The two fleets were indeed retreating, but in a hurry, the left flank of the Japanese fleet was cut by the other side, and under the strange short-barreled artillery bombardment of the other side, the several ships rushing in front were all hit and ignited, and they collapsed on the sea and burned! Liu Pei's fleet fought a bloody way out before the left flank and the main formation were closed, and broke out! The desperate counterattack of the Japanese fleet only caused them minor damage.

Just when the left flank of the Japanese fleet merged with the main formation and was preparing to pursue, the right flank that was retreating was followed by Wu Yizhou's fleet. Wu Yizhou's fleet also approached to a distance of less than 200 meters, and also ripped off the cloth covering the short-barreled cannon, so that the flowering bomb showed its might!

Although the fleet of the Japanese Kingdom tried their best to fight back, their artillery was inferior to Liu Pei's fleet in terms of both quantity and caliber. So in a very short time, Wu Yizhou's fleet crushed the rearguard on the right flank! A dozen ships were left either burning or sinking. An equal number of ships escaped wounded.

When the furious commander of the right-wing fleet commanded the fleet to turn its bow, the fleet also turned around and sailed away. However, they did not hurry to keep a distance from the right wing fleet of the Japanese State, and kept bombarding the opponent with tail guns!

When Wu Yizhou's fleet lured the right wing fleet to chase after him, the commander of the right wing fleet of the Japanese State did not notice that he had made a huge mistake at all! He focused all his attention on Wu Yizhou's fleet, but he didn't watch out for the other fleet led by Liu Pei cutting directly to his flank after bypassing his main formation!

It's something that can't be helped. In the wars of this era, all kinds of messages were transmitted slowly. Especially in the dense battlefield, there is gunsmoke everywhere, which can obscure the eyes of the lookout! The sound of cannons drowned out the sound of drums and trumpets. The chaotic battlefield itself makes it difficult to detect the opponent's movements.

In such a chaotic situation, it would take a long time to discover the adversary from the ships on the periphery and then pass the message to the command in the center of the fleet. Wait for the feedback to come back, and it will take longer. Therefore, operations in this era often emphasize more on the individual play of grassroots commanders.

Liu Pei's fleet cut into the right flank

Behind the flank, at close range the inside of the artillery bombardment. Since the right flank had just turned to try to chase Wu Yizhou's fleet, it was itself in semi-confusion. The sudden appearance of Liu Pei's fleet caused a huge chaos on their rear flank!

The bombardment of heavy artillery and the explosion of flowering shells constantly sounded on the sea. In just twenty minutes, Liu Pei's fleet fired a massive number of cannonballs! More than 30 ships were severely damaged. Eight of the ships were on fire, and half of the remaining ships were in danger of sinking.

At the time of the First and Second World Wars, when there were already rapid means of communication and observation, the size of each fleet would not be very large.

Taking an aircraft carrier battle group as an example, there will never be more than two heavy capital carriers in each aircraft carrier battle group. There will also be no more than two other light aircraft carriers on escort duty. The reason is very simple, it is that you can't command! Even a genius general, plus a group of genius staff officers, can't command it!

According to the calculations of mathematicians, the limit of any general's command ability is four aircraft carriers. Among them, there must be no more than two heavy aircraft carriers as the main force! Otherwise you'll just wait for chaos in the fleet!

Now the Japanese fleet has made this mistake. There are so many ships in each of their fleets that they far exceed the commander's personal capabilities! What's more, they don't have the assistance of a staff team at the moment. So in the case of slow information transmission, the flank and rear of Liu Pei's fleet caused great chaos. When the commander stopped the pursuit, Zhu Hui's fleet launched a defense. Liu Pei's fleet had already seized the time and slipped away before the arrival of the main formation and the left flank of the Japanese fleet.

Liu Pei left, and he took the main formation and left flank of the Japanese fleet to the open sea. At this time, Wu Yizhou's fleet swooped over again!

Just now, when Liu Pei attacked the left flank fleet, Wu Yizhou had already seized the time to repair the broken sails and damaged planks and treat the injured sailors. By the way, the gunners got a certain break. So he rushed over in an almost heyday! First of all, it overwhelmed the left flank fleet of the Wa Kingdom in momentum!

The left flank fleet suffered

After a series of blows, morale inevitably dropped somewhat. In addition, they are always in a tense state of combat, and their physical strength decreases faster. Although they set up a defensive circle formation this time, they still retreated step by step under Wu Yizhou's blow. Dropped again. After more than a dozen ships, they were picked up by the town, forcing Wu Yizhou's fleet to leave!

At this moment, Masaji Miura is already going crazy! His fleet is much larger than Liu Pei's, but he is like a powerful giant dealing with a nimble little monkey with a dagger! The arm that is swung out vigorously is obviously empty but not flexible enough, and often hits in the air. Not to mention wasting his strength in vain, he will be dodged by this nimble little monkey, and he can also stab him a few times!

However, although Miura was angry, he did not let the anger overwhelm his reason. He had already seen that in the vast sea, he could not contain these two fleets at all.

And he also saw the intentions of these two fleets. These two fleets are clearly using themselves as two hammers, taking turns to hammer on the iron block of Miura Shoji! Each blow will knock countless pieces of slag out on him! Once or twice, it can withstand it. If you do it a few more times, I'm afraid the iron will be deformed and shattered!

Massaji Miura immediately ordered all the fleets to shrink into a circle and began to slowly retreat. Prepare to go to war again after putting things in order. And Liu Pei and his two fleets swam around them, circling around the Japanese fleet like sharks hunting sardines, and pounced on them from time to time to take a bite! But Miura Masacji never gave them a chance to bite hard, and the losses were relatively light every time.

Although Liu Pei and Wu Yizhou can succeed every time, in the face of a large number of opponents, Liu Pei is also a dog biting hedgehog and has nowhere to go. There are so many other parties, and if you are not careful, you will be entangled by each other. Later, there will be a broadside battle. So Liu Pei didn't dare to approach this round hedgehog easily at all!

The circle has such benefits. When you attack any point on his edge, this point of Yuan Zhenyuan's circle will retract inward like a balloon being held down, and the wings will stretch out two arms to wrap you, and you will be wrapped if you are not careful!