The battle situation at this time was not good for the Hengwu State Water Division.

The strength of the combined fleet was weaker than that of the Hengwu Naval Division, but Zhou Yu adopted the principle of avoiding the strong and attacking the weak, and concentrated his firepower to attack the right flank of the Hengwu Naval Division. However, the strength of the right wing was relatively weak, and with Zhou Yu personally in charge of command, the right wing fleet soon fell into a disadvantage.

According to this momentum, Zhou Yu has a high probability of completing the purpose of destroying the right flank fleet of the Hengwu State Naval Division and withdrawing from the encirclement before the main force surrounds him.

However, Ling Cao dared to put on such a risky formation, of course, it was not because his brain was in water.

A few quarters of an hour later, seeing that the right-wing fleet of the Hengwu National Naval Division was about to be unable to hold on, Zhou Yu did not have the slightest look of joy on his face, but there was an inexplicable uneasiness in his heart, and as time passed, this uneasiness became stronger and stronger!

Zhou Yu looked around with some uneasiness, but did not find any clues, which not only did not reassure him, but further aggravated his anxiety.

"Pass the order down and retreat immediately!!"

"What?"

The deputy general was stunned when he heard this, looked at Zhou Yu in disbelief, and stammered and asked, "Governor, ...... What do you say? Fall back? ”

"Yes, retreat immediately!!"

Zhou Yu ignored the adjutant's incredulous eyes and shouted.

"But ......"

"No, but, this is a military order, it will be executed immediately, and those who violate the order will be engaged in military law!"

"Yes!"

The deputy general was taken aback by Zhou Yu's fierce reaction, and then reflexively shouted, then hesitated, turned around and went down to convey the military order.

The surrounding warships received signals to retreat one after another, but most of them sent a request for confirmation of the order again. Obviously, the sudden retreat at the moment before the imminent success was still a little incomprehensible to the captains of many warships.

Fortunately, Zhou Yu's authority was high enough, and after repeating the order, the combined fleet left behind the opponents who were encircling and suppressing them, and began to retreat.

"What? You say they retreated? ”

Ling Cao, who was waiting for a good show in the Chinese army, was stunned for a moment after receiving this order, and then suddenly got up and said loudly: "Where is the Zhenhai?" ”

"Qiyu Grand Governor, the Zhenhai is still seven hundred nautical miles away from the scheduled battlefield!"

"!"

Ling Cao couldn't hold back any longer, scolded angrily in a low voice, and then waved his hand: "Pass on the general's order, the whole army will attack, and pursue the enemy at full speed!" Order the Anhai to abandon all camouflage and intercept the enemy as quickly as possible, and make sure that the enemy does not escape the encirclement! ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!"

The adjutant general did not dare to say more, and immediately went down to give the order.

After the deputy general left, Ling Cao also calmed down, rubbed the stubble on his chin, and muttered to himself: "Zhou Gongjin, the governor of Pontus really underestimated you, but under absolute strength, any conspiracy and trickery is a waste of strength, and you will die today!" ”

"Chase!"

Under Ling Cao's order, the Hengwu Naval Division immediately pounced on the combined fleet at full speed.

"The Governor of Qiqi, due east, found a huge ship approaching our army at a rapid speed, according to the spies, it seems to be ...... Seems to ......"

"What seems like it? Why spit? ”

Zhou Yu was disturbed by the inexplicable anxiety in his heart, and the return of his subordinates directly ignited his anger, and he couldn't help but shout.

"It seems that it is the enemy's flagship Zhenhai!"

"Zhenhae?"

Zhou Yu was stunned for a moment, and then exclaimed: "This is impossible, isn't the Zhenhai still in the position of the enemy's army?" Doesn't it mean that every move is under our surveillance? Where did the second Zhenhai come from? ”

"However, the scouts did report like this, and according to the report, they have already sent someone to verify that it is the real Zhenhai, not an illusion or a fake Zhenhai!"

Zhou Yu's pupils shrank suddenly, and a terrifying thought rose from the bottom of his heart.

- Hengwu Kingdom should not be able to build a super battleship like Zhenhai, right?

Yes, in fact, Zhou Yu guessed correctly, the Shang Ji Army really has the ability to build Zhenhai-class super battleships!

As early as ten years ago, when the Zhenhai first appeared in the Pingzhou Naval Division, it became the key research object of the Shang Army, and the Gong Yi Ruler and Hephaestus took the lead in forming a research team, and later a large number of senior craftsmen from the Li Joseon, the Wa region, the Poseidon army, and the Ottoman Empire joined the research team, absorbing the technical strengths of many countries such as the Huaxia area, Greek mythology, the Japanese region, the Li Korean region, the Australian area, the Ottoman area, and even the body poison area, and finally roughly understood the technology of the Zhenhai area.

Two years ago, the imitation of the Zhenhai was officially put on the agenda, and it took two full years, using up a large number of gold coins, and finally making a copycat version of the Zhenhai with the power of Hengwu State.

For this copycat Zhenhai, the treasury of Hengwu Kingdom was about to be emptied, and all kinds of superb materials were pulled out one by one, and even the ancient artifact of the Seagod Trident was destroyed, in order to have a special material in the trident.

Of course, at such a great cost, the combat effectiveness of the built super battleship is naturally nothing to say.

The newly built warship was named the Anhai, and after actual testing, the performance of the Anhai was almost equal to that of the Zhenhai, and the comprehensive combat effectiveness was almost the same.

The only pity is that some of the Anhai is unique to the current merchants, in order to piece together an Anhai, the merchants' family has been hollowed out, and they are really unable to build a second one.

In fact, even if there are material dealers, they will not build again, at least not in the short term.

One Zhenhai and one Anhai, plus a huge number of warships of all levels of Pingbo and Yulang, in the known sea area, the strength of the sailors of Hengwu Country has exceeded that of other countries and regions by too much, and there is a situation of overflow of combat power, and continuing to build will not bring greater benefits to Hengwu Kingdom, but will only consume a lot of resources.

Ling Cao's plan was actually very simple, that is, the frontal battlefield was semi-encircled and surrounded. The Zhenhai that Zhou Yu saw was actually the Anhai, and the genuine Zhenhai had been hidden.

At the critical moment when Zhou Yu led the army to engage the Hengwu Naval Division, the Zhenhai suddenly came out, cut off the retreat of the combined fleet, and swallowed and defeated the power of the Three Kings Naval Division in one fell swoop.

The plan at the beginning was very smooth, Zhou Yu didn't think about the exaggerated thing like a second Zhenhai at all, after seeing the Anhai with the large force, he immediately put aside his worries and focused on attacking the right wing fleet of Hengwu State, but he didn't know that the genuine Zhenhai was ambushing not far away.

The only pity is that Zhou Yu's battlefield is too strong and too decisive, and without any basis and relying only on intuition, he resolutely gave up the prey in his hand, which made Ling Cao's plan a little flawed.

However, it was just a flaw, Zhou Yu's cleverness only brought a little trouble to Ling Cao, as I said before, in the face of absolute strength, some conspiracies and tricks were in vain!

The next morning, when the sky was white, the Hengwu Naval Division still surrounded the main force of the Combined Fleet at a sea less than five hundred miles away from the United Fleet's home port.