As night wore on, the roar of the Imperial guns subsided, and the battle on the first of May ended.

From dawn to dusk, the Imperial fleet and the shore defense batteries exchanged fire almost incessantly, firing tens of thousands of shells from each side, but the results were very different.

On Parnia's side, about half of the batteries on the shore defense positions were paralyzed, and more than 1,000 officers and men were killed or wounded. What is even worse is that it is strategically extremely disadvantaged, and the remaining batteries can no longer completely block the narrow section of the route. The Imperial Minesweeper Squadron can now swagger in, admiring the streetscape of Parnia's city on the other side while calmly clearing mines and clearing the shipping lanes.

In contrast, the Imperial fleet suffered almost no losses during the battle, which lasted all day, and all the warships participating in the artillery battle remained in normal operation. Tens of thousands of shells were fired from the artillery on the opposite shore, but the vast majority of the shells reached their range limit at around 8,000 yards and fell to the surface, occasionally hitting the Imperial warship, causing no more than minor damage to the hull or deck, which could be repaired as good as new. Protected by solid steel armor, the Imperial officers and men on the main battleship had a day without danger. High-speed destroyers and speedboats carrying out minesweeping missions were more risky on the battlefield, but in total only two destroyers and one cruiser were severely wounded, and the total number of casualties did not exceed 100, which was only one-tenth of the casualties on Parnia's side.

On the evening of 1 May, General Lucien held a celebratory dinner on board the flagship "Charlemagne" and drank champagne with the generals. While drinking and relaxing, everyone still has to bring the topic back to the battlefield. The Imperial Admirals, including General Lucien, believed that the war was going very smoothly and that there was no need to change anything tomorrow, and that as long as they repeated today's work, they would be able to completely suppress the Palnia shore defense positions and successfully achieve the operational objectives of the first phase of Operation "Tsunami".

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Winners on the battlefield don't have to make changes, but losers have to take risks.

After the artillery battle on 1 May, as night fell, the whole of Parniado was enveloped in a gloomy atmosphere.

That night, Prince Carroll's wife and daughter inspected the coastal defense positions, and what they saw and heard was shocking. Even with the most optimistic prediction of the course of the war, the already crippled Parnia Shore Defense Force could not hold out for three days.

In such a predicament, Prince Carroll desperately needs reinforcements from far away in the North Bay. However, the Combined Far East Fleet, consisting of the North Sea Fleet and the White Gull Fleet, had only set sail from Koras Island two days earlier, and would not arrive at the Golden Horn until the afternoon of the day after tomorrow at the earliest, not to mention how likely the Far East Fleet was to defeat the Far Empire Fleet, which was far more powerful, and if the Parnias wanted to grasp this life-saving straw, they would first have to support it for two more days under the guns of the Imperial warships, which was almost an impossible task.

After the inspection of the front, Prince Carroll and Lady Theodora returned to the palace and convened a meeting of senior military and political officials overnight to discuss ways out of the current predicament.

Veronica's whimsical suggestion is to gather the high-ranking transcendental professionals in the army to form a special attack team, and teleport to the Imperial flagship deck overnight to launch a surprise attack, if you can successfully assassinate the Imperial Navy Commander and his senior generals, this huge fleet will fall into a situation of command failure, so as to buy a precious respite for Parnia's side.

Prince Carroll smiled wryly at his daughter's childish thoughts. Assassination of enemy generals may be feasible on land, but they are difficult to carry out in naval warfare. Each battleship is equivalent to a floating sea, heavily guarded fortress, the main warship of the Imperial Navy has a "magic Duncan exclusion zone", prohibiting all teleportation and detection from the outside world, the battleship deck and front and rear bridge towers are equipped with magic alarms, anti-stealth searchlights and dense anti-aircraft turrets, if approaching from the air, it will be immediately detected and subjected to anti-aircraft artillery fire, even if the legendary powerhouse is hit by a shot. The high-ranking generals of the empire themselves are not weak, at least they are also quasi-legendary powerhouses, and there are large groups of guards around them, plus thousands of officers and soldiers on the ship, the difficulty of assassination is far worse than that of taking the head of the general in the army of ten thousand. Not to mention the fact that there were hundreds of large and small cabins on the battleship, and God knows where the enemy generals were hiding? Even if luck succeeds in the assassination, if there is no commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief, no commander-in-chief, no deputy commander-in-chief and chief of staff, no admirals and a large number of lieutenant generals and major generals, they can always take over the command in order according to the organizational principle and continue to carry out the predetermined battle plan.

Of course, Prince Carroll also admits that there are no absolutes. If you can gather multiple legendary spellcasters and unite to cast legendary spells to destroy the enemy flagship, it is possible to throw the Imperial fleet into chaos. But this is equally impractical. There are only a handful of legendary spellcasters in the Far East, even if Vallentina and "Red Robe" Andrei are invited to help, don't forget, there is no shortage of legendary powerhouses on the imperial side, plus the dragon king Mars and the "black robe" Outlo, the two sides restrain each other, and whoever dares to make the first move will immediately arouse the vigilance of the legendary powerhouses in the opposing camp and intervene. In this way, the assassination would turn into a fiery battle between the legendary powerhouses, which is exactly what both sides are trying to avoid.

Just as the gods cannot descend to the mortal world, the legendary powerhouses of the world of Varess have an unwritten rule: try to avoid intervening directly in wars between nations. This unspoken rule was not made by anyone, but is simply a summary of countless bloody lessons.

"If I assassinate the commander of the Imperial Navy, Charles Lucien, today, believe it or not, tomorrow morning, the legendary powerhouse of the Empire will spread a deadly plague over the Parnia Peninsula, causing tens of thousands of civilians to fall victim to bloody revenge, and if they continue to slaughter each other, there will be no bottom line in the war, and it will eventually lead to the complete destruction of both warring sides."

Prince Carol's warning reminded Veronica of a special weapon that Roland had once described to her. It is said that in the distant "Ustianyu", the scientific and technological civilization is highly developed, and people have created a super weapon called the "nuclear bomb", which can destroy a city inhabited by millions of people by dropping a nuclear bomb - if measured by the standards of the world of Vares, the destructive power of the nuclear bomb is comparable to that of legendary spells.

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