After all the calculations, Li Tianyang never thought that the Ryukyu pirates, who were supposed to be the target of the rescue, suddenly turned back in the end and launched an attack on the Hongmen fleet that came to rescue them and solve the culprit for them.

People's hearts are really a difficult thing to figure out, Li Tianyang couldn't have imagined that some time ago, he was still fighting to the death, and even the head of the Liu San pirates was beheaded by the Flying Dragon Gang, just a signal to ascend to heaven, this group of pirate leaders who should have been grateful to the Hongmen who gave birth to a helping hand, Gong Zhuyi, Xu Fei and other pirate leaders, turned the gun and shot a black gun at the Hongmen soldiers who were killing with the Flying Dragon Gang in front.

In an instant, the formation of the Hongmen warriors who were pressing step by step was almost broken by the black hand that suddenly stretched out from behind.

Although the Hongmen warriors quickly reacted, and some of the warriors turned their backs and fought with the pirate coalition, the battle damage caused by this sudden blow alone was comparable to the losses caused by the long battle between the Hongmen and the Wyvern Gang before.

It's no wonder that more than 30 pirates stood out and fought against more than 10 warships of the Wyvern Gang, and they couldn't open the situation for a long time, but now that they think about it, everything is clear.

It was precisely because Li Tianyang and they thought that the other party's progress was slow, so that the twenty warships of the Hongmen fare squeezed into the opponent's battle line, and also let the twenty warships of the Hongmen fleet squeeze into the encirclement of the other party in disguise, and they were forced into it by themselves, how stupid it is to think about it now.

Now, because of the opponent's rebellion, the 20 warships of Hongmen, which were squeezed on the front line of the battlefield and basically unable to move, could only withstand the attacks from the front and rear.

By the time Li Tianyang's order came, even if these Hongmen soldiers wanted to abandon the ship and leave, it would be impossible.

The only thing that was good news for Hongmen was that although Li Tianyang and the more than ten warships they added later were close to the fierce battlefield, they couldn't squeeze into the battlefield for a while, and most of them were still waiting to enter the battlefield on the periphery of the battlefield.

At this time, the rebellion of the pirate army, although it also caught these peripheral Hongmen soldiers off guard, but after all, they did not fight on both sides like the soldiers in front, but the attack from the pirates, for them, it was easy to deal with.

It was also the help of his companions behind him that the Hongmen soldiers who were surrounded in front did not lose hope, so they still defended firmly, and as the battle progressed, more and more Hongmen soldiers converged with each other and gradually gained a firm foothold in the central battlefield.

At this time, hundreds of zhang outside the coastline of the nameless island, eighty or ninety warships were crowded together, and even joined together for a short time, like an artificially built island, so that the warriors of the three sides had ample fighting grounds.

The pirate fleet had to squeeze the space for the Hongmen fleet to maneuver in this way, so as to prevent the other party from breaking out in the boat, and it was not a fraud that their gang was severely damaged by the Wyvern. It's just that the only thing that Li Tianyang didn't expect was that just two days before Li Tianyang and them set foot in the Ryukyu Pirate Zone, the last line of defense of their pirate fleet was actually broken by the Flying Dragon Gang, and in order to survive, their gang was forced to join the Flying Dragon Gang.

As for how the pirate front was broken by the Flying Dragon Gang, it was a wonderful story, and soon the outer guards would explain the reason to Li Tianyang and explain the reason for him, but at this time, Li Tianyang had long been unable to take care of those things, and he was in a hurry to find a way to relieve the Hongmen warriors in the inner circle.

Mines have existed since the Song and Yuan dynasties, but the mines at this time are not like the mines of later generations, which will not explode when they are put into the water and wait until they hit the ship, but with the mechanism of delayed detonation, estimating the enemy ship that they are chasing after the enemy, and then calculating the detonation time and then pushing it into the water to block the enemy.

It is precisely because of this troublesome way of operation that the use of mines in the Ming Dynasty is not extensive, and this time Li Tianyang and they carried this mine not only because they wanted to verify the use of mines in actual combat, but also because there was a reason that was not known for the time being, so I will not show it here for the time being.

Thanks to carrying these mines, Li Tianyang and his more than 20 warships got rid of the pursuit of more than 10 warships under Zheng Zhilong's command behind him.

In the dim night, Zheng Zhilong's department, which was eager to chase after the Hongmen warships and buy enough time for his own heavy damage to most of the Hongmen fleet, did not check for a while, and the three warships in front were blown up on the spot by the Hongmen mines that had calculated the time distance.

Fortunately, the power of the mine in this era is not as powerful as the mine of the same name in later generations, and this is an experimental product made by the Hongmen Research and Development Institute, and the power has not been adjusted well.

Therefore, the three Wyvern Gang warships that happened to be hit, except for one that was unlucky, was right in the center of the explosion of the power of this mine, and opened a large hole under the waterline of its own side and slowly sank, the other two decks under the waterline were squeezed and deformed by the expansion water pressure, and there was no big problem with varying degrees of low water permeability.

However, it was the situation of these three warships that made Zheng Zhilong and their entire fleet cautious, he didn't want this enemy to catch up, but let his fleet be sunk.

In the end, for the sake of safety, Zheng Zhilong and the others made a slight arc and did not follow the route that Li Tianyang's fleet had passed, so they were delayed for some more time.

It was precisely by relying on the time gained by the mines that Li Tianyang and the others quickly approached the battlefield along the coastline after getting rid of the opponent's point of pursuit.

The sudden arrival of Li Tianyang's new force shocked the soldiers of Hongmen, who were firmly waiting for help, and also brought a great shock to the soldiers of the pirate fleet.

In any case, the warriors of the pirate fleet were newly defeated, and the failure to defeat the Hongmen soldiers with a counterattack had left a slight shadow in the hearts of the pirate warriors, and when Li Tianyang and their main warriors arrived, including Gong Zhuyi and their leaders, they couldn't help but have an invincible thought.

Li Tianyang didn't care about his own safety at this time, as one of the few warships in the fleet with ramming angles, his car took the lead and crashed into a pirate warship diagonally opposite.

The powerful impact of the acceleration, coupled with the strong inertia brought by the self-weight of the "Yang Fan" warship, the search pirate ship that stood in front of Li Tianyang's ship was almost smashed by the "Yang Fan" warship.

But now it seems that it is not much better, Li Tianyang and they were thrown away by the powerful inertia as soon as the impact occurred, and many of the pirates on the pirate ship that searched as the target were directly hit into the friendly ship on the other side and into the sea.

A large hole one or two feet wide appeared on the side of the pirate ship, and if it weren't for the "Yang Fan-style" ramming angle still inserted in the inner compartment of the pirate ship, it would have sunk into the sea by now.

(End of chapter)