At the heavily guarded Dengzhou Harbor Wharf, Wei Zheng was looking at the twenty warships lined up on the wharf with a stern face. Because he didn't know how much of the twenty warships in front of him would be left tomorrow morning after tonight's sortie, and they would return to Matou with victory.

At this moment, the officers of the First Fleet Command of the Tiger and Leopard Army, led by Li Xinlong, hurriedly walked up to Wei Zheng with a solemn and hot facial expression, and reported loudly.

"Great marshal, all the officers and soldiers of the fleet and the warships, all ready to give the order to attack, please give the order of the marshal...."

"Very good..."Wei Zheng nodded, and a rare smile appeared on Yan Sù's face.

After taking a deep breath, he replied to Li Xinlong: "General Li, you are only the commander of the First Fleet of my Tiger and Leopard Army now, and other commanders dare not guarantee it." However, a general, Ben Shuai can still promise you. As long as you can command the officers and men of the First Fleet, inflict heavy damage on the Imperial Naval Division, and open a breakthrough in the defensive line of the Imperial Imperial Naval Division's blocking us. Here, Ben Shuai assures you that the future commander-in-chief of the naval fleet of my Tiger and Leopard Army is definitely yours. So, you must fight this naval battle well. ”

As a soldier, being a general, especially a general commanding an army, is definitely what any soldier dreams of. Li Xinlong, as the commander of the First Fleet, is no exception.

Therefore, as soon as Wei Zheng's words were finished, a trace of heat quickly flashed on Li Xinlong's face.

Of course, this scorching heat did not last long, and it was covered by Yan sù again.

Because, in front of him, which can be called a disparity in strength, he must treat it carefully. Otherwise. What awaits you may not be victory. Rather, the whole army was destroyed. Buried in the sea.

So, under the gaze of Wei Zheng's clever eyes, Li Xinlong replied without thinking: "Please rest assured, the commander will guarantee to complete the task, return triumphantly, and live up to your expectations......

In less than half an hour, the twenty warships of the Haw Par Army docked at the Dengzhou wharf lined up under Li Xinlong's order. Slowly sailed away from the dock and disappeared from the field of vision of Wei Zheng and others.

In order to catch the imperial navy division by surprise, twenty warships, in addition to communicating with each other, avoid getting lost in the sea signal lights. All other lights are turned off.

If you don't look carefully, no one will see that there is a fleet on the sea with constant sea breezes. Like a ghost in the night, he slowly sailed towards the large-scale imperial court sailors.

Twenty warships. When riding the wind and waves, approaching the goal step by step.

The imperial navy warship stationed five miles from the port of Dengzhou. It's brightly lit.

Hundreds of warships, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the imperial court sailors, from top to bottom, no one would have thought that the Tiger and Leopard Army Naval Division, which had just been formed for less than 20 days, would have the courage to sail out of the range of the army's heavy artillery and take the initiative to launch an attack on the huge imperial naval division.

Therefore, the imperial sailors, who thought that they had no opponents on this sea, almost none of them stood on the watchtower of the warship to be on duty.

And this gave the Haw Par Army Naval Division an unprecedented prerequisite for taking the initiative to attack and creating a zào.

The twenty warships lined up had just sailed less than two miles from the dock, and the observer standing on the lookout saw the brightly lit imperial fleet.

As the commander of the First Fleet, Li Xinlong is very aware of the huge gap between the two fleets.

For the large-scale imperial navy, their only advantage is the range of naval guns.

Therefore, there is only one way to win the naval battle that is about to break out in front of us. That is to make the most of your strengths.

Therefore, Li Xinlong's naval warfare method is very clear, that is, in addition to the range of the naval guns of the imperial court, he gives full play to the advantage of the long range of the guns of the tiger and leopard warships, and constantly shoots flowering shells at the opponent to hit the opponent and weaken the opponent.

Under such circumstances, Li Xinlong, who had a stern face, directly gave the order for the fleet to stop advancing.

Not only that, but the twenty warships, in order to be able to use more naval guns, directly turned their bows and aimed the flanks of the warships at the imperial sailors.

Soon, the muzzles of the three hundred naval guns with a range of more than three miles were all aimed at the imperial navy.

At this time, Li Xinlong's order to open fire was like a stone thrown at the calm water, which quickly stirred up countless waves.

As soon as the order to open fire was transmitted through the guò signal lights, a deafening roar began to sound on the twenty warships. As fireballs erupted from the muzzles of the black holes of the three hundred naval guns, three hundred lead bullets, directly with a whistling, flew out of the soup and flew towards the imperial court sailors three miles away from him.

"Boom, boom, boom......" In the blink of an eye, three hundred flowering bombs flew over the imperial court sailors. Then, like rain, it fell on the sea where the imperial navy was located and exploded.

The dense flowering bombs were as dense as rain, although less than one percent fell on the imperial navy warship, and a huge fireball mixed with a large amount of black smoke rose up. However, the remaining flowering bombs that fell on the surface of the sea were not found for nothing.

In addition to stirring up thick columns of water up to four or five battles on the surface of the sea, the flying fragments produced by the explosion of the flowering bombs were like lead bullets flying at high speed, easily piercing through the wooden hulls of the surrounding warships.

As a result, more than a dozen imperial naval division warships, even if they were not directly hit by the flowering shells, the hulls below the waterline were blown out by the fragments of the flowering shells.

Although these gaps did not deal a fatal blow to the warship, the appearance of the gap directly meant that the seawater could continue to pour into the warship's cabin like a flood that burst the levee.

It also means that the officers and soldiers of the imperial court sailors in the warship, for the safety of the warship, have to allocate some soldiers and manpower to plug these gaps that do not seem to pose much threat.

In this way, the sailors and soldiers, who were already in chaos because of the attack, will definitely become even more chaotic, and Yan zhòng will affect their next battles.

Nuoda's fleet of imperial sailors quickly changed from tranquility to panic, and then from panic to anger, shouting that they must fight back and destroy this tiger and leopard army sailor who dared to sneak attack him in the night.

Three hundred naval guns had already fired a second round of shells at them.

Not only that, but the generals of the imperial court also got a message that made them both angry and aggrieved.

"The Haw Par sailors attacking them were far out of the range of their own guns. If you want to counterattack the Haw Par Army's sailors, you must advance one mile before you can shoot the flowering bullets into the opponent's warship. ”

However, in the dark sea, without any preparation, it was not easy to move the warship and advance a mile in the face of the enemy's flowering bombs.

However, in the case of unilateral shelling, in order to avoid the warships under their command, one after another became targets of the Haw Par Army, and were smashed to pieces by the Haw Par Army's flowering shells.

The commander of the imperial court sailors, even though he knew that it was very difficult to counterattack now, had to give the order to counterattack.

As a result, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the imperial court sailors, like groups of panicked rabbits, began to skewer back and forth on the warship under the command of generals at all levels, preparing to start the warship.

Such a good opportunity to attack, of course Li Xinlong will not let it go.

Thousands of gunners, in order to shoot more flowering shells in a short period of time, went directly to the cold warship, shirtless, and kept repeating the action of firing, clearing, loading, and firing again and again.

Therefore, the raindrop-like flowering bombs, like rain, continue to fall among the imperial court sailors.

As for Li Xinlong, the commander of the First Fleet of the Naval Division, he stood on the deck of a warship, holding a monocular, motionless and watching every move of the imperial naval fleet, three miles away.

At the same time, his mouth kept counting the number of imperial navy warships that were hit and destroyed by the flowering bullets.

"A... Two....three ships...... Ten ships... Twelve..."

When Li Xinlong counted the fifteenth ship in his mouth, Yan Sù's face finally showed a smile.

Stimulated by the huge results, he shouted without thinking about it.

"Okay, good fight....that's how you want to fight... Order all the gunners of the ship to continue to hit me hard... After the victory in the battle, Ben will personally ask them for merit to the marshal, and each of them will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver......"

However, excitement is excitement, this kind of naval battle that can be called a unilateral slaughter for the Haw Par Army did not last long.

On the sea where the imperial sailors were, along with the five warships, they once again turned into fireballs in the explosion.

On the red sea, which had been illuminated by the flames generated by the explosion of the flowering bomb, the warships of the imperial navy, which had less than eighty remaining sailors, finally began to move.

For the Haw Par Army, the still very large fleet of imperial sailors, with the help of the sea breeze, was moving towards their position at an increasing speed.

In the blink of an eye, the huge fleet of sailors advanced dozens of paces towards him.

Faced with this situation, Li Xinlong had to give up the idea of continuing to fire at the imperial court sailors. Turning in half, the adjutant general next to him ordered.

"The order was that the fleet should be divided into two and make a detour to the two wings of the Imperial Naval Division....told the captains of all the warships that before launching an attack on the Imperial Naval Division, each warship must ensure that it has a distance of more than three miles from the Imperial Naval Division. Otherwise, it is forbidden to launch an attack on the imperial court sailors for any reason...."

"Yes, General..."

Twenty warships, while continuing to fire flowering shells at the imperial navy, made a detour to the two wings of the imperial navy in the same direction.

However, things are clearly not as simple as they seem.

For the ordinary soldiers of the imperial court sailors, many of them have been trained a lot and have not experienced even a single actual battle. However, those generals are all battle-hardened veterans.

At just a glance, these generals can see Li Xinlong's purpose. (To be continued......)