Chapter 146 Qian Song's Strategy

As the fleet on the side of the mixed river dragon gradually approaches, the upper bucket on the top of the mast can basically see the situation of the visitors. This time, the mixed river dragon gathered 16 large ships with two masts at a time, and there are more than a dozen single-malt boats to help.

In this way, the strength of the two sides can be seen that the shark gang is at a disadvantage in terms of the number of ships, but among the big ships on the side of the mixed river dragon, there are relatively few lucky boats, and the slightly smaller double mast sea boats such as bird boats and chase boats account for a relatively large proportion. In this way, the strength of the two sides is basically flattened. The combat effectiveness of the single-powned fishing boat is weak and can only be used for sneak attacks. Once it is started, it is not very useful.

However, once the two sides fall into a melee, these small boats brought by the mixed river dragon can no longer be ignored. They can completely rely on the advantages of small and flexible boats to cooperate with the big ships to attack the shark gang, so that all the ships on the shark gang have to be distracted and will be destroyed if they are not careful.

So Qian Song is not too nervous about such a situation at present, nor does he have the intention of giving up. He continues to lead the fleet north and drags the fleet to follow them.

Now Yu Xiaotian has seen Qian Song's idea. Qian Song is indeed rich in experience at sea and is very clear about their disadvantages. The other party is waiting for work. They are a long-distance attack. If they immediately fight with the mixed river dragon, they will suffer more, and the other party has a large number of ships, even if they fight, even if If it is the other party's boat, it will also be a big trouble.

So Qian Song's idea must be to brake, pulling the fleet of the mixed river dragon to turn around first. In this way, the slow boat on the side of the mixed river dragon will be gradually thrown behind because it can't keep up, and the rest is only the larger boats under the mixed river dragon.

In this way, the strength of both sides will be leveled, and even the Shark Gang can have a certain advantage.

To understand this point, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but look at Qian Song. After all, these guys have been wandering at sea for a long time. Each of them has a good set of things. They know very well how to deal with maritime conflicts and can quickly grasp the key.

If he had been asked to command the sea fire, I guess he would not have thought so much. If he couldn't do it well, he would take the fleet and rush directly to fight with his opponent. Naturally, there is no need to say that the chance of winning is estimated to be zero.

While observing the situation at sea, Yu Xiaotian secretly thought about it and kept summarizing it. He felt that this time, he was still right, otherwise he could not have learned so much.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also used his own understanding of naval warfare in later generations to compare the current situation. As far as he knows, after this era, due to the progress of ships and artillery, the West can load more and more artillery on their ships, and the hulls are getting bigger and bigger, higher, and more protective they are. The stronger it is, the mode of naval warfare has changed a lot.

In this era, the traditional side-and-hand combat and jump-hand combat have become more and more difficult. More often, Western warships have used artillery fire to attack enemy ships until they defeat the enemy.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, due to the stagnation of the development of ship technology and the limitations of the performance of the ship itself, although it also began to load artillery on the ship, it could not carry too heavy artillery, let alone many artillery, so the mode of maritime warfare was still traditional collision. , the white-edged battle is the main battle, fighting for ships and manpower, and the artillery battle has still not become the leading naval battle.

This time he followed, and the upcoming conflict was also carried out in this way. Next, it depends on who has high morale, whose command is flexible, and whose ship is stronger.

The pursuit of the two sides is still going on. After Qian Song took the fleet north for a while, he saw that he was about to approach the north pole pond, so he turned west again, crossed the waterway between the south pole pond and the north pole pond, and sailed to the north sea of the south pole pond.

The fleet of mixed river dragons who followed behind also turned together and continued to follow behind them, posing this vow to see the real chapter with the shark gang.

Yu Xiaotian observed his ship at this time. From this journey, he felt that the renovation of the Seawolf after this year was still good. After the bottom of the ship was cleaned up again, the resistance of the hull in the sea was reduced, plus the reinforcement of the mast and several hulls and the repair of sails, the ship's The speed of the ship has obviously improved a little. When accompanying Wang Hong's ship, many times he can easily keep up with Wang Hong and Fang An's boats without ordering to raise sails.

The speed is undoubtedly a very important thing when fighting at sea. In contrast, in the whole fleet of the Shark Gang, the speed of his Seawolf is also one of the best. During the march of the fleet, even if he uses half sail, he can easily keep up with the speed of the fleet, which makes him very satisfied. I have more confidence in my heart.

If he does a good job, he must first use his tools. Although his Sea Wolf is not eye-catching in the fleet, it is not as strong as the lucky ship, the manpower is not as many as other ships, and the firepower is relatively weak, but his ship is fast and more flexible. This is also the reason why Wang Hong valued him and has always asked him to accompany him.

What Wang Hong valued is the flexibility and speed of his sea wolf. With him, it is undoubtedly equivalent to giving Wang Hong more protection.

Anyway, Yu Xiaotian is optimistic about the situation. At least even if he can't win, he has the ability to protect himself.

Taking this opportunity, he walked around the ship and talked and laughed with his men. At this time, most of the people on the ship seemed to be very nervous. Like Yu Xiaotian, they experienced such a battle for the first time. Although they have not started yet, they have seen so many ships. Chasing it still makes many people nervous.

But when they saw Yu Xiaotian wandering around the boat with a relaxed face and laughed with them from time to time, they suddenly made them feel more relaxed. Since their boss was not afraid, they were much more confident. Invisibly, Yu Xiaotian's performance eased many tensions on the ship.

Not only Xiaotian also checked the preparations on the ship. Seeing the blackhead and others put two boxes of * filled with whale oil on the deck without any cover, he still scolded the blackhead for immediately putting the two boxes * under the side of the ship and covering them with something. If they were shot with a rocket , he suffered from the ship. This thing was prepared for the enemy and could not be used on his own ship.

In addition, he also took this opportunity to check the preparations everywhere on the ship. At this time, all the personnel on the ship were basically ready, especially those related to damage management, wooden barrels. At this time, they have been filled with water and bags of sand. There are also a few microphones, which are also placed in a desirable place to reach out.

Including the spare sail cable, which is also placed under the mast at this time and can be used at any time. Everything is prepared according to the plan they could think of before.

Even in order to prevent the destruction of the ship by the rocket, the sailors also used barrels or buckets to hit the sea water and wet the sail and the whole surface of the ship. Although this increased the weight of the sail, it could effectively prevent the sail from being ignited quickly after the rocket was hit, fighting for the rocket. It has reached a certain time.

All these preparations made Yu Xiaotian very satisfied. As for the weapons, several bundles of arrows, as well as several birds and fire, have been loaded, and the fire rope can be fired at any time.

With the passage of time, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, but at this time, the upper bucket reported on the mast. After going around this big circle, the sloops in the mixed river dragon fleet have been left far behind at this time, leaving only more than a dozen large boats under the command of the mixed river dragon. At this time, they are still Behind them.

Yu Xiaotian took a deep breath and said in his heart that it was almost done. I guess it was time to start.

At this time, it's already the afternoon application time. If they don't start, they won't be able to fight with the mixed river dragon today. Once it gets dark and then carry out naval battles under such conditions, it will be Qian Song's crazy. In the dark night, the current technical conditions can't be effectively commanded at all. Once there is a fight, it will definitely be a big scuffle.

So Yu Xiaotian guessed that if Qian Song wanted to do it, it would be this time.

Sure enough, when Xiaotian was thinking about this, Wang Hongchuan sent a message and told Yu Xiaotian that the fleet began to turn right and was ready to turn around.

Yu Xiaotian immediately understood that it was time to start.

Under the leadership of Qian Song's boat, the fleet of the Shark Gang circled in the wide waters north of Nanwantang and gradually turned around to meet the fleet of the following mixed river dragons. At this time, although they did not grab the absolute limelight, they also got a good angle of wind. The fleet rose up The code is no longer in a headwind state.

And when the Hujianglong's fleet saw that the fleet of the Shark Gang began to turn around, it also began to turn and rush towards the fleet of the Shark Gang.

The atmosphere on the sea immediately became more tense, and the roar of the leaders came from all the ships. The pirates were either busy adjusting their sails or clenched their weapons and were ready to fight.

More than 30 ships, divided into two groups, walked towards each other, like two wolves, and began to rush towards each other. Everyone's heart was as heavy as a big stone. The pirates who were shouting just now closed their mouths.

This time, unlike when they used to rob merchant ships, they all know that the other party is a pirate like them and is by no means a docile sheep. While they want to tear each other up, the other party is also trying to tear them up.