As soon as Zhou Tai saw the Shuanglong water array set out by the warships in the opposite bay, he understood that the opponent on the opposite side was not easy to get along, obviously, the other party had a master of water warfare.

"Half sail, turn northeast, gain the upper hand, and lay out the phalanx."

Zhou Tai is very careful, this is his consistent character, perhaps, the character of Zhou Tai in history is not like this, but this Zhou Tai, since following Fang Zhiwen, has been constantly instilled with two concepts, the first is 'good fighters have no outstanding merits" The second is 'You Zhou Tai is not a fierce general, but a commander" Therefore, Zhou Tai has always used these two requirements to measure himself, if he does not meet these two requirements, that is, he has not done a good job.

Therefore, seeing a double dragon entering the water on the opposite side, Zhou Tai immediately carefully avoided the unfavorable position, took the upper hand first, and watched the exit of Jiaozhou Bay from the side.

The so-called Shuanglong water formation, is the two main battle ships formed by the impact formation, it can be encircled, or divided for the purpose, aimed at the enemy formation gathered into a group, this Shuanglong into the water formation, should be followed by a large number of melee boats and fireboats, after the enemy's formation is disrupted, these boats become a deadly killing move.

Of course, this position can only be put out when you have a numerical advantage, or when you have the belief that you will die and fight with the opponent, and now, the pirates occupy a numerical advantage.

Zhou Tai's side was full of troops, 8,000 main soldiers, 1,000 guards, and 4,000 sailors, a total of 13,000 people, all of the Yellow Sea-class soft sail warships newly produced by the Lenan Shipyard, a total of 90 ships, plus 10 supply ships, adding up to exactly 100 ships of 2,000 stones.

On the other hand, although the size and shape of the ships are five huā and eight gates, there are two or three hundred large ships of 2,000 stones, and there are countless other small and medium-sized ships, and there is no doubt that they have an absolute advantage in numbers.

Let's look at the main generals of both sides. Because of the identity of the pirates on the other side, it is impossible to bless the entire fleet, so in terms of general bonuses, Zhou Tai is confident that as for the warship, his warship is stronger than the other party in terms of flexibility, speed, and defensive ability. One-on-one wins.

Zhou Tai chose to watch the exit of Jiaozhou Bay in the limelight, like a tiger squatting at the door of the sheepfold. is waiting for the other party to come out, once the opponent's fleet gushes out, Zhou Tai can choose to break the opponent with a one-time lazy waist, or divide into several waves, and take turns to impact the opponent's formation, Zhou Tai's idea is very simple, then entangle you. Consume your vital strength, don't let you do business with peace of mind, as for things on land, with Li Yuanzhi, a fierce man, it will definitely not make these pirates feel better, maybe, now Li Yuanzhi has already started to burn the lair of these pirates.

However, the pirate generals were obviously not mediocre, and did not rush out of the bay to fight, but redivided the fleet and divided the fastest more than 100 clippers. A new main battle force was formed, slowly sailing out of the mouth of the strait in Jiaozhou Bay, but it was obviously southeasterly, obviously, this was fighting against Zhou Tai, signaling the other party to the open sea to duel.

Zhou Tai obviously would not rush into Jiaozhou Bay, not only Zhou Tai himself knew this, but the other party must also know it. In the narrow sea of Jiaozhou Bay, the pirates with absolute superiority in ships were a hell for Zhou Tai. Therefore, the other party dared to assemble the big ship. Swaggered out of the bay to fight alone.

Although it is a heads-up in form, in fact it is still a group fight, because the pirate ships are still jumping two to one in the number of Zhou and Tai warships, but in actual combat, especially in naval battles, due to the wide battlefield, the speed of the warship, the ability to operate, etc.

Zhou Tai has been training in battle these days, even when sailing, he has to train for a long time, what is the core of this naval combat training? It's not about fighting or defending, it's about boating!

The formation and formation of the sea ship in the naval battle completely depend on the sailor's handling level, and the bonus effect of the general's formation, the same as the cavalry decisive battle, there is a formation to win without a formation, a strong formation to defeat a weak formation, the power of the formation is definitely many times higher than that of a single fight, so the naval battle is actually a formation, the most fundamental is than the level of training.

The pirate's ships are lined up in three columns, and the distance is very close, which can also be seen as a long snake formation, and this kind of long snake formation with three ships in parallel has the advantage that it is not easy to be cut off.

The pirate's route was very ingenious, first taking advantage of the tailwind to the south, then turning to the open sea to the east, sailing out of ten miles and then suddenly turning to the north, wanting to grab the upper hand in front of Zhou Tai, but Zhou Tai was not easy to follow, when the pirate turned to the east, Zhou Tai also gave the order to turn east, has been slightly behind, parallel to follow the pirate fleet.

At this moment, the pirate fleet turned to the east, and Zhou Tai immediately gave an order: "Full sails, keep course, sail at full speed, cut the flotilla!?p> The speed of the fleet that Zhou Tai had been holding down suddenly burst out at this moment, and the fleet lined up in two columns was like two sharp arrows off the string, slamming towards the pirate fleet, looking down from the sky, the two fleets were showing an angle of about one hundred and fifty degrees, in the rapid approach, if the speed and angle did not change, the pirate fleet would probably be broken by Zhou Tai's fleet in two-thirds of the position.

On the big ship at the head of the pirate fleet, Wang Ben is looking sideways with a black face, but unfortunately there are no binoculars in this era, so he can only rely on his own eyes, but it is not impossible, among the generals of the navy, there will be some existence with vision skills, these are excellent lookouts.

"Ninety enemy ships, one mile apart, ten feet apart between the two columns, and 30 speeds."

Wang Ben looked at Jiang Qin in front of him, Jiang Qin was not tall, his body was very strong, his face was darkened by the sea breeze, he had a faint mustache, he looked very old-fashioned, in fact, he was just nineteen years old, at this moment he was frowning, staring closely at the approaching enemy fleet on the left, his eyes were full of excitement, appreciation and a hint of envy.

Just now, Zhou Tai's fleet let go of speed, and finally let Jiang Qin see the hideousness of this new ship that looks slightly fat and uses soft sails, and in terms of speed, his side is completely defeated

"Turn the rudder to the right, turn around and head south."

Wang Ben's heart jumped, Jiang Qin was going to attack the enemy's fleet in turn, when the enemy fleet cut his own fleet, Jiang Qin's front team turned around and counterattacked, just in time to collide head-on with the enemy army that had just passed through his rear team.

"Order the flotilla that has been cut off in the rear, form a formation, turn to the northeast, and cooperate with us in the attack."

Sure enough, the next order was the order of entanglement and melee, because Jiang Qin did not have a suitable military position, so he could not effectively command all the ships, basically he could only command the thirty ships in the front, and the latter could only rely on the command of the order, so that the reaction speed of the entire fleet was also reduced by one layer.

Zhou Tai has been paying attention to this report from the sky lookout, overlooking the battlefield from the sky, can more comprehensively grasp the real-time dynamics of the entire battlefield, in this regard, Zhou Tai also occupies an absolute advantage, and even in a sense, this advantage is enough to put Zhou Tai in an undefeated position.

Hearing the lookout's report, Zhou Tai pulled the corners of his mouth slightly, do you want to fight? You want to fight, but I don't want to fight with you, give full play to the advantage of boat speed, the advantage of formation, this is what Zhou Tai should do, the melee is indeed bloody and fierce enough, but the unnecessary loss, Zhou Tai doesn't want it at all.

"The front army maintained its formation, and after penetrating the enemy's formation, it turned to the southeast twenty degrees, accelerated its detachment, and was not allowed to fight. The Chinese army and the rear army were separated into two teams, and the course was 10 degrees and 15 degrees south respectively, and they were also not allowed to fight, maintaining their speed, and paying attention to the meeting point with the front army. ”

Zhou Tai's order was issued, and the ninety large ships were divided into three teams, forming a fan, and rushed towards the pirate's fleet, trying to sweep the pirate's fleet to pieces.

At this time, from Jiang Qin's ship, it was actually impossible to see the movements of Zhou Tai's fleet, but he felt that Zhou Tai's fleet was adjusting the formation, but what it was adjusted to, but he still didn't know for the time being, this is the defect of horizontal lookout, and this flaw is sometimes fatal.

The two fleets staggered silently, and only the whistling sea breeze could be heard, and the whizzing of arrows and the bouncing of bowstrings, and the battle on the sea was carried out in such an eerie silence, only the commander's loud orders echoed on the sea.

The distance between the two sides was nearly one hundred and twenty paces, and it was impossible to hear even the miserable snort of the arrows, only the sound of the ship's generals shouting for fire.

Zhou Tai's navy was very professional, and the ship's strike force was divided into three parts, the first wave was ultra-long-range giant crossbows and small stone throwers, and Zhou Tai used oil tanks instead of stones this time; In the second wave, there were sixty crossbowmen on the ship, and among these crossbow archers, ten of them were fire crossbowmen, who were responsible for shooting fire arrows, of course, it was a good thing to burn the sails, but if they couldn't burn, they could also keep the other party busy for a while; The last group is the forty swordsmen and axes of the gang jumping war, and before the gang jumping battle, these people were also shield bearers and damage controllers.

Compared with the orderliness on Zhou Tai's ship, the situation on the pirate ship is very chaotic, mainly because the division of labor is unknown, once there is a fire here, the crossbow archer next to him threw down the crossbow and began to put out the fire, and no one cares about the crossbow arrows shot on the opposite side, as for the shield man, it is difficult to say, because they always stand according to their preferences, this kind of training gap, the direct consequence is the battle loss ratio, one to thirty.

The other is the gap between the ships, the soft sail has an advantage, that is, the crossbow arrow can not be shot, the crossbow arrow shoots on the soft sail, it bounces down directly, on the contrary, the hard sail is easy to be nailed to the crossbow arrow, if these crossbow arrows are fire arrows, then, you have to be busy fighting the fire.

Then there are the war defense facilities, Zhou Tai's ship is designed according to the warship, there are not only arrow shields on the ship, but also the design of fire prevention and collision prevention, and even the jump gang battle has been considered, it is a real professional warship, and the pirate ship on the opposite side is mostly transformed by transport ships, and there are many problems.

Zhou Tai's front army was divided into two columns, sandwiching several pirate ships in the middle, Zhou Tai's fleet did not slow down the melee combat, but purely relied on long-range strikes, a slip of thirty warships shuttled by, six or seven pirate ships in the middle were baptized by arrows and fire oil, and suddenly a fire ignited, seeing that there was no help, the surviving pirates on the ship jumped into the sea one after another, the sea water in winter, but it was very cold! To be continued... ~！