As the flagship of the Langya fleet and the ship of Gangzi, the "Flying Henan People" is the focus of the Seattle fleet. From the firepower, it is obvious that the Seattle fleet arranged at least seven three-masted battleships for the attack on the "Flying Henanese". In addition, there was a formation of more than a dozen brigs of warships, making a roundabout movement in the direction of travel of the "Flying Henan People" in an attempt to attack from the front of the ship.

The rising water column around the "Flying Henan" had already affected the view of the gunners on the lower deck, and a large number of shells hit the hull and issued a "Boom! Boom! Boom! The sound is endless.

"Inform the front battery to deal with the dozen or so brigs in front, they dare to rush so close, it is estimated that they are bold when they see the 'Flying Henan People' without the bow gun, and ask Joey to teach them a good lesson with 32-pound shells."

"Tell all artillery groups not to carry out predictive attacks based on the fire of the enemy ships' guns, and use all the attack coordinates issued by the captain's office, and tell them to speed up the speed of the cannons, and the Admiral's physical strength is overflowing again."

Gangzi wiped the nosebleed that had overflowed from the excessive recovery of his physical strength and ordered: "Tell the rear battery to keep an eye on the battle behind at all times, and if you find that the enemy ship is overfired, use 26-pound shells to suppress them with rapid-fire fire." ”

"Elizabeth, I hope you can make the fleet battle command more efficient, the Seattle fleet is approaching, and when it reaches the ← sight, the battle will be more intense, and the changes will be faster, you must serve as an early warning and command for our fleet, which will make us suffer more losses less."

The soul "perception" of the "Flying Henan People" will show everything within a radius of 20 nautical miles on the chart in the captain's room, but Gangzi's personal energy is limited, and even Elizabeth can't do it all, so in order to dig out the role of the chart as much as possible, after eliminating the Hawaiian fleet, Gangzi asked Elizabeth to set up a combat command platform for the "Flying Henan People" fleet.

The first is to ask the elves to build a circular workbench around the chart, and gather a dozen sailors with nautical skills to form a chart staff team. Some of them are responsible for sea observation; Some are responsible for friend or foe analysis; Some were responsible for the offensive and mobile ...... of the fleet, and Elizabeth was responsible for the entire staff group operations.

As soon as the battle with the Seattle fleet began, the newly established combat command platform of the "Flying Henan" fleet was put into operation. Through the "nautical charts", the staff officers can accurately understand the position, ocean currents, and wind direction changes of both the enemy and the enemy, and at the same time provide data support or direct command to each detachment or directly to a certain warship according to priority.

The accuracy of this kind of intelligence is more efficient and accurate than the Seattle fleet sending a large number of dhows to reconnoitre, so the Langya fleet did not appear too passive in the face of the superior enemy, and with the support of the "Flying Henan" fleet combat command platform, it constantly carried out a concentrated fire attack on a certain enemy ship formation on the opposite side in advance, with the influence of the flagship skills of the "Flying Henan". hit

The rate turned out to be not much worse than the visual shelling during the day.

In this regard, the Seattle fleet is obviously inferior to the Langya fleet, although due to the shrinkage of the fleet, due to the hairstyle is not disordered, and the fleet has also formed a sloop reconnaissance network, but the Seattle fleet must forward the radio frequency taken by each dhow to the Seattle operations center, and have logistics support personnel to supplement their own charts in a timely manner, and then assign tasks and data to the Seattle fleet according to the situation of the Langya fleet. The more links there are, the more delays in intelligence. Coupled with the evasive navigation of the Langya fleet and the evasion ability granted by the "Flying Henan", the Seattle fleet's hit rate was much lower.

In short, at the beginning of the battle between the two fleets, the Langya fleet was not suppressed because of its small numbers, and the Seattle fleet did not have too much initiative because of the numerical superiority of the warships.

"Report to the Admiral! The three-masted battleship Oregon, badly damaged, asked to withdraw from the battle. ”

The large screen in front of Hugh Hobert was completely filled with battleship and artillery fire. Such a fiery and mobile scene is happening, but he is not at the scene of this exciting war, but in distant Seattle. Although because the opponent is the NPC Navy, he has overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Langya fleet. However, as soon as the war began, the Seattle fleet attacked it with three times as many warships, but it did not get too cheap, but one of its own three-masted battleships was beaten and had to withdraw from the battle.

The Oregon was one of the three-masted battleships engaged the "Flying Henanese". As the object of successive "inspiration" blows by Gangzi, the Oregon, after withstanding several hits from 22-pound shells, suffered damage to the hull and had to withdraw from the battle. Fortunately, it was a literal three-masted battleship. Under the protection of other warships, it calmly withdrew from the battle, and if it was also a parallel cargo, it would probably have been beaten and sunk in the sea.

"Tell the Oregon to retreat to the rear of the fleet for emergency repairs, and the other warships continue to maintain pressure on the 'Flying Henan', don't tell him to calmly aim and open fire, speed up the output of the shells, open the pot around it, and increase the shaking range of their artillery crosshairs; The trees at the end of the flying Henan people are definitely not decorations, they have the ability to attack, and they must be found out. ”

Hugh Hobert recalls the time when the Hawaiian fleet was destroyed, when he was killed in a dinghy by a cannonball thrown from the stern of the "Flying Henanese." It's just that although I also started shooting at that time, the time was too short and I didn't see clearly how the shells flew out. However, it is certain that the "Flying Henan" does not have bow guns and stern guns, and manpower cannot throw such a heavy shell so far, and there must be a means of attack other than artillery on the "Flying Henan".

So such a formation of twelve brigs appeared at the head of the "Flying Henan".

"Joey, it's up to you, you don't need our assistance at such a close distance, you can send those twelve brigs into the sea yourself."

The former battery commander agreed with Joey's words, and he said, "I won't miss a 32-pounder shell at such a close distance." ”

The Black Sail sailors, who were responsible for transporting the shells to the battery, hoisted several larger shell boxes from the ammunition compartment on the bottom floor of the ship through the shaft, and the two druids set up the shell boxes and placed them on the shell delivery racks, and the shells rolled out of the tracks, and the dull sound showed that the weight was really full.

Joey poked his thicker cannon, easily rolled up a 32-pound cannonball, and spun it up, then the second, then the third

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The rattan spinning at high speed emitted a helicopter-like roar. Joey observed the position of the enemy ship through the shelling, the sound of "dong dong dong" is the sound of the battery armor being shot, the protection of this position is the top priority in the design of the gangzi, the thickness of the double-layer world tree plate reaches 50 cm, and the fine iron smoothbore cannon equipped with the two-masted battleship is impossible to cause any damage to it.

"I need to raise the batteries, the enemy ships are too close to us for me to hit them." Joey said after comparing positions, the turret shield blocking his angle of fire.

"No, we are under concentrated fire from enemy ships, and the shells outside are very dense." The gun commander decisively rejected Joey's proposal, and on the "Flying Henan", the protection of the two Treemen was the most important, and if the attack was more violent, the two Treemen would be directly lowered to the bottom of the battleship for protection.

Joy said: "Now that the enemy ships are in the direction of our bow, and no one can attack this position except me, can you just watch a few small shrimp attack unscrupulously in front of us?" We are the most attacking team on the Flying Henan, and if we don't sink these boats, we will die laughed at the rear battery, I don't care. Mark won't steal my place, but are you willing to swap things with the guy in the rear battery? ”

The gunner became a little hesitant: "But ......"

"But what, a 12-pound shell won't hurt me at all, at most I'll drop a few leaves. You will sprinkle one more bucket of manure and it will grow back, don't hesitate to raise the fort immediately. ”

After listening to Joey's words, the gun commander also made up his mind. Through the shaft, the sailors who were in charge of raising and lowering the fort on the ground floor shouted: "The front fort is six blocks up, hurry!" He turned to Joey and said, "If you get shot, I'll put you down immediately." ”

Joey's body began to rise, and the spinning rattan was exposed above the battery armor: "Hahaha...... Do whatever you want. I'm going to get rid of these noisy guys first. ”

"Oh! Oh, God. What's that? As soon as the dancing rattan appeared, it was seen by the captain of the two-masted battleship, why was there a big fan on the top of the big tree, and he looked at what he didn't know was spinning like a propeller, could it be that the Gangzi battleship was also equipped with an airplane? This technology leap is too big, right? ”

Watching the video shot in front of him, Hugh Hobert also wondered about this strange thing, could it be the new power system of the "Flying Henan", which is used to provide lifting force to raise the waterline of the battleship to increase speed, this strange design, the brain hole is too big, can you really fly?

Joey didn't give them much time to guess, the angle arrived, the long-accelerated shells were thrown out, and five shells flew in a straight line towards a Seattle brig.

"Puff puff puff"

The brig was immediately pierced through five large holes in the hull, and the shells that entered the hull were still moving through, penetrating several compartments in a row and smashing into the bottom deck, and the sea water sprayed down the crack like a water gun, and several sailors who wanted to plug the gap were washed away and could not move forward at all, the crack became larger and larger, and finally the sea water pushed away the shells embedded in the deck and poured in along the bullet holes.

Little did Joey know that his first attack had caused irreparable damage to a brig, and at this time he was using cannonballs to name the Seattle battleship in front of him, one battleship had five 32-pound shells, one no more and one no less, all of them were piercing injuries, and the captains of the ships were still beating their hearts.

"What kind of monster is this, how can you still throw cannonballs? And the power of this cannonball is too strong, although it is released at close range, but there is no shot distortion that is incomprehensible, and what is even more exciting is the penetration of the cannonball, which is very damaging to the hull. "The captain of the brig battleship was really frightened, his 12 brigs clanged for a long time, and the other party didn't have any, and the other side casually counterattacked that there were already five battleships sinking and the others were seriously injured, "Lord Admiral, the video has been filmed, and we ask to retreat." ”

In the end, under Joey's blow, not a single brig ran back, and all of them were sunk.

"That tree can throw cannonballs!" In the video replayed back and forth, Hugh Hobert finally discovered the role of the tree man, although he didn't know how the tree could fire cannonballs, but the two big trees in front and behind the "Flying Henan Man" had attack power, and it was confirmed that they had strong attack power.

This is not a third-class warship, according to the volume of shell drops from the "flying Henanese". and the strength of its defense, which has reached the standard of a second-class warship. Where did Gangzi get such a powerful battleship, and I have to put a fleet to deal with this battleship.

"I must take advantage of the opportunity to take this battleship, as long as I have the 'Flying Henan', even if the Seattle fleet is completely wiped out here, I am confident that a more powerful fleet will be built around the 'Flying Henan'."

Hugh Hobert's constant video of the close-up shooting of the "Flying Henan", the powerful firepower, the sturdy hull and the beautiful art, all made him love more and more the more he watched it.

"My lord, in this artillery battle outside the dark visual range, our hit rate is much worse than that of the other side. Isn't it time to change the strategy and ask the fleet to lean in and fight within visual range? ”

Seeing that Hugh Hobert was attracted by the "Flying Henan" and forgot to command the battle, the adjutant reminded in a low voice.

"Order all our ships in Pearl Harbor to move closer to the 'Flying Henan' before the loss, engage it in a broadside battle, give full play to our numerical superiority, and must take this battleship for me."

"My lord, what about our Seattle fleet?"

"All forward press. Put pressure on the Langya fleet, and use the momentum of a decisive battle to force them, so that they can't draw out warships to support the 'Flying Henan'. ”

"Yes!"

"Flying Henan people".

"Lord Gangzi, all the player ships in Pearl Harbor have come out. It's coming at full speed. ”

"The entire Seattle fleet is approaching, and we are about to enter a visual attack."

Gangzi pointed the telescope at the sea on the starboard side, and saw the shadow of the battleship in the firelight: "It seems that they found that the artillery battle outside the visual range at night is not our opponent, and the next battleship will be more intense." Inform the ships to maintain formation that our firepower must be concentrated against the Seattle fleet. Inform the port side gun emplacements to prepare to block the enemy coming from the direction of Pearl Harbor, most of them merchant ships. It won't cause us much trouble. ”

As the distance got closer, knowing that both sides could visually see each other's warships, the hit rate of the shells began to increase, especially the burden of the Seattle fleet increased more obviously, and the result was that the number of bullets in the Langya fleet increased significantly, and many warships began to sink or were seriously injured, so they relied on the protection of their companions to the outside of the fleet to rest.

The Seattle fleet is not easy, the Langya fleet with a good formation is very concentrated, some of them use firepower to suppress the Seattle fleet, and some of the battleships concentrate their artillery to carry out a covering bombardment of a specific sea area, after a few rounds of attacks, there are no ships that can float in the target sea area, and the efficiency of destroying the enemy is very high, and few warships can escape their killing after being targeted.

Moreover, the "Flying Henan" owned by the Langya fleet is even more called the Seattle fleet does not know how to deal with it, and the battleships sent up have not been able to cause effective damage to it, even if seven three-masted battleships are sent to attack him together, it still cannot make him reduce the frequency of firing guns. However, the attack power of the "Flying Henan" is not something that any battleship in the Seattle fleet can withstand, and the three-masted battleship cannot withstand several rounds of his attacks, let alone the two-masted battleship, except for being able to block the cannon hole for their own three-masted battleship, they have no effect on the "Flying Henan".

Although it knew that it would be a great loss to fight against the "Flying Henanese," the Seattle fleet still pushed down one battleship after another under the guns of the "Flying Henanese."

"Report to Lord Gangzi, Pearl Harbor is out of the fleet and is about to come into range of our port guns. Yes...... They turned, and they all drove towards the front of our fleet. ”

"What do these ships want to do, are they ready to occupy the 'T' prefix and attack from the bow position? These people are funny, this tactic is useful against warships of the same class, but the hull of the 'Flying Henan' is much taller than that of the brigs, and they can't hit my deck with shells, all of them will be blocked by the front shell guards. "I can't figure out the purpose of these battleships, Gangzi simply doesn't care about them anymore, after all, the battle on the starboard side is becoming more and more intense, and the transfer of battleships to fill the holes everywhere has occupied all his energy, and he really doesn't have the heart to think about anything else." ”

Seattle Command Center.

"Report to Admiral, the Pearl Harbor Assault Fleet has arrived at its position."

"Order the Seattle fleet to assault the entire fleet, fight the Langya fleet at all costs, cut off the connection between the Langya fleet and the 'Flying Henan' at all costs, and send our personnel to the deck of the 'Flying Henan' at all costs; order the Pearl Harbor Assault Fleet to attack the 'Flying Henan' from the top of the ship, hang all the ships that can hold the 'Flying Henan' on his body, and tell everyone to board' The deck of the flying Henan's ship, close quarters of the hand-to-side battle, be sure to kill Gangzi at the first time, I want to capture this battleship. (To be continued.) )

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