With the shouts of the lookouts, a small mast slowly appeared in front of everyone's eyes, Guo Jingxian slowly adjusted the focus of the telescope, and slowly a fleet began to appear in the frame of the telescope.

After looking hard and seeing that he couldn't distinguish the identity of the other party, Guo Jingxian thought for a while before he said to Yan Fei beside him: "You immediately order the Yan-shaped boat to immediately go forward to reconnoiter the fleet in front of you, and report back the detailed information of the other party as much as possible." ”

Yan Fei hesitated for a moment and originally wanted to say something, but in the end he held back, then turned around and turned on the walkie-talkie beside him and began to give orders.

Guo Jingxian knew the reason for Yan Fei's hesitation, due to the relatively small tonnage of the Yan-shaped ship, it had fought with the storm all night last night, and all the sailors were already very tired, and he was worried that the sailors on the Yan-type ship would be unbearable if they carried out a high-intensity reconnaissance mission. However, as the so-called military orders are like mountains, since Guo Jingxian has given the order, they can only obey.

Soon, the two swallow-shaped ships suddenly increased their speed and galloped forward, the light hull was like two swallows flying close to the sea surface to draw two graceful arcs on the sea surface, constantly approaching the fleet in front, the speed of the swallow-shaped ships was very fast, the fastest speed could reach twelve to fourteen nautical miles, and soon they approached the fleet in front.

Suddenly, the two Yan-shaped boats that were approaching at a rapid pace suddenly drew a large arc on the left and the right respectively, and then rushed back at an angle of one hundred and eighty degrees, and after a while, a hurried voice came from the walkie-talkie behind Guo Jingxian: "Finding the enemy, the front is the Zheng family's fleet, the number is about seventy or eighty." Alert...... Found the Zheng family's fleet, the number ......"

With the voice coming from the walkie-talkie, Guo Jingxian's originally tired expression immediately sank, and he ordered without hesitation: "Sound the battle alarm...... The fleet is in battle formation, ready for battle! ”

"Beep beep...... Beep beep beep ......"

A sharp and shrill whistle sounded in the fleet, and the whole fleet boiled like a boiling kettle, and countless sailors began to take their positions on the various ships as if they had been wound up. The sailmen raised all the sails vigorously, and the gunners opened the baffles one after another. Pushing the gun to the mouth of the gun bay, the loader ran to the ammunition warehouse behind him, and for a moment the nerves of the entire fleet began to tense.

Four or five miles away from the Weihai Wei Naval Division, Zheng Zhibao stood on the deck of his Dafu ship, looking at the fleet that suddenly appeared in front of him, his heart was full of shock, puzzlement, resentment, and unwillingness.

Yes, resentment and unwillingness. This fleet that suddenly met with the Weihai Weishui Division was the Zheng family's elite fleet that came to find the Weihai Weishui Division's bad luck on Zheng Zhilong's order. This fleet, which gathered most of the essence of the Zheng family, was originally very powerful, and this fleet had more than 120 or 6 large and small warships, of which 48 were more than 350 ships, and the rest were all more than 200 ships, and each Dafu ship was equipped with no less than 20 guns. It can be called the most elite force in Zheng Zhilong's hands.

Whether it is Zheng Zhilong or Zheng Zhibao is very confident in this force, in their opinion, although Yueyang's warships are very large and the firepower is also fierce, but after all, the number is too small, the two sides really want to fight, and in the end they will definitely be able to damage or even destroy the Weihai Guardian Division, these days Zheng Zhibao led this fleet along the route from Fujian to Japan frantically looking for the Weihai Guardian Division, Zheng Zhibao is even already imagining the thunderous scene of Yueyang after the annihilation of this fleet.

But God had given him a blow to the head last night, and a sudden storm had shattered his fleet, which was far more threatened than that of the Weihai Guardian Marine, because it was at the center of the storm. When Zheng Zhibao ordered the loss to be counted after the storm ended, he found that his own fleet had lost thirty-eight warships, which made Zheng Zhibao fall into a collapse. This time, he lost more than 30 warships without even seeing the Mao of Weihai Weishui Division, and he couldn't imagine how he would explain to his eldest brother after he went back.

But the bad things are far from over. Before Zheng Zhibao woke up from the bad news, he heard news from the front, and the Weihai Guardian Sailor was found in the front.

"This bastard...... Could it be that Weihai Weishui is my nemesis? Why is it not good to run into them every time! Although Zheng Zhibao was very annoyed in his heart, he still cheered up and began to command the fleet to prepare for battle. The sailors of the Zheng family forced their tired bodies and cursed as they pushed the guns out of the hatch and began to prepare for the battle.

Looking at the Zheng family's fleet in front of him in a scissor formation, Guo Jingxian took a deep breath, picked up the walkie-talkie, and ordered in a deep voice: "All warships, pay attention, prepare to turn to the right." Now is not the time to be brave, keep your distance from the opponent and shell them out of range! ”

"Understood!" The voices of the captains were heard over the intercom.

Soon the fleet formed a line and began to turn towards the Zheng family's fleet to outflank it. Seeing the posture of the Weihai Weishui Division, Zheng Zhibao couldn't help but sneer: "The Weihai Weishui Division looks really stupid, he actually put up this kind of formation when the troops are at a disadvantage, doesn't he know that if we let our side break through their formation, what awaits them is a one-sided slaughter?" Someone came, sued Li Laosan, and immediately led the team to break through their formation, separate them, and then divide and annihilate! ”

At the forefront were more than 40 warships led by Li Laosan, all of them with their sails deployed, rushing towards the opposite fleet with maximum speed, and all the artillery pieces were already on standby, just waiting to open fire immediately after they reached the effective firing range.

After a while, the two fleets met each other.

"Boom ......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Soon the Weihai Weishui Division took the lead in firing, and the projectiles the size of bowls flew towards Li Laosan's fleet with a whistling sound.

In this way, both sides were engaged in high-speed movements, and naturally there would not be much accuracy, and one after another projectiles fell on the surface of the sea, although none of the projectiles hit the target in this round of shooting, but Li Laosan, who was commanding the fleet, was taken aback.

"What's going on, how can those sailors' artillery go so far?" When the first projectile fell less than thirty meters away from Li Laosan's boat and splashed all over the sky, the pupils in Li Laosan's originally calm eyes immediately shrank.

For the Weihai Weishui Division, Li Laosan does not know much, the last time Zheng Zhibao was beaten by the Weihai Weishui Division, he was beaten and fled, and after he came back, he also told Zheng Zhilong and the leaders about the fact that the Weihai Weishui Division's artillery had a particularly long range, but many people were very skeptical of Zheng Zhibao's words, after all, the artillery with a range of 500 meters was too exaggerated for them. At least that's what Li Laosan thinks in his heart.

Of course, now the artillery of the Ming Dynasty has a range of five hundred meters, even if the range reaches two or three miles, but those are all Hongyi artillery weighing two or three thousand catties, and those bulky artillery can only be fixed on the city wall for defense. After all, this kind of cannon is too heavy in terms of weight and recoil, and if it is placed on a warship, I am afraid that the deck will be shattered as soon as the cannon is fired.

"It turns out that the words of the third child are true...... How is this possible? Li Laosan's face was full of shock, and he was originally very confident, and he suddenly felt that today's battle was a little hanging.

"Turning the rudder...... Hurry up and turn the rudder to the right......"

After the first round of shelling, the Weihai Weishui Division, who was originally oncoming, suddenly turned to the right with a brush, and the movements were very uniform, which also made Li Laosan, who was already hanging in his heart, even more surprised. You must know that in the era when the wireless point was not invented, the communication between the ships on the vast sea has always been a major problem, especially when the fleets of the two sides start a war, the contact between the two warring sides has become more difficult, whether it is the flag or the drum whistle is not easy to convey to the ships in the first time, so that once the war starts, basically the ships are fighting according to the original plan, and more rely on the personal characteristics of the captains. The uniform movements of dozens of warships like an arm command like this have never been seen in Li Lao's more than 30 years of maritime career, after all, Li Laosan at this time did not know what the society called instant messaging, and he did not know that every ship in the Weihai Weishui Division was equipped with a wireless walkie-talkie.

Dozens of warships neatly crossed a beautiful arc and then aimed the left side of the fleet at Li Laosan's fleet, and the distance between the two sides was shortened a little, reaching more than 400 meters. Soon, the rumbling cannon rang out again.

This time the accuracy was a lot more accurate, in this round of shelling there were four projectiles hit the target, the bowl mouth of the thick iron pellet with a huge kinetic energy roared and smashed into the hull, smashing the warship out of a big hole, an unlucky warship was hit near the waterline, and suddenly the turbulent sea water began to pour into the cabin.

"Quick...... Lean in, we can't let them beat us like this anymore! The dilemma of not being able to fight back just by being beaten made Li Laosan's eyes red-eyed, and he commanded the fleet to lean forward desperately, "Quick, rush over, and then send a flag to tell Sù San to be in charge, let him immediately outflank the back roads of those imperial court sailors, and let's surround them together." ”

In fact, Li Laosan didn't say it, Zheng Zhibao in the back had already done this, since he was beaten back last time, he had been thinking hard about how to deal with the Weihai Wei Shui Division, thinking that in the end he felt that his own warships were inferior to the other party in terms of quality and artillery range, so he only needed to rely on quantity to win, as long as he could use the advantage of numbers to surround the opponent, then even if the opponent's artillery was sharp, he would hate his wolf pack tactics.

Therefore, when Li Laosan was struggling to resist, he had already led a large army to outflank the back of the Weihai Weishui Division...... (To be continued......)