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Chapter 146 Width Utilization

When the ship was attacking the two enemy ships, Zhao Weiji knew that there was still a defensive chain waiting for them in front. And if the two ships behind him reacted, if they immediately turned around and chased them, the ship would immediately fall into the siege.

Not only Zhao Weiji knew this situation, but even Wang Dayuan, who was the main helm, also knew this situation. Although Wang Dayuan had a lot of sailing experience, he had never experienced such a single ship against a group ship, so now he didn't know how to do it at the helm.

"Prince?" Wang Dayuan, who was completely panicked, could only look at Zhao Weiji with a look of help.

At this time, Zhao Weiji was also in endless entanglement, and he didn't know what to do, but at this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew on his face, and this gust of wind made Zhao Weiji suddenly think of something.

"Huanzhang, what is the current direction of the wind?" Zhao Weiji, who felt that he had thought of something, immediately asked Wang Dayuan.

Wang Dayuan, who heard Zhao Weiji's question, felt a little confused. Now he asked about the wind direction and did not seem to be of any help to the current situation, but Wang Dayuan still obeyed the wind direction and told Zhao Weiji.

"Prince, the current wind is smooth, which is consistent with the direction we are moving forward."

After hearing this answer, Zhao Weiji immediately came up with a solution. He immediately issued an order to Wang Dayuan, which was to turn the ship to the right, reach 90 degrees with the current course, and then sail at full speed.

Although I don’t understand why Zhao Weiji wanted to issue such an order, there was no better way anyway. It would be better to treat a dead horse as a living horse. Wang Dayuan followed Zhao Weiji’s order and put the entire right rudder of the ship to make the hull cross over and began to sail to the right.

When Zhao Weiji's ship began to sail to the right, the intercepted ships also began to turn around and prepare to pursue, but because they were passively turned around, and in order to form an intercept chain before, the distance between the ships was not too far away. At this moment, the distance between the ships between them could not allow the ships to turn directly.

This adjustment and steering delayed a lot of time, which gave Zhao Weiji's ship enough escape distance.

Although there is a distance to escape, because you are sailing in the fjords, you cannot truly escape from danger by sailing horizontally.

However, at this time, Wang Dayuan was surprised to find that although he could not truly escape from danger by sailing horizontally, the distance between his ship and the ship that was blocking was getting bigger and bigger.

Seeing this situation, Wang Dayuan finally knew what Zhao Weiji was trying to ask about the wind direction before. As Wang Dayuan himself said before, although this slightly modified ship has no speed advantage over the surrounding sea ships when sailing down the wind, if it is crosswind or headwind, the advantages of this ship can be exerted.

The lateral movement of the ship is to turn the tailwind into the crosswind. If the other party ignores it, your ship can easily bypass the defense line.

After all, the Persian Gulf is very wide, and no matter how capable you are, you cannot form a route that can cut off the entire Persian Gulf.

If the other party turns and pursues, he will also fall into a crosswind, so that the speed advantage of his ship can be used.

As expected, after only a while, the speed advantage had already shook the opponent beyond the visible range of the naked eye.

At this time, Zhao Weiji's last order was also issued, which was to turn the ship back to the right direction and leave the battle circle at full speed.

The reason why Zhao Weiji was able to think of this method to break away was that in addition to Wang Dayuan's previous introduction to the speed characteristics of ships, he also thought of a sport, that is, football.

In football, when the attacker faces the defense line that is accurate in the opponent's position and cannot make a frontal breakthrough, he often transfers to both wings on a large scale to use the width of the court to pull the opponent's defense line to move left and right, hoping that the opponent's defense line will deform during the movement, thereby creating flaws.

Now at sea, the width is much wider than that of a small football field. Not only is it much wider, Zhao Weiji doesn't have the need to get the ball into the goal, as long as he can break through this line of defense.

In this way, we can completely take advantage of the ship's speed advantage in crosswinds to bypass that direction in one fell swoop.

However, although they bypassed the direction and successfully escaped, Zhao Weiji felt very frustrated with everyone. Everyone had only one idea in their hearts. If I were riding the Black Pearl, would you still dare to be so arrogant?

A happy thing happened soon. After they left the Persian Gulf, they suddenly discovered that the Black Pearl had stopped not far from the entrance of the bay.

"Prince, just in case, we will drive the Black Pearl to the entrance of the bay first and stop, afraid that if something happens, we will be able to respond." After seeing the Black Pearl, the crew member who came to pick him up explained to Zhao Weiji like this.

After listening to his explanation, Zhao Weiji happily patted his shoulder and said, "Good job."

Then he asked the crew in charge of looking out: "Are those people still pursuing?"

The reason for asking this is because the other party is not a fool. When they were sailing horizontally, they found that Zhao Weiji's ship was out of the visible range of the naked eye, the president of the team immediately realized what Zhao Weiji was trying to do, so he immediately ordered the entire fleet to turn the navigation direction to face the bay entrance to pursue the full speed with the wind.

Zhao Weiji, who could not play the advantage of speed under the wind, was quickly bitten by the other party. Although it was not dangerous, it could not be completely thrown away in a short period of time. In addition, God has been very disrespectful these days, and it has been a smooth wind, so he was chased to the Baykou.

After looking at the crew member with a telescope, he replied to Zhao Weiji: "Go back to the prince, they are still chasing him."

"That's good." After this news, Zhao Weiji clenched his fists secretly.

"Brothers, we have been chased for so long, are you all frustrated?"

After Zhao Weiji asked this sentence, he immediately got an unanimous answer: "Frustrated."

"Do you want revenge?"

"think!!"

After a positive reply, Zhao Weiji was very satisfied with his current morale, so he began to issue orders.

First he ordered the crew to transfer all the scholars to the Black Pearl, and then left some of the crew to continue driving on the merchant ship.

He planned to use this merchant ship as a bait to lure all the pursuers over, and then use the Black Pearl to annihilate the other party in one fell swoop.

After these preparations were completed, the crew members who remained on the merchant ship turned the bow over and rushed towards the chasing ship at full speed.

At this time, the Black Pearl secretly followed the merchant ship.

When the entire speed of the merchant ship increased, the crew on the merchant ship fixed the rudder and used all the escaped boats to escape and then returned to the Black Pearl behind.

At this time, the chasing ship suddenly saw that the ship that was chasing closely turned around and came back. No one thought about whether there would be any fraud, but accelerated the ship and met it up.

But soon some crew members found out that something was wrong.

"Captain, the ship opposite seems to have not slowed down and has been driving towards us. They are planning to use the ship to crash into each other and die together, right?"

"No." The captain thought for a while, "even if we die together, we can only hit one of our ships at most. We still have so many ships, so they won't be that stupid."

Although the captain was full of confidence, sometimes reality was instantly slapped in the face. The merchant ship showed no sign of slowing down at all and rushed over directly. A ship in the fleet could not hide and was directly hit by the merchant ship.

Fortunately, the merchant ship was sailing against the wind, so the speed was not too fast, which reduced the damage caused a lot, and the crashed ship did not suffer enough damage to sink.

After seeing this, the crew members on the crashed ship jumped onto the merchant ship, hoping to find what they were looking for.

But things did not develop as they imagined. After they got on the boat, they saw nothing but drinking water and food.

"Captain, this ship is empty, and there is no one on it."

After receiving the report from the crew back, the captain began to furiously, dispatched so many ships and pursued them for so many days, but now there is nothing he can find.

"No one has one? There is only food and water? Wherever they go, can they jump into the sea with books and gold?"

Although the captain was in a state of furiousness, the crew members were also very annoyed and aggrieved, but they did overturn the merchant ship, but they still found only water and food.

Just as all the interceptors were confused, they did not notice that the Black Pearl had quietly appeared above sea level.

Just when the captain was about to let all the crew go to sea to find the traces of Zhao Weiji and others, a crew member suddenly ran over and reported that a strange ship appeared on the sea.

"It's strange, just weird. Please don't care. Just let them go. Let's continue to find ours."

"No, Captain, that ship is obviously coming for us, and it's very fast?"

"It's very fast? Wait for me to see it."

Just as the captain returned to the deck of his flagship and was about to see clearly what the strange ship looked like, he was greeted by a huge sound of artillery fire, and a series of shells hit their ships.
Chapter completed!
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