"Let the destroyers and cruisers outflank the past! Attack the enemy flanks first! Take advantage of your speed! Battleship forces are attacking head-on! Keep firing! Putting down his binoculars once more, Lawrence changed the formation of his fleet.

The long serpentine formation, which was lined up, immediately divided into three sub-squadrons, with battleships and some cruisers with relatively large guns remaining in front, while some light cruisers began to accelerate their march straight ahead.

These cruisers were built using new technologies of varying degrees, and the previous coal-fired boilers were eliminated in favor of oil-burning power systems. Because of this, the speed of these cruisers is much faster than that of the old cruisers.

Many cruisers can even reach an astonishing speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour, which is much, much faster than dreadnoughts.

It's just that when they are with the dreadnought formation, their speed is restricted.

Now, they are ordered to act alone, which is tantamount to breaking the seal. Therefore, soon these battleships, with small caliber guns, accelerated away from the slower main fleet.

And in the rear of the entire fleet, the destroyer fleet, which was following in the distance, also received orders at this time and began to turn its bow and choose a more aggressive course.

"I don't have that many textbook tactics! I know one! Punch the master to death! Lawrence grinned and said to the adjutant standing beside him, "When the bayonet is put together, I will see what the demon's fleet is capable of!" ”

He was now in a state of almost fearlessness, with his back to the Osa Naval Port, and as long as he bought enough time, the demon's fleet would become more and more disadvantaged.

Soon, Iran Hill's new destroyers will be in service, and those destroyers with missiles will have much more combat capabilities than the ones he has now.

By that time, Iran Hill's navy would not be a defensive one. He will command his fleet to go out to the Endless Sea, and take the initiative to find a decisive battle with the Demon Naval Fleet.

Therefore, now Lawrence doesn't care about losses at all, he just needs to do his best and fight the battle in front of him.

"Keep firing! Let those demons focus on the positive! It's important to give them a little bait and let them bite the hook! Lawrence scattered his detachment and came to the crescent formation, and the two sides went forward and stood still in the middle, putting on a posture of wanting to flank the demon fleet on three sides.

Inside the floating castle, seeing that Ellan Hill's fleet began to divide into three ways, the demon general snorted coldly and raised the corners of his mouth: "You want to eat my fleet?" Quite an appetite! I'd like to see if you're flanking faster, or if I'm breaking through the center faster! ”

In fact, this is a collision in tactical arrangement, and sometimes it is not who is stupid or idiot, who does not know that the enemy is outflanked from both flanks, and his side is in danger.

Sometimes, the side that divides the troops is actually the one who takes the initiative to take risks, and it is a more reasonable tactical arrangement to concentrate the forces to break through each one.

Seeing that the demon fleet did not divide its forces, but instead picked up its regiment and rushed directly into the encirclement of the Iran Hill navy, Lawrence knew that the enemy was about to fight him.

After all, the demons know that they can't afford to drag it, and that kind of nuclear weapons that will fly at any time and at any time are the sword of Damocles that really hangs over their heads.

It is absolutely reasonable for the demon fleet, which pursues a quick victory, to adopt this tactic of breaking through in the center.

Moreover, from another point of view, the strategic attempt of the demon fleet to go north is to land and destroy Osa, or take control of Pilipi Island.

If the naval battle drags on, the pre-war preparations for Iran Hill will become more and more complete, and the suddenness of the attack on these two places will be lost.

Therefore, no matter which direction you look at, a quick battle and a quick elimination of the human naval fleet in front of you as soon as possible is a strategic task that the demon fleet has to complete.

"Boom!" The third salvo of the Iran Hill Navy began, the same 24 shells, which also landed in the Demon Navy fleet.

This time, the accuracy of the hit was higher, and three shells directly hit the demon battleship, sinking three huge black battleships in an instant.

The Demon Battleship was not a battleship in the true sense of the word, it looked imposing in appearance, and it was covered in barbs, and although its defense was a lot higher than that of a sailing ship, it was not as strong as it looked.

Its defense boost is mainly reflected in the steel of the shell and the magic defense barrier. Unfortunately, the Magical Defense Barrier is barely able to cope with small-caliber artillery, but it is not able to cope with large-caliber artillery.

At the same time, the steel hull, which is not armored in the first place and has a very average thickness, has very limited physical defense performance against large-caliber shells of more than 300 mm. Therefore, it is not surprising that the matter of being pierced through the hull of the ship at once.

As a result, the three demon warships broke and exploded, and there was no possibility of holding on at all. And the unlucky demon battleship that had been knocked through the hull one step earlier had now completely disappeared from the sea.

After all, these warships are powered by magic, and this power system is very unstable, and as long as it is destroyed, a large-scale explosion will occur, which is similar to the death of a tank's gasoline engine.

It's just that the smallest of these demon warships in front of me is more than 150 meters long, and the volume is really huge, and the explosion is too much more spectacular than the tank explosion.

"Chirp!" On the other side, on the demon battleship that had been passively beaten, the strange magic cannon turret engraved with a huge magic array composed of magic inscriptions also spewed out a huge amount of energy.

The demon fleet began to fight back, they didn't care about the problem of aiming, they couldn't help it anymore, and started a crazy attack on the main fleet of Iran Hill.

The demon fleet, which had an absolute advantage in numbers, opened fire with dozens of warships in one breath, and countless magic cannon energy projectiles flew towards the target, and for a while, Iran Hill's fleet was shrouded in cannonfire.

Some of the blazing energy directly crashed into the sea water next to the Ellan Hill battleship, and it also stirred up a column of water tens of meters high. Some of them had a very long difference in energy, directly past Iran Hill's fleet, and flew far away before crashing into the sea and exploding.

This frenzied attack also did not cause any trouble for Iran Hill's fleet. However, this brilliant attack also made Lawrnes, who had never seen this scene, feel the strength of the enemy.

Unlike the previous enemies who couldn't fight back, or didn't have any effect at all, this time the enemy was not a target, so Lawrence instantly felt the pressure on his shoulders.

It's a pity that his tactical arrangements have been carried out, and now he can't change anything, all he can do is wait, wait for a result.

His Majesty the Emperor Chris, once said that the navy is a very tragic service, because it is the only branch of the army that can lose an entire war in one morning......

Before, when Lawnes's navy was invincible, he used to dismiss this sentence, and now, at this moment, he truly agrees with it.

"Hurry up and reload! The distance is in our favor! Lawrence urged his men, and the entire bridge was busy.

"Boom!" As the distance between the two sides continued to close, the main guns began to roar on the cruiser following behind the battleship.

These 203 mm guns joined the roar. This time, it was not only the 305 mm caliber guns that fired, so the number of shells flying into the enemy camp suddenly increased exponentially.

Dense cannonballs rained down, and the sky above the demon fleet, the magic circle of those huge magical defense barriers, was splashed by these cannonballs.

Magical resonance bombs broke through these defensive barriers, and then more cannonballs fell, smashing onto the deck of the demon battleship.

The demon battleship, which looked sturdy and heavy, was hit by these long-range cannonballs, and soon ignited a fire, smoke, and turned into a steel coffin one by one.

The poor demons on these warships, before they had time to show their strength and ferocity, became food for all kinds of creatures in the ocean along with their warships.

Many battleships collided with each other in flames and explosions, and the demon warships that had gathered together and looked like they were in great spirits, but at this moment, they were in chaos, and even the most basic order was gone.

The reloading time of the magic cannon was too slow, and the interval between attacks was too long, and by the time Elanhill's naval battleships fired another salvo, these demon warships that fired the first round had not had time to fire their second salvo.

If it weren't for the existence of the floating castle above their heads, maybe this naval battle would have turned into a one-sided slaughter.

Seeing that his fleet had lost dozens of warships in one go, the demon general standing behind the battlement was a little breathless.

You know, not all of his fleets are naval warships, and there are also demon armies to land on these warships!

If he fights with the human navy here, where will he go to find the landing troops to destroy Osa and land on Pilipi Island?

He had to destroy the human navy in front of him as soon as possible, and then land on the beach and get mixed up with the enemy before the humans dropped the atomic bomb - this was his original plan, and he still thinks that this plan is the perfect plan of action.

"Let the dragon troops press forward! Take off the Demon Fighter! Cover the Floating Castle! All the magic cannons on the castle are ready! Target human fleet! The demon general commanded word by word to the dark shadow behind him.