With a loud bang, more than a dozen cannonballs slammed into the sea near Ruan Jin's boat, especially the five iron balls weighing thirteen catties, which directly stirred up a column of water nearly a foot high, and then hula-la-la-fell on his deck.

Seeing that he was less than a mile away from the huge enemy ship in front of him, Ruan Jin was so anxious that his eyes were blood-red, and he urged his subordinates to speed up.

But at this time, the north wind was blowing, but the Jianyu warship was in the northwest direction, and his speed was extremely slow under the semi-headwind, and the helmsman had to serpentine to avoid the cannonballs, and the small Yancun harbor, which seemed to be close at hand, could not approach for a long time.

A violent tremor came from the side of the ship unprepared, causing Ruan Jin to stumble and almost fall, and then a sailor was heard shouting, "Port side gun!" Come and save ......"

His brows were furrowed, and he was about to continue to move forward with a shouting order, when an officer ran to the front in a panic and said urgently: "General, there are many cannons in the two hulls of the 'Sheng' ship, and it is impossible to see it." The 'Ning' also had a ship's mast broken......"

Ruan Jin hurriedly turned his head to look, and saw that two boats were sinking on the right. On the other side, the "Weining" 300 material fortune ship was spinning in place, and the sailors on board jumped into the sea one after another, and several officers had already lit the ignition on the deck in order to prevent the warship from falling into the hands of Jianyu.

He raised his eyes and looked farther away, only to see that the other three warships were also entangled by the enemy, and the nearest to the Jianyu ship was also a mile away, and from time to time some ships sank or caught fire.

He felt a cramp in his heart, and then looked at the harbor not far away, but Jian Yu had taken advantage of this opportunity to reluctantly form a defensive formation. Nearly a dozen of the largest warships lined up in a triangular formation on the inside, with second-class warships surrounding it, and dozens of smaller warships shuttling back and forth outside.

Ruan Jin knew that it was impossible to burn the main warships of the Qing army at this time, and Mo said that there were only two or three ships on his side that were not entangled by the enemy ships, that is, the remaining sixteen or seventeen ships could rush up, and under the artillery fire of the enemy formation, he was afraid that he would not even be able to break through the outermost defensive line.

"Alas......" he looked up to the sky and sighed, and the deputy general beside the dejected team said: "God don't bless me!" Summons, let everyone withdraw......"

As the gong sounded on Ruan Jin's boat, and the flag bearer Lian Bi said, the warships of the Zhejiang Navy Division tried to get rid of the enemy and retreated to the southeast.

"Fuck it!" Seeing the retreat of the enemy ships that had sneak attack, Kaha couldn't help but jump to his feet and curse angrily, "If it weren't for Lao Tzu's relief in the middle of the night, I'm afraid that I would have been burned to death here at this time!" ”

He gasped for breath with palpitations, pointed to several officers beside him and shouted, "Chase, chase Lao Tzu!" Don't let any of them go! ”

On the side, Su Li hurriedly gave up his hand to dissuade him, "My lord, yesterday I have found that more than 50 Fujian warships have passed through Zhoushan, and now we should take this enemy as the priority, but it is not appropriate to mess up because of the sneak attack of thieves." ”

Niu Bin glanced at him, and in line with the principle that Su Li supported that he would oppose it, he immediately said in a rough voice: "My lord, the last general thinks that he should chase after these little ones."

"More than a dozen ships dare to come and attack secretly, if they are allowed to escape, it will greatly damage the morale of our army."

Su Li only felt angry, pointed at him and said: "Yesterday I said that it is advisable to stick to Hangzhou, it was you who said that you wanted to attack the enemy in the east, and you gave the thieves the opportunity to sneak attack."

"At this time, you have to chase these thieves again, in case you delay the fighter plane to encircle and suppress the Fujian warship......"

"Hey, what kind of fighter is you missing?" Niu Bin interrupted him and said, "The boat of the Fujian people just passed Zhoushan yesterday, but it was all the way upstream, and the north wind has been blowing recently, and they should still be a hundred miles away from Xiapanshan at this time.

"We are in hot pursuit at this time, at most in an hour or two, we can wipe out the thieves of the night attack, and then we will organize our army to the east to break the enemy, so as not to fall into my momentum."

Wu Yuanzhou saw Ruan Jin defeated and left, and he also felt a big regret in his heart. As soon as Kaha called the officers to discuss the matter, he was taken aback when he heard the words "destroy the thieves of the night attack."

He had a very personal relationship with Ruan Jin, and he frowned secretly at the moment, and it seemed that only the East Leader of the Disaster could save Ruan Jin and the others, so he immediately stepped forward and said, "Commander Niu is wrong with this." According to our side, there are only a dozen or so boats left in Ruan Jin's hands, and even if he leaves, he will not be able to make any waves.

"But the big ship from Fujian is in great trouble, if it goes westward quickly......"

Su Li on the side suddenly narrowed his eyes when he heard this, grabbed Wu Yuanzhou's arm violently, and said coldly: "Commander Wu, how do you know that the person who attacked the sneak attack is Ruan Jin?!" ”

"I ......" Wu Yuanzhou was alert and said in a hurry, and was stunned in place and didn't know how to round the field, when he saw an officer enter the cabin and whispered a few words in Kaha's ear.

The latter then looked at Wu Yuanzhou with a cold gaze, and said sharply: "Your personal guard Zhao Qing sailed away yesterday and has not returned. Say, where did the people go?! ”

Wu Yuanzhou originally planned to wait for the Jianyu warship to be burned at night, so he took advantage of the chaos to leave, and he didn't think about sending the letter to the guards at all.

He broke out in a cold sweat at the moment, and said: "He, his old father is seriously ill, and he takes leave to go home......"

Su Li suddenly said, "That's right! No wonder someone came to attack at night as soon as our sailor was anchored in Xiapan Mountain, it must be that you sent a personal retinue yesterday to report the whereabouts of our army to Ruan Jin. Yesterday, you also said that the lower mountain is suitable for night parking, which was premeditated! ”

Kaha was furious, pointed at Wu Yuanzhou and said, "Come on, take this fine work down for me!" ”

Wu Yuanzhou sighed in his heart, and before anyone could make a move, he had already crashed headlong into the warehouse wall.

Niu Bin glanced at the commander Wu who fell in a pool of blood, and said to Kaha: "My lord, the remnants of Zhejiang will go away, and it will be too late if you don't chase after it!" ”

"My lord, don't ......"

Kaha didn't wait for Su Li to finish speaking, he already pointed to the southeast, "Since Wu Yuanzhou's rebel said that he wouldn't chase him, then I want to chase after him and slaughter him!" Order, the whole army quickly marched to chase the enemy! ”

"Obey!"

In a moment, another captive soldier tied Wu Yuanzhou's nephew to Kaha. The boy was not as resolute as his uncle, and he poured out everything he knew with only a few sticks.

"Oh, hundreds of Ruan Jin's men are hiding in Wucaoyu?" Kaha stroked his palms and laughed, "It's also a blessing in disguise, this time you can wipe out the remnants of the Zhejiang Army's naval division, this is a great achievement!" ”

He then said to Niu Bin on the side: "Order you to lead the warships of your department to pursue Ruan Jin." ”

Niu Bin led a town of sailors, under the jurisdiction of a 500-ton ship, two 200-ton warships, and nearly 30 small boats of various types, more than enough to deal with Ruan Jin's more than 10 small boats that were covered in bruises.

"The last general obeys!"

Kaha looked at Su Li again, "The rest of the warships are all heading to Wucaoyu, so don't let a single southerner escape!" ”

"Subordinates obey!"

Su Li gave up his hand, picked up Wu Yuanzhou's nephew again, and sneered: "Hmph! Wu Gongzi, please lead the way. ”