After Su Yi received a telegram from Liu Yongcheng, the Minister of the Navy of the Purple Moon Empire, he immediately asked all the warships of the Independent Fleet, including those that were being maintained in the shipyard, to leave the port of Ambo Port as soon as possible and assemble in the waters outside Anbo Port to prepare to meet the combined fleet of the navies of Sharad, Gisk, and Orenza.

Originally, according to Su Yi's idea, he was going to wait for the New Year to let the independent fleet and the combined fleet of the navies of Sharad, Gisk, and Orenza have a decisive battle at sea, so that the independent fleet could have hundreds of more warships, but now that people have come to the door, the independent fleet has to fight.

Although Ambo Port is the largest military port of the Purple Moon Empire, after annexing the three main fleets of the Royal Navy of the Cangyu Empire, Ambo Port is already a little unable to accommodate the independent fleet, so the entire Ambo Port is very crowded.

As soon as the combined fleet of the navies of Sharad, Gisk and Orenza arrived outside the port of Amber and shelled the port, the independent fleet was bound to suffer heavy losses.

With Su Yi's order issued, the entire port of Ambo Port suddenly became lively.

"Hurry up! Check our six torpedoes again, and two more torpedo tubes, make sure that nothing goes wrong, this is not an exercise, we are about to start a decisive battle with the combined fleets of the three navies of Sharad, Gisk and Orenza! Xu Zhenjie, the captain of the No. 18 torpedo boat of the second torpedo boat formation of the independent fleet, shouted loudly to the crew.

Xu Zhenjie turned out to be a trainee officer in the Royal Navy of the Cangyu Empire, only twenty-one years old this year, the same age as Su Yi, and practiced on a torpedo boat with a displacement of only 380 tons.

When the three major fleets of the Royal Navy of the Cangyu Empire left Huifeng Port, several officers of this torpedo boat did not leave with the fleet, but stayed in Huifeng Harbor, of course, the officers and men of the Royal Navy of the Cangyu Empire who stayed in Huifeng Harbor were finally executed by order of Janis of the Shalad Empire.

Then Xu Zhenjie was temporarily appointed as the captain of the torpedo boat, and followed the fleet all the way to the Anbo Port of the Purple Moon Empire, and joined the independent fleet under Su Yi, Xu Zhenjie's torpedo boat was incorporated into the second torpedo boat formation of the independent fleet, renamed the No. 18 torpedo boat, Xu Zhenjie went through the written test and interview, and finally he was appointed as the captain of the No. 18 torpedo boat.

At this time, Chen Zeng, the chief officer of the No. 18 torpedo boat, saluted Xu Zhenjie and said: "Report to the captain, I have checked six torpedoes, three torpedo tubes, two 37-mm rapid-fire guns, and four hundred 37-mm shells three times, and there will be absolutely no problems with these weapons and ammunition." ”

Chen Zeng is a navy-type junior combat biochemical with a total of 28 crew members on the No. 18 torpedo boat, including 16 cyborgs.

Xu Zhenjie nodded to his first mate, although the newly transferred first mate was a little wooden, but he was a competent first mate, "The coal and food have been replenished, right?" ”

"Report to the captain, the coal and food have been replenished to the maximum!"

"Then send a signal to the flagship torpedo boat No. 13 of the second torpedo boat formation, our torpedo boat No. 18 has completed pre-war preparations and can leave the port at any time!"

On the afternoon of December 1, 3011, the 12 super dreadnought battleships, 12 battle cruisers, 17 dreadnought battleships, 15 pre-dreadnought battleships, 8 ironclad battleships, 11 large armored cruisers, 6 medium armored cruisers, 41 light cruisers, 80 destroyers and 60 torpedo boats of the independent fleet gathered in the waters outside the port of Ambo, waiting for the arrival of the combined fleet of the navies of Sharad, Gisk and Orenza.

The entire independent fleet only has a large armored cruiser and a light cruiser of the Royal Navy of the former Cangyu Empire, because they ran aground on the way to the Purple Moon Empire, although they did not sink, they were dragged all the way to Ambo Harbor by other warships, but these two warships are temporarily impossible to participate in the battle, and can only continue to be repaired in the shipyard of Ambo Harbor.

In the early morning of 4 December, the combined fleet of the three navies, which was unusually large, arrived in the sea about 100 nautical miles west of the port of Ambo, and was immediately discovered by destroyers of the independent fleet in charge of maritime reconnaissance.

At 8:30 a.m. on 4 December, the officers and men of the two fleets could already see each other's huge fleets with their eyes.

On the No. 18 torpedo boat, Xu Zhenjie put down the binoculars in his hand, and said to the first mate Chen Zeng with a pale face: "The combined warships of the navies of Sharad, Gisk, and Orenza seem to be more than our independent fleet, can we win?" ”

First mate Chen Zeng said expressionlessly: "Captain, rest assured, our independent fleet only has twelve super dreadnought battleships, as well as eight quasi-super dreadnought battleships and twelve new battle cruisers, there is no reason to fail!" ”

Xu Zhenjie swallowed his saliva a little nervously and said: "The first mate is right, our independent fleet has so many powerful battleships, even if the enemy has a little more warships, the final victory must belong to our independent fleet!" ”

In the bridge of the Bavaria-class super dreadnought battleship Yongxiang, the flagship of the Independent Fleet, Wang Chengliang, the commander of the Independent Fleet, put down the binoculars in his hand and said to Yuan Fan, the captain of the Yongxiang beside him, in a deep voice: "I didn't expect that the navy of the Sharad Empire would come with nine super dreadnought battleships at once, it seems that we were confused by the Sharad Empire before." ”

In this naval battle, Su Yi originally wanted to participate in it in person, but he was strongly opposed by Wang Chengliang of the Independent Fleet, so Su Yi could only wait for news in Ambo Port, and did not appear on the bridge of the Yongxiang.

Yuan Fan, the captain of the Yongxiang, frowned and said: "Commander, it seems that this naval battle is not very easy to fight, the combined navy of Sharad, Gisk, and Orenza is much larger than our independent fleet. ”

The combined fleet of the navies of Sharad, Gisk, and Orenza, which came to the port of Ambo, consisted of nine super dreadnought battleships, forty dreadnought battleships, thirty-four former dreadnought battleships, fifty-eight ironclad battleships, twenty-six large armored cruisers, forty-four small and medium-sized armored cruisers, ninety-eight light cruisers, one hundred and sixteen destroyers, one hundred and ninety torpedo boats, and more than two hundred supply carriers.

In addition to the superiority of the independent fleet in super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers, the independent fleet is at a disadvantage compared to other types of warships.

Wang Chengliang took a deep breath and said: "The number is not the only factor that determines the victory, if you count according to the number, our independent fleet almost always defeats the strong with the weak, I believe that this time will not be an exception, order all formations, according to the tactics formulated before!" ”