The Armada's luck was good, they didn't wait long, and the Nanyang Combined Fleet went out again.

And the purpose of the South Sea Fleet's dispatch this time is the same as before, to put it nicely, it is to hunt, to forage, to say that it is not good, they are to go to pirates, because judging from what they do, they are no different from pirates.

Moreover, they are still a group of real pirates dressed in the cloak of legality, under the banner of justice, and have a regular formation.

And the reason why the Nanyang Fleet is a real pirate is because the fake pirates go to rob things, that is generally to take advantage of people's inattention, secretly carry out surprise attacks, and their behavior is completely disgraceful, but the pirates of the Nanyang Fleet are different, they are blatantly "robbing", moreover, they also gave a good name to this robbery, saying that in order to protect the safety of the South China Sea shipping lanes, they have to charge some meager remuneration, of course, they did not say that this is a reward, the beauty is clear, shipping tax.

The merchant ships of the Chinese Empire also suffered a great loss as a result, which indirectly prompted Huang Xu to make up his mind to exterminate the Nanyang Kingdom.

However, although this behavior of the Nanyang Fleet is hated by everyone, because it is actually relatively powerful, for a long time, ordinary people can only swallow their anger and pay money in order to calm down the people, including the merchant ships of the Chinese Empire.

In addition, the lack of attention from the surrounding powers is also an important reason, the period when the Nanyang Fleet was in the South China Sea Passage coincided with the collapse of the Japanese Navy, and the Taiping Army was also busy cleaning up some of Japan's messes and resting, so it was too late to consider the problems of the South Seas, so the Nanyang Fleet could not help but sit here.

This is called, there are no tigers in the mountains, and the monkeys are called kings.

However, now that the Armada has come. I'm afraid that the good days of the South Sea Fleet will come to an end, but maybe they don't know it yet.

As a result, the Nanyang Fleet continued to operate according to their plan.

According to the usual practice, after the Nanyang Fleet is dispatched, it generally uses the most powerful Mabang Squadron as the pioneer. The formation of ships to go to sea to plunder, of course, this time is no exception.

Every time in the past, they have all had a smooth ride, and in the end, they have all returned with a full load, and they look forward to this time as before.

However, they did not know at this time that outside the port of Cam Ranh Bay, there was a huge naval fleet that was eyeing them.

Soon after the formation of the Nanyang Fleet sailed out of Cam Ranh Bay's home port, the Invincible Fleet that was dormant outside the harbor appeared silently in front of and behind them.

The front of the South Sea Fleet. A fleet appeared and blocked their way.

Behind them, there was also a fleet blocking their retreat.

The front was surrounded and the rear was blocked, and the Nanyang Fleet was surrounded.

When the Nanyang Fleet saw this, they couldn't help but be angry, they thought, in the South China Sea, the Nanyang Fleet is the hegemon. That's definitely arrogant, who dares to break ground on Tai Sui's head. Who dares to scratch their tiger whiskers wantonly, is it impossible to find death?

However, if their opponent was the Invincible Armada of the Taiping Army, the meaning would be different.

Judging from the flags hung on the two fleets that surrounded the Nanyang Fleet before and after, it can't be wrong, it should be the Invincible Fleet.

It was the Invincible Armada that surrounded the South Sea Fleet.

The South Sea Fleet is really in trouble.

And Li Hongzhang and Luo Bingzhang are waiting for this moment. They were already lurking on the sidelines, waiting for an opportunity to move, but they didn't think that the South Sea Fleet really didn't disappoint them, and the pirates went home to sleep for a while, and their hearts began to stir again. They couldn't bear the silence, and they wanted to come out and do those dirty things, but they didn't think that this qiē would be seen by the Invincible Fleet, so as soon as the Nanyang Fleet was dispatched, the Invincible Fleet quietly blocked the Nanyang Fleet outside the gate of Cam Ranh Bay's home port.

Moreover, it is just blocked.

At this time, the Invincible Fleet confronted the Nanyang Fleet from the front and back, and the Nanyang Fleet suddenly saw that these two fleets that ran out of nowhere blocked their way, although they were puzzled in their hearts, but they were not panicked, because they were optimistic, on this sea, they believed that no one would be the opponent of their Nanyang Fleet.

Although there are quite a lot of ships surrounding them, and their strength looks good, but, on this sea, sometimes it is not enough to rely on strength alone, as the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, so although they are surrounded, they don't feel that there is anything wrong with it, on the contrary, they still have a trace of excitement in their hearts, they feel that for no reason someone sent them to the door to beat them, they can only be disrespectful.

As a result, the Nanyang Fleet also split the entire fleet into two and confronted the Invincible Fleet on two sides.

Speaking of the two fleets that intercepted the Nanyang Fleet, they were the front interception fleet of half of the gunboats and half of the frigates led by Li Hongzhang, while the rear interception was the rear interception fleet composed of the other half of the gunboats and frigates led by Luo Bingzhang, and the heavy gunboats of the Invincible Fleet were attached to Li Hongzhang's forward interception fleet.

The Nanyang Fleet confronted Li Hongzhang in front of the Ma Bang Fleet, which is known as the strongest Ma Bang Fleet, and it is also one of the important prey of the Invincible Fleet, and the other Nanyang Fleet as sniper fleets to stop the fleet led by Luo Bingzhang, intending to break through the encirclement of the Invincible Fleet in one fell swoop.

And this happened to coincide with the plan of Li Hongzhang and others, who were also preparing to attack the Mabang fleet first while blocking the other Nanyang fleets.

According to the battle plan formulated in advance, Li Hongzhang would first bombard the Mabang fleet with heavy gunboats, so that the Mabang fleet would flee in a hurry if it suffered some minor injuries, and then the fleet led by Li Hongzhang would take advantage of the situation to surround the other Nanyang fleets and use superior forces to flank Luo Bingzhang in front and back, completely annihilating the other fleets of the Nanyang Navy except the Mabang fleet.

After annihilating most of the Nanyang Fleet, Li Hongzhang and Luo Bingzhang will lead the Invincible Fleet to pursue the Mabang Fleet again, so that the Mabang Fleet will become a frightened bird, and in order to survive, they can only leave the vast South China Sea and return to the realm of Mabang to seek refuge.

And at this point, the purpose of the Invincible Armada and the Taiping Army was achieved.

And the subsequent battle process was basically carried out according to the plan of Li Hongzhang and others.

The Invincible Fleet first used the heavy guns on the heavy gunboats to bombard the Ma Bang fleet that was confronting it, taking the Ma Bang fleet by surprise, and then, when the Ma Bang fleet was in chaos, Li Hongzhang led the fleet to quickly rush into the hinterland of the Nanyang Combined Fleet, cut off the Ma Bang Fleet and other Nanyang fleets, and split them in two.

In the face of the powerful offensive of the Invincible Armada, the Mabang fleet could only flee in panic.

After the Ma Bang fleet fled, Li Hongzhang and Luo Bingzhang led the army to flank the other fleets in the South Seas, giving the other members of the South Sea Combined Fleet a devastating blow, and finally annihilating them.

After destroying the other South Sea Fleets except for the Mabang fleet, the Invincible Flotilla turned its ship around and launched a pursuit of the Mabang fleet.

From then on, the Armada followed and pursued the Mabang fleet until it was cornered.

In the end, the Mabang fleet really had no way out, they could only retreat all the way to the coastal waters of Mabang before they stopped retreating, and at this time, the Mabang fleet was able to get the support of the Mabang coastal defense army, and it was safe for the time being.

And at this point, the task of Li Hongzhang and others has also been completed.

Therefore, after consulting with Luo Bingzhang, Li Hongzhang withdrew the Invincible Armada from the coastal waters of Ma Bang and blocked the main routes to the sea of Ma Bang, and then Li Hongzhang reported this qiē to Huang Xu and waited for the next move.

Huang Xu was overjoyed when he received the report, and he instructed Li Hongzhang, Luo Bingzhang and others to continue cruising in the coastal waters of Ma Bang, exert strong pressure on Ma Bang, and if necessary, they were ready to cooperate with the army at any time.

Li Hongzhang and others did as they were told.

As a result, the pressure on the Mabang side has increased greatly.

In the face of such a crisis, King Mabang anxiously asked Aquino for help, but Huang Xu at this time put on an offensive posture in the direction of Aquino's wolf's den, so that Aquino did not dare to act rashly. Therefore, even in the face of Ma Bang's bitter pleading, Aquino did not dare to send reinforcements casually, he was afraid that the Taiping army would take the opportunity to attack him.

In this way, in the face of Ma Bang's request for help, Aquino was powerless, and Ma Bang could only ask for more blessings on his own.

And the king of Mabang was angry when he saw that Aquino was not saved, but he had no good way to retreat from the enemy, and he fell into panic for a while.

At this critical moment, the envoys of the Taiping army arrived, and they said that they were willing to cooperate with Ma Bang against Aquino I.

And in despair, King Ma Bang was overjoyed when he encountered such a life-saving straw, and agreed without thinking about it.

In today's situation, how can you care about morality or morality, faith or non-righteousness, in short, it is important to keep Ma Bang's country, if you have milk, you are a mother, and from Ma Bang's position, if you really want to say who doesn't talk about morality first, then they think it's Aquino, he is the one who died before he died, and then Ma Bang can't be blamed.

This is a matter of life and death, who would want to joke with life, besides, Ma Bang is not really loyal to Aquino, everything is due to interests, this alliance between the two sides is fragile, once the shape is not right, it may inevitably end up being overwhelmed.

Just in response to the words of the couplet, husband and wife are the same forest birds, and they fly separately when disaster comes, this Aquino I and Ma Bang are like that temporary husband and wife, when the passion is surging, everyone can be tied together, and the water and milk are blended, but when it comes to the crisis, everyone can only take care of each other.

After the Taiping Army and Ma Bang agreed on the cooperation plan, the envoy of the Taiping Army proposed that he wanted to ask Octagon to act as an internal response and cooperate with the Taiping Army to jointly attack Aquino's wolf's den.

King Mabang agreed without hesitation, he knew better than anyone else that the Taiping army didn't say it, he was ready to do it, since Aquino was unkind, then he couldn't blame him for Mabang's injustice.

So, Ma Bang joined forces with the Taiping army and prepared to flank Aquino's wolf's den. (To be continued......)