With the help of the wind on the sea, both sides are driving at full speed. After a pillar of incense, the fifty ships of the pioneer battalion had chased out more than 30 miles, and the front end was about three miles away from the pirate ship, and the distance was much closer, but each ship fired a series of cannons, but most of them missed, only one or two cannons were lucky to hit, but not a single pirate ship was sunk.

If you are engaged head-on at sea, it is indeed a good choice to list the "Fish Head Formation", because once the ships of the two sides approach, they can use small speedboats that are good at close combat to entangle each other, while large and medium-sized warships with strong firepower will fire artillery attacks from behind, but following the enemy at full speed like this is by no means the strength of the "Fish Head Formation".

Most of the guns of the warships are located on the side side, and there are only one or two guns at most in the bow, and according to the arrangement of the "Yumen Formation", the small ships are in front, and the fukubunes and three-masted gunboats are behind, so that the guns of the large ships in the rear are more obstructed in their aiming, and the pirate ships that escaped on the sea in front are very scattered, and it is natural that most of the guns that are barely fired are missed.

Just because Zhao Xuhai ordered a full-speed pursuit, the eagle ship in the front of the "fish head array" was faster, chasing after the pirate ship, while the speed of the three-masted gunboat and the Fu ship was not as fast as the small speedboat, but it fell farther and farther, and the original haode formation was also pulled away, turning into two parts: small ships in front and large and medium-sized ships in the back.

"General, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to go down like this, those pirate ships are faster than our ships, as if they are deliberately luring us into chasing!" Seeing this, Sun Li finally couldn't help but say.

Zhao Xuhai pouted and said: "They are just running for their lives, and they will be caught up by us after a while, what's wrong!"

However, after Sun Liyi said, Zhao Xuhai still ordered: "Order! Tell all ships to maintain a good formation and not pull too far!"

However, the order was apparently given a little too late, and at this moment the pirate ship, which had been fleeing in panic, had already taken the first step, and suddenly turned its bow and rushed straight towards the sailor's fleet.

In the previous pursuit, the distance between the front and rear of the sailor's fleet had been widened, and the small boats in front were only two or three miles away from the pirate ships, while the fortune ships and three-masted warships in the rear were left six or seven miles behind, and because they were too far apart, the guns on board could no longer reach the pirate ships. At this time, the pirate ship suddenly turned back at the same time, much faster than when it turned around and fled in the face of the pioneer battalion, and almost in an instant, it rushed into the more than thirty eagle ships at the forefront of the "Fish Head Formation"!

"No! They want to fight us in close quarters!" Sun Li, who was on the three-masted battleship, saw this situation and shouted loudly.

The essence of the "Fish Head Formation" is to use the guns of the large ships in the rear to support the small boats in front, and at the same time, the presence of small boats can also play a role in protecting the gunboats in the rear, so that the enemy cannot get close. But at this time, the situation was that the small boats in front were fighting with the main forces of the opponent, and the gunboats in the rear could not catch up for a while.

Zhao Xuhai's consciousness situation is a little wrong, the pirate ship turned around too quickly this time, and it was neat, it was not at all the same as before, it was not the same chaotic and commandless appearance before, it seemed that they fled in panic at the beginning, and it was really deliberate as Sun Li said.

However, Zhao Xuhai was not in a hurry, because thirty against twenty, even without the artillery support of the large ships in the rear, the small eagle ships of the pioneer battalion still had a numerical advantage, and they still had a great chance of winning.

However, this Mr. Zhao Qian obviously miscalculated again.

As soon as the ships of both sides approached, several medium-sized loach ships in the pirate fleet opened fire first, sinking two eagle ships of the sailors, and the ship formation rushed to one place, and soon four or five more eagle boats were set on fire, and several others were forced to board the ships by the pirates, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat. By the time the Fubune and the three-masted gunboat approached, the sea was already in chaos, the front part of the "Fish Head Formation" had all been washed away, and the eagle ship was entangled with the other party's sea falcon ship and centipede ship, but it was completely downwind.

It was precisely because the ships of both sides were fighting at sea that the ship formation no longer existed, and even if the big ships behind were within the range of the artillery, they did not dare to fire for fear of accidentally damaging their own ships.

When two armies clash, the combat power is not determined by the number alone, this is the case in land battles, and the same is true in naval battles.

The soldiers of the Yuejing Naval Division, who have been in the water village for many years, are difficult to go through a battle, once the two sides fight each other, they are far from being the opponents of the fierce "Black Dragon Palace" pirates, even if the ships have an advantage in numbers, they do not have much effect.

"Go and give the order! Tell the eagle ships to disperse, don't fight with the pirate ships!" Zhao Xuhai realized that if this continued, the small eagle ships of the pioneer battalion would definitely suffer heavy losses, and shouted loudly.

The flag bearer passed the order, and the eagle ships that had previously been in the melee with the pirate ships in the pioneer battalion scattered in all directions, leaving the battle circle.

According to Zhao Xuhai's idea, although he accidentally lost a few small boats at the beginning, as long as he separated his eagle ship from the pirate ship, he could be preserved, and then the formation was reorganized, and the artillery fire on the three-masted gunboat and the Fu ship could also play a role, and this battle could still be won by a large margin. After all, there are only twenty pirate ships in total, and they are all small and medium-sized ships, even if the melee combat is strong, if the artillery of the two sides is bombarded, it is still impossible to get the big ship of the pioneer battalion.

It's a pity that the war did not develop according to Zhao Qianzong's plan, and the pirate principals obviously did not want to give Zhao Xuhai a chance to reorganize the formation.

And at this time, Zhao Xuhai realized that just now he had made another mistake! The pirate ship engaged the eagle ship in front, although the pioneer battalion would definitely lose some small boats, but at least it could block the opponent's counterattack, and at this time, as soon as the eagle ship withdrew, the three-masted gunboat and the fortune ship that were originally in the center of the formation and had already sailed close to the battle circle all lost their cover, and were directly exposed to the impact of the opponent's centipede ship and loach ship.

"Fire, fire, fire, don't let the pirate ship get close!" Zhao Xuhai shouted.

The pirate ship rushing over at a speed was like a pack of wolves pounced on the flock, and a round of artillery attacks on the three three-masted gunboats actually missed, and not even a single pirate ship hit!

Zhao Xuhai was no stranger to this kind of situation, and even had a sense of familiarity! With extremely accurate prediction, he skillfully dodged the artillery, and drove the ship like a phantom to intersperse the approach...... A thought popped up in Zhao Xuhai's mind, causing him to almost fall unsteadily on his feet and fall on the deck!

The person in charge of commanding the pirate fleet must be a top naval combat master with the same skills as Peng San!

Is it true that he is going to be defeated today? The cold sweat on Zhao Xuhai's face had already flowed, if he was still trying to kill the enemy and make meritorious service before, at this time, all he was thinking about was how to save his life.

"Tell the helmsman to turn around!

Although each three-masted gunboat had 200 sailors on board, if the pirates boarded the ship, most of these soldiers would not be able to resist and would be taken. From the beginning of the pursuit of the enemy to the counterattack and struggle, what the opponent fought was the idea of forcibly seizing the three-masted gunboat, and if the flagship was captured, Zhao Xuhai's battle would be a failure.

At this time, the battle situation on the sea formed a strange phenomenon, the pioneer battalion was obviously a large number of ships, but it was a big chaos, more than 20 small eagle ships scattered on the sea, at a loss, while three large three-masted gunboats were chased by the three-way pirate ships and fled, but more than a dozen medium-sized lucky ships were crowded together and were washed to the front by the other two pirate ships.

These twenty pirate ships are obviously clippers specially selected from the ships of the "Black Dragon Palace", and in terms of speed and agility of steering, the Fu ships and the three-masted gunboats are far behind.

Seven or eight centipede boats have been divided into two ways and interspersed into the more than ten lucky boats in the pioneer camp, these flattened speedboats, like insects lying on the surface of the sea, the sides and the bow of the ship spit out flames one after another, shooting towards the hull of the lucky boat. These lucky ships were originally arranged in formation, and they were very close to each other, but now they were huddled together and turned into ready-made targets for fire dragons, and it didn't take long for several ships to be ignited.

Because they were forced close by the pirate ship, the guns on these ships were also useless, and the sailors on the deck could only return fire with bows, but they were all blocked by the strong shell of the top of the centipede ship, and they could not hurt the pirates on the ship at all.

On the other hand, the three three-masted gunboats that had turned around and fled were chased closer and closer by more than a dozen sea falcon ships, and they were about to be caught up.

By now, the vanguard battalion, which had more than 50 warships, had been embarrassed by 20 pirate ships, and the "fish head array" that had been laid out before had collapsed!

Whether these five-way pirate ships were pursuing the three-masted gunboat or breaking into the formation of the Fu ship, they were all interspersed from an angle that was difficult to aim at the guns on both sides of the ship, and the method of the opposing general commanding the ship was exactly the same as the "thorn fin technique" used by Peng San to break through the "Thousand Scales Water Array" that day!

The pursuit lasted only half a column of incense, and two three-masted gunboats were caught up one after another, and three or four seafalcons each approached the side of the ship, and the pirates forced their way aboard, and the men and horses of both sides were already fighting on the deck. The soldiers of the Yuejing Naval Division are not strong, and they are no match for the pirates of the "Black Dragon Palace" in hand-to-hand combat, and it is only a matter of time before these two three-masted gunboats are captured.

And behind the flagship that Zhao Xuhai was riding, the four pirate ships were in hot pursuit, and they were already within a hundred zhang.

Seeing this scene, this Zhao Qian's face was like ashes, his lips trembled, and he was speechless. He is very clear in his heart, and now, no matter what order he gives again, it is impossible to save this defeated battle!

After a long time, Zhao Xuhai ordered: "Sun Li, hurry up and prepare the boat, we will abandon the boat together." ”

Sun Li showed a look of anger on his face, and said, "General, you must not! This ship is the flagship of the forward battalion, and you can't give it up!"