But at this time, both Yu Haoming and Xu Qing had wrong judgments about the enemy and ourselves.
Because the Qin army's warships are formal warships, they are two or three times faster than the old warships of the Wu Kingdom. Therefore! Regarding the error in speed, both Yu Haoming and Qi Lanyin made wrong judgments.
certainly! The error in Yu Haoming's judgment was already very small.
However, the error analyzed by Jingzhou Xu Qing and Luo Hao is very large. The relative value of this error is a full day off. In other words, if the boats on both sides continue to travel like this, they may accidentally collide with each other in the river.
The two fleets are likely to be unprepared and inexplicably engage in an encounter.
In this case, the error calculated by Xu Qing will affect Yu Haoming's judgment, and the errors of the two people will coincide.
It's four o'clock in the morning.
The Jingzhou army set off again.
The Qin navy also moved forward from the other side.
As Yu Haoming guessed, the fog this morning was so heavy that the sailing route was difficult to see clearly. this moment! You can only rely on the navigation needle, also known as the compass, to identify the direction.
"Fortunately! The leader came to Jingzhou back then and is quite familiar with Jingzhou's waters. Otherwise! I would have been confused by this heavy fog today." Yu Haoming thought.
"Send the order and tell the brothers that in order to avoid collisions, ships should not get too far apart. Later, if we encounter enemy troops, everyone will use the signal flares as a signal."
In addition to signal flares, Qin also has illumination flares. This was created by Dongfang Yu so that the navy could better locate the fleet in a foggy environment.
certainly! If it is such a foggy environment, lighting does not seem to play a big role.
Crunch! Crunch!
The sound of the deck is moving quietly on this silent river.
An hour later, the heavy fog gradually dissipated a lot, and as the two armies got closer and closer, the oscillating ripples in the river became more intense.
The distance between the two armies is only ten nautical miles.
Qin cruiser.
"Um…"
"What's going on! There are so many warships ahead." Looking at the looming warships in front of them in the fog, the cruiser navy used telescopes to observe the situation in the distance and immediately realized something was wrong.
"It's about five miles away from my cruiser. The front is only two or three miles away."
"what to do?"
"Don't panic. The speed of our cruiser is three to four times that of the enemy. It can definitely return to Commander Yu before we meet the Jingzhou Army."
said the chief captain.
"Send the order! The cruiser will turn around immediately, return to the main ship as quickly as possible, and report the situation."
"promise!"
"Raise the sails!"
They were just going upstream and furling the sails.
Now, they are returning to the main ship. Following the wind, the speed will be faster.
Wow!
The cruiser immediately headed back.
But the only difference between the two armies is that the Qin fleet has many more types of ships than the Jingzhou warships.
Combat ships, transport ships, cruise ships, etc.
"Look, there's a boat coming back."
"Haul the full sail!"
Immediately! The soldiers on the cruise lighted torches and used the light of the torches as a command to inform the main ship of the situation.
"Is there a situation?"
"Report to Yu Shuai and General Qi quickly."
At this time, Yu Haoming and Qi Lanyin were on the same ship again. When it came to commanding the naval fleet in naval battles, Yu Haoming was much more powerful than Qi Lanyin.
"Report! In case of emergency, the cruise ship uses flags to tell the main ship that the main force of the Jingzhou Navy is found directly in front of our army, coming towards our army."
Soldier reports.
Yu Haoming's eyes widened and he couldn't help but blink.
My mind kept thinking.
"Yu Shuai, it seems we are all wrong." Qi Lanyin wanted to speak.
"No!"
Yu Haoming stopped Qi Lanyin, "We were wrong. There were some errors in the speed of our army. But the Jingzhou Navy was completely wrong. They calculated the speed of our army based on the old-style Wu Kingdom Calculated based on the speed at which the battleship travels.”
"That is..."
"That is to say..."
In Yu Haoming's mind, he calculated again where and when the two armies should set off and meet the Jingzhou Navy.
"In other words, the Jingzhou Navy's calculations were one day later than reality, while our army was one day earlier. This also resulted in the large error of the Jingzhou generals being imposed on us." Yu Haoming analyzed.
"In other words, what we are fighting with the Jingzhou Navy is an encounter." Qi Lanyin said.
"General Qi, you and I will go to the deck." Yu Haoming said.
"good!"
The two of them got on the deck at the same time. As the sun rose, the fog on the river gradually dissipated, and Qin's ships could be roughly seen clearly.
By six o'clock, the sun should come out completely and drive away the heavy fog on the river.
Before that, the two calculated that Da Qin's navy was only a few miles away from Jingzhou navy.
"Damn weather."
"Fortunately, we made preparations in advance."
Yu Haoming said. "Use the signal flare as the steering direction and issue orders to all ships!"
"promise!"
Send the order to the soldiers to go down.
Immediately convey the order to the soldiers on the main ship.
All battleships obey orders from the main ship.
Yes! The Jingzhou Navy also has thousands of boats, including small boats, which are used as assault boats for beach landings.
However, the Jingzhou Navy, which went on a naval battle, only dispatched 300 combat ships. This was already all the war ships in Jingzhou.
Even the Navy of Qin has almost more than 300 warships! The only difference is that the ships shipped by the Qin State are much more gorgeous than those of the Jingzhou Navy.
call out!
moment!
Yu Haoming calculated the distance between Jingzhou Navy and his own fleet. Immediately, when the two armies were only one mile away.
A signal flare on the main ship soared into the sky, blooming in the air under the eyes of both the enemy and ourselves.
"That is……"
The Jingzhou navy was stunned for a while.
In an instant, he reacted.
clang! clang! clang!
The entire Jingzhou Navy sounded the horn to respond to the enemy.
call out! call out! call out!
moment! Several more signal flares were launched from the Qin Army and soared into the sky.
Smelling the sharp and harsh sound, the two people on the main ship quickly ran out of the warehouse.
"This...this is...a flare!"
Gulu!
In addition to the Qin army's signal flares, the two of them really didn't expect that another army would appear in their west.
"Turn the ship around and meet the enemy!"
Xu Qinggang issued the order.
On the river surface, cannonballs were seen, like meteors, extremely brilliant, passing through the layer of fog and shooting towards them.
boom! boom! boom!
In an instant, more than a hundred battleships of the Jingzhou Navy's forward battleships were all caught in a powerful bombardment.
boom!
The water surface was like a huge wave, exploded by the power of the cannonball!
