At first, Prodmore was still lamenting the heroic figure of the battleship Steel Torrent in the Duchy of Florence, but after a moment, he realized that the tide of battle seemed to have changed dramatically. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

He was in the sky and saw a few black dots.

The Ocean Fleet must have taken a part of the air cavalry with it. It's not that they care much about the combat ability of the air cavalry, after all, the confrontation between super warships, with the combat ability of the air cavalry, can't be used at all.

Even the griffon cavalry, which was very strong over land, could not overturn the smallest frigate in a group.

Of course, the air cavalry could go and fight a dozen sailors on deck. But that is very low, and the sailors usually have protection facilities on board, which are usually used to defend against enemy fire when shelling. And if you use the anti-aircraft cavalry, it is even more overkill.

It's not good that when diving to attack, it's easy for the navy soldiers to shoot down with bows and arrows or muskets. As a result, the direct attack of the air cavalry has become a matter of low efficiency and more than worth the loss.

The combat aspect is useless, but it does not mean that the Air Force is useless.

No matter how fast a warship runs, it is still a ship, and it must follow the water and the wind, and in any case it is impossible to be as fast as the air cavalry that fills in and flies.

Of course, the air cavalry flies fast, and the range is not so far. However, this problem is actually not too big, with large battleships or battlecruisers as a base, usually the air knights stay on the ship, and release them when there is a need, the same is the same.

Normally, on the oceans of the Orodic world, warships of more than six or seven thousand tons will have some functions as 'aircraft carriers'.

So Prodmore wasn't surprised that his opponent had an air force—it wasn't surprising.

But, the Air Force should not be that big.

You know, because of the combat effectiveness and combat methods of the Air Force, they are not destructive enough to ships. Carrying explosives and projecting them is almost the only way that can be used, but due to the heavy load, the air cavalry cannot carry too much explosives, and the explosion power is insufficient, so it cannot penetrate the ship.

Moreover, the air cavalry did not fly high enough, at a height of tens of meters, it was easy to be knocked down. No matter how high it is, there is no way to guarantee a hit with a manual throw.

The reconnaissance-type air cavalry, known to be the best in the world, is the Great Eagle. This kind of seafowl itself is relatively light, flies fast enough, flies relatively long enough, and although its combat effectiveness is relatively poor, it is a very good flight reconnaissance unit.

However, there is a problem here. Looking at Prodmore's eyes now, even a dreadnought-class battleship like the Steel Torrent, something that can be called a behemoth, far away, is only a shadow, not as big as a thumb. It stands to reason that the flying cavalry, whose size is not known how many times smaller, should not be able to see clearly, how can it be as big as a black spot?

This size, if calculated proportionally, must be the size of a small warship, right?

Something the size of a warship, flying in the sky?

Are you kidding! Could it be a dragon?!

Such a ridiculous thought rose in the admiral's heart.

He quickly threw the idea out of his head. Looking at it from afar, it is estimated that there must be six or seven behemoths filled with flying behemoths. The Hindlaireites tamed six or seven dragons to help them fight? No matter how you look at it, it's all nonsense.

Dragons are magical, powerful, and wise creatures that help the human kingdom in battle, and that's just a matter of legend. Prodmore didn't believe that such a thing would happen in front of him.

But then, the news from the ships ahead, and the information brought back by the Sea Eagle cavalry on the way, shattered Admiral Proudmore's luck.

His first reaction was real, those were dragons!

Seven turquoise dragons stretched out over thirty meters long flew in the air. They flew higher than any flying cavalry, carrying a dragon knight at a height of three or four hundred meters, and still able to fly up and down and circle with ease;

This is a height that neither bows and arrows nor alchemical artillery can hit.

At the same time, they don't need to throw any alchemical cannonballs. The turquoise flames that erupted from their mouths were fiercer than any alchemical cannonball.

The dragon's breath falls, and in a few moments, a ship will be on fire!

In just a short period of time, the news came from the front that the four warships had lost their combat effectiveness, and at the same time, the goose-shaped formation of the combined fleet was completely dispersed by the dragons.

The Hindlaire ships were not engaged with the ships of the Combined Fleet at all, and hung from a distance. Schindlaire's navy soldiers were not involved in the battle at all, and they were more like spectators than soldiers in this war.

When Prodmore learned of all this, his face turned pale. He looked into the distance in a daze, and he was not able to give the order at the first time.

Several admirals of the Duchy of Florence hurried over.

"Your Excellency, why haven't you given the order yet? We need to go to support it immediately, otherwise the Steel Torrent and our forward formation will be all finished! ”

The admirals of the Duchy of Florence all looked anxious.

Prodmore came to his senses, but he hesitated.

Think about it in an absolutely calm way, is it useful to support it? The strength of the forward formation is not worse than the support formation he is leading at the moment, right? But see what the result is? The seven-headed dragon wreaked havoc like an earth-shattering one, but the warship formation at sea had no way to take each other.

What can the support team do if it goes up?

It is true that the current naval ships have a certain amount of air defense capability, but such air defense capability is simply too weak for the dragon flying in the sky, and it is as weak as nothing.

Never before in a battle on the ocean had a navy encountered an enemy like a dragon. Although some isolated islands in the depths of the deep sea have legends of dragons, they are only legends after all. On the one hand, it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, on the other hand, even if it is true, is there any other country's fleet that would run like a nervous heart to provoke a dragon?

The only people who dare to mess with this legendary creature are a few daring sea adventurers. Normally, those who dare to do this are three feet tall - or they have already become the excrement of some fish on the bottom of the sea.

This has led to the fact that modern warships are not at all sound in their defense against enemies in the sky.

They couldn't afford to pay the dragon, and they couldn't do anything about this amazing transcendent creature.

So what are you going up there for? Think that the forward fleet of twenty warships is not enough, and even the backup fleet has to fill this big hole to send to death?

Proudmore thought about it rationally and felt that he couldn't do such a thing.

The Admirals of Florence did not receive an answer from Prodmore and became even more anxious. They kept urging, but in the end, in exchange for only one sentence from the admiral:

"The whole fleet will immediately turn around, and we will leave this sea area as soon as possible, go west, and return to the west of the Southern Cross Sea. Orders were given to the forward formations, asking them to disperse and break through on their own, and try to disperse to avoid the pursuit of the dragons. ”

When a Florentine general heard this order, he almost jumped up!

"General?! Our main battleships are still ahead, and we can't leave them alone! ”

Proudmore said with a cold face: "The battle plan for this route blockade has failed, and we have no way to reverse this defeat!" We must preserve the ships as much as possible for the coalition, for the principalities and the kingdoms! Only when the warships are saved and returned to the port city can we find a way to complete the refit of the warship, find a way to strengthen the air defense capability, and have the ability to fight this war one step further! ”

"If we fight this time and leave all the ships in the east, then everything will be over!"

The people of Florence fell silent, including the admirals of the kingdom of Pudri.

Recovering from the panic, they had to admit that, calmly thinking about it, General Prodmoore's words were all justified.

However, who could bear to watch half of the main force of the brilliant and huge combined fleet be sent into the sea of fire right in front of his eyes, and all of them were buried?

Prodmore didn't care what these people thought, now that the decision had been made, there was no room for delay.

A moment later, the order was conveyed, and the twelve warships in the diagonal line of the support formation pulled out twelve arc-shaped white lines on the sea, circled, completed the U-turn, and headed west.

And when they left, the battlefield in the east was guessed to be in the middle of nowhere!

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Fire, fire everywhere, even on the blue sea, there is fire everywhere.

Vice Admiral of the Duchy of Florence, Captain of the Steel Torrent, Admiral Paparos, stood outside his captain's room. With the size of the Steel Torrent, it was a very significant target on the ocean. In fact, his battleship was taken care of by the flying dragons in the sky.

Almost every green dragon has sprayed its own dragon breath on this battleship.

It was also thanks to the fact that the Steel Torrent was strong enough that it was not directly destroyed.

On the huge dreadnought-class battleship, smoke billowed everywhere. The soldiers were terrified, the elite Florence navy had fought against the navy of the Holy Empire, against the mysterious beasts of the depths, against the cruel and cunning pirates, but never with a creature like a dragon.

This kind of transcendent creature that exists only in mythology, in the bedside story of my mother when I was a child, in people's impressions, brings great fear to people.

Lieutenant General Paparos saw with his own eyes that just ten minutes ago, after a giant dragon flew out of the enemy's 10,000-ton battleship, when a certain dragon launched a downward dive for the first time, at least a dozen soldiers were scared to death by the dragon's might.

I was really scared to death, and my heart and gallbladder were broken on the spot. The man with a pale face, a bloodless face, and black and purple lips, with a look of fear, fell to the ground and could not get up.

The few soldiers who reacted, trembling under the orders of the officers, launched a counterattack against the swooping dragon, but with little success. Few muskets and arrows could hit, and the three back-firing guns that had been urgently turned around were also all left empty.

Then, the swooping green dragon, with a breath of dragon, washed the forward deck of the Steel Torrent. At least sixty or seventy soldiers gathered on the foredeck were killed in the flames. At the same time, the three cannons that could attack the dragon overhead at an angle were all destroyed by the dragon's breath.

The emplacements that can withstand the impact of artillery are no different from papier-mâché under the dragon's breath.

"Maneuver! Maneuver! Don't stop in one place! All the battleships move for me! Find those Hindlaire ships, catch up with them, and shred them with artillery! Watch out for the dragons in the sky! ”

Paparos's reaction was fast enough, and not long after the dragon launched an attack on the forward formation, he issued such an order to the other ships in the formation.

But what good can it be?

The formation of the geese formation had completely dispersed, and the warships were fighting separately, and some wanted to continue to rush forward to catch the ships of the Schindlaires who seemed to be watching the play; Yes, there seem to be signs of breaking away from the formation and running away on their own; What's more, in a panic, like a blind man, he is scurrying around on the surface of the sea, and he has fallen into chaos.

Paparos was initially desperate to turn the tide of the battle. In addition to sending orders to the other captains as the commander of the formation, he also issued an order to all the open-air gun emplacements on the upper deck of the Steel Torrent to find ways to increase the elevation angle to pose a threat to the dragons flying in the sky as much as possible.

At the same time, the power system of the ship must also be strengthened, the power compartment of the lower part of the Steel Torrent is already operating at full capacity, and this steel monster on the sea has increased its horsepower, staring at one of the Hindlaire's warships and rushing up.

The effect was there, at least two alchemy cannons were directly shot into the bodies of two different dragons.

However, this kind of cannon, which is enough to kill a giant elephant directly, exploded on the dragon's body, of course, it also caused a certain amount of damage, the broken dragon scales flew all over the sky with dragon blood, and the dragon that was hit also let out a scream of pain.

But after all, it can't be fatal with one hit.

After being injured, the dragons fell into a rage, and instead set their sights on the Steel Torrent.

One after another, the dragon's breath fell on the deck, armor, and even the surrounding seas of this super battleship, so that the Steel Torrent turned into a huge fireship in a short period of time. Paparos stood on the boat, all sight obscured by flames and smoke, unable to see anything.

As strong as the Torrent of Steel, it is impossible to hold out for long under such a bombardment.