"Let the navy be dispatched, it should have done this long ago. "As the Admiral of the New Bullard Kingdom, Duke Andrews himself advocated sending a navy directly to attack the city of Nicaea, and only participated in the coup because of the insistence of the conservatives in the kingdom.www.biquge.info Now that the coup has failed, then the alternate scenario should be activated. At this time, the navy of the New Brad Kingdom had been waiting at sea for a long time, and due to the previous collusion with the rebel nobles, Nicaea did not know anything about what was happening in his territorial waters. Duke Andrews believed that with the cooperation of the navy, he could deliver a devastating blow to Nicaea with his large-caliber heavy naval guns.

At this moment, the fleet that had been lurking in the dark off the coast of Nicaea City for a long time had finally received an order from Duke Andrews to fight.

"It's great to finally wait for the Duke's order, order the whole fleet to set sail!" On the flagship of the fleet, the naval command finally waited for the order of Duke Andrews. They have already been gearing up, unlike the East, the New Brad Kingdom has completely inherited the Western countries in terms of military system, so there are a large number of new Western ironclad ships in the battle sequence, which is definitely enough to crush the existence of the Nicaeans.

"Yes!"

At the command of the navy, the whistle of the warship also hissed at the same time, and there was no need to hide anything at this time. Even if it was blatant, the Nicaeans would never be able to stop such a mighty army. The naval commander, who thought he was so, almost frantically sent his own fleet to rampage through the seas.

However, he was still overconfident, since ancient times, naval warfare has definitely not been mastered by relying on a large number of people or advanced weapons. The battle for the founding of the old Roman Republic was faced with the Phoenicians, the overlords of the sea at that time, but the Phoenicians, who were far superior to the Romans in terms of numbers and equipment, ended in a crushing defeat - it was decided that their defeat was a naval battle, and it was clear that Hannibal, the king of their wars, almost captured the city of Rome in the second war, but was isolated and defeated because the navy was defeated many times.

At this moment, a warship lurked like a lone wolf in the dark sea, quietly peeping at the rampant rampant, and the complacent Rastines were not even on guard. Due to the surprise attack, there were no lights on the sea, but the Santa Maria had watchtowers on board, and the seamen on board were accustomed to field battles, so they were able to spot the Rastines immediately without being counter-detected by the other side.

"Hmph, these Rastines really haven't grown!" On board, Plekhanov said coldly that his battleship [Santa Maria] was ready at this time. And the large-caliber armor-piercing guns on board were already aimed at the new Brad battleship, which had not yet been noticed.

"How did you know they were back today?" Looking at the first mate John beside him, Plekhanov couldn't help asking. He had been on the ship for the time being, and if it hadn't been for John's arrival, he wouldn't have known that the people of Rustin would have attacked suddenly tonight. But why did this young man know?

......There was silence for a while, and John seemed to have his own hesitation in his heart, but looking at Plekhanov, whom he had always admired, seemed to be struggling with something.

Eventually, however, John told the truth.

"Today, the nobles are preparing a coup d'état, they colluded with the Rastins. And my brother was involved. John couldn't help but say bitterly, although he didn't like the arbitrary king, he still couldn't accept the fact that he was in collusion with the Rastins. It was for this reason that he designed to lock his brother who was trying to join the rebellion in a secret room, and hurriedly sought Plekhanov's help, which he thought was the only one who could turn the tide.

"Please, Captain! For the sake of the kingdom, I beg your pardon. ”

"What is there to forgive, I never blamed you. And I don't do everything for the sake of the so-called kingdom, but for myself. This rotten thing should have come to an end, but I can't tolerate the Rastines trampling on this land again. John, at least your eyes are still clean for now, and I don't know if you'll be muddy in the future, but at least you need to get out of here safely now. Plekhanov said calmly, and his voice was full of decisive determination, and at that moment his original laziness was gone, as if he had returned to the heroic spirit of the past!

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The naval commander in charge of this military operation was Marquis Ferdinand of the Kingdom of New Bullard, who was also the vice admiral of the kingdom, and he chose an easy formation - three "V" shapes arranged vertically, the first of which consisted of seven ironclads led by him, led by the flagship cruiser "Maximilian". The second "V" was an old warship and a defense ship, led by the lieutenant commander, Rear Admiral Pernosa, who placed the rest of the small ships in the third "V" formation.

This was a purely offensive queue, and in his opinion, the Nicaeans were defenseless at this time, and had no need to care about anything else, but only a simple attack to completely raze everything on the shore.

Immediately, the ships of the New Brad Kingdom bombarded the fortress batteries on the shore of Nicaea, giving a devastating blow, and even if the small-caliber defensive land-based guns on the shore stopped firing, there was no one on the shore, and the Nicaeans could not do anything even if they woke up. Their defenses were completely crushed!

However, the fire caused by the artillery fire also immediately revealed their position, so that the Santa Maria could clearly lock on to each other in the darkness.

However, the situation facing Plekhanov is still very serious, the other side has 17 large and small ships, and he only has one warship, the matter is urgent, he can only do this at that time, and those wooden old warships in the harbor are probably easily and completely destroyed by the Rastins!

Whether to take the opportunity to evacuate or to attack, everyone was waiting for Plekhanov's order.

And at this moment, this man's eyes were full of steel.

"Fire!"

Immediately, Plekhanov gave the order to attack, and the main guns of the Santa Maria were aimed at a battleship, firing almost simultaneously with the enemy, and their guns were completely muffled, so that the Rastin navy did not realize the danger at all. I saw that the ammunition poured out by the four Krupp 305mm breech guns swallowed an ironclad ship in an instant, and the violent explosion also made it lose its ability to attack in an instant!

A sea battle began!