After dawn, Huang Fei's Laiden Navy and Zheng Zhilong's Zheng family navy also set out and sailed towards Weihai, preparing to fight to the death with the Qing Dynasty Navy. A large-scale naval battle is about to break out in the waters near Weihai.

Zheng Sen stood on his flagship, and the Princess Kunxing Clippers were directed by Shi Fu at this time.

Huang Fei's flagship is a thousand-material Dafu ship. Judging from the tonnage, it is comparable to Zheng Sen's Chinese and Western gunboats, but the speed and firepower are far inferior. Zheng Sen's Chinese and Western gunboats have a maximum speed of ten knots, while Huang Fei's Dafu ship's maximum speed is only seven knots; Zheng Sen's gunboats have 18-pound red cannons and twenty twelve-pound red cannons, with a total of 38 cannons, while Huang Fei's Dafu ship only penetrates one 18-pound red cannon, two 18-pound red cannons at the stern, six thousand-pound red cannons each on both sides, and a total of fifteen cannons, and twelve of them are Franchise machines with a power far less powerful than Red cannons.

Why do these two warships with equivalent to tonnage have such a large difference in firepower? This is the shortcoming of Chinese warships, because Chinese warships are relatively short, Western warships are relatively long, thick and short, and only one layer of artillery deck, so the number of artillery that can be equipped on both sides of the Dafu ship is much smaller.

The number of artillery ships in Dafu ships is actually not as good as that of Korean and Japanese slab boats. Because the slab boats in South Korea and Japan have double-layer gun deck structures, with guns on the upper floor and gun door decks on the lower cabins. However, the cannons that can be equipped with are much smaller than those of Dafu ships.

The Ming warships and Korean and Japanese warships have their own advantages. This can be seen from the Luliang naval battle that the Ming warships with tonnage have a large gun caliber, but have a small number; the Dafu ship is stronger than the Korean and Japanese slab boats and has better durability, and are not easy to be sunk. The navigable nature in the deep sea is far greater than that in the slab boats, but the draft is too deep and it is easy to strand in combat near-shore.

It should be said that the warships of the Ming Navy's Navy have their own advantages when they face the Korean and Japanese Navy warships. However, the Ming Navy was much stronger than the Korean and Japanese Navy at that time. The Ming general Deng Zilong was not sacrificed under the Japanese firearms, but was accidentally injured by the Korean Navy. The Korean general Lee Sun-sin was hit by the Japanese iron cannon (the Chinese bird gun) and died.

"Order Shi Fu to speed up his progress, stop the Goryeo people at sea, and buy time for our main fleet!" Zheng Sen ordered his personal soldiers to send a flag-speaking signal to Princess Kunxing.

Intercepting the North Korean navy in the far sea as much as possible is a tactic set by Zheng Sen and his team before departure. Chinese warships are much more navigable than Korean and Japanese slab boats, and they can take advantage of the long-sea combat.

But Goryeo Bangzi is not a fool. They cannot be obediently waiting for the Ming Navy to come and fight in the distant sea. They will definitely approach the coastline as soon as possible, try to send the Qing army ashore, and force the Ming Navy to fight against them in the distant sea.

This requires a fast-speed warship to hold the North Korean navy to ensure that the main force can come and stop the North Koreans from the sea.

When the Princess Kunxing Clippers set off from Penglai, in order to advance and retreat with its main warship, the ship did not raise a full sail, but slowly followed Zheng Sen's flagship with a speed of seven knots in half sail.

Shi Fu, who was standing on the deck of the helm, saw the flag-tongued signal from Zheng Sen's flagship, and immediately turned around and ordered his personal soldiers: "Rise the sails and move forward at full speed! Intercept the Goryeo!"

After receiving Shi Fu's order, the sailors on the deck of Princess Kunxing became busy, pulling the ropes with all their hands and feet, and the pulley set raised the soft sails high. Soon, the ship was raised with sails.

The speed of the Princess Kunxing Clippers, which was full of sails, immediately increased. It was like flying on the sea, and soon left the fleet of the Zheng family army and the Laiden Navy far behind.

Zheng Sen, standing on the deck of the flagship, watched Princess Kunxing disappear from his vision quickly. He sighed: "If we have a flying shear ship that is larger than this ship, there are dozens of them, then we will be invincible in the world!"

But how easy is it to build a 1,000-ton fly-scissor ship? The length of a 1,000-ton fly-scissor ship is about 100 meters. It is very rare to build such a large tree. There are not many large trees with a height of 100 meters, but the trunk is less than 100 meters. Generally, the canopy on the top of the tree 100 meters takes up a long section.

The Kunxing Princess quickly increased to a speed of 17 knots, and ran on the sea at lightning speed, heading straight for the Weihaiwei area outside the Bohai Bay.

The flying scissors didn't take long to arrive at the waters near Weihaiwei.

"Slow down the boat and raise the hot air balloon!" Shi Fu gave an order to his personal soldiers.

The soldiers lifted the hot air balloon from the cabin. Then the soldiers first shook the hand-crank blower and poured the air into the balloon. The balloon gradually swelled up. The soldiers lit the stove and pressed the handle a few times. The turbulent oil was under pressure and formed a mist. The stove sprayed out scorching flames, and the air in the hot air balloon began to expand after being heated.

Shi Lang jumped into the hanging basket himself, and several personal soldiers quickly stopped him: "Little General, let's go, you can't take risks yourself."

"I haven't gone to heaven yet!" Shi Lang laughed, "Let me go to heaven and take a look!"

The hot air balloon began to rise slowly and left the deck with a hanging basket. Although Shi Lang had never been to the sky, he had already learned how to use the hot air balloon. The stove had been turned on, so he didn't have to worry about it. Let the air in the hot air balloon get hotter and hotter, and the hot air balloon can slowly rise into the altitude. In a short while, the hot air balloon rose to a height of more than 300 meters from the sea surface, and the cable pulled on the hot air balloon was stretched straight.

Seeing that the cable was stretched straight, Shi Lang knew that it could not be raised any further, otherwise once the cable was broken, he would not be able to come back. So Shi Lang waved the switch on the stove and turned off the flame a little smaller.

The hot air balloon floated smoothly in the sky. Shi Lang took out the monolithic mirror and looked towards the sea in the direction of the Korean Peninsula.

In the air of 300 meters, the range you can see is 60 kilometers, which is 120 miles away. At this distance, you can almost see the ships moving on the side of the Korean Peninsula against the Jiaodong Peninsula.

Any North Korean ships running out of Seoul cannot escape Shi Lang's eyes.

In fact, hot air balloons have begun to become popular in the Ming army naval division. The news that the Korean navy is about to attack is that a Clipper discovered the abnormal movement on the Korean Peninsula, so the Clipper released a carrier pigeon and sent the news to Penglai.

Carriers are raised in Penglai Naval Master Camp. When the express ship sails, they will take the carrier pigeons to sail. Once the carrier pigeons are released on the ship, no matter how far the ship runs, the carrier pigeons will automatically fly home, which will play a role in sea communication. However, this kind of communication is one-way, which means that only ships at sea can send the letter home, but the home cannot send the letter to the ship.

After all, a boat is not the home of a pigeon. Even if the boat is the home of a pigeon, the position of the boat is constantly moving, and it is impossible for a pigeon to find a boat moving on the sea. Because the pigeon comes to find a home through the organ of magnetic field sensing, takes the pigeon out of the home and takes it on the boat. No matter where the boat is driven, the pigeon can sense how far it is from the home through the magnetic field.

Once the carrier pigeons are released from the ship, they will fly back home by themselves. So through this principle, the reconnaissance ship outside the Ming Navy can report to their homes in time as long as the situation is discovered.

So the Laiden Navy and the Zheng Family Army Navy, who received the report, were dispatched to intercept the North Korean Navy in the Yellow Sea.

Sitting in the hot air balloon, Shi Lang looked towards the Korean Peninsula. Shi Fu below kept ordering his personal soldiers to send flag signals to him. Shi Lang answered with the banner: "The target has not been found yet."

Shi Fu saw the signal from Shi Lang and ordered the sailors: "Continue to sail towards the Korean Peninsula!"
Chapter completed!