Chapter 397: Battle at Sea

As for Min Yue's idea of copying the other party's back route, the food and drinking water they carried in this sortie were very sufficient, plus they could go to Dubai for replenishment, without thinking about the return trip, and the escort fleet that had slightly evened out a little supplies to Qi Zhentao set off towards the waters of the Middle East. There is Qi Zhentao, who already has a good understanding of this sea area, and there is enough fleet force to let them run amok, and their actions are very arrogant.

Whether it is a ballista or a divine arm, the range cannot be compared to the artillery that has not yet been released. They also lack the strength to land and capture ports, and the only thing that suits them is sabotage and harassment. On several occasions, they stormed the harbor by night, indiscriminately bombarding ships anchored in the harbor and buildings around the harbor. A number of small-scale landing raids were also organized. The speed at which they attack a port in one or two days demonstrates their great mobility and incomparably strong combat effectiveness. These unscrupulous actions not only increased the prestige of Ye Tao and Qi Zhentao, but also made the name Min Yue jump into the field of vision of Middle Easterners. The situation of the Yazhou First Fleet, as the regular army of the Dongping Water Division, actively involved in the situation in the Middle East is even more joyful and sad. The Samir family rejoices to see their allies turn from a business bloc into a nation, and they can already expect a strong state and friendly relations with themselves. Those countries that stood on the opposite side of the Samir family, especially the Paisa kingdom that stretched to the north on land and had a land not far from Zhenzhou, were deeply worried about the fangs that Dongping showed at this time.

Naturally, where Dongping's attitude toward the situation in the Middle East will lead to the situation is a matter for the future. The most immediate effect is that the morale of the coalition forces of the united countries, large and small, has been severely damaged. The Samir family, who got the news, took advantage of the situation to launch an all-round response and attack.

In this time and space, the scale of naval warfare is so large that no one can fully control the situation, and they can only follow a general policy, and each fleet fights separately, and in the process of gradual tug-of-war, a rough sea front is finally formed. In terms of the current combat situation and the area of sea area under their control, the Samir family now occupies a fairly obvious advantage, but the fleet of the Samir family, the fleet of the Seven Seas Trading Company, and the servant fleet of the Samir family centered on Dubai Harbour still face a very heavy problem: Dubai Harbor is somewhat overwhelmed.

In order to win this extremely difficult war for the founding of the country, the Samir family not only paid a very huge price, but also used the power of the open and covert that had been operating in various countries for many years, and created countless intrigues and tricks to serve the victory. Dubai Harbour was originally the private territory of the Samir family, and two of the most closely related small countries in the surrounding area were directly incorporated into the Samir Kingdom, and some were powerless to resist when the Samir family's ground forces were not strong at that time because of the conspiracy and instigation of the Samir family. The same is true of the surrounding countries, if they cannot convince others to be neutral or support themselves, then the Samirs will not hesitate to construct a conspiracy to make such a country at least unable to mobilize a large army against them. Bribery and provocation are everywhere, and even the powerful kingdom of Perza has experienced nearly a year of turmoil in the royal palace and the mediation of various domestic forces of almost the same length, and it is also because of the threat caused by the Samir family that it can gradually raise its army and begin to show its own existence and opinion. Dubai Harbour, too, is at the centre of these activities.

Dubai Port, the hub of military power on the water and on the ground, and the supply center, which can berth and carry out port operations with 200 ships of all types, is gradually becoming inadequate. In the previous naval battles, when the Samir family was suppressed for a time, the port of Dubai, which could not raise enough goods, was left and right, and strict economy was required to maintain the supply of materials for each department; When the situation at sea gradually opened up, and the ground advance consumed more and more due to the increase in distance, Dubai Port, which did not have much experience in ground supply, used to toss for a while because of the supply of troops in the form of caravans, until now, there are often large and small problems with the supply of ground troops. When the battle at sea at sea was a bit of a gamble on the fortunes of the country, Dubai Harbour was the center of the entire Samir family power group, and the supply of food and water was not enough, and the attacks of fire and oil bombs, Martian bombs and Greek fire, now only Dubai Harbour could carry out in the entire Middle East. A large number of ships are replenished, sent to war, returned to port to reunite, replenish, and go to war again...... While the Samir family's lavish underground warehouse still has an abundance of supplies, the port staff is inevitably experiencing a decline in efficiency due to chronic overwork. At present, the replenishment efficiency of Dubai Harbour is only about 70% of that of its peak, and all the craftsmen of the ship repair yard in Dubai Harbour have not had a day off for four months. Although a group of craftsmen supported by Nanami Trading Company have been put in place, and 3,000 experienced port laborers recruited from Yokoba Port, Yicheng Port, and various ports in Chunnan have also been put in place, it will take some time for them to be able to fully play their role due to coordination problems and language barriers. Judging from the current situation, it seems that they played a role in the period of great construction after the naval battle.

Although the lack of port supply and maintenance will not directly affect the advantage that the Samir family has occupied on the battlefield, the subtle impact, especially in terms of morale, has been more obvious. At this time, the family bosses of the Samir family decisively seized Ye Tao, Qi Zhentao and Min Yue and harassed the enemy directly, making the enemy panic, and decisively launched a full-scale attack at the moment of whether to deal with the frontal pressure of the main force of the Samir family or free up some forces to clear the hesitation of the enemy behind them, and this earth-shattering sea battle was finally fully unveiled. Unlike the previous rich actions such as holding each other, tempting, alerting, coercing, expelling, etc., the Samir family and their servant fleet attacked wildly, and once they stuck to the opposing fleet, they were bound to fight to the death until one of them lost its combat effectiveness. The fleet directly under the Samir family gave a full order to "fight to the last man".

Such an order may have been reckless, but it was also the result of careful consideration and careful planning by the Samir family. On the one hand, the Samir family and its servant fleet, as well as those armies on the ground, were better equipped due to various conditions, and even if they won and lost each other in the previous tug-of-war battles, they always held the initiative on the battlefield. Generally speaking, it is rare for a fleet of the Samir family to run into an enemy fleet with inferior forces, except in the most severe weather. The Samir family's order to "fight to the last man", although full of momentum, left enough room for the commanders of the various fleets to operate. Once they enter the battle, all must obey this command, they must obey the family, they must respect the promise they made to the great God, they must obey the family, and they must have no regrets. However, they still have full choice as to whether or not to enter the battle and how to enter the battle. This is true for the fleet directly under the Samir family, but in order to show their absolute loyalty to the Samir family, the servants can only enforce this order more strictly, although they do not force it, even if they do not have the reconnaissance and combat capabilities that can be compared with the fleet of the direct fleet or the fleet of the Seven Seas Trading Company. This is also to protect the interests of the Samir family, they must let those powerful servant families and servant troops bleed and be injured, otherwise, if they fight it out themselves, after barely establishing a country, I am afraid it will be a big situation. Standing opposite the Samir family is a coalition army with complex composition, although the coalition army has a clear advantage in terms of the number of ships and the number of participants in the battle, but its combat power is slightly inferior to the Samir family's side. And, even more troublesome, unlike the Samir family and the forces that support it, who have seen the dawn of victory, the contradictions within the coalition forces have made it impossible for the coalition forces to command and fight efficiently. When the Samir family shows a desperate posture and beats the enemy a few times, the contradictions within the enemy will become more prominent. How much responsibility and sacrifice have you had, and how much will you be able to gain in the future...... Some of these coalition forces that cannot be united have a good toss, and the key to this toss is whether the Samir family can really carry out the desperate work to the end.

The Seven Seas Trading Company did not mean to accompany the Samir family to go crazy, and the recent continuous naval battles have caused a large number of potential captains, fleet captains, non-commissioned officers, and shooting commanders to emerge, and in this kind of decisive battle at sea, the order within the Seven Seas Trading Company is to destroy the enemy as much as possible while preserving itself. On the one hand, the people of Nanami Trading Company saw the determination and rise of their allies, and on the other hand, they were also shocked by the fact that the Samir family had begun to expand their strength, build fleets, and organize ground armies irrationally at all costs. What they need is a calm and rational friend, not a bomb that will go crazy at any time and rumble at any time. The Nanami Trading Company played an excellent role in auxiliary attacks, constantly pinning down and destroying the enemy fleet, and the combat quality of the Nanami Trading Company's fleet, as well as the Yazhou First Fleet, which later joined, was much higher than the short-term training fleet of the Samir family, which had been trained in batches to keep up with the fierce fighting in the Middle East. By the time the Samir family had finally launched an all-out assault and was said to be undying, the main fleet of the Nanami Trading Company had also been assembled. The main fleet of the Seven Seas Trading Company has a full 200 warships of various types, which is definitely an important combat force that can influence the tide of the war, but their first large-scale action was not to respond to the large-scale counterattack of the Samir family to break through the enemy's blockade of the archipelago area, but to quietly sweep over the edge of the battlefield, annihilate a small fleet and then go straight into the Assyrian Sea, wanting to turn in the Assyrian Sea and the Ye Tao fleet, which has now begun to move south, ready to enter the main battlefield.

No one could stop them, and three and a half days later, when the Samir family's direct fleet shook the enemy with a fighting spirit that was not afraid of death, and finally allowed the Samir family to open up the passage from the sea and several auxiliary ports located further west, and finally formed an entire controlled sea area, the main fleet of the Seven Seas Trading Company and the fleet of Ye Tao's reinforcement converged. This is almost the most powerful cluster of warships on this plane. After the merger of the two sides, there were more than 150 Huya ships, and almost the same number of Cangshui and Lanshui ships, as well as a small number of large merchant ships and transport ships to carry supplies. At the same time, the fleet can also put together a fleet of thirteen airships, which already has a fairly strong battlefield control ability. According to Ye Tao's calculations, if all the long-range firepower of this fleet can be evenly deployed, if all of them use fire oil bomb type 2, a salvo can cover several square kilometers of land, which can make a city suddenly lose its vitality...... It is a pity that they are now at sea, and the efficiency of long-range fire is less than two percent.

However, when the confluence of the fleets was completed and they went straight to the home port of Farrell against the enemies of the Samir family, the enemy's commander-in-chief could not help but shake his body when he heard the news. No one can figure out how many fleets would have to be sent to intercept the Port of Falaire, the most prosperous port in the Middle East. In the midst of a panic, the commander-in-chief, Field Marshal Alexander, made a surprising fleet, and except for a part of the fleet that delayed the efforts of the main fleet of the Samir family, the whole fleet turned back to the battle. Alexander decided to start with the main fleet of the Nanami Trading Company. And with such a decision, the entire moment of the sea battle drifted more than two hundred nautical miles to the north......