Chapter 711: The Second Battle of Ian

Seeing that the third battle of Karan Heights could not be played, the Krull Kingdom naturally would not give up easily, on the one hand, it used various forces to transfer materials, and on the other hand, the Krull Kingdom also dispatched their proud navy!

Although a naval battle of Ian in the summer of the eighth year of Qiansheng caused the torpedo boat attack to silence many battleships, and made the navy of the Krull Kingdom a negative lesson for the world's navies.

However, the navy of the Krull Kingdom also gained a lot of valuable experience and lessons from this typical failed naval battle, and the close-range blockade strategy was completely abandoned, and then began to implement the long-distance blockade strategy and build a large number of high-freeboard warships.

At the same time, because the open battery battleships could not carry out the task of supporting the land artillery bombardment, the navy of the Krull Kingdom transferred many low-freeboard turret battleships, and at the same time urgently built a number of land support gunboats.

This so-called land support gunboat is purely an emergency product of war, with a displacement of two or three thousand tons, and a low-freeboard and turret design is adopted, equipped with large-caliber naval guns.

These land support gunboats made by the Krull Kingdom did not consider allowing them to act alone or participate in naval engagements, and this thing was purely used to bombard shore defense batteries.

When they are on a mission, they are followed by a bunch of battleships to provide them with support.

And this kind of land support gunboat is very similar to the tactical positioning of the so-called 'offshore battleship' proposed by the Daheng Imperial Navy a few years ago, that is, to run to the enemy's coast and carry out artillery bombardment missions.

It's just that although the Daheng Imperial Navy has such a concept, it still didn't really do it in the end, after all, this kind of warship is too single, and it needs a powerful ocean-going navy as support.

To use this thing, you must first control the sea, or you will become someone else's target in a minute.

This time, the navy of the Krull Kingdom dispatched a large number of turret warships and specially built temporary land support ships, as well as dozens of torpedo boats, under the cover of a large number of battleships and cruisers behind, approached the port of Ian.

I have to say that after the navy of the Krull Kingdom, which has a big family, has come to its senses, even if it is playing this kind of battle with the shore fire force to storm the military port, it can still afford to play.

The navy of the Krull Kingdom is approaching the port of Ian, which also means that the Second Battle of Ian has officially begun!

The main fleet of the Orr Kingdom avoided the battle in the early stage, but it was to attack outward that night, and its purpose was also very clear, that is, to cover the torpedo boat force to launch a torpedo attack.

But I didn't expect that the navy of the Krull Kingdom just made a show during the day, and at night it withdrew a vote of turret warships with little mechanical power out of the coastal waters, and at the same time, a large number of cruisers and torpedo boat destroyers with more small and medium-caliber secondary guns and searchlights quietly stepped forward.

When the main fleets of the two sides began to fight in the night, the torpedo boat unit of the Orr Kingdom Navy also launched a surprise attack, but this time the torpedo boat force of the Orr Kingdom Navy suffered heavy losses!

Because the navy of the Krull Kingdom came prepared, all the ships were equipped with a large number of searchlights and a large number of multi-barreled or single-barreled 57 mm and 47 mm rapid-fire guns.

Under the searchlight, the fleet of torpedo boats of the Orr Kingdom Navy was quickly spotted, and then intercepted and shelled by a dense fire of 57-mm and 47-mm rapid-fire guns.

These small-caliber rapid-fire guns had an extremely fast rate of fire, and although the power of a single shell was not great, it was still very effective against torpedo boats that were only a few dozen tons and only a hundred tons.

The most important thing is that there are many small and medium-sized cruisers and larger torpedo boat destroyers in the navy of the Krull Kingdom!

With more than forty warships and countless rapid-fire guns to intercept the attack of more than twenty torpedo boats, if this could not be stopped, their Krull Kingdom Navy could commit suicide en masse.

The melee between the two sides ended in the second half of the night, which ended with the withdrawal of the navy of the Orr Kingdom to the port!

In this night melee between the two sides, more than half of the torpedo boat units of the Orr Kingdom Navy were lost, but they failed to achieve any sinking results, but only severely damaged a first-class cruiser of the Krull Kingdom Navy, and most of their torpedo boats did not even have a chance to fire torpedoes closely, but were sunk more than 10 ships one after another.

In the battle between the main fleets of the two sides, the navy of the Orr Kingdom was also inevitably at a disadvantage, the second-class battleship Pingbo was sunk, one battleship Princess was severely damaged, and only two battleships on the side of the navy of the Krull Kingdom were slightly damaged.

The Second Battle of Ian ended with a complete victory for the navy of the Krull Kingdom, and they proved with their huge fleet and top-notch national strength that even if the current torpedo boats are a great threat, as long as we have enough warships, we can still beat the torpedo boats to slag.

However, it is also an inspiration for the admirals of many countries.

Torpedo boats of several tens of tons are useless, they can't carry 57 mm or 47 mm rapid-fire guns, but what about torpedo boats with larger tonnage and faster speed?

For example, many countries now also have two or three hundred tons of large torpedo boats, such as the Daheng Navy's Jiayi torpedo boat, this thing is more than 300 tons of torpedo boats, and there are also three in the Orr Kingdom Navy, although these three were also attacked by intensive firepower, and the casualties were extremely large, but they were not sunk, but successfully launched the torpedo with a scar, severely damaged a cruiser of the Krull Kingdom Navy, and finally successfully retreated.

Torpedo boats are on a larger scale!

This is what the navies of many countries see!

At the same time, they will also consider the question, that is, how to deal with torpedo boats after they become larger?

Although the rate of fire of the 47-mm and 57-mm rapid-fire guns is very fast, their power is limited in the end, and as for the machine guns with a larger caliber, it is very difficult to do so, and if they are easy to get high, the navies of various countries will not position the caliber of the largest-caliber machine guns at 55 mm or 57 mm.

It is because after exceeding this caliber, the structure of the rate of fire of the traditional structure no longer works.

The plan chosen by the Daheng Empire's navy is a 75-mm tube retracting rapid-fire gun, but other countries don't even have the concept of medium-caliber rapid-fire guns now, and the Daheng Empire is secretive about rapid-fire guns, and it is not easy for foreign countries to figure it out.

In the Second Battle of Ian, after the defeat of the Orr Kingdom's navy, they could only hide in the harbor and rely on shore fire protection to protect it.

At this time, the navy of the Krull Kingdom used turret warships to carry out intensive artillery bombardment of the shore fire force, although the use of battleships, even the turret warships and the shore fire force were relatively disadvantaged, but the navy of the Krull Kingdom had a big business and didn't care about this, and the fight began to be lively.

It's just that while fighting, a turret battleship close to the shelling of the Krull Kingdom Navy unfortunately hit a mine, and the last bang was blown out of a big hole, and it was said that this mine was arranged by themselves......

In order to blockade the port of Ian, the navy of the Krull Kingdom has repeatedly deployed mines several times, and the Orr Kingdom side also often clears mines, but there will always be fish that slip through the net.

No, this will blow up one of its own turret ships!

But it's okay, the navy of the Krull Kingdom has a big business, a mere offshore turret ship of more than 2,000 tons, and it sinks when it sinks, anyway, most of the sailors on the ship successfully escaped, and there were not many casualties.

Up to now, in fact, the Orr Navy could only survive in the harbor, and the access channel was soon completely blocked by mines, and the coastal defense batteries were also subjected to intensive artillery bombardment, and the losses were not small.

That is, this harbor is blocked by high mountains, and the naval guns of the warships in the open sea cannot directly shell the warships in the harbor, as for the landing, the Krull Kingdom was afraid of landing once before, and now it is saying that it will not land.

After completely destroying the coastal defenses of Ian Port and deploying countless mines to completely block the port, the navy of the Krull Kingdom moved to other coastal ports and shelled them one by one.

For a time, it also caused a lot of losses to the Orr Kingdom.

The Orr War was spent in the process of fighting and talking, but until now, neither side actually wants to fight, so when both sides found that they could not force the other side to submit through military action, the negotiations between the two sides entered the practical stage.

Finally, in March of the tenth year of Qiansheng, the two sides formally signed an armistice agreement in Jingshi, the capital of the Daheng Empire, and the main contents of this agreement are two, one is that the Orr Kingdom will open up the oil industry, and the second is that the Venabe Kingdom and the Andel Kingdom will invest 300 million Hengyuan to purchase their two disputed territories from the Kingdom of Natel and the Duchy of Bird.

These two territories were actually controlled by Venabe and Ander, and it was said that it was the purchase cost of the disputed territory, but in fact it was just an excuse, but in fact it was an indemnity from the Orr Kingdom to the Krull Kingdom.

Although it was invaded by the enemy for no reason, and in the end it was very embarrassing to pay 300 million yuan to the enemy, but it was much better than the war going on and being defeated in the end.

And this also bypasses the name of reparations, just saying that this is the cost of buying land, and it happens between their respective younger brothers, and it has nothing to do with the Orr Kingdom and the Krull Kingdom itself, which also avoids the deterioration of public opinion.

Besides, it's just money, they don't have much else in the Orr Kingdom, just a lot of gold, they don't even have to pay the 300 million Hengyuan in installments, as long as the agreement is reached, under the witness of the major powers, they will pay it off in gold in one go.

In any case, the Orr War finally ended two years after the outbreak of the war, and this Orr war gave people all over the world a clearer understanding of the future war.

Many people still think that this Orr is really rich, and they have spent at least hundreds of millions of dollars in the two years of war, and now the compensation of 300 million yuan is taken out directly without blinking, and the high-level leaders of the Walia Empire and other big countries are wondering whether they should also make a profit.

But when they saw that the Krull Kingdom in the Orr War was disgraced and suffered serious losses, and the Daheng Empire had also begun to openly stand up for the Orr Kingdom, they were a little hesitant.

The Krull Kingdom has been stumbling in the Orr Kingdom for two years, but as far as the war is concerned, in fact, the Krull Kingdom has not been able to completely succumb to the Orr Kingdom.

Although it is said that in the end, a sum of reparations and oil benefits were reaped, but compared with the war expenditure of more than 2 billion Hengyuan in two years, it is a big loss!

The net loss is at least more than a billion yuan!