In this counterattack on the deep sea, a total of 17 generals, 124 fleets, and more than 700 ships were dispatched to the northern front of the Asian Alliance.

This scale is probably more than a hundred times the strength of the nameless town guard mansion garrisoned by Yuan Yi.

However, the pressure on the northern front is indeed much heavier than in other places, and there are a total of 17 nests around the Asian League, three in the west, four in the south, and five each in the east and north.

In particular, the northern sea is too narrow compared to the vast Pacific Ocean, three of the five nests are crammed together, and the distance from the inhabited islands is only half of the eastern Pacific Ocean.

It can be said that the northern front is the deepest line of any theater of war into the human hinterland, and it retreats a full 400 nautical miles from the open sea, but only in this way does it have enough space to fight the aggressive perch ships.

According to the original plan, the northern front was intended to gather elites and compete with the large forces of the perched ships in Longmen Bay, because the command of the northern front had received an accurate report from the reconnaissance force before, and it was found that a large number of deep-sea hoards were accumulated in Longmen Bay.

It's not surprising that since the emergence of those special mutant deep seas, those originally simple-minded beast-type deep seas have begun to know how to merge into a force and then attack the human coastline, making this war that was originally just a step-by-step war suddenly become much more tricky.

This is not a change in the combat power of a single unit, but a qualitative change due to the accumulation of quantity.

To put it mildly, this operation on the northern front is actually mostly helpless, and if we want to continue such a passive defense, and wait until the enemy's army is formed, then a wave of more than 100,000 perched ships may be able to bulldoze the human defense line, and when the front line is crossed, the perched ship army will go deep into the hinterland of the Asian Union, and the human race is estimated to be not far from extinction.

So this battle must be won and not lost.

There is no dispute that the commander in charge of coordinating the battle was Admiral Bonaparte, who was of great reputation and prestige. It's just that the old man's age has reached the door, although he was young and how, now let him go out with the army again, he will definitely not be able to stand the turbulence on the sea, so he is only responsible for formulating strategies, and the real commander is Lieutenant General Lei Xiao who guards the mansion of Paisbin Town.

Lei Xiao is one of Bonaparte's disciples, and he is a middle-aged man who is over forty years old and does not smile. His position as a conductor is strong and weighty, but there is a fatal flaw, this guy has a very rigid personality, and belongs to the typical legalistic dogma guard.

When he came to command, there were inevitably two situations: first, he would never go against the tactical policy of his teacher, Admiral Bonaparte, and second, he would not be able to adapt to the situation.

In his opinion, the enemies that the northern front will face this time are still those mutant deep seas with no rules and only numerical superiority. Although the poker face was not revealed, his speech and demeanor unabashedly revealed contempt for the enemy.

His theory is that since ancient times, beasts of prey have been better at fighting than humans, but humans can easily hunt them with traps, guns, and hunting, and the same is true of the deep sea today.

You can't say that he is wrong in this statement, but there must be a big premise, that is, the beast is still a beast that only knows how to bite with its teeth and claws, and it can be deceived by intelligence, but if the beast knows how to use its brain, it is impossible to say who is the hunter and who is the prey.

Lieutenant General Lei Xiao, who did not grasp this clearly, was destined to suffer, and it would be a big loss that would make his career collapse from then on. That is, the vanguard attack force he sent out was all ambushed by the deep-sea fleet that had already planned for a long time, and there was also a behemoth-type deep sea in the war that they had encountered with Yuan Yi.

I won't repeat how difficult this thing is here, because it itself is slow to act, and it has not yet been shown in the north, so most of the northern fronts that have been on the defensive have not dealt with this thing, but now that they have encountered it, they finally know what it means to "block the car with the mantis arm" and "lift a stone and shoot themselves in the foot".

The most terrifying thing is that Longmen Bay, a fjord, has a very complex topography, surrounded on three sides and only exposed by one mouth. According to the original discussion, Admiral Bonaparte and Vice Admiral Lei Xiao originally planned to use the terrain to "seal the door" here and wipe out these perched ships.

But now, when their fleet went deeper, they found that this was no longer the Longmen Bay they remembered, and the surrounding deep-sea habitat ships poured out like a blowout, and after the back road was cut off, people found that they had stabbed a hornet's nest and couldn't run if they wanted to.

originally wanted to win with one blow, but it turned out that the family served dumplings in a pot, which is really ironic.

When the news from the front came back, the Chinese army immediately exploded, although their overall strength was still there, but the vanguard of the investment was six generals and 24 fleets, and all 136 shipwrecks were trapped and died inside.

What now, to save or not to save?

The rest of the generals, including Lieutenant General Lei Xiao, had a heated debate, but no one could convince anyone.

Because—

If you don't save it, it will inevitably chill all the soldiers, and the number of forward troops is not a lot at all, and no one can say if you let it be consumed, but if you want to save it, what if you don't succeed and put yourself in? That's not a question of losing a hundred ships, but a matter of the rout of the northern front directly endangering the rear line of defense.

It can be said that no matter how this is chosen, the navy of the northern line of defense will hemorrhage.

Regardless of how Lieutenant General Lei Xiao has a headache now, let's look back at Longmen Bay, where the battle is stalemate.

The sea breeze howled and the cannon thundered.

Major General Yang Yue, one of the seventeen generals in this battle, was originally appointed to serve as the Chinese army, but Yang Yue had long been impatient with the strategy of his mother-in-law on the northern front, and disdained to stay with Lin Xie Hui and others who stole merit and protect themselves, so he received this task of being the vanguard of the front.

However, as mentioned earlier, Yang Yue is bold and careful, she is willing to do this, in fact, it is because the Beihuaihe Town Shoufu is only a few nautical miles away from here, she knows the terrain here very well, but now it is still planted, it can only be said that it is bad luck, I never expected it.

"Major General Yang Yue, let's quickly shrink the formation and wait for rescue." A male officer who wore the same naval uniform as Yang Yue, but was slightly inferior in rank to her, admonished.

It's not surprising that he would make this suggestion, because now there are enemies on all sides, and the pressure on the ship girls is very great, just imagine, if you are alone in the enemy formation, surrounded by people, it will inevitably be invincible with both fists, but if you shrink into a circle side by side with your companions, it will undoubtedly be much easier, at least while your companions are still alive, you only need to pay attention to your front, and you don't have to worry about the bullets in your back.

Therefore, instead of such a strong support for each other, it is better to shrink the formation as soon as possible and make the defense tighter, so that it can last longer.

But Yang Yue replied in a cold voice: "No, you must not retreat, give me a top, Nelson, Rodney, give you a quarter of an hour, no matter what method you two use, be sure to open a gap in the east for me." ”

The general who had just put forward his opinion saw that Yang Yue was not birding him, and there was no other way than to wave his sleeves and leave angrily, in fact, he really had nowhere to go, so he could only jump on the artificial ship he belonged to and be out of sight - if he could leave, he would have left a long time ago, why bother to ask Yang Yue's opinion.

But everyone knows that there are hundreds of ship girls here, Yang Yue's troops are the strongest, just Nelson and Rodney, two ship girls with the reputation of BIG7, are enough to ride a thousand, and the current situation really has to rely on them.

Seeing that the officer who had made the suggestion left angrily, the secretary ship Lexington advised: "The major general can actually explain it to them." ”

"I don't have that much time to spare." Yang Yue snorted coldly in his nostrils, but his eyes were also filled with worry: "These fools are still delusional that there will be rescue, and if the old lady agrees to him shrink, then he is really looking for death." You go and tell Liu Xia and a few other fools that before the assault force opens the passage, you must resist me. Whoever is going to drop the chain, then everyone is playing with eggs! (To be continued.) )