Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Player's Fleet
During this time, Galava was like a fish in water, and after receiving a regional mission, he and his old enemy Matsumasahara reached an agreement to unite against Lu Cheng.
After all, after seeing Lu Cheng's militia, they knew that no one fighting alone was Lu Cheng's opponent, and this regional mission was obviously a favorable period for them to turn back the situation, if they seized the opportunity, it was impossible to reverse the situation or even the latecomer prevailed.
A total of 26 players have taken on regional missions, and Galava and Matsumasahara are the two strongest, and in three weeks, Galava and Matsumasahara have continued to develop, and the territory has been upgraded to the level of a level 3 village, and the militia has exceeded 1500. So the two of them became the 2 leaders of this small group, each bringing 12 players to participate in the action.
The liaison staff of the Kandi Kingdom agreed with them on a plan to coordinate the operation, and starting a week ago, the players were responsible for cutting off the sea transportation channel of the Sanglai Kingdom and preventing Lu Cheng's continuous blood transfusion in the Sanglai Kingdom. However, the Condi Kingdom did not allow them to attack the maritime merchants, saying that the trade of the maritime merchants did not hinder their actions, and the maritime merchants were extremely powerful, and they could not be easily offended.
At the foot of Galava is a 105-ton Kirk-class battleship, armed with eight 100mm cannons with a range of 1 km, each requiring 60 seafarers to operate. In half a month, Galava's territory produced a total of 12 Kirk-class warships, each costing more than 1,000 gold coins, in addition to keeping 6 for himself, he also sold 6 to other players, each of which sold for 1500 gold coins, and the profit was extremely considerable.
The drawings of the Kirk-class were obtained by Galava in his adventure to attack a level 4 kobold camp, and his old opponent Matsumasaha did not know how to obtain the blueprints of the 110-ton Karak-class battleship, which was also equipped with 8 100mm guns, which was not much different from the Kirk-class, and the two sides were only a little different in appearance, and they were all at the level of half a pound and eight taels in other aspects.
And Matsumasahara also chose the same route as Galava, and opened 3 production lines at the same time, and an average of one Karak-class battleship can be launched in a day and a half, and half of it is sold and half used for its own use, so as to ensure the stability of construction funds.
Among the 26 players, there are also a few players who have also obtained the blueprints of the battleship, but they are all small gunboats of 30-60 tons, only 2 to 4 guns, which are not suitable for fighting in the open sea, more like the existence of river gunboats, but the production speed is very fast, Galava remembers that the Italian player's 50-ton small gunboats have been grouped, at least 15 of them, and if you count 4 guns each, there are also 60 guns, It was denser than his 6 Kirk-class 48 guns combined.
Of course, Galava didn't think that the Italian player was stronger than him, after all, the ship was too small, the defense was too weak, and the resistance to blows was several levels worse.
According to the statistics of 26 players, there are a total of 24 100-ton warships, more than 70 small gunboats of 30-60 tons, and a total of nearly 100 warships. Among them, Galava commanded 12 100-ton warships and 36 small gunboats.
Galava looked at the small fleet of dozens of warships on the sea, and pride was spontaneous.
Since the fleet led by Galava blocked the shipping route between Longwan Village and Lu Cheng's territory, they have sunk 3 Lu Cheng's transport ships one after another, and in the past week, Lu Cheng has not sent the fleet over again to find a field, which shows that Lu Cheng has been frightened by the strength of Galava and does not dare to try to break through the Canadian blockade fleet again.
"That's all that the player called the Arbiter, after the Condi Kingdom takes Sanglai, he has to 'visit' his territory and let him know who is the strongest on this island!" Galava imagined with joy that he would ravage the territory of Lucheng in the future.
But there's still that guy named Matsumasahara, and this person is still a very big threat to Galava, and he must find a way to weaken him.
Galava pondered in his heart that after Matsumasahara and the group of players he led traveled north along the north and south rivers on the island, they would assist Kandi in the north and ensure that the sea transportation channel of Kandi was unimpeded.
"Commander, a fleet has been spotted in the distance!"
While Galava was thinking about what to do with Matsumasahara, the captain beside him suddenly pointed to the distance and reminded.
Matsumasaha looked up and took a closer look, and found that a mast was rising at the intersection of the sea and the sky to the east, which was the size of a fleet.
1, 2, 3......
There are 9 of them!
Galava was a little uneasy: "Send a signal, the fleet is on alert, and send a small warship to see what that fleet is coming from." ”
The originally somewhat scattered fleet moved from a patrol state to an operational state, forming a semicircular combat formation, with more than thirty small gunboats in the front row, 12 Kirk-class ships in the rear, and 6 battleships in Galava in the middle.
"Commander, the other party's ship seems to be much bigger than ours." Galava's captain said in surprise.
Under the slowly rising mast were revealed the hulls of the Kirk-class battleships that looked several circles larger than the Kirk-class battleships at Galava's feet, and Galava had memorized the appearance and data of some ancient warships before entering the game, so Galava quickly recognized the level of these ships: "This is a Calais-class battleship!" ”
Wait, the one on the far left looks even bigger than the 8 Calais classes next to it, and the deck is twice as high above the water as the Calais class next door, what kind of ship is this?
Galava didn't know why so many large ships had suddenly passed by, but he had to think about the bad things, so he immediately ordered to go into combat mode, and kept a close eye on the approaching fleet in the distance.
Still unsure of the other side's position and intentions, Galava did not dare to act rashly, and cautiously looked at the small gunboat that left the fleet and headed towards the powerful fleet, if the other side was hostile, this gunboat would definitely have no return.
As the minutes ticked by, Galava stared nervously at the small gunboats that were getting closer and closer to the flotilla.
Rumble~
In an instant, Galava's mood sank to the bottom.
The fleet in the distance suddenly turned its bow, and a row of guns fell violently on the poor little gunboat, Galava roughly estimated that dozens of shells hit the small gunboat of several tens of tons, and the solid shells chiseled through the hull and splashed out of the wooden blocks clearly illustrated the position of the other side.
"It's the enemy, ready to fight!"
Galava waved his hand and gave the order to fight.
"Route XXX, maintain a speed of 5 knots, pay attention to the formation!"
"All the guns on the port side are on standby, first gather fire on the battleship at the front!"
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Galava kept giving orders, these were some of the combat skills he had learned, and in the past when he attacked the transports, such a command was meaningless, but now he had to deal with a powerful enemy.
Galava's fleet seized the T-head, and more than a hundred black guns on the side pointed at the approaching fleet of nine.
After the other party concentrated fire and eliminated the small gunboat, he still approached the middle without hurrying, and did not have the slightest intention of turning.
"Fire!"
When the distance between the two sides was close to a kilometer, Galava gave the order to open fire.
Boom boom boom~
More than eighty guns opened heavy fire on the unidentified flotilla.
After a while, columns of water rose from the distant sea, and occasionally a few shells hit the huge ship in the lead.
Bite! Bite!
Galava, who was observing the results of the battle with a telescope, was surprised to find that the shells that hit the leading battleship had actually bounced off!
The enemy actually has armor!
Galava was at rock bottom, and at first he had tried to add iron or copper armor to the Kirk-class battleships, but the shipbuilder told him that if the extra weight was added, the speed and stability of the ships would be terrible, and that the Kirk-class had a limited load capacity, and that it could not be loaded much, and the defense capability would not be qualitatively improved.
And just when Galava was surprised, Lu Cheng on the improved Galen-class battleship at the head was also observing the fleet led by Galava.
"Arbiter, it's close enough, are we going to attack as planned?" Yu Chuan, a senior captain from Sang Lai Country, asked.
Lu Cheng put away the binoculars: "It is far more difficult to destroy the enemy than to defeat the enemy, since you want to fight this time, if you want to fight, you have to beat the other party until it hurts, and it is not the time to stop attacking, continue to move forward!" ”
A few minutes later, Galava's fleet carried out another round of attacks, this time they set the target of other Calais-class battleships further behind, and 7 or 8 of the nearly 100 shells hit 2 Calais-class battleships, but because it was the bow to meet the enemy, the shells flew over a distance of several hundred meters, and the damage was not great.
700 m ...... 600 m ...... 500 m ......
The distance between the two fleets was getting closer and closer, and the third and fourth rounds of medium and close range shelling caused a lot of trouble for one of Lu Cheng's Calais-class battleships, the bow mast was broken, and several other Calais-class ships that took the lead also "shared" some care.
"According to the predetermined plan, odd to the right, even to the left, break into the enemy's formation!"
Lu Cheng ordered, and then he looked up at Bai Yun, a girl from the Feather Clan who was stopping at the top of the main mast, and shouted vigorously: "Bai Yun, please leave the matter of reconnoitring the enemy's flagship to you!" ”
"Got it, pervert, we'll instruct you when we find the enemy's flagship!" Bai Yun looked down at Lu Cheng, and then flew up with several of her little sisters flapping their wings and headed straight for the other party's fleet.
In addition to destroying the enemy, Lu Cheng also intends to meet the leading figure among the players. He is not afraid of the players' strength, that is, he hopes to have less trouble, after all, there are too many troubles now, and one less thing is one, if he can convince the other party, it would be great, even if he can't convince him, it is necessary to probe the details of the opponent.