Chapter 275: Losing more is natural
Seeing that their air power had temporarily seized air supremacy on the battlefield, seizing this favorable opportunity, the human fleet concentrated its forces to launch a fierce attack, trying to take away the old enemy goblin fleet in waves.
As the lightning strike ship squadron launched an aimless round of strafing, the goblin warships that were hastily maneuvering to avoid torpedoes were forced to give up their positions, and several ironclad ships such as the Golden took the lead in cutting into the array of the goblin fleet, disrupting the enemy formation that was advancing in two columns. Immediately, the six captured and sunken goblin ironclad ships slowly but firmly rushed along this breakthrough to expand the results of the battle in a goose formation, followed by those old wooden sail battleships that were not good at resisting strikes, anyway, there were ironclad ships in front of them when MT withstood the enemy's artillery fire, and they could also follow the soy sauce with confidence and boldness. Don't forget, although the defense of these ships is quite tragic, their firepower output is not bad!
"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"
It is clear that the torpedo with an astonishing charge poses a huge threat to the ironclad ships, and beware of this new weapon has become the first priority of the Goblin Navy, and in the spirit of the great copycat that the enemy has and we must also have it, the Goblins are working overtime to imitate torpedoes.
If you don't understand the principle and process, the weapon can't be imitated, and the goblin cleaned up the sea around the battlefield and got two torpedoes of physical duds for disassembly, but unexpectedly suffered a loss under Luo Zhengdao's pre-designed anti-dismantling measures. As soon as the warhead part of the torpedo was disassembled, the built-in pull fuse exploded violently, but fortunately, the goblin made sufficient safety preparations in advance, killing several craftsmen in charge of the operation on the spot, and destroying another dud, so the torpedo imitation project had to be shelved.
Today, the Grand Fleet was torpedoed again, and Modo Blackwater looked at the dusty battlefield around him, and he really wanted to cry without tears. Will Needham's formidable adversary is like a magician on stage, always able to play new tricks in unexpected places, whether he will pull a rabbit out of his hat or a flower, no one can guess, every goblin planted on these details, how can he not make the big goblin commander chagrined in retrospect?
"Your Excellency, the pirate ironclad is closing in on us."
Bad news never runs alone, and before Modo Blackwater could react, a herald ran from the corner of the command tower and said loudly:
"Report! The outpost spotted the group of pirate bombers taking off, and it was expected that a quarter of an hourglass would reach the skies over our fleet. ”
The big goblin commander rubbed his hair in annoyance, and was as agitated as a lion in a cage, and roared:
"Order the Second Squadron to make a detour to the flanks to cover us, and now speed up to bypass the pirates' ironclads and knock out their battleship detachment."
"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander."
The goblin fleet could not be concealed under the gaze of the telescope, and in the flagship commander tower, a staff officer put down the spar communicator and said to Brando Scarlet:
"Your Excellency, it looks like we're about to be surrounded by goblins."
"Don't worry, the bomber group will arrive soon, and our mission is to block the Grand Fleet head-on and cover the battleship detachments behind."
Brando Scarlet Yan, who had a calm expression, expressed basic satisfaction with the goblin version of the ironclad ship under his seat, although it was a little sad in terms of speed, but in the battle line against the bombardment, both sides had to maintain a uniform speed of maneuvering, and the speed advantage was most likely not reflected, to fight this kind of hard battle against Maimang, the goblin ironclad ship was still qualified, and Luo Zhengdao promised to upgrade and overhaul this batch of captured and repaired ironclad ships. The pirate ironclad is more about the cost performance and the needs of ocean raids, the goblin ironclad is not adulterated, but unfortunately it failed to comprehend the outstanding advantages, these two ironclads are not ideal fleet ironclad ships, as a captain, Brando hopes to get a perfect battleship.
After imagining a beautiful picture of the future, one of the captains connected to the hedron communicator and called:
"Your Excellency, can I use a sniper?"
"Yes, you decide."
Receiving permission from Commander Scarlet, the swaggering pirate captain strode to the entrance of the Command Tower, and said to the two soldiers waiting here:
"Do you see the Goblin Flagship? Can you hit the target? ”
Hearing this, a soldier with a rifle on his back stretched out his right thumb to measure the distance from the goblin flagship, and he looked up at the sky again, licked his tongue through his fingertips and stretched out into the air, and then replied:
"Well, about eight hundred yards, the wind is on the left, the wind is not strong, and it is within our range."
The captain was not concerned about whether he could hit the enemy ship, he then asked:
"Are you sure you'll hit the target?"
"Half-to-half chance."
Hearing this, the captain hesitated, and then said:
"What about I order all the snipers on board with the ship to cooperate?"
As soon as he heard this, the soldier was happy, there were only three sniper teams on this boat, a total of six people, and all of them didn't add up to much! He thought about it carefully and said:
"Well, seventy percent at most, and it's better to be closer."
"Okay, you can deploy the manpower, I just want the result."
Snipers and sharpshooters are definitely not different teachings under a general concept, if explained according to the standard of the least white, the former is a highly trained assassin who has mastered all the necessary skills to take out the target person, and the latter is a temporary cameo killer, except for good marksmanship, there is nothing to brag about, in terms of professional skill level, snipers can completely blow up the sharpshooter street.
"Woo Woo Woo ......"
For snipers, a miss means that their death is not far off, this profession is the least tolerant of failure, so becoming a sniper gun is not even in the top few, at any time and place can play their own level steadily, maintain a big heart, this ability is more innate. At this moment, with the sound of rapid firing almost in unison, the barrage composed of pure copper warheads intertwined instantly turned the command tower of the goblin flagship Black-billed Sparrow into a place of death. The swift bullets hit the observation window, which was only a palm's wide, and the slightly deviated ricochets bounced in four directions, causing many goblin soldiers to become innocent souls.
Only a few bullets pierced through the window into the tower, followed by deathly silence, followed by a cry of panic and panic.
"Your Excellency the Commander has been shot! Military! Military! ”
In the command tower of the Golden Ship, his eyes left the eyepiece of the artillery mirror, and a smile appeared on the corner of Luo Zhengdao's mouth, and he turned to Vina Dubov and said:
"The Goblin's Deputy Commander ship hoisted the command flag, the command was transferred, and our sniper must have hit Modo Blackwater, I don't know if it died."
Brando Scarlet didn't feel so much, for him, bulldozing the goblins as quickly as possible was the most important thing, and everything else could be left until after the war. Observing the chaos of the Goblin Fleet, he exclaimed:
"The time has come, taking advantage of the chaos of the greenskin command system, we will start an all-out offensive and launch flares!"
The house leak happened to rain overnight! At the moment when Modo Blackwater was shot and his fate was unknown, the group of bombers that had recently taken off from the Funayama Islands was approaching, and the goblin soldiers could see it by looking at it with the naked eye. If you ask what it means to be defeated, at this moment, the goblin fleet deeply felt the imminent pressure, and the military heart floated to the point that it was difficult to contain.
"Retreat now! This is our last chance to preserve the fleet. ”
"No, we have to fight to the end, the empire cannot suffer such a humiliation, and an all-out attack can be won."
"Your Excellency Commander is unconscious, what are you arguing about? It's time to organize defenses against pirate air raids, and to escape and attack is to find death. ”
For a while, the leaderless goblin staff officers were at loggerheads in the fleet's internal communication system, and it didn't matter if Modo Blackwater, the commander of the Grand Fleet, fell from a bullet, and there was no strongman in the Grand Fleet who could single-handedly suppress the opposition. Attack, defense, and retreat, with all kinds of different opinions mixed together, making everyone wonder what to choose.
While the goblins were arguing, the humans were not idle, and while the bomber group was approaching from a high altitude, a small group of torpedo planes slipped into the vicinity of the goblin fleet. The torpedo plane, which is too heavy to act clumsy, can only succeed by sneak attack, which is the experience of human pilots in exchange for blood and life, and has also become one of their recognized codes of conduct, and the torpedo plane will never have the habit of playing heroism to show off, and the kind of frontal assault with great fanfare is still left to the bombers on top!
"I'm the squadron leader, the first squad of torpedo machines is lowered to the height of the bomb, and the second squad is ready to attack."
A call came from the hedron receiver in the cabin, and the pilots shook their wings to indicate that they had received the order, and then they pushed the joystick down to the height and began to drop the torpedo.
"Poof! Poof! Puff ......"
Brando Scarlet saw the torpedo machine start to move, and said to the combat staff officer:
"Sue the ship, prepare to rush up and replenish the gun!"
"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander."
The old world saying that a century-old navy is not without reason, you can buy warships with money, you can recruit sailors with high salaries, and you can slowly hone commanders, but the cultural heritage of a strong navy in the face of danger cannot be cultivated overnight.
Luo Zhengdao has taken a big advantage in this regard, although it is true that he is self-made, but the sailors under his hands, the captains and commanders in the middle are all old pirates and bandits. Even the most unreliable of all seemed to be the old sailors who served in the Bright Empire's navy for many years before returning to the Count Flore family to continue their service.
The Second Goblin Empire has never encountered such a cheap good thing in building a navy, not to mention that they can't trust aliens at all, and the human puppet army that has barely been retained is also suspicious of each other, and it is really impossible to say how much valuable things the goblins can learn from them. Therefore, a group of landlubbers launched the goblin navy to deal with those weak opponents, relying on equipment advantages alone can bully the opponent to death, once the enemy shows strong strength and tenacious fighting spirit, they will inevitably have a kind of tiger eating hedgehog nowhere to eat the embarrassment.