Because of each battle, Su Zhizhen put these Japanese soldiers who were not afraid of death in the most dangerous places, resulting in the fact that although the Japanese soldiers had a reputation as a strong army, they also suffered heavy losses. The first batch of 200,000 Japanese soldiers has been killed or disabled nearly 120,000, but the disabled veterans and the families of the fallen soldiers sent home have received a lot of disability and pensions, which has given hope to the vast number of Japanese people who are still struggling on the hunger line, and their enthusiasm for signing up for the army is even higher.

What Fang Xiaoyu wants is this effect, for this kind of nation that is good at sneak attacks and has a feud with the Chinese, he is very willing to use all means to weaken it, so he also further relaxed the number of Japanese soldiers, after a new batch of supplements, Su Zhizhen's Japanese soldiers are close to 500,000, accounting for almost half of the servant army.

These Japanese soldiers were all drawn from the captive laborers in China, for which Fang Xiaoyu was complained by the heads of major consortia, and then Fang Xiaoyu also said that he would make up for this gap with prisoners of war from other countries as soon as possible.

The Japanese soldiers launched a large-scale charge on the dangerous battlefield, and Su Zhizhen was not too unkind, and the chariot units of the Chinese Army covered the infantry and closely followed the Japanese soldiers, providing them with fire support. If it was on the western continent, this kind of cluster charge of the Japanese soldiers would definitely be wiped out by the Allied troops equipped with a large number of machine guns, but on the battlefield of the southern subcontinent, the Allied soldiers lacked ammunition and could not stop the fierce offensive of the Japanese soldiers and the Chinese army, and the defense line soon collapsed.

The Chinese army relied on the courage of the Japanese soldiers and the absolute superiority of the chariot troops in speed to quickly assault the Allied defense line, the Entente army was caught off guard, many defensive lines were broken through, many troops were surrounded, and after withstanding heavy artillery fire, many of them surrendered and were captured in large numbers.

The Chinese army was like a bamboo, and soon occupied the Alexandra region and the Tunisian region, forcing the remnants of the Entente Mediterranean Fleet anchored in the port of Tunisia to retreat, and they retreated to the port of Ceuta near the Strait of Gibraltar for safety.

At the same time as attacking to the west, Su Zhizhen also sent ten corps of troops, plus the Saint-Martin Empire's servant army developed south along the Nile, with the cooperation of the Southern Ocean Fleet, this force also made rapid progress, and soon penetrated more than 400 kilometers into the southern subcontinent, and captured Addis Ababa, an important colonial stronghold of the Saar Empire in the eastern part of the southern subcontinent, and controlled a large area in the east.

Seeing the rapid progress of the Chinese Empire, the Boston Empire was anxious. On July 10, the Boston Empire declared war on the Allies under the pretext that the Saar Empire submarine had sunk the Boston merchant ship, while some of the warships of its Storm Ocean Fleet secretly pulled anchor and set sail to cover the transport ships loaded with a large number of army soldiers in the direction of the Southern Subcontinent.

The Boston Empire joined the Central Powers in the war, dashing the last glimmer of hope of the Entente bloc. In order to redeem the defeat, the Entente concentrated their forces and began to fight back frantically on the battlefield of the Western Continent, and also sent a fleet to attack the Boston Empire.

"General, we found a fleet, look at the flag is from the Boston Empire." The sailors reported loudly.

"What? The Bostonians' fleet actually sailed here. Lieutenant General Betty was unusually surprised.

Originally, Vice Admiral Betty's Thar fleet sailed for a secret mission, which was to attack the east coast of the Boston Empire, but in order to maintain concealment, Vice Admiral Betty did not choose to sail directly to the Boston Empire, but sailed south, intending to go to Guinea Harbor for replenishment and then turn west, so as to avoid the guard patrol ships arranged by the Boston Empire on the front. Vice Admiral Betty never imagined that he would encounter the Bostonian expeditionary fleet here.

Both warships had no radar and were equipped with telescopes, so when the Saar Empire fleet spotted the Boston fleet, the other side spotted them as well. When the lookout reported the same discovery to Vice Admiral Dewey, commander of the Boston Expeditionary Fleet, he also secretly complained in his heart.

Originally, the Boston Imperial Government was a little jealous when it saw that the Chinese Empire was wantonly occupying colonies in the southern subcontinent, so it sent itself to escort the transport ship to seize the territory, but it was discovered by others before it reached its destination, and they still had such a large fleet guarding here, obviously waiting to ambush themselves.

The so-called taboo of cowardice before encountering the enemy, Lieutenant General Dewey's first consciousness was that he had been ambushed, and he was inevitably a little flustered in his heart. Since he has put himself in the position of the attacker, the best way to deal with it is naturally to retreat first, and wait until he finds out the number of the opposing fleet and chooses whether to fight.

Although Dewey wanted to order a retreat now, he could not choose to do so, if the fleet retreated, the slow transport ships and the large number of officers and men on it would inevitably be destroyed, so he had to fight hard.

Seeing a large number of the opposing party's transport ships retreating, and the warships coming up, Betty immediately understood that this was an encounter, and it seemed that he had inadvertently encountered a fleet that was preparing to attack his colony, and he would not miss such a good thing, and the Thar navy immediately set up a formation to meet it.

In addition to the four latest 'Dreadnought' class Chinese ships, there are also six cruisers and fifteen destroyers, and the main warships of the Boston Empire are all placed in the Eastern Ocean to guard against the Chinese Empire, and they can't be transferred for a while, and there are only six 'Pennsylvania' class Chinese ships and eight 'Orlando' class cruisers here.

After several years of fighting, the Thar navy, which has rich combat experience, has a clear advantage, and they immediately began to accelerate to seize the T-shape, and seeing that the other side was putting on a posture, Vice Admiral Dewey also ordered the fleet to turn immediately. Faced with the encounter, the Boston Navy was visibly flustered, unable to keep up with the speed of the Thar Navy due to their older ships and slow turns.

Relying on their speed superiority, the four 'Dreadnought'-class battleships of the Thar Navy completed the turn first, and the eight 356-mm main guns of each warship were aimed at the 'Pennsylvania'-class battleships that were still turning.

"Open fire." With the order of Vice Admiral Betty, all the main guns began to fire, and since the Boston Navy did not complete the turn, the warship was slowing down, and the distance was not too far, so the first round of artillery bombardment of the Thar Navy was successful.

The battleship Tikangadero was first pierced through the waterline armor by a huge 356-mm shell, which exploded in the boiler room through four watertight compartments, detonating two boilers, and the overflow of high-pressure steam instantly steamed all the engineers.

The Ticongadro's engine room was inaccessible due to the overflow of steam, and the temperature continued to rise due to the steam spills, and explosions broke out one after another, shattering the vital propeller shaft and causing the ship to lose power.

The stopped warship became a target for the Saar navy, and after two rounds of fire, the battered Ticongadro was completely sunk. Although the Tikangadero was sunk, its sacrifice was not meaningless, and the other five Pennsylvania-class battleships finally completed their turns, and a large number of 305-mm guns were aimed at the four battleships of the Thar Navy.

The tactics of the Thar Navy were much more flexible than those of the Boston Navy, and when he saw that the opponent had completed the turn, Vice Admiral Betty immediately ordered the destroyers to attack and charge the opposing battleship at high speed, trying to get close and then fire torpedoes.

The cruiser of the Boston Navy was entangled by the cruiser Thar Navy, which was attacking from the flank and rear, and for a time could not get out. Seeing the opposing destroyers rushing up, the gunners of the Boston Navy were a little scrambling, they did not know whether to concentrate their fire on the opposing battlefleet or attack these destroyers that were approaching quickly.

Seeing that there was some confusion in his own fleet, Dewey immediately ordered: "The main guns continue to attack the battleships, and the rapid-fire guns concentrate on the destroyers, and they cannot be allowed to get close." ”

Dewey, who had carefully studied the tactics of naval warfare in this world war, was still very aware of the capabilities of destroyers, so he issued such an order. Upon receiving the order, the gunners immediately began to lower the muzzle of the guns and use the rapid-fire guns on the side to suppress the destroyer, while the main guns continued to attack the opposing battleship.

Although Dewey gave a seemingly ideal, decent order, he forgot one thing. The recoil of the battleship's main guns, especially the salvo of the main guns, was significant.

For a battleship with twelve main guns, such as the Pennsylvania-class battleship, each broadside salvo would translate the hull by several meters, while also sending the concussive waves onto the deck, all of which would have a much lower hit rate for rapid-fire guns.

The destroyers who had the opportunity to ride in the face of the enemy's dense artillery fire, and after losing three destroyers, approached a place six hundred meters away from the main fleet of the Boston Empire, which was already within the effective range of the bald torpedoes used by the Saar Empire, and the Sahr destroyer group immediately fired its own torpedoes.

The dense trail of torpedoes was like a large intertwined net, rushing towards Boston's main fleet. The Boston sailors, who did not have much combat experience, panicked, and the helmsman dodged the torpedoes in a panic under the command of the captain, and the entire formation was suddenly disrupted.

Seeing that the other party was in a panic and could not care about firing with the main guns, Vice Admiral Betty immediately seized the opportunity and ordered the battleship to fire fiercely, and soon the "Michigan" was also hit by two shells, and the two main gun batteries at the front of the hull flew into the sky together, and the fire filled the entire deck, and the sailors quickly put into the firefighting operation, but the fire quickly spread to the ammunition depot.

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