Chapter 491: The Second Naval Duel
Is madness also a stratagem?
Hongyazi was stunned by Gu Xingdong's words. After thinking about it for a long time, he still had to nod. Although it feels a little inappropriate, for the time being, it seems that this is really the case!
The current war seems to be the best interpretation of this statement.
In fact, in the next few days of war, Gu Xingdong carried out this kind of thinking to the end. In three days, Gu Xingdong frantically fired 10 million artillery shells! Along the way, he completely used artillery shells to open the way.
But the results were insane. The legions of the Loose Sect are like eggs under a hammer, retreating again and again, constantly collapsing.
In three days, the Xiaoyao faction has lost almost all of the Southern Tang Kingdom, leaving only the last few checkpoints and the border defense line between the East and the Lingyun Country - the Lingyun Country, which is the birthplace of Feng Zhiling, once known as the Lingfeng Country.
Not only that, but the morale of the carefree faction has fallen to the limit! Being beaten passively all the time is definitely not a pleasant feeling. Not to mention the heavy casualties.
Under the frenzied attack of artillery fire, only the Yuan Infant is qualified to save his life, but it is only 'qualified', not absolute. You must know that in the attack of the country of Qixia, in addition to artillery, there are also ballistas.
The ballista is specifically aimed at masters such as the Transformation Stage and the Yuan Infant Stage.
There are also sniper rifles, and at close range, sniper rifles are also enough to severely damage the infancy, making them lose their combat effectiveness, or greatly reduce their combat effectiveness.
In the past three days, on the battlefield of the Southern Tang Kingdom, more than half of the troops of the Freedom Sect were killed and wounded, and their morale was already on the verge of collapse. The continuous retreat led to the loss of a large number of baggage, weapons, etc., which were given to the Xuanzhen Sect.
And in these three days, the country of the Northern Tang Dynasty regained its own coastline.
Under the cover of artillery, everyone's casualties were almost negligible. And the morale is high, and a lot of loot is obtained, which leads to higher and higher morale.
Under the situation of eliminating the advantages of the other, the regiment of the free faction on the southern front was already in danger, and the atmosphere of uneasiness began to circulate within the army.
The entire Freeman South is facing the problem of a complete collapse of the front.
Of course, this information was also obtained by the Xuanzhen Sect.
"This is the effect of 10 million shells!" On the Xuanzhen Sect's side, Gu Xingdong said to Hongyazi with some pride, "If it is according to the previous confrontation situation, our cost will not be less than this, and the casualties will be even heavier."
On the contrary, it is not as good as this, and a large amount of baggage, booty, etc. It also destroyed the morale of the enemy!"
Hongyazi continued to be stunned. This world seems to be getting stranger and stranger!
But it's not just the land that's crazy, it's the sea as well.
The Atlantic Fleet of the Ocean Group and the Pearl Fleet of the Land of Qixia have been searching at sea for several days. However, the Sea Dragon Fleet of the Carefree faction seems to have disappeared!
In the vast sea, it is really difficult to find a fleet that deliberately evades. Not to mention that cultivators also have means of opening up - hidden formation enchantments and so on.
In the vast sea, it is really necessary to use the hidden formation enchantment, as long as the battleship stops and does not produce water ripples, it can be easily hidden ten kilometers away.
After looking for several days but not finding it, more than half of the fuel was consumed, and at this time it was in the hinterland of the Xiaoyao Sea area, Zhao Yuhang proposed to return home.
"Agree to return!" Shu Bennan nodded. It's been almost ten days since it came out, and the soldiers need to rest too.
The two fleets continued to maintain a state of one after the other, and began to sail westward.
But after only half a day of sailing, suddenly the sailors on the lookout shouted, "A suspicious situation has been found in the distance, and there are suspected traces of formation!"
Zhao Yuhang's eyes instantly became vigilant, he quickly flew onto the lookout, and after just one glance, his face changed greatly: "Prepare for war! Prepare for war! The fleet immediately turned around and headed south to seize the "D" position!"
Use auxiliary formations to assist the battleship in turning, and do not reduce the speed!"
The auxiliary formation of the steering, which the fleet had not shown before. The critical moment is enough to change the tide of the war.
For example, right now.
About ten kilometers ahead, there was an abnormal wave shadow, which looked a little fluctuating. This fluctuation is not very obvious, but at this time the fleet is sailing to the west, and it happens that the sun's rays in the sky are at the right angle, but they can see it.
However, it is still not obvious, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will ignore it. After all, this is a formation arranged by the Holy Land, how can it be so easy to find. So this discovery, this is also due to the seriousness and sharp-eyed and responsible of the sailors, and of course, there is also luck - if it were not for the right angle of sunlight in the sky, it would be really difficult to find.
And if it is discovered too late, the strong inertia of the battleship is enough to plunge headlong into the encirclement. The consequences are unimaginable.
Fortunately, at this moment, God seems to be on the side of the country of Qixia. The wonderful angle of sunlight actually exposed the traces of the formation.
The fleet began to turn around, making an almost ninety-degree right angle with the assistance of the formation. After discovering the situation here, the front also responded, and the stealth formation enchantment suddenly disappeared, and a huge fleet appeared!
Seeing this fleet, Zhao Yuhang's pupils shrank—there were 6 steel warships, including two Zhenyuan-class ones, and there were also 20 Xuantie warships.
In the back, there are more than 500 skinned warships.
All these ships have already set up a battle formation with the word "concave", obviously waiting for the fleets of the country of Qixia and the ocean group to take the bait. In this battle formation, the inner encirclement is thirty kilometers wide, which is enough to swallow the warships of the Qixia Country and the Ocean Group in one gulp.
Seeing the formation ahead, Zhao Yuhang was afraid for a while, if it wasn't for the sailor to find out, now the fleet is afraid that it has entered the encirclement and is besieged from all directions.
But now, the fleet was lucky enough to find out ahead of time, and turned around ten kilometers outside the opponent's ambush circle.
"It's a failure!" On the fleet of the Loose Faction and the Sea Dragon, the commander of the fleet 'listened to the angry roar of the pine nuts'.
As one of the few military proficient talents of the Carefree faction, Tingsongzi served as the commander of the 'new' Sea Dragon fleet, and promoted Yan Zhen, the former governor of the port of Surabaya in the country of Langya, as a deputy marshal, to jointly command this unprecedented fleet - at least unprecedentedly by the Carefree faction.
And for today, listening to pine nuts has also been preparing for a long time and planning too much.
He knew that the information could not be completely secret, so he released part of the information - 4 steel battleships. In fact, after the sneak attack on the Weihai fleet of the Xuanzhen Sect, the actual salvage and dismantling were beyond imagination.
Although Lu Xuanyu, the commander of the Weihai Fleet, also ordered the battleship to be blown up, the quality of the steel battleship was ...... It's just wonderful. Most of the structure is intact. It's just that there are some problems in terms of power, but it also disassembles a lot of important components.
Later, I heard Songzi order to continue bombing the remnants of the Weihai Fleet, just to cover up what he had gained.
During this period of time, the Xiaoyao faction worked together, and Wang Ruiyang really had some ability, and even repaired four Iron Duke-class steel battleships and two Zhenyuan-class steel battleships.
And the Xuantie warships in the Sea Dragon Fleet of the Carefree faction have also increased to 20.
In the end, more than 500 skinned warships were added. After the last battle, Listening to Matsuko found that the Skinned Warship was actually useful, such as harassing enemies on the perimeter.
These skinned warships could use small-caliber naval guns, and the firing range could also reach more than ten kilometers. When there are enough small-caliber attacks, they can still deal heavy damage to the target.
But all plans seem to have fallen through today. Well, at least half of it fell short.
After seeing the opponent turn southward, Listening to Songzi immediately decided: Attack!
But when the Sea Dragon Fleet of the Easy Sect was about to attack, they were shocked to find that the other party had completed a U-turn in less than a minute!
"Dayang Group really has a hand! It's still a very critical hand!" Yan Zhen next to him said a little angrily.
"Normal!" Listening to Songzi's flat face, it would be strange if Dayang Group didn't leave a hand. However, the current situation is indeed not optimistic. originally wanted to ambush the other party, but didn't want to expose it in advance, and the fleets of the Ocean Group and the Country of Qixia grabbed the 'Ding' position again, which is not good news for the Sea Dragon Fleet!
However, the Sea Dragon Fleet also has an advantage, that is, it is already prepared. The moment the enchantment is revoked, the naval guns begin to fire a salvo - if the enchantment is not revoked, it will not work, and the stealth enchantment will deflect the light and affect the aiming.
But the fleets of the ocean group and the countries under its banner are much more experienced in combat. Although it was sudden, the response was very fast: the defensive barrier was raised instantly, and the ship's guns were fired at the first time and without aiming.
The second duel at sea begins again.