The three ships that had been hit by the fire bombs began to stop and put out the fire on their own.

In this era, the fire oil is not as fierce as gasoline, as long as the scope of the impact is not large, and if the fire is extinguished in time, it can still be extinguished.

Last time, when Yuan Yao drove the only battleship and singled out the two building ships led by Zhang Yun, he smashed several fire oil bombs on them, but the fire was still extinguished, and it did not become the result of the battleship's maiden battle, which has been listed as a lifelong regret by Yuan Yao.

For this reason, he has also been pondering how to improve the burning degree of the oil bomb......

So when Cai Mao's flagship passed by the three ships, the fire on the hull had been controlled, which made Cai Mao breathe a sigh of relief.

But despite this, looking at the battleships that could not catch up, Cai Mao also began to hesitate in his heart, in the face of this unknown warship and unknown tactics, although the number of warships occupied an absolute advantage, but it still could not make him settle down.

Cai Mao is not stupid, you need to know that one general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies. If Cai Mao is incompetent, then during the Battle of Chibi in history, Zhou Yu would not use conspiracy to get rid of him first.

At this time, Cai Mao looked at the battle in front of him and frowned, and there were two choices in his heart that made him hesitate:

The first is to withdraw the troops, first avoid this situation of being beaten unilaterally, and then carry out a decisive battle after thinking of countermeasures.

However, thinking of the tragic situation of Chen Heng's fleet before, Cai Mao already knew in his heart that it would not be smooth sailing to retreat;

The second option is to send all the warships to assault and try to block the enemy's retreat, and then encircle and annihilate the enemy as an opportunity.

If you really can't do it, you can also drive the enemy far away, so that the slower building ships and fighting ships can evacuate first.

Faced with these two choices, a wisp of fierceness appeared on Cai Mao's face!

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Compared with Cai Mao, Yuan Yao on the battleship seemed much more relaxed, because the battle was already on the right track, and everything only needed to be operated step by step like usual training.

At the beginning, the sailors on the ship were still in a hurry because of the first actual battle, but now both the oarsmen and the gunners have begun to familiarize themselves with the atmosphere of the battlefield and play the level of normal training in peacetime.

After all, tactics like flying a kite that just hit others but don't have anything to do with themselves are still easy to reassure novices.

Watch the enemy ships flying with sawdust smashed by stone projectiles; Or after being hit by a fire bomb, a raging fire ignited, and Yuan Yao's originally nervous mood slowly calmed down.

Strictly speaking, this is the first time he has commanded a battle alone, and the last time he fought Zhang Yun, he only commanded a battleship, and the rest was done by Sun Ce.

Now seeing that the powerful enemy is under his own long-range strike, but he can only shoot a few arrows at him weakly, except for saying that he is still resisting, there is actually no harm, which not only does not make him nervous, but makes him more and more confident.

The only regret is that the enemy ships hit by the fire oil bombs have stopped to put out the fire, in this situation of being pursued, Yuan Yao has no chance to continue to make up the knife, smash it a few more fire oil bombs, and cannot achieve the effect of killing with one hit, otherwise the Jingzhou Navy will have suffered heavy losses now.

But it doesn't matter, the most lethal time for kite flying tactics has not yet arrived, and when the two sides chase and flee and exchange, it is when the battleship begins to exert its might.

Yuan Yao must make Cai Mao pay enough price today, so that he can lift the dilemma of the Yangtze River being blocked by him.

"Lord, the situation has changed!" Yuan Hong, who was beside Yuan Yao, suddenly stepped forward and pointed to an enemy ship and reminded him loudly.

"Huh?" Yuan Yao was stunned when he heard this, and looked in the direction pointed by Yuan Hong, and found that the "Cai" character handsome flag of the Jingzhou Navy had been transferred from the original building ship to a ship;

And those building ships and fighting ships gradually stopped pursuing, and then slowly disappeared from Yuan Yao's sight, and the rest of the people who participated in the pursuit were all ship ships.

And these ships also began to abandon the tactical formation, slowly dispersed, and then increased their speed and moved in a straight line, no longer following the battleship around and chasing after it.

Yuan Yao's eyes narrowed when he saw this, and he had already guessed the other party's tactical purpose in his heart.

Cai Mao should have moved to the ship, began to personally direct the pursuit mission, and gave up the simple pursuit, but adopted the tactics of crowds, preparing to swarm in a straight line to overtake, and then turn around to encircle.

Cai Mao's tactical choice can make the battleship exert its fastest speed, so that if the battleship continues to play serpentine maneuvers and spin around, it may be overtaken by it, which will be dangerous.

The battleship designed by Yuan Yao himself naturally knew what his weakness was, because the deck was full of ballistas and there was no place to place redundant soldiers, so his melee combat ability was low, and the method of blocking the sea of people chosen by Cai Mao could force the battleship into a broadside battle, which was indeed the tactic that Yuan Yao was most worried about.

However, for the 21 battleships, the 100 ships led by Cai Mao now are not a sea of people, and the most important thing is that as long as the battleship gives up the serpentine maneuver and also adopts a straight line, then according to the speed of the battleship, there is no way to surpass the battleship.

In the battleship training syllabus compiled by Yuan Yao, there is a corresponding method for this tactic.

"Abandon the battle line and pull the horizontal team to block the enemy ships."

"No."

Under Yuan Yao's order, the three battle lines were dispersed in an instant, and then a large horizontal row was pulled up on the Yangtze River, and the distance between each battleship was no more than 50 steps, so that any Jingzhou battleship that wanted to cross this horizontal line would have to face the merciless blows of the battleships on both sides.

In this way, when the speed is not as good as that of people, it is impossible to surpass it safely.

But the Jingzhou warship didn't seem to realize that this was an impossible task, and charged forward with a tendon, looking like it would not give up until it was hit by a fire bomb.

In order to avoid being overtaken, the battleship was also forced to accelerate forward, and the physical exertion of the oarsmen also increased greatly.

But fortunately, the overall situation was still favorable to Yuan Yao, and one by one the Jingzhou warships disappeared outside the pursuit sequence under the blows of the battleships, and the enemy forces following behind were becoming fewer and fewer.

Yuan Yao silently looked at the enemy warship, preparing to wait for the number of both sides to be about the same, and then suddenly turn around and kill him by surprise......

"Lord, the situation is not right!"

Just when Yuan Yao was in a hurry, Yuan Hong beside him suddenly shouted.

"Well, what's wrong?" Yuan Yao turned his head and asked stunned.

In fact, Yuan Yao has always vaguely felt that something is wrong in his heart, but he doesn't know why, he just thinks that he is inexperienced and careful. Now that Yuan Hong also said that something was wrong, then he had to be cautious.

Yuan Hong said bluntly: "The enemy warships are decreasing too quickly, it seems to be intentional. ”

"Not good!" After being reminded by Yuan Hongyi, Yuan Yao also woke up suddenly, "You mean that Cai Mao is not chasing at all, but retreating?" ”

Yuan Hong nodded and said, "Very likely!" ”

Hearing this, Yuan Yao hurriedly turned his head and looked at the Jingzhou warships that were still chasing him behind, there were probably more than thirty of them, and the warships behind were all gone.

Since both sides were on a two-dimensional plane, there was a certain deception in the line of sight, so Yuan Yao didn't notice for a while that there was no one behind the enemy.

Where is this still pursuit, it is simply after the break!

Among the more than 30 Jingzhou ships, one of them was hanging Cai Mao's handsome flag, which was also the main reason why Yuan Yao was deceived, because he didn't think that Cai Mao would stay and break off by himself.

Now it seems that under this handsome flag, it is likely that there is no Cai Mao at all, and its role is just a trick.

There are a huge number of Jingzhou naval troops, Yuan Yao didn't expect Cai Mao to run away without caring about his face under this kind of advantage, which is a bit too affordable to put down!

But now this situation makes him have to admit that he may have been tricked......

"Stop retreating, and the whole army will return to kill!" Yuan Yao ordered viciously.

At this time, Yuan Yao's confidence in the battleships had been established, and in the face of more than a dozen more enemy troops than his own, he was not afraid, not only did he have no doubt that he could win the battle, but regretted that there were too few enemies and could not achieve a decisive victory!

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