Chapter 53: Preparing for a Defensive War
The battlefield of the Lingxiao Combined Fleet has been completely chaotic, at least in the eyes of the spectators, the Combined Fleet and the Tosa Owari Fleet have been mixed, there is no obvious dividing line between the two sides, the larger the formation, the more scattered, and many warships are fighting alone. ∮∮,
In terms of the number of main warships, the Lingxiao Combined Fleet has a disadvantage, but they are more proficient in the use of the "butterfly tactics" of the small formation, although the fleet has been melee with the Owari fleet, but with the assistance of powerful out-of-game logistics assistants, the ships have always maintained contact with each other, like a rope buckle on a large net, firmly holding the impact of the Owari fleet, and constantly forming a local firepower advantage to hit the enemy ships head-on.
The Fuso Owari fleet has also established its own game support units outside of the game, but the focus of their training has always been on the use of large formations, and the training of small formations is only for the purpose of sparring large formations. Facts have also proved that the "cross" formation of the Owari fleet did restrain the "butterfly tactics" of the Lingxiao fleet to a certain extent, but the "extremely shameless" command of its capital ships to use its superiority in mobility to attack merchant ships and the dhow warships of the Owari fleet in the angry sea was so angry that the Owari fleet had to give up its superiority in defense and attack and maneuver with the Lingxiao Combined Fleet. Fortunately, the Owari fleet has more capital ships than the Lingxiao Combined Fleet, so it will not be overwhelmed by the angry sea battle.
Gradually, the warships of both sides began to appear damaged, and the sky also brightened and darkened, but the battle between the two sides continued to be fierce. Because neither side can get out of the melee, they can only do it with their eyes wide open.
In the auxiliary combat hall of the Lingxiao Legion, the large screen shows the battle map of the Combined Fleet, with the blue dot representing the Combined Fleet competing in the Angry Sea, and the red dot representing the Owari Fleet. On the battle map, the Fuso player ship group has been evacuated, and the periphery is the battle zone of the two sidearms dhows, looking at the number of red and blue dots and the battle loss ratio of the two sides. The Combined Fleet of the Sky occupies a certain advantage. But the outcome of the war is only an important weight, and the winner of the capital ship will occupy the initiative in the direction of the war.
Hua Cai had been standing under the battle diagram and staring at the movement of the dots above, these extremely simple geometric shapes had firmly occupied all of her mind at this time.
10 vs. 12, both sides paid heavy losses in the daytime battle, and the United Fleet still had the disadvantage of two capital ships. Now, due to the weakened vision at night, the ships of both sides of the battle are closer together, and the damage of each ship is refreshed more quickly.
"How much time does Sugar Candy's Guards have to arrive?" Hua Cai did not show eagerness and panic in her tone, and even her appearance did not become haggard due to long hours of work, and her temperament was still outstanding and beautiful. The people around her were busy but not impatient, and the entire legion chain of command maintained efficient operation.
"The Guards Legion has incorporated a large number of support players, but the speed of action of these players is too slow, Commander Sugar Xiaotang asked our merchant ship escort fleet to reorganize these player ships, she is supporting the combat zone at full speed with the main force of the Guards Legion, and now it has reached the southern waters of the Yellow Sea, it is estimated that it will take two days to reach the combined fleet engagement area, and it is estimated that it will take two days and twelve hours to reach the special fleet engagement area."
Hua Cai was slightly silent, and then ordered: "There is no hurry on both sides. Tell Sugar Xiaotang not to go to the battle area to support, and go directly to Jeju Island to cooperate with the Star Guild to establish the Jeju Island defense line, and then the escort fleet will also sail to Jeju Island after reorganizing the player's ships. ”
"Contact the Youzhou Green Forest Legion and ask them to assemble a large army on the border of Han and Goryeo to deter. Prevent Goryeo players from turning to Fuso and joining the anti-hegemony alliance. At the same time, it is hoped that they can organize elite troops to be on standby all the time to deal with the possible landing battle of Jeju Island by Fusang players. ”
"There are also refurbished iron smoothbore guns that the legion got a few days ago, and all of them were sent to Jeju Island to strengthen the defense of Xingchen Village."
"Inform the intelligence department to tilt their work towards Fuso, and Fuso players want to attack our coast smoothly. Jeju Island is a stinger stuck in their throats, and the next big battle will definitely revolve around Jeju Island, and Jeju Island will have to be kept no matter what. ”
"Order Ling Xiao's Second Army to assemble. Order the Lingxiao merchant fleet to assemble, Lingxiao's second army immediately landed on Jeju Island to set up a front-line military camp, arranged the personnel on duty, and the others planted the emergency assembly flag in the barracks and returned to the city. ”
Hua Cai gave orders again and again. The main forces of the White Shark Fleet and the Archangel Fleet are about to be exhausted, and the battlefield on the side of the Lingxiao Fleet will also be revealed at dawn. Gangzi's Lingxiao Special Fleet will definitely be wiped out in the face of several times the Tosa Fleet, and when the Tosa Fleet supports the Owari Fleet, the Lingxiao Combined Fleet will not be able to support it for long.
The first phase of this East Asian naval war will end in these two days, and the main force of the fleet that the Han players now have will be all wiped out, and the battle will turn into a coastal defensive battle.
Defense does not mean waiting for the enemy to attack the door, Goryeo is a subject country of the Han at this time, and it can be regarded as half of the home of the Han players, and Huacai is preparing to establish the first line of defense of the Han on Jeju Island to consume the strength of the Fuso players.
A series of orders were issued one after another from Dongnae, and the Youzhou Green Forest Legion was invited to start assembling troops on the border of Dahan and Goryeo, and the cross-border teleportation fee was very expensive, but it was relatively cheap to teleport within Goryeo mainland through the border, so as long as the iron cavalry of the Green Forest Legion crossed the border, it could threaten any location in Goryeo.
After receiving the information from the legion, the players of the Second Army of Lingxiao scattered all over the place quickly teleported Donglai and planted their emergency assembly flag on the transport ship in Lingxiao Harbor. The Lingxiao merchant fleet will take a shipload of emergency assembly flags to Jeju Island, and after arriving, the players of the Lingxiao Second Army will teleport to the emergency assembly flag to land, and then plant the flag in the assembly area of the barracks, so that the Lingxiao Second Army only needs to arrange the personnel who take turns to defend the barracks, and the others can continue to do their own thing, and once a battle occurs, the Lingxiao Second Army can quickly appear in Jeju Island.
After asking the staff department to draw up the battle plan for Jeju Island, Hua Cai continued to look at the battle chart, and it seemed that after a while, she privately chatted with the angry sea and said: "The last time Gangzi attacked the Iron Triangle Port, we could carry out shelling outside the visual range at night, can we also use it?" If you fight like this now, the loss is too fast. ”
Of course, the battle in the angry sea also knows that the increase in the hit rate of this kind of close-range artillery bombardment invisibly increases the advantage of two more brigs in the Owari fleet, but this is a sailing ship that has no radar available, and it can only see so far at night, how to do shelling outside the line of sight? He replied, "Gangzi should have the ability to enhance his vision at night, and I don't have such a lucky player among my people." ”
"If we don't have the skills, we can think of another way, don't all the brigs have traffic boats on them? If we ask our observers to sit in a dinghy and put them into the sea as fixed observation posts, we can observe a sea area, and if there are more such observation posts, we can spell out the detailed location of the enemy and the enemy, and then call the auxiliary personnel to do the coordinate calculation and calculate the shelling data, and then we can ask our warships to attack targets that cannot be seen. ”
As soon as Hua Cai said this, the angry sea battle suddenly opened, and then thought about the plan he and Gangzi had made, and said to Hua Cai with a laugh: "Commander! As you say, I will immediately arrange for the fleet to lower the observation posts, and you will ask the auxiliary department to accept it, and I will disclose a little in advance, and I will report to you after dawn. ”
Success? Send observation posts, the Fuso people are expected to learn it soon, this naval battle should be a war of attrition in the end, is it rare to win the battle of anger with these fast-sinking ships?
Hua Cai didn't know what basis the Battle of the Furious Sea could defeat the Owari fleet, but he didn't ask in detail, and was soon overwhelmed by the various problems brought about by the movement of the legion.
After contacting the combat support department, the Angry Sea Fight ordered the fleet to send observation posts, and as one small boat after another arrived at the position, the precise position of the Owari battleship appeared on the combat chart of the Lingxiao Legion, and then the Lingxiao Combined Fleet spread outward together and gradually broke away from the field of vision of the Owari fleet.
"The Lingxiao Combined Fleet is going to retreat, all the warships immediately come forward to pursue, don't tell them to run away, the victory belongs to our Owari fleet, onboard!"
Before the sound fell, suddenly the sound of cannons was heard in the darkness, and the cannonballs were approaching, and the captains of the Owari fleet could not even see the battleship that opened the cannon. Shelling outside the line of sight, it is rare that the Lingxiao fleet is equipped with radar?
Of course it can't be, there is news that Gangzi, the commander of the special fleet in the Ling Xiao fleet, does have the skill of night vision enhancement, this skill Ling Xiao fleet cannot be owned by everyone, how did the Ling Xiao United Fleet do it.
Although the observation post under the Angry Sea Rivalry was unremarkable, it was quickly discovered by the Owari fleet. Instead of wasting shells attacking these small boats, the Owari fleet sent its own boats with melee personnel to seize observation points.
The establishment and contention of observation points established a new mode of night warfare.
The capital ships bombarded each other with naval guns across the sea, and the melee personnel fought back and forth in small boats, and with the large consumption of small boats, the two sides invariably transferred the outer sloops into the battlefield to compete for observation points. The scene of the battle was even more chaotic, with a large amount of debris and wreckage all over the sea, and even affecting the movement of the ships.
The two sides hold the few cards in their hands, each with a strange strategy to try their best to destroy each other, but the opponent will meet the good material, and in the end no one can help anyone, the dhow is constantly refueled and thrown into the center of the battlefield, the brig continues to sink into the water, this is a contest of wills, to see who can hold on from the night, to meet the dawn of dawn. (To be continued......) u