Chapter 266: The Battle of the Ironclad Ships

"Very well, the Grand Fleet is in disarray...... Modo Blackwater shouldn't have made such a low-level mistake? Isn't it the commander on the flagship? So who could it be? ”

"Your Highness, please give the order to attack!"

From the field of vision of the telescope, he found that the goblin fleet was beaten like a wolf like a water dog, and in addition to rejoicing, Luo Zhengdao couldn't help but feel puzzled, the goblin's unusual fleshy feet exceeded his expectations. At this time, he skillfully shrank the monocular and stuffed it into the holster on his waist, looked up at the grand battlefield with thick smoke, and said with a laugh:

"Well, no matter who is on the other side, we have to entertain the guests. Order all the bombers to go out and the whole fleet to attack! ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

Barbarism is not the same as stupidity, and the Second Goblin Empire is by no means a bunch of fools who remember to eat and fight, and after suffering losses on the battlefield, they quickly moved to imitate the pirate ironclad, this goblin copycat version of the ironclad ship is roughly the same as the original goods, and the internal structure is very different, which can be called a luxury work of a big family with no bad money.

The goblin version of the ironclad ship is different from the key defense ideas designed by Luo Zhengdao, and has made a more reasonable trade-off between the high cost of building a ship and the comprehensive actual combat performance. This kind of surface weapon, which can be called a full-scale defensive ironclad ship, has broken the defensive performance at the same time, and the sailing speed has also dropped to an unbearable slow range, even if the rocket afterburner system is turned on, it can only run a little higher speed than nine knots, which is really not much faster than a turtle.

Fiddling with rocket propulsion technology is not difficult for the goblins, and the propulsion system of the pirate ironclad is copied entirely, but the Goblin's rocket engine is not inferior to the original version launched by Luo Zhengdao in terms of performance.

The goblins are professional counterparts in researching rocket projects, don't forget that Luo Zhengdao's rocket engine still copied the original design of the goblin First Empire, but no matter how strong the engine thrust is, it can't make a big iron stone run fast!

No matter what advanced weapons are equipped and how to use them correctly, it is a huge problem, and without a training and combat system that is compatible with the corresponding supporting tactics, it is bound to cause a big mess in the end. The goblins arrogantly only copied the pirate's ironclad ships but did not copy the pirate's tactics together, after all, their advantage lies in their strong individual combat power and group cooperation, and broadside combat is still the biggest advantage. Because of this, the upper deck, which should have been empty on the ironclad tactical drill compiled by Luo Zhengdao, was still crowded with a large group of sailors ready to jump into the gang to fight, looking like the third brother train selling tickets.

"Whew-"

The roaring formation of pirate fighters swooped down and dropped bombs, and the air flowed through the gaps in the flaps with a breathtaking whistling sound, and the huge and slow-moving ironclad ships immediately became the hardest hit. Regardless of what you say, it is always the instinct of soldiers to pick up the big ones first, and when they can choose the target to attack, everyone generally tends to attack the big ones.

On the surface of the sea, the roar of explosions and shock waves swept through the fragments of stone projectiles, although these shrapnel could not gnaw at the three-inch-thick hull armor and four-and-a-half-inch turret armor of the goblin ironclad, it was no easier to deal with the flesh-and-blood goblin soldiers, and in an instant, several ironclad ships were contaminated with the stump and broken arms and blood of the goblin soldiers.

Zola Hegel, who was the captain of the flagship Golden, was more concerned about his own business than the overall situation on the battlefield, and after visually measuring the relative distance and speed of movement between the enemy and us, he shouted to the combat staff officer next to him:

"Order the front and rear main guns to be loaded with armor-piercing incendiary shells and ready to fire!"

"Yes, Your Excellency."

In the era when warships were driven by the wind, seizing the T-shaped cross-head array cliff was a very demanding technical activity, and the ironclad ship was more advanced than the wooden sail warship, which was mainly reflected in the defense and power system, as long as the rocket engine was turned on, what wind direction was not the wind direction, it could basically be ignored.

As the distance between the ironclad arrays of the two sides continued to close, in the bulky turret of the pirate ironclad led by the Gold, those shirtless strong men turned the shakers in shifts, and they were tired and tired of bringing the enemy warship into the direction directly facing the gun, and the next thing had to be handed over to the Gao Ping Ji group in the turret to be responsible.

Zola Hagel confirmed that his opponent was fully within the effective range of his own battleship, and at this point, he waved his hand down in a slashing gesture, and the combat staff next to him shouted knowingly at the ship's communication brass pipes.

"Boom! Woo-boom......"

Although Luo Zhengdao is not clear about how the refined version of the ironclad ship was designed, and it is difficult for human spies to infiltrate the inside of the goblin shipyard, the battleship itself is the best material for analysis, similar to technical details or something, and insiders can see it at a glance. Earlier, he watched these goblin ironclad ships sail as slow as turtles, in addition to proving that their defense is super strong, Luo Zhengdao also saw how the goblin designer's thinking unfolded, isn't this thing an iron turtle that doesn't show its head? He told the boatswain in advance that the weakest part of the defense of the Boatswain Goblin Ironclad was the rocket engine nozzle located in the stern part of the ship, as for what to do when the time came, as an old pirate, would Zola Hegel still use someone to teach?

"Boom-"

When the entire ironclad detachment fired a salvo, the front main gun of the Golden remained silent, which did not arouse suspicion, and it was normal for new weapons to be dumb on the battlefield, but this time it was certainly not. Until the moment when the two fleets passed by, the 110-pound front main gun of the ironclad gold suddenly made a loud noise, and the armor-piercing projectile covered with metal at the front end of the warhead penetrated into the hull between the six nozzles in the tail of the goblin ironclad ship.

After just a few seconds, a furious flash like a volcanic eruption suddenly lit up, and the tail of the huge goblin ironclad ship rose from the surface of the water at an angle of more than forty degrees at the moment when a large amount of rocket fuel exploded, and then fell heavily to the surface of the sea.

Gold and red flames and black and white smoke erupted from its portholes and cannon windows at the same time, and from a distance, the battered goblin battleship resembled a moving furnace, and the slightest thought of it would make an onlooker shudder to feel a deep sense of fear in it.

Todd Green Lake, who had felt good about himself, turned purple at this time, and he roared and roared:

"Fight back! Fight back now! ”

The big goblin commander who stood aside with the black cauldron on his back was still serving the Grand Fleet with all his heart, and learned the lessons of his previous failures before setting sail, Modo Blackwater negotiated with the military department and found an air cavalry transport ship to act with the main fleet.

At the beginning of the war, they were beaten by pirate fighters all the way, not because the goblin air cavalry was not strong, but because they had no chance to show their skills at all, those flying beasts were extremely difficult to serve, especially in terms of food and living conditions, unlike the goblin sailors who were willing to make do with their ugliness, and the number of entourages did not have to be too much, Todd Green Lake didn't understand the meaning of carrying these oil bottles, so he simply put them in the rearguard fleet part, and the result was of course that he had no power to fight back in the face of air raids. Even if the goblin air cavalry has now taken off and wants to cover the entire fleet airspace with a limited number, this difficulty is tantamount to vainly trying to cover three points with masks, no matter how hard you try, it will always reveal the void.

"Dive bomber squadron ready!"

"Start attacking!"

The pirate fighter from the initial version of the universal type also began to differentiate, the professional will be stronger than the amateur, otherwise there will be no professional division in the world, the dive bomber is an improved version of the body structure, in order to bear the load generated by large-angle dive. At this time, the air commander gave an order, and one bomber after another began to rush from the blue sky to the sea.

"Woo woo woo ......"

The wind flows over the air's airplate, rubbing against the special buzzer, creating a piercing and shrill whistling sound, which is no less unpleasant than scratching glass with a fingernail, borrowed from the design concept of the Stuka bomber during World War II in the Old World, which is not intended to increase actual combat effectiveness, but to break the enemy's will to fight. Listening to the whining of death from near and far is far more terrifying than being suddenly blown to pieces by a bomb, and even if the goblin soldiers are more tenacious than human soldiers in terms of their will to fight, they have a mental limit.

Luo Zhengdao was unable to completely annihilate the large fleet, but he could still try to defeat the opponent's spirit, hundreds of goblin warships could not be eaten, and it was not an impossible task to make the enemy tremble.

"Boom-"

A loud explosion like thunder came from the side of the left wing, and a goblin staff officer shouted almost wailingly:

"Your Excellency, the Blue Bird has sunk!"

"The White Pheasant has also sunk!"

"That's the Hummingbird......"

One bad news after another smashed into Todd Green Lake's heart, and it was so impatient that it was about to go crazy, what kind of rhythm was this? Why is Will Needham so strong? All the questions were blocked in the goblin marshal's mind for a while, and his head was almost burned into a blank slate.

The goblin was stunned by a stick, and the human race did not politely tolerate two moves, do you know what it means to be a mortal enemy? That's the master who has to spit twice when you die, and your subordinates are merciful? Is your skull broken?

At this time, relying on the recent emergency construction of several land airfields and temporary bases on the beach, a large number of pirate fighters and dive bombers took off in turn to bomb the goblin fleet, as numerous as a flock of birds hovering over the woods at dusk, diving, dropping bombs, and finally pulling up. The goblin fleet, which had already fallen into a state of chaos, was now forced to deal with air raids, unable to use dense formations so as not to be overwhelmed, and on the other hand, it had to exchange fire with the privateer fleet, and if it could not discharge the dense array, it could only watch the opponent cut flesh on itself one after another. There is an advantage in strength, but on the local battlefield, it is always beaten by the pirates with more and less, and the goblins are holding back this spit, not to mention how much it hurts internally.

His own side was beaten to a scarf of tofu, and Marshal Green Lake's fighting spirit could no longer hold on, and it looked at the staff officers of the headquarters who were also depressed around him, and said with a sigh:

"Retreat, we retreat!"