Chapter 49 Division

The Langya fleet is still approaching, and the continuous battle line is not visible from the beginning to the end.

The opposing sides remained silent, and the atmosphere at the scene was extremely depressing. As the distance closes, they can see the movement of the opposite side directly with the naked eye without a telescope, and the gun doors on the side are all open, and you can see that the black gun ports are facing them, and all the sailors are nervously hiding behind the hull, waiting for the signal of the gun commanders on each deck.

The gun commanders stood at the back of the deck, the hatch above their heads was open, and directly above was the bridge where the captain was, at this time the order to open the guns was still not given, as the commander of the first layer of artillery, the gun commanders shouted over and over again: "Check the lead of each gun again, tell your torches to stay away, remember that we are all navy, we are the gunners of the Jimo fleet, we train twice the number of scrapped guns every week than the Langya fleet, we have defeated the Langya fleet, from Jimo to Langya, today will not be an exception." No, they don't have a chance to run back today, and after a while to bring out your usual training level, I have already smelled sharks in the sea, and asked us to prepare them a good lunch. ”

"Roaring ......"

Hearing the excited roars of the sailors beneath his feet, Gangzi smiled and continued to observe his opponent with a telescope.

The flagship of the Langya fleet "Kaiyang" is the most powerful battleship of the Langya fleet, and the firepower of the 54 guns strengthens and transforms the battleship← the long ← wind ← literature and ←, c↘fx, especially the steel smoothbore guns equipped on it, which makes Gangzi both worried and envious.

"Tell the elves to go to starboard and prepare, and when the battle begins, you need to repair the damage to the battleship's vital points as soon as possible, we can't count on random repairs to the bow statue of the Jingwei Bird," Gangzi said to Christol beside him, "You go to the gondola of the mainmast, and when the general attack begins, you are responsible for sniping their fleet admiral." I'm going to take the 'Kaiyang.'"

Christol agreed, and after conveying Gangzi's order to the elf to which he belonged, he grabbed the cable and climbed up quickly. When he climbed halfway.

There was a roar from beneath his feet, followed by the shaking of the hull of the ship, and Christol wrapped his foot around the cable to hold himself to his sliding body and look down.

The "Flying Henan" and "Kaiyang" opened fire at the same time, and the flagship's cannon sound was like a lit lead, and the battleships behind followed suit, and a string of roars and thick smoke quickly transmitted the battle order to the rear.

The main showdown between the Jimo fleet and the Langya fleet began. Due to the tacit understanding of both sides chose a close-range artillery battle, the battle entered a white-hot battle at the beginning.

The gunners of the ships after the shells were fired. Quickly reload the shells, without the need for the commander to direct the firing, and outside the gun door is the huge hull of the enemy ship and the spitting guns. What had been thought to be a sturdy armor was so weak in an artillery battle at such a distance that the enemy's cannonballs easily pierced the hull and broke the sailors with torches in two, and the scattered sawdust pierced all the rest of the crew to the ground like sharp arrows.

The gunner shouted: "Carry all the men from the No. 4 gun, and the No. 21 gun group into the No. 4 gun, hurry up and fire the damn shells and give them a little color." We should not be suppressed by them. ”

The "Flying Henan" quickly suffered a large number of casualties in the fight between the 16-pounder iron smoothbore gun and the 22-pounder steel smoothbore gun, and the number of guns was small. One after another, they fired a cannonball at the "Kaiyang".

Gangzi also frequently launched "encouragement" to redeem the disadvantage of artillery.

The same fierce battles were fought on every battleship in the engagement, with gunsmoke and cannonballs flying, each cannon being the most accurate hit, and every cannon being a penetrating shot. Sailors on both sides of the battle showed what a navy should be. The deck was full of shells and sawdust passing through, and there were constant killings and injuries, the roar of the guns, and the shouts of the gun commanders. Without the slightest hesitation, they mechanically cleaned the chambers, loaded the ammunition, and then lit the fuses at the enemy ships outside the gun doors.

The life-and-death battle unfolded in the two fleets, and under the high-intensity battle, the Jimo fleet did not appear in the chaos imagined by the Langya navy, and the ships maintained a good spacing and did not give the Langya warships a chance to intersperse. Of course, the Jimo captains have surpassed the combat quality of ordinary players, and the excellent operability of the hard sail battleship also makes the Jimo battleship more flexible.

While the two fleets were engaged, they advanced along the coastline of Zhaogong Island. The admiral of the Langya fleet realized that if he continued to fight like this, the result would definitely be unfavorable to the Langya fleet, which had poor warship performance. The fighting spirit and tactics shown by the opponent in the firefight broke the navy's perception of the player: "Such a terrible opponent, if it is allowed to develop, the strength of the Qingzhou Navy equipped with advanced warships will far exceed that of Xuzhou, and today we must destroy this fleet." The Xuzhou Navy must also unite with the Allies to destroy Jimo Port and Donglai Port as soon as possible. ”

The admiral of the Langya fleet conveyed his judgment back to the Xuzhou Palace, and at the same time ordered the Langya warships to break into the ranks of the Jimo fleet as soon as possible, break up their formation, and give full play to their advantages.

After receiving the order, the Langya battleship replaced all its guns with grapeshot shells and blocked the muzzles of the Jimo battleship with scattered shells, and then the battleship began to cut inward at a large angle and rushed towards the joint of the Jimo battleship.

The warships on both sides fought even harder, all the sailors were completely withstanding each other's shells and firing, the sailors of each gun position were constantly changing, the smoke of gunpowder filled the entire deck, screams, cries for help, reports from subordinates, orders from superiors and the constant requests of the gunners to allocate their manpower to open their guns. All kinds of information reached the ears of the player captains of the Jimo fleet, and the problems that needed to be dealt with piled up in front of the players' captains, and the speed of combat changes had exceeded the intensity of their usual training.

As a result, the formation of the Jimo fleet inevitably slack, and a slight loophole in the formation was interspersed by the Langya warship.

The Jimo fleet was divided into two, and the Langya fleet immediately followed, and some of the Langya battleships used the position advantage obtained to force the warships in the second half of the Jimo fleet to break away from the forward formation in disguise, and the other part accelerated forward with the intention of attacking from the port side of the first half of the Jimo fleet, and the Langya battleships in the starboard direction flanked the Jimo battleships in the middle.

Seeing that the formation in the second half of the Jimo fleet would not be able to get rid of the entanglement of the opponent for a while, Gangzi ordered the ten Han fifth-class battleships of the Mihao Department that had been sailing inward when the Langya battleship was about to threaten his port side: "Stop the Langya battleship coming up from the left at all costs; Hairstyles are not messy! Are you just going to call those ships to stop so many of you? They're in front of you, and you won't hit him! ”

The eldest brother was angry, and his unruly temperament also aroused ferocity, and the bow of the ship no longer turned with the oppression of the opponent, and the rudder was full to the right, and it slammed into the opponent's hull with one head.

After a short shock, the hairstyle did not mess with the waist knife: "Brothers, kill me!" With that, he jumped on the opponent's battleship first. The captain looked up and jumped into the gang, and even the inkmen rushed over with a scream.

The other Jimo battleships also followed suit and collided with the nearby Langya battleship. The battleships of the Langya fleet, which was responsible for containing the rear formation of Jimo, soon fell into the bitter battle of white-knuckle combat, and the remaining Jimo battleships bypassed the chaotic battlefield of broadside battles and supported the main force in front.

In the battle ahead, due to Mi Hao's timely filling, Gangzi's three-masted battleship group was not attacked from both sides, but Ding Xin and Bai Sibu, who were not protected by Mi Hao, had to endure a bitter battle from both sides.

Moreover, the artillery battle with the "Kaiyang" is also called "Flying Henan People" is a bit overwhelming, the power of the steel smoothbore cannon is not a joke, if there is no Jingwei Bird bow statue, if there is no elf to pay a major sacrifice to repair the hull, the "Flying Henan People" is estimated to have begun to sink.

"The three-masted battleship formation is speeding up, we must attract the enemy's three-masted battleship group to the general attack position as soon as possible, Mi Hao will respond to Ding Xin and Bai Si, and other warships will counter-penetrate the enemy fleet, and we will try to leave more Langya battleships at the beginning of the general attack."

According to the original plan, it is impossible to introduce all the Langya fleet into the ambush circle, and the current situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for the Jimo fleet, and the front and rear detachment fleets are becoming chaotic under the squeeze of the Langya fleet.

So since it's messy, let's call the battle a little more chaotic, trap all the brigs of the Langya fleet, and concentrate on dealing with the enemy's three-masted battleships first, and then turn back to deal with these brigs.

The three-masted battleship group of the Jimo fleet began to accelerate, and their captains were either excellent NPC captains or top players, and even the sailors on the ship were carefully selected, and the good personnel structure made the connection between the three-masted battleship formations very smooth. As soon as Gangzi gave the order, the nine battleships increased their speed at the same time, not worrying at all that they would collide with the battleships in front, and the smooth cooperation did not give the Langya battleship any chance to rush in.

The opponent increased his speed, and the three-masted battleship formation of the Langya fleet also began to speed up in order to maintain the offensive against the enemy ships. The heavy firepower groups of the two fleets gradually left behind the sticky brigs and headed for the waters ahead.

In order to prevent the Jimo fleet from escaping by the open sea, the three-masted battleship group of the Langya fleet increased its speed again, and squeezed inward as a whole to prevent the Jimo three-masted battleship group from crossing the coastline on the east side of Zhaogong Island.

Gangzi looked at the chart and looked at the time: "No matter how the Langya battleship presses, all the battleships are not allowed to approach the inside, now there are fifteen minutes before the general attack, we are a little ahead, the three-masted battleship formation began to slow down and line up in a circular defensive formation, the 'Mercury' is responsible for resisting the 'Kaiyang', this guy's cannon is too powerful, you should be careful yourself." ”

After saying that, Gangzi turned the "Flying Henan People" into the inner side of the fleet, and the "Mercury" quickly stepped forward to take over the confrontation with the "Kaiyang." Without resting, the "Flying Henan People" was really in danger of sinking. (To be continued......)

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