When Zhou Tai saw the two dragons entering the water formation set by the warships in the opposite bay, he realized that the opponents on the other side were not easy to meet. Obviously, the opponent had a master of water battle.

"Half sail, turn to the northeast, occupy the upper hand, and set up a square formation."

Zhou Tai was very careful. This was his usual personality. Perhaps, Zhou Tai's personality in history was not like this, but since he followed Fang Zhiwen, Zhou Tai has been constantly instilled with two concepts. The first is "a good fighter has no great achievements", and the second is "You Zhou Tai are not a powerful general, but a commander." Therefore, Zhou Tai has always used these two requirements and measured himself. If he did not meet these two requirements, he was not doing it well.

Therefore, seeing a double dragon striking into the water on the opposite side, Zhou Tai immediately avoided the unfavorable position and took the lead in taking the upper hand, peeking at the exit of Jiaozhou Bay from the side.

The so-called Double Dragon Into Water Array is an impact formation formed by two main warships. It can be encircled or divided for the purpose of targeting enemy formations that gather in groups. Behind this Double Dragon Into Water Array, there should be a large number of melee boats and fire ships. After the enemy's formation is chaotic, these small boats become fatal killing moves.

Of course, this formation must be made when one has a numerical advantage or is determined to fight the other party with the belief of dying, and now, the pirates have a numerical advantage.

Zhou Tai was full of troops, with eight thousand main combat soldiers, one thousand guards, and four thousand sailors, a total of 13,000 people. All of the newly produced Yellow Sea-class soft sail warships from Lenan Shipyard were 90, plus ten supply ships, which combined totaled exactly one hundred large ships of two thousand stone.

In contrast, although the pirates have various sizes and shapes, there are two or three hundred large ships of two thousand stones, and there are countless other small and medium-sized boats, which undoubtedly have an absolute advantage in quantity.

Let’s look at the main generals of both sides. The pirates on the opposite side cannot support the entire fleet due to their identity issues. Therefore, Zhou Tai is confident in the general bonus. As for the warship, his warship is stronger than the opponent in terms of flexibility, speed, and defense ability. He won one-on-one.

Zhou Tai chose to spy on the exit of Jiaozhou Bay, as if a tiger squatting at the door of the sheep pen. Just waiting for the other party to come out, once the other party's fleet surged out, Zhou Tai could choose to rush the other party to break, or divide it into several waves, and take turns to attack the other party's formation. Zhou Tai's idea is very simple, then entangle you. It consumes your vitality and does not allow you to do business with peace of mind. As for things on land, with Li Yuanzhi, a fierce man, he will definitely not let these pirates get better. Maybe now Li Yuanzhi has started to burn the pirates' nests.

However, the pirate generals were obviously not mediocre. They did not rush to run out of the bay to fight, but re-divided the fleet and divided the fastest 100 Clippers. They formed a new main battle force and slowly sailed out of the strait entrance of Jiaozhou Bay, but it was obviously southeast. Obviously, they were fighting against Zhou Tai, signaling the other party to duel in the outer sea.

Zhou Tai obviously would not rush into Jiaozhou Bay. Not only Zhou Tai himself knew this, but the other party must also know it. On the narrow sea surface of Jiaozhou Bay, the pirates with absolute advantage in ships is a hell for Zhou Tai. Therefore, the other party dared to gather the big ships and ran out of the bay to fight one-on-one.

Although it is a one-on-one fight in form, it is actually a group fight, because the pirate ships are nearly twice the number of Zhoutai warships, which is typical of two-for-one. However, in actual combat, especially in naval battles, due to the wide battlefield, the speed, operational ability of the warships, etc., it is hard to say whether they can reach the ideal formation position when the war begins.

Zhou Tai has been training in battle these days. Even when sailing, he still needs to conduct long-term training. What is the core of this naval battle training? It is not combat or defense, but boat handling!

The formation and formation of sea ships in naval battles depend entirely on the sailor's level of ship control, and the bonus effect of generals forming formations. Just like the decisive battle of cavalry, there is a formation that beats no formation, and a strong formation beats weak formations. The power of the formation is definitely many times higher than that of single battles. Therefore, naval battles are actually fighting formations, and the most fundamental thing is to compare the training level.

The pirate ships lined up in three columns, and were very close, and could also be regarded as a long snake array. This long snake array with three ships parallel has an advantage and is not easily cut off.

The pirates' route was very clever. They first took the wind to the south, then turned to the sea east, and then drove out for about ten miles, suddenly turning north, trying to grab Zhou Tai's front to occupy the upper hand, but Zhou Tai was not easy to be with him. When the pirates turned east, Zhou Tai also issued an order to turn east, and was always slightly behind and followed the pirate's fleet in parallel.

At this moment, the pirate fleet turned east, and Zhou Tai immediately issued an order: "Full sails, keep the course, sail at full speed, and cut off the enemy formation."

The speed of the fleet that Zhou Tai had been suppressing suddenly exploded at this moment. The fleet lined up in two columns, like two sharp arrows, rushed towards the pirates' fleet. Looking down from the sky, the two fleets were showing an angle of about 150 degrees. In the rapid approach, if the speed and angle did not change, the pirate fleet would be broken by Zhou Tai's fleet at about two-thirds of the position.

On the big ship headed by the pirate fleet, Wang Ben was looking at the side with a dark face. Unfortunately, there was no telescope in this era, so he could only rely on his own eyes. However, there were some vision skills among the navy generals, and these were excellent lookouts.

"The enemy ships are ninety, with a distance of one mile, with a double row spacing of ten feet, and a speed of 30."

Wang Ben looked at Jiang Qin in front of him. Jiang Qin was not tall, had a strong body, his face was darkened by the sea breeze, and he looked quite old-fashioned. In fact, he was just nineteen years old. At this moment, he was frowning and staring at the approaching enemy fleet on the left, with a complex light of excitement, appreciation and envy in his eyes.

Just now, Zhou Tai's fleet released its speed, and finally Jiang Qin saw the ferociousness of this new ship that looked slightly fat and used soft sails. In terms of speed, he was completely defeated.

"Turn the rudder right, turn around and go south."

Wang Ben's heart skipped. Jiang Qin was going to attack the enemy's fleet in turn. When the enemy fleet cut his fleet, Jiang Qin's front team turned around and counterattacked, and could just hit the enemy who had just passed through his back team.

"The team that was cut off from the team was ordered to form a formation and turn to the northeast, and cooperate with us to launch an attack."

Sure enough, the next order was the order of entanglement and melee. Since Jiang Qin did not have a suitable military position, he could not effectively command all ships. He could basically only command the thirty ships in the front team, and the ones behind could only rely on commands to command. In this way, the reaction speed of the entire fleet was reduced by a layer.

Zhou Tai has been paying attention to the report from the Sky Lookout. Looking down from the battlefield from the sky, you can more comprehensively grasp the real-time dynamics of the entire battlefield. In this regard, Zhou Tai also has an absolute advantage, and in a sense, this advantage is enough to make Zhou Tai in an unbeaten position.

After hearing the lookout report, Zhou Tai pulled the corner of his mouth slightly. Do you want to fight? You want to fight, but I don’t fight with you. Take advantage of the ship speed and the advantage of formation. This is what Zhou Tai should do. The fight is indeed passionate and intense, but Zhou Tai doesn’t want that kind of unnecessary loss at all.

"After the front army maintains its formation, penetrates the enemy's formation, the course turns twenty degrees southeast, accelerates the separation, and is not allowed to fight in love. The central army and the rear army separate into two teams, with the course ten and fifteen degrees south respectively. The battle is also not allowed to fight in love, maintain the speed, and pay attention to the intersection with the front army."

Zhou Tai's order was issued, and ninety large ships were divided into three teams, forming a fan shape, rushing towards the pirates' fleet, trying to rush the pirates' fleet into pieces.

At this time, from Jiang Qin's ship, it was actually impossible to see the movements of Zhou Tai's fleet. I just felt that Zhou Tai's fleet was adjusting its formation, but I still don't know what it was adjusted to. This is the defect of level viewing, which is sometimes fatal.

The two fleets intersected quietly, and could only hear the whistling sea breeze, the flying sharp arrows and the bouncing sound of bowstrings. The battle at sea was going on in such a strange silence, only the commander's loud command echoed on the sea.

The two sides were nearly 120 steps apart, and they could not even hear the terrifying hum of being caught in an arrow. They could only hear the generals on the ship shouting for fire.

Zhou Tai's navy is very professional. The attack power on the ship is divided into three parts. The first wave is the ultra-long-range giant crossbow and a small stone thrower. Zhou Tai used oil tanks instead of stones this time. The second wave is the sixty crossbow archers on the ship. Among these crossbow archers, ten of them are fire crossbows, responsible for shooting fire arrows. Of course, it is naturally a good thing to burn the sails, but it cannot be burned, which can also make the other party busy for a while. The last wave is the forty swords and axes who jumped into the gang battle. Before the jumped into the gang battle, these people were also shield handlers and damage managers.

Compared to the orderly manner on Zhou Tai's ship, the situation on the pirate ship is very chaotic, mainly because the division of labor is unclear. Once a fire breaks out here, the crossbow archer next to him will throw down the crossbow and start to put out the fire. No one cares about the crossbow arrows shot from the opposite side. As for the shield, it is hard to say, because they always stand according to their preferences. The direct consequence of this training gap is the battle loss ratio, one to thirty.

In addition, there is a difference between ships. One advantage of soft sails is that the crossbow arrow cannot be penetrated. If the crossbow arrow is shot on the soft sail, it will bounce down directly. On the contrary, the hard sail is easily nailed to the crossbow arrow. If these crossbow arrows are fire arrows, then you have to be busy putting out the fire.

Then there are the war defense facilities. Zhou Tai's ship was designed according to the warship. The ship gang not only had shields, but also had fire and collision-proof designs, and even considered jumping gangs. It was a truly professional warship, while the pirate ships on the opposite side were mostly transformed by transport ships, and there were many problems.

Zhou Tai's front army was divided into two rows and sandwiched several pirate ships in the middle. Zhou Tai's fleet did not slow down in close combat, but relied on long-range strikes, and thirty warships passed by. The six or seven pirate ships in the middle were baptized by arrows and sulphurs, and a fire suddenly ignited. It was obvious that they were out of help. The surviving pirates on the ship jumped into the sea one after another. The sea water in winter was very cold!
Chapter completed!