The air waves caused by the explosion swept across the water, the smoke rising in the bay gradually dissipated, and the pain from the eardrums in people's ears slowly faded...... Except that the "Invincible Iron" turned into the "Invincible Bomb" and disappeared from the world, the capsizing of the "Nightcrawler" has not yet recovered, and the "Tranquility" is also sinking in the water, as if nothing has happened.

However, time cannot go back.

If the nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal that detonated the Invincible Iron were mixed into propellant for the use of artillery, it would be enough for 20 guns to fire a salvo 100 times, but when they were put into barrels to be used as explosives, they only destroyed two ships of the Iron Fleet, wiped out dozens of people, and damaged the Iron Fleet by less than 1 percent.

However, it was this huge cost, but seemingly small explosion, which completely changed the tide of the war.

In addition to Asha's success in drowning the King of the Iron Isle by tying up rocks in the chaos, another factor that cannot be ignored has caused a huge morale blow to the Iron People that is difficult to reverse: although the entire queen fleet only has this self-detonating ship, they don't know it.

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More than half of the naval force is pinned down by the royal fleet, and less than a hundred warships can free up their hands to deal with the iron people, and the tonnage ratio of the ships actually invested in the confrontation between the two sides is 1:2, and the ratio of numbers has reached an astonishing 1:5...... The combat effectiveness of the two sides is not proportional at all, and there is no suspense at all about the outcome of the battle.

Euron's last order to the fleet before jumping aboard the Invincible Iron was to attack the Queen's fleet ships from all directions, and to engage in broadside battles.

It can be said that as long as this order is honestly completed, then not a single living mouth of the Targaryen Navy today will want to escape from the battlefield.

However, with the occurrence of this earth-shattering bombing, the question inevitably arose in the hearts of all the captains: how many ships could burst into a row like the "Invincible Iron Grade" in the flotilla on the opposite side, which numbered only a few dozen and knew that it would be defeated but violently pounced in a row with great vigour?

The thought grew and spread in the minds of hundreds of captains like a spring seed in the fields, and if the Serenity was still unsunk and Euron Greyjoy was still alive, he might be able to force the fleet to carry out orders with the suppression of his power and position. But in the absence of a leader, the fear of an unknown weapon and the instinct to preserve their ships quickly overwhelmed the ironmen's thirst for glory and victory, and all the ships that were rushing forward at full force at ramming angular speed began to stop their oars and slow down, deflect their course, and continue to attack with long-range weapons while watching and waiting for the situation to change.

Daenerys captured from the Valantis Armada were all large ships, which had the advantage of being able to install larger and more equipment. Whether it is a ballista or a catapult, the queen's fleet can stabilize the plundering longships of the iron people in terms of range and power, projectiles and arrows fly all over the sky, and when it is found that it does not have the upper hand in a confrontation, and the news of King Euron and the next order are not transmitted from the center of the battle array, the iron fleet, which does not want to fight with the regular navy, begins to fall apart as Asha said.

The Iron Fleet still had a crushing superiority in water power, but no one could mobilize that force anymore.

And I don't know whether to say it is a coincidence or the inevitability of fate, the source of the collapse comes precisely from the ship that Asha's father once was.

After the sinking of the "Tranquility", the largest and most noble "Hongyang Troll" should have been automatically promoted to the flagship and took on the heavy responsibility of commanding and leading the fleet, but it was one of the two ships closest to the explosion point.

The ship's hull was damaged, some of its combat and control personnel were lost, the captain and the king were nowhere to be found, and none of the survivors were able to convince the crowd...... In the chaos of chaos, the rabble often follow the trend and make some unbelievable and wrong decisions: under multiple blows, the crew of the "Hongyang Troll", who was afraid of being left behind by the fleet and sacrificed, decided to turn the ship around first, so as to ensure that when the war did not go well, they could immediately set sail and escape!

They are not cowards, but they have not received formal military theoretical guidance and command skills training, do not know how to think logically, do not have a view of the overall situation, do not think about the consequences of doing things, and have no sense of honor......

They did not flee, but turned the bow of the ship in the direction of the exit of the bay, and continued to slow down while making every possible attack and block the rushing Queen's fleet......

They did not want to be defeated, and continued to fight in a way that they thought was useful, but they did not know that this so-called "wisdom" and "bravery" would be useless in the face of the devastating consequences of the wrong actions of the "quasi-flagship".

As the new core of the fleet, the identity of the "Hongyang Troll" at the moment is equivalent to that of a flag bearer - it is not its task to kill the enemy, but to carry the "handsome flag" and let it not fall.

As long as it maintains its position in the first battle column, even if it pretends to be injured and incapacitated, it stops in place, or even goes to the extreme of being overturned or sunk in the explosion like the "Tranquility", so that the flagship, that is, the "Shuai Qi", will automatically fall to the next battleship...... Then this battle can at least be fought no matter what.

Taking a step back, even if they retracted their eggs and issued a flag order for the entire army to retreat from the battlefield, it could be regarded as an effective command, and they could bring the hundreds of ships on the fleet out of Blackwater Bay in general and entirely.

But among the countless options, it lost its captain and chose the most wrong one: it did not communicate with the friendly ships around it, and took care of itself and made a posture and appearance of preparing to escape!

The silent signal conveyed by this action instantly shattered the combat determination of all the captains of the longships within the visual range, and before they could collide with the enemy formation, the formation of the fleet began to disintegrate in a silent way, and the battle formations of the two sides seemed to collide violently into a mess, but in fact, countless ships adjusted their course at the last moment, making the frontal collision turn into a passing by- The thin single horizontal formation in which the Queen's fleet launched a charge actually passed through the first column of the Iron Fleet's seemingly formidable battle formation almost unharmed, cut into the depths, and smashed into the pile of enemy ships!

A loud roar came from the west, gradually disappearing in the direction of King's Landing in the setting sun, Daenerys, who heard the signal of the explosion, also rode up to the siege camp, circled the walls of the capital of the Seven Kingdoms and the Red Keep as a deterrent, and flew eastward, becoming the final move in the combo box, dealing the final blow to the morale of the Iron People.

The dragon is very strong, and its biggest drawback is that its attack range is too short, and the flame breath can only shoot a hundred or twenty meters away - a height that is enough for many ordinary ballistas and catapults that are not specially designed to threaten it and the rider on its back. As long as the ships in the fleet work closely with each other to weave a network of anti-aircraft firepower, even if they can't shoot them down as easily as an anti-aircraft gun, it is enough to make the dragon knights dare not lower their altitude and launch a refreshing fire scrubbing.

But after the suicide attack of the Invincible Iron Breed, the entire Iron Fleet fell into a state of loss of command and fighting separately, on the one hand, anxiously waiting for the second earth-shattering explosion that would never happen, and on the other hand, the formation was disrupted by the Queen's fleet breaking into the battle column. They have lost their will to fight and lose their determination to gnaw hard bones, and in the chaos, they need to cooperate to deal with the threat from the air...... This expectation can only be described in one word: impossible!

The two dragons flew over the battlefield in style, not going to the danger of the ship's dense shells flying sideways, but wandering back and forth, looking for the small longship that was far away from the array and left alone because of its speed...... This move made the longships subconsciously shrink their battle columns, but they did not dare to gather too closely for fear of another self-detonation attack by the enemy ships, and they intermittently squeezed into a small group and became an excellent target for artillery.

The unsolvable dilemma formed a series of endless loops, and after ten minutes of charging into entanglement and waiting for a stalemate to slowly turn into retreat, the tense situation finally broke the last string.

Another Blackwater-style rout began.

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