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The battle line of the Iran Hill Navy was laid out from south to west, to be precise, they were heading southwest, and then, after making contact with the Demon Navy, they began to turn to the northwest.
Lawrence wanted to secure the distance between his ship and the Demon Navy, but having already seized the T-shaped advantageous position, he could not avoid closing the distance with the opposing sprinting naval fleet.
There is no way to avoid this, after all, he grabbed it, or the Demon Navy didn't intend to grab this T-shaped position at all.
The battleships of the Demon Navy can't be installed too many similar devices because of the size of the magic cannon turret, although it seems to have an advantage in the size and number of warships, but in fact, most of the warships of the Demon Navy fleet are just "gunboats" with a magic cannon installed.
To summarize the technical characteristics of the Demon Navy battleship, the hull adopts the standard of civilian ships of Ellan Hill, with one or two magic cannons installed, and a similar design of armed transport ships carrying a large number of demon soldiers.
In fact, this design should not actually be used to fight against enemy forces, and in fact, when the Demon Navy built this type of warship, it did not give this kind of demon warship the task of a decisive battle at sea.
In the battle familiar to the original demons, it was the powerful air assault force composed of the demon dragon and the floating castle that charged. The opposing mage is unable to break through the attack of the demon dragon and the magical defense barrier of the floating castle, and the floating castle will become a super assault method for the demons.
The Floating Castle will float in the war zone as a lair for dragons and demon bats, and then pour its magic cannon fire on the ground or sea to destroy any enemies who resist.
At this time, the demon's naval fleet is mainly responsible for part of the cover tasks during transportation and landing, so there is no need to build it into a naval warship.
However, when facing the navy and air force of Iran Hill, the demon's seemingly complete combat system was completely torn apart.
The seemingly invincible Demon Floating Castle has become no longer safe and reliable due to the rapid advancement of Iran Hill's hypersonic missile technology. Therefore, a series of combat methods formulated around the floating castle are equivalent to a joke.
The Floating Castle was too busy to take care of itself, and it was completely incapable of supporting the battle on the sea, which made the fragile demon warship have to face the Iran Hill special sea-making warship with thick skin and super strong striking power.
Whether it is a heavy cruiser or a dreadnought, which is already very backward, these ships that rely on large-caliber shells to fight can cause huge problems for the demonic navy.
This is why, in many wars, one side that has been destroyed by the way the system is fought by the other side is completely tortured by the other side.
For example, in the Soviet-German War in World War II, the Soviet Union's original battle plan was based on artillery to formulate a combat plan, but in the early stage of the war, it was turned into a movement war by the German lightning attack, and the artillery did not have time to exert its might, and the entire defense line collapsed.
Subsequently, after the Soviets withstood the pressure and the defensive lines of both sides began to be fixed, the Germans began to suffer the losses of the Soviet artillery units, and this was the case until the end.
In the same way, the German infantry, which used light machine guns as the main fire support point, could not give full play to the combat effectiveness of the German troops in the later stage when facing the US army, which used artillery as the main fire support point and had sufficient weapons of all kinds.
After all, in the face of the Soviet Union, where artillery theory was rampant, the German Air Force could provide some ground support to relieve the pressure on the Army, but when faced with the more powerful American Army, the Luftwaffe was too busy to take care of itself.
In the modern weapon system competition, the disadvantage in one link requires more strength from other links to make up for it - if there is no way to make up for this disadvantage, then the entire battlefield will fall into passivity and then completely collapse.
At this moment, when the old armored cruisers in Lawrnes's hands began to pour their own 203 or 155 mm main gun shells on the demon battleships in front of him, the demon navy also tasted the rain of bullets that their landing force tasted.
The Iran Hill fleet fired at a relatively close distance, and the medium-caliber guns had an advantage over the large-caliber guns in terms of rate of fire and aiming accuracy, so as more 203 mm and 155 mm naval guns began to wield, the losses of the demon fleet began to increase.
For Iran Hill, there is also a certain pattern in the renewal of its naval artillery shells, which are more standard and easier to produce, and it is always the 155 mm caliber naval artillery shells, the size and the difficulty of the production line, which determines that this is a truth that will not change.
Therefore, in a short period of time, the new shells produced were also the most 155 mm caliber shells, followed by 203 mm caliber artillery shells, and the 305 mm caliber naval guns with the fewest new shells.
Because of this, most of the magic resonance shells produced by Iran Hill for the navy are also 155 and 203 mm caliber shells, and 305 mm caliber shells are only a few after all.
However, although the caliber is smaller, because of the magic resonance shells, these shells have a great damage effect on demon warships, and their lethality is even more amazing than the 305 mm caliber main guns with a slow rate of fire and difficult aiming.
Don't underestimate the power of these shells, which don't seem to be too big, a 155 mm caliber naval gun shell, hitting the side armor steel plate of the demon battleship, can make a hole larger than the door.
After all, the demon's battleship didn't have any decent armor, and even the steel plates on the battleship hadn't undergone any special treatment, and it wasn't much stronger than the civilian ships of Irlanhill.
This kind of damage was completely unbearable for the demon troops, and soon dozens of demon warships were sunk, and several other warships were partially flooded, and they were struggling on the surface of the sea and refused to sink immediately.
And by this time, the main fleet of Iran Hill, under the orders of Lawnes, had already begun to turn the bow of the ship and face the enemy with the tail, and began to keep a distance and shoot and fire.
The dreadnought's design, in which it can fire at the stern of the battleship at the same time, is actually as many as the number of guns that can fire on one side of the ship.
Therefore, the impact of this turn on the firepower of the Iran Hill battleship is actually very limited, but for the demon fleet, it is a bit too worrying.
Their battleship was not as fast as Iran Hill's, and now that the other party was at full speed, they didn't have a good way.
However, it soon became clear to the commanders of these demonic naval ships that their opponents were not turning to flee, but turning and then aiming their other side at them.
Yes, Lawrence was just worried that the position of his fleet had moved to the opponent's flank due to lateral movement, and he had turned half a circle and returned to the battlefield.
But because of his turn, the demon fleet also got some respite, and many demon warships passed the half-sunken friendly warships, continued to form a more reasonable formation, and rushed towards Ellan Hill's fleet.
Immediately after, they opened fire again, allowing the magic cannon to launch a dense attack. This time, it was the third salvo of the demons in this naval battle, and the first time they had caused real trouble for the Iran Hill Navy.
In the midst of the chaotic flying magic cannon shells, a magic cannon shell accidentally hit the Hero dreadnought that had just completed the turn.
Huge amounts of energy slammed into the ship's aft turret, destroying the deck and melting the side armor.
Such terrifying power caused the main gun in the tail of the battleship to lose the ability to aim and rotate, so there was no way to continue firing and attacking.
The Hero dreadnought, which was already not fast, slowed down even more because of this huge impact - the propeller shaft failed, and a propeller near the part hit by the magic cannon had no possibility of turning at all.
Being so suddenly attacked that the battleship Hero had to break away from the main fleet, slow down its own speed, and barely follow the tail of the entire fleet.
However, after being hit by the magic cannon, the armor steel plate was deformed but not penetrated, which also greatly encouraged all the soldiers on the battleship. Until, a lightly armored cruiser, hit by another cannonball, was directly penetrated through the hull, after killing dozens of sailors.
The demon fleet that had won the battle was even more arrogant, they seemed to have forgotten that their fleet had lost a fifth, and the demons on the deck roared to vent their inner mania, as if they had won the naval battle.
At the same time, above the head of the Iran Hill Navy, the AIM-15 missiles fired by F-120 fighters hit almost all the locked targets.
In an instant, the demonic air force crashed into the sea, and Orrank, piloting his own fighter jet, entangled with the demon fighter jet that arrived above the clouds.
The terrifying fighting performance of the third-generation fighter suddenly made the pilots on those demon fighters understand what is called the generation gap in weapons and equipment.
The so-called fighter jets they fly that resemble human-powered rockets are not at all comparable to those F-15 fighters that can flexibly perform various turning maneuvers after flying at supersonic speeds.
In just one shot, Orlank achieved a crushing advantage in the tail-biting fight, shooting down a demon fighter in one fell swoop, and his record soared to a terrifying 50 orders of magnitude!
At this time, the F-16 fighter with lighter weight, better fighting performance and more agility also joined the battle circle......
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