Chapter 68: The Battle of the Narrow Sea (Part II)

Mahler stood in the bow of the ship in high spirits, and as the commander-in-chief of the Yaki fleet in this naval battle, his heart was full of joy at this moment.

Mahler had long shown his skills in the war with Arubania, he was the same Admiral of Yaqui as Ramediel, but unfortunately as the commander of the Yaqui Narrow Sea Fleet, he was not able to participate in the campaign against the Dils bandits, and after the death of Ramadiel, Mahler was glad that he did not participate in such a fiasco, and on the other hand, he lamented the inadequacy of his friends - he would be completely wiped out in a naval battle, and this opponent who had been competing with him in the past should not say anything so cowardly. It seems that his martial arts have come to an end.

However, after that, Mahler never had the opportunity to establish his exploits, because the war between Yaki and Arubania came to a standstill, and Yaki could not launch another offensive against the thieves after the heavy damage of his fleet in the Dichel Sea, so Mahler had been in an embarrassing situation with nothing to do for several years. Finally, after diplomatic mediation, Arubania agreed to the request for a joint operation with Yaki to exterminate the pirates, and the Arubanian general Adrim also came up with a strategy to flank the front and rear from the detour of Pas Bay, which was a winning battle for Mahler, and it is no wonder that he is now in a very good mood.

Looking at the pirate fleet in front of him, Mahler had only one concern, that is, there were obviously four giant warships in the opponent's array, this kind of giant ships that Mahler had never seen before made people feel an invisible sense of oppression, and there was no mention of these four giant ships in the previous information. Mahler wasn't worried, though, because this time he had two kilograms of Ritter archers in his hands, and their long range would turn the opposing giant ship into a pile of burning sea fortresses.

"Look, my lord, the enemy fleet has turned!" A soldier shouted.

Mahler hurriedly watched, and sure enough, the other party was rapidly turning and retreating. Why is that? Mahler was a little confused for a moment. If you are caught in a front and back attack. They ignored the chaotic U-turn of the formation, which would undoubtedly give the Arubanian fleet behind them an excellent opportunity to attack, because the Arubanian fleet was faster than the Yaki fleet, and in the face of a group of enemy ships in chaos, they would definitely use their speed advantage to completely cut off the opponent's formation, making it impossible to reorganize. In that case, when the Yaki battleship arrives on the battlefield, it can easily wipe out the opponent. The other party must have been frightened. Mahler could only make a preliminary judgment in this way.

"All fleet, pursuit!" Mahler immediately ordered.

As soon as he had given the order, Mahler suddenly felt that something was wrong. He suddenly thought of one thing, the other party was in the upper hand position before, so now if he pursues with all his might, the Yaki fleet will inevitably go against the wind, so that the weakness of the slow speed of the Yaki battleship will be exposed, and in this case, the light warships in the fleet will be separated from the protection of the heavy warships. Once the opponent counterattacks, it will be in a rather disadvantageous situation, and the possibility that the opponent deliberately retreats to lure our troops cannot be ruled out.

Thinking of this, Mahler continued to carefully observe the opponent's retreat route, and sure enough, he found that the opponent's route was strange, and they deliberately let a small group of ships fall behind, which was obviously an act of luring himself.

Mahler immediately corrected the order: "Pursue the whole body, keep the formation unchanged!" ”

It was this order from Mahler that changed the tide of the battle, and if he had maintained his original order to pursue at full speed, the situation might have been completely reversed, because he had miscalculated two points. The first was that he thought that the Arubanian fleet had attacked like him, when in fact they were rushing to the stronghold of the Golden Court; The second is that the small fleet that lags behind in Elda's fleet is the one that Elda's maze has delayed the Yaki fleet.

Elda's plan can't be described as bold. Rather, it should be called madness. When he realized that the actions of the Arubanian fleet were not optimal, he immediately thought that he should use this opportunity to attack the Arubanian fleet, because it must have been unexpected by the adversary. He organized the ships in the fleet that belonged to Yaqui as decoy troops to confuse the Yaki fleet in the rear, and he himself led other faster ships straight towards the Arubanian fleet.

Elda rushed to the front of the battle column with four outer ships, desperately urging the sailors to move forward at full speed while giving the order to lower the ramming. Prepare to use the ship's tonnage advantage to deal a fatal blow to the undersized Arubanian battleship. His order to his subordinates was very simple, with only one sentence: "Hit with all your strength and recapture the Jinting stronghold!" ”

That's enough for the large number of pirate members on the team, and there's nothing like guarding their hard-earned treasure.

Elda's order to strike at full speed was timed, or the god of luck smiled sweetly at him. Due to the speed of the Arubanian fleet. As a result, they had already arrived at the Golden Court stronghold, but at that time, the Golden Court stronghold was not built into a deep-water port, and the shallow draft made it impossible for large ships in Arubania to get close to the shore, so they could only use small ships for landing. The greedy Arubanian sailors jumped out of the small boat and rushed to the Golden Court stronghold, and the soldiers who remained on the big ship could only look at them with envy. At this time Elda's fleet arrived.

At this time, the Arubanian fleet was taken by surprise, and they never dreamed that this group of pirates would abandon the Yaki fleet and rush back at the risk of being torn apart by the Yaki fleet, and hurriedly turned the bow of the ship to prepare to regroup to meet the enemy. However, the small ships were all at the end of the formation, and these fastest and most agile ships could not provide any help to the capital ships now, and before the Arubanian fleet could organize its formation, Elda's four outer ships had already broken into the Arubanian fleet sequence!

If the comparison of the heavy ships of the Arubanian fleet to the Yaki fleet is the comparison of lions to jackals, then they are compared to the outer ships of the Silk Country as a battle between elephants and kittens. The top speed and huge weight formed a devastating destructive force, and the capital ships of Arubania were only as vulnerable as paper paste under the impact of these four huge ships, and many ships were directly smashed into two by the waist, and then sank to the bottom of the sea, and fortunately, the hull was seriously damaged. Before they could recover their strength, Elda's follow-up fleet had arrived, and a rain of arrows and javelin stones smashed down on the heads of the terrified Arubanian sailors. Originally, everyone thought that they would win this time, and everyone was full of confidence waiting to harvest a large amount of loot, but none of them expected that the war would start in this way, and they would face this group of powerful pirates first, and the power of the pirate's giant ship was greatly beyond their expectations. What's worse is that their opponent has a wise commander, Elda's command of the four capital ships in uniform action, these Li family merchant group carefully trained sailors are not comparable to the pirates, they under Elda's command to attack in combination, while constantly ramming and destroying the Arubanian warships, while preventing the other side from contacting each other, the possibility of reorganizing the array, only fifteen minutes into the battle, the Arubanian fleet began to show signs of rout.

As time passed, the Arubanian fleet became more and more reluctant to fight, and the ships wanted to get rid of the threat of the terrible giant ship as soon as possible, and Elda took advantage of it to hasten the defeat of the other side. Forty-five minutes after the start of the battle, almost all of Arubania's capital ships were evacuated from the battlefield, except for those that were wrecked and sunk, and those that were badly damaged and could not move, and fled without looking back, leaving only numerous small ships exposed to Elda's fleet. (To be continued.) )