Chapter 102: The Decisive Battle in the South China Sea

The mermaids are all females, and it is better to deal with the British than to go out in person. The seduction tactic didn't work, and everything went according to plan.

The Combined Fleet soon arrived at the area where the decisive battle was scheduled and lit up the entire sea. Gangzi summoned the commanders of various departments to arrange tactics on the "Flying Henan People"; The logistics department of the Lingxiao Legion, which has a mature logistics coordination system, took over the rest and recuperation of the fleet, and the supply ships shuttled back and forth between the ship group to transport supplies, replenish sailors and take away wounded crews, and the combat effectiveness of the fleet was rapidly restored.

On the deck of the "Flying Henan People", the Fuso people were already adapting to their position, and after Gangzi finished explaining the entire battle plan for the Far East Fleet, the three thousand Honyu Sakura and Kondo Mijin had a private chat and said: "I think the general's plan is too bold, although the 'Flying Henan People' is powerful, but it is not enough to complete this impossible task, and the general can indeed take the command of the Hangzhou fleet, but the Jiaozhou fleet from the Han NPC Navy, And why did the Yangzhou Fleet and the Royal Fleet move and attack tactically according to our plan? ”

Gangzi, who was surrounded by dozens of fleet commanders at all levels, waited for the three thousand Benliu Sakura to finish speaking, and replied calmly with the courage of a leader: "The true power of the 'Flying Henan People' has never been demonstrated, and it can be said that the 'Flying Henan People' is invincible in a specific environment, and we are going to create this environment tomorrow to give the British Far East Fleet a devastating attack." In addition, you don't have to worry about the command of Jiaozhou, Yangzhou and the Royal Fleet, they will see the form clearly. ”

Regarding the question of the three thousand Ben Liuzakura, Gangzi finally sold a pass. The players dispersed in confusion, but Gangzi explained the details of the battle in great detail. They only need to fight step by step according to the plan, and Gangzi's confident appearance has also infected many captains. "Gangzi boss has endless tricks, I can't say that I can really come up with something amazing this time."

The night passed in a tense hustle and bustle. The sun rises cloudless, and the sea breeze blows. It's really good weather for the fight.

As the Jiaozhou fleet closest to the Dongsha Islands, they were the first to arrive, and they gathered in the western waters of the Langya fleet and the Jimo fleet under the banner of Qingzhou. Then the British Far East Fleet, the Han Royal Fleet, and the Hangzhou Fleet arrived. In the end, the Yangzhou fleet arrived when the various departments were sorting out their fleets and preparing for battle.

So it was formed on the sea, the British Far East Fleet monopolized the southern seas, and in their north from west to south were the Han Jiaozhou Fleet, the Han Qingzhou Fleet, the Han Yangzhou Fleet, the Han Royal Fleet, and the Han Hangzhou Fleet, and the dragon flag fluttered boundlessly.

In the face of the Han Navy, which outnumbered many of his own warships, the Earl of York, the admiral of the British Far East Fleet, stood on the bridge of the "King of the Seas", still holding his head high, like a giant looking down on a child. The eyes were full of disdain: "Naval warfare has never been a quantitative battle, it is a comparison of the quality of naval officers and soldiers, the performance of warships, the navy of the Han State is still only an offshore fleet, since they established a new dynasty, they have been in decline, there is no experience in a large-scale naval battle, the most terrible thing is that their weak navy is still in a state of division." Look at their warships, only one 'Flying Henan' meets the standards of the capital ships of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, and all the others are ships below the fourth level, a toy-like navy. They are not worthy of being the opponents of my British Royal Fleet. In the Atlantic, we defeated the French, defeated the Spaniards, defeated the Dutch. Having defeated the Ottomans, today we will continue to write the history of the victory of the Armada in the Pacific Ocean! The Far East Fleet of the Royal Fleet is ready to attack! ”

The British Far East Fleet began to enter an attack formation, with the fourth-class three-masted warships leading the fifth-class two-masted warships to form a two-wing attack group, and the first-class warship "Sea King" bringing all the second-class warships and third-class warships to form a central attack group.

The Han navy has also entered the transformation of the attack formation, only the five fleets have five commanders and five tactical ideas, looking at the changes in their formations, their attack focus is different, once this state enters the battle, under the mutual constraint, the Han navy is really very dangerous.

The commanders of the Han Navy also saw the disadvantage of the decentralization of command. But who can have enough prestige to make many NPC generals willingly accept the dispatch.

At this time, the "Flying Henan People" drove towards the center of the Han camp with its gorgeous posture, and a flagship flag was slowly raised.

What he wanted to do. The commanders of the three fleets are all members of various states, and you, a Qingzhou nouveau riche miscellaneous general, dare to raise the flagship flag in front of many titled generals. Who recognizes you? Who gave you the guts? Is it possible to have a good ship and see everything?

In the remaining four fleets of the Great Han. The Hangzhou fleet lowered its flagship flag in a fierce battle, and at the same time, the entire Hangzhou fleet was transferred to the fleet with the "Flying Henan People" as the flagship.

However, the other three Han armies were unmoved, and the three flagship flags still stood on the flagships of the three fleets.

Suddenly, Dahan issued a series of announcements:

"Qingzhou edicted the world, the king of Qingzhou is willing to cut the prince himself, and ask the emperor of the Han Dynasty to send Qingzhou to assassinate the emperor of Qingzhou on behalf of the emperor Mu Qingzhou."

"Emperor of the Han Dynasty: The king of Qingzhou was demoted to a duke, and Wei Yu, the former general of Qingzhou Zhengdong, was named the history of Qingzhou, and the original Qingzhou Army was merged into the Han Imperial Forest Army, and the navy was merged"

"Emperor Edict of the Han Dynasty: General Gangzi Jin Pingdong, General Pingtao, Fengyuan, Qingzhou, General Gangzi, General Jin Pingdong, led the post of general, and set up the Nanhai Town Guard Mansion to preside over all matters related to the British invasion of the enemy army in the territorial waters of our Han Dynasty. The Nanhai Town Guard Mansion has jurisdiction over the Han Royal Fleet, the Jimo Fleet, the Langya Fleet, the Keelung Fleet, the Yangzhou Fleet, and the Jiaozhou Fleet. The battle of the South China Sea is a big matter, it is related to the face of our Han Dynasty, I hope that all the generals will work together to assist General Gangzi to annihilate the incoming enemy, if someone disobeys the order, he will be severely punished! ”

Then the news of the surrender of Jizhou, the surrender of Jizhou, and the surrender of Yanzhou came out one after another, and the situation of unification in the north has become settled. The Emperor of the Han Dynasty is no longer a decoration at the beginning, a nominal leader of the Han Dynasty, and a real male lord with a large territory and a million soldiers. Now what he says no one dares to do it inappropriately.

The sea surface of the Dongsha Islands of Dahan was extremely silent, and all eyes were focused on the "Flying Henan People", where the first player, the Great General, was located.

Behind "him", the Jimo Fleet and the Langya Fleet have replaced the bright yellow dragon flag of the Han Royal Navy, and the flagship of the Keelung Fleet of the original Han Royal Navy lowered the flagship flag after receiving the edict. The whole fleet joined the fleet with the flagship of the "Flying Henan".

The Jiaozhou fleet and the Yangzhou fleet, which were sandwiched in the middle, became at a loss, and the sudden change made them not know what to do. The British Far East Fleet did not stop their advancing fleet because of the changes in the Great Han, and finally the Great Han Emperor showed sweeping momentum. The king of Jiaozhou and the king of Yangzhou ordered their respective fleets to hand over the command of the fleet to the "Flying Henan People".

At this point, the Jiaozhou Fleet, the Yangzhou Fleet, the Keelung Fleet, and the Hangzhou Fleet were all under the command of Gangzi, and the Han maritime forces were unified for the first time. The whole world is silent.

With Gangzi's character, he must have a few words on various channels, but now a large number of warships continue to join the "Flying Henan People" fleet, coordinating the responsibilities of various departments and assigning tasks has made him busy, but fortunately, the battle plan has long been supplemented and perfected by Wei Yu and the Keelung fleet, and Gangzi only needs to read it out according to the book.

The British Far East Fleet continued to approach, and after Gangzi quickly arranged the task, he could finally shout on the world frequency: "The Han Navy is attacking!" ”

Offensive!

The Han fleets moved, merged the "Five Seas" fleet of the Langya fleet, and drove into the center of the battlefield to merge with the "Flying Henan" to form a central ship group; The Yangzhou fleet and the Jiaozhou fleet sailed to the right flank; The Keelung Fleet and the Hangzhou Fleet were on the left flank. The whole fleet was divided on the march

Three attack groups corresponding to the British Far East Fleet drove over.

"Whoosh! Sou! "Whoosh! Sou! The "Flying Henan", which has ultra-long-range attack power, launched an attack on the front and rear batteries when the two sides were within five nautical miles. "Black Pearl" is already on standby in its place.

Four cannonballs fell from the sky, drawing a strange arc towards the "King of the Sea".

The Sea King is one of only 11 first-class warships in the UK. It had three and a half gun decks, 6 bow guns, 4 stern guns, and 94 broadside guns, for a total of 104 guns, of which the lower deck was equipped with 32-pounder steel smoothbore guns and the rest were 26-pounder guns. The "King of the Seas" participated in seven major naval battles against the Netherlands and France, and performed great deeds. This time as the flagship of the British Far East Fleet, it is unique in the seas of the whole of East Asia.

In the naval battle against the Ravag fleet. Gangzi did not run out of "guided shells", and this time against the main forces of the Far Eastern Fleet, he immediately launched an attack on the "Sea King" with "guided shells". Guided at the end of the "Black Pearl". The falling cannonballs kept following the evasive movement of the "Sea King" and adjusted their direction, and then hit the "Sea King" on the upper deck of the "Sea King".

The "guided projectiles" of the first class warship, which had a serious loss of speed, failed to penetrate its deck, and immediately followed by four explosions, the debris of the shock wave swept across the deck, causing a large number of sailors' losses.

"This kind of shell is really powerful, it really has tracking performance. However, in terms of power, the filled gunpowder made the bullet body bigger and the penetration power was greatly reduced, and the explosion alone could not cause serious damage to a first-class warship in a short time. ”

The Earl of York had already guessed that Gangzi should still have a batch of this "automatic tracking flowering bomb", after experiencing it himself. A pertinent assessment of this weapon was also made, and a first-class warship could fully withstand such an attack. It's just that the open-air deck may not be able to exert its power for the time being.

"The central group was ordered to advance in a horizontal formation, after coming into range of the artillery. With our bow guns to interfere with the enemy ships, the fleet continued to advance, turning into a column battle line at a distance of one nautical mile from the enemy fleet, and all the guns of more than 26 pounder concentrated fire on the 'Flying Henan', each ship paid attention to the cohesion of the enemy fleet formation, there were a large number of civilian warships among them, and they immediately broke through as soon as they found an opportunity. Inform the left and right wing ship groups to protect the central battlefield, as long as we can form a breakthrough in the central battlefield, we can get the initiative on the entire battlefield. ”

The whistle of cannonballs sounded again in the air, and the Earl of York, having given the order, walked into his captain's quarters. Under the threat of such a flowering bomb, it is very unwise for the commander of a fleet to stand on an open bridge, and if it is affected by the explosion, it will bring the changes of the entire fleet to a halt.

Soon the warships of both sides reached the limit distance of two nautical miles of artillery fire, and all the bow guns of the two fleets were fired at the same time, and the decisive battle was opened.

The "Flying Henan" continued to attack the "Sea King" with "guided shells", and in front of it was the "Five Seas" fleet. The "Five Seas" fleet also formed a horizontal formation centered on the "Wrath of One Piece", and each ship responded to the attack of the Far East Fleet with its bow guns. Due to the limited number of bow guns. Neither side showed much damage.

The two fleets continued to advance by firing at each other, and the two wings of the Han Navy began to compress to the middle, and the two wings of the Far Eastern Fleet immediately stepped forward to resist. If they were not asked to participate in the duel in the central war zone, the originally straight battle line was pressed out of the arc. When the Far Eastern Fleet blocked the squeeze of the Han's wings, its own space also became smaller.

In the central theater of operations, the two sides of the battle are about to enter a position of one nautical mile, and the power of the artillery at this distance has reached an ideal state, and if you charge with the bow of the ship, it will cause too much damage to the hull, and the two fleets turn at the same time, and the original horizontal formation immediately becomes a longitudinal battle line. The broadside of the concentrated artillery was exposed, which immediately set off a storm of projectiles. All that was flying through the air was flying cannonballs.

"Where is the 'Flying Henan People'? Where is it? We couldn't find it. "All the crews of the 26-pound gun position and above tried to find the "Flying Henanese" in the smoke and debris, but in the enemy fleet shrouded in gunsmoke, they could not see the "Flying Henanese".

In the captain's room of the "King of the Seas", the Earl of York stood next to the chart, and several staff officers on the side kept using models to rest the changes in the warships of the enemy and us, but they just didn't know where to put the model representing the "Flying Henan People"?

The Earl of York said: "The 'Flying Henanese' did not appear in the enemy's battle line, it must have hidden the other side of the fleet, and it is estimated that he was frightened to see that his shells did not show the power he imagined on the 'Sea King', and he only dared to secretly fire the cannon now." A powerful Legendary-class battleship was actually used by him as a status amplifier, and I really thought highly of him before. But I can also understand his ignorance of first-class battleships. After all, in the Far East, third-class warships are rare items. ”

"Then what are we going to do, Lord Earl."

"Inform the battleship to press in, now the flowering shells attacking us are obviously thrown at a large angle, as soon as we reduce the distance to a short enough, he will lose the firing angle and attack our side at a small angle, so that we can call our sailors into the open deck and use all our firepower."

The Far East Fleet continued to press, and the fleet composed of all third-level and above warships put great pressure on the "Five Seas" fleet, even with the flagship skill bonus of the "Flying Henan". The hull of the fourth-class battleship could not block the enemy's firepower, and one after another the Han battleship was destroyed and sunk. And the results of the battle were very few.

"One Piece's Wrath" launched! "Sniper"!

Three thousand Ryu Sakura launched skills one after another, but it was a fine iron smoothbore cannon that usually felt very sharp. It was so powerless against the second-class battleships of the Far Eastern Fleet that the shells could not even penetrate the armor of the enemy ship, and at most interfered with the accuracy of the opponent's artillery.

"General, it's too difficult, the power of our artillery is not good at all, at most it can hit a third-class warship, and a second-class battleship is not at all a fine iron smoothbore gun can deal with it, at least a steel smoothbore gun can cause damage to them."

Gangzi accelerated the "Flying Henan" and continued to hide behind the "Five Seas" fleet: "Of course I know the power of the second-class battleships, don't think about sinking them, increase the intensity of firepower, interfere with their shooting, now our battleships are losing too fast, speed up the speed of engaging the enemy, you must ensure that I am escorted to the set distance." ”

Watching the sinking of fourth-tier three-masted battleships one after another, the heart of the three thousand Ryuzakura has been beating wildly. Because not long ago, he regarded a three-masted battleship as a treasure, and used a lot of money to transform it into his most satisfactory appearance, but now he was faced with a dozen or dozens of three-masted battleships sinking in his hands, and the huge difference made his heart extremely different.

What happened to the "Kokonomaru"? It has long been sunk, and in a battle of this scale, a fourth-class warship is like artillery fire.

"Fire!" After launching a round of "One Piece's Wrath", the three thousand honryo Sakura led the "Five Seas" fleet to increase the angle of engagement with the enemy.

700 meters!

600 meters!

With the destruction of warships, the battle line of the "Five Seas" fleet continued to shorten.

500 meters!

400 meters!

Tomobe Shoji was sunk, the "One Piece's Fury" combination skill was broken, and Li Youtai blocked in front of the three thousand honliu Sakura and called the "Sniper King" to avoid the danger of being sunk.

300 meters!

Nguyen Minh Zo was sunk.

200 meters!

Hannonimo was sunk.

100 meters!

At this distance, the artillery is basically in a state of flat fire, and after the cannon hits, after the cannonball is fired, the potential energy will basically hit the enemy hull without any loss, and even the fine iron smoothbore cannon can cause some damage to the second-level battleship. However, the power of steel smoothbore guns is also more powerful, and a single cannonball can penetrate several layers of ship boards, even if most of the "Five Seas" fleet are Qingzhou fourth-class battleships and Dahan fourth-class battleships with watertight cabins, under the bombardment of the Far East Fleet, one after another battleships are dumped on the sea.

"Spread out! Disperse! Get out of the way! Gangzi shouted.

The "Flying Henanese" squeezed out of the gap in the fleet and rushed towards the flagship of the Far Eastern Fleet, the "Admiral".

What does he want to do? Do you want to commit suicide? (To be continued)