Chapter 81: The Battle of the Sea Ends

In addition to the surrender of the seriously damaged warships of the Shalad Navy, the seriously injured warships of the Gisk Navy and the Orenza Navy that had dropped their top speed to a few knots also chose to raise the white flag.

Wang Chengliang, commander of the independent fleet, except for leaving some warships behind to receive the seriously injured warships surrendered by the navies of the three countries, the main force of the independent fleet still pursued the fleets of the three navies that escaped.

However, after several light cruisers and destroyers of the Orenza Navy dropped more than 100 floating mines on the sea, Wang Chengliang issued an order to each battleship formation to stop the pursuit, and then Wang Chengliang sent more than 30 destroyers to sweep away the mines dropped by the navies of the three countries.

After all, the sea here is not far from the port of Ambo, and if there are mines floating near the port of Ambo, it will cause considerable losses to the warships of the independent fleet.

In addition, when the independent fleet was pursuing, the Tiger-class battle cruiser Shengyu was sunk, which was also the main reason why Wang Chengliang decided not to continue the pursuit of the navies of the three countries.

Now that he has won the naval battle, Wang Chengliang does not want to increase the losses of the independent fleet, not to mention the remnants of the fleets of the three navies of Sharad, Gisk, and Orenza, which are not powerless to fight back.

At this point, the largest naval battle in history came to an end, and newspapers around the world subsequently called this naval battle the Battle of Port Ambo.

In this naval battle, although the independent fleet was victorious, its own losses were not small, a total of two Tiger-class battlecruisers, two Lion-class battlecruisers, one Jizi-class dreadnought, three Lake-class pre-dreadnought battleships, five ironclad battleships, three large armored cruisers, three medium armored cruisers, sixteen light cruisers, fourteen destroyers, and fifty torpedo boats were sunk.

The Tiger-class battlecruisers and the Lion-class battlecruisers both emphasize speed and firepower at the expense of armor protection, so these two battlecruisers are actually not suitable for participating in battleship duels at all.

Su Yi and Wang Chengliang were very aware of this, but in order to increase the firepower of the entire battleship column of the Independent Fleet, Su Yi and Wang Chengliang had no choice but to bite the bullet and use the twelve battlecruisers as battleships.

Sure enough, in this tragic naval battle, four of the twelve battle cruisers, which were relatively weakly armored, were sunk.

Of course, in the end, the losses of the navies of Sharad, Gisk, and Orenza were much greater than those of the independent fleet.

In this naval battle, the navies of the three countries lost a total of six super dreadnought battleships, twenty-one dreadnought battleships, nineteen former dreadnought battleships, thirty-four ironclad battleships, sixteen large armored cruisers, thirty-four small and medium-sized armored cruisers, seventy light cruisers, eighty-two destroyers, and one hundred and sixty-nine torpedo boats.

Among them were four super dreadnought battleships, four dreadnought battleships, four former dreadnought battleships, eight ironclad battleships, two large armored cruisers, three medium armored cruisers, three light cruisers, and two destroyers, which eventually became too badly injured to flee the battlefield and chose to surrender to the independent fleet.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon of December 4, 3011 in the Tang calendar, in the bridge of the super dreadnought battleship Knight of the Sharad Navy, the commander of the Second Expeditionary Fleet, Denis, said to Boris, the captain of the Knight, with a gloomy face: "It would be good if I could let the cruisers and destroyers carry some mines, in that case, maybe the God of War, the Goddess of Victory, the Marksman, and the Flag Bearer can retreat safely with us." ”

The Ares of War, the Goddess of Victory, the Marksman and the Bannerman were the four super dreadnought battleships that the Sharad Navy surrendered to the Independent Fleet, and the remnants of the combined fleets of the three navies at this time were completely free from the pursuit of the Independent Fleet, and successfully merged more than 200 supply transport ships.

The captain of the Knight, Boris, sighed and said: "Commander, you don't have to blame yourself, none of us thought that our Royal Navy of Sharad, plus the Gisk Navy and the Orenza Navy, would be defeated by the Baron fleet under Su Yi, the Gisk Navy also did not carry mines, and the light cruisers and destroyers of the Orenza Navy could carry mines, only because they forgot to unload them." ”

After a pause, Boris said: "Actually, the fleet under Su Yi did not continue to pursue, perhaps more because our knight sank a battle cruiser that they caught up, and the wind and waves at sea today are very small, and the fleet under Su Yi can completely bypass the area with mines and continue to pursue the navies of our three countries." ”

Denis said with a sad face: "No matter what, this time I am equivalent to destroying the six super dreadnought battleships of our Salad Royal Navy, plus the three lost in the naval battle in the Yanmen Strait, because of my command, our Sharad Royal Navy has lost nine super dreadnought battleships, and I have now become the sinner of our Sharad Royal Navy!" ”

Seeing Dennis's languishing appearance, Boris, the captain of the Knight, immediately changed the topic and said: "Commander, Gordey of the Gisk Navy and Mihailo of the Orensa Navy hope to come to the Knight and discuss with you the next plan of the combined fleet of the three navies. ”

Janis nodded slowly, "Then let the two of them come over!" We really have to study what the combined fleet of our three navies should do next! ”

Soon after, the commander of the Gisk Navy, Gordey, and the commander of the Orenza Navy, Mihailo, boarded the Knight.

Gordey, the vice-minister of the Admiralty of the Gisk Empire, sighed and asked, "General Denis, where should our combined naval fleet of the three countries go next?" ”

Dennis hesitated for a moment and asked, "General Gordey, how many capital ships are there in your Gisk Navy?" ”

Gorjiy smiled bitterly and said, "There are only six dreadnought battleships left, six former dreadnought battleships, and five ironclad battleships. ”

Then Mihailo, the Imperial Admiral of Orenza, sighed and said: "Of the capital ships of our Royal Navy of Orenza, there are only eight dreadnought battleships, six former dreadnought battleships, and nine ironclad battleships, and the defeat in this naval battle is too miserable. ”

Denis said gloomily: "In this naval battle, the losses of our three navies combined fleet are indeed too great, the capital ships of our Salad Royal Navy, only three super dreadnought battleships, three dreadnought battleships, three former dreadnought battleships and ten ironclad battleships have withdrawn, I think the next priority of our three navies combined fleet is to repair the injured capital ships first." ”

Almost all of the battleships that escaped from the navies of the three countries were injured, but the injuries of these battleships did not have much impact on their speed.

Gordei and Mihailo both nodded slightly, and then Mihailo spoke: "Why don't you go to the Leon shipyard of our Royal Navy in Orenza, the Leon shipyard is the largest shipyard in our Orenza Empire, there are eighteen docks of more than 20,000 tons, and many of these large docks are empty now." ”

In the end, the three commanders of the three navies decided to go to the Leon shipyard of the Orenza Empire first to repair some of the damaged battleships and then study other things.

Denis originally planned to transfer the Sharad naval detachment near the Xiguan Islands of the Purple Moon Empire to the Leon shipyard, but under the persuasion of Gordey and Mihailo, Denis agreed to temporarily let the Sharad naval detachment remain near the Xiguan Islands to prevent the Yingluoba Empire's transport fleet from approaching the west coast of the Purple Moon Empire.

Once the Yingluoba Empire's batch of munitions that can arm millions of troops enters the Purple Moon Empire, it will bring great trouble to the armies of Sharad, Gisk, and Orenza.

However, Denis sent a telegram to the Sharad naval detachment, saying that once Su Yi's fleet approached the Xiguan Islands, Denis asked the detachment to withdraw immediately and avoid engaging with Su Yi's fleet.