Chapter 179 Attack

Sure enough, he soon received the news that his men met Yu Xiaotian's fleet in the northeast of Daya Bay. They were completely destroyed by Yu Xiaotian's fleet. There was only one small Clipper and finally escaped. More than a dozen people on the boat that escaped, one by one, they were scared. His face was pale, and when he mentioned the sea wolf's fleet, he shivered one by one.

Liu Xiang also really knows the power of the sea wolf fleet. It has an absolute advantage over the firepower of Shanghai Wolf ships. Even their smallest warships are equipped with more guns than the cannons loaded on the big ship he has, and all the sea wolf ships are equipped with new Hongyi cannons, which are powerful firepower and range. Far away, the gunners of the sea wolf department are also good at gunfire and are very accurate.

So they have an absolute advantage in quantity, but in terms of firepower, they still can't fight against the sea wolf fleet.

The opinions of Zheng Yiguan and Liu Xiang are unified. The result of the discussion is that if they want to win, they can only win by using sneak attacks at night to launch a surprise attack on Xiaotian's fleet.

So after calculating the time and distance, they set out from the Pearl River Estake and rushed to Daya Bay. The purpose was to enter Daya Bay after nightfall and launch a fierce attack on the sea wolf's fleet before dawn.

This time they sacrificed the old magic weapon of the naval battle, that is, the fire attack tactic. In their fleet, this time they brought at least 200 pieces full of firewood, sprinkled with sulfur saltpetre and fire oil, and covered them with oilcloth. The bow was nailed with iron nails. Just after waiting for the fleet close to the sea wolf, they set fire by the wind. , put the fire ship into the enemy's fleet, and take advantage of the chaos, even if the sea wolf's fleet can't be completely killed, at least they will suffer heavy losses.

So the whole fleet, led by Liu Xiang, gathered into a dark piece on the sea and sailed towards Daya Bay.

Before nightfall, they finally entered the Sanmen Island sea at the southeast corner of Daya Bay, and then took another step forward into Daya Bay.

But by this time, it had gradually darkened. Liu Xiang had to order the fleet to evacuate and enter Daya Bay in batches. These people were put together temporarily. There was no unified order, and there was no rehearsal in advance. If they kept a dense array of ships at night, they would inevitably ask questions. Question.

In addition, they dare not hang a large number of angry wind lanterns or light balls to mark their positions. In that case, if they can't reach the anchored berth of the sea wolf, they will be found by the sea wolf, and then they will lose the possibility of a raid.

So Liu Xiang ordered the fleet to evacuate and let the fire ship walk in the front. The rest of the ships dispersed into a fleet, following the fireship and slowly moving towards the anchorage of the sea wolf.

Fortunately, the weather was very sunny, the moon was in the sky, and the sea was not very dark. Each ship only lit two small lanterns in the bow and stern to mark their positions. They are not allowed to hang lanterns on the mast, so as not to be found by enemy ships far away.

Zheng Yiguan can be regarded as the most familiar person with the sea wolf. In the past few years, he fought a lot with Yu Xiaotian, but in the end he was defeated and ran away, so he tried his best to collect many examples of the sea wolf fleet fighting at sea, carried out careful research and summed up a lot of things.

After his careful collation, he found that in several large-scale naval battles, the sea wolf used the tactics of sneak attack in the early morning, attacked the enemy unprepared, and finally won a great victory.

So this time, Liu Xiang made a decision. After the battle between Daya Bay and the sea wolf, he took the initiative and proposed to repay him in his own way. He also used the tactics of the sea wolf. In the early morning, he attacked the sea wolf's fleet anchorage, first disrupted the sea wolf's fleet, and then launched a group fight to annihilate it in one fell swoop. In the bay.

After hearing this, Liu Xiang was deeply convinced and felt that Zheng Yiguan's plan was good. They had little chance of winning against the sea wolves, and only strange soldiers could win. A sneak attack in the early morning was a good way, so even if they adopted his suggestion.

However, night sneak attack has a strong technical content, and not everyone can play it. There are problems with the night flight technology itself in this era, and the communication conditions and contact conditions are still in the original state. Obviously, ordinary people can't do it if they want to organize successful sneak attacks.

And the sea wolf can do it because they are of the same heart, the masses dare to use their lives, and have made full preparation and drills in advance, which Liu Xiang and others do not have.

When so many pirates come together, everyone has the same idea, which is to consume other people's strength as much as possible and preserve their own strength. It would be really strange if such an idea can make people use their lives and dare to compete for the first place.

And the first batch of people they selected on the fireboat as the death squad did not sign up voluntarily, but adopted the fishing method, that is, to grab the lot and whoever catches it.

As a result, everyone who catches the lot is like a mourning and can only accept their fate. These people are very clear about the danger of operating the fire ship.

The fire ship must first sail to a place very close to the anchorage of the enemy ship before it can ignite the fuel on the ship, rely on the wind to push the ship, continue to rush to the enemy ship, and finally hit the enemy ship and die together with the enemy ship.

After lighting the fire boat, the boatman must control the ship for a period of time before abandoning the boat and jump into the sea to escape. Otherwise, the boat may deviate from the route and eventually crash into the enemy ship formation.

If there are more fierce people, they can drive the fire boat directly until they hit the enemy ship and then jump into the sea to escape. In that case, the probability of escape will be very low. The people on the enemy ship can easily shoot these people who jumped into the sea in the light of fire.

Therefore, if you really want to succeed in the fire attack, there are high requirements for the psychological quality of personnel, requiring boat drivers to be brave and dare to fight desperately.

It's a pity that Liu Xiang's group lacks this spirit. Few of the people who operate the fireboat are people who dare to die. All of them are people with their own thoughts and small calculations.

When Liu Xiang ordered the fleet to evacuate and the fire fleet walked in front of the anchorage of the sea wolf fleet, the guys on the fireship suddenly became nervous.

In order not to be found by the enemy early at night, they dared not light enough lights on the ship. They could only light a small light at the stern of the ship. A little farther away, they could not see these lights clearly. More than 200 fireboats did not dare to evacuate too far, so as soon as they walked out, a ship began to collide.

The functions of these fireships are only disposables, so the major pirates will never take out the best ships as fireships.

So these fire boats are picked up by them. Some ships that have been scrapped are either seriously leaking or the hull is rotten. It is usually dangerous to go to sea. This time, they have run so far and sail at night, which makes it extremely unbearable.

Some ships have been leaking all the way, and the hull has been leaking. It takes the people on the ship to keep draining to ensure that the ship does not sink. After night, these people become nervous, and the ship can't light up too much lighting, making the ship a black hole, and even drainage can't be carried out.

Therefore, the leaking ship began to drool deeper and deeper when it was not far away. There was more and more water in the hull. There were very few ships that even sank directly. The people on the ship jumped into the sea to escape under the black lights and fire. However, at this time, many people did not even know the direction and could only go in one direction. Swimming desperately, God knows where he can swim.

Once there is a collision, many of these dilapidated ships will immediately get a lot of water. In addition, the ship itself is loaded with a lot of firewood, and there is no way to save them. Soon they will sink into the water.

As a result, the fire fleet didn't go far and became a mess. The people on the ship shouted, and there were many people who cursed. There was no way to sneak up the enemy!

The several leaders who are responsible for leading the fire ship are as big as fighting and have the intention to command, but who can listen to their greetings in such a dark light?

So the fire fleet looks like a large group, but before it is halfway through, the fleet has already become a mess.

Some fireboats even walked halfway and secretly began to lift the firewood on the ship into the sea. After reducing the load, they extinguished the lights on the ship, closely followed the moonlight in the sky, changed their course without authorization, secretly slowed down, left the fleet, and then turned around and sailed to the sea, and escaped from the battle.

Liu Xiang and others led their own fleet, divided them into several fleets, distanced each other, followed the fire fleet, and slowly sailed towards the anchorage of the sea wolf fleet. They did not know what happened to the fire fleet in front of them. Occasionally, someone was on the way forward, and the ships hit some scattered in the sea. The fragments of the hull on the surface, and even some boats will hit a broken ship that half sunk into the water, making everyone afraid that their boat will be damaged if they are not careful.

Fortunately, Liu Xiang's men were very familiar with the sea situation in the area of Daya Bay, so they did not encounter any greater trouble. The fleet slowly drifted towards the anchorage of the sea wolf at low speed.

Outside the anchorage of the Sea Wolf Team, there were more than 20 small sentry ships that did not rest and continued to shuttle back and forth several miles around the anchorage, inspecting the situation on the sea around the anchorage.

Time passed little by little. In the middle of the night, the sailors on the ship were already very tired, but they still persisted and dared not relax at all. The officers on the ship would often patrol back and forth on the deck to check the status of the personnel on duty. If they found someone secretly doze off when they were on duty, but It won't be easy.

But the good thing is that these people on duty are not on duty all night. After they enter the night, they will change shifts for two hours, so the sailors on the ship can still insist.