As its name suggests, Lilong Island is a belt-shaped, narrow from east to west, flat from north to south, nearly 200 kilometers long from the east coast harbor to the west coast harbor, and tens of thousands of people live on the island.

For hundreds of years, it has been operated by the Ocean Chamber of Commerce as a veritable iron barrel, and the seaports on the east and west shores of the island are built to the standard of fortress-level fortifications, and there are a total of hundreds of coastal defenses on the north and south sides of the narrow 200-kilometer coastline, and not only that, but there are also four small fleets patrolling back and forth in shifts on all sides.

For the coalition forces, there is no strategy available for attacking Lilong Island, which is to rush directly and force it.

Because of the southerly location of Lilong Island in the open sea, and the small mountain range on the island is located in the south, so that Lilong Island is only located in the central coast at the foot of the northern mountain, with an area of more than 70 kilometers long from east to west and nearly 3 kilometers wide from north to south for people to live and live.

On the north shore, there are two shipping lanes leading to the other channels of the high seas, and as the lifeblood of the island's connection with the outside world, it is always guarded by two small fleet-sized fleets of the Lilong Pirate Regiment at a distance of 300 kilometers.

The warship configuration of these two fleets is the highest in the same class, with nine Gold-class battleships and three formations, consisting of one Gold-class attack ship and two Gold-class assault ships.

But even so, in front of the vanguard of the coalition this time, they were weak. Because of the warships dispatched by the coalition forces this time, aside from the Treasure Boat Island fleet, there are five Dreadnought-class ones alone, among which Zhao Wenhua and Li Longsheng brought Dreadnought-class attack ships.

"Boom, boom..."

Dreadnought-class attack ships, coupled with the formation of almost all gold-class warships, powerful artillery fire, and solid defense, the two formations of the coalition army marched hand in hand, with the dreadnought-class attack ships in front and several gold-class attack ships in several formations of more than ten as the vanguard.

On the battlefield where there are no fortress ships, attack ships against assault ships, if there is no sufficient number of assault ships to charge alternately, for attack ships, the assault ships that have not yet rushed to the front are basically as simple as one shot and one ship.

Even if the battleship is in high-speed travel, a salvo of the whole ship will definitely hit a cannonball, as for the durability of the battleship, in addition to the durability of the hull, the durability of the weapon system is a little low, once the main gun is blown up, the battleship will become a toothless tiger, and there is no means of attack except to go up and end up together.

However, sometimes you want to die together, or say you want to find the ideal target to die together, it is very difficult, especially in the battle between fleets, before rushing up, you may have been completely sunk by the cluster artillery bombardment of the opposing fleet, take a step back, all attack ships are escorted by assault ships, even if they really carry the opponent's fire, many times they will be stopped by the assault ships guarding the side, with little effect!

Under the disparity in strength, the guard fleet of the Lilong Pirate Regiment was completely defeated every two hours, Zhao Wenhua and Li Longsheng respectively left some silver-class warships to clean up the battlefield, and the main force of the fleet continued to advance towards Lilong Island.

When they reached 100 kilometers from Lilong Island, the coalition forces officially converged, and at the same time, they also met the main fleet of the Lilong Pirate Regiment.

The battle entered the white-hot from the beginning, and the naval guns of all the main battleships on both sides hardly stopped for the next half hour, and every minute the battleships were hit, and then they caught fire or sank directly.

"Whew... It's so exciting! Tang Ling, when are we going to go to war? In the sky, at this time, Tang Ling and the others just rushed to the sky above the battlefield, witnessing the fierce battle below, Zhang Lang couldn't help it, and quickly turned his head and asked.

"I'm waiting!"

"What are you waiting for?"

"Wait for them to shine guys!"

"Bright guys? Do you mean the fortress ship? It shouldn't be possible to complete the upgrade so quickly, right? After listening to Tang Ling's words, Zhang Lang and everyone were a little puzzled.

"Fortress ships are also counted..."

"Count?!"

Tang Ling's answer made everyone stunned again, it seemed... What does Tang Ling know? Or guessed something?

Driven by curiosity and worry, Tang Wan'er opened her mouth for everyone and asked, "Ling'er, do you have any ideas?" ”

"Actually, it's easy to think, Second Uncle, as a general, you're in charge of a large fleet newly formed in the empire, will others know how many hole cards you have?" Facing everyone's inquiring eyes, Tang Ling looked at the fierce battle below and said lightly.

"Of course not..." Zhang Lang subconsciously replied immediately to Tang Ling's words, but before he finished speaking, he was silent.

"So, whether it's the Ocean Chamber of Commerce or the Lilong Pirate Regiment, how can there be no backhand?"

"Just like the first time we got the information, after all these years, who knew that the Carpon Pirates actually had two Dreadnought-class assault ships?"

"Moreover, there is only one dreadnought-class battleship in every family, and it is usually very precious, do you think that a second leader, no matter how hard he is in the background, can use it in order to find his son?"

"Of course, maybe it's because this second leader does have a very high status. But if it were me, I would only be able to send it out easily if I wasn't even afraid of losing it! ”

"To sum up, both the Lilong Pirate Regiment and the Ocean Chamber of Commerce are insidious guys, and I don't think the coalition's secrecy work is really in place, and I don't think the information we get from the pirates is really 100% accurate. So, first of all, I am skeptical about the actual level of the fortress ship that has not yet been seen, and second, not only is the enemy not fully revealing their hole cards at the moment, but their allies have not yet appeared..."

"So I'm going to wait, when they can't help but shine guys, then I'll immediately order an attack, there is no lair, even if I can't wipe them out this time, it's enough!"

A series of words, everyone understood Tang Ling's considerations, especially Zhang Lang, he agreed with Tang Ling's point of view, the coalition forces have all been dispatched, but the Lilong pirate group has not shown all the hole cards, and it is not clear how many allies they have secretly, so thinking about it, Zhang Lang also understands why Tang Ling gave up the command of the coalition army after becoming the commander-in-chief.

Not only because he himself does not have enough prestige in front of those coalition forces, and his control over them is not as strong as Zhao Wenhua and Li Longsheng, but at the same time, Tang Ling also intends to be the secret power, become the hole card of the coalition army, and give them a surprise after the enemy shows his fangs!