In the first year of the Great Song Dynasty, September 28, early in the morning.

Qingyuan Mansion, set the sea offshore.

Gray, white, dull yellow, ink, and all sorts of other colors of sails were raised in such numbers that they almost obscured the rising sun. Between the sea and the sky, it is as if a moving and floating city has appeared.

100,000 people, more than 1,000 sea ships, have set sail out to sea, breaking the waves to the east!

At the forefront of more than 1,000 sea vessels, Chen Dexing's flagship Haitian is responsible for piloting. In order to go to the sea, Chen Dexing began to prepare as early as two years ago - including making a simple sextant and theodolite. From memory, he has drawn a rough nautical map of the world and the areas through which several major monsoon belts have passed. It has also set up a naval department at the military academy to train and train a number of naval personnel who have mastered basic navigation knowledge.

Although there were already some seafarers who knew how to sail available, in this voyage that was related to the future and fate of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Chen Dexing still personally took on the task of leading the ship regiment. After sailing into the open sea, Chen Dexing set the shortest route for the boat group to sail straight to Jeju Island. It's only about 1,000 miles, and in the case of a tailwind, it can be reached in two days anyway.

However, the premise of two days to Jeju is that there is no enemy to stop it. If anyone can put on their wings and fly into the air to overlook, they will find that directly in front of this boat group, the equally huge Pujia boat group with the green crescent flag has already launched a battle formation. Hundreds of warships, large and small, are like hundreds of fierce beasts with their bloody mouths open and their shiny fangs exposed, ready to pounce on their prey at any time.

A naval battle with the participation of more than 1,000 seagoing ships, which is unprecedented in the East Asian Sea, is already on the verge of breaking out!

The significance of this naval Armageddon. In the view of Chen Dexing, who came through in later generations, it is impossible to emphasize it too much. Because this naval battle will determine the ownership of East Asian sea power! Today's East Asian countries, such as Mongolia, the Great Song Dynasty, Goryeo, Annam, and even Japan, do not have the concept of sea power, let alone a navy with the goal of sea domination in the true sense. In the time and space without Chen Dexing, the most powerful maritime power in East Asia was the Arab maritime merchants represented by Pu Shou Geng.

Only they can give the Mongols who captured Jiangnan the strength to defeat the Song army at sea overnight - the navy is not the Jiang army, and it is impossible for the inland river division built by Liu Cheng to crisscross the sea!

In a sense, the real culprit in the Battle of Yashan was not Zhang Hongfan. It is estimated that before attacking Jiangnan, he had never seen the sea! The real culprits are the Arab maritime merchants of Quanzhou, who are in the land of the Southern Song Dynasty and are regarded by the Song people as their own people, the believers of the true God, who repay the Han people and the land for their kindness with betrayal and killing!

Now, the East Asian Seas have a maritime force that can compete with the Arabian maritime merchants - Chen Dexing's Northern Expeditionary Navy!

And these two maritime forces, which represent different nationalities and different religions and cultures, cannot coexist on the seas of East Asia!

Because the interests of dominating the East Asian seas are too great!

The Southern Song Dynasty must be the country with the highest GDP in the world in this era, and it also has the world's largest trade volume, whether it is imported or exported, it is the first!

The open Southern Song Dynasty not only had a huge amount of trade with neighboring countries, but also communicated with Indian countries, Dashi and even Europe through Guò Arab maritime merchants. The annual import and export trade volume is hundreds of millions.

Whoever has the sea power in East Asia can extract at least tens of millions of dollars of wealth from these hundreds of millions of dollars in maritime trade!

In this sense, Pujia Maritime Merchants and Chen Dexing cannot coexist at all, and the two must decide to live and die to determine who is the master of the East Asian sea!

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Nurman was one of the eighteen bows of the Pu family, commanding a spinnale named the Thor. He is actually Pu Shougeng's cousin, but he doesn't use the inexplicable Chinese surname "Pu", but uses the scripture name Nurman of the Tianfang Sect.

Unlike Pu Shou Geng, Nurman is a devout Celestial Sect. He has no interest in business, but he is a natural warrior at sea! He is a man who regards spreading the prestige of the true God on the sea as his life's work.

In the seas of East Asia and the South, all merchant ships of maritime merchants who did not believe in the Heavenly Religion had to hand over 10 of their goods as a tribute whenever they encountered his Thor! Whoever dares to resist and not surrender must bear the wrath of this sea thunder god!

Therefore, the maritime merchants and pirates who are not in the Heavenly Sect all call him "ghost slave" behind their backs!

In addition to commanding his own Thor, the ghost slave is also the chief bow of the other 33 warships today.

Pu Shougeng and his most trusted general, Yu Sufu, organized more than 600 of their warships and divided them into eighteen fleets. Each team is headed by a spinnaker, followed by 33 or 34 Chinese sailing boats, with the dnahow as the general bow of the fleet.

Seventeen of these eighteen fleets lined up on the ocean east of Dinghai, waiting for Chen Dexing's arrival!

The rest of the flotilla led by Pu Shougeng's ship, the True God Great, supervised the battle in the rear of these seventeen fleets.

The fleet commanded by the ghost slave was on the left flank of the entire array, and 34 warships were lined up in three rows, lying across the sea.

"O Almighty God, give your followers the strength to spread the truth with swords and swords, and make this sea a place of burial for the infidels......"

"The true God is great, the true God is great!"

On the deck of the Thor, all the people knelt down facing the west, following the ghost slave to say the last prayer before the battle. After praying, this figure, who terrified countless maritime merchants in East Asia and South China, stood up suddenly. Squinting his eyes, staring at the place where the sea and the sky meet in the west.

Suddenly, several masts floated above the sea level, and the red battle flag of the Northern Expeditionary Army was faintly fluttering on the masts!

"The worst, most unforgivable Sylke (referring to polytheistic believers) is there!" The ghost slave pulled out the Uzi steel scimitar, which shone in the cold light of the sun, pointed sharply to the west, and commanded loudly: "Prepare for war!" Everyone's ready to fight! Prepare your scimitars and crossbows and go kill every Sirk warrior and take their riches, ships and women! The sea belongs to the true God, to the believers of the true God! ”

"God is great!" The crowd drew their scimitars and shouted wildly.

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The jingling of bells also rang out on the Haitian galleys. This is a signal that the battle is about to begin! The lookout post on the Haitian is equipped with telescopes, so the Pu family's fleet has already been discovered. At this time, the Chen family's ships, which numbered more than 1,000 ships, had also started their formation.

Chen Dexing's tactics in this naval battle were the same as those in the Nantuochang water battle more than a year ago. It's all about maximizing the advantages of the warship's performance. So the eleven galleys were organized into a double column and placed at the front of the group. The remaining more than 1,000 sea ships were divided into 16 formations, each of which included a warship of the Right Army of the Northern Expeditionary Navy (Wang Zisheng's warship).

After discovering the Pujia fleet, Chen Dexing ordered the fleet to turn slightly to the southeast - if you look down from a high altitude, you will find that the Pujia fleet that intercepted Chen Dexing is in a long snake formation. Chen Dexing's flotilla formed a cone formation of 17 columns and rushed straight towards the left flank of the Pujia flotilla at a speed of about 5 knots.

"General! Will the Lord! The Pujia fleet has changed formation! Their center and right flanks are changing formations! ”

"General! Their left flank is also changing formations, and the flanks are forward, as if they want to form a crane wing formation! ”

The change in the formation of the enemy fleet was immediately discovered by the observation post on high above, and it was reported to Chen Dexing, who had already gone to the aft deck.

"General, there are four large formations on the enemy's left flank, each formation has more than 30 warships, with a spinnale as the flagship, supplemented by more than 30 three-masted and two-masted ships, forming three horizontal formations, all of which adopt the tactics of facing the enemy with the bow of the ship."

"General, at present, we are downwind, and the enemy is headwind. It is estimated that the enemy's left flank will move southeast after completing the change of formation, attracting our fleet to pursue. Their center and right flanks would be changed to three columns. Wait for our fleet to reach its southeast, and then take advantage of the tailwind and attack us from behind. ”

The staff officers on the Haitian unfolded the wooden diagram on the back deck, used the ship model to make some deductions, and quickly guessed the possible tactics of the Pujia fleet.

Naval warfare in this era was greatly conditioned by the direction of the wind. In particular, the fleet of the Pu family is almost entirely sailboats. It is naturally difficult to move in the case of headwinds, so the purpose of their long snake formation at sea is not to block Chen Dexing head-on, but to facilitate the change of formation. No matter where Chen Dexing chooses to break through. They were all able to change their formation into several separate formations, with one team luring the enemy and the rest seizing the opportunity to gain the upper hand. Then he flanked Chen Dexing's fleet back and forth.

Chen Dexing's formation, on the other hand, is strong in front and weak on both wings and rear. The 11 galleys that rushed ahead were extremely sharp, and they were real warships. However, most of the rest of the sea ships were civilian boats, and they were also loaded with people and supplies, so they could not run fast at all.

"It's impossible to protect all 1,000 boats!" Chen Dexing patted the wooden map lightly and smiled coldly, "But I don't need to protect them, I just beat the Pu family with 11 oars and sails!" ”

He raised his voice suddenly: "Order, the oar-sail column changes formation, a column, high-speed attack, all ships follow the flagship!" ”

"No!" There was a loud shout of promise. The signal flag was waved, conveying Chen Dexing's order to the entire formation. All the galleys on both sides, at the same time stretched out their long oars, and then suddenly swung, breaking through the sea, and after a wave of spray, the 11 battleships suddenly accelerated, and turned into a column in the voyage, and rushed forward! R1152