Chapter 119            

Near the estuary of the Yangtze River, the sea and the sky are already the same. If it weren't for the water below, there were mostly fresh water. Perhaps many people felt that they were already on the sea.

Yu Dayou clearly saw that several fleets rushed over from all directions.

Wang Zongmu was also a little anxious at this moment.

Wang Zongmu was about to get on the boat, but Zhou Mengchen approved.

Yu Dayou would not let Wang Zongmu go to other ships because he was afraid that Wang Zongmu would make trouble. So Wang Zongmu could only be on Yu Dayou's ship.

Before, Wang Zongmu could not help but talk nonsense, but at this moment, he saw the enemy coming in a fierce manner, and suddenly felt a little panicked. He said, "General Yu, are we firing fire?"

Yu Dayou ignored him at all and said, "The command was sent to the various departments to change the sails and retreat. When retreating, the fleet was divided into four teams. According to the original plan, I, Lu Tong, Tang Kekuan, and Liu Xian were led by me. Remember, no matter how the enemy pursued, I could only use small cannons to fight back, and no cannons were allowed."

Wang Zongmu was shocked and said, "General Yu, how can we retreat before the battle?"

Yu Dayou said calmly: "Don't worry, we can't retreat. The river flow is still the leader here. The ship is pushed east by the Yangtze River. Even if we retreat with the help of the east wind, we cannot retreat far away. A few dozen miles ahead, the momentum of the river flow will be exhausted, and at that time, there will be no such powerful flow on the sea. If the enemy wants to escape, we will not be able to chase. Moreover, we are transporting formations at this moment, and it will take a little time to convert into combat formations. What's more, we are now transporting ships. When the grain ship meets so many enemies, the first thing we have to do is to escape?"

For a moment, Wang Zongmu didn't know whether what Yu Dayou said was reasonable or not.

However, the entire fleet was still following Yu Dayou's plan. The ships that were originally going downstream immediately changed to go upstream. However, the speed was very slow, and it was not even one-tenth of the same as those on the downstream. The Japanese pirates were overjoyed and rushed up from behind.

So the artillery battle between the two sides began.

Yu Dayou ordered that the cannons are not allowed, but only small cannons, which is the small cannon customized by Zhou Mengchen in the military weapon supervision. This small cannon is enough for infantry to carry weapons, but some of the naval warfare weapons are not enough. Only when the enemy is very close can it have lethality.

The Japanese pirates also had a certain number of cannons. Whether they were built by themselves or purchased by Portuguese, the number of these cannons was quite good. They were bombarded on the sand ships from afar.

The sand ships were shallow in water and the side of the ship was a little high, not to mention that these large sand ships were obviously larger than the Japanese pirates' ships in their bodies. The difficulty of aiming was much lower. For a time, several ships that were behind were shot and even shot several holes in the ship.

Fortunately, the ships in the era of wooden boats were very easy to repair. Seeing this, the ship immediately sent someone to nail them. It only slowed down some speed and was unlikely to sink the ship.

And Yu Dayou's ship is one of the few behind.

Yu Dayou stood at the bow of the boat. At this moment, he looked at it with a thousand-mile mirror. He saw almost all kinds of ships. There were countless ships, and there were different types of ships, including sand ships and wide ships. The largest number was a blessing ship. Yu Dayou even saw several unknown ships, such as Arab triangular ships, Western ships, Southeast Asian two-sided ships, etc.

Each form is one, it is simply a complete collection of sea ship types along the southeast coast.

The number of cannons is even rarer. Some have at most several gates, while others have no at all. Many ships rushed up to fight for the shore.

Yu Dayou felt even more clear after seeing this. These Japanese pirates were large in number, and they had no command, let alone coordination. Even if they counterattacked, Yu Dayou was confident that they would defeat these enemies. But what he wanted was not just to defeat. Instead, he had to do his best to destroy the Wang Zhi group.

Therefore, he had to suppress his thoughts and go up against the current little by little. Yu Dayou is now preparing momentum. When the ships change their formation successfully, there is actually no difficult formation transformation. It is just a column for transportation to a horizontal line. It does not mean that the hull does not need to be crossed. After all, the Ming Navy's small cannons are quite large, but each cannon that can really attack the opponent's ships is actually only two or three, and most of them are placed on the bow of the ship. Therefore, it is useless to line up in a horizontal line.

The second is that when the offense and defense are converted for a while, the ships will gain a speed advantage along the way. Relying on the large and strong ships, it is enough for these small boats to drink a pot.

At this moment, the cannons were roaring beside Yu Dayou, and even one or two shells hit him. He was still like a statue, still motionless. Waiting for the opportunity.

Although Yu Dayou's murderous intent has not been revealed yet, Mao Haifeng has already felt something is wrong.

Mao Haifeng said to Wang Zhi: "The adoptive father is wrong. Although we chased him like this, we could not capture a ship at all. Moreover, although the official army was retreating, there was no chaos at all. This is simply impossible. I know the person named Shen from the Shachuan Gang. He does not have this ability."

"The court is prepared. At this moment, the commander's fleet must not be named Shen."

Wang Zhi said: "It should be Yu Dayou."

When Mao Haifeng heard this, he was shocked all over. When he looked at it with a thousand-mile mirror, he felt even more dangerous. He saw the person on a ship. He was stunned and said, "Yes, it's Yu Dayou, because I saw Deng Cheng. Deng Cheng is Yu Dayou's life and death brother. With Deng Cheng, Yu Dayou must be there too." Yu Dayou's troops dragged the back to block the Japanese pirates' attack. Yu Dayou's calmness does not mean that others are calmness, especially Deng Cheng. He saw that Yu Dayou's ship was a bit dangerous, so he rushed out immediately to block the artillery fire for Yu Dayou. He stood at the bow of the ship, and most of his body poked out of the ship, as if he did not avoid it, and there were guns and bullets everywhere.

This is how Mao Haifeng saw it.

Wang Zhi said: "These are nothing more important, but now the King of Heaven is here. I have to win. Where is Deng Cheng? I want his head."

Seeing this, Mao Haifeng knew that the string in Wang Zhi's heart was about to collapse. Mao Haifeng still had a lot to say, but he could no longer say it at this moment. For example, the teams below fought without obeying the command at all, and they were all broken up. By the way, some of their own ships collided together.

Anyway, all kinds of problems.

To be honest, there are many problems in the Ming Dynasty fleet. For example, there is a gap between the sailors who are driving the ship and the sailors who are fighting. For example, there were almost no sea combat training before this. So at this time of war, the Ming Navy also had problems with this and that. However, this is not the time to summarize experience, so I won’t mention it.

And similarly, Pirates will only have more problems here, not less.

After all, pirates fight on their own, and it's okay. Who has commanded such a battle of hundreds or thousands of ships? Yu Dayou knew very well that the command difficulties of water wars were only two hundred large ships, and they had to be divided into four fleets, so that they could barely command. On the side of the pirates, Wang Zhi and Mao Haifeng were not gods, so how could they command?

In fact, neither side understood that when a fight really turned into a melee, the captains were fighting on their own, and there was no use for commanding or not.

But the pirates cannot fight so quickly. It is not yet the stage of melee, and Yu Dayou can still control the fleet and make a formation change. And the Japanese pirates have almost no command or other things.

Mao Haifeng has said it now, and it is useless.

He could only press the Notice and immediately sent an order to all pirates, "Take the head of Dengcheng and give him ten thousand taels of silver."

For a moment, countless pirates were motivated to rush forward, and some ships even hit Dengcheng's ship fiercely. They also wanted to make the two sides enter the battle of the platoon.

Deng Cheng's ship was hit by several cannons in an instant and bitten by several ships. The situation was in danger.

Seeing this, Deng Zhong couldn't help but scream and said, "Master, save my father quickly."

Yu Dayou held Qianli Jing tightly and said in a deep tone: "No. The time is not right."

Deng Zhong said: "Master, can you fire a fire even if you don't save me?"
Chapter completed!