"Let's work harder!"

"Push it down! Push it down! ”

"Oh yes! Exploded! It's spectacular! Urome put a priest's robe over her women's slim military uniform, and clapped her hands excitedly when she saw the explosion and fire rising from the sea. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This group of students, led by Antron and Eurome, who had just enlisted in the air force yesterday, were not idle at the moment, struggling to push the barrels full of alchemical powder out of the engine room and smash them at the enemy ships thousands of feet below.

Perhaps Ms. Sindra is indeed as fond of rookies as the legend suggests, and these students who have no training in bomb throwing are throwing bombs that are unusually accurate!

Whether they did it intentionally or blindly, three of the four bombs actually hit the "Sea Palace"!

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

The damage caused by the serial explosions was too great for even the ironclad battleship to bear, all the buildings above the bridge command tower were blown away, the bridge turned into a raging fireball, and the out-of-control flagship was stuck at the angle of the right full rudder and crashed headlong into the "Ichthyosaurus" beside him.

By the time Maximian led the survivors on the bridge to move to the backup command room and regain control of the ship's direction, the unfortunate Ichthyosaurus had been hit by the flagship's underwater angle of assault and was disemboweled on the spot!

Seeing this, Maximian knew that the tide was turning, and ordered the fleet to withdraw from the battlefield.

When disaster comes, they fly separately, and no one can take care of anyone.

The Ichthyosaurus continued to exert the spirit of the unbeatable Xiaoqiang, dispatching the damage management team and all the surviving navigators to fight the sea water pouring into the hull, barely picking up the stomach and patching it and continuing on its way.

The Nanfeng ship did not have such good luck, and was bombed by the "Eagle Regiment", and the paddle wheels on both sides were all hung, turning into a large bathtub floating on the sea, and the pirates on the ship rushed to jump into the water to escape.

The two destroyers escorting the Nanfeng -- the "Sawa " and the "Blackwater" -- were encircled and had nowhere to escape, and the Nanfeng and the Sawa were sunk one after another within 10 minutes.

……

"Sea power" is an abstract concept, but the benefits of "sea power" are obvious: sea power means, first, the security of coastal areas, second, ensuring unimpeded trade routes, and finally providing transportation and military support for the development of overseas colonies.

For a trading city-state like Baiou Harbor, a strong navy is the cornerstone of safeguarding the interests of the city-state and even the security of the entire Bend Alliance, of course, it is indispensable, and the conflict between Baiou Harbor and the Giant Demon Island for many years, until the outbreak of war today, its fundamental contradiction is the struggle for sea power.

At the same time, "sea power" is also a complex concept covering the geographical environment, land area, natural endowment, population, economy, technology, industry, commerce, military, politics and diplomacy, and is the general mobilization of the comprehensive strength of a region and even a country from the monarch to the civilian class and all walks of life.

Building an advanced capital warship in any era requires the mobilization of a large amount of manpower, material and financial resources, and the resources spent to build a powerful fleet are astronomical.

White Gull Harbor and Giant Demon Island, who is the real overlord of the North Bay?

Both sides gave the same answer: whoever has a stronger fleet and who can control the sea power will be the undisputed hegemon!

On June 19, 1618, the 20-year mutual forbearance, vigilance and arms race between the two giants of the North Bay finally came to an end, and a fierce battle broke out between the White Gull Harbor fleet and the Maximian fleet in the Pearl Island area at 56 degrees north latitude and 147 degrees east longitude.

At the same time when the fierce fighting at sea was in full swing, the wharf of the Baiou Harbor Military Port, which was 400 miles away from the warring sea, was also suddenly attacked.

The lighthouse lookout was the first to notice that a large group of swashikers were swimming ashore at high tide and hurriedly sounded the alarm.

Hearing the wind, the highland fort of Cape immediately launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the beach where the enemy had landed!

The shells fired by the 7-inch coastal defense guns weighed 42 pounds, more powerful than all the main guns of warships in the North Sea region, roaring and bombarding the shallows, and the sea slugs hit by the shells turned into mud on the spot, and the Sawa Marines on their backs were not spared, and were torn to pieces by the shock wave, and there was a large crater with a diameter of more than 30 yards left on the beach, and the flesh and blood in the pit were blurred.

The commander of the Sawa Marine Corps, the "Storm Warrior" Ducat, surfaced on a giant sea slug that was forty feet long from head to tail - the monster was called "Forkudes", which was ten times the size of a normal sea slug, and the sides of her body were marked by bright red markings, indicating that she was the "mother queen" of the slug tribe.

Ducatt carried the +2 Ice Explosion Double-headed Sword, the waist wore +3 Pearl Steel Twin Blades, and his four arms held the reins tightly to urge the Sea Slug Mother Emperor to board the dock, looking at the shore defense position full of artillery from afar, and a chill flashed in his eyes.

"Sir, the brothers are advancing under artillery fire and have suffered heavy casualties, so if you can't enter the city like this, you will have to sacrifice all, why don't you send some troops to control the coastal defense batteries first?" The adjutant of the Marine Corps came over and asked.

Ducatt waved his hand with an indifferent expression: "Don't worry about the coastal defense battery, they won't be arrogant for long, we just have to move on." With that, he pulled out the High Communication Stone, "Parthasis, it's your turn!" ”

The alarm suddenly sounded over the coastal fort, and a group of flying sharks emerged out of invisibility, each flying shark carried a wand-wielding Siren warlock in a magic robe on its back, and under the command of Parsacis, released pyrotechnics, billowing black smoke and submerging the fort, in such an environment that it was impossible to aim, and the cannonballs fired did not know where to fly.

"Let's go!" Ducatt flicked the reins and urged his mount to charge. The giant sea slug, Folkudes, squirmed on his belly and walked with hundreds of hydraulic feet against the sand, faster than a galloping horse!

The rest of the Sawa Marines also rode their mounts and ran wildly behind Ducat, quickly bypassing the fort and rushing towards the north gate of Baiou Harbor City.

Compared with the powerful navy, there is no formed army in Baiou Harbor, and the city is supervised by the navy. At this moment, all the warships in the military port were taken away by the Yangbo sisters, and most of the sailors in the barracks also went out with the ships, and the garrison force left behind was very weak, and they couldn't resist this elite marine corps composed of all the extraordinary professionals above level 5.

Ducat's twin swords and swords swung like the wind, and the flesh flew everywhere he passed, and the sailors of Baigull Harbor who tried to stop him had no one to support a move, but Ducat's charge speed did not slow down at all, and he rode a giant sea slug through the trenches, road barriers, and corpses everywhere to rush into the barracks first.