Chapter 200 Harden your scalp

Although the training of officers and sailors was insufficient, at this time, under the order of Yu Zhigao, no one dared to neglect them. Unexpectedly, most of the ships quickly used the berth and began to gather on the sea.

The generals, including Yu Zhigao, also boarded their boats and began to leave the shore and merged into the fleet assembled on the sea. They began to command the fleet to gather in the center, and slowly turned the bow towards the east of Nanri Island.

When the officers and troops had not yet fully gathered on the sea, a huge fleet began to appear on the northeast corner of Nanri Island and sailed towards the officers' sailors through the wind and waves.

Yu Zhigao's eyes suddenly shrank, and his heart seemed to have been clenched. It is reasonable that the number of the officers and marine fleet he leads now is no less than sea wolves, and there are more than 200, reaching more than 200, which do not seem to be bad in quality, more than half of them are lucky boats.

However, after seeing the sea wolf's fleet, he couldn't help feeling a palpitation. He quickly took out the monocular he bought at a high price. The magnification of this kind of telescope is not high, which is only two or three times at most, but in the Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing is still rare. When he came to the front of his eyes, he began to observe carefully.

But the more he looked, the worse his face became, because through this telescope, he actually saw two tall Western-style splint boats in the sea wolf's fleet, which were coming towards his fleet as their core.

Yu Zhigao has dealt with red-haired people many times, and has been to Macao on business. Of course, he has also seen some large splint ships. He is very clear about the power of large splint ships. These ships have two or even three-story gun compartments. The hull is unusually tall and strong, and can carry a large number of artillery, comparable to one There are as many as ten warships of the army and navy, which is extremely difficult to deal with.

In the past two years, the officers and the red-haired man fought many times, and they were beaten to fight back in the face of such a big splint ship, but he didn't expect that today he also saw two such warships in the sea wolf's fleet.

Now he began to regret that he should not have easily let the red-haired fleet leave here a few days ago. Now he is almost sure that the sea wolf has found that the red-haired fleet has left here, which will encourage the crowd to come here.

And he felt that this time, I'm afraid it's not as simple as he thought. The sea wolf has no intention of giving up Nanri Island at all. If this Nanri Island doesn't sound good, it may be a bait thrown by the sea wolf to them. The sea wolf is not afraid of them. It is likely that the sea wolf is waiting for them. After the army gathered on Nanri Island, they were sent to them.

Thinking of this, Yu Zhigao was immediately shocked and felt cool in his heart, as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and his whole body was covered with a cold sweat.

The generals who followed Yu Zhigao were immediately shocked after seeing the formation of the sea wolf fleet. Although they had already heard that the strength of the sea wolf was so strong, they did not expect that they were so strong.

It seems that the number of their fleets does not seem to be very large, but after careful inspection, they know that the strength of such a fleet is far stronger than their fleet.

Although Chu Cailao and several pirate bosses in Guangdong claimed to have more than 1,000 ships and tens of thousands of them, in fact, the real number of ships above the swell of a large ship is not very large. Among the hundreds of ships, there can be dozens to hundreds of larger twells. Even if the boat is quite good, the rest are basically some small swed fishing boats or simply larger sampons.

The sea wolf fleet they saw today is almost all two-masted ships. The kind of sea boats that can go to sea, and I'm afraid that the smallest ones are also some 200 ships. Needless to mention the large ships that look at least 600 materials, what scares them more is that there are two of them. A large Western-style splint boat.

At this time, the hearts of all the generals were raised to their throats, and they knew exactly where the gap between their fleet and the other was.

Let's not talk about training, let's talk about these ships. Many of their fleets are old ships. There are only a dozen new lucky ships, and others are forcibly sealed larger merchant ships requisitioned by the government.

And although they have been equipped with a lot of Hongyi cannons recently, there are not many Hongyi cannons on these ships, because the Hongyi cannons are too heavy. Every time a ship is loaded, the ship must be greatly modified to withstand the weight of these Hongyi cannons, often A ship can only hold one door, and it can't fire casually to the side of the ship. In order to level the center of gravity of the ship, thousands of pounds of stones should be added under the lower tail cabin of the hull, making the ship stupid and stupid.

Speaking of which, the Hongyi cannon is very powerful, but they have not practiced how many times to fire cannons at sea. No one knows how accurate the gunner's head is.

But the sea wolf is different, because the sea wolf is rumored to be able to cast cannons. After they landed on Nanri Island, they inspected the burned and abandoned workshop area, and some traces in the ruins can see that the sea wolf was originally set here to make cannons. From these smashed iron furnaces and casting tables, they can It is judged that the sea wolf does have the ability to cast its own artillery.

From a casting platform that has been demolished, they even judged that the cannons cast by the sea wolf must not be some light cannons, but some considerable heavy cannons.

If the sea wolf can cast cannons by themselves, then they must have a lot of cannons in their hands. Previously, they were secretly glad that fortunately, the sea wolf retreated in the difficulties and gave up Nanri Island and did not carry them here, otherwise they would definitely be ugly.

But I didn't think that when they had surpassed the Beijing master, the sea wolf killed them back, and even gathered so many warships and rushed straight to them.

At this time, all the soldiers who stayed here sank to the bottom of the sea and became cold. They knew that they would be in trouble today.

Just as Yu Zhigao organized the officer's sailors to go to sea to fight, Yu Xiaotian also observed the fleet of the officers' sailors with binoculars on the New Wave in the fleet.

From afar, you can see the sea surface of the northern waters of Nanri Island. At this time, a large number of official ships appeared, with various flags, including the flag of the Ming Dynasty and the flag of military generals. In the middle of a boat, there is a handsome flag, with a word Yu in the middle. You can know that this is Yu Zhigao's ship. .

Although the number of warships of the army seems to be very large, in fact, it is not much different from the number of ships of sea wolves, but only has a little advantage.

However, if compared with the quality, it is a little ridiculous, because the sea wolf's warships are all selected ships in good condition, and in addition to those flying dhows, most of them are two-masted ships, and the smallest is also nearly 200 ships.

Moreover, these ships have been carefully maintained and modified to a certain extent, so that they can carry more artillery. Among them, the main warships have also changed the steering mechanism, so that the operational performance and navigation performance of the ships have been greatly improved, and the firepower is far stronger than that of ordinary Chinese warships.

With little difference in the number of the two sides, the strength of the sea wolf's fleet actually exceeds that of its opponent, which is why he did not use surprise attacks this time to deal with officers and sailors.

Since he wants to make his navy bigger, he can't just think about winning. In the past, when he dealt with Chu Cai's old man, it was because his strength was not as strong as Chu Cai's strength, so he had to adopt a surprise attack method to solve Chu Cai's boat regiment.

To deal with the Dutch, it is because the Dutch warships have strong firepower. If they fight hard, it will cause great losses to their sea wolves. In addition, he will have to take bigger actions to wait for him. He can't let the main ship damage him too much.

But now that the Dutch fleet has been killed by him, he has nothing to worry about. Although there seems to be a large number of officers and sailors, in his opinion, it is actually a standard foreign force, which is not useful.

If he still has to adopt a surprise attack against such an opponent, then he really underestimates his own fleet.

The growth of a navy must let them do a few games with the enemy to play their spirit and erect their spirit. With surprise victory alone, it is impossible to condense into the true spirit of the navy.

So this time he decided not to do any small actions, directly gathered all the main fleet forces, and killed them back to Nanri Island, so that the officers and soldiers of the navy would know their own strength through this battle, and also set up a determination to win against the officers and soldiers through this battle. This is very necessary for him to play against Daming in the future.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer with the passage of time. Even if they don't go through the telescope, the soldiers on both sides can clearly see the situation of each other's fleet. At this time, the fleet of officers and soldiers obviously began to appear in some chaos. Some ships on the periphery began to turn their rudder and try to leave here. Some began to close the sails and lowered the speed of the ship.

Yu Zhigao took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed his fear. After all, he is the commander of the suppression of the sea wolf this time. Anyway, he has no reason to admit defeat now. Although he must admit that the strength of the sea wolf is indeed beyond his expectations, if he escapes now, Then he won't want to hang out in Daming anymore.

Even if he has a relationship with Wei Zhongxian, once this kind of thing spreads, he will definitely be criticized by the scholars all over the world. Although scholars have no power to bind chickens, their mouths can kill people.

So even if it is the Wei Party, I'm afraid he will have to draw a clear line with him in the end. At that time, I'm afraid no one can save him. There is another point about his face. You should know that his father is Yu Dayu, the original famous anti-Japanese general. As the son of a famous general, he has not met the enemy. First of all, let's wipe the oil under your feet. If you do this, I'm afraid even your ancestors will be completely smeared.

So anyway, he has to fight. As for defeat, that is no longer the most important thing.

(Today, I will continue to thank the reward of my brother! It's so face-to-face! Thank you very much!)