After arranging land troops, Lin Chunhong moved several small iron ships from Suixi Bay to the outer sea and said sternly: "The key to this battle is also the naval battle! If Liu Xiang enters the bay and with the assistance of the shore fort, General Zhao will be able to win in one battle, and it is not impossible to capture Liu Xiang!"

The pirate leaders were all excited. Isn’t it meant that they could capture Liu Xiang in this battle to represent the Guangdong coastal areas that let them be free?

Seeing that the pirates were still in good spirits, Lin Chunhong nodded with satisfaction. Then, his sharp eyes turned to Zhao Hehai and asked, "When you fight with the first column of Li Hu San, how likely do you have to win?"

Zhao Hehai immediately stood up and shouted: "Sixty percent chance of winning! Brothers are not afraid of death, and it is no problem to defeat Li Husan!"

Lin Chunhong nodded and praised: "Okay! But this time you will take your brothers to defend and fight!"

After saying that, Lin Chunhong placed Li Husan's fleet and Zhao Hehai's fleet outside Suixi respectively, becoming two standard dense columns, Zhao Hehai was in the northwest and Li Husan was in the southeast.

"After taking over the battle with Li Husan, you don't have to seize the upper hand. You must make full use of carrier-based artillery to attack Li Husan's battleship and ensure that you can retreat into the bay at any time!"

Zhao Hehai scratched his head and said, "Why is this?"

"After you retreat into the bay, Li Husan chased in. The cannons on the shore had to be blown him into pieces! It doesn't matter if Li Husan doesn't come in. After you fight, no matter how many cannons or how many guns you lost, I will replenish you immediately. If the hull is broken, I will send someone to repair it for you. After repairing it, I will immediately go out to the bay to find Li Husan again! Liu Xiang came from afar, how to replenish the cannons and gunners? If you do this a few more times, Li Husan must be eaten by you!"

Zhao Hehai and the pirate leaders were inexplicably surprised. Isn’t this an invincible place? Especially Li Siming and Liang Feng, they looked at each other and said at the same time: “This is an open conspiracy! The open conspiracy is open and upright! It just makes people helpless!”

Lin Chunhong waved his hand and said loudly: "Okay, everyone should prepare quickly. After this battle, Liu Xiang will be the dry bones in the tomb, so it is not to be afraid!"

Everyone was about to take action separately, but they heard Chen Kui say in a sharp voice: "I wonder how Lin Junmen will arrange our family?"

Everyone, including Lin Chunhong, was stunned for a moment. Chen Kui remained silent during the military discussion just now, so that everyone forgot the existence of the military supervisor.

After Chen Kui took office as the military supervisor, he always kept his duty, refused to say a word or take another step. After Chen Kui's secret report to Zhu Youjian was intercepted by the Military Information Department, Lin Chunhong read it word by word. Except for the description of Lin Chunhong's whereabouts every day, there was no lie.

Lin Chunhong smiled and bowed, saying, "Eunuch Chen, please sit in the Hong Kong and watch the brothers win the battle!"

Chen Kui said without any appreciation: "Our family has a heartless request, and I want to follow General Zhao to fight in the sea!"

Lin Chunhong was shocked: "The sea battle is very dangerous. Once my father-in-law makes any mistakes, how can Lin explain to the emperor?"

This is not a lie. After all, once Chen Kui is killed at sea, whether it is Zhu Youjian, all the bureaucrats and gentry of the Ming Dynasty, or even Bangtai, they will think that Chen Kui died at the hands of Lin Chunhong, which will make Lin Chunhong extremely passive.

Zhao Hehai was scolded by Zhang Zhao last time because of Chen Kui. He always hated this dead eunuch very much. He immediately smiled at Chen Kui and said, "Are you not afraid that Zhao will play tricks on the sea?"

Seeing that Zhao Hehai was talking inappropriately, Lin Chunhong immediately cursed: "Shut up your mouth!"

Unexpectedly, Chen Kui didn't think it was offensive and smiled and said, "The general comes to block the water and the soil. What move does General Zhao have? Just use it, and our family will continue!"

Lin Chunhong himself admired Chen Kui very much. Seeing that Chen Kui had made up his mind, he no longer objected and said, "Since Eunuch Chen insisted on getting on the boat, Lin was not inconvenient to object anymore. Please cherish your health and never go to the deck during the battle!"

After saying that, he turned to Zhao Hehai and said, "Be careful to take care of Eunuch Chen. If you dare to play tricks, I will not spare you when you come back!"

Zhao Hehai stood attentively and saluted, saying, "Abide by the military orders!"

...

In April, the southeast wind blows on the face and the blue waves are like a golden season for sailing.

Zhao Hehai led twelve battleships, lined up in dense columns, cruising outside Suixi. Chen Kui was also on the flagship Fujia, under the close protection of the two guards, touching and looking around, and was very curious.

Forty red cannons! If this bombed the city wall of the capital, wouldn’t the city wall collapse in an instant? Chen Kui experienced countless land wars and instinctively felt that the form of war had undergone major changes. It was impossible to withstand the enemy’s attack by relying on the city wall alone!

Fortunately, the Jurchens did not have so many red barbarian cannons, otherwise the capital would have been captured in the second year of Chongzhen! Chen Kui sighed.

Chen Kui carefully observed the Fujia and kept thinking about it. He found that the Fujia had two decks, one row had ten red cannons, a total of forty artillery. It is said that the shipbuilding workshop on Cheung Chau Island was making three-deck warships, and one row had sixteen red cannons. Wouldn't the sixth platoon ninety-six?

My God! Ninety-six Gate! That is simply a moving sea fortress!

Chen Kui also found that the middle of the artillery deck was high and the sides were low. The artillery was placed on a four-wheel gun stand. The artillery was connected to the side of the ship with pulleys. There were wedges behind the gun stand, so that the gun body could be padded and the elevation angle of the gun body could be adjusted. After Chen Kui thought carefully, he realized that when the gun was fired, the muzzle was retracted into the hull, so that it could be convenient to load the gun from the muzzle, and then pull the gun body back to its original position with the slope, the gun frame and the pulley. There is a scale on the wedge, which can be used to adjust the range.

There are knowledge of calculating and investigating things everywhere, and those gentry who are talking about can be killed! Chen Kui thought to himself hatefully. If his parents had not been forced to death by the gentry, how could he have become a rootless person? He was born with hatred for the gentry.

Chen Kui was thinking, and suddenly heard a tight bell sound coming. Chen Kui immediately rushed to the top deck and heard Zhao Hehai making a loud order: "Everything is done! The gunner is in place immediately, and the enemy ships enter the range, and then they will slam the damn together! Caofan is ready to prepare for the fan! Qian Chen! Lead the musket team to be on guard! Whoever does not obey the order will break him up!"

The sailors rushed towards their posts quickly, and even the chef was busy packing up all the debris to prevent the ship from shaking the objects and hurting people.

After Zhao Hehai ordered, he took out a monocular lens from his waist and leaned southeast.

Chen Kui also approached Zhao Hehai, stretched his neck and looked southeastward. He saw more than 20 warships in a column, three or four miles away, constantly approaching the Fujia.

Chen Kui was not afraid and excitedly watched the enemy ship grow bigger and bigger. He became closer and closer, and even the sailors of the enemy ship could see clearly!

Suddenly, a loud thunderous sound rang out one after another, and Chen Kui felt a stinging pain in his ears.

"It's over, it's over, I won't be deaf, right?" Chen Kui suspected that his ears were bleeding, and his hands couldn't help but touched his ears.

Fortunately, there was no blood on his hands, so Chen Kui continued to watch in the direction of the enemy ship.

Suddenly, the fires flashed in the distance, which made Chen Kui stunned! In just a blink of an eye, a big hand pressed on his neck, and a huge force came. Chen Kui was pressed down on the deck, and he nipped the wooden board with his mouth!

"Crash!" The dull bombardment sound was deafening. An iron ball was in the middle of the hull above the upper deck, causing the wood chips to flew up and down, and almost flew to Chen Kui's back.

Chen Kui was too scared and was stunned by the sound of shelling. A new round of shelling of Fujia began again!

"Get to the inner deck, don't get in the way here!" Zhao Hehai shouted at Chen Kui's ear. After saying that, he ignored Chen Kui, and walked towards the side of the ship and continued to observe the enemy ship.

Chen Kui did not dare to refute, gasped, rolled and crawled into the cabin, counting the sound of shelling, hoping that both sides would break off contact as soon as possible.

The enemy fleet is the first column led by Liu Husan!

As the shelling bursts became tighter, the entire sea surface filled with smoke of gunpowder, and the sound of gunpowders rumbling, and the two fleets were quickly shrouded in the smoke of gunpowder.

This is very unfavorable to Zhao Hehai.

The brave Liu Husan has strong self-control and seized the upper hand from the beginning. He bit Zhao Hehai tightly. After firing the cannon, the smoke of gunfire was blown away by the sea breeze, which could quickly restore sight. Zhao Hehai was in the lower hand, but was affected by the smoke of Liu Husan's fleet, and his sight was greatly affected, and the speed of firing cannons was not as fast as before.

However, being at a disadvantage is not all disadvantages. Among the twelve warships in Zhao Hehai, there are seven of the double-deck warships, and all artillery on one side of these seven warships can be fired. Liu Husan has a total of twenty-five warships and six double-deck warships. Due to concerns about seawater infiltration, all artillery portholes on the bottom deck are closed. In other words, Liu Husan is equivalent to leading twenty-five single-deck warships to fight.

Originally, Liu Husan's single ship's firepower was far less than Zhao Hehai. In addition, the influence of the upper wind position, the artillery could not exert all the firepower. In the artillery battle, Liu Husan gradually fell into a disadvantage and the losses gradually increased.

As the most powerful battleship among all warships, Fujia performed very well. With one volley, twenty iron balls were smashed toward the enemy ship. Among the twenty iron balls, one or two iron balls could hit the hull of the enemy ship, causing great damage to the artillery and gunners of the enemy ship. On the other hand, the enemy ship opposite Fujia fired no more than ten iron balls in one volley. It basically requires two to three volleys to hit one or two iron balls on the hull of Fujia, and the harm is minimal.

The enemy and our fleets were in a column, fighting and moving towards the northeast. The artillery battle lasted for more than an hour, and the enemy ships facing the Fujia had almost completely lost their combat power. They often waited for a long time before they could see two groups of shining flames.

However, the enemy ship was in the upper hand and could not retreat, so he could only follow the column, facing the shells of the Fujia.

Seeing that the ship had basically lost its combat effectiveness, Zhao Hehai couldn't help but laugh, "When I faced my Fujia, I can go and reincarnate as soon as possible!"

After laughing, he looked at the three battleships in front of Fujia and cursed: "Nainai, what happened to Feng Lun? Why don't you move forward quickly?"

As soon as he finished scolding, Feng Lun seemed to hear the scolding and quickly rose up the second sail on Fu B, and the ship speed suddenly accelerated. Driven by Fu B, the two warships that followed also accelerated the speed, freeing up space for Fu A to switch positions.

Zhao Hehai was overjoyed and ordered: "I will go and catch another ship!"
Chapter completed!