Chapter 579: It's Not What It Used To Be
With the help of the perfect early warning system, the coalition fleet was the first to discover the whereabouts of the Bracada naval fleet, but the alliance fleet did not expect that the coalition fleet and the Bracada fleet had this hand, but only one of the early warning warships of the coalition fleet was discovered in the first contact between the two sides.
"What's going on? You can't be mistaken, can you? The enemy has only one battleship? Katrick was a little unconvinced of the reports he was hearing about the enemy, which was ridiculous, "Are you sure it's an enemy ship?" And not some passing merchant ship? ”
"You can't go wrong, sir!" A scout officer of the Monster clan stood in front of Cattrick and replied a little apprehensively but affirmatively, "That ship has no masts or sails, and at sea, only the fleet of the Hammondale Race Alliance has such a strange warship, and we can see the logo and flag painted on the hull of the battleship, and besides, they sent a lot of harpies and gargoyles to snipe us, if we didn't escape quickly, we might have been caught by them!" As for why there was only one enemy ship, we couldn't figure it out, and the scouts found no signs of the rest of the enemy ship activity nearby. ”
After listening to the scout officer's words, Cattrick waved his hand a little irritably: "Continue to probe the enemy situation and closely monitor every move of the enemy ship!" Report anything to me right away! Have the Scouts bring the Magic Letter Conveyor Circle! Also, let the scouts do their best to expand the scope of their exploration! ”
The scout officer answered and hurried out of the command room, but Katrick sat down, staring at a large chart on the table in deep thought.
He knew very well that the enemy could not have only one warship, and from the information he had obtained before, when the alliance fleet appeared on that golden route, there were more than a dozen warships that were witnessed, although this number was not very scary, and it was a little shabby compared to the more than fifty warships in his hand, but Katrick did not mean to underestimate the opponent.
For this battle related to his own future, the new Supreme Commander of the fleet has done his homework, Cattrick spent a lot of time studying the unknown information provided to him by the Immortal King, the previous kingdom and Chen Jian's several battles at sea, he found that the enemy's tactics have a characteristic, that is, they never engage in a head-to-head duel between warships and warships, such as the battle commanded by Serena, during the entire process of the first battle between the two sides, his own fleet did not find the location of the opponent's warship, was already dizzy by the other party.
He was sure that this time, the alliance fleet would also use the same method to attack him, so he had been very careful, the scouts were scouting around the fleet around the clock, and the airship was also raised by him to the limit height that the airship could reach, using the wide field of view from the high altitude to monitor the perimeter of the fleet, and the entire fleet has been in a state of imminent battle since it set off.
When the scouts reported that they had found the enemy's traces, he was secretly happy for a while, thinking that he was lucky, but he didn't expect that he had only found one of the enemy's warships, and he was overjoyed.
Cattrick is now a little confused about what exactly the enemy is playing.
Where exactly is the enemy's fleet? Have you already arrived in your neighborhood? Are they already preparing to attack? And what does that enemy ship acting alone mean?
Thinking about these questions, Cattrick's fingers began to habitually tap on the table, making rhythmic tapping sounds.
In the command room, another person is also lost in thought because of the information of the scouts, that is, the pirate princess Katarina, who has come to the seas with the Bracada fleet as an envoy and observer of the Endless Sea Empire.
Like Katrik, Catarina has carefully studied the tactics of the Alliance fleet, and she has more than once carefully analyzed the intelligence of the pirates who had fought with the enemy in this sea area before, trying to find a way to restrain the opponent's tactics, and she is also clear about the style of the Alliance fleet always belatedly cleaning the battlefield after the battle is over or the overall situation has been decided, but she also can't understand for a moment what the enemy's intention is to have a warship acting alone.
However, this confusion did not prevent Catarina from realizing that this was a good opportunity to capture the enemy's strange warship, which made her a little regretful, because this fleet was not her Rigner fleet, but the fleet of the Bracada Mage Kingdom.
The Pirate Princess didn't want the magicians who already owned the airship to get their hands on Jian Chen's strange warship, at least not until she was sure that the Bracada fleet had an absolute chance of victory, and Bracada was a potential formidable enemy of the Endless Sea Empire, and she wouldn't be foolish enough to remind her enemies to do something that would make them stronger.
So she chose to remain silent, just with a faint smile on her face, and sat in the comfy chair that Katrick had prepared for her in the command room, watching the situation unfold, with several heavily armed pirate soldiers and magicians guarding behind her, who would immediately escort their princess away from the ship if there was danger.
But to Katarina's surprise, Katrik was not as sluggish as she thought, and it didn't take long for the young commander to give his latest order: "Let all the flying units of the First Detachment attack!" Target, enemy battleship spotted earlier! Let the soldiers take this weird ship for me! Let them be careful not to destroy the enemy's battleships too much! At the same time, the whole fleet began to move at full speed in the direction of discovering the enemy battleship, ready to receive the enemy ship! ”
This order was quickly conveyed by the heralds, and then the Bracada fleet began to stir, a flying force composed of a large number of gargoyles and gods and monsters, soared from some of the battleships, quickly formed a formation in the sky, and then rushed in a certain direction, and all the battleships of the fleet also adjusted their course in unison, and began to speed up.
For this battle, the Bracada fleet has been reorganized by Cattrick, and now it has been integrated from the original five fleets into a large fleet with fifty-three warships, plus two flying ships, a total of fifty-five, and then Magnus himself thought about it or was not very relieved, and asked the shipyard to rush to work, and added two flying ships in the navy again, that is to say, now Cattrick has a total of fifty-seven warships, of which four are the latest flying ships in the Bracada Kingdom.
In order to facilitate the command, the fifty-seven warships were subdivided into four sub-fleets by Cattrick with four flying ships as the core, and in order to adapt to the new tactical requirements, the configuration of naval soldiers has also been greatly changed, such as the Iron Man Stone Man, which can only play a role in the hand-to-hand combat in the broadside battle, was eliminated from the naval establishment by Cattrick, and the number of goblins, naga and human soldiers has also decreased a lot, while the flying units such as gargoyles and gods have been greatly increased, and the number of magicians has also increased a lot.
In Cattrick's concept, the future naval warfare, due to the appearance of flying ships, has been very different from the traditional situation of fighting magic, bows and crossbows at sea, and engaging in broadside battles, and the Bracada navy with flying ships should be committed to fighting for air supremacy at sea, and then use air superiority to carry magicians from the air with Bracada's unique magical superiority to attack enemy ships with magic firepower far superior to the enemy, and he is sure that such tactics are absolutely invincible against those enemies who do not have flying ships at sea- In the ocean, sea ships are an important existence that sustains the lives of all people, and no one can survive at sea without ships.
And this tactic is also an important reason why Katarina is deeply afraid of the Bracada Navy, because this tactic is really invincible for the Rigner pirates who do not have much air power in a short period of time, and the pirates do not have a good way to deal with this tactic, at least until the pirates' air warships become formed equipment units, this situation cannot be changed.
At present, in order to capture the enemy's strange warships, Katrick used all the flying forces of the First Fleet at once, almost a quarter of the air power of the entire fleet, which shows that he is determined to win the enemy's warships.
At the same time, on the sea not far from the Bracada fleet, the Soyuz AWACS ship, which had discovered and was also discovered by the enemy, was also aware of its own danger and was fleeing from this sea area with all its might.
This is an Alliance Sea Lion-type warship, and there are a total of four such AWACS ships around the First Fleet.
Former Bracada naval officer, Goblin Myers is the captain of the battleship, and he is also the head of the First Fleet's early warning system, with full responsibility for the First Fleet's early warning work, and belongs to the Alliance Lieutenant rank officer.
Now, the goblin major is nervously directing his ship to move to the left flank of the main force of the fleet according to Sylvia's latest orders, as one of the initiators of the early warning system of the alliance fleet, and knowing well what kind of attraction this new type of warship without sails of the alliance has for the enemy, of course, Miles knows that he is in danger at this time, but he is not panicking, in order to deal with such a situation, the first fleet has been prepared.
The speed of the Sea Lion Battleship is very fast, the Iron Men have begun to operate at full strength, the buoyancy chamber is already full of buoyancy, the battleship is moving at full speed, it is impossible to catch up with the turtle speed of the enemy's sail battleship, the only thing that worries people is the enemy's flight force, but the air power of the Sea Lion Warship itself is not weak.
With the opening of a huge hatch located in the stern of the ship, many gargoyles came out of the dark cabin, spread their wings and flew into the sky, and some harpies also took off from the deck, which was also mixed with the figure of several alliance magicians riding poisonous scorpion lions, thanks to the advanced shipbuilding technology of the alliance, although the loading capacity of the sea lion battleship is not as good as that of the sea dragon II ship designed by the catamaran, but it is also considerable, and the combat power carried on it is far beyond that of ordinary sail warships, plus it is equipped with an astonishing number of giant crossbows and long-range troops, The combat effectiveness is quite amazing, which is one of the reasons why the alliance dares to send a single ship of the Sea Lion warship to serve as an early warning ship.
However, just as Cattrick did not expect the combat effectiveness of the Sea Lion Battleship to be so amazing, neither Sylvia, the commander of the Alliance's First Fleet, nor Goblin Miles, who is now commanding the Sea Lion Battleship, did not expect that the Bracada Navy was no longer what it used to be, so as soon as the two sides fought, they were taken aback by the strong strength of their opponents.