After the fierce battle, the battlefield was a mess, the dark sky reflected the sea surface in pitch black, from time to time there was a roar brought by the sinking enemy ships, the burning ships, scattered ship boards and dead bodies rose and fell with the waves, the cold sea breeze blew through people couldn't help but be creepy, the Song Navy sent small boats back and forth on the battlefield to find the Jin Army sailors who were not yet dead and put him on the boat, and the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners was implemented in the same way as in the Navy Army.

"Although the former army of the Jinshui Division has been completely annihilated by us, it must have alarmed its army, I am afraid that it has already fled, and now the top priority is to find out their location!" Dengzhou and Haizhou sailors met on the battlefield, Zhai Cheng crossed the boat to meet on the Shenwei, Cheng Xi said with a gloomy face, he planned to wait for all the Jinshui troops to enter the ambush circle before starting the battle, but he didn't expect the enemy army to break in first, and the main force didn't touch it.

"Dutong, the Jin Shuijun is now a frightened bird, and the weather is getting cold, he must want to escape back to the country first!" Zhai Cheng said.

"So in which direction will they go? This sea area is close to the Liaodong Peninsula, and the Golden Water Army has many ports to choose from, while the sea is vast and difficult to capture! Tian Yang pointed on the chart and said.

"Based on the position of our former army to annihilate the Jin Shui Army, I thought that the Jin Army had no more than two choices, one was to flee to Zhenhai, which was the closest to the battlefield, but there was no river to the sea, and they could not go deep inland to escape our blows, and it was not conducive to avoiding winter; The second is the mouth of the Yalu River, which is their best choice, after entering the estuary, it is the territory of their Jin Kingdom, and there are many large lakes in the waterways, which are enough to accommodate their fleet to avoid the winter, but we can't go deep into the inland for a long time without the coastal protection of the infantry cavalry! Cheng drew a rough range on the chart.

"Well, I'm also inclined to judge the capital. It's just that the Jin army has discovered that our brigade wants to encircle and annihilate it, and will definitely hide its traces. Now it was a tailwind again, and it was only a little more than a day's voyage from the mouth of the river. It is difficult for our army to catch up with the capture fighters, and it is also possible to stagger by! Zhai Cheng said.

"Yes, now the two armies are already half a day's flight apart, if they go all out, it will be difficult for our army to catch up in a short time!" Cheng Xishou nodded.

"Dutong, the last general thinks that our army can catch up with the Jinshui Army!" Zheng Hai interjected.

"Oh, tell me about it!" Cheng Xishou said in surprise.

"Dutong, after we arrived at the Korean Gulf, we engaged the Jinshui Army several times, and the last general saw that his army lacked training. The sea skills are unfamiliar, and the hydrological conditions of this sea area are not clear. On the contrary, our army is well aware of the hydrological situation in this sea area, since all naval divisions have carried out sea patrol missions here. In addition, tonight will be cloudy, the clouds will cover the sky, and the Jin army, which lacks hydrological data, is easy to get lost by relying only on the Si Nan boat, so the speed of the ship will not be too fast. In addition, most of the flagships of the Golden Navy Army are building ships, which are tall, bulky, slow, and have low combat effectiveness. They can only rely on other warships to escort them, which slows down the speed of the entire fleet, so the last general thinks that the chances of our army catching up with them are still very high! Zheng Hai said eloquently.

"Very insightful, but only if you find the enemy fleet first!" Cheng Xishou nodded in praise. But he was not optimistic, he knew that even if there was a precise calculation, it was not easy to achieve a meticulous plan in the rapidly changing vast battlefield. And finding the enemy fleet in a short time is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"All the capitals, I don't know if there will be a plan in the end!" Zhai Cheng pondered for a moment.

"When is it? It's off the sale, if you have something to say, hurry up! Tian Yang said impatiently.

"Okay, good......" Zhai Cheng looked at his companion with a bare face and smiled bitterly. When the emperor conquered the Western Xia, he defeated the enemy army, and the emperor personally led the army to pursue Cha Ge, and used the method of several columns advancing together, no matter how the fleeing enemy changed the route, he would eventually hit the pursuit of the road, as long as it was entangled, several nearby roads could quickly rush to surround it! ”

"The emperor is really like a god in using soldiers, he can actually think of such a wonderful idea, and he uses this trick to chase the enemy!" Cheng Xi sighed, but he didn't know that this tactic was a copy of the wolf pack tactics of the German submarine force back then, but he moved it to land.

"Dutong, the last general has another worry, according to the plan, the Mingzhou Navy Division should have sent the landing force ashore at this time, and they are on the way back, although they have sent a lot of ships, but most of them are transport ships, there are not many escort warships, the speed is slow, the combat effectiveness is weak, and their return route is overlapping with the return route of the Jinshui Army, if they happen to encounter the main force of the Jinshui Army, I am afraid they will suffer!" Tian Yang said with some concern.

"Although the Mingzhou Navy is weak in combat, it is not a soft persimmon, and there is no problem in self-preservation, I hope they can escape this catastrophe!" Cheng Xishou said that the two fleets could not communicate at sea, so they could only fight on their own.

Cheng Xushou then ordered the whole fleet to carry out the last replenishment, and reorganized the two fleets, and the 40 Yongzi battleships were divided into five groups, each leading 20 Weizi battleships as a team, and Cheng Xishou personally led a team to respond in the center, and the two teams were separated by 10 miles and searched and advanced along the coast of Liaodong in a trapezoidal formation in columns, and after discovering the enemy fleet, they contacted with the sound of artillery. The surplus ships returned to the Dengzhou base.

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When he found that the former army was ambushed by the Song army, he did not come to the rescue, but immediately drew an arc to turn the bow of the ship, and the army changed to the front army and fled north, at the expense of the front army. As previously judged, the destination of the Jin Shui Army was the mouth of the Yalu River, and at this moment they did not know that the Song Army had captured Baozhou, and the way home had been blocked.

Night fell quickly, and the stars and the moon as navigation were all hidden behind the thick clouds as if they were deliberately working against Jin Jun, and the only one who could guide them was Sinan, and this thing was not very accurate on the bumpy ship. In order to prevent the lights on the ship from becoming the navigation beacon of the Song army, the entire fleet implemented light control, and only arranged lights in the bow and stern to show their positions and avoid colliding with each other.

Because Ali's flagship was useless, the speed was slow, and he didn't understand the law of 'barrel', he was reluctant to give up his comfortable flagship, so the entire Chinese fleet had to slow down and accompany it. Although the Jin army made some preparations, there was still chaos on the dark sea. The rear army, which had become the front army, was moving faster and faster, gradually breaking away from the brigade, and by midnight the last little light had disappeared into the night.

The Golden Navy was still in the early stages of firing bows and arrows and engaging in melee combat, so it was equipped with many small warships designed to carry soldiers. It is difficult to control the distance between each other, and it is inevitable that there will be a collision when encountering a swell, resulting in capsizing. Due to the small cabin and the large number of people, they could only bend down and squeeze in it in order to avoid the biting cold wind, and once the boat capsized, there was no chance of escape.

What's even more unfortunate is that when the big waves appear, those large warships can't see the small boats in their shadows at all, and when they fall from the top of the waves, they smash the small boats that are still at the bottom of the valley into powder, even if anyone survives, who can find them in the dark, hear their screams, and wait for them only in the unfathomable bottom of the sea, in the belly of fish and turtles...... finally ushered in the dawn, and the chaos ended, but the front army no longer knew where to go, although the oblique Ali was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, but it was also helpless!

When it was dawn, Chi Zhanhui, who had become the commander of the former army, also found that he had deviated from the course under the guidance of the unreliable Sinan, and the Chinese army that had been following him could not be seen. Unable to determine his position for a while, he immediately sent four clippers to search in all directions to find the location of the Chinese army, and ordered the fleet to guard the southwest direction in case it was overtaken by the Song army.

"Command, Song Army Fleet!" Determined to prevent being rear-ended, Chi Zhanhui was suddenly distracted by a scream, and a large fleet appeared directly north of them, facing them.

"Sons, survive in this battle, I am invincible, fight to the death!" Chi Zhanhui immediately realized that this battle was inevitable, and when he fell into the place of death, he aroused the bravery in his heart, and roared through gritted teeth, leading the army to meet him......

It was not only Chi Zhanhui who was jumped down, but the opposite fleet was also surprised by the Jin army fleet that appeared in front of them, they were the Mingzhou sailors who completed the transportation task, because it was a headwind, they adopted a zigzag route, and they found each other almost at the same time as soon as they turned the corner.

"Rule, what should I do?"

"What's the other way, fight!" Liu Han, the commander of the Mingzhou Naval Division, licked his lips and said helplessly, he realized that the Dengzhou and Haizhou Naval Divisions failed to wipe out the Jinshui Army according to the plan, and he was unlucky to encounter them again, and now they are sailing against the wind, and the enemy army is downwind, and they can't outrun the other party, and they have to fight if they don't fight.

Liu Han quickly calculated his own capital, the most effective are ten Yongzi-class warships and thirty Weizi-class medium-sized warships, including his own ship, but there are more than 200 transport ships with only a small number of self-defense weapons in his fleet. And the other party looked at the fact that there were about 17 or 80 large and small warships, and the combat effectiveness of his own single ship was far superior to that of the other party, but he still had a feeling that he was invincible with two fists and four hands!

"Order the transport ships to sail west at full speed, quickly leave the battlefield, and all the warships line up to meet the enemy and entangle the enemy army!" Liu Han saw that the Jin army's warships were colliding head-on with his fleet at full speed, he also adjusted his formation, and the battleships turned around and lined up in a column to face the enemy on the starboard side, covering the withdrawal of the transport fleet, and resisting the first wave of enemy attacks first.

"Open fire and stop the enemy ships!" Seeing that the Jin convoy entered the firing range, Liu Han gave an order, and immediately forty warships and two hundred gunwales roared together, and the two fleets that were panicking each other started an encounter...... (To be continued......)