"Volcanic Rock Island is composed of five islands, large and small, there is a group of pirates gathered here, the scale is slightly larger than Yuan Gang's before, the leader Cai Lao Crocodile, Yuan Gang had several contacts with him not long ago, and he has tried his words a few times, this person is fierce and abnormal, extremely murderous, in the past, robbing ships was to ask for money and life, and his subordinates were all outlaws, and there was no family drag, therefore, the surname of the people who took refuge in us was not big. So, I'm ready to take him. Zheng Zhiyuan looked around at the generals and said, "Look, what else do I mean besides this?" ”

Song Faming stared at the sand table and said, "General, volcanic rock is the only place for us to build a deep-sea island chain. ”

Zheng Zhiyuan smiled, "Yes." ”

Yuan Gang thought for a moment, then looked at the location of the volcanic rock islands, and suddenly realized, "General, the volcanic rock islands are around, but it is very easy to ambush ships, like the ships of our current size are hidden inside, and if you don't investigate carefully, you can't find them at all." ”

Zheng Zhiyuan laughed, "Exactly! Ladies and gentlemen, although Lianshan Island is extremely important, there is a great shortcoming, that is, the enemy can see at a glance the details of our background, and how big we are cannot be hidden, so I will dig down volcanic rocks and hide our main forces here, and on Lianshan Island, I will only put a small number of ships to lure the enemy, think about it, if the naval division of the Southern Army finds that Lianshan Island only has a small fleet of us, what will he do? ”

"Of course it's here to clean us up!" Song Faming said with a smile.

"Yes, it's really coming to clean us up!" Zheng Zhiyuan knocked on the edge of the sand table, "Everyone knows what I'm going to do, right?" ”

The generals laughed knowingly.

Ten days later, a windy morning, although it was September, but in the sea breeze, the weather did not seem hot, a patrol fleet of the Bozhou Navy Division was swimming in the depths of the Black Water Ocean, this is a Navy division composed of three three thousand warships and five thousand warships, plus some small boats, for the average pirate, this is already a very powerful force, the commander of this patrol is Zhong Xiang's son Zhong Li, the southern sailors are basically controlled by some Jiangmen families, father to son, son to grandson, Zhong Li is just thirty this year, But he has been working hard at sea for more than ten years, and he is a veteran with extremely rich experience in naval warfare.

Due to the discovery of the traces of the Fuzhou Naval Division, Zhongli was extremely careful in his patrol this time, and the patrol team was equipped with twice as many ships as before, and it had been almost ten days since he came out. Father Zhong Xiang's tireless admonition made Zhong Li full of vigilance against the Fuzhou Water Division, indeed, he also saw the corpses of the few soldiers who were killed, such a sophisticated armor stomach appeared on the bodies of ordinary soldiers, which was enough to make him more vigilant, and the equipment of the Fuzhou Water Division was inevitably too good.

The encounter between the two sides was so sudden, the slowly sailing Bozhou patrol fleet suddenly found that less than ten miles away, behind a small island within a radius of several miles, a three-thousand-material warship with three thousand-material warships, and the Fuzhou sailor flag fluttering high above the opponent's flagship made Zhongli jump all of a sudden.

"Speed up, catch up, and get ready for battle!" The alarm bell sounded in the patrol of the Bozhou Naval Division, and the battleships accelerated together, forcing the Fuzhou Naval Division fleet on the opposite side.

The Fuzhou Navy Ship, which was painted with two eye-catching black characters of Black Eagle on the side of the hull, was obviously also caught off guard, and after a little hesitation, it suddenly turned around and sailed towards the depths of the Black Water Ocean.

"Chase!" Zhongli waved his hand excitedly, this opportunity is too good, this is obviously part of the ship of the Fuzhou Navy Division's advance team in his father's mouth, it seems that they are also out to cruise, looking at the scale of their cruise, this fleet should not be large, after glancing at his own fleet, Zhongli is determined to catch up and defeat the fleet in front, as long as some other soldiers can be captured, the size of the Fuzhou Navy Division selection team should be clear.

Although excited, Zhongli did not completely lose his mind, and instructed the standard-bearer to play the flag, send a thousand warships back to Bozhou, and inform his father that he had found traces of the advance team of the Fuzhou Naval Division, so that even if in the process of pursuit, the main force of the other party came to help, and he could not support it, he could also fight in the sea and delay them, as long as the main force of the Bozhou Naval Division arrived, the other party would be the turtle in Wengzhong.

Zhongli didn't consider that the size of the opponent's advance team would be stronger than the strength of their Bozhou Naval Division, because it was unlikely, it was impossible for the Fuzhou Naval Division of the Labor Division to gather such a large-scale fleet in the Black Water Ocean in a short period of time, and it was impossible for such a large-scale fleet to hide traces.

On the Black Hawk, Yuan Gang stood behind the female wall on the top floor of the battleship, looked at the Bozhou sailors who were chasing closely, and said with a smile: "The fish has taken the bait, pass my order, maintain this speed, and move towards Lianshan Island." ”

After giving the order, he reached out and patted the neck of the black hawk that stopped on his shoulder, and said with a smile: "Little black man, go, tell the general that the enemy has taken the bait!" The black eagle spread its wings and flew straight into the clouds, but unfortunately, this bird that suddenly flew up from the opponent's ship did not attract Zhongli's attention at all.

Both sides are downwind, sailing, the speed of the ship is extremely fast, Zhongli stood on the top floor, although there was a faint worry in his eyes, but more of a fanatical will to fight, it is obvious that the skills of the other party's column are also very strong, at least at this point, compared to the Bozhou sailors are not at all behind, and they have been chasing for so long, although the distance between the two sides has not been stretched, but they are not close at all.

For a whole morning, both sides were in the process of chasing and fleeing, and the Black Hawk had no intention of turning around at all, but desperately fled forward, but since the speed of the two sides was about the same, he could not get rid of Zhongli's pursuit.

In the afternoon, Chenguang still spent this kind of pursuit and escape, and the long pursuit made the soldiers of the Bozhou Naval Division gradually relax their vigilance, in addition to the sailors who were arsoning the boats, more soldiers who were in charge of fighting slowly gathered on the deck, laughing and scolding the Black Hawk in front of them.

The base of Lianshan Island appeared in Zhongli's field of vision under this situation, when the ship turned from the side of the steep cliff and sailed to the relatively flat side, Zhongli was stunned by the situation in front of him, the Black Hawk on the opposite side suddenly turned its bow and faced himself, the Black Hawk no longer escaped and could not arouse Zhongli's interest in the slightest, he opened his mouth wide, looking at the huge dock on Lianshan Island, the towering fortress, and the breakwater that stretched for miles.

"Oh my God!" Zhongli exclaimed.

Without waiting for Zhongli to finish his exclamation, from the huge dock, two more three thousand warships sailed out, so that the enemy on the opposite side was equal to him on the large warship, but on the thousand warships, he had the upper hand, and at this time, he still had the upper hand.

Carefully looked at the dock not far away, to confirm that there were no other warships in there, Zhongli decided to fight, his father was right, this is really an advance fleet, it seems that their main task is to sneak into the Black Water Ocean, build such a base, in case of the arrival of a large army, fortunately, I have found this place now, and when my father's brigade arrives, I can capture this island and destroy this advance base of the Fuzhou Naval Division, no, it should be occupied, if the Bozhou Naval Division takes this place, It will directly cut off the strategic purpose of the other side's attempt to bypass the Black Water Ocean.

The fortress on Lianshan Island, above the dock, behind the breakwater, there are constantly figures shaking, Zhongli is secretly on guard, at this scale, the other party has at least thousands of land-based soldiers to defend, and this kind of water fortress will never lack large long-range attack weapons, you must not approach these places in the battle, otherwise you will eat a stone cannon, it is not fun.

"Attack!" Zhongli ordered loudly.

The Black Hawk led the fleet, forming a long snake and zigzag to the other side, Zhongli knew that the other party was trying to give him the upper hand, and when the ships on both sides were about the same size, the upwind position would play an extremely important role.

At this time, some small ships such as Xianben and Chima were untied to the large ships, carried soldiers, and quickly shuttled between the fleets, and with the cover of these small ships, the large ship formations were more flexible.

The size of the fleets on both sides is almost the same, Zhongli's command level is not bad, Yuan Gang changed formations several times, but failed to seize a better upper hand position, forced to engage the enemy in the unfavorable wind direction, the first to start the battle is the small ships of both sides, these small boats are extremely fast, extremely test the skills of the soldiers on both sides, otherwise they will collide head-on, both sides are capsized and fall into the water, which in a large-scale water battle, almost sentenced to death.

Even if the collision was avoided, once the two sides met, it was a more brutal white-knuckle battle, and the big ships on the two sides were still separated by some distance, and the small boats were already engaged in fierce fighting. Approaching the distance of Zhangyu, the soldiers of the boat have lifted the long pole with the iron tip, and poked it fiercely, such a short distance, the possibility of avoiding it is not big, each small boat is carrying more than a dozen soldiers, at this time they have already opened their bows and arrows, desperately shooting. In this case, the test is the sophistication of the armor of both sides.

At this point, the Fuzhou Navy Division has a great advantage, both sides are raining arrows, but the Fuzhou soldiers are wearing Tiekai, as long as they do not only hit the face door and other key points, a few do not lose their combat power, and most of the soldiers of the Bozhou Navy Division are wearing leather armor, under the opponent's powerful bow and crossbow, they have fallen into the water. In this round of shooting, the losses of the Bozhou Navy Division were very large, but the losses of the Fuzhou soldiers were very small.

But in the case of extremely fast ship, this kind of shooting can only shoot a few arrows, the two convenient to fight on the side, relying on the upper hand, the ship of the Bozhou sailors crashed up, the Fuzhou sailors who had just shot at each other suffered a big loss, the huge impact force made them fall into the water, and then the power of this collision, the Bozhou sailors have jumped up, and the two sides immediately launched a white-knuckle fight on the rickety boat.

Zhongli frowned and watched the fierce battle between the small boats on both sides, and in less than a moment of the battle, his own side had already fallen behind, not that his own soldiers were not good, but that the other party's equipment was too good, often the two sides slashed each other, the other party's armor was only damaged, and his own soldiers were already broken.

However, the battle between small ships is only a prelude, and the victory or defeat is still determined by the battle between large ships.

"Prepare the ballista!" Zhongli commanded calmly.

(To be continued)