The naval commanders of Haishan, Xihaizhou, Linhai and Hailin Prefecture sent a small number of troops as the vanguard very tacitly, and after discovering the enemy's large forces, they quickly ordered a retreat after symbolic resistance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sima Heng's order is very clear: "Those who retreat without a fight will be killed", and retreating after losing a battle is not considered disobeying the military order.

The Kuril Alliance fleet was clearly replenished, and the firepower of the warships was unusually fierce.

Cha Kelie changed his hard-hitting command style, and switched to a roundabout back and back flanking attack, not hesitating to run from a long distance, interspersed and divided between the two armies, and suddenly disrupted the retreating rhythm of the Shaodian navy.

The rout of the Shaodian navy was earlier than Ding Kui expected, and the islands that were originally used for supply were wiped out by the roundabout forces of the Thousand Islands Alliance.

Located in the middle of the West Sea, the island is rich in fresh water resources and rich in shrimp, and there are three harbors around the island, which are suitable for docking all kinds of ships, and is an important military base in the West Sea.

The flagship of the Shaodian Navy, the Dinghai, is now docked at Aoxi Island, where Sima Heng, the commander of the West Sea, has been recaptured for only two months.

"The whole island has raised my handsome flag, and three blood belts have been hung above the handsome flag, and all the soldiers who have withdrawn to Aoxi Island must see my military order and fight to the death!" This was Sima Heng's first order when he came to Aoxi Island.

Command at sea is more difficult than on land, and the direction of the wind, currents, and even monsters can affect the direction of the ship, but the bloodband that represents the death battle makes it a capital offense for anyone who leaves the battlefield without permission.

The raising of the blood belt flag on the island indicates that the area around the island has become a battlefield, and everyone from Sima Heng and below is not allowed to leave the island and the surrounding sea until the commander lowers the blood belt.

Later military commentators believed that Sima Heng's decision was very important, the Shaodian navy was defeated in a hurry, and the morale had dropped to the freezing point, and all the officers and men took it as their duty to flee for their lives.

Not to mention anything else, the blood belt order first bluffed the Thousand Island Alliance troops who outflanked the rear of the Shaodian Navy, and the raid fleet of tens of thousands of people hesitated when they saw the blood belt handsome flag all over the island, and did not attack the island at the first time, giving Sima Heng precious time.

When the Thousand Islands Alliance Navy found that no one had taken the initiative to attack Shrimp Island, and planned to launch a tentative attack, the first defeated army of the Shaodian Kingdom appeared on the sea level. Sima Heng immediately took the opportunity to supervise the "Dinghai" to attack, and a huge warship went straight to the fleet of the Thousand Islands Alliance. When the enemy general reacted, the defeated army of the Shaodian Kingdom had already surrounded him.

There were originally 3,000 defenders left on Shrimp Island, and when the troops on Yinsha Island evacuated, they deliberately left 2,000 people to assist in the defense in accordance with Shaodianyong's order, and these 5,000 people resisted the dying counterattack of the Thousand Islands Alliance Army, and successfully surrounded and annihilated the Thousand Islands Alliance Army that came to sneak attack on Shrimp Island.

The Shaodian Navy was finally resupplied, and with the blood belt order, the morale that had fallen to the lowest point began to rise, and under the leadership of the commander, he patrolled the waters around Aoxi Island, expelled the Kuril Alliance Army that came to harass, and took over the defeated brother troops on the front line.

More and more Shaodian naval vessels gathered near Aoxi Island, and the number of troops continued to increase.

A day and night passed, and the navies of Linhai Prefecture and Hailin Prefecture basically withdrew to Aoxi Island. The naval commanders of these two states ordered to slow down the pace of the offensive relatively early, and they did not directly obey the command of the commander-in-chief of the West Sea for a long time, so the order to retreat was also given earlier.

The pursuing Kuril Alliance Army did not rashly attack Aoxi Island, but instead divided half of its forces to continue to go downwind, intending to cut off the retreat of the Shaodian Navy, and even if it was unsuccessful, it could attack the supply line.

By the time the navy of Haishan Prefecture and Xihai Prefecture withdrew to Aoxi Island, Sima Heng had already gathered more than 200,000 troops, and more than 600 warships of all sizes. At this time, he gave an order that surprised the whole army, and attacked the supply fleet of the Kuril Alliance after the reversal.

The commander of the Linhai Prefecture Navy questioned on the spot, "Now that the southeast wind is blowing on the sea, can our army still have the effect of sneak attack after struggling to go around behind enemy lines?"

Sima Heng said unabashedly: "This commander can tell you clearly that our supply line has been cut off by the enemy, and if we can't grab supplies from the enemy, our logistics supply will be exhausted in five days, and we will not be able to fight any war by then."

The reason why we went around behind the enemy was to gain the upper hand, and when the main force of the enemy turned back to surround us, it would naturally fall to the upper hand, and only in this way could we cripple the main force of the enemy's pursuers in one fell swoop, and all of you here could escape back to the base camp. ”

"The enemy army is going well, how can it be possible to wait for us to go around to the rear before surrounding it?" Zhou Yuan, the commander of the Xihai Prefecture Navy, thought to himself, but he was Sima Heng's descendant and beloved general, and he was the person with the highest voice to succeed the commander of Xihai in the future, so he did not refute Sima Heng face to face.

No matter what the people below think, Sima Heng is the supreme commander present, whoever doesn't listen to the order can immediately behead the public, the commander is like an emperor on the front line, no one can challenge his authority.

Sima Heng took everyone with him without leaving behind, and the whole army marched westward, leaving only a sea of fire on Aoxi Island.

As Zhou Yuan expected, Cha Kelie soon discovered Sima Heng's attempt, gathered four chasing troops to open a pocket formation, and pressed towards the position of the Shaodian navy.

Sima Heng's efforts were not in vain, and he took the initiative to attack to win the upper hand. The "Dinghai" raised a blood-colored handsome flag and rushed to the front of the fleet, straight to the bottom of the pocket formation of the Thousand Islands Alliance Army.

The commander-in-chief launched a desperate charge, how could the other naval officers and men have a reason to retreat, the navy of Haishan Prefecture and Xihaizhou was on the left, and the navy of Linhai Prefecture and Hailin Prefecture was on the right, trailing on both sides of the flagship, leaving everything behind to fight the enemy.

The Kuril Alliance Army occupies the strategic initiative, and there is no need to fight with the Shaodian Army at all, but Cha Kelie was forced by Sima Heng not to fight, and the two armies met face to face, and whoever took half a step back would lead to disastrous consequences.

More than 1,000 warships and nearly 500,000 people fought fiercely near Aoxi Island, which was the first time in the history of the Shaodian Kingdom in the last 1,000 years.

This naval battle was fought from noon to dark, and from dark to dawn, and as soon as the two sides came into contact, they went to the death, and there was no intention of capturing the enemy at all, and no one would stop until they killed the other side.

"I have never seen such a tragic naval battle, blood stained the sea red, none of the more than a thousand ships that participated in the war could remain intact, the pride of the Shaodian Navy 'Dinghai' giant ship was also sunk, if it weren't for the fact that my 'Zhenbo' was a little slower, it would only be in time to become the temporary flagship of the third wave, otherwise it would not have escaped the fate of sinking. Zhou Yuan wrote in his logbook.

The next morning, due to the heavy casualties, Chakreen had to order the Kuril Alliance Army to withdraw from the battle. The Shaodian navy finally won the naval battle, but they were powerless to pursue it.

Because of the influence of the wind direction and the current of the water, this naval battle entered the range of the Shrimp Island, so it is called the Battle of the Shrimp Island.

Before the war, the Shaodian Navy had more than 210,000 troops, a total of 658 warships, and after the war, there were only 70,000 people and just 200 warships.

The flagship of the Shaodian Navy "Dinghai" sank, the Haishan Prefecture Navy flagship "Swallowyang" sank, the Linhai Prefecture Navy flagship "Treading Waves" sank, and the Xihai Prefecture Navy flagship "Zhenbo" and the Hailin Prefecture Navy flagship "Jufan" were damaged, but fortunately, the commander of the West Sea and the four commanders did not die for a while.

Sima Heng was shot in the left eye by the enemy's archer, and if it weren't for the sacrifice of his own captain, the arrow could have pierced his head and killed him. He did not withdraw from the battle due to his wounds, and after bandaging his wounds, he changed ships in a row to command the battle. The boss's desperate efforts aroused the blood of the soldiers, and the Shaodian Navy was able to persist in fighting until the end by holding this breath in his chest.

The four great commanders were more or less injured, but not as serious as Sima Heng, and the least injured one was Zhou Yuan, and in the end his fighting spirit and physical strength were exhausted, and he dislocated his shoulder when he killed the last enemy, which was a rare injury among knights.

Of course, the side of the Kuril Alliance is not much better, it should be said that it is even worse, before the Battle of Aoxi Island began, they had tens of thousands more than the Shaodian Navy, and at the end of the battle, the difference between the two armies was only a few thousand, and the battle was a real defeat.

Cha Kelie's condition was much better than Sima Heng's, his flagship "Bloody Fin" did not sink, he was not wounded in the battle, and he was able to evacuate the battlefield with his men intact.

After the battle, Sima Heng finally issued an order that relieved everyone, "Hurry back to the base camp Zhanlongwan Water Village."

"My lord, although we have won this battle, our vitality has been greatly damaged, where can we stop the next attack of the Thousand Islands Alliance with this little bit of strength?" Zhou Yuan took care of Sima Heng on his ship.

"If they can't stop it, they will retreat to the land, anyway, they can't attack the large islands, and it is even more impossible to come and attack the mainland. Sima Heng closed his eyes and lay down on the soft collapse to cultivate, "The kingdom has a population of more than a billion people, what is the loss of this number of troops? Otherwise, we can build a navy of more than one million troops in less than a year, and at that time, the Thousand Islands Alliance is thinking about how to block our attack." ”

"But my lord, your future will be greatly affected by this, and the Commander's Office will not tolerate the kingdom being bullied for a year. "Zhou Yuan is worried about Sima Heng's status.

"Hey, from the moment the Thousand Islands Alliance decided to invade the kingdom, I have no future, and the Sima family has to prepare for a bigger blow. If it weren't for this body to go back to atone for the crime, I might as well die on Shrimp Island, and the Commander's Mansion would at least give me the title of Honorary Commander. Sima Heng let out a long sigh.

The naval battle of Aoxi Island was later listed as one of the top ten naval battles of the Shaodian Kingdom, until the great change of the Shaodian Kingdom, the reasons for the outbreak of this naval battle were dug out and studied, and Sima Heng became the most controversial naval commander in later generations.