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At this point, Yue Xiaofei's laziness could be regarded as coming to an end. A Xu Heita and a Huang Tiema, the two of them generally pay attention to his morning exercises, and it is Huang Gu who is in charge here.

So when Yue Xiaofei started the military meeting, he was still disgraced after participating in the morning training. Moreover, the current military conference is no longer what it was when the Tiger Leap was fighting. The current officers sit in two long columns, and the scale is several times larger. Moreover, the presiding over military meetings also seems to be much more decent than in the past.

As the person in charge of the theater, Huang Gu first gave a brief introduction to the combat situation in the previous period: "...... The Jiangnan base launched an operation...... During the large-scale replenishment of supplies to the Gangnam base, the soldiers who died in battle ...... The commander of the convoy, Cheng Zhaoji, was killed in battle with the enemy fleet ....... ”

Yue Xiaofei has always buried Zheng Zhaoji's death in his heart, although this matter has never been revealed between his lips and teeth, but Zheng Zhaoji's gentle and passionate eyes often echo in his heart. And this is also the first time that a senior general of the Shenzhou Army has been killed.

"Can anyone tell us about the death of Zheng Zhaoji, the commander of the escort fleet?"

When Yue Xiaofei made this request, the faces of the officers in the big seat all turned cold, and none of them could forget the nervousness and disappointment they felt when they heard the news.

"The naval ...... of the Shenzhou Army The invincible navy has lost its commander! ”

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It was just when he had just returned to Mingyue Bay in China from Fusang to escort a large number of ships pulling supplies. Within a few days, he set off again because of the task of supplying to the Taihu Lake base.

According to the requirements of the flying pigeon transmission at the Taihu base, a large number of weapons and combat equipment will be transported to the Taihu base, and a certain amount of food supplements and medical supplies will also be transported.

These items were loaded onto an entire "Whale-class amphibious landing ship", and after approaching, these items would be dispersed and transported ashore by the Barracuda-class. On the shore, the Salt Gang and other members of the military intelligence bureau will pick them up, and they will disperse the supplies from the waterways south of the Yangtze River to the middle of Taihu Lake.

Although the loss of materials will be considerable, there is still a considerable amount of materials sent to Taihu Lake. Of course, these things can only be done at night.

After receiving a response from the shore, the Flying Fish-class speedboats will begin to go to sea, and they will go back and forth between the coast and the warship several times until all the cargo is landed.

Zheng Zhaoji used a detachment of six frigates, a total of 30 warships, to escort the "whale-class amphibious assault ship" transporting supplies. Because in any case, even if there is a brutal naval battle, the supplies must be sent ashore, otherwise the Shenzhou army will suffer great losses.

Taking advantage of the twilight, the fleet broke into Hangzhou Bay, and soon met the light code with the people on the shore, and the "whale-class amphibious assault ship" began to unload smoothly.

In the clear sky, the moon and stars adorn the sea. The figure of the battleship was faintly visible in the night, and the "Exocet-class" speedboats rushed towards the shore with their tracks in tow.

Seeing that everything was going smoothly, Zheng Zhaoji turned his head in satisfaction and looked away from the coast. It was his patrol, the group of enemies, they didn't just appear here, in the past few days, Zheng Zhaoji sent a detachment to do the same thing, as much as possible to give the enemy the illusion that they were carrying out normal patrol duties.

As in previous nights, the 10 "Fury Tide-class" frigates turned on their headlights, and from time to time they placed one or two "flares" to illuminate the nearby seas. Their purpose is to attract the attention of enemy forces and cover the security of transport clusters hidden in the dark.

Although everything is normal, Zheng Zhaoji still has a vague nervousness in his heart. Under his orders, the ships strengthened their observation forces and were ready for battle at any time.

Cheng Zhaoji's deployment is undoubtedly quite standard. Show it in form, but also in the momentum. However, if he knew who he was up against, he would be more careful. In particular, when this person gets some kind of news, it is even more difficult to guard against.

Zheng Zhilong received news from Huang Mingjun and learned that Shenzhou City had purchased a large amount of grain from Fujian, according to which he believed that Shenzhou City's reinforcement of the enemy army in Taihu Lake was just around the corner, because special arrangements had been made.

He knew very well that when he didn't know the unloading location of the Shenzhou army on the shore, the use of soldiers and horses on the shore was almost useless to the dense cobweb-like waterway in the south of the Yangtze River, so all he could do was to find a way from the sea.

First of all, the Dutch naval fleet was lying to the outside world that it was preparing to return home, leaving Hangzhou Bay hidden among the small islands of the Zhoushan Islands. At the same time, the warships from the north were secretly dispatched to the south to join Huck's warships in the Zhoushan Islands. In this way, the damaged intelligence network of the Military Intelligence Bureau in Jiangnan was concealed.

When Zheng Zhaoji led the supply fleet to pass through Zhoushan at dusk, the battleships that had been ambushed also followed far away to the favorable position behind the supply fleet. At the same time, carrier pigeons were bought in Hangzhou, and Zheng Zhilong boarded nearly 100 war ships moored on the Qiantang River to press the supply fleet from the middle of the river.

As a result, the battle with the greatest losses since the establishment of the Shenzhou Navy is about to begin.

The naval battle began when the 125 warships led by Zheng Zhilong arrived, and the warships of the Qing army here were no longer the ordinary warships of the Ming army or the Qing army in the past. As we said earlier, Zheng Zhilong modified his own warship with reference to the Dutch ship. His ships were equipped with sixty guns, and thirty-six waterwheels added to them, which increased the maneuverability of the ships, and of course it was an unknown move to engage in a night battle with what Lemo called "terrible fast ships", and he came up with another good idea.

Zheng Zhilong commanded one hundred and twenty-five warships to rush along the coast to search northeast, only the land in that direction was closest to Taihu Lake, and it was also one of the places where the other side might choose to unload.

The battle was fought first by the Fury Tide-class frigates.

"Commander Zheng, we have found enemy warships in the rear, it is estimated that they are Dutch Navy warships and there are several Chinese warships in coordination, the details of which are unknown."

"Order patrols to lure enemy groups to attack, use salvos as much as possible during the battle, and at the same time entangle enemy warships as much as possible on the premise of luring enemy ships to move in the direction of Zhoushan."

Zheng Zhaoji stared at the illuminated chart, on which staff officers had placed several small ship models representing different warships in the direction east of the patrol group.

Soon, the patrol lure group started a naval battle with Vice Admiral Lemo and the Qing warships. Although the warships of the Shenzhou Navy were much smaller than Vice Admiral Lemo's Dutch battleships, their salvo was not an easy thing to deal with.