The enemy's number is a little less than Yun Xiaohan's expectation, and Yun Xiaohan's troops plus Nelson are almost 15,000 people, but many of them are operating ships at sea, and it is definitely impossible to participate in land battles, so in terms of pure land warfare, Yun Xiaohan's side is at a disadvantage in terms of troops. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

But when it comes to the quality of the troops, most of the troops on Yun Xiaohan's side are composed of elite legions, and the quality is much higher than that of the other side, not to mention the generals.

In fact, the current situation is very favorable to Yun Xiaohan, the north gate side is farther away from the coastline, and only a small number of ships can hit the shore, while the vast majority of ships on the west gate side can shell the location of the Shang Alliance troops.

Of course, this is first of all thanks to the low AI of the commander of the Shang Alliance's troops, who doesn't even know how to guard against shelling at sea, in comparison, Nelson's AI is obviously much higher, obviously it can already be shelled, but it has not been fired, it is obviously ready to cooperate with the attack action of Yun Xiaohan's troops and then choose the right time to carry out artillery bombardment.

Since they were preparing to attack the city before, the direction of the Shang Alliance's troops was facing the west gate of Cassis City, and now that Yun Xiaohan's vanguard had arrived, it was natural to turn the direction and deal with this batch of reinforcements first.

The commanders of the Shang Alliance were indeed relatively weak, and the quality of the soldiers was also low, and it took more than 30 seconds for a simple adjustment of the direction. Yun Xiaohan did not seize the opportunity to attack, but retreated a large distance, after all, the follow-up troops had not yet arrived at this time, and Yun Xiaohan only had less than 2,000 people in his hands, and Morris's command BUFF could increase the range, and opening up the distance would only be beneficial to Yun Xiaohan's troops.

When the Shang Alliance completely turned around, the follow-up main force led by Morris also arrived, and they quickly adjusted their formation and prepared for a positional battle.

After a short pause, the Merchant Alliance forces began to press forward, and they did not notice that on the sea behind them, the Imperial fleet was rapidly approaching, and under Nelson's command, the entire fleet was drawn into two columns of double columns, and the right side side was facing the Merchant Alliance forces.

In order to make Nelson's fleet set up an attack formation that was more conducive to artillery bombardment, Yun Xiaohan commanded his troops to retreat a short distance. The Shang Alliance did not have a speed advantage, and had to maintain a formation to deal with the battle below, so although it was a little faster to move head-on than backwards, there was no way to effectively shorten the distance between the two sides in a short period of time.

Nelson's naval command was extremely high, and his Thunderstorm Regiment was also extremely high, and in a very short time, the two columns of the fleet also formed a staggered position, and dropped the anchor to let the ships stop, so as to obtain a more stable attack environment to improve the accuracy of the shelling.

This kind of position and practice is to bully the Shang Alliance, which cannot threaten the sea fleet at all, and it can only be used if it hits a semi-fixed target on land. If the enemy really wants to have artillery or navy, it has to be lined up in a single formation.

After all, the ships in "Choice" are not like the real ships of the industrial age, which can unify the ship's specifications and maintain a relatively stable speed through boilers. It is not easy for sail warships to keep up with each other in terms of speed, and ships may be injured in naval battles and their speed will be reduced, so it is very impractical to insist on a relatively tight double vertical formation in sports warfare, and there will often be situations where the ships of the side collide with each other or need to be urgently avoided, which not only cannot increase the attack surface and the hit rate of artillery strikes, but also causes a lot of trouble.

In fact, the advantage of the double column is more tactical flexibility, which can be seen as two single columns, which can complete flank detours if necessary, or merge with other fleets, and so on.

Seeing that Nelson's fleet was in a position (the ships were large enough to be seen even outside of the player's field of vision), Yun Xiaohan instructed his troops to stop and launch a long-range attack under Morris's command.

When the first round of bow and arrow attacks by Yun Xiaohan's forces hit the Shang Alliance forces, Nelson's fleet also opened fire almost at the same time, and the shells spanned a distance of hundreds of yards and smashed directly into the Shang Alliance forces.

Although grapeshots are more lethal to personnel, grapeshots have a shorter range and can't hit far at all, so Nelson's fleet uses all solid shells.

The solid bullet with huge kinetic energy quickly bounced off after landing, bringing a bloody storm in the formation of the Shang Alliance troops, forming a flesh and blood passage composed of stumps and blood.

After several negotiations with the government, the optional Bloody Mode has finally been opened in China, and players can choose whether to turn on the Bloody Mode to see more realistic battles and war scenes. Minors are more pitiful, have no choice, and cannot turn on the gore mode. And a battle maniac like Yun Xiaohan naturally chose to turn on the bloody mode. Of course, this is also because "Choice" can verify the iris and implement single-player binding.

Because the ships had anchored, the attack platforms were extremely stable, the gunners of the Thunderstorm Regiments were of high quality, and they were semi-fixed targets, the first round of shelling of Nelson's fleet hit more than 50%, and more than half of the shells hit the formation of the Merchant Alliance troops, and this round of shelling alone caused more than 500 casualties among the Merchant Alliance troops. What's more, the killing scene of the solid artillery shells was too bloody, which severely damaged the morale of the merchant alliance troops, and at this moment, the morale of the merchant alliance troops fell by 15%.

The business alliance was originally a ragtag army, and the morale was not very high, and if it dropped by 15%, the morale would fall to between 65% and 70%, which was not much worse than the 60% passing line.

At this time, Morris hurried to launch a second round of bow and arrow attacks, and at the same time, the first round of spell attacks was also launched, because the range was not enough, the Shang Alliance could only be beaten and could not fight back, and the morale fell by 3%.

Faced with this situation, the NPC commander of the Shang Alliance's forces was also blinded and made a big mistake. He ordered the Shang Alliance forces to move north, away from the coastline, to avoid shelling.

But it takes time to turn and move, and it doesn't mean that you can get out of the shelling range right away. Moreover, in order to avoid the shelling, the Shang Alliance soldiers scrambled forward, and a large number of NPC soldiers were entangled, which seriously reduced the movement speed of the troops. In addition, when a large number of people are crowded together, the density of people is also greatly increased, and the damage caused by a single shell is even greater.

When the Shang Alliance troops are completely out of the range of artillery fire, they will at least be hit by Nelson's fleet for two or three more rounds, which can cause at least 1,500-3,000 casualties to the Shang Alliance forces, not including the damage that Yun Xiaohan's troops can inflict by long-range attacks.