Chapter 50: Stranded

The "Flying Henan" was transferred to rest, which made the situation of the Jimo three-masted battleship group, which was already inferior in the number of three-masted battleships, even more embarrassing.

Gangzi ordered the fleet to switch to a defensive ring formation to fend off the attacks of enemy warships.

Soon, the "Hengshan" was attacked by two enemy ships, and because of its injuries, it had to retreat into the inner circle to recuperate. The situation of the battle was even more unfavorable for the Jimo fleet.

The "Kaiyang" opened full fire on the side cannons, and just after the battle with the opponent's flagship, the admiral of the Langya fleet felt the ferocious firepower of the "Flying Henan". This is still an ordinary three-masted battleship, if the admiral of the other side carries out a firepower transformation of his ship, and with the excellent rate of fire, it can be as long as the "Kaiyang" with a 16-pounder gun.

However, as the commander of a fleet, he has the ability to build powerful sloops and brigs, and the other three-masted battleships also have many traces of transformation, so why not make a transformation of the flagship of the entire fleet? The Admiral of the Langya Fleet was puzzled, but the mistake made by the other party was beneficial to his own side, and the Admiral of the Langya Fleet did not think much about it. The newly replaced defense-strengthened three-masted battleship obviously lacks firepower, which is a mistake made by the opponent, "A mercenary is a mercenary, even if you put on an official body, you can't change the nature of your low combat quality, in the face of a three-masted battleship with 54 steel smoothbore breaks, relying only on a defensive battleship to deal with it is really a death-seeking act, if it were me, I would send two three-masted battleships to the other party'Kaiyang', but it seems that the number of three-masted battleships in the Jimo fleet itself is insufficient, hahaha......"

Against the "Mercury", the "Kaiyang" launched a frantic attack, and the commander of the Langya fleet also frequently used the captain's technique "Broken Armor" to enhance the power of artillery bombardment. However, his imagination of the enemy ship falling apart and being quickly sunk did not happen. Even if only 10 of the 20 guns on the side could be used, the "Mercury" would not sink.

"What kind of ship is this? Why is it so durable? The "Mercury," which was riddled with holes, kept firing back with the only remaining naval guns, and under the repeated shells of the "Kaiyang," there was no sign of sinking.

The Admiral of the Langya fleet was very depressed, under the attack of 22-pounder guns. It is impossible for a three-masted battleship with a strengthened defense to be so strong, the other party must have a strong captain's skill to support it, and thinking of the firepower shown by the opponent's flagship, the admiral of the Langya fleet is even more determined to destroy the Jimo fleet here.

"The 'Gaoyang' stepped forward to ...... with me" The admiral of the Langya fleet was about to call a three-masted battleship to deal with the "Mercury", but before the words fell, he felt a shock to the hull of the ship, and the whole hull stopped suddenly.

"Hit the bottom! How can it be! The fleet has been circling around the circular array of the Jimo fleet, and this water area has passed through twice without any problems. ”

Due to the sinking of the bottom of the ship, the curved bottom could not support the battleship upright. The Kaiyang began to tilt to one side, and the Admiral of the Langya fleet hurriedly grabbed the bridge railing to prevent himself from slipping, but the sailors on deck were not so lucky, and everything on deck rolled downward with the tilt of the hull, including powder kegs, shells, and even more deadly naval guns.

The sailors were either crushed to death by various things, or fell into the water and sank to the bottom of the sea along with a large amount of dumping.

Before the admiral of the Langya fleet came to his senses, the three-masted battleship group led by him all reported: "Our ship has hit the bottom, the hull has begun to tilt, please ask the Admiral for instructions!" ”

However, the admiral of the Langya fleet was too busy to take care of himself at this time, and he could still give them instructions there.

Let's look at the Jimo fleet side. Their boats were all floating on the sea unharmed, and they calmly turned around and aimed the other side of the ship intact.

"What the hell is going on!" However, the Admiral of the Langya Fleet soon discovered the reason, "They actually took advantage of the tide!" The sea is at low tide. When the sea level drops, the seabed, which could have been safely passed, becomes the strongest killer of ships. ”

But why didn't the Jimo fleet hit the bottom? The Admiral of the Langya Fleet looked at the Jimo Three-Mad Battleship, and a phenomenon that had puzzled him before the battle was finally answered.

The three-masted battleships of the Jimo fleet had a very low draft hull, and they reduced the charge of the three-masted battleships to raise the waterline of the ships. In this way, even if the sea level drops, the three-masted battleships of the Jimo fleet are not in danger of bottoming out.

The Admiral of the Langya Fleet quickly thought about how to get out of the predicament in front of him. The battlefield here was obviously designed for the three-masted battleships of the Langya fleet, in order to trap one's own three-masted battleships. According to the depth of the water at this time, although the three-masted battleship can be trapped here, the two-masted battleship can be unimpeded.

Then the bomb load of the Jimo three-masted battleship at this time is the most favorable factor for the Langya fleet to turn back the battle. In order to be able to pass in this shallow water area, it is estimated that the Jimo three-masted battleship only carries one to two percent of the ammunition, and the two fleets have been fighting for a long time, and with the three-masted battleship's full firepower on the ammunition consumption rate, the ammunition of the Jimo three-masted battleship should not be much.

The situation of the battle between the rear brig-class warships has developed in the favorable direction of the Langya fleet, and the Jimo fleet has been completely chaotic interspersed with the Langya battleships, and the Langya battleships with a certain degree occupy the initiative on the battlefield, and are destroying the Jimo battleships with an exchange ratio of 1 to 1.5, but over time, this proportion will be greater.

If the two-position battleship group of the Langya fleet can free up their hands, then the Jimo three-masted battleship with a lack of ammunition will not be their opponent.

Thinking of this, the Admiral of the Langya Fleet immediately issued an order to his own two-position battleship group to fight quickly. As long as the two-position battleship group can quickly rush back, it will be the end of the Jimo three-masted battleship.

On the "Flying Henan People", he felt the sound of friction between the bottom of the ship and the bottom of the sea from the soles of his feet, and Gangzi wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, "It's so dangerous, it's so dangerous, fortunately, my brother withdrew from the battle in time to arrange personnel to drain the water, otherwise my brother would have to hang on the deck like the Langya Navy." ”

Looking at the three-masted battleships of the Langya fleet, as calculated at the beginning, the sea tide receded, and all the Langya three-masted battleships bottomed out and fell on the sea. These warships have completely lost their combat effectiveness and become lambs to the slaughter, but in order to prevent the Langya three-masted battleship from blowing itself up, Gangzi ordered his own three-masted battleship to set up a cordon within a safe range.

Gangzi had already won an absolute victory against the three-masted battleships of the Langya fleet, but he did not put the three-masted battleships into the battle in the rear. As the Admiral of the Langya Fleet expected, the three-masted battleships of the Jimo Fleet have reduced their load for this trap, and after the fierce battle just now, the ammunition of each ship is not much left.

The situation of the battle in the rear was also controlled by Gangzi in a timely manner, and the Jimo fleet was indeed in an extremely disadvantageous position, and the number of warships that originally had a slight advantage had been leveled by the other party, which was still in the case of the performance advantage of the fifth-class battleships of the Jimo Dahan Dynasty. In the ultra-high-intensity melee, players do have a big gap with NPCs.

However, Gangzi did not expect his Han V-class warship to defeat the other party from the beginning, and he had another fleet ambushed at the northern corner of Zhaogong Island.

With the order of the general attack, it was issued from the "Flying Henanese".

All the fifth-level battleships of Jimo Dahan entangled each of their opponents like crazy, and the intensity of the battlefield escalated again.

At this time, a fleet drove from the side of Zhaogong Island in the northern seas.

Hideous iron-cast dragon heads, thick covered with sharp thorn back armor, ten extremely long slurry poking out from the belly on both sides of the hull, neatly rowing backwards in the sea, twenty warships like ugly sea monsters, constantly accelerating, accelerating, accelerating.

Tortoiseshell Ship: A Goryeo warship, its main combat method is to use the iron dragon head and dragon tail of the bow and stern to ram. The human-powered oars give it decent explosiveness, and its melee combat ability is terrifying on narrow battlefields.

These tortoiseshell ships were developed from the tortoiseshell ships that Gangzi captured from Goryeo, and they were also the secret weapons that Wei Yu transferred to Gangzi from the Donglai Navy.

The combat method of tortoiseshell ships is to first use other warships to limit the movement space of the enemy ship, and then rush forward to collide. In the open sea, the ships can be arbitrarily vertical and horizontal, and the effectiveness of the tortoiseshell ship is limited, so after Gangzi got these tortoiseshell ships, he set out to find a suitable type of tortoiseshell ship between Jimo and Langya.

After selection, Zhaogong Island became an excellent choice.

During the battlefield survey, Gangzi just caught up with the high tide and low tide, and a Han fifth-class battleship he was riding was stranded in the shallow sea area of Zhaogong Island, so another set of ambush plans for the three-masted battleships of the Langya fleet took shape in Gangzi's mind.

Take advantage of the tide to lure the three-masted battleships of the Langya fleet to the shallow water of Zhaogong Island at high tide, and when the tide falls, you can trap them, and then use your own Han five-class battleships to entangle the opponent's two-position battleships, and finally clear the field with tortoiseshell ships.

In this way, even if the shallow water area did not trap the three-masted battleship group of the Langya fleet, the Jimo fleet could use the tortoiseshell ship and the three-masted battleship to destroy the opponent's three-masted battleship according to the original plan, and then turn around to deal with their two-masted battleship. It's just that the three-masted battleships of the Jimo fleet have to reduce the ammunition they load in order to sail in shallow waters, and in the end, the Jimo fleet may pay heavy losses.

But now it seems that Gangzi's plan is very successful, and the Jimo fleet will usher in a brilliant victory.

The tortoiseshell ships were advancing, and the Black Pearl, which was lying in ambush with them, provided increased speed for the tortoiseshell group to charge.

Looking at the tortoiseshell ships with hard shells and dragon heads driving past the side of the "Kaiyang" one by one, the eyes of the Admiral of the Langya Fleet showed a look of despair, "The Langya Fleet is finished!" ”

"But the three-masted battleship of the Xuzhou Navy must not fall into the hands of the Qingzhou Navy." Grabbing the railing and hanging on the deck, the Admiral of the Langya fleet was about to give the order to blow up the ship, when a feathered arrow fell from the sky, passed through his throat and nailed to the deck.

"Fortunately" Kristol, who was standing in the mast basket of the flying Henanren, put away the longbow in his hand and made a 500-meter projectile on the bumpy hull, which was also difficult for a master archer. (To be continued......)