When the battle of the Shahai Battle collapsed, Yue Wuzhu was snatched out by his subordinates. He fled from the Shahai in the dark and returned to Langya. This was naturally a deep shame for the king, but the shame was not this time. The capital of Yue State and his royal city were once again attacked by the Qi people instigated by the Qin people, so he could only take the concubines and servants of the palace to flee south in a hurry.

What is shame? This is shame!

What kind of shame is the greatest? It is the greatest shame to lose face in front of your beloved woman, and you will be defeated and run away like a wild dog!

Yue Wuzhu wished he could die in the sand sea like the King of Chu, so that he would not suffer such shame. The whistle whistle was roaring wildly, and Yue Wuzhu, who had not yet lost his sleepiness, quickly woke up from his confusion. He shouted: "Being armored, go to fight!"

The whistle was roaring in Yue Wuzhu. The soldiers of Yue Wuzhu had already been boarded by the boat, waiting for their king. When Yue Wuzhu boarded the Wangzhou, more than 120 large-winged warships hurried out of the port. More than ten miles away, twenty-two Chu army gunboats were already arranged in a single horizontal lineup. The gunboats and gunboats lined up shoulder to shoulder like combat infantrymen. The interval between them was the effective range of the sixty-eight kilograms of short-barrel cannons, about two chains, three hundred and seventy meters.

This is also a solution. Although Shouying retreated some artillery after the truce, he only returned the artillery that originally belonged to the sea pier to the sea pier. There were only twenty-two gunboats that could be fought. If these twenty-two gunboats were facing the enemy sideways in a single column, the formation was about five thousand meters. For the Qin army's boat division, which had nearly a thousand warships, the battle line of more than five thousand meters was still too short. Even if the Qin army's boat division's boat formation was ten meters apart, the formation was nearly ten thousand meters wide.

The gunboat was not afraid of the two wings of the Qin people's boat division. What the gunboat was worried about was that the Qin people's warships headed straight to the "floating bridge" a hundred miles behind him. More than 200,000 people in the Chubo were all on the boat. If they were really going to be rushed over by the Qin army's boat division, a warship might also cause a devastating battle.

The single horizontal gunboats are separated by 370 meters, and the twenty-two gunboats are more than 8,000 meters wide. The most important thing is that the cannons on both sides can be fully utilized, and the entire fleet can all fire 528 cannons. A single column cannot do this. A single column faces the enemy sideways, and only half of them, and two hundred and sixty-four cannons can fire.

There are only advantages and disadvantages. The single column array is too narrow. Although the single horizontal array array is wide, the distance between ships is too wide. The Qin army warships may gallop past the interval. For enemy boats, it is too wide, but for their own ships, with a distance of 370 meters. Many early gunboats were all 32 kilograms of naval guns, and the range of naval guns was far greater than that of short-barrel guns. If you are not careful, you will accidentally hurt a friend's ship.

Shen Yinshang chose to fight alone. The Yue army's boat division, centered on gunboats, could only list a military formation of the same length behind this single-sided team that was more than 8,000 meters long. The mission of the Yue people was to make up for the leak, and was bombarded by ship gunboats, rushed out of the gap between the gunboats and headed towards the "floating bridge" behind them. The Qin warship that was galloping behind was the enemy of the Yue army.

Therefore, when the Chu army's gunboats were arranged, the three-ocketed large wings led by Yue Wuzhu could catch up with him in a slow step. Originally, more than 100 warships from the Yue Division were behind the gunboat array, and the speed of the large wing warship was far higher than that of the clumsy and rushing Chaos-class gunboats. Even if they were a little behind, the large wing warship could catch up quickly.

Wang Zhou, where Yue Wuzhu was located, quickly chased the Chu army fleet. At first, he had not seen where the Qin people were. After Wang Zhou left the port for more than ten miles, he finally saw the Qin army boats as long as the coast. Because it was against the wind, those warships did not hang sails, and Lu Li's mirror was full of dense crosses.

"Qin people!" Yue Wuzhu sneered twice. In his opinion, the Qin people's boat master did not understand water battles at all. He was not familiar with water. He was not familiar with water. He could win only by relying on many people. This was true in the lakes and lakes, but not in the sea.

"Report to the king," the flag soldiers on the Wang Zhou reported: "General Shen Yin asked me not to escape with a boat, otherwise it would cause trouble to avoid the boats behind me."

Master Yue was just to make up for the leak, and Yue Wuzhu was unwilling to give up and couldn't help it. He sneered with some dissatisfaction and said, "Tell Shen Yinshang that I will not let the Qin people escape a boat. Humph!"

Yue Wuzhu had no choice but to be dissatisfied with it. No matter how familiar the Yue Master was with water war, there was no gunboat. The gunboat fired, and the land collapsed, which was really not something that humans could resist. He was not afraid of anyone in the water war, and artillery war was the power of gods and ghosts. How could mortals resist it?

The flag soldiers who passed the order did not pass Yue Wuzhu's dissatisfaction onto the flagship Queshan. In fact, even if it was transmitted, Shen Yinshang would not care. Yue Ren was like the Chu Ren who carved the boat and asked for swords. He was as unresatisfied as the Chu Ren who was dissatisfied and dissatisfied, and he would still do what he agreed to without any discount. This is also the reason why Yue Ren could live behind the formation to make up for the leaks. If it were the Han people and Wei people, Shen Yinshang would have to let them line up in front of them.

Shen Yinshang heard the reply from behind without expression, and his attention was always in the north. He felt that the Qin army's boat troops were a little strange this time, and they did not immediately list the boat formation to meet the enemy. He didn't know that, but the Qin army's boat troops, who accidentally walked south, breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the alert pike. Including the Qi people, who claimed to be familiar with the East China Sea, they were all unsure after going out to sea. They could not see the land at all when sailing deep into the sea, without a compass or a magnetic compass, and no one knew where the boat troops would eventually row.

Armenias, who made this suggestion, finally discovered the difference between the East China Sea and the ‘Our Sea’. In the ‘Our Sea’, paddling in any direction will be docked, and in the East China Sea, if the direction is wrong, you may never come back. If you didn’t happen to meet the pike, if the Chu people happened to start evading today, the Qin army’s boat troops might have to row to the Zhoushan Islands to know that they had arrived in Yuedi. If the course is a little more deviation, it would not be the Zhoushan Islands. You will continue to row until the food and water on the warships are used up, and the final destination must be the Ryukyu Islands.

It was joyful to see the pirate. When the Chu army's gunboats set up their formation to prepare for the decisive battle, Yang Duan and his forehead were covered with sweat. He subconsciously looked at Armenias, hoping to hear his suggestions.

"Chony's gunboats rely on the wind to advance. If we retreat, they will pursue the wind; if we dock, their thunder weapons will smash our warships. We can only fight." Armenias, who had an unpleasant face, had no good advice. After a day or two nights, his paddlers were very tired, and they would definitely be chased by the Chu army when they retreated.

"Transfer, quickly arrange the array!" Yang Duanhe was not unaware of the consequences of the retreat, he was just inexplicably panicked.

"The general is destined to make a formation quickly!"

"The general has his life, quickly arrange the array..."

The orders on the flagship are passed through the flag, which is different from the fact that the Chu army's sea soldiers must fire the cannon before the order is sent. The Qin army's flagship sails at the forefront of the entire boat team. Once the flag is swung on the flagship, the military orders will be passed backwards. The order flags are kept waving. After receiving the order, more than 900 warships that were rowed in the large column slowly changed into formations and columns into horizontal lines.

"How many miles does the Qin people have?!" Shen Yinshang, who saw the Qin people starting to line up in the mirror, instantly forgot to breathe, and he saw an opportunity.

There is the simplest combined optical rangefinder in the stern. The wing looks like a cross-bar. The bar is equipped with prisms at both ends and eyepieces in the middle of the bar. The principle is extremely simple:

Assuming that the left edge angle is facing the distance measurement target, and its fixed angle is 90 degrees, then the connection between the left edge angle and the target, the entire cross-bar of the rangefinder, becomes both sides of this 90-degree right angle, and the connection between the right prism and the distance measurement target is the oblique edge between the two right-angle sides. It is unknown how far away from the left prism is from the distance measurement target, but the length of the cross-bar is known. As long as you know how much the right edge angle is aligned with the distance measurement target, you can quickly find out how far the left edge angle is from the distance measurement target according to the trigonometric function formula.

The principle of distance measurement is extremely simple. This kind of optical rangefinder appeared very early and was invented in the late 19th century. However, in actual use, the angles of the prisms at the left and right ends need to be continuously adjusted. The images transmitted from the left and right prisms must overlap in the eyepiece to calculate the target distance.

Using optical instruments requires patience, not to mention that this is a rangefinder made by Yufu Yujian who does not understand the principle. In addition, the thermal expansion coefficient, tolerance between parts, and various factors make it impossible for the distancefinder who is adjusting the gap gear to answer immediately. Shen Yinshang, who was unwilling to give up the opportunity, waited for a while and suddenly became anxious. He asked loudly again: "Qin people——, how many miles?"

Seeing that the Zhou Li still did not answer, he rushed up and pulled the Zhou Li away from the rangefinder, preparing to measure the distance by himself. The Zhou Li, who was pulled back by force, had already overlapped the images on the two prisms. He was just calculating sin   , cos. After he pulled it, the Zhou Li shouted: "Ten miles, the Qin people only have ten miles according to me!"

"Good!" Hearing that Shen Yinshang was overjoyed, he seemed to have forgotten his rudeness just now. He pulled his sword and shouted: "All sails! Hang the winged sails! Go in, go in-!!"
Chapter completed!