The main topic of the military meeting of the 31st formation was to discuss the next plan of action. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As the 31st Formation, which shouldered the heavy task of reconnaissance, the perfect surprise attack in the morning directly damaged an enemy ship, and did not make the officers feel that there was anything to be proud of, it was just an accident.

What's more, according to the later investigation, it was found that the other party's pilot ship actually sank. A full 40 rounds of shells of various types hit the enemy ship at close range, but they still failed to sink the opponent, which really made everyone unhappy.

In the morning battle, the main gain of the 31st Formation was that it clearly observed the armament of the pilot ship and the approximate speed of the enemy's fleet at close range.

And the most important point is that the captain of the 073 ship found a warship loaded with multiple long-barreled heavy guns of more than 20 pounds when he retreated. The opponent fired at least 20 pounds of heavy iron bullets, and the direct range can reach more than 700 meters.

This news scared the officers of the 31 Formation into a cold sweat.

Because before today's raid reconnaissance, the results of Xuanjun's long-distance reconnaissance showed that the enemy had many ships, not strong firepower, and slow speed.

However, the heavy gunboat let the people of the 31st formation know that the previous idea was a bit naïve.

At least 20 catties of artillery shells, with a straight-line range of more than 700 meters, has exceeded the power of most of the artillery of the Xuan army. Although there is a 30-pound heavy cannon on the fast crab, because of the weight problem, the barrel is very short, which is basically a kind of mortar cannon.

Calculated from the point of view of defensive power, none of the dozens of fast crabs equipped by the coast guard can compete with the other side, and once the shells of that kind of heavy artillery hit the fast crabs with a full load displacement of only 200 tons, the consequences will be catastrophic.

Therefore, the military conference determined that the next goal was to find out how many large-caliber long-barreled heavy guns there were in the enemy's fleet.

Because of the consideration of the opponent's heavy artillery, the 31st Formation could only rely on its strong maneuverability and adopt a one-hit-and-go strategy to conduct fire reconnaissance beyond the direct range of the enemy's heavy artillery.

However, there were unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and when the 31st Formation formulated a battle plan, it was raining heavily in the sky, there were big waves churning on the sea, and the sea water was surging, and the narrow hull of the fast crab was constantly jolting, and there was no way to fight.

What's more, in the midst of the heavy rain, the falcon could not rise into the air, and the 31 formation lost the specific coordinates of the target fleet.

When the storm stopped, the 31st Formation searched for a long time in the waters bound for Kyushu, but could not find any trace of the enemy fleet.

One officer speculated, "The enemy fleet can't have been overturned by a storm, right?" ”

"Impossible, although the wind and waves just now were strong, but even our fast crabs didn't overturn, how could it be possible to shake a ship as big as the enemy."

"Then why can't you find any trace of the enemy in this lane?"

"Don't fight, if the Dutch people don't take the familiar shipping lanes that they have walked for decades, then there is only one possibility."

"What is it?"

"Their goal is not Nagasaki, or rather, the number one goal is not Nagasaki."

"What then? It's almost night, and when it gets dark, the falcon doesn't have such good eyesight, and in one night, the enemy's fleet will run away, and when the time comes, we won't be able to catch up. ”

"What's the hurry, is it just our team that came out to investigate?"

"You mean the other squads?"

"That's right, we will immediately report the situation we detected today to the Central Department, and the Kyushu headquarters will definitely handle it properly."

"Okay, that's it."

After a while, before the sky was dark, the eagle falcons of the 31st formation rose into the sky and headed towards Kyushu.

Two hours later, two formations, 34 and 35 of the 7th Squadron of the Coast Guard, immediately set out from Nagasaki and began patrolling along the shipping route between Wakoku and Taiwan.

Three hours later, the 3rd Squadron of the Coast Guard of the Chaonan Administrative Region was completely canceled and its patrols in the coastal areas of the Chaonan Administrative Region were intensified.

Four hours later, the 2nd Coast Guard Squadron, which was monitoring An Bu Yang and Sukh Saha in the waters near Ganghwa Island, dispatched the 6th Squadron and sailed towards the Daming Yellow Sea and began to search the sea surface there.

During this time period, Chen Xinzheng led his men and horses to surround Houjin in the mountains between Anzhou and Suchuan, and the two sides were constantly probing, preparing to start the final decisive battle, and they couldn't take away their bodies to pay attention to other places.

However, Chen Xin couldn't get out of the way, and the personnel of the staff who stayed at the headquarters in North Korea were still working normally.

They immediately began to draw patrols and reconnaissance ships from the busy transport and escort ships to search for the traces of Peter's fleet.

However, in the vast sea, in the absence of definite information, it was not easy to find a fleet, and until dark, no effective news came back.

The search was fruitless until nightfall, when a patrol fleet dropped anchor. At night, if it is just a boat, with the technical means of Xuan Jun at this time, there will be no big problem.

However, in this night with no fingers in sight, it is meaningless for the Xuan army to continue to act, their purpose is to find Peter's fleet, and now they can't even see it from 10 meters away, and no matter how fast the Xuan army's boat runs, it is useless.

Everyone had no choice but to rest, preparing to continue the search after dawn the next day.

Early the next morning, the Xuan army continued to move until the afternoon, when a trading fleet of five merchant ships and a fast crab sent back useful news by a trading fleet of five merchant ships and a fast crab that had gone to the Guangdong area of Daming to deliver goods.

In the East China Sea of the Ming Dynasty, they were attacked by a group of pirates.

According to the report, the losses of the merchant fleet were very heavy, and one of the five merchant ships was hit by pirates and smashed the waterline, and finally sank unable to save itself.

In addition, two merchant ships were damaged by pirate artillery in several places, and their personnel were killed and wounded.

Fortunately, with the desperate cover of the escorted fast crab 032 ship, the two seriously injured merchant ships and the other two merchant ships, together with the crew rescued from the sunken merchant ship, safely withdrew to the vicinity of Taizhou.

However, in order to cover the transfer of merchant ships and crew members who fell into the water, the escort ship 032 could not use the ultra-high speed to break away, so it had to fight the pirates for an hour, and finally lost the crowd and was surrounded and sunk in the sea.

There were 9 officers, 23 non-commissioned officers, and 207 soldiers on the ship, and all of them sank with the ship.

This is the largest loss of the Xuanjun sea power since its establishment

The report shows that the pirates have 20 large sea ships, and three of them have particularly fierce firepower, and nearly half of the artillery is about 20 pounds of heavy artillery.