Street fighting and night fighting have always been the last things generals want to face in war.

The field of view of street fighting is not broad enough, and it is impossible to unify command and support each other, so they can only fight separately. The night battle is even more dangerous, the enemy and the enemy are not easy to identify, it is easy to fight for a long time, and only after approaching do you find that the opposite side is your own people.

At this moment, Tulip's soldiers are faced with such a problem.

The dwarves take advantage of the shortcuts they are familiar with in the tunnels, attacking and attacking their camps everywhere, leaving them exhausted. What's even more insidious is that the dwarves have also learned to attack somewhere, and when the supporting tulip soldiers rush in, they will be attacked by a large number of dwarven warriors in ambush on the way.

One of the most uncomfortable things for them is that the magic crystal weapon in their hands can't play an advantage at all, and in the vast darkness of the night, the effect of shooting is not only not guaranteed, but sometimes it will even hit their own people.

Later, the battle could only return to the most primitive way, and the soldiers on both sides rushed together with swords and bayonets. It's easy to distinguish friend from foe in close combat...... The difference in height is the biggest difference between the two sides.

At this time, the dwarven army, which came prepared and equipped with more cold weapons, began to gradually gain the upper hand. They take advantage of the familiar environment and can outflank the enemy's back at any time, and the armor on their bodies and the shields in their hands become their best defensive weapons.

With more and more dwarves in the fortress, the situation on the battlefield has become irreversible. Most of the fortress was already under the control of the dwarves, and the remnants of the Tulip army had to retreat to the walls on the east, west, and south sides.

The sky was turning white, the sun was rising from the horizon, and the dwarves' rapid assault finally stopped.

Their guns were small, and the day was quite unfavorable for them, and now it was their turn to consolidate their positions.

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"General, are we going to counterattack?" asked the adjutant as he looked at the dwarves below who were building fortifications.

"Of course!" Morris's face was rather ugly, and this important land, which had been so hard to take from the dwarves, must not be lost.

"Shoot me the cannons, down all the buildings near the walls, and then lift the cannons out into the streets, and I'll leave these dwarves with no place to hide......"

"General, what should the Viking dragon knights do?" asked the adjutant in a low voice, "as long as we assemble in the clearing, they will not miss the opportunity." ”

Maurice looked viciously at the wyvern still hovering in the sky, and couldn't help but curse angrily, "These damn heretics, when did they get involved with the dwarves?"

Maurice pondered for a moment with a gloomy face, "Go and inform General Druid, the Viking fleet is drifting in the North Sea and cannot dock, as long as we attack their fleet, the Viking Dragon Knights should leave." ”

The adjutant's eyes lit up and he immediately nodded, this is indeed a good way to solve the problem.

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Fortress of Aotland has been retaken by the dwarves!

When he learned the news, de Ruyter almost returned with his fleet, but he knew that he couldn't do it now, the navy of the Dragonheart Kingdom had been assembled, and a great war was about to break out.

This is an important battle that will determine the future of tulips! If they fail, they will not only lose the dominance of maritime trade, but also lose the glory of the "sea coachman...... For tulips, which are small in size and poor in natural resources, this will be a disaster.

Thinking of this, de Ruyter waved his hand and said to the long-waiting adjutant, "You can go back!" and told General Morris to hold on for the time being. As for the fleet of the Vikings, let's go back. ”

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Seeing from afar that Tulips' fleet had begun to assemble, Nelson lowered his binoculars and let the sailors on deck into their gun emplacements.

After months of naval blockade, the adversaries finally realized that they could not break the situation by escorting merchant ships alone, so they finally changed their tactics.

Compared with the large warships built by the Longxin Navy, the Tulip Navy is mostly fast and small cruisers and frigates, and there are also many warships converted from armed merchant ships, so they have always avoided head-to-head battles.

However, with the recent launch of a number of large warships, Tulip finally has a fleet that can fight head-on with the Dragon Heart Navy, so the strength of the two sides in this naval battle is almost comparable.

The Dragon Heart Fleet has 56 warships, and the Tulip Navy has 73 warships, although the number of Tulips is larger, but the large warships of the Dragon Heart Navy account for almost two-thirds, so the number of guns on both sides is almost equal.

The two sides formed a column to bombard each other back and forth near the coast of the tulip, and more than 6,000 magic crystal cannons fired together, sounding like the sky was falling apart.

So hearing the constant rumbling sound on the sea, Green immediately flew over the two fleets that were fighting with several dragon knights.

By this moment Tulip's fleet had begun to retreat towards the coastline, and since most of their ships were not as strong as the warships they had built, De Ruyter immediately ordered the fleet to turn when several of them sank.

The Dragon Heart Navy, which already had the upper hand, would not let go of this opportunity, and they immediately chased after it.

The closer you get to the Tulip coastline, the more Tulip warships will sink, but that's when something special happens.

The turbulent waters gradually receded, and as the sea level lowered, some large battleships of the Dragon's Heart Navy, which had a deep draft, immediately ran aground in the shallows along the tulip coast.

The relentless pursuit of the Dragonheart Navy only then realized that they seemed to have fallen for the tricks of the Tulip Navy, but in fact, Druith had never planned such a thing at all.

However, as a veteran general who has been fighting at sea for more than 30 years, Druidt certainly would not miss such a fighter.

He immediately ordered the sailors to pull small boats from the coast and transform them into arsonist ships, and then released them in the sea breeze towards the stranded Dragonheart fleet.

In a panic, the Dragonheart Navy immediately turned its brains, tying cables to the stranded warships, and then trying to pull them back into the deep waters, but then their formation was bound to be unable to maintain.

Druitt immediately ordered Tulip's fleet to turn around.

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Faced with the surging enemy warships, Nelson had to stand up.

"We must abandon these ships, or the enemy will surround us all here. ”

The other officers aboard the Vanguard looked at Nelson in shock.

There were a total of 7 stranded battleships, including the flagship of the Dragon's Heart Fleet, the "Royal Prince", if they were all abandoned here, no one of them could afford such a responsibility and loss.

"Flags were waved to the Prince, and the Pioneer asked to lead the evacuation of the team. ”

The flag was passed on, but there was no reply for a long time, and at this moment all the generals of the Dragon Heart Fleet had understood that abandoning a few stranded warships was the only option at the moment, but no one could afford this decision.

"We can't put it off any longer! Nelson clenched his fists, "Whether to lose seven ships or the entire fleet, we have to make a choice." ”

With the departure of the Vanguard, some of the warships immediately followed, and then more and more battleships joined them, and finally even the seven battleships that had run aground were released from their boats and carried the generals to follow.

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With the loss of seven capital battleships, the Longxin Navy was no longer able to fight.

This naval battle was already a tulip victory, but de Ruyter was not satisfied, such a good opportunity, as long as the dragon's navy was completely defeated, they would be invincible in the ocean.

"Leave some men to sink them, and the rest of the ships will immediately follow me in pursuit. De Ruyter did not hesitate to give a new order.