P.S. Thank you to the friends who read and subscribed to the tips and recommendations in Q|Q. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info thank you for not being able to see it in Q|Q reading below, so thank you here.

—————————————————————————

Hu Haichen was the captain of the cruiser Zhoushan, which now forms the fleet stationed in Anping City, Xiaoliuqiu, along with fifteen cruisers, five Tang-class warships, and ten clippers.

The other Song-class Tang-class warships all left Anping City after occupying Anping, which was to not irritate Zheng Zhilong's extremely commanded sailors.

Zhao Lie did not plan to start a war in the north and south at the same time, at least to reassure Zheng Zhilong, so he ordered the withdrawal of most of the main battleships, and only left the small battleships.

Hu Haichen was also told by his boss that when patrolling the sea, try not to clash with Zheng Zhilong's ships and avoid war.

Hu Haichen did the same, as a captain, he also understood that although Zheng Zhilong's warships were uneven, but the number was too large, the small fleet of Anping City was really not enough, and it was of course best to live in peace.

On this day, Hu Haichen's other patrol ship and two clippers started their sea patrol again.

In this era, there is no advanced means of communication, patrolling the sea is necessary, they can be the first enemy to discover, the first enemy to strike, but also to warn the rear, to prevent the rear of the harbor from being raided, so no matter the water infantry reconnaissance is necessary.

On this day, the wind was beautiful, the wind was not too strong, Hu Haichen coordinated four sea ships, and they were several miles away from each other, and they sailed west together.

Because it was a southwesterly wind, the sea boat had to constantly walk in a zigzag to borrow the sea breeze to move forward with difficulty.

After half a day's voyage, the four sea-going vessels reached the pre-determined sea cruise, and the four sea-going vessels did not continue their voyage westward, but began to cruise southward, and finally turned back to the north.

They just patrolled the sea around Anping on the east side of the strait, kept vigilant, and did not be attacked by the enemy.

Half an hour later, some sail shadows rose in the western sky, Hu Haichen didn't care about it at first, but after the meal, he could already see with the naked eye that more than twenty lucky ships and Haicang were heading towards them.

Hu Haichen immediately ordered the fleet to be on alert, and the four sea ships began to move closer together, and at the same time surrounded the opponent.

The two sides were close to a few miles, and Hu Haichen could already see that it was the Zheng family's ship, and it could be regarded as the Zheng family's relatively large warship.

Hu Haichen had long been prepared for the Zheng family to come here, and now the Zheng family is also a potential enemy of the Broken Army, which Shangfeng has long explained.

However, as a patrol ship, the task is to find out the purpose and number of people before reporting to the rear.

Hu Haichen immediately ordered four sea ships to avoid the enemy's warships and march westward.

The four sea ships sailed northeast with the southwest wind, and the Zheng family warships in the west immediately followed the warships of the Broken Capture Army and approached.

Hu Haichen immediately judged that the Zheng family's visit was not good, and it was by no means a simple investigation matter, which clearly prevented them from probing the fleet behind.

Hu Haichen immediately made a decision and sent a signal for a flying clipper ship to immediately return to Anping City, and the well-versed sailors and Li Lu and Li Zongzhen immediately prepared for battle.

A clipper ship took advantage of the southwest wind to turn eastward and sail in the direction of Anping City.

Hu Haichen led the three sea ships to turn westward, taking advantage of the flexible steering characteristics of the Galen ship to avoid the enemy's obstruction and break westward.

The three warships of the Broken Army split the waves, and continued to the west despite the encirclement and interception of more than a dozen Zheng family warships behind.

After more than 20 miles of march, the speed of the ship's ship was still faster than that of the Fu boat, and the pursuers behind were already far behind.

At this time, countless sail shadows suddenly appeared in the sky ahead, and Hu Haichen immediately felt cold, this was the largest fleet he had ever seen.

Hu Haichen hurriedly ordered the three sea ships to sail north immediately, and then the wind went north at full speed, one was to leave the middle of the opponent's fleet, otherwise they would be swallowed up by the other party, and then they could drive close to the edge of the opponent's fleet to investigate.

The sailors of the three ships began to head north with all their might, raising all the sails to the top, and all the sailors going to work, while constantly adjusting the angles of the sails, borrowing all the wind power they could borrow to increase their speed.

After all, the sea spread out by this huge fleet was too wide, and it was necessary to rush to the edge to escape, but it would take the strength to eat.

The three ships picked up speed and headed north, but the enemy ships were also close to a distance of several miles.

How much can the speed of the ship be increased, and whether he can escape from the ascension to heaven is no longer in Hu Haichen's consideration at this time, that is what the boatswain and the sailor do, he just picked up the telescope and carefully observed the opponent's situation.

Suddenly, he seemed to see something, he looked at it carefully for a while and couldn't help but gasp, Hu Haichen found that there were large sail shadows, these sail shadows were full of strong wind and soft sails, this is a large number of Xiyi warships.

At this time, Hu Haichen immediately ordered a quick escape to the northeast, and he wanted to go back to report that this fleet was not something that their Anping Naval Division could resist.

The Zhoushan turned northeastward, and it was a little slow at first, which made some of the Zheng family's warships approach to a place of only three miles, and when they saw the warships of the Broken Army trying to escape, the bow guns of some warships began to roar.

The projectile with a whistling sound stirred up a large column of water on the left and right of the three shipwrecked ships, the nearest one was only a dozen steps away from the Zhoushan, and the stirred up sea water even splashed on the upper deck.

Hu Haichen's heart rose to his throat at this time, it would be false to say that he was not afraid, there were hundreds of warships on the opposite side, and he was a small patrol, but what he was most afraid of was not dying on the sea, but not being able to pass such a huge enemy to Pingping City.

He couldn't imagine that such a huge fleet suddenly appeared in Anping, and the defenders were at a loss.

With a bang, a projectile hit the upper deck, and a sailor screamed and was hit by a projectile into the sea, and the projectile also bounced and fell into the sea.

At this time, the angle of the sail had been adjusted, and Hu Haichen obviously felt that the ship was accelerating, and he silently refueled the ship in his heart.

Perhaps his prayers had worked, and the three ships rushed northeast without danger, and then they turned around and headed east, heading southeast toward the city of Anping.

After Li Lu seized Anping City, he had nothing to do, he only did one thing according to what he had discussed with Lord Zhao Lie, that is, he dug a deep trench as deep as three zhang in the west of Anping City, which was only more than 60 steps away from the city, which was either a moat or a deep trench.

Li Lu knew that Anping City was easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if the Tiago cannon of the Broken Army was bombarded in one mile, it would be difficult to bombard this brick and stone city, of course, there was no fortress that could not be attacked, that is, the tunnel excavation gunpowder blasting, which was also the reason why he was able to capture Anping Fort.

Therefore, Li Lu asked 3,000 soldiers of the Broken Trench Army and 1,000 Korean soldiers to dig this deep trench, with this deep trench, the long-distance digging of the trench became a delusion, and the close digging of the trench could make the Breaker Army prepared, and it would not be caught off guard.

Li Lu has been a little bored these days, because what Zhao Lie ordered him to do is to hold on to Anping City, there is no need to expand the reclamation here, this is a matter for the future, and the Broken Army has no spare strength to transport manpower here for reclamation at this time, so it can only be left for later.

It was in this calm that the alarm of war was ushered in, and a clipper brought the news of the Zheng family's warship.

The commander of the fleet immediately reported to Li Lu and ordered all the ships to set sail for battle at once.

At the same time, water and grain were transported from Anping Fort to the ship, and the guns and projectiles on the ship were all prepared, and only the water and grain could not be stored in advance and were easy to perish.

After receiving the order, Li Lu pondered for a long time, and immediately ordered the fleet to go to sea, immediately meet the incoming enemy, and if it encountered a large number of enemies, do not engage in battle, and immediately sail north to Shidao.

This was to keep the Broken Ships from being captured by the enemy and to prevent the Thiago guns from being exposed.

Lan immediately ordered five Tang-class warships, as well as thirteen cruisers, and several clippers.

Two hours later, all the rice grain and fresh water were loaded onto the sea ships, and there were not too many warships, otherwise the Grand Fleet would not be able to finish a day with just rice grain and fresh water.

All the ships immediately set sail west out of the bay and met the enemy in the direction from which they pounced.

The small fleet traveled for an hour and encountered three warships including Hu Haichen who had returned.

Hearing Hu Haichen's report, Lan immediately knew that they could only leave, and it was too late to leave, and the pole mast in the distant sky was revealed, and it was too late to go.

But Lan Lin did one thing anyway, he ordered a flying clipper ship without a Tiago cannon to return to Anping immediately, and Tong Bing Li.

He left north with more than 20 sea ships, and he wanted to rush back to Shidao as soon as possible, and pass the news that Lord Zhao, Zheng Zhilong and the Xiyi people colluded to invade Anping City.

After Li Lu sent the fleet away, he immediately ordered the five hundred soldiers who stayed in Chikan City to return to Anping City, Chikan City is now insignificant, Zheng Zhilong is clear about the solidity of Anping City, but he still dares to come to attack, then he must be prepared.

Therefore, Li Lu decided to concentrate all his forces to hold Anping City.

The returning clipper brought the news that Zheng Zhilong and the Xiyi people had joined forces to attack together, and the captain immediately retreated into Anping City with dozens of sailors, while the clipper ship was surrounded by flames and explosions.

The secret of the construction of such a fast sailing ship as a clipper must not fall into the hands of the enemy, otherwise it will also be a great threat to the naval division of the Broken Army.

Li Lu arranged more than 3,000 soldiers in the city, and he took a few thousand generals to the top of Anping City to look west.

An hour later, the sea was full of hard and soft sails, and the entire Anping coast was almost covered with countless e-sea boats.

This is the largest fleet that Li Lu has seen, but in terms of quantity, the fleet of the Broken Army is far inferior.

The flags of Zheng Zhilong, the Dutch, the Spaniards and the English fluttered over the fleet, Li Lutie looked at everything in front of him with a blue face, he was now a loyal believer of Zhao Lie, and he knew that the Xiyi people coveted the Ming Dynasty, and he also hated the Ming people who colluded with the Xiyi people like Zhao Lie.

He didn't expect that Zheng Zhilong would one day attack Anping with the Xiyi people, this damn bastard. (To be continued.) )