The Mediterranean Fleet of the Nantes Empire has only two Brienita-class battleships with a displacement of more than 18,000 tons, and three 14,000-ton Motherland-class former Chinese ships.

"Form a battleship formation, and we'll catch up." Vice Admiral Lowak gave the order, and the well-trained Nantes naval officers and men immediately lined up the five huge ships and rushed towards the opposite Combined Fleet.

"Form a formation and attack." The commander of the combined fleet of the two countries, Field Marshal House, commander of the naval forces of the Kingdom of Haboafsburg, also issued an order, and the two countries attached great importance to this naval battle, so they publicly recommended the experienced Field Marshal House to go on the expedition and personally direct the operation on the spot.

Both fleets charged head-on in battleline formation, with the battleship 'Worm', which was the lead of the Combined Fleet, attacking first with its two twin 330-mm guns in the bow. Due to the long enough range, four shells fell one after another around the Nantes Imperial Battlefleet and exploded into columns of water.

Seeing that the other side was the first to open fire, the Nantes navy was not to be outdone, and the four 305-mm main guns of the battleship Brenita also began to fire, and the first naval battle between the two major military groups in the Mediterranean began.

Vice Admiral Lowak calmly confronted the enemy, and he ordered the fleet to sail five degrees south, with the Mediterranean Fleet closing the distance from the Combined Fleet on one side and the sea surface of the Southern Subcontinent on the other. After two rounds of missed shots, Marshal House discovered the opponent's little trick. Looking at the fat in his mouth, Marshal House was unwilling to let go of the Mediterranean fleet of the Nantes army, and he also issued an order, and the combined fleets of the two countries also began to sail southward, chasing them closely.

The ocean-going torpedo boats of the Mediterranean Fleet, which were lagging behind, saw the other side turning, and immediately drove towards the combined fleet at full speed, hoping to rely on their speed and numerical superiority to approach the enemy's battleships for close combat, sink the opponent with torpedoes, and at least interfere with the enemy's ship's shelling of their own battleships. However, Marshal House had already prepared, and the fifteen destroyers that specialized in dealing with torpedo boats quickly moved forward and violently bombarded the group of torpedo boats that were speeding towards them with their main guns.

Due to the strategic mistakes of the Nantes Empire in naval construction in those years, not only did their battleships be disconnected, but also lost a large number of warship designers, and the only thing that could be used was the huge number of ocean-going torpedo boats built by surprise at that time.

These torpedo boats, in groups of four, formed a diagonal formation and rushed towards the combined fleet. The destroyer fleet of the Combined Fleet quickly completed the turn, inserting itself between the Nantes torpedo boats and its own battleships, favorably protecting the flank of the main fleet.

"Torpedo launch." It was not the commander of the Nantes Imperial torpedo boat formation who shouted this order, but the commander of the destroyers on the side of the Combined Fleet. Now the hit rate of firing torpedoes was low, since it had not yet entered the optimal range, but in order to interfere with the attack of the opposing side, the commander of the destroyer on the side of the combined fleet had to launch the first round at the maximum range of the torpedoes.

It has to be said that the destroyer commander was quite wise, this round of numerous torpedoes really disrupted the formation of the Nantes, and in the process of dodging, the formation of the Nantes torpedo boat group was chaotic, two torpedo boats collided together, and soon began to sink slowly, and three more torpedo boats were hit by torpedoes.

How could torpedo boats, with a displacement of only a few hundred tons, withstand a torpedo attack with a full charge, they were directly blown to pieces. The temporary confusion of the Nantes torpedo boat group created an opportunity for the destroyer group of the Combined Fleet. Fifteen destroyers, while firing with all their artillery fire, boldly rushed forward and fired torpedoes again.

Some of the Nantes torpedo boats reacted, and they bravely met them and fired their own torpedoes at the destroyer. The Nantes torpedo boat group and the Combined Fleet destroyer group engaged in a bayonet-like torpedo battle, and Lowak's plan failed, and he could only use his inferior main fleet to resist the enemy's artillery bombardment.

Marshal House, taking advantage of the large caliber and large number of battleships of his fleet, desperately turned to seize the T-shaped position, and used the horizontal position to carry out intensive artillery bombardment of the Nantes Mediterranean fleet. The former Chinese ship of the Yant was first hit on the foredeck by a 330-mm shell.

The violent explosion overturned its front main guns, and although it did not detonate the ammunition depot of the front main guns, the shrapnel still damaged many of the ship's facilities, and the entire foredeck was in shambles.

The former Chinese ship had only two main gun turrets, and now one has been blown up, and the Yant has lost half of its combat effectiveness, and even worse, this time the medium gun caused a fire. As the warship was sailing at high speed, the smoke from the fire drifted to the rear of the warship, which not only blocked the firing view of the rear main guns, but also affected the battleship Motherland that followed closely.

Not to be outdone, the Nantes Navy was well-trained, although their warships were not good enough, but the quality of their personnel was only higher, and soon the third ship of the Brineta-class battleships, the Dabri, hit the target. A 305-mm armor-piercing shell hit the side of the battleship Milan of the Sardinia Navy, and due to the tight distance, the projectile, which threw a lot of kinetic energy, penetrated the opponent's armor and exploded close to the hull.

Since the powerful countries of the entire Western Continent purchased the formula of the colloidal explosives of the Chinese Empire, the power of the artillery shells of various countries increased sharply, and this time the explosive power of the artillery shells was revealed.

Due to the lack of kinetic energy in the muzzle, the Nantes shells seemed to break through the opponent's armor, but the ensuing explosion blew a large hole in the side of the Milan, and the violent explosion not only destroyed four compartments, but also blew a large part of the heavy hull armor away.

Seeing that his ship was damaged, Marshal House knew that it was better to cut off one of his five fingers, and he ordered the entire fleet to concentrate on attacking the former Chinese ship of the Motherland in the Nantes fleet. The lead ship of this Motherland-class former China ship was very unlucky.

Because the Yanke in front failed to extinguish the fire, the thick black smoke has been blocking its vision, causing the Motherland to only shoot blindly in the general direction, and the driving is also to see the battleship in front of it, and the field of vision is greatly limited.

In the face of dozens of 330-millimeter shells coming from the side, the Motherland had no intention of dodging, because they could not see the other side's fire at all. Suddenly, the surroundings of the Motherland suddenly boiled like boiling hot water, and a large number of shells fell into the water one after another.

Before the Motherland could make evasive moves, three shells had already hit its hull. The first shell hit the bow of the ship, removing a large part of the bow where the anchor chain was placed, and the second hit the stern main gun turret, because it hit its frontal armor, the heavy armor bounced the shell away, and the rear main gun was only hit by the flying shell and broke a barrel, and the loss was not large.