January 1, 110.

Three months ago, with the intervention of the Burning Wheel Sea Artillery City in the war, the attack on the north side of the Blue Gold Gu Worm "Boom" was contained. At this time, an important flaw of Ju Hotaru was exposed: her sea power was weak.

The huge fleet of the Golden Beetle Empire still existed in the time of Zheng Xin.

A total of 232 warships of more than 10,000 tons. Although this is a rapid-fire gun battleship with a broadside opening, it is not a dreadnought. However, due to its sheer size, the Burning Ship could not be wiped out in three months, but as long as a detachment of the fleet still existed in the sea area, then there would be a threat to the lifeline of the Burning Wheel.

But after the Zhengxin era, this huge fleet no longer existed.

After the collapse of Zheng Xin.

500,000 tons were directly left on the coastline of the land bridge, that is, Genghe and those generals were in the hands.

The 1,200,000-ton warship stayed in the harbor downstream of the Saint-Horn Impact Plain. Several princes besieged the regent while preventing each other from backstabbing each other, and this fleet also nominally belonged to them.

However, the navy is a gold-devouring beast, and this giant Gu worm warship also has the same attributes. Not to mention the life of the barrel and body tube required for daily training, not to mention the shells and various supplies. Even the daily consumption of the biological structure of the battleship also requires twelve tons of food supply.

In a state of warlord melee, a large amount of resources are tilted towards land. Such a large fleet is called the heavens and the earth.

Behind the supply - that's a common thing.

In order to ensure the front-line firepower, the rapid-fire guns of the ship were directly dismantled!

And in the royal war in the north, the direct gendarmerie took over the port and packed all the gunners in the navy. After several years of war, the organization of these gunners was completely disorganized.

And the opposite is on the side of the burning wheel.

After the collapse of Zhengxin, there were still seventeen imperial warships escorting the burning steamer. Due to the rebellion of the Flying Locust family at that time, this fleet was in a wait-and-see state for a while.

After the victory of the Purple Heart River.

The captains of all 17 warships were hired by the steamer to ensure the safety of the ship's passage.

Then with the increasing number of convoys in the local convoy of the burning ship. The mercenary fleet disbanded itself.

The captains of the 14 ships simply mortgaged the ships to the ranship and took the loan to invest in industry and commerce on Xiahong Island. And the crew members are also scattered to join the sea power of the Burning Steamer, after all, the salary of the Burning Ship Navy is high and the treatment is good.

These warships of the Golden Beetle Empire were not directly sent to the scrap factory - because after all, there were shipwives on it.

All the hulls were repaired and converted into tugboats, which were quite expensive to run, and the wives on it were paid. Some people think that Burning Wheel is losing money, but time quickly proved that this is a national player-level fall!

In the arrangement of the burning ship, none of the captain, the ship's mother, the sailors, and the gunners suffered losses. Even the owner of the battleship sells the battleship for money.

Started in 108.

Zheng Xin and the generals gradually mortgaged the battleship to Zhouyou and replaced it with tanks and artillery.

And the fleet cluster in Golden Beetle Harbor has basically escaped. If they don't run away, the ship's mother will starve and must sleep, and the gunner and captain will be captured. - Must escape. With the money of the steamer merchants, these ships replenished the supplies of a single voyage and flew directly out of the port.

So just like that, the empire's fleet collapsed, and the afterburner bought this sea power with money.

Excellent sailors, symbiotes who are familiar with the hydrology of the waterway (ship mother), all of them work on the side of the burning ship.

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In 109, when the Blue Gold Gu Nest of Absolute Fireflies appeared, several of her younger brothers were left with only Depression Harbor. Her own Gu nest build? As is the case with organisms in nature, the larger the individual, the slower it grows. The huge fleet of the Golden Beetle Empire took decades to accumulate.

In the face of the giant cannon of the burning ship at sea, Ju Hotaru can only take a shortcut: a large number of civilian ships have been requisitioned on the coastline, and the host full of tumors has been squeezed into the hull, like a biological aircraft carrier. This improvised fleet was so violently slaughtered towards the western sea area. - No, it won't work. Because the railguns that could not contain the burning wheels continued to move westward, then the core area would be bombed.

So on November 4, 109, the two sides fought a naval battle in the area of the left inflection point of the "Boom" coastline, and the style of the two sides was as follows: a large number of electric mosquitoes began to fire at the burning ships in formation, and at the same time the flying sickles also came from the sea. Jutland suddenly became Midway.

From a strategic point of view, this naval battle was an attack by burning ships, and the detachment almost stabbed it in the armpit. Tactically, the Blue Bug Tide is more proactive.

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The 3rd Air Defense Fleet of the Burning Wheel, the armor 137 anti-aircraft ship. "Bang, bang", the splints of the ship's hull were punched through the holes. Of course, sparks bounced on the shield of the anti-air rapid-fire gun. A 30-gram projectile shot by an electric mosquito can penetrate the protection of an armored vehicle at a distance of a thousand meters. But this is at sea, and both sides are fighting six thousand meters away.

An eighty-millimeter rapid-fire gun is spraying warheads at a rate of four seconds, bombarding annoying mosquitoes in the sky. With the cooperation of the wingmen, the formation has blasted out more than eighty electric mosquitoes. The crews in each hull have become more comfortable from the nervousness at the beginning.

The electric mosquitoes in the sky are constantly smoking and falling. Under the coordination of information, the No. 137 battleship became the 'head' of the herringbone team, breaking the waves on the sea, cleaning up the wreckage of the battlefield, and hooking the electric mosquitoes and flying sickles with hooks.

After the end of the seventh wave of air raids, the density of blue Gu worm electro-shot mosquitoes has changed from 49 in a wave at the beginning to 13 in a wave. Now, there is no movement on the sea.

Bai Yue, the captain of the fleet, looked at the chart, and there was no joy on his face after victory. He turned on the communication function on his helmet and began to report to the rear on the situation of the naval battle.

Fifty minutes later, the formation formed a circular formation and began to return.

One hundred and eighty kilometers away, the host fleet, which had lost almost all of its air power, was also slowly retreating backwards. The only electro-shot mosquitoes left in the sky hovered and watched for the reconnaissance planes that burned in the distance.

In the first naval battle between Burning Wheel and Golden Gu Worm, both sides retreated. No one sank anyone.

The reason for this is simple: the detachment sent by the burning wheel is only a destroyer fleet. When shooting down a large number of electric mosquitoes, they found that the opponent's main fleet was in the area one hundred and fifty kilometers away from them, but they did not dare to rush forward, fearing that they would continue to go deeper, and were hit by shore-based air power. The core strategic objectives of the fire ship at sea are the aircraft carrier reconnaissance system and the orbital fortress strike system. The destroyer fleet is to ensure the safety of these two targets.

As for the Blue Gu Worm's side, it was too weak at sea. The Electro Mosquito appears to be an air force that can come and go, but in reality it has a limited range. In addition, the load is limited, and the attack method is single. This would not have been the case if it had been able to carry a torpedo. However, the electro-shot mosquito has been finalized, and the projectile cannot be aggravated.

However, the highest authorities on both sides were very satisfied with the outcome of this wave of naval battles. The absolute firefly of the Holy Horn Capital gave the commander of the naval battle, Bu Yu, an official. This Imperial Sailor Officer, who was born as a fisherman, suddenly became an existence comparable to the Imperial Captain. For a while, many nobles in the capital of the Holy Horn made a disturbing voice.

On the side of the burning wheel, the huge chimney of the No. 3 giant artillery city, like the lonely smoke of the desert, pulled out a black smoke on the sea. On the side of this huge beast, one after another anti-aircraft ships approached like little white rabbits. And Bai Yue is like a little ant, walking into the city aisle.

He reported to the Northern Coastline Military Command. When he came out again, he had an extra Wave Medal on his chest, and at the same time, his rank was raised by two levels.