Chapter 43: The Great Harvest After Victory

After the commander of the Shalad Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, Denis, gave the order to retreat, the remaining warships of the Shalad Empire turned their bows one after another and began to retreat to the north.

Wang Chengliang, the commander of the independent fleet, found that the expeditionary fleet of the Sharad Empire was about to escape, and immediately ordered the warships that maintained combat strength to pursue and force some seriously injured Sharad Imperial warships to surrender as much as possible.

The Great Marshal had privately told him that in addition to the ironclad ship, as long as an enemy battleship was captured, the Creator would reward the Great Marshal with a battleship.

So far in this naval battle, the independent fleet has lost the Count Cavour-class battleship Fuan and the Edward VII-class battleship Jianwei, Wang Chengliang hopes to capture a few battleships of the Shalad Imperial Navy to make up for the loss of the independent fleet, and even expand the size of the independent fleet a little.

Both Tomiyasu and Ken Signal were damaged by the main guns of the battleships of the Sharad Empire, and then sunk by the destroyers or torpedo boats of the Sharad Empire.

In addition to the Tomiyasu and Ken Signal, the large armored cruiser Feichen, as well as two Vickers-class light cruisers and three Wiesbaden-class destroyers, were also sunk in the naval battle.

For the sinking of so many warships, the commander Wang Chengliang did not feel frustrated, after all, in a naval battle of such a scale, losses were inevitable, the last time with the Jisk Imperial Navy, the independent fleet was able to achieve a complete victory, not a single warship sank, it can only be said that the luck is extremely good, of course, it has a lot to do with the combat quality of the officers and men of the Jisk Imperial Navy.

When the warships of the Sharad Empire Expeditionary Fleet began to evacuate one after another, in the bridge of the Sharad Empire's super dreadnought battleship Helios, the first mate Oleg said gloomily to the captain Pahomi: "Captain, Count Denis has given the order to retreat, but our Helios is leaking badly, and four boilers cannot work, and now the speed of the Helios can only reach a maximum of about 7 knots, and it is really ...... to retreat."

Captain Pahomi sighed and said: "I really didn't expect that the baron fleet of the Liuyun Empire has such a strong strength, it seems that I am about to go through a life as a prisoner of war, fortunately, Count Denis gave an order to surrender, and when I return to China in the future, my responsibility will not be too great." ”

First mate Oleg hesitated for a moment and said: "Captain, will the white flag be raised now?" ”

Because of her serious injuries, the Helios had already broken away from the first battle line of the Sharad Empire's expeditionary fleet at this time, at least 20,000 meters away from the many battleships of the Independent Fleet.

Captain Pahomi waved his hand and said: "According to the current situation of the Helios, there is no chance to escape, since you have to surrender sooner or later, it doesn't matter if you are a little sooner or later, let all the boilers start to depressurize, prepare to stop the ship, and raise the white flag!" ”

Not far from the super dreadnought battleship Helios, another super dreadnought battleship Moon Goddess of the Sharad Empire, saw the Sun God raise the white flag, and soon after the same white flag was raised, the speed of the Moon Goddess at this time was less than 8 knots, and there was no hope of escaping, and there was no other choice but to surrender.

In the end, the expeditionary fleet of the Sharad Empire, with only the flagship Ares of War, with three dreadnought battleships, two former dreadnought battleships, three ironclad battleships, twenty light cruisers, four destroyers and two torpedo boats, escaped the pursuit of the independent fleet, and the losses were arguably unprecedented for the Sharad Imperial Navy.

After the pursuit, the independent fleet captured a total of two super dreadnought battleships, three dreadnought battleships, three pre-dreadnought battleships, four ironclad battleships and two light cruisers, which can be described as a brilliant victory.

Seeing that so many battleships were captured, Wang Chengliang, the commander of the independent fleet, was very happy.

Su Yi, who was far away in Kangshan City, couldn't close his mouth even more, he had already received a prompt from the system, congratulating him on capturing two super dreadnought battleships, three dreadnought battleships and three former dreadnought battleships, and then the system rewarded Su Yi with two British Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, three French Lone class battleships and three German Braunschweig-class battleships.

The British Queen Elizabeth-class battleship is a super dreadnought battleship, with a standard displacement of 29,150 tons, a full load displacement of 33,020 tons, a maximum speed of 25 knots, equipped with four twin 42 times caliber 381 mm main guns, twelve 45 times caliber 152 mm secondary guns, two 76 mm rapid-fire guns, four 533 mm torpedo tubes, broadside belts with main armor 330 mm, deck armor 63 mm to 127 mm, main turret armor 330 mm, and a crew of 925 people.

The French lone class battleship, which is a dreadnought battleship, has a standard displacement of 23,475 tons, a full load displacement of 25,579 tons, a maximum speed of 20 knots, and is equipped with six twin 45 times caliber 305 mm main guns, twenty-two 55 times caliber 138 mm secondary guns, four 47 mm anti-aircraft guns, four 450 mm torpedo tubes, 262 mm main armor on the side belt, 25 mm for each deck armor, 300 mm for the main turret armor, and a crew of 1,085 people.

The German Braunschweig-class battleship, which belongs to the former dreadnought battleship, has a standard displacement of 13,208 tons, a full load displacement of 14,394 tons, a maximum speed of 18 knots, and is equipped with two twin 40x caliber 283 mm main guns, fourteen 40 times caliber 170 mm secondary guns, four 88 mm rapid-fire guns, four 500 mm torpedo tubes, 225 mm main armor on the side belt, 50 mm to 127 mm deck armor, 225 mm main turret armor, and a crew of 727 people.

After the system rewarded these three battleships, several shells of these three battleships were automatically added to the system mall.

At present, there are only four former dreadnought battleships, one armored cruiser, three light cruisers and six destroyers in Kangshan Port, although with more than 300 shore defense guns in the twenty-four batteries of Kangshan Port, Su Yi is not worried that the Jisk Imperial Navy will take the opportunity to attack Kangshan Port, but only a powerful fleet stationed in Kangshan Port can truly guarantee the safety of Kangshan Port.

So Su Yi couldn't wait to extract the two Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, three Guba-class battleships and three Brunswick-class battleships from the system item warehouse, and then transferred more than 7,000 biochemical officers and soldiers of the Marine Corps to replenish the personnel of these eight battleships.

The two Queen Elizabeth-class battleships were named the Crown and the King by Su Yi.

The three Guba-class battleships were named Agile, Minli, and Minmin by Su Yi.

The three Braunschweig-class battleships were named Ruiyun, Ruixue, and Ruichang by Su Yi.

What gave Su Yi a little headache was that among the four Marine Brigades, there was not a single navy-type mid-level cyborg, and on the fourteen warships that were originally left in Kangshan Port, only four Lord Nelson-class former dreadnought battleships were captains of navy-type mid-level cyborgs, so Su Yi had to be taller among the short men and let some navy-type low-level cyborgs temporarily serve as captains.

The four captains of the former dreadnought battleships were transferred by Su Yi and appointed as captains of the Crown, the King, the Agile and the Minli respectively.