Chapter 429: Undefeated and Undefeated
The Bostonian destroyer fleet fled at a critical moment, failed to cooperate with the Braunau fleet to launch an attack, missed the best opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Thar fleet, and made room for Jericho to maneuver, which made Marshal Scheer in the distance angry and thunderous, scolding the Bostonians for being unreliable.
The main fleets of the two countries are moving in two directions, and at the same time, the main guns are constantly shelling, interfering with the movement of the Sahr fleet from both directions. Because of the interference of destroyers, the speed of the Sahr fleet was reduced a lot, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the combined fleet closed the distance a lot, and seeing that the distance was close to the effective range, Marshal Scheer immediately ordered the fleet to turn around and bombard the Saar fleet with the side side.
The naval artillery of the Saar Empire can be said to be unique in the world, and even the Chinese Empire is slightly inferior in this aspect, not to mention the Yaman Empire and the Boston Empire, which are not very developed in technology, so the caliber of the artillery of these two countries is relatively small and the diameter is low, and the firing range is naturally slightly inferior. The backwardness of technology made it difficult to choose tactics, and after enduring such a long period of shelling, coupled with Marshal Scheer's excellent tactical maneuvering, their capital ships were able to enter the effective firing range.
The artillery battle between the two sides finally began, and in the sea area between the battleships of both sides, the battle intensified. After the heavy losses of the destroyers of the two countries, the cruisers of the two countries also rushed up, and they strongly supported the Yaman destroyer fleet that was still fighting, and the cruiser of Saar, which had just suffered heavy losses, also rushed forward with the destroyer.
Between the two groups of battleships shelled in a neat formation, there was a bayonet battle at sea, both sides were frantically attacking with artillery and torpedoes at a very close distance, cruisers and destroyers were sunk one after another, and the sea was in a sea of fire, and warships that were dumping and sinking abounded.
The slower Boston fleet finally completed the turn, and they also quickly aimed their side at the Sahr fleet, and the thick main guns were aimed at the Sahr battlefleet, and after heavy shelling on both sides, Jericho had to turn in the hope of bypassing the Boston fleet and blocking the view of the Yaman fleet with the warships of the Boston battlefleet.
The fleet led by Marshal Jericho began to speed up the turn, Admiral Gothal soon discovered his purpose, and he immediately led the Boston fleet to turn in the same direction, and soon Marshal Scheer's Yaman fleet also began to turn, and the three fleets turned at the same time, and the flanking attack on the Thar battle fleet was immediately cracked, and the three fleets drew a long arc on the sea, and the fleets ended up in each other, drawing a circle on the sea like a marquee.
The three battleships drew circles and fired at each other with naval guns. Despite the low efficiency of the guns, no one dared to be the first to break away, because if any fleet dared to be the first to break out of the circle, then this fleet would expose the tail of the battleship to the enemy's broadside fire, and such a situation would be very dangerous for any fleet.
Seeing that the artillery battle between the two sides was deadlocked, a Yaman pilot who was flying above suddenly had an idea, and he dived sharply at a large angle, aiming at the battleship Asterisk Old Man, which was shooting desperately. The altitude gradually decreased, and the busy crowd on the deck of the battleship Asterisk Old Man was firmly encased in the pilot's sights.
The pilot pressed the trigger of the machine gun hard, and two long chains of fire erupted from the muzzle of the seven-millimeter machine gun and fired directly on the deck, knocking down a large area of the busy Sahr sailors. Seeing that the altitude of the plane was already very low, the pilot was eager to pull up the height, and the belly of the plane slid diagonally over the mast of the old man's asterisk, blowing a violent wind.
Seeing his actions, the Yaman pilots swooped down and fired at the Sahr warship. The Sahr warship rained down like bullets for a while, which made the Saar people, who were concentrating on the fleet battle, scramble for a while, and even the shooting speed was much slower.
The warships of the two sides were intertwined with each other and could not form an air defense formation, and in the face of the Sahr warship fighting alone, the Yaman fighters were even more unscrupulous.
However, the Yaman Air Force did not wreak havoc for long, and the Saar fighters who had withdrawn after the air battle finally rose to the air again after being repaired and replenished by the airfield, and after some delay, they had reached the sky above the naval battle, and soon became entangled with the Yaman fighters.
Although the number was more than half that of the opponent, more than 200 camel fighters rushed to the Yaman Air Force without hesitation. The Yamaman Empire fighters, who were taking turns strafing the Sahr Empire battleships, immediately gave up their attacks, and they all increased their altitude and pounced on the opponent's fighters again, and an air battle that had nothing to do with the sea surface began again, and one after another the fighters began to fire and fall one after another.
The battle was as fierce as it was on the sea, and the battle was fought quite fiercely, with the warships of both sides sinking one by one, and the planes also suffering heavy losses, and by the time they returned home from running out of fuel, less than a third were left.
Without the constraints of the air, Jericho can once again concentrate on dealing with threats from the sea. The fleets of the three countries circled around the sea, but after all, it was the two countries that caught the Tsar fleet, and seeing that their own losses were getting bigger and bigger, Jericho couldn't hold back any longer. Relying on the general advantage of the Saar Imperial battleships over the Boston Imperial battleships, Jericho commanded the fleet to suddenly accelerate and soon approached the Boston Battlefleet.
The battleship 'Pouls', which was headed by the battleships of the Saar Empire, began to speed up and soon caught up with the battleship 'Florida', which was dragged behind by the Boston Battlefleet. The Boston sailors did not expect the Sahr warship to come to their aid, and the stern gunners hurried to their positions, but it was too late.
The Saar gunners, who had been prepared for a long time, operated the secondary guns, tilting the dense shells onto the opponent's deck. Due to the close proximity of the two sides, the main guns with too long range could no longer hit each other, and the two sides could only fire at each other with secondary guns and rapid-fire guns.
The speed of the Thar battleships became faster and faster, and soon the two fleets were walking side by side, and the Thar battleships, which had more fierce secondary artillery fire, soon gained the upper hand, and when did the inexperienced Boston Battlefleet see such fierce artillery fire, and saw the other side rushing up to fight in close combat, Admiral Godal immediately ordered the Boston fleet to turn inward.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to get close to the Boston Imperial Battlefleet, the Thar fleet attacked the Boston warship with secondary guns and the Yaman fleet with its main guns at the same time.
Because the Boston fleet and the Thar fleet were too close, the Yaman fleet did not dare to carry out artillery bombardment, so they could only be beaten but could not fight back. Marshal Scheer was in a hurry when the Boston fleet suddenly turned. Although the turn of the Boston fleet was at a distance from the Thar fleet, because it was an inward turn, blocking the offensive line of the Yaman fleet, the angry Marshal Scheer jumped to his feet and repeatedly scolded the Boston Imperial Navy for being as stupid as a pig.
The naval battle between the two sides lasted for a whole day, and it was not until nightfall that the two sides without the ability to fight at night disengaged. The Combined Fleet suffered heavy losses, and many of its warships were in the water, and they were barely able to float on the water after desperate repairs, so Marshal Scheer had to order to return to port to repair the ships, and the commander of the Boston Destroyer Fleet, who had escaped from battle, was dismissed from his post and sent to court-martial.
The Sahr navy also suffered a lot of losses, but they did not dare to return to Scarpa Bay for fear of being blocked in the harbor by the Combined Fleet, and Marshal Jericho did not allow the fleet to return to the harbor for repairs until the reconnaissance boats they sent confirmed that the other side had retreated.
Although the combined fleet was superior in numbers, the quality of the ships was slightly inferior, and the personnel quality of the Boston Empire was too poor, so the Thar fleet took a big advantage in terms of tonnage and quantity of sunk, and the two sides fought to a tie again, and the navies of several countries on the stormy ocean were in a stalemate, and they could not distinguish the winner or loser.
The world war has been fought for more than five years, and even the Chinese Empire has been participating in the war for more than a year, and now the territory of the Chinese army in the southern subcontinent is very large, accounting for almost one-third of the entire continent, if it continues to develop, not to mention whether the allies will agree, anyway, Fang Xiaoyu already feels that the strength is not enough, and even the servant army sent by other allies of the ASEAN has reached the limit, so the victory of the war is already Fang Xiaoyu's urgent hope.
However, before the end of the Great War, Fang Xiaoyu had to grasp the southernmost tip of the Southern Subcontinent, which was the largest source of diamonds and gold on the entire planet, and these were the things he needed most at the moment. Under Fang Xiaoyu's direct order, the main force of the Southern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire secretly withdrew from the Mediterranean, and they covered the 1st Division of the 1st Marine Corps that had already boarded the ship, heading towards the southernmost tip of the Southern Subcontinent.
"Discover a fleet of the Chinese Empire." Governor Kampnan, who was stationed in Cape Town, received a piece of information that frightened him, which had been reported by a pilot who had carried out aerial reconnaissance. Ever since the decline of the Entente, Kempnan was so nervous that he ordered the air forces of the southern colonies to take turns to take up reconnaissance missions within a hundred nautical miles to prevent a sneak attack by the amphibious navy of the Imperial China.
Campnan's fears were right, and now he found a large fleet, and only one of the five fighters sent was barely able to fly back, proving that the opposing fleet also had an unknown number of aircraft carriers.
With this information, Campunan did not have the ease of discovering the enemy situation in advance at all, and his heart became heavier and heavier, and the enemy situation was serious. According to the pilot's report, the other side had more than a hundred ships, and even if most of them were troop carriers, they could not be stopped by the colonies.