Zhao Bing hurriedly returned to the back hall of the Commander's Mansion. Liu Zhu had prepared the sand table. The position of the enemy and our warships was marked according to the report of the sentry ships. The situation was clear at a glance. Because the nature of the "merchant ship" could not be determined and where it fled, the warships sent by each water camp used the "network" tactics to search. The "network" in the purpose of the "network" is to keep a certain distance and cut the target's route. In this way, no matter which direction the enemy ship fled, as long as it did not dock, it would hit the grid set by many warships. After receiving the warning, other warships quickly surrounded and annihilated the target.

This advantage is that it can quickly capture the traces of enemy ships. However, large-scale searches cannot be searched side by side like on land. We can only keep a certain distance from each other. Generally, the signals sent by our warships can detect each other. Now, the "long-distance" communications of each army are transmitting information by sending signal flares into the air, and reporting the situation in different colors and quantities.

In this way, the goal is to catch it. It would be fine if one or two enemy ships were used, but the firepower of the Song Shui Army could be killed or entangled, but if the number of enemy ships was several times that of them, it would be troublesome. In particular, in order to maintain its rapid mobility, the ships mostly use warships with small tonnage, and only equipped with self-defense weapons. Generally, each ship has 52 sailors, equipped with a medium-sized crossbow and two small crossbows, and have weak combat power. It will take time for one's own friend ship to come over. If you want to fight against many enemy troops alone, it is like a moth to a flame.

According to the naval combat regulations, the task of the whistle ship is to reconnaissance. After discovering the enemy's situation, it is immediately used to inform the enemy in the fastest and most effective way. After being attacked, self-defense measures can be taken; if the enemy is strong, the whistle ship should quickly escape from the enemy's fire range and change to surveillance. Wait for the arrival of reinforcements, and do not take the initiative to launch an attack. The problem is that the enemy ship has now sunk a whistle ship on its own, and then used sneak attacks, which has made the army very angry and eager to take revenge.

On the other hand, when the enemy found that the opponent had only two wardrobes but he had an absolute advantage, he might turn the defense into an offensive and turn from prey to hunters. The possibility of the red-eyed sides retreating was really small, so Zhao Bing was worried that no matter whether the wardrobes discovered the enemy situation, or were entangled by the enemy, it would be extremely unfavorable to him, resulting in unnecessary casualties.

"Now the closest to the target are all sentry ships. Their strength is too weak, and it will be very unfavorable for us once a conflict occurs!" The situation of the enemy and us shows that the enemy is strong and we are weak at the moment. Zhao Bing pondered for a moment and said. Due to the current communication methods, it can only be contacted by one side. He cannot contact them, so he can only be in a hurry and has no choice but to do it.

"Your Majesty does not need to worry too much. Based on today's current situation and wind direction, my subordinates infer that after seeing the signal at the four nearby sentry ships, they can only arrive and entangle the enemy in two moments. The Defender Army is no longer more than half an hour away from the location. The support fleet from Chengmai Water Camp has set off for two hours. It should be possible to arrive in one hour and annihilate them!" Liu Zhu said optimistically.

"The enemy ship is not far from the place where we were discovered yesterday, but we searched for it all night but didn't find them. It's really strange!" Zhao Bing breathed a little relieved when he heard what Liu Zhu said, but he was still puzzled by the enemy ship's strange behavior.

"Your Majesty, according to the analysis of his subordinates, the enemy ship was eager to flee west yesterday after a conflict with our army's mail ship. He should have hid nearby in Daleipu. We thought it would escape quickly, so we placed the main force of the search on the west side, so we were deceived by him." Liu Zhu thought about it and said.

"Well, you analyzed it well, we were indeed deceived." Zhao Bing had to admit that the enemy ship was playing beautifully, and the so-called strategy was that you lied to me, I lied to you, and I deserved to be deceived by others by making mistakes in his own judgment, so he admitted it calmly. What he was even more worried about was where the enemy ship was hidden and how many would there be, looking at the sand table, "What makes me wonder now is that after the enemy discovered that their ship was in danger, they could immediately dispatch more than twenty warships to pick them up. How did they do it?"

"Your Majesty, I think the enemy should have restored Guantouzhai!" Liu Zhu pointed to the bay road at the southernmost end of the Leizhou Peninsula.

"Yes, otherwise the enemy would not have arrived here so soon. It seems that Ali Hague is very smart. He successfully exploited the loopholes in our defensive!" Zhao Bing thought for a moment.

Guantou Village was an old village set up by the Song army in the past. It was only more than 40 miles away from Qiongzhou. It could monitor the entire sea surface on good weather days. After the Song army withdrew, the village was occupied by the Yuan army, but how could Zhao Bing let go of this thorn in his eyes? So he had long been pulled out by his troops. However, the dock and other facilities were still there, and some passing ships stopped here in order to shelter from the wind, replenish Tamsui or dock here, so the Song army no longer paid attention to it.

"Your Majesty, the crime is at your subordinates. I relaxed my vigilance and was taken advantage of by the enemy!" Liu Zhu hurriedly apologized and said, as the chief of the navy, he was at least guilty of being in prison.

"No, it is my order to relax the surveillance of merchant ships, so it is my mistake in the end. Ali Hague saw the loopholes and took the blame." Zhao Bing waved his hand and took the initiative to take the blame. In fact, it was the money that caused the trouble. He allowed the merchant ships to freely exchange water to raise fish, cultivate the market, and make plans for Qiongzhou to earn some foreign money. Who knew that he would use it.

"It's still the fault of my subordinates. If we strengthen the surveillance of the ports along the Leizhou coast, the enemy will not take advantage of the loopholes." Although the young emperor took the initiative to take responsibility, wouldn't it be too ignorant if he was not "humble" to his subordinates. Liu Zhu quickly politely said.

"Since Ali Hague wants to hide the truth, it will not reveal such a big flaw. Instead, it has already started planning, and we can't defend it if we are careful." Zhao Bing explained. He has figured it out now. Ali Hague takes advantage of its own loopholes in opening the merchant ships and disguises the warships as merchant ships and uses the method of moving an ant, trying to break the secrets of breaking the cracks to complete the naval army.

"Your Majesty, in order to prevent the enemy from continuing to infiltrate as merchant ships, should we immediately block the strait and prohibit all ships from passing!" Liu Zhu asked for advice.

"Well, it is necessary to block the strait, but it may be too late. How is the log of the whistleboat checked?" The most important thing at the moment is to find out whether it has completed its pre-war preparations.

"It has been sorted out, please read it with Your Majesty!" Liu Zhu immediately submitted the document to the public after hearing this.

"Hiss... Ali Hague's goal has been achieved." Zhao Bing couldn't help but gasp. There were only more than 900 merchant ships passing through the strait in the past month, and even if half of them were subtracted, it would not be less than 500. Relying on these warships was enough to launch a large-scale attack on Qiongzhou.

"Your Majesty, I will immediately find out where the enemy navy is and lead the troops to destroy it in the port!" Liu Zhu felt nervous when he saw it. It was not the trade wind season, and it was far from the time when the merchant ship left and returned home on a large scale. According to the current records, the number of ships passing through the strait is no less than that of the trade wind season. But I didn't discover such an abnormal thing. All I could do now is to atone for my sins.

"Haha. The large-scale assembly of enemy ships by enemy ships has not paid any return, which means that they have a good memory and Ali Hague will not make the same mistake again." Zhao Bing smiled bitterly. He used his raid to attack the enemy ship assembly site to destroy the enemy warships in the port. In recent times, neither the Affairs Bureau nor the Spying Department, Jiyi Department has found no abnormalities in Guangxi and Leizhou stationed in Hong Kong, which means that all the warships transferred by Ali Hague have been "hidden", and Guantouzhai is likely to be one of them.

"Your Majesty, now it is said that Ali Hague is preparing to send troops to Annan. Did he mobilize the navy to go for them?" The fact that Kublai Khan established the Chameng Province and the Annan Xuanwei Office had already spread all over the world, and King Huantuoye of Zhennan had established a prefecture in Ezhou and mobilized two troops from Jinghu to go south to attack Chameng.

"Although there is such a possibility, it is not very big. Since they are fake, Annan must attack by land, why should they mobilize so many naval armies? Even if they need help from naval armies, the rivers in Annan are not suitable for sea ships to pass through!" Zhao Bing said.

"Your Majesty is right. Ali Hague used a strategy to cover up the truth. He wanted to attack Champa as a cover to attack our Qiongzhou!" Liu Zhu nodded and said.

"Hehe, yes or no, we will know after this battle. Even if it is not, I can't let them go if I destroy my warships and injure my soldiers!" Zhao Bing sneered with a heavy punch on the sand table.

"That's right, since they provoked, we will fight back hard, so that he dare not offend me Qiongzhou again!" The little emperor's words were very much for Liu Zhu's appetite. He rubbed his hands and said angrily.

"We can only wait for the previous news now, and we will be able to see the conclusion after fighting this battle. However, I have not eaten since morning and now, and my stomach is hungry, so I can't stand it anymore!" Zhao Bing said with a smile on his face.

"Sin, sin, my subordinates have forgotten all such important things." Liu Zhu then realized that it was already noon and he still made the emperor hungry, so he quickly bowed and apologized...

Zhao Bing knew that he could not go back today, so he ordered Liu Zhu to clean up the yard and wait for the result of the matter. Of course, he did not dare to neglect it. He gave him the backyard of the commander's mansion to him. Wang De had already asked him to clean up the yard and Zheng Yong arranged the guards. The lunch was also ready, and he came over. He looked at it and frowned, and secretly scolded Liu Zhu, who was really ignorant. He took the thunder for him. He still gave him the meal according to the food standards of the commander, and did not add one or two dishes. But he was still very pleased, after all, they still remembered his words in his heart.

In the afternoon, with the addition of the reinforcement fleet, more news came back, and Zhao Bing also outlined the general situation of the battle. After the first sentry ship to discover the enemy, they thought that they could use their own crossbows to destroy the merchant ship equipped with only a few catapults, and the avenge ship was sunk. So the two sentry ships did not turn to surveillance and tracking as required, but rushed up.

After several wars, the Qiongzhou navy had experience in how to deal with enemy ships equipped with stone throwers. The stone throwers looked very impressive. After being hit, the light ones had their mast broken and the mast broke, and the heavy ones were immediately sunk. However, their weaknesses were also very obvious. One was that the firing speed was slow, there were many dead spots in the shooting, and the other was low hit rate. Especially on an unstable platform, it would require great luck to hit the target.

The whistle ship was small in size and fast in speed. They knew that they would not be so unlucky unless they were carrying it home. Once they rushed to the enemy ship, the enemy ship would have no choice but to deal with it. So the two ships chose the merchant ship that landed on the last side as the target and cooperated with each other. After the enemy ship found it, they immediately launched an attack with a stone caster when they entered the range. They were not afraid of it and still moved forward with the good maneuverability of the whistle ship.

But the whistleboat soon discovered something wrong. The four stone throwers on the merchant ship were not only accurate in shooting, but also had a fast fire speed, and were very well-organized. The gunner seemed to have calculated their route of travel. Fortunately, the captain was experienced and found that it was wrong and avoided in time, so he was not caught. They realized that what they encountered was definitely not a merchant ship. They could not do it without more than ten years of experience. The other party was a soldier like him.

The wardrobe ship did not dare to be careless after discovering the problem. While conducting disturbed shooting, it continued to get closer so that it could exert the maximum power of the crossbow cannon and sank the enemy ship in one fell swoop. However, after the two enemy ships in front found that the rear ship was entangled, they immediately slowed down and changed the column to a horizontal team to come to meet. Faced with the attack of more than a dozen stone throwers, they could no longer withstand it, so they had to retreat beyond their range. What was even more terrifying was that more than twenty ships were found coming quickly, flying the banner of the Yuan army, and the other party did not intend to let them go. After discovering them, they immediately surrounded them in pursuit formation.

When a cat encounters a tiger, it can only escape. What's more, it's a group of tigers. Seeing this, the two ships immediately released pigeons to report the situation again, and repeatedly released signal flares to send a signal to the surrounding ships. After seeing the Song army ships cruising nearby, they immediately sent the information out and rushed to the area where the incident occurred to rescue.

The nearby ones arrived early were all sentry ships, and they were also unable to resist and dared not fight at all, so they alternately covered and retreated towards the nearest Chengmai Water Camp. They knew that their bases would send troops to respond when they received the warning, and the warships cruising around were gathering here. It was possible that who would kill them! Two quarters of an hour later, the Defender Army arrived first, and the situation immediately reversed. After sinking three enemy ships in succession and seriously injured two, the enemy found that the Song army reinforcements were coming and began to retreat. The Song army then turned to pursue.
Chapter completed!