At the beginning of the 28th day of March in the fifth year of Chongzhen, in the Jeju Naval Division Dazhai a few miles northwest of Jeju City, flying clippers and patrol ships continued to enter and exit, and the personnel of various naval divisions and warships were in place, and there was a scene of intense preparation for war. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Master Li, the captains of all ships are already waiting at the dock, shouldn't we also go over?" Qi Wei looked at Li Hu.

According to the scrub ship's exploration, the North Korean Navy Division and the Damyeong Navy Division have already converged at the Yeosu camp, and the Jeju Broken Army Navy Division is also going to the sea to find an opportunity for a decisive battle.

"Don't worry, Master Ma hasn't arrived yet." Looking at Qi Wei, who was eager to try, Li Hu couldn't help but shake his head.

"Master Ma won't come." Qi Wei looked out, but there was still no sound outside the big tent.

"He will definitely come, this time it can be regarded as a major matter related to the safety of Jeju, my lord is not here, my lord will definitely come." The old god Li Hu sat still.

When Qi Wei was hesitating, the two soldiers outside were not able to enter.

"Two adults, Jeju Town Guard Ma Tao has arrived." The soldiers reported after the military salute.

Other officials from Cho Lie's military camp were allowed to enter the camp only with the consent of the lord, so even Ma Tao, who was the envoy of Jeju Town, could only wait outside the camp.

"Go, come out with me." Li Hu picked up the helmet in one hand and stepped out of the big tent, with Qi Wei following behind him.

"Li is disrespectful, don't blame Master Ma, this is a military order." Li Hu greeted Ma Tao outside the camp and said.

"This is an army ordered by the adult, how dare Ma break the rules." Ma Tao smiled with a smile.

"Lord Ma, please, the captains of our army's sailors have been waiting for a long time." Li Hu hurriedly wanted to let it.

When the group came to the sailor school in front of the wharf, they saw that more than 100 generals had been standing and waiting for a long time.

"I've seen Master Ma, Master Li, and Master Qi." Seeing Ma Tao, Li Hu, and Qi Wei present, everyone stroked their chests and said.

"No courtesy." Li Hu Qiwei returned the military salute. Ma Tao arched his hand.

"The flag sacrifice begins." The chief Xuanfu officer of the water division Wang shouted at Li Hu's signal.

A group of guards placed the sacrificial three animals and seasonal melons and fruits on a table illuminated with red cloth. Worship incense burners and spirits directly in front of you.

"Lord Ma, please." Li Hu raised his hand.

Ma Tao was not polite. After all, he is the highest-ranking governor of Jeju.

Ma Tao lit three sticks of incense and recited words in front of the case, which did not hinder the old saying that the Sea Dragon King blessed Hai Boping and Pingping, which is familiar to the descendants of the old sailor.

Ma Tao inserted the incense into the incense burner and retreated, and Li Hu did the same.

A group of soldiers brought the poured wine bowls to Ma Tao, Li Hu and various captains, each with three bowls of wine.

This time, Li Hu said two sentences.

"The first bowl of wine, I will wait for the Dragon King of the Sea, calm and calm, don't leak." Li Hu shouted rudely.

A group of people spilled the wine in their glasses into the air.

"The second cup of wine, I will wait for the brothers who have lost the war since the defeat of the army and the sailors, and let the brothers bless us with victory." Li Hu said solemnly.

A crowd of people spilled wine on the ground. Everyone is extremely solemn, after all, the general will inevitably die immediately, no one can say that there will be this day, respect for others is respect for oneself.

"This last glass of wine, what I didn't say is our celebration wine," when this glass of wine was served, Li Hu was full of pride, "Li Hu is an old man, he doesn't speak too much official language, and he will know that I broke the military and naval division from the beginning of Lord Zhao's establishment." It is invincible to conquer everything, although Lord Zhao is not here this time. But Lord Zhao had already sent a military order, just two words, a big victory. ”

Saying this, Li Hu looked around at everyone with wide eyes, "Can the brothers do it?" ”

"Wansheng, Wansheng, Wansheng、、、" A group of people shouted Wansheng, and the sonic shook the dock.

"After drinking this cup of wine, the brothers will follow me into battle to kill the enemy and make new contributions." Li Hu took the lead and drank it all after shouting.

The crowd also looked up and did it.

"Out." Li Hu said.

"Yes." The response of the crowd was full of enthusiasm, and they were indeed full of confidence, they had not tasted a defeat for many years, and this time against the Korean sailors, could they still be stronger than the Spanish treasure fleet, it must be a matter of great victory.

The captains boarded the ship one after another, and Li Hu boarded the Li Jing, which was the flagship he specially selected, in his words, they were all a family, so good to help.

And Qi Wei boarded his flagship Xue Rengui, he admired this famous general of the Tang Dynasty in his heart, and he could have such a day enough.

Forty patrol ships and more than 20 clippers sailed out of the dock one after another, as the vanguard and escort of the whole army, they had to set up a defensive formation in the open sea, in order to be foolproof, Li Hu also called the patrol ship belonging to Beihua, anyway, it was idle and idle, as for Beihua's Wanji jumping foot is a matter of the future, and Fangzheng is also used, you can bite me.

It was followed by six Han-class warships such as Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Wei Yan, and the other Han-class escorts did not return.

Five warships, including the Sui-class Shi Wansui, the Han Baohu, and the Yang Su, also left the dock.

In the end, thirty-six Tang-class warships sailed out of the dock one after another.

Except for a few Tang-class ships that have not yet been built and Li Ji is in Shidao, the others are all here, and the shipyard is now making every effort to build patrol ships and Song-class warships, and the Tang-class batch is only building three, so there is really no spare energy.

And the Song-class battleship is the hole card for facing the Japanese and Dutch in the future, Li Hu firmly remembered that the eight Song-class ships that have been built will not participate in the war, and besides, in Li Hu's opinion, it is really useless to fight against the North Korean naval army.

In the middle of the first day of the fourth month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the camp of the North Korean Lishui Navy Division was busy.

The sailors of Jeolla Province and Gyeongsang Province successively set out the camp, and then the warships of the Waihai Division and the Seoul Navy Division also left the camp one after another.

In the naval battalion are all large warships, a total of more than 40 ships of the two naval divisions, more than 20 ships of the Seoul naval division and 12 tortoiseshell ships, more than 40 large ships of the Weihai division and large ships of Haicang, and the great ships of the Korean naval division are actually imitations of the Daming Fu ships, and the basic shape is the same, but there are small differences.

As for the other small warships, they could not be anchored in the Lishui camp at all, and they were all waiting outside the bay.

The main general of this battle is Sun Zhengzai, the commander of the Seoul Naval Division, after all, Jin Zidian is the commander of Wenchen, and it is impossible for him to go to sea with the fleet to fight.

According to the pre-agreed arrangement, the sailors of the two provinces were in the front, and the Weihai division and the Seoul sailor were escorted on the left and right.

It took more than an hour for the formation to be arranged, and it could be regarded as a mighty southward march, and the army was also purged.

As soon as they crossed the waters of Black Mountain Island, they encountered the flying clippers of the Broken Army Sailors, and it was not one, and at this time these generals knew that the Ming Sailors were really slack, and it was not noon at this time, that is, these sentry ships must have been at sea last night, and they were really patrolling day and night.

Sun Zhengzai reminded the whole fleet to prepare for war with the sound of drums and trumpets, and in front of him was the opponent Jeju Mingren, of course, it should not be ignored.

After driving south for another hour, I saw a few sail shadows appear in the far southern sky, first a small shadow, but gradually expanding.

Moon Quantai looked at the Ming warships from afar with a telescope, these were slightly larger than the Korean warships, the mainmast was much taller, the four large soft sails were fluttering, and there were no guns on the deck, he knew that they were all hidden in the belly, which was much stronger than the warships under his command.

Fortunately, although there are nearly twenty of them, they are not too big.

Wen Quantai then continued to watch the battle, he didn't think that the Ming people would be so big, and in this battle, they didn't even send their two largest warships.

Sure enough, there were large shadows of sails behind them, and these ships were noticeably larger than the warships in front, because their masts were much taller and could be seen from a distance.

A cup of tea, when Wen Quantai looked through the telescope here, he trembled, because this kind of battleship he saw for the first time, unlike the previous Xiyi battleship, this battleship did not have a tall bow cabin, but a horizontal upper deck.

Such a ship was not as large as the two ships, but it was not small, two or three times the size of his ship, and the dense portholes on one side of the ship indicated a great increase in the number of guns.

This is not critical, because it is not a big deal if it is just a few warships.

The problem is that one after another large warships appear in the sky, and the black-gray hull and white sails are densely superimposed, like a moving military formation.

When Wen Quantai counted about twenty or so large warships and a dozen or so small warships around him, he put down his telescope, there was no need, he had seen too much, and his fighting spirit would be shaken.

Now he already felt that the army's heart was unstable, and the surrounding sailors and soldiers were all suspicious, constantly looking at the approaching Ming people in the distance, and the powerful warships of the other side shook their already weak fighting spirit.

Lan San used his telescope to look at the other party's fairly neat fleet, on which the battle flag of the North Korean Lee family fluttered.

The front are all larger warships, similar to the Fu ship, all of them are driven by hard sails, more clumsy, this kind of ship Lan San is certainly not a stranger, he is now no problem with what Fu ship Guang ship, including the Galen ship, is no problem, otherwise he will not be qualified for the position of captain.

Fu Ship is also a large warship on this sea, but the biggest weakness is that it cannot install guns on the lower deck, and it can only be placed on the deck, but not too much, because of the sharp warping of the bottom of the ship, the lower deck is narrow, and the guns can only be placed on the upper deck, but not too much, the space is limited, and the movement of the huge hard sails on the ship is a fatal thing.

Lan San looked at his ship, the Xipu, this patrol ship was a little longer and faster than the earlier Huo Qubing and other ships, although there were only less than twenty cannons, but half of them were Thiago's twelve-pound and eighteen-pounder guns, so the power was not small, and Lan San was deeply satisfied.

However, look at Li Jing who is closely behind, Lan San's eyes are blue, this is what the fuck should be done, this is called a battleship.

Zhang Huan, who has a life, this time because of Xiaoliuqiu's military exploits, he was promoted to the captain of the Yang Su, especially joined the army together, why is there such a big gap, Lan San muttered unhappily, although Zhang Huan is his eldest brother, but he is still unhappy, why. (To be continued.) )