On 26 December, after five days and nights of sailing, a huge formation of warships finally arrived at Pingshan Island.

The days of sea navigation are boring, there is no entertainment, every day is to face the vast sea, this boring feeling, people who do not really sail on the sea, will not understand, only two days have passed, Su Tiancheng has lost interest in the beautiful scenery on the sea, and the feeling of the last trial voyage is the same, but Su Tiancheng forced himself to adapt, maybe in the future, he will sail on the sea for a long time, leading the Ming sailor to conquer the world.

Chongzhen's thirteenth year of Chinese New Year's Eve, Su Tiancheng was spent on the sea, special moments, feelings are also different, if it were not for Zheng Zhilong's arrogance and selfishness, not for Zheng Hongkui to lead three hundred warships to attack, at this time, Su Tiancheng must have been reunited with his family in Dengzhou Capital City, the officers and soldiers of the sailor division, also have a rare opportunity to relax, the family has moved to Dengzhou and Laizhou, you can have a five-day holiday, go home to spend the Spring Festival with your relatives, the family is not around, can also spend a happy Spring Festival in the barracks, but all this is gone.

Not only that, but all the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion stationed in Dengzhou, Laizhou, and Qingzhou have no time to rest, and they must be on high alert, always pay attention to the occupation, and be prepared for the worst.

Weihaiwei Wharf is related to the development of Dengzhou, Laizhou and Qingzhou, which involves the vital interests of the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion, whether it is from the national righteousness or not, and whether it is anger towards Zheng Zhilong, most of the families of the soldiers are here, and they will never allow foreign enemies to invade, so this battle, Su Tiancheng does not need to do any ideological work, and there is no need to even carry out the so-called pre-war mobilization. All the soldiers hated the same enemy, and they couldn't wait to immediately annihilate Zheng Zhilong's fleet and destroy Zheng Zhilong's lair in Quanzhou.

Pingshan Island is one of the first three islands, and the other two islands, namely Dashan Island and Cheniushan Island, are Pingshan Island at the forefront. It is about 15 kilometers away from Dashan Island in the middle, about 19 kilometers away from Cheniushan Island, and the position of the first three islands from the land is more than 100 miles.

The area of the first three islands is not large, and Pingshan Island is 900 meters long and 300 meters wide, which is the largest among the three islands.

On the first three islands, there are a small number of inhabitants. These inhabitants seem to be very mysterious, some people say that these people are the descendants of pirates, some people say that these people are the original inhabitants, and some people say that these people are sinners of the Ming Dynasty, because they committed the crime of extermination, so they fled to live on these islands, and the rumors are inconsistent, because the first three islands are far away from the mainland. A distance of more than a hundred miles, unless it is a large sailing ship. It is difficult for ordinary small fishing boats to get here.

The former three islands are covered with clouds and fog all year round, which is very mysterious, and was once called the fairy mountain.

No matter what kind of rumors it is, in Su Tiancheng's view, the strategic location of the former three islands is very important. The places corresponding to the first three islands are Rizhao and Andongwei under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou Prefecture and Haizhou under the jurisdiction of Nanzhili, which control the first three islands and can also control most of the Yellow Sea and protect the safety of Qingzhou.

The formation of warships arrived at Pingshan Island. However, because the warships and patrol ships were too huge, it was impossible to get close to Pingshan Island, and they could only anchor about two miles away from Pingshan Island.

Su Tiancheng did not go to the island, what he thought of at this time was the Zheng family warship that was about to arrive in the waters near Pingshan Island, according to the analysis of intelligence, the three hundred warships led by Zheng Hongkui arrived at Pingshan Island on the night of the 28th or the early morning of the 29th, and the naval battle would start during this time period.

After the night passed, the ships began to form formation.

In terms of the number of warships this time, there are 300 warships led by Zheng Hongkui, and 125 warships of the Jiangning Battalion Naval Division, Zheng Hongkui has an advantage in numbers, but in terms of the size and attack ability of the warships, the Jiangning Battalion warships occupy an absolute advantage, but there is also a problem in this, that is, the warships led by Zheng Hongkui, because of their small size, are very likely to choose to flee directly after encountering an attack. Once the opposing ships have been surrounded, leaving them with no room to escape, the battle is often over quickly.

Proceeding from this line of thought, the Jiangning Battalion warship formation must be deployed before the war.

Yantai warship formation, a total of ten warships, ten patrol ships, ten Canghai ships, of which five Canghai ships belong to the Penglai warship formation, the main task of the Yantai warship formation, is to sink and destroy small warships, they are in a position to meet the enemy head-on, from the law of sea navigation, small warships are generally in the front and the most behind, followed by medium-sized warships, the largest warships, are in the middle position, then Yantai warship formation directly facing the opponent, can give the front small warship devastating blow, and can heavily damage some of the medium-sized warships that follow behind the small warships, and the speed of ten ships in the sea is fast, and it can pursue the small warships that turn around, and blow up the small warships that have sunk and fled with the Fran cannons.

Penglai warship formation and Weihai warship formation are responsible for attacking the opponent from the left and right, their main task is to sink or destroy the opponent's large warships, the ten large warships led by Zheng Hongkui are the main targets they need to annihilate, because the attack starts at the same time, on the huge sea, there will definitely be countless warships, these warships, it is impossible to act according to the escape route you set, so the Penglai warship formation and the Weihai warship formation will not change to respond to all changes, No matter what moves the opponent's warship formation has, they are firmly guarding their own position, constantly using artillery to give the opponent devastating blows, the ten canghai ships under the jurisdiction of the two warship formations are much more flexible, and can pursue and attack at the right time, giving the opponent a heavy blow, but they cannot penetrate deep into the opponent's warship formation, which will make the warships and patrol ships throw rats and do not dare to bombard on a large scale.

There are warship formations in front and on the left and right, if Zheng Hongkui finds that the situation is not right, turn the bow of the ship and desperately escape, it is very likely, in this case, the role of the Dengzhou warship formation and the Laizhou warship formation is reflected, they as a reserve, will not participate in the early attack, after the battle starts, the warship formation will quickly insert into the opponent's rear, establish a line of defense, once Zheng Hongkui leads the warship to retreat and flee, to meet them, It was the attack of the Dengzhou warship formation and the Laizhou warship formation with the most fierce firepower.

The reason for arranging two warship formations as reserves is that Su Tiancheng has carefully considered, in fact, one warship formation can be arranged to attack directly in front, which can give Zheng Hongkui greater damage, but Su Tiancheng believes that once the situation is found to be wrong, Zheng Hongkui will order the warships to retreat at full speed in the fastest time, so that the number of retreating warships must be quite a lot, and using two warship formations to deal with the retreating warships must make Zheng Hongkui desperate.

The four directions have been taken into account, the most important problem left, is the distance of the attack, the distance is too close, it is definitely inappropriate, so that the opponent's artillery may also hit the warship, Zheng Zhilong's warship, although the artillery fires a solid bullet, but a hundred meters away, the solid bullet can penetrate a thirteen centimeter thick plank, this lethality is also amazing, and the Jiangning battalion five major war ship formation, the artillery is extremely sharp, the maximum range can reach more than one nautical mile, as for the heaviest red-coated cannon, The firing range can reach more than two nautical miles, and if the attack distance is too close, and the artillery in front and behind and left and right hits its own warship, it is a big joke.

The distance of the attack has been strictly calculated, and when the operational deployment was first formulated, the offensive distance was raised as the most critical issue, and for this reason, the warships also did experiments on the sea, that is to say, the distance between the warships attacking on the left and right sides must be about four nautical miles, and this is the safest distance, but this distance is not conducive to the attack, and the warships in the middle position can evade the attack of artillery fire and take the opportunity to escape, and the distance between the warships on the left and right is about three nautical milesThere was a certain danger, but the attacked warship had almost no chance of escaping.

The most favorable condition for the Jiangning Battalion Naval Division is that the warships led by Zheng Hongkui have no chance to attack, and the artillery they have is not at the same level as the artillery owned by the Jiangning Battalion Naval Division, that is to say, from the distance apart, the Jiangning Battalion Naval Division warships can let go of their hands and feet to launch artillery, but the warships led by Zheng Hongkui, even if they fire artillery, cannot reach the distance, and they cannot attack at all.

This also shows that the warship led by Zheng Hongkui will become a live target for the Jiangning Battalion Naval Division.

In this naval battle, the focus was on how to organize the attack.

At the beginning of the warship formation, Su Tiancheng finally said all the possibilities, including the chances of victory possessed by the sailors, these words, the top commanders of the warships, patrol ships and Haicang ships, these commanders are at least more than a thousand households.

Su Tiancheng warned everyone very seriously, this is a battle with a huge disparity in defeat, what the Jiangning Battalion Navy Division needs is a complete victory, and it is necessary to completely annihilate the Zheng Family Sailor led by Zheng Hongkui, and cannot give the opponent any chance, for those warships that surrender with white flags, they must be sure that the other party is truly surrendering before they can board the opponent's warship, otherwise they must continue to attack, and secondly, they must not underestimate the enemy, and they must not let Zheng Hongkui have a chance to escape, this battle is completely dumpling, not a chase battle. (To be continued......)