There are always some light clouds that cannot bear the loneliness in the sky, and fall into the mortal world and turn into thick fog. Feng Po turns a blind eye and allows this mortal heart to stay in the world.

The sea water at dawn is as quiet as a silk surface covering the world. Every wave is carefully held steady, for fear that the sound of the tide will wake up the sleeping whales in the sea.

Everything was completely silent except for the sound of paddles lapping the water and the occasional creaking of the hull. The more so, the more eerily quiet the sea fog became.

A gray dome clasps over the turquoise sea surface, the cold sea fog smells like cold frost, and only the faint smell of kerosene lamp still retains a star of human fireworks.

More than ten orange lights penetrated the fog that could not be seen for more than three feet, forming a shuttle array. They carefully maintained the distance between each other, neither daring to get too far away to find the fog lights, nor daring to get too close.

Caused a collision. Occasionally, several whistles of different lengths were heard, which were signals sent by the sailors at the observation deck to control the distance between the ships.

This is the supply fleet of the Jingning Army's East China Sea Fleet.

Daning originally had three fleets: "Beihai", "East China Sea" and "South China Sea". "East China Sea" was the oldest and most powerful, while "Beihai" and "South China Sea" were his little brothers.

The North Sea Fleet controls the Daning offshore area north of the Yanluo River estuary and south of the Great Swamp, mainly to prevent small groups of pirates in the Great Swamp from nuisanceing the Hebei coast.

The Great Swamp is to the east of Tongshan. The land is muddy, damp and cold for thousands of miles. It is rarely inhabited. There are only some inhabited areas near the sea. Not even a country has been established. It is really a foreign land. The kind natives in it

They made a living by fishing, and the fierce ones became pirates, but it was just a small matter, and they didn't dare to make a fuss in front of the North Sea Fleet.

The East China Sea Fleet is Daning's trump card fleet. It was established by Gao Fu, the emperor of Ning Dynasty. It controls the waters south of the estuary of Yanluo River and north of Zhangpu City. When it was first built, it was to control the natural dangers of Jiaojiang River to resist the invasion of northern forces from the south. When it arrived in Huanglong

In the early years, the river fleet expanded, with ocean-going ships, and gradually controlled the islands offshore the East. At one time, it had interactions with thousands of mountains and islands in the depths of the ocean.

The sea area controlled by the South China Sea Fleet starts from Zhangpu in the north and ends at the sea cliff of Baiyue Qizu Longshan in the west. The fleet is in the middle in size, but the sea area it controls is the largest. When it was first built, it was to prevent and control the island countries in the South China Sea, but these island countries

The armed fleet was not as powerful as the South China Sea Fleet, and there was no threat at all. Gradually, this armed fleet found a new way-to do business with the countries in the South China Sea. The business became more and more prosperous, but the fleet was

The appearance has changed, the battleship has become a merchant ship, the general has become a merchant, the sailor has become a gangster, and the combat effectiveness is basically zero.

After the two heroes of the You clan went north with the East China Sea Fleet and annexed the North Sea Fleet in World War I, the Jingning Army canceled the "Beihai" organization and all ships were included in the East China Sea Fleet.

The strengthened East China Sea Fleet can be said to have unimpeded movement along the north and east coast of Daning. If it were not to maintain stability, it would not be a bad idea to swallow up the South China Sea Fleet in one go. This also forced Nanhai City to speed up its "return to business and become a military force."

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In the wide bottom tanks of the sixteen cargo ships of the East China Sea Fleet, the military rations purchased from the southeast coast were heavily loaded. The starboard and starboard sides were full of water, and they were gliding steadily on the flat sea with almost no fluctuations.

At first, the fleet also sent a large number of frigates to supervise the transportation of grain and grass. However, the East China Sea Fleet was too powerful on the sea. The puppet imperial court could no longer do anything at sea. Slowly, the defense was gradually reduced, from twice the escort to equal protection.

From a large number of guards to a small number of elite guards, now, next to the sixteen grain ship formation, there are only eight warships guarding the four corners.

On the flagship on the right front, the captain of the escort team stood by the steering wheel with a frown on his face, looking at the pocket watch in his hand from time to time.

This fog has been so dense since it fell in the middle of the night that it cannot be resolved. If it is sunny today, the sun will probably not melt the fog until midnight. If it is cloudy, I am afraid that it will be impossible to escape this breathtaking silence without driving out of the fog.

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The more anxious he became, the more uneasy he felt. The experience accumulated over many years of sailing turned into intuition, vaguely telling him that something was wrong, as if there was always a pair of eyes staring closely at the fleet. But if he thought about it differently, since he could see the thick fog,

If you don’t wear it, how can others see through it?

If there were strong winds and waves, he would be able to deal with them properly, but the silence of this thick fog in this sea water was really frightening. He had ordered all eight frigates to be on armed alert, and ordered the fleet to make as little noise as possible. Despite this,

Still can't erase the uneasiness in my subconscious.

The sky slowly brightened, and it looked like the sun would not shine today. The captain ordered the oarsmen to speed up and break out of the fog as soon as possible.

When the gray-black fog turned to gray-white, the lookout on the flagship mast suddenly issued a warning.

"An unknown ship appeared on the starboard side at eleven degrees!"

The captain could already see a black outline faintly showing in the white fog in front of the route, and immediately ordered the left rudder to be full and the port oars to be stopped.

The order was conveyed ship by ship through whistles, and the other warships accelerated and rushed over from both sides.

The speed of the flagship gradually slowed down, and the dark thing became more and more obvious. A fish boat approached for reconnaissance, and the light signal reported the situation:

It is a scarred ghost ship. The sails on the two masts have been torn away by the wind, rain and scorching sun, leaving only a few rags. The hull is covered with barnacles, and the decks are covered with moss or mold.

The captain gave a false alarm and ordered the nearest frigate to push away the ghost ship and give way to the route.

Just when the sailors relaxed their vigilance, dense black shadows suddenly appeared in all directions in the fog, fearing that there would be no less than forty or fifty ships.

In the silent place, a horn cut through the thick silence.

Chickens crow, birds chirp, drums and horns clatter on the sea, and the grain transport fleet is caught in an ambush from all sides.

While the iron-clad frigates of the East China Sea Fleet were approaching the flagship, ten shiny black iron skull battering posts the size of stone mills were pierced out of the thick fog on both sides of the fusiform ship array.

The paddling sounds of the twenty ramming ships of the sneak attack almost merged into one. The bow of the ship quickly crashed into the side of the unsuspecting grain ship under the waves. There was a loud bang one after another, and the screams were louder than the other. The grain ship

After being hit, wood chips flew into the air, the lighter ones had a big hole in the side, and the worst ones were cut off at the waist.

The seven iron-clad frigates abandoned their grain ships in accordance with the strategy used during the exercise, and all gathered around the flagship. Their swords were unsheathed, their bows were unstrung, and their whistles were sounded densely.

But the sound of the drums and horns suddenly became mute. The enemy ships that collided with the grain ship were separated in all directions, and the enemy ships that surrounded the frigate were not in a hurry to attack.

The lookout on the flagship mast seemed to smell something. He sniffed twice and suddenly realized what the smell was floating on the sea. He immediately shouted: "**, be careful of the artillery!"

Before he finished speaking, the circle surrounding the frigate opened twice, and four giant ships rushed out of the channel, and the four bow guns opened fire in unison.

In the purple firelight, four iron pellets drew four water wings and hit the frigates outside the flagship. The iron pellets hit the iron sheet. There were four harsh metal friction sounds, and the iron sheet was twisted and deformed by the iron pellets.

, the wooden hull of the ship broke and collapsed, blood mist spread on the side of the ship, residual limbs, rotten flesh and water splashed all over the deck canvas, but the dead did not even scream, only the wails and screams of the injured remained, for a while

The array shook the nerves of those who were attacked.

The four enemy gunboats quickly crossed the hull, opening twenty gun windows on the side, revealing eighty black cannons. Rolling thunder sounded continuously, and the thick smoke from the cannons almost dispersed the thick fog.

, it was replaced by gunpowder smoke filling the human eyes. For a moment, the iron sheets of the convoy were rolled up, sawdust flew everywhere, the ship's side was torn, and corpses were scattered everywhere.

The enemy ships fired another salvo, and half of the frigates took on water and rolled over.

After the third salvo, the three frigates let out a low howl, which was cut into two parts.

The awakened sea demon spit out huge bubbles and swallowed the remaining ship in an instant.

The enemy had artillery, but our own side only had muskets and bows. We were outnumbered three times, and the battle was impossible. The captain had no choice but to raise the white flag.

After a while, the enemy's majestic flagship approached. In the hazy smoke, a flag with a white dragon skull on a black background could be vaguely seen at the top of the mast. The enemy's flagship was more than twice as long as our own flagship, and the bulwarks were also two times higher.

Because of his long body, he put it in the East China Sea Fleet, and it was also one of the largest ships.

The hook and lasso was thrown down from a high place, and hundreds of people jumped down from the rope. They kicked off the deck and disarmed the soldiers of the East China Sea.

The enemies were all dressed in pirate attire, but they didn't have the informality of pirates, and they looked like regular military troops everywhere.

The captain's thoughts swept from the great swamp to the cliffs of the Seventh Dragon Mountain on the sea, but he couldn't remember which pirates had such strength, or did the puppet imperial court secretly train an elite navy?

The pirates separated to the left and right, making way for a passage. A man swung off the enemy ship, walked majestically forward, and looked down at the shorter captain arrogantly.

The captain fought such a useless battle and wanted to save face even before he died. "Every injustice has its owner and its debtor has its owner. Which island owner is in front of me? Can you pay me ten thousand yuan?"

"You don't deserve to know!" the pirate leader said gloomily, almost freezing the fog mixed with gunpowder smoke.

"You didn't rob food and you didn't do it for money. Could it be that you kidnapped people? Do you know whose ship you robbed? Whose food you robbed? Such disregard of gains and losses and regardless of consequences is really inconsistent with your way of being a pirate!"

"Humph, we are too lazy to rob other people's ships. Go back and tell your master that the man who kills his father will fall into Avici Hell. I am Hei Wuchang. Tell him to wash his neck white. I will go and claim my life another day.

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"What the hell are you talking about? Can Prince Jing be threatened by a clown like you? Let my East China Sea Fleet fire thousands of arrows and kill all your turtles and fish in one trip..."

"Chi", "croak" and "pop"!

Before the captain finished speaking, a white light flashed out, and with a "chi" sound, the body and head were separated. With a "croak" sound, the head hit the deck first, and after five snaps of his fingers, half of his body was sprayed with blood.

Then he fell down with a "pop".

"The defeated general still has the nerve to be verbose!" Sa Binchui snorted coldly, wiped the saber on the dead body, and turned to look at the shivering first mate. "I will spare your life today. Go back and tell Gao Liwen.

Say the Dragon King of the East China Sea has arrived!"

Then he shouted orders to the surrounding pirates.
Chapter completed!