"They took the bait!"
After confirming that the enemy fleet had begun turning back to pursue them, Lin Youshu was delighted.
For the moment, he was in no hurry to turn his fleet around. He would let the enemy chase them a little longer and lure them farther in before making a move.
The enemy captain did not notice anything unusual during this time.
From the enemy captain's perspective, he had only six Fast Ships in plain sight. Turning around and pursuing the opposing eight ships meant, in blunt terms, that he had stopped pretending.
As long as the enemy was not stupid, they should realize something was wrong.
Just as the enemy fleet was still trying to figure out who the fool really was, the decks of the warships on the Great Zhou side came alive with motion. Their Biological Bombers had already taken flight!
On the flank battlefield, the four enemy Fast Ships assigned to the encirclement mission were advancing at full speed.
Their target was the Great Zhou First Fleet on the frontal battlefield.
In their eyes, the entire operation was proceeding extremely smoothly.
They had completed their flanking maneuver without making a sound. All they had to do was wait for the signal from the frontal battlefield before cutting into the battle, coordinating with the fleet circling around the other side to form an encirclement and cut off every avenue of escape for the enemy fleet.
Who could have known that, just then, the naval soldiers standing on the decks suddenly felt one dark shadow after another streak overhead?
They instinctively looked up. Before they could make out the shadows' forms, barrels tumbling down through the air burst into their field of vision.
Then, without warning, an astonishing burst of energy erupted from the barrels. All