Chapter 203: Surprise and Surprise
Smoke from the fire billowed up and soon rose into the sky, creating a cloud of smoke over Treasure Island, which could be seen from far away.
Yu Xiaotian slammed his hand on the side of the ship, and roared: "Raise the sail!" Hurry back to our island! Give Lao Tzu a hard beating surnamed He! ”
The five boats waved along with the command flag on the Seawolf, and the sails were immediately and quickly lifted by the guards, including the others on the boat, who also rushed to help the guards pull the wheels and raise the sails as fast as possible.
The ship, having the upper hand, immediately began to cut through the calm sea, and under the control of the ship's helmsmen, quickly aimed its bow in the direction of Treasure Island, and headed for their old nest.
The fastest Sea Lion and Seal were at the forefront of the fleet, and soon overtook the horizon and saw Treasure Island in the distance.
The distance of more than ten miles does not seem to be long, but it is not short for the speed of the ship in this era, and even if they are completely downwind at this time, it will take half an hour to reach Treasure Island.
There are a lot of things that can be done during this time, at least enough for He Guang and his men to discover the fleet of sea wolves, there is no doubt about this, and Yu Xiaotian did not expect to appear directly in front of them without the other party discovering them.
The reason why he wanted to do this, instead of waiting for He Guang's arrival on Treasure Island, had only one purpose, that is, he wanted to make He Guang lose his psychological preparation first, not give them any excuse, and let He Guang fall into a dilemma after he did it, and the most important thing is that if he waited for He Guang's arrival on Treasure Island, He Guang would have the advantage of the wind direction from south to north.
In a battle at sea, it is not yet possible to ignore the role of the wind, which is why when fighting at sea, both sides want to seize the upper hand.
Yu Xiaotian pulled the fleet to the southeast in advance and waited for He Guang to attack Treasure Island, in order to use this method to put He Guang's fleet in a disadvantageous position and completely grasp the initiative on the battlefield.
And today, he did this, but he also achieved the goal he wanted, when their fleet appeared on the southeast sea, it didn't take long for the people of He Guang's fleet to discover their traces, and immediately warned He Guang.
At this time, He Guang was in a hurry to land on the island in person, hiding behind to supervise the battle, and escorting his men to attack the sea wolf's stockade.
And at this time, it seems that they have controlled the situation, divided into three waves and attacked the village from three places, forcing Han Xian, who was guarding the village, to have to distribute his men and resist, so that they completely lost the advantage of firepower, and could only put two bird guns in each direction, so that it was basically impossible to effectively prevent the Shark Gang's people from approaching the wall.
In one place, the Shark Gang had approached the bottom of the wall, and were trying to climb the wall with a ladder or rope hook.
Han Xian had already begun to prepare Molotov cocktails at this time, and smashed them under the wall.
At this time, He Guang heard that someone on the ship warned him that a fleet was coming from the southeast direction, which scared He Guang very much, and quickly ordered the gong to be retracted.
He himself returned to the ship, raised his eyes and looked towards the southeast sea, and when he saw the sails of the six boats that appeared on the sea, He Guang was so shocked that his hands and feet were cold, and he no longer dared to continue to order to attack the sea wolf's stockade, and urgently ordered all his men to return to their respective ships immediately, and set sail and anchor to leave the shore of Treasure Island.
When Yu Xiaotian led the fleet back to Treasure Island, He Guang had already led all his men to board the ship, and sailed away from Treasure Island, opening up a momentum on the sea to meet the fleet of sea wolves.
When he saw the flags raised by each ship in this fleet, He Guang gasped even more, he never thought that these ships were all flying the flag of the sea wolf, which showed that the people who came were not a few peers, but all from the ships of the sea wolf.
This situation made He Guang unable to figure it out, how could he not figure out how Yu Xiaotian could get so many ships and manpower in such a short period of time, and his strength actually exceeded the manpower and ships he brought.
In this way, He Guangzhi said bad things, before he came, he didn't expect such a situation at all, and he was basically careless.
So he knew that there was a big trouble today, because he had been delayed on the island for a while just now, and by the time he led the people to prepare, he had already lost the advantage of the wind direction, and the sea wolf's fleet had completely taken the upper hand, putting them in a downwind position, and the wind direction was extremely unfavorable to them, coupled with the sudden change in the strength of the two sides, it also caused a lot of pressure on his subordinates on this side, so even their morale was also hit a lot.
He Guang saw that he didn't take advantage of it, and today he wanted to destroy the sea wolf, it was already unrealistic, and if he was not careful, he might be beaten by the sea wolf, so he saw that the momentum was not good, and quickly ordered the fleet to turn around and retreat towards the west of Treasure Island, trying to get rid of the fleet of the Sea Wolf Gang and leave here as soon as possible.
Yu Xiaotian stared at He Guang's fleet from the moment he saw them, and after approaching Treasure Island, he saw that He Guang's fleet had begun to leave Treasure Island, opened a formation on the sea, and put on a posture to meet them.
Yu Xiaotian pursed his lips and stood on the stern of the Seawolf, with the Sea Lion as the leader, the Seawolf in the center, the Sea Eagle in the back, the Seal on the left, and the Sea Shark on the right.
They are completely in the upper hand at this time, it can be said that it is smooth sailing, they have an absolute advantage in terms of ship speed alone, not to mention flexibility, He Guang basically has no chance to regain this advantage.
So whether he is fighting the boat or manpower, he is now taking advantage, if he can't win this battle, then he simply don't think about anything, just roll up and cover, and find another place to mix!
When they approached He Guang's fleet, Yu Xiaotian saw that He Guang's fleet suddenly began to turn around and start heading towards the west of Treasure Island, and he could immediately guess that He Guang had lost his fighting spirit and wanted to give up fighting with them head-on and go home.
Since his stockade was burned by He Guang, now that He Guang saw that he didn't take advantage of it, he patted his ass and wanted to leave, where is there such a cheap thing in the world, Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the fleet to turn, bypass the left side of Treasure Island, and intercept He Guang's fleet.
The captains of the other four boats, seeing the Seawolf's flag, immediately turned their rudders together, adjusted their course, and the fleet sailed to the left, bypassing directly from the southwest corner of Treasure Island, and passing directly between the quarantine camp and Treasure Island.
There is only about a mile between the isolation island and Treasure Island, the water depth in this area is relatively shallow, and there are some reefs underwater, if the average person does not know the situation, they dare not pass through from here, but for the sea wolves, this is their doorstep, how can they not know the depth of the road, in order to fight for the time to intercept He Guang, they risk one after another from the two islands straight through, and soon went around to the west of Treasure Island.
At this time, He Guang was leading his fleet around the north of Treasure Island, only to be caught head-on by the sea wolf's fleet in a short time.
Seeing that they couldn't hide, they originally had the intention of avoiding the war, but the sea wolf side did not give up, bypassing Treasure Island and continuing to intercept them, and if they turned again, they would completely fall into passivity.
Although He Guang's ability is not very great, after all, he has followed Zhang Hu and them at sea for so long, even if he is a pig, he should learn a lot.
So seeing that he couldn't hide, He Guang had to give the order to fight, let his three boats protect his boat, and aimed the bow at the oncoming sea wolf's fleet.
Yu Xiaotian stared at He Guang's ship, waved his hand and ordered the Sea Shark and Sea Lion to spread out on both sides, while the remaining seals and Sea Eagles followed the Sea Wolf and locked on He Guang's ship.
The distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and before they could get close to a distance of 100 meters, He Guang's ship began to fire cannons, and after the cannon roared, several cannonballs immediately roared and smashed into the sea wolf's fleet, which immediately stirred up a few waves between the sea wolf's fleet, and the sea lion that ran in front actually took a shot first, and the bow of the ship was broken by a ship.
However, the ships of the sea wolf had already planned and were not moved at all, and continued to keep course, rushing straight towards He Guang's fleet, Hu Cheng's Sea Lion and the Sea Shark temporarily led by Meng Fei immediately rushed towards He Guang's two ships, and after getting closer, they immediately lit fire and fired cannons and shot at them.
Immediately a melee battle began between the two sides, and the sound of artillery suddenly became dense, and the gunners on both ships fired one after another, and the sound of artillery resounded one after another, resounding around Treasure Island.
It didn't take long for the nine boats to get entangled together, the speed of each ship of the sea wolf was relatively high, so the flexibility was stronger than that of the Shark Gang, as soon as the two sides fought, the Sea Lion and the Sea Shark each entangled a ship under He Guang, and then Yu Xiaotian took his ship and the Seal and the Sea Eagle, and quickly inserted into the enemy formation, separating the two ships under He Guang from He Guang's ship.
The three boats didn't care about the boat at the front of He Guang's subordinates, and rushed straight to the lucky boat where He Guang sat down, and the boat under He Guang's command originally had the intention of blocking Yu Xiaotian's boat, but Yu Xiaotian's boat was a lucky boat, and the size of the boat was much larger than him, and it was more sturdy.
Frightened, He Guang's subordinates who were driving the boat exclaimed, and hurriedly turned the rudder to avoid it, and in a hurry, they finally escaped the impact of the Seawolf.
The moment the two ships staggered, a few smoking guys flew out of the Seawolf, and smashed into their ship with a snap, and in the blink of an eye, they saw a fire rising from the ship, causing the Shark gang members on the boat to scream in amazement.
And the sea wolves didn't care about this boat at all, and after driving it away, they continued to pounce on He Guang's ship.
He Guang is not stupid, he was also staring at the movement of the sea wolf's boat just now, when he saw the two sea wolf boats, like two vicious dogs, pounced on the two boats on his wings, and bit them, and did not let go, followed by the two boats bitten together, and the other three sea wolf boats separated the two boats on both sides of him and pounced towards him.
(Special thanks to 0CZHU, Russ and other friends for their generous tips!) )