The fleet has been going to sea for five days, and all the officers and soldiers on the ship have completed the transition from fresh excitement to adapting to dullness. The originally expected marine adventure has also become ordinary daily training.

The sea is still the same sea, endless and vast. When you see a few fishing boats, you have to ask the boat to come forward early to tell them to hide quickly. After all, the tonnage of Zhou Yingxue and Chen Sufeng, even if you pass by those boats and raise waves, you can bury the fishermen on the boat in the fish's belly.

Now the emotions on the major battleships have begun to calm down, and the scientific researchers placed on the various battleships have also begun to shoulder the mission of teachers, teaching officers and soldiers on their clothes various cultural and navigation knowledge.

Although these people are all rough people, the overall cultural atmosphere of the Song Dynasty has already arisen. People from top to bottom seem humble and yearn for knowledge. Therefore, except for the captain, the most respected people on a ship are these scientific researchers and engineers who follow them to the sea.

Even when the captain saw them, they were all screaming. As for why they were so respectful, these people were not stupid, after all, they still had to take the exam after they went back. If they were studying, they would be eliminated in the next round.

We are usually good at talking to each other, but when it is the turn of a ship to fight to the death. Not to mention losing a piece of meat, it is not a problem to read and write.

On this day, the speedboats were still cruising at about 40 kilometers outside the main fleet. The speed of these small boats was much faster than that of the main ships. Most of the above were equipped with a steam turbine for verification. Even when there was no wind, they could take off with the steam turbine alone. However, because they carried such a bulky turbine, they had almost no way to install a turret and carry cargo. Therefore, investigation and warning became the main mission of these small boats.

"Sir, if we have a speed cannon on our baby boat, how powerful it would be. If there are too many wolves, they can kill the tiger, but it is not cost-effective to install a turbine now." The big black bull stood at the bow of the ship and said to the engineer on the ship with a bitter face: "Can you tell the coach after you go back? Let's not have this turbine, how about changing to a cannon?"

Da Hei Niu is rarely polite, but he is definitely very polite to this person from beginning to end, because this gentleman is no one else, Wei Wu, one of the three leaders of the contemporary Mohist school, and one of the first big men to integrate his technology and science into academic reform. Even Song Beiyun looked polite when he saw him and did not dare to shout and drink.

"You, you." Mr. Wei knocked the head of the big black bull with a fan: "What you have learned is so-called skills, so-called so-called techniques, and the technology from its birth to development requires repeated argumentation. If you change the cannon today, when will you verify this engine again? If you cannot prove it for a long time, how can the future be expected? Everything you do now is to reserve the ironclad ship in the future. Don't you want to board the ironclad ship early?"

When it comes to ironclad ships, the big black bull's saliva was almost flowing down. When he was on the shore, he acted as Song Beiyun's personal guard most of the time, so he had heard of ironclad ships. When Song Beiyun discussed with those technical experts, he came up with three standards for ironclad ships. The first is that the windless drive can travel at least eighty to one hundred miles per hour for one hour. The second is that the bullet will not sink. Even if the current main gun is used to bombard the ship, it will be slightly injured within ten bullets and not sink within thirty bullets. The third is that it can last more than one hundred days at sea when following the supply ship.

This is Song Beiyun's technical standards for future ships. Such standards now seem to be a strange story about the Heavenly Book, but what is surprising is that even a rough man thinks it is impossible, but the technical masters agreed immediately.

So when he heard that these small boats were prepared for the ironclad ships in the future, he shut up on the spot.

The fleet is still sailing, carrying out various tasks slowly and in an orderly manner, including training and exercises, scientific observations, data collection, etc. Its role is far more than just fighting. How could Song Beiyun say that this ship carries the future of the Chinese nation? Because science is endless and exploration is endless.

And on the afternoon of that day, the small boat in front suddenly returned and flagged out a flag saying that an unknown fleet was found seventy kilometers ahead, and whether it was necessary to approach the close reconnaissance.

After receiving the news, the big black bull became as excited as a pirate. He stood up and walked out of the cabin, and ordered the flag bearer on the mast to say, "Send a signal, the fleet is scattered, and the left and right are double-teams eighty degrees, light ships and small boats are leading forward. If the other party does not cooperate with the investigation, there is no need for any reason, and directly launch an attack."

The flag bearer quickly translated his words into flag language, and the fleet also began to sail to both sides. There were only a few frigates left around the main battleship, and all the light ships and small boats advanced straight towards the place where the unknown fleet was discovered.

The big black bull looked at the situation on the sea with a telescope, and muttered: "Damn it, don't be the Japanese pirates. I have faded away these days. If the Japanese pirates see that I don't torture these bitches of bitches."

At the same time, the opponent's fleet also discovered the brisk ships and boats that were sailing towards them quickly. Their commander's eyes showed an incredible look: "What kind of ship is that, so fast!"

The Japanese technician next to him took the telescope and looked over. After a while, he decided to find something wrong, because the opponent's fleet approached too quickly, which was faster than his own grasshopper fleet. The light ship was easy to explain, but the small boat accompanied by the side was a bit outrageous.

"No..." The Japanese technician muttered: "That little boat doesn't even have sails, how can it be so fast?"

But they don’t care much about it now. Facing the small fleet coming, they are not fools. They are obviously not fishermen. But if they are warships from the Song Dynasty, they can’t be beaten if they encounter them.

As for running... it's almost crazy. At their speed, the fleet here hasn't turned around yet, and the other end has approached. When the time comes, they can't bear it?

After receiving the order, the Japanese fleet also broke up the formation. At this moment, the sea was still clear and the sky was suddenly covered with a thin layer of mist, and the visibility dropped to about fifteen kilometers.

After arriving outside the safe range, the Song Dynasty light ship put away its sails and began to send signals to the unknown fleet ahead. First, a signal flare went to the sky, and then an orange warning flag began to wave, signaling the other party to stop the ship for inspection.

But of course the Japanese fleet was not stupid. They turned a blind eye to the warning flags and instead accelerated toward the light ship, intending to take action first.

The light ship that saw the opponent's behavior quickly changed into a red flag, which was also a battle flag. After hanging this flag, a total of nine light ships fired red signal flares at the same time.

The signal flares stayed in the sky for a long time, and even during the day, it was very dazzling. After launching, all the boats and light ships immediately turned around and ran away.

Withdrawing the sails, the three small boats dragged a light ship, and almost instantly their figures disappeared from sight.

The Japanese fleet was still confused about this. They didn't even know what the fleet opposite was doing. They just thought that after seeing the huge gap in strength, they gave up the matchup and turned around and ran away.

"Captain, are we going to Haizhou?"

"They only have these small boats, but we have three thousand people, why not go?"

So he immediately issued an order to chase the Song State ships at full speed. After all, such a fast ship is really likeable.

Soon, the Japanese fleet began to chase the light craft at full speed in the direction where the light vehicle disappeared, but as they chased after it... they found something was wrong, because suddenly, the large ships of Song Kingdom appeared from all directions, and those large ships of three or five thousand tons could be seen far from the sea.

When he realized that he had entered the encirclement, the leader of the Japanese fleet was also an experienced person. He immediately ordered all ships to move in dispersed ways to avoid the fleet's hunting with his own small size and fast speed.

But in the end they underestimated the technical ability of the Song Dynasty. When they began to avoid it with common dispersed tactics, the boats and light ships that had run away appeared next to them again.

The number of small boats, which originally had only thirty ships, has suddenly surged to more than fifty ships, and the number of light ships has also increased to fifteen, and it is still maintaining a three-to-one ratio and is speeding towards them at a terrifying speed.

The boats rowed a beautiful trace on the water, and then rushed up like hunters led by hunters, driving the ships that had already left the Japanese fleet back.

Although there were no heavy artillery on the boat, the people on the head had guns, not only guns but also machine guns.

The water tank behind him was pumping a small boat while shooting, causing the wood chips of the Japanese ships to fly across.

But they didn't seem to be in a fight. They pulled away after one round of strafing. Then the light boat was crossing the sea. The six guns above would fire a round of scattered at the Japanese fleet. However, their accuracy was not very good. They almost did not concentrate any ships, but they just forced the ship that was still trying to leave back.

While the boats and light ships were hunting the Japanese fleet, the main battleships were slowly approaching and tightly biting the Japanese fleet with only bows and arrows as long-range weapons from all directions.

"Damn it, you don't want the orange flag to give you, and you have to ask your father to hang a red flag." The captain of a light ship spat into the sea: "I'll let you see what it means to be an adult hitting a child."
Chapter completed!