"Grand Governor, the enemy warship is flying the handsome banner of Yuan Yao's thief chieftain!"

When the Jingzhou Navy saw the enemy in front of him clearly, the lieutenant general beside Cai Mao suddenly shouted excitedly.

"Oh?" Cai Mao was stunned when he heard this, and after he took a closer look, it was indeed a big "Yuan" word, which made his originally listless spirit instantly raised.

"This kid wants to die? Give me the order to speed up the whole army! ”

"No!" The adjutant replied excitedly.

“……”

The speed of the Jingzhou naval army slowly accelerated, which made Yuan Yao, who commanded the battleship, frown, he wanted to let the fleet seize the "T" position first, and then come with a wave of long-range strikes to extinguish the opponent's prestige, but after seeing the number and speed of the opponent, he was a little worried.

Capturing the "T" prefix for thirty warships feels completely different from grabbing the "T" prefix for more than a hundred warships.

Thirty warships can still be seen at a glance, and more than a hundred can be seen endlessly......

The sailors on the battleship actually spent only a little more than a month training, and most of the time was replaced by ordinary warships, and the time to get the battleship was less than half a month, so the training time was not very sufficient.

Battleships have little melee capabilities.

So Yuan Yao decided to adopt a prudent tactic, give up the preliminary strike, order the entire fleet to turn around, and directly go to the "kite-flying" tactic, first use the speed advantage to master the speed and rhythm of the Jingzhou naval army, and then use the "serpentine maneuver" tactic to seize the "T" position of the enemy warship back and forth, bring the enemy ship into the range of the battleship, and then start a long-range strike.

In this way, even if there is a mistake, the battleship that is caught up can temporarily abandon the battle line, escape first, and then return from the team after opening up the distance.

In this way, theoretically, the accident can be minimized, although it is a little passive, but it can make Yuan Yao, who faced such a big scene for the first time, feel a little more at ease.

“……”

"Hmph, I just want to run now, it's too late, it's in vain that I still looked up to this son before!"

Cai Mao saw that Yuan Yao's fleet turned around, and the line was still lined up in a long snake formation, thinking that he wanted to escape, he couldn't help but show contempt.

"Order the front army to attack; Outflanking the left and right wings! ”

The Jingzhou Navy is now advancing at the same time with three types of warships, such as building ships, fighting ships, and warships, and the speed is based on the slowest building ships, so naturally they can't catch up with the battleships that look like ships.

Therefore, after Cai Mao saw Yuan Yao fleeing, he ordered a total of sixty ships of the left, right, and front three armies to break away from the main formation and go to pursue, so that even if the troops were divided, the opponent was only twenty-one ships, and theoretically there would be no problem.

Under Cai Mao's order, the Jingzhou Navy slowly changed from a whole to a "mountain" formation, and the three lines that rushed out slowly surrounded the battleship formation of the Yuan army.

At this moment, the battleship formation of the Yuan Army seemed to have discovered the changes in the Jingzhou Navy, and then suddenly divided into three, from a one-word long snake formation into three parts, one on the left and one on the left, and pressed towards the Jingzhou warships on both sides that wanted to outflank, as if in the Jingzhou Navy's "mountain" array, and added the word "Sichuan", as if it was in a race, pressing it tightly behind him, and not letting it pass.

Although Cai Mao couldn't figure out what Yuan Yao wanted to do, he still frowned, because if he couldn't catch up with the other party in terms of speed, then this battle would become a protracted battle, and he had no interest in the 160:21 protracted battle.

At this moment, a ray of fire suddenly appeared on the river in the distance, and when he got a little closer, he found that it was a half-destroyed warship that had been burned, and Cai Mao recognized that it was a ship of Chen Heng's fleet, and this discovery made him feel a trace of haze inexplicably......

"The whole army accelerates, and the serpentine maneuveres; The gunners are ready to attack. ”

The fireship seemed to be a signal, and Yuan Yao began to give orders to prepare for the attack, because he had mastered the speed and rhythm of the Jingzhou naval army and was confident to carry out the "kite flying" tactic.

The three battle lines that pressed in front of the Jingzhou Navy suddenly drew an arc and began to fight horizontally, and the Jingzhou Ship, who was chasing after him, thought that there was an opportunity to pursue, and excitedly rushed into the "T" position.

When they came into range, the ballistae on one side of the seven battleships unceremoniously fired a salvo at the nearest enemy ship, and 35 stone shells weighing dozens of pounds, with a neat whistling sound, smashed into the stunned enemy......

"A hundred steps with stone bullets; Fifty steps with fire oil bombs. This is the rule that Yuan Yao set for the battleship navy.

The battleship did not hit a high rate of first wave attacks, only two shots, but despite this, it also caused a lot of damage to the ship, and the upper chamber was smashed directly into a large hole visible in the distance, and several sailors were affected.

As if they had received a signal, the other two battle lines also began to attack their respective targets, and a wave suddenly stirred up on the river......

"What's going on?"

When the same picture as the attack mode of Lujiang Water Village appeared in Cai Mao's eyes, his heart was instantly lifted, and he hurriedly ran to the side of the boat to watch from afar......

At this time, one of the generals beside Cai Mao said as if he suddenly remembered something: "Qiqi Grand Governor, the last general once followed Deputy Governor Zhang to fight with Yuan Jun's naval army, and at that time, Yuan Yao's flagship was a strange ship that could throw stone bombs and fire oil bombs, exactly the same as these enemy warships in front of him!" ”

Cai Mao was furious when she heard this: "In this case, why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

The general shrunk his neck in fright and said, "The last general thought they only had a strange ship, so they didn't care......"

"Humph!" Cai Mao snorted angrily and ignored the man, instead returning his gaze to the battlefield......

At this time, Yuan Yao's formation of three battle lines, after firing two salvos in a row, began the second serpentine maneuver.

By the time they turned back to the "T" position on the other side, the Jingzhou navy had already rushed to within fifty paces and launched two waves of arrow rain attacks, but because there were no sailors on standby outside the battleship, the damage from the bow and arrow was almost zero.

When the Jingzhou naval army received the order to use rockets, the Yuan army fired 35 fire bombs at them on each battle line, and three torches were instantly lit on the river......

"This is what you call a fire oil bomb?" Cai Mao's eyes widened and he turned his head to ask the general.

"Exactly." The generals were a little weak-minded.

Cai Mao had never seen the power of fire oil bombs, including when he was in Lujiang Water Village, and now when he saw a round of attacks by battleships, he set fire to his three warships, and suddenly had a feeling in his heart that he was going to "capsize in the gutter......