At the heavily guarded Dengzhou Harbour Wharf, Wei Zheng was staring at the twenty warships lined up on the dock with a serious face. Because he didn't know how many of the twenty warships in front of him would be left tomorrow morning after the attack tonight, and return to the horse's head with victory.

At this moment, the officer of the Tiger and Leopard Army First Fleet Command, headed by Li Xinlong, hurried to Wei Zheng with a serious and hot facial expression and reported loudly.

"Master, all the soldiers and warships of the fleet must be ordered to attack. Please give orders..."

"Very good..." Wei Zheng nodded, and a rare smile appeared on his serious face.

After taking a deep breath, he replied to Li Xinlong: "General Li, you are only the commander of the First Fleet of my Tiger and Leopard Army now. I cannot guarantee other commanders. However, I can still guarantee you a general. As long as you can command the soldiers of the First Fleet, severely damage the imperial naval army, and open a breakthrough when the imperial naval army blocks the defense line in front of us. Here, I promise you that the commander-in-chief of my Tiger and Leopard Army will definitely be yours. Therefore, you must fight this naval battle well."

As a soldier, being a general, especially a general who commands the First Army, is definitely something that any soldier dreams of. Li Xinlong, as the commander of the First Fleet, is no exception.

So, as soon as Wei Zheng finished speaking, a hint of heat flashed across Li Xinlong's face.

Of course, this ray of heat did not last long and was covered again by seriousness.

Because, in front of me, this naval battle with great strength can be regarded as a huge difference in strength, I must treat it with caution. Otherwise, what is waiting for me may not be victory, but the destruction of the entire army and burial in the sea.

So, under the gaze of Wei Zheng's smart eyes, Li Xinlong replied without thinking: "Please rest assured, I will ensure that I complete the task and return in triumph, and live up to your expectations..."

In less than half an hour, the twenty warships of the Tiger and Leopard Army docked at the Dengzhou Wharf were slowly sailing away from the dock under the order of Li Xinlong and disappeared from Wei Zheng and others' vision.

In order to catch the imperial navy off guard, the twenty warships, except for contacting each other to avoid losing direction in the sea, all other lights were extinguished.

If you don't look carefully, no one will see that there is a fleet on the sea surface with the constant sea breeze. Like a ghost in the night, it slowly sails towards the huge imperial navy.

Twenty warships, riding the wind and waves, approaching the target step by step.

The imperial navy warships stationed five miles away from Dengzhou Harbour were brightly lit.

Hundreds of warships and tens of thousands of people in the imperial navy, from top to bottom, no one would have thought that the Tiger and Leopard Army Navy, which had just been formed for less than twenty days, had the courage to sail out of the range of the army's heavy artillery and actively launched an attack on the huge imperial navy.

Therefore, the imperial navy, who thought there was no opponent on this sea, almost no one stood on the warship watchtower to watch.

This created an unprecedented prerequisite for the Navy of the Tiger and Leopard Army to take the initiative to attack.

Twenty warships lined up in a row, and just less than two miles away from the dock, the observer standing on the observation deck saw the brightly lit imperial fleet.

As the commander of the First Fleet, Li Xinlong, he is very aware of the huge gap between the two fleets.

For the huge imperial navy, his only advantage is the range of naval guns.

Therefore, if you want to win this naval battle that is about to break out, there is only one way to count it over and over again. That is to give full play to your advantages.

Therefore, Li Xinlong's naval battle method is very clear, that is, outside the range of the naval naval guns of the imperial court, he should give full play to the advantages of the long range of the tiger and leopard warship guns, and constantly shoot flowering bullets at the opponent, hit the opponent and weaken the opponent.

Under such circumstances, Li Xinlong, who had a serious face, directly issued an order to stop moving forward in the fleet.

Not only that, in order to use more naval guns, the twenty warships directly turned the bow and aimed the flanks of the warship at the imperial navy.

Soon, all the gun gun muzzles with a range of more than three miles were aimed at the imperial naval division.

At this time, Li Xinlong's order to fire was like throwing a stone at the calm water surface, quickly causing countless waves.

As soon as the order to fire the gun was released through the signal light, the deafening roar began to sound on twenty warships. As balls of fireballs gushed out from the black holes of the three hundred guns, three hundred lead bullets flew out with a roar, flying out to the imperial navy three miles away from him.

"Boom boom boom..." In the blink of an eye, three hundred flowering bullets flew over the imperial navy. Then, it fell on the sea where the imperial navy was located and exploded.

Although less than 10% of the blooming bullets fell on the imperial naval warships, huge fireballs mixed with a large number of black smoke rose up. However, the remaining blooming bullets fell on the sea were not completely lost.

In addition to stirring up bunches of thick water columns up to four or five battles on the sea, the flying fragments caused by the explosion of the flowering bullets are like lead bullets flying at high speed, easily piercing through the wooden hulls of the surrounding warships.

As a result, even if more than a dozen imperial naval warships were not directly hit by the flowering bullet, the hull below the waterline was blown out by the flowering bullets and many gaps were blown out.

Although these gaps did not cause a fatal blow to the warship, the emergence of the gap directly means that seawater can continuously pour into the warship cabins like a flood that broke the dike.

It also means that the naval soldiers in the imperial ships had to separate some soldiers and personnel in order to block these seemingly not very threatening gaps for the safety of the ships.

In this way, the navy soldiers who were already in chaos due to attack will definitely become even more chaotic and seriously affect their subsequent battles.

Noda's imperial naval fleet quickly changed from peace to panic, and then from panic to anger, clamoring to fight back and destroy the tiger and leopard navy that dared to sneak attack him in the night.

Three hundred guns had already shot a second round of shells at them.

Not only that, the navy generals of the court also received news that made them both angry and depressed.

"The Tiger and Leopard Army Navy, which attacked them, was far beyond the range of its own naval guns. If you want to counterattack the Tiger and Leopard Army Navy, you must advance a mile before you can shoot the flowering bullets onto the opponent's warship."

However, on a dark sea, it is not easy to start a warship without any preparation and to push forward a mile away when the enemy is shooting at his flowering bullets.

However, in the case of unilateral shelling, in order to avoid the warships under their command, one after another turned into a target of tiger and leopard military, and was smashed into pieces by tiger and leopard military flowering bullets.

The commander of the imperial navy, even though he knew that it was very difficult to counterattack now, had to issue a counterattack order.

So, tens of thousands of naval soldiers in the court, like a group of panicked rabbits, began to rush back and forth on the warship under the command of generals at all levels, preparing to start the warship.

Of course, Li Xinlong would not let go of such a good attack opportunity.

In order to shoot more flowering bullets in a short time, thousands of gunners, shirtlessly turned on the cold warship, kept firing, clearing the chamber, loading, and firing again and again.

Therefore, the flowering bullets like raindrops fell continuously among the imperial navy, just like it was raining.

As for Li Xinlong, the commander of the First Navy Fleet, stood on the deck of a warship, holding a monocular telescope, staring motionlessly three miles away, the every move of the imperial naval fleet.

At the same time, the number of imperial navy warships hit and destroyed by the flower bullets was constantly counting in his mouth.

"One...two...three...twelve...twelve..."

When Li Xinlong counted the fifteenth ship in his mouth, a smile finally appeared on his serious face.

Stimulated by the huge results, he shouted without thinking.

"Okay, good fight... I'll fight like this... Order all the gun gunners to continue to fight hard for me... After the battle is won, I will personally ask them for me to make a contribution from the general, and each person will reward one hundred taels of silver..."

However, no matter how excited the Tiger and Leopard Army was, this naval battle that could be called a unilateral massacre did not last long.

On the sea where the imperial navy was located, with five warships, it turned into a fireball again with the explosion.

On the red sea surface, the flames produced by the explosion of the flower bomb were already shining, and the less than eighty warships left by the imperial navy finally began to move.

For the Tiger and Leopard Army, the still huge imperial naval fleet was heading towards its location at an increasingly rapid speed with the help of the sea breeze.

In a blink of an eye, the huge navy fleet advanced dozens of steps towards it.

Faced with this situation, Li Xinlong had to give up the idea of ​​continuing to fire at the navy in the court. He turned around and folded his hand in half and ordered the deputy general beside him.

"The command is to divide the fleet into two and detours to the two wings of the court naval division... Tell all the captains of the warships that before launching an attack on the court naval division, each warship must ensure that the attack distance of more than three miles from the court naval division fleet. Otherwise, it is prohibited to launch an attack on the court naval division for any reason..."

"Yes, General..."

Twenty warships continued to fire flowering bullets at the court navy, while also detouring at the court navy's wings without changing direction.

However, things are obviously not as simple as imagined.

For ordinary soldiers of the imperial naval army, many people have trained a lot and have not experienced even a single actual battle. However, those generals are veterans who have been through the battlefield for a long time.
Chapter completed!