little bit of a warship to catch up, this can't be a decoy!

Even if the Tianzhu Navy is indeed equipped with better artillery than its own, under such a huge disparity, it will not rush over like this, right?

On the current sea, the ratio of warships on the side of King Ning and the Tianzhu army is one hundred to fifteen, the difference is so huge, the Tianzhu army has not escaped at all, and this situation is more like a provocation on the battlefield, so that there are some doubts.

However, he soon thought of the information obtained by the Dinghai Fleet before its departure, and confirmed that Tianzhu's vanguard fleet was such fifteen ships, and Cheng Kesheng had no doubts.

Then the reason must lie in this special style of warship of the Tianzhu Army.

Cheng Kesheng was not stupid, and quickly figured out the reason for this.

Although he had obtained some information about the warships of the Tianzhu Army's naval divisions, the descriptions in those information were either too exaggerated or not detailed enough, and in his opinion, they lacked practical reference value.

The commander of the Tianzhu fleet on the opposite side was so confident that he dared to use a mere fifteen warships to meet the large fleet of more than a hundred behind him?

Subsequently, Tianzhu also found the other party, Xu Qingyuan took the telescope in his hand, and watched the other party's formation change, from the previous conical formation, slowly to a horizontal row that went hand in hand, as the distance between the two parties became closer and closer, the whole was like a wall lying across the water, slowly pressing towards this side.

"It seems that our friend is very cautious! I didn't rush at me because I was outnumbered. ”

Xu Qingyuan snorted coldly, of course he wanted the other party to do that.

"The enemy is not stupid? Checkmate. ”

Zuo Zheng, the deputy commander next to him, replied.

"I'm afraid that anyone who sees us daring to be so brave will have doubts in their hearts."

Zuo Zheng and Xu Qingyuan have been partners for many years, and even the gambler character of their own coach.

"They're much stronger than us, so there's no need to do that."

Xu Qingyuan nodded when he heard this,

"Hmmm! It is indeed safer for them to do so, but they do not think that no matter what they choose, victory will be ours! In doing so, he only delayed us more. ”

Zuo Zheng didn't say more, and it was obvious that in his opinion, this sentence was not wrong.

Before the war began, there was already a tacit understanding between the two commanders on the side of the Tianzhu Army.

The distance between the two fleets grew closer and closer with time, ten, eight, seven...... In this era, because there is no strength of the West, and there are no strange measurements of miles in the sea or miles, when the distance between the two sides comes to a distance of one thousand meters, the Dinghai Fleet hears the cannon sound on the opposite side!

Here it comes!

Although the whole fleet had prepared in advance for the kind of artillery on the Tianzhu warship in the intelligence, at this moment, on the sea, the sudden cannon sound still severely shocked the nerves of the Manraka people.

The roar of the artillery first flew over a distance of thousands of meters, stirred up huge waves on the sea next to the warships of the Dinghai Fleet, and then disappeared, causing the sailors on the warships in the front row to breathe fiercely.

Then, before the naval fleet could react, dozens of huge cannons roared one after another.

This time the Dinghai Fleet was not so lucky.

Although the vast majority of the dozens of shells that flew over this time still fell into the sea, three of them still hit the target.

The power of the cannonballs was indeed as brilliant as in the intelligence, and there was actually a ship among them, and the warships in the Dinghai Fleet exploded like fireworks in this splendor.

The sailors of the Dinghai Fleet were nearby, watching the ship in the queue of the fleet, turning into fireworks in the blink of an eye, igniting a sky-high fire, and exploding in the flames again and again, almost in the blink of an eye, this behemoth was divided into several sections in the flames of the sky, and quickly sank to the sea.

"Martyrdom!"

It's definitely a martyrdom!

Cheng Kexun's face turned pale, he knew the reason why this warship was sunk so easily.

There could have been no other reason than the shells penetrating the gun bay and igniting the gunpowder in the gun bay causing a series of explosions.

In this era, almost all naval warships have such a gun compartment design, and almost every gun compartment is a large pile of flammable and explosive gunpowder, as long as there is a powder barrel in the gun compartment is ignited by a shell penetrating the gun compartment, it will immediately cause such a series of explosions.

And once the martyrdom is ignited, such an ending will be formed, without exception.

This is also the biggest weakness of warships of this era.

Therefore, the new artillery of the Tianzhu Army will pose such a big threat to the warships of this era.

Before the battle officially began, the opponent only fired a salvo, causing the Dinghai Fleet to lose a warship, and this result was transformed into a heavy pressure on the hearts of all the sailors of the Dinghai Fleet.

But now, just a blow of this magnitude, of course, is impossible to overwhelm the Dinghai Fleet.

The Tianzhu Army fleet was only fifteen warships, and it dared to have such an arrogant attitude, which only angered the officers and men of the Dinghai Fleet even more. Without Cheng Kexun's order to urge, the boats stepped up their speed, and everyone had anger in their chests. Wait until you are within the range of your own army to teach the enemy a hard lesson!

800 meters, 700 meters...... The Tianzhu army fired a second salvo at this distance, and the result of this salvo was in exchange for one serious wound and two minor injuries of the Dinghai Fleet.

The formation of the Dinghai Fleet began to take on a circular shape, with its wings spread out, encircling towards the middle......

Six hundred meters, five hundred meters, just when the Dinghai Fleet was about to form an encirclement and bring the Tianzhu warships into its own range, suddenly, the enemy fled?

Yes, the Tianzhu Army fleet spared an arc as a whole, crossed the side of the encirclement of the Dinghai Fleet, and while the two sides were closer, they also fiercely came with a salvo, and after sinking one of their own ships, they turned around and fled!

The Dinghai fleet was stunned and extremely angry!

Previously, the Tianzhu army fleet came over so violently, which made them think that it was a decisive battle between the two armies, and they still had a feeling of sympathy for each other, but they didn't expect these people to run away like this!

Run away without honor!

This is simply a shame for the sailors of the Great Song Dynasty, and no real sailor officers and soldiers would look down on such an enemy!

And the most angry thing is that this Tianzhu army sailors still took advantage of it and fled, a big advantage, the Dinghai fleet has already paid the price of sinking two warships and seriously injuring four warships in front of this group of enemies, but the enemy has no damage, until now the Dinghai fleet has not entered the firing range!

It just doesn't make sense!

Pursue!

Even a steady person like Cheng Kesheng can't help it, he must chase it!

Even if you chase the old to the sky, you have to pay the price for the enemy!

Cheng Kesheng stared at the enemy in front of him, his eyes had never been so fierce!