As Luke travels with Coconut Fruit's adventurers through the jungles south of Tedegar, the Raging Waves fleet led by Lady Tasia completes the blockade of Songta Harbor from the sea.

As analyzed before the war, the Atlantshire Navy was in a period of scarcity, and the new ships of the Sea Lion class had just been launched, and they were not yet operational, while the old wooden dome proved in the Battle of Samuel that it was no match for all-metal warships.

This lack of naval strength cannot be compensated for by strategy, so when the Atlantshire Federation learned of the intention of the Angry Waves fleet to go north, they immediately shrank the main force of their navy back to the home sea to defend.

The defense of the port of Songta relied entirely on land-based fortifications built in the winter, and the entire harbor was a permanent fortress inside and out.

Lady Tasia stood on the bridge of the flagship Loyalty, telescopic as she looked at the harbor ahead that was completely exposed to her own guns. There was not a single warship on the wharf, except for a few barges, and the defenders were all cowered in a strong fortress.

More than a dozen steam airships float over the city behind the harbor, and several war fortresses can be seen blocking the city's important intersections.

Rear Admiral Nelson, commander of the Imperial fleet in Angry Waves, deputy commander of the Angry Waves fleet, stood beside Lady Tasia, also holding a telescope to observe this important northern port.

"According to the information sent by the Secret Intelligence Bureau, the enemy forces in Songta Port are arranged in the front and in the rear, and there is only a small number of defensive forces in the port, and the main force is concentrated in the city. Our artillery bombardment will not cause them much damage, but once the landing operation is carried out, the enemy forces in the city will push back. ”

Mrs. Tasia asked, "What is the current situation in Minky Insco City?" ”

"Although the defenders over there are not as numerous as those in Songta Port, they are in a similar arrangement. Since we want to use BenQ Insco City as a springboard to attack Songta City, Artejun United will definitely be able to think of it. ”

Mrs. Tasia put down her binoculars, turned to Major General Nelson and said, "The enemy could only think that we would send marines to carry out a landing operation, but they did not expect that behind us was the Angry Waves Armored Assault Division.

Let's go, go to the operations room, and I see Commander Shelley coming by boat. ”

Rear Admiral Nelson turned his telescope in a different direction, and sure enough, he saw a dinghy approaching quickly. It's just that Mrs. Tasia was obviously looking in the direction of the port just now, how could she see a small boat behind.

The eyes of the Naga are indeed different from those of humans.

Rear Admiral Nelson followed Lady Tasia to the room of operations, where Shelley soon arrived, and a while later Baron Jeff, commander of the guerrilla fleet, arrived.

After everyone took their seats, Baron Jeff, dressed in a traditional nautical suit, first said: "My fleet has set up a 200-nautical-mile isolation zone in the northern waters of Songta Harbor, and there are many friends at sea to help, and it is impossible for the Grand Fleet of the Atlantshire Union to reach here through our blockade belt without a sound. ”

Baron Jeff's friends at sea are naturally pirates. Now that business at sea is becoming more and more difficult, many pirates are thinking about the relationship between Pannu Tao City and whitewashing themselves, and Brilliant Island has taken the opportunity to expand its strength several times.

As the commander of the armored assault division, Shelley said: "The assault division was parked off the coast of Benki Insco City on a transport ship, but reconnaissance showed that Benki Insco City was heavily guarded. ”

At this time, the Fleet Staff Committee had already laid out an operational map of the area of Songta Port and BenQ Insco City on the combat table. At the same time, the layout of the enemy forces collected by intelligence is shown one by one, and the models representing your own fleet are also in place.

Lady Tasia said: "Due to the absolute superiority of our navy in this sea area, the Arte-County Union has completely given up its intention to compete with us for sea supremacy, so the Arte-County Union does not know the location and layout of our fleet, and is only passively defending.

I plan that the main force of the Angry Waves fleet will carry out a strong attack on Songta Harbor, and the Marines will take a position of forcing a multi-point landing on the front and flanks of Sonta Harbor, prompting the defenders of Atshire to mobilize the defenders of Minky Insco.

As soon as the defenders inside Minki Insco moved, the armored assault division immediately landed and captured Minky Insco. At that time, the armored assault division could flank the city of Songta with the marines. ”

The battle plan formulated by Mrs. Tassia is very regular, and even if there is an emergency situation in the middle, the Angry Waves City fleet, which has the initiative on the battlefield, can deal with it calmly.

The commanders of the other ministries did not disagree.

The army was not suitable for a long time to float at sea, so the general attack was at seven o'clock in the evening, and the early morning effort forced the defenders of BenQ Insco to be transferred to support the port of Songta.

The battle plan was assigned, and the commanders of the various units went to their respective command posts by transport boats.

The main force of the Angry Waves fleet immediately approached the port of Songta.

There are more than forty warships, all of which are all-metal battleships of the first plane. The guns on the battleship are the latest reloader naval guns developed by the Empire, which are extremely expensive for pure alchemy, and the current production capacity is only enough for the navy.

The thermal weapon technology of the Atshire Union is not stronger than that of the Golden Shield Empire, and the defenders of Songta Harbor have not been able to obtain new artillery, so there is a big gap between the long-range firepower of the shore defense and the fleet of Angry Waves.

The new all-metal battleships approached Songta Harbor very arrogantly, and after entering the range of naval guns, all the battleships lined up densely on the sea surface and aimed all the naval guns at the beachhead of Songta Harbor.

The naval airships that followed the fleet were even more daring than the surface ships, and the advance airships approached less than 300 meters from the beachhead at an altitude of 500 meters.

This kind of attack arrangement is obviously a preparation for a beach-rushing landing.

Sirens rang out in Songta Harbor, and old large-caliber guns were pushed out of various batteries. The gunners skillfully loaded their chambers with gunpowder and shells, and then corrected the angle to aim at the battleship on the sea.

Some of the airships over the city also pressed forward, forming a confrontation with the airships of the Angry Waves fleet on the dividing line between land and sea.

A cannon roar emanated from the Loyalty, the flagship of the Mighty Waves fleet, and a cannonball whistled in a large parabola in the air, crashing headlong into the docks of Songta Harbor.

The explosion opened the Songta Harbor landing battleship with fire and gunsmoke, and for a time the battleships on the sea opened fire in turn, and the strong recoil pushed the battleship sideways, and the steel hull could not withstand the pressure of the wooden battleship, shooting heavy shells at the defenders on the shore.

The port of Songta was submerged in an explosion.

The defenders immediately opened fire and counterattacked...... It's just that the range of the old artillery is too close, and in the face of the world's most advanced and new naval fleet, most of the defenders are still front-loading smoothbore guns, and they can only send the shells to the sea in front of the Angry Waves City fleet in vain, smashing out splashes.

After a round of fire testing, the Angry Waves fleet became even more daring, and the fleet pressed forward again.

At this time, the airship near the coastline had already overwhelmed and cast magic outward. A curtain of smoke unfurled, a curtain fell from the air, and the vision of the defenders was obscured, and the artillery bombardment, which was originally not of sufficient range, became even more chaotic.

The wind blew from the shore to the sea, and the magician aboard the Atlantic airship summoned a smoke screen that blew towards the Angry Waves. The Angry Waves airship dropped alchemy cannonballs outward, and the smoke quickly turned into thick clouds, lightning flashed in the clouds, and then gathered into thunderbolts and slashed at the Atlantshire airship.

The shield unfurls in front of the Atlantshire United airship, and the counterattack attack magic is dropped from the airship's pod.

In the middle of the shelling, the magical forces of the two armies engaged in a fierce confrontation.

In this way, the Angry Waves fleet, with its abundant material reserves, prepared the landing firepower from morning to afternoon. Towards the end of the evening, the long-range fire was intensified, and the battleships withstood the artillery bombardment of the defenders, and the bayonets on the guns were aimed at the coastal fortifications of the defenders.

The naval airship threw alchemy magic outward regardless of the loss, and such a local tyrant played so that the airships of the Atlantshire United did not dare to continue to fight hard. Naval airships were unforgiving, flying from the sea to the land.

As night fell, the landing craft of Angry Waves appeared in the waters around Songta Harbor, preparing for a night landing operation.

A whole day of offensive and defensive battles in the port gave the defenders of Songta Port unprecedented pressure. The firepower of the Raging Waves fleet was extremely fierce, and the first-line fortifications were almost completely destroyed. The soldiers of the Atshire Union had never experienced such a heavy bombardment, and magic and cannonballs seemed to be thrown at the docks and beachheads for nothing.

After nightfall, the airships of the Angry Waves fleet cast lighting magic in all directions, and the entire beachhead of Songta Harbor was illuminated as bright as day. The Raging Waves airship then builds ice along the beachhead, using the ice to bypass the obstacles set up by the defenders on the beachhead, while breaking the alchemical trap and creating a convenient passage for the Marines who are rushing to the beach.

Magic and artillery bombardment extended in the direction of the city, creating a shield of fire between the beachhead and the city, preventing the city defenders from effectively supporting the docks and beachhead.

The landing craft are getting closer......

At this time, the commander of the defenders of Songta Port decided to call for help from the neighboring city of BenQ Insco.

The main force of the Angry Waves fleet was in Songta Harbor, and it was too wasteful for BenQ Insco's army to stay there. If Songta Harbor is breached by the Angry Waves fleet, the Golden Shield Empire's troops will be able to be transported from the sea in a steady stream, and BenQ Insco City is too small to bear the responsibility of stopping the Imperial Army.

The order was sent to the city of BenQ Insco, and the defenders of the city quickly divided half of their forces and rushed to the port of Songta.

The troop movement was immediately learned of by the Imperial agents lurking in the city, and the news was transmitted to the Angry Waves Armored Assault Division hidden off the coast of BenQ Insco as quickly as possible.

Shelley estimated the time for the departure of the reinforcements from MinQ Insco, and ordered the Panzer Assault Division to carry out a landing operation when they were about halfway between Sonta Harbor and BenQ Insco.

Without fire preparation, the group of airships attached to the armored assault division broke through directly from the sea above the city before the defenders could react. The next step is to lower the flight altitude and dump the Tin Man towards the city below.

The Ironskins used by the Armored Assaulters have been modified by the Alchemists of the Raging Waves to be positioned as disposable weapons of war, and they are designed to be easily loaded in the form of blocks, which together with the steam case are boxy cubes.

A single airship can carry about 100 Tin Men, and the Angry Waves Panzer Assault Division put in 20 airships in the first wave, throwing 2,000 Tin Men into BenQ Insco City at a time. The city of BenQ Insco is a small city, with a total population of less than 30,000 and only about 10,000 defenders.

The defenders, who had just divided half of their forces, were immediately stunned by this overwhelming attack of Mount Tai. In the city, one-time tin men carry out suicide attacks; Outside the city, the transport boat washed directly onto the beachhead, and a large group of tin men rushed into the city.

Behind them were war machines.

Luke gave the Armored Commando Division a true armored soul, "What can be done with steel, absolutely not with the flesh." ”

The fortifications outside the city were violently destroyed before they could be functional, and the small city was submerged in an instant by a tidal wave of steel.

The city of BenQ Insco was soon occupied, and the port of Songta became an isolated city.

The armies of Raging Waves fired the first shot of the Spring War in the northern borders of the Empire.

And the owner of this army is now undergoing strength training in the southernmost jungle of the empire.

(End of chapter)