"Dashuai...... There is a saying that I don't know whether to say it or not......" Compared with Chagatai's happy smile, Muhammad's face has been full of gloom.

"Don't learn those useless etiquette with the Han people, soon you and I will be brothers, and brothers can talk about anything!" Chagatai thought that Muhammad was still worried about his suggestion to lose his army and protect his commander. Indeed, more than 130 ships of two successive interception fleets were buried, and thousands of sailors and generals of the Mongolian sailors were unjustly killed, and the price was too great.

Moreover, the alien cannon fodder in the sailor division has been exhausted, and if it is sent again, the Mongolian generals will have to fight in person, and no one will have a good face for this big cannibal. But Chagatai didn't think so, no matter how big the losses were, as long as 10,000 Mongol soldiers could be put on the belly of the southern kingdom, this very soft but difficult country should belong to the territory of the Mongol Empire. As long as they dared to transfer troops from the northern defense line to the south to deal with their landing troops, Ogedei, who had always been eyeing them, would personally lead the Mongol cavalry to rush across the river and attack the southern army on both sides. Once they had lost the protection of their rivers and cities, the Nanren were no match for the Mongol army.

"Our opponent is much better than me in navigation, and it is said that he has been to us many years ago, and the sea is a steppe to him. The handsome shepherd will not get lost in the grassland, and he will not get lost in the sea, and my method is at most to let him take more detours and add some difficulties to him, and he will catch up sooner or later. Muhammad knew that what he was saying was unpleasant, but he had to say it for the sake of his own life.

“…… Do you really think so? "Through the past few days of life at sea, Chagatai has gained a deeper understanding of naval operations, and at the same time, he is more willing to listen to these people who really understand the sea, not only listening but also thinking seriously.

"I dare to swear to Changshengtian with my life, he will not be dumped by us, and sooner or later he will catch up." Muhammad tried to prove the credibility of his words. He simply knelt on the ground and raised his hands to swear to the gods of the Mongols.

"If I catch him, I'll cut him into pieces and throw him on the grassland to feed the wolves!" Chagatai believed it, and the mood that had just improved instantly fell again, and he scolded viciously.

"Wide. Gather all the generals, now a Mongol general needs to stand up and stop the devil's fleet...... "No matter how you curse, the work that needs to be done is still done, Chagatai has begun to prepare for the third batch of interception fleets, whether the enemy will catch up or not, it is much better to prepare in advance than to catch up now."

"Abaga, let me go, those people have a grudge against me. I'm going to get revenge! And I'm a wasted person, it's better to die than to live every day, please Abaga let my nephew have a chance to die in battle! Kuo did not move, nor did he let the two soldiers around him lift his chair, but made a request to his own uncle to go to battle.

If you look closely, you can see that the wide legs are covered with thick felt. It's not that he's afraid of the cold, it's that he's paralyzed. At the foot of Xiangyang City, on the north bank of the Han River, he was wounded by Kong Pei's naval guns. Although he did not die, he lost sensation in his entire lower body. Not even sex.

This was a devastating blow to a proud prince, who spent his days drinking until Chagatai began to form a Mongol naval division, and brought him to Dengzhou. Although he can no longer ride a horse, he can sit and command a battleship, which can be regarded as allowing him to rediscover the rhythm of life. Don't beat yourself up.

“…… Well, take your ship and prepare, may the Immortal Heaven bless you. Chagatai also understood this nephew's intentions, rather than living like this, it was really better to die in battle. The Mongols revere heroes and do not like the weak. It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, which is not a habit of the Mongols. That would make people laugh at cowards, even though he was a prince, he still couldn't hold his head up.

Just after breakfast, the alarm bell in the vanguard fleet of the Mongolian sailors rang again, and the information through the flag was that an unknown fleet was found directly ahead, a total of eighteen ships, the largest of which was flying a black rat head flag!

This news made the entire Mongolian sailors fall into an ice cave, originally thinking that they had thrown off the haunting rat fleet behind them, but they didn't expect that they were not one at all, but two! The losing troops threw off the chasing fleet behind, but they didn't expect that there was another interception in front. There are still at least two days to go from the mouth of the Yangtze River, and if we count the situation of the previous two days, we will have to pay more than 150 ships to arrive. But when the time comes, with the only 300 warships left in his hand, he will fight against the warships of the Southern Song Dynasty Navy Division several times his own, and it is unknown how many ships will be able to successfully send soldiers ashore.

"Heaven will destroy my Mongolia...... Beat the drums and change the formation! If you don't run away, we'll fight them to the death here! Chagatai already showed a look of despair in his eyes, but his lifelong career as a horse soldier made him not so afraid of life and death. Now moving forward and backward are dead ends, and if you fight to the death, you may still have a way to live.

In fact, Chagatai and the Mongolian sailors also made Hong Tao's fleet confused and frightened, they instinctively thought that the original fleet was still behind, and the front fleet was another, and they had no choice but to fight desperately when there was interception in front and chasing troops behind.

If someone can calm down and ponder carefully, calculate and calculate, it is easy to judge whether the fleet in front of them is still the original one. It's not just an emotional problem, there are no accurate charts and logbooks in the Mongolian sailors, and navigation relies on crude methods such as astrology, which cannot accurately calculate the route, speed and range, which is also a technical disadvantage.

"What are they going to do? I'm tired of running...... Not going to run away? "Sometimes the crooked fight is on the contrary, and the Mongolian sailors suddenly changed their formation, bringing the remaining three detachments together, forming a large fan several kilometers wide and several kilometers long, so that Hong Tao, who had been chasing for a night and finally rushed to the front of the Mongolian sailors, was also a little blindfolded.

According to his logical calculations, the Mongol sailors should continue to divide an interceptor fleet to deal with him, and then run out of ammunition by himself, destroy as many ships as he can destroy, and then sail back to the Lisi Islands for replenishment. In this way, the round-trip distance of his fleet is relatively short, and he can effectively intercept the Mongolian sailors in the waters north of the Yangtze River, as long as their number is reduced to a certain size, the task will be completed, and the rest will be left to the Southern Song Dynasty sailors to deal with themselves. The Southern Song Dynasty Naval Division was not given for nothing, at least it was much stronger than the army, and one hundred and ten Mongolian warships were not the opponents of the Southern Song Dynasty Naval Division at all.

But how did they suddenly turn into a decisive battle for the fleet? The local commander mistakenly thought of himself as a new fleet, Hong Tao couldn't think of it, he didn't despise the other party, but took it too seriously, and didn't realize that the other party would make such a low-level mistake.

"Whatever they're going to do, isn't that right! Uncle, let's beat them in circles, such a dense formation, we can't hit the first layer, the second layer and the third layer, maybe we can hit several ships in one round of shooting! After a night of sailing, Weng Ya has adjusted her emotions and returned to her original appearance.

"It's not that easy to wrap around...... In the face of hundreds of ships and thousands of cannons, even if you are not allowed, you have to take a few shots. Don't forget, their cannons are hoisting, and if you're lucky, you can take out the Jinhe in one round, and your uncle and my luck have always been like this! Tell Kong Pei and Bo Jiao not to approach the main force of the other party, fire artillery from 500 meters away, and not get close to a meter! Let the two of them go to the west, let's go east, run out of ammunition, and then return to the ship on our own to resupply. ”

Hong Tao shook his head and denied Weng Ya's claim. The range of the Mongols' mortar cannons is not too close, and if they are hoisted, they can hit at least three or four hundred meters, and with more medicine, they may be even farther. Even if there are only two or three cannons on a ship, if you get close to within two or three hundred meters, you will face the concentrated fire of hundreds of cannons. It's like throwing a handful of sand, there will always be a few grains of sand that hit.

Playing this kind of interchange game, Hong Tao will definitely not do it, and would rather reduce his hit rate than cause unnecessary losses to himself. So a unique naval battle was staged on the sea again, on one side were more than a dozen ships with fast speed and long artillery range; On the other side were hundreds of ships with slow speed and a short range of artillery hoisting. Although both sides had all their strength and threw stone and iron balls at each other, beating the sea into a thousand holes and filled with gunsmoke, the number of projectiles that actually hit was pitiful, less than one percent.

The naval battle lasted for more than six hours, and the two Jiaosha-class warships took the lead in hoisting the retreat flag, turned around and headed south, they ran out of ammunition. Immediately afterwards, Kong Pei and Bo Jiao's flagships also ran out of ammunition and food, and they also hoisted the retreat flag and drove south. In less than an hour, the remaining Jiaosha-class warships were all withdrawn from the battle, and only the Jinhe and six armed cargo ships were still surrounded not far from the Mongolian sailors, spraying shells from time to time. Compared with the Jiaosha class, the caliber of the armed cargo ship's artillery is smaller, and the ammunition load is larger, and the Jinhe is even more pot-bellied, and it still has one-third of its ammunition left at this time.

But at this time, the Mongolian sailors also reacted, and as time passed, they understood that this fleet was the fleet that had been trailing from Dengzhou Port, but it had only used its speed advantage to go around in front of them. Now their already desperate mood came alive again, and they began to continue their journey south as they fought, no longer lowering their half-sails to fight the enemy. Especially after the two attack fleets gradually withdrew from the battle, the Mongolian sailors were significantly less struck, and they simply ignored Hong Tao's ships, you can fight if you like, and we will fight back, but we will definitely not lower the sails, nor adjust the course, whoever is hit is considered unlucky, and those who do not receive shells will continue to go.

(To be continued.) )