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 said the details of the battle in great detail, they only needed to fight step by step according to the plan, and Gangzi's confident appearance 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 rose high and the sky was cloudless, and the sea breeze was blowing, which was really good weather for battle.

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 Admiral of the British Far East Fleet, the Earl of York, stood on the bridge of the "King of the Seas", still holding his head proud. Like a giant looking down on a child, his 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 of them, the Flying Henan, meets the standards of the capital ships of the Royal Navy of the British Empire. All the others are ships below the fourth rank, a toy navy, and they are not worthy of being the opponents of our British Royal Fleet. In the Atlantic, we defeated the French, defeated the Spanish. Having defeated the Dutch, 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 fourth-class three-masted warships leading fifth-class two-masted warships to form a two-wing attack group. The first-class warship "Sea King" brought all second-class warships and third-class warships to form a central attack group.

The navies of the Han Dynasty have also entered the transformation of attack formations, and only the five fleets have five commanders and five tactical ideas, and looking at the changes in their formations, their attack priorities are different. Once this state enters the battle, under the mutual constraints, the Han Navy is really very dangerous.

The commanders of the Han Navy also saw the disadvantage of the decentralization of command, but who could have enough prestige to make many NPC generals willingly accept the transfer.

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 does he want to do, the commanders of the three fleets are all members of various states, and you, a nouveau riche general in Qingzhou, 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?

Among the other four fleets of the Han Dynasty, 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, and the whole fleet joined the fleet with the flagship of the "Flying Henan People".

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. In the end, under the sweeping momentum of the Han Emperor, 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".

So far, the Jiaozhou Fleet, the Yangzhou Fleet, the Keelung Fleet, and the Hangzhou Fleet have all been under the command of Gangzi, and the Han maritime forces have been unified for the first time, and the whole world has been 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 fleets of the Great Han moved. The "Five Seas" fleet, which merged with the Langya fleet, entered the center of the battlefield and merged 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" with ultra-long-range attack power launched an attack on the front and rear batteries when the two sides were five nautical miles, and the "Black Pearl" was already on standby in its position.

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. Meritorious. 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 Laag fleet, Gangzi did not run out of "guided shells", this time against the main forces of the Far Eastern Fleet. He immediately launched an attack on the "Sea King" with "guided shells". Guided by the end of the Black Pearl, the falling shells continued to adjust their direction with the evasive movement of the "Sea King", and then hit the upper deck of the "Sea King" headlong.

The "guided projectiles" of the first class warship, which had a heavy loss of speed, failed to penetrate its deck, followed by four explosions. The debris of the blast wave swept over the deck, causing a large number of losses among the sailors.

"This kind of shell is really powerful, it really has tracking performance. But in terms of power. The filled gunpowder made the bomb body larger 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", and after experiencing it himself, he also made a pertinent evaluation of this weapon, and the first-class warship could fully withstand this kind of attack, but the open deck may not be able to exert its power for the time being.

"Order the central group of ships to advance in a horizontal formation, and after entering the range of the artillery, use our bow guns to interfere with the enemy ships, the fleet continues to advance, and at a distance of one nautical mile from the enemy fleet it turns into a column battle line, and all the guns of more than 26 pounds concentrate their fire on the 'Flying Henan', and the ships pay attention to the cohesion of the enemy fleet formation, there are a large number of civilian warships among them, and they will break through as soon as they find 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 suffered much damage.

The two fleets continued to advance by firing at each other, and the two wings of the Dahan Navy began to compress towards the middle. The two wings of the Far Eastern Fleet immediately stepped forward to resist them, not asking them to participate in the duel in the central theater, and the originally straight battle line was pressed out of the arc, and when the Far Eastern Fleet blocked the squeeze of the two wings of the Great Han, 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 artillery concentration was exposed. Immediately, a storm of projectiles was set off, and all that flew through the air was flying shells.

"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, and it must have hidden another side of the fleet. It is estimated that he was frightened to see that his cannonball did not show the power he imagined on the 'Sea King', and now he only dared to secretly release the cold cannon, a powerful legendary-class battleship, which was actually used by him as a status amplifier. I used to think highly of him. However, I can also understand his ignorance of first-class warships, after all, third-class battleships are rare items in the Far East. ”

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

"Inform the battleship to continue pressing, and now the flowering bombs attacking us are obviously thrown at a large angle. As soon as we reduce the distance to a short enough point, he will lose the firing angle and instead attack our side at a small angle so that we can call our sailors into the open deck. Unleash all our firepower. ”

The Far East Fleet continued to oppress, and the fleet composed of all the 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 warships were destroyed and sunk, but the results of the battle were very few.

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

The three thousand Ryu Sakura launched their skills again and again, but the fine iron smoothbore cannon, which usually feels very sharp, is so powerless against the second-class battleships of the Far East Fleet that the cannonballs can't even penetrate the armor of the enemy ship, at most it interferes with the accuracy of the opponent's cannons.

"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......)