549 Battle of the North Sea

In the wreckage-strewn sea, the sharp bow of the Iran Hill Navy's guided-missile destroyer cut through the waves, and at a very high speed, slammed through a wooden dinghy that was blocking its path.

The escape boat full of demon soldiers sank into the sea in an instant, leaving only a few planks still rippling in the water.

Not far behind the guided-missile destroyer, Iran Hill's giant battleship Victory, was firing at the Demon Battleship further away with its own heavy 406mm guns.

The sound of artillery shaking the ground and shaking echoed on the sea, and with the track of white missiles constantly flying in the sky, the whole battlefield seemed very lively.

"Boom!" The Iran Hill artillery cruisers, which had already come out and approached the Demon Fleet, were firing non-stop salvos, and those powerful 203 mm guns were actually much higher in rate of fire than the powerful 406 mm guns, and their ability to pour ammunition was also stronger.

In the face of demonic warships that are not very well defended, these 203 mm guns can achieve even more amazing results, and at the same time, they are more ammological.

After all, 406 mm caliber shells really take up a lot of space, and even the super battleships of Ellan Hill can't carry much.

And the 203 mm caliber shells are different, even the cruiser can carry sufficient ammunition and is not weak against the battleship of the Devil.

In addition, in terms of manufacturing costs, 203 mm caliber shells are also much cheaper than 406 mm caliber shells.

At a distance of 20 km, the artillery cruiser's ability to pour fire was considerable, and it was not weak compared to the battleship - the only difference between the two was actually in the ability to destroy heavily armored targets.

After all, a 406 mm shell can penetrate half a meter thick hardened armor steel plate, but a 203 mm gun may not be able to penetrate even 300 mm of the same steel plate.

However, the demon's battleships did not have such heavy armor protection at all, so for the battleships of Elanhill, these thin-skinned and stuffed targets, with 203 mm caliber artillery shells, were more economical.

At this moment, six Ellan Hill's artillery cruisers were lined up, and with their powerful firepower, they were on the path of the Demon Navy's advance. He kept using heavy artillery fire to sink the demon navy battleship that tried to get closer.

Their efficiency is really too high, and these ships equipped with MK16 self-loading naval guns can self-load shells at any gun elevation angle, maintaining a terrifying rate of fire of 10 shells per minute.

With this ultra-high rate of fire, these cruisers are simply demonic battleships in the face of slaughter. Before the opponent could enter the attack range of the magic guide cannon, he was hit by these shells with equally terrifying armor-piercing ability, and broke and sank in the detonation.

As this naval battle in the North Sea progressed, Iran Hill's main fleet had adjusted its formation and put on a "V" formation, with the demon fleet sandwiched between the two wings.

The Iran Hill fleet, which is agile and has a higher speed, dispatched a fleet of destroyers to harass the periphery, using cruisers as the main force to storm the opponent's flank, defeating the main force of the demon fleet one after another.

The fleet of the demon fleet deployed on both flanks was routed by the battleship fleet commanded by Lawnes and suffered heavy losses and had to be similarly reversed.

But when the demon fleet turned around and tried to break out separately, it found that behind its flank, the sky fleet of Elanhill had been killed.

After a scuffle, the left flank of the demon fleet was held back by Maher's 2nd Cruiser Fleet, and although it was still attacking, it was already the end of the crossbow.

The main force of the demon fleet on the other side was overwhelmed by the attack of Lawris and Waglon, and was completely unable to rush to the decoy fleet in the encirclement.

The demon decoy fleet caught in the V-shape has now been almost eaten, and after holding out for so long, they are now only left with the ability to take beatings.

Standing on the wall of the Demon Floating Castle, the demon general in charge of commanding this battle had an ugly face and clenched his fists and looked at the battlefield with thick smoke billowing in the distance.

Most of his fleet had been eaten, but the ships on the periphery that were supposed to flank the human fleet were still nowhere to be seen.

The battle plan that had been agreed upon had now become a complete joke: the information sent by the liaison officer showed that the forces deployed by the humans on the left and right flanks were even stronger than those of the demon fleet.

This is interesting: who is surrounding whom? If this plan to encircle the human race ended up being surrounded by the human race, then from the moment this battle began, was the demon fleet already over?

"Hundreds of warships! How can it be so vulnerable? Order the 4th and 5th fleets to attack on both flanks! He looked darkly at the officer behind him and commanded loudly.

The officer standing behind him looked embarrassed, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and reported: "Your Excellency...... The 4th Fleet had already been heavily damaged and could not afford to get out and turn the bow of the ship to counterattack. ”

"And what about the 5th Fleet? Yes? The somewhat annoyed demon general asked loudly, "Let the 5th Fleet launch a fierce attack on the right flank!" Break through the human fleet and cut off the connection between them......"

Hearing this unrealistic order, the officer could only bite the bullet and give the order - but he actually knew very well that if the 5th Fleet could break through the human encirclement, cut off the opponent's fleet formation, and disrupt the opponent's deployment, they would not be so passive now.

In fact, it can be seen from the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Fleets that the current encirclement of their side is caused by the absolute disparity in combat effectiveness.

If you want to challenge the enemy's superior technology with inferior technology in naval warfare, you are basically looking for death.

But now, the Demon Commander is doing this useless struggle: hundreds of warships have been sunk, but the Demon Fleet has only recently sunk two small human warships.

Those were two missile destroyers, destroyed by the Demon Bat and the Demon Dragon as they ran out of missiles. But then a human warship arrived, drove away the demon bats and dragons, and rescued the human soldiers who had fallen into the water.

The only result was achieved by the Air Force, which made the Demon Fleet very embarrassed. In fact, since the beginning of the war, they have only fired less than a hundred shots in total, because of the disadvantage of the magic cannon in range and the serious shortcomings in accuracy, most of these attacks have not caused any trouble to the human fleet.

"Damn, these bastard humans, when did they get so strong?" This demon general, who had just arrived in this world and had just seen the industrialized fleet of human beings, complained in a low voice full of resentment.

Before his words of complaint could land, the demonic floating castle under his feet suddenly trembled.

Immediately after, when the demon general frowned and opened his mouth to ask the people around him what was going on, he felt the floating castle he was stepping on suddenly tremble, and then it shook violently.

"What the hell is going on? What happened? Holding on to the battlements in the wall, he barely stood still, and shouted loudly, "Check the inside of the castle!" Go see what's going on! ”

"Boom!" In the distance, under the core tower of the castle, a huge thick smoke rose into the air, followed by a deafening explosion, and then the floating magic array below this demon castle began to weaken.

"The core is dead!" The demon general, who was familiar with the structure of the demon castle, suddenly realized that something was wrong, but when he realized all this, it was too late to prevent the demon floating castle under his feet from going to destruction.

The next second, he felt something fly past him, because the speed was so fast that he didn't even hear the sharp sound of the wind breaking.

Everything was so quiet, and everything was so fast, that by the time the demon general felt something fly by, it had already swept past where he was standing and crashed into the walls of the castle.

In an instant, the thing pierced through the heavy walls of the castle, through a house behind the walls, and through the houses behind this one.

The tremendous kinetic energy shattered the houses all at once, and before the broken rubble could hit the ground, the thing crashed into the core of the castle's interior, and was no longer visible.

Not a second passed, and the demon castle, which was already collapsing, rose even more black smoke, and it began to disintegrate and collapse faster.

"What's that?" The thing flying past him was so fast that he didn't even see what it was. So the demon general looked at his subordinates beside him and asked in horror.

Or, it's not that he really doesn't know and wants to ask, but just a vent, to vent the fear in his heart, to vent his anger that he is about to lose.

No one answered him, for the demons didn't know what had just passed. All they knew was that that thing easily penetrated the reinforced magical defense barrier on the periphery of the Demon Castle, and also instantly penetrated the city walls, penetrated the houses, penetrated the land tens of meters thick, and destroyed the power core of this floating castle.

As a result, in the silence, the power core of this huge floating castle could no longer remain stable, and exploded in an instant. A huge explosion appeared in the sky, and the entire demon castle exploded into countless pieces, like a falling hailstone, falling on the head of the panicked demon fleet.

And in the sky more than 50 kilometers away, in the sealed artillery control room, the human artillery commander stood on his command position with his hands behind his back, and loudly reminded his subordinates with his chin high: "Change the track...... Railgun reloading begins! ”