2491 Falcon Fall (XI)
The sun shines brightly on the carved windowsills, the wind blows through the pink red stamens of the blooming rovi flowers, the imperial ships docked in the direction of the harbor bathed in the autumn sun, the silent islands, the silent air, the mountains are full of flowers in the middle of summer, the vast expanses of greenery are basking in the distance, there are some chic and huge flaming red coral rockeries protruding from the verdant trees, the streets full of rose bushes, a large carpet of soft meadows, a small waterfall like a silver ribbon flowing down the mountain, and below the waterfall gathers a pond about four hundred square wide, on which water lilies and rhizomes floatPink lotus flowers and white duckweed flowers dotted the dots, and if it weren't for the appearance of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Dustrenkai with a serious expression, the fat man felt like he was in a landscape painting.
"Your Majesty, Faisan sent back the news, just yesterday, a support army had set off along the sea route, Varisian immediately sent people to chase after receiving the order, this morning, the chasing fleet found the target, the transport ship group was attacked by an unknown fleet, seven transport ships were sunk, six were damaged, the two dragon tooth battleships that served as escorts, one was sunk, one suffered heavy losses, if it wasn't for the appearance of the search fleet to scare away the enemy, the consequences would be unimaginable" Dustrunkai's voice stopped, his face turned grim, if he was a little unimpressed by the emperor's intuition yesterday, now it is a different matter
"What do you think?" the fat man withdrew his gaze from a distance and looked at Dustrenkay,
"The enemy came prepared, and set up an ambush circle, and did not put up a naval flag, so there is no way to distinguish, only that it should be from the south, I have ordered the navy to search for it with all its might, and all the ports along the southern coast have also put their eyes on it, as long as the other party is not floating from the sea. There will always be clues left."
Dustronike's eyes flashed coldly, his fingers clenched into fists, the navy's transport fleet was attacked, and he didn't even know who the enemy was, he was embarrassed in front of the emperor, and it was even more difficult for Dustrenkai to forgive himself. The attacker is a fully armed fleet, not a small sampan with two ships, and the Imperial Navy is blind! Bastard, have these guys begun to live an era of peace! Although it was only the transport fleet that was attacked, there was no shortage of equipment, after all, it was a fleet that was going to the combat area, and the transport ship was equipped with two rows of four-door Thor, and two dragon's tooth battleships with full firepower to escort them, just in terms of firepower. It is no longer inferior to the combat effectiveness of an old-fashioned sail warship group, and it is not that anyone who wants to attack can easily attack, and can inflict such huge losses on the transport ship group in a very short period of time.
The fat man stretched out his fat palm and patted the shoulder of the angry admiral, with the strength of a country's navy. Suppressing the entire southern coastline, the Imperial Navy was already doing its best. In fact, this cannot be entirely blamed on the lack of naval intelligence, how can it be possible that the 2000-mile-long inland sea area can be fully covered by more than 200 warships in the empire
Even if all the warships of the Imperial Navy are arranged, it is only a small part of this thousand-mile sea area, and the deterrent power of the fleet is mainly reflected in the fixed ports. Solidifying the vast sea area into a battle for ports, and then using the port as a support point to achieve control over the nearby sea area, this is the main tactic of the current sea war, and this transport fleet was attacked. For the Imperial Navy, it may not be a warning, once the enemy's naval ship group gives up the original combat mode, then no matter how strong the Imperial Navy is, there is no good way to deal with it for the time being, "Or, you can know some from other sources!"
The fat man seemed to think of something, his eyebrows raised slightly, the dispatch of the naval ship group is not as simple as an order, so many sailors, no one knows how long they will drift at sea, so material reserves are necessary, weapons and arrows can be placed in the warehouse for a long time, can food and vegetables also be placed for a long time? No, if you can start from the merchant side, you should get the answer soon, and the navy of that country has recently left the port, it should soon be clear at a glance" Your Majesty, my subordinates have a reluctant request!" Dustrenkai suddenly knelt down on one knee in front of the fat man, "You want to mobilize the fleet for revenge?" The fat man looked at him with a strange face, how could he not know the temperament of this naval commander, how could he swallow it like this if he suffered such a big loss this time, but if he was carried away by revenge, or if this attack on the transport ship was a trap in itself......" Six hundred naval sailors were killed in battle, and more than 3,000 casualties on the transport ship, and the subordinates really couldn't turn a blind eye, and if the Imperial Navy couldn't react in a short time, the southern coast would not be so easy to suppress," Dustrenkai said with a resolute expression and a certain tone
"You don't need too many warships, just ask Your Majesty for permission to draw twenty out of the thirty Dragon's Tooth warships currently being repaired in the harbor."
"Twenty ships, isn't it a bit risky!" The fat man's eyes flickered, and Dustrenkai's firm attitude made the fat man have to consider the emotions of the navy,
Dustrunkai said" In the waters of Iraq, there are three detachments that have been ordered to approach before, and the other party can get a blow from the gap between the three fleets, proving that it cannot be a chance encounter, but a very careful arrangement, wind direction, current, and even the location of our ship group, if you want to do this, the other party should have been lurking in the waters of Istanbul for a period of time before launching such an accurate ambush, and the subordinates suspect that the other party has a hidden port in the southern region of Iraq, and the enemy is secret, if you can't find it quickly, the entire Istanbul sea area is unsafe."
"Your guess is probably right, the southern part of Istanbul has long been controlled by local forces, and there are ports put into the south of the six countries that are secret, not surprising" The fat man took a deep breath "Grant your request, I will let Varisian fully cooperate with the naval operation"
Naval warfare is Dustrenkai's world, although he is good at strategic layout, when it comes to naval battles, Dustrenkai in front of him is the premier commander of the empire, and he can even be said to be the premier naval general in the entire Obaro continent, and now it seems that Dustrenkai's focus is quite calm
"So. I'll leave in the afternoon!" Dustrenkai stood up, gave a respectful military salute to the fat man, and turned to leave the room
The corridor outside the door was already full of officers of the Imperial Navy, and the sound of their silent and heavy breathing was like the sound of the wind blowing in some of the claustrophobic corridors. Seeing Dustrunkai come out of the emperor's room at the end of the corridor, he straightened his body in unison, raised his hand and saluted, "Commander-in-Chief!"
"What are you doing here, is this still like the Imperial Navy?
Dustrunkai snorted with a gloomy face, which frightened the officers into silence, Dustrenkai, the undefeated commander of the Imperial Navy, was second only to His Majesty the Emperor in prestige in the navy. In the eyes of the navies of various countries, Dustrunkai is a more terrifying figure than the Falcon Emperor, the Gangfei Navy, the Alien Navy, the Fishan Navy, these powerful existences that once galloped in the sea with huge ships, were all cut off from the altar one by one by the commander-in-chief of the Falcon Empire Navy, the soul of the Falcon Empire's navy. It is now the honorific title of the Imperial Admiral in the entire Inland Sea region: "Don't get me wrong, Commander-in-Chief, your subordinates are gathered here." I just want to know as soon as possible, has Your Majesty agreed?"
Stephen, the commander of the Fourth Fleet, stood out from the crowd, his status was the highest, and he also had the background of the Central Army under the Emperor's direct command, and the naval transport fleet was attacked, with a total of more than 3,000 casualties. For the proud Imperial Navy officer corps, to suffer such a loss when they believed that they had gained control of the Inland Sea was like a slap in the face in front of the entire Inland Sea region, and there had never been such a humiliation in the history of the Imperial Navy. This time, even if the entire Istanbul Sea is turned over, these bastards must be pulled out, "What do you agree with?" Dustrenkay's eyes glared, "Naturally, we will kill these bastards and avenge our dead brothers!" Although the attack site is more than 500 miles away, if you know the other party's back path, you may not be able to intercept it!" Stephen replied stubbornly,
Dustrunkai rubbed his temples helplessly, and his eyes swept over the faces that were already surging with blood,
Now he knows why His Majesty the Emperor has such a helpless expression, facing his subordinates who are full of revenge, it is really difficult to say what he refuses, looking at these pillars of the imperial navy, he was silent for a while and said, "This is a breakthrough operation, in order to enter the waters of Istanbul as soon as possible, the dragon-class battleships are left, and the twenty dragon tooth battleships are ready for fifteen days of combat materials before four o'clock in the afternoon, waiting for orders!"
"Yes!" The captains of the Dragon's Tooth battleship cheered, on the contrary, the captains of the Dragon-class battleship looked much more depressed, no way, the Dragon-class battleship has the most powerful firepower in the empire, which can be called a fortress on the sea, but the speed is far less fast and light than the Dragon's Tooth battleship, at four o'clock in the afternoon, standing on the windowsill on the second floor, the fat man turned his back and watched the twenty dragon-tooth battleships slowly break away from the group of ships in the harbor, the huge white sails were pulled up, and the triangular bow of the battleship drew a huge arc on the sea, with three ships as a queue, from the port position, and gradually disappeared into the distance,
Coming back from the balcony, the fat man sat down at the desk and spread out a report sent by the Ministry of Supervision, which was a report on the rapid recovery of the commercial alliance golden ticket in the southern region, the news that the empire had acquired the commercial alliance commercial ticket with tens of millions of gold coins had been released, and the nine major business groups in the south collectively expressed their support for the commercial alliance golden ticket at the same time, and immediately made the value of the battered business alliance golden ticket soar, although there was still a distance from the full value stage, but it had also returned to the original value of one-half, at most a month, it could be fully recovered, and as the empire's key target of the Fei Ze double-headed eagle business group, Fei Ze still remained silent, This did surprise the fat man, the double-headed eagle merchant group is just a pawn of the Fetzer royal family, and now this chess piece has lost its value, the Faize royal family is still biased, why?
In the southern part of the Empire, the port of Sovis, a port sprawling out of a small fishing village on the coastline of Iraq, is hard to find even on a nautical chart, with large expanses of waves surging and rolling. The waves here are more than a meter high at their gentleest and more than five meters at their most violent. A curved diagonal line dragged out of the port to the north is a coral reef that is more than ten miles long, revealing the sea, like a blocking line that greatly weakens the impact of the waves, Sovis, which means coral in Istanbul, and the fleet of the Harvey Kingdom that successfully attacked is docked in the semi-concave cliff wall behind this coral chain, and the protruding cliff wall blocks the wide bay inside, so that the ships docked inside cannot be seen,
There are more than fifty ships of the Harvey Kingdom fleet docked in the fjord, and the attack was counterattacked by the Imperial Army, sinking 7 ships, and now there are more than 40 ships docked inside, the head and tail of the Harvey warships have an upward upward amplitude, a wide deck layer in the middle, and a round hull, which looks like a moon and a half, and more than a dozen of them are extremely large, significantly higher than other super-large warships, like the most courageous wolf warriors in the wolf pack. Tall, pressurous, and with a high bridge like a sword, it floats in the fjord, like a giant whale on the surface of the sea
The front end and both sides of these huge warships, each revealing a thick iron pipe, this is the Trident-class warship that the Harvey Kingdom has only been equipped with the Navy in the past thirty years, in addition to traditional weapons such as large large catapults, it is also equipped with the black burning liquid collected by the Harvey Kingdom in the east coast region, the Harvey people call the period the spear of the Vulcan, from a distance, it looks like the three front ends of a fork,
In the quiet harbor, the head of the Harvey Navy, the emaciated Admiral Robbennis, pressed the battle damage report in his hand on the table with an ugly face
Attacking the Imperial transport ship group, it was originally thought to be a very easy thing, but I didn't expect the counterattack power of the Imperial transport ship group to burst out, it was really amazing, the Imperial Army had six transport ships sunk, seven damaged, and even shot down an Imperial Dragon's Tooth-class battleship, it looks like a brilliant result, who knows, such a result is based on more than 1,000 casualties of the Harvey naval fleet, four naval warships were sunk, including a valuable Trident-class battleship, and twenty-one different damaged combat ships, which is also called victoryThe corners of Admiral Robbennis's mouth were bitter, I was afraid that it would be a crushing victory at best, and the transport fleet was still so difficult to fight, how terrible was the capital ship group of the Imperial Navy!
"Is this plan really achievable?" Robbennis' gaze fell on a blue-covered document on the table, which read "Battle Name: Falcon Down" (to be continued......