Extraordinary Voyage

2020-11-29

Chapter 482 Smoke is everywhere

Because of the moving speed of a conventional sail battleship.

It wasn’t until 9:12 a.m. that the more agile Confederate line of ships seized the upper hand, across the sea from the wings on the left side of the Cyrus Crescent.

And with the advantage of its own shipborne artillery being more sophisticated (better air tightness and longer effective range), it took the lead in launching shelling.

“Prepare each artillery group, and fire three rounds of solid bullets quickly!”

Each battleship gunner repeated the commander’s order, and fired at each other according to the traditional battlefield etiquette of the old continent. Hello.

Under the operation of skilled artillery, the Tulip battleship can deal heavy blows to the enemy ships with two heavy artillery: 32-pounder gun and 24-pounder gun, the rate of fire can reach 2 rounds/minute and 3 rounds/minute respectively. minute.

This is a speed beyond the reach of the Cyrus.

bang! bang! bang! bang! bang! bang! bang! bang! Yun, even the whole ocean let out an overwhelmed suppressed moan.

While the Cyrus soldiers on the opposite side fought back without showing weakness, at this distance, Steel Knight’s very uneasy looking dead head was also clearly seen by them.

Steel Knight Kungang Taita, as the deputy commander of the fleet, was hardly known to the entire Cyrus fleet.

Seeing the head hanging on the mast shaking constantly, most of the left wing of the Crescent Array was in an uproar. The soldiers were hit even harder than that round of rapid-fire artillery fire, and even the sound of the artillery during the counter-attack was obviously a bit messy.

The decisive battle is still in the warm-up stage, and the deputy commander of the fleet has already lost his life to the enemy. If he is still alive, it is real. Following Army Commander Ricard and Navy Commander Griffith, No. . 3 Characters.

Cyrus on the flagship Level 3 ship USS San Juan.

“Your Excellency Commander?”

The adjutant couldn’t help but ask the hair grey-white supreme commander of the fleet beside him.

Rickard’s face was equally ugly, only not for the news of the Steel Knight’s death, but for the negative impact he had on the campaign. Even as a royal party, the general’s words were ruthless:

“This bastard Kungang. Why can’t you die farther? Order, the San Juan will leave the team and sail on its own!”

“But.”

“Follow orders!”

The San Juan has been consisting of forty battleships in order to facilitate the command of the commander. The entire Crescent Array traversed back and forth along the line. If it is replaced by a large fleet composed of hundreds of battleships, it will generally be patrolled by several deputy commanders and commanders in the fleet.

The Level 3 ship “San Juan”, which serves as the commander’s ship, is the largest even among the Level 3 battleships in the entire fleet, even more how also flying the Admiral’s flag , it couldn’t be more conspicuous.

But after leaving the team and sailing on its own, it lost the cover of the fleet and was directly exposed to the front of the alliance battle line.

In the history of naval warfare among nations, there has never been a precedent for a single ship to be surrounded by enemy troops but not occupied by a ship. For the side with the dominant local battle strength, when the target value is huge, the pick-up battle is the only way to ensure that the spills of war are won intact.

Rickard believes that it would be strange if the Union Army could hold back its bait.

When the time comes, as long as you can hook an enemy ship with a hook and lock and pull it into a pick-up battle, you will be able to independently support the arrival of reinforcements. Finally, the enemy fleet was dragged into a big melee, which was the “sea siege battle” that Cyrus was best at.

Then the battle can be over.

However, since they are both Niemans, Innate’s endowments must be similar, why is the battle strength of the Cyrus people born expert?

In addition to the really advanced training methods and management concepts, the most important reason is to search for resources from all over the world to support your troops. In the Knight apprenticeship stage, the growth of physical fitness comes more from the intake of nutrients, supplemented by Knight’s Breathing Technique and sword technique Cultivation.

Under the sufficient supply of resources, even if the population base of Cyrus itself is not dominant, it will continue to cultivate transcenders at all levels far exceeding the number of other families.

In the soldier’s battle strength, there is indeed an overall gap between Tulip and Overlord Cyrus.

Lieutenant General Elvis clearly understood Ricard’s plan. In this war, he had a lot of pressure on his shoulders. Of course, it was a great temptation for him to be able to destroy the enemy’s command system.

However, the current balance of power between the two sides does not allow him to make a single mistake. The dominant Cyrus can be more aggressive, and the alliance may be completely defeated with just one negligence.

“At the tail end of the line, Maywind, Albatross, and Oak met, and the other ships kept their formation and continued to advance.”

He held back his longing for that sweet fruit. , instead of encircling it, a squadron was separated from the battle line consisting of 33 battleships.

not aiming to achieve the best possible result but rather trying to avoid making mistakes!

Under the astonished eyes of the Cyrus people, the movements of the battleships in the battle line were like flowing water.

Every battleship knows what it should do at a certain moment, some turn to leave the team, some automatically substitute, and it seems that the interpretation of the extremely difficult battleship at sea has been practiced countless times in advance.

“Naval command skills at this level.”

Lieutenant Admiral Ricard’s eyes were slightly narrowed, which seemed to be old but sharp, and even he had to be shocked by the tulips. skill.

These battleships are far more flexible than Cyrus’s “city wall”, with excellent maneuverability, and an invisible commander Master can be calmly dispatched. Because he didn’t find signals, horns, or anything else that would aid the command.

The three Level 4 ships did not go forward, maintaining a distance of about 300 meters along with the current, maintaining wind superiority and flexibility, and only used long-range artillery to fight the flagship.

“Tailwind and change sides, let’s go downwind to stop it!”

The “May Wind” at the top of the sub-queue did not allow it to change course, and blocked the “San Hu” Ann” on the way to retreat.

Ger and Elantra, already in their brigadier general’s uniforms, were among them.

The remaining thirty battleships continued forward, engaging in heavy fire on the left flank of the Crescent.

The continuous roar of artillery fire.

Another Level 3 ship in the Cyrus fleet raised the flag and took over command temporarily.

The key to the battle line tactics is to obey the command and fight bravely. The key to success or failure is persistence. Whoever can’t stand to break away from the “chain” first will lose the possibility of a comeback.

With the current attack power of artillery, this process may take a long time.

Meanwhile.

A group of sailors, armed with rifled Kentucky-style rifles, crept up onto the mainmast of their respective battleships and quietly aimed their crosshairs on the opposite side.

The Kentucky type is mainly characterized by a longer gun body, smaller caliber, lighter weight and high precision. Although it also has disadvantages such as slow reloading and high cost, it is a rare weapon in the right hands.

Just like this group of diver archers who have been re-recruited after training in the wilderness of the new continent.

The distance may not be as good as the sniper musketeer, but when the battle line is facing each other, you can put a cold shot, not requiring every bullet to destroy an enemy, as long as you can kill an enemy Officers make a lot of money.

The transcender can dodge bullets according to the muzzle, but on the battlefield where the cannonballs are flying, it must kneel when hit by an inadvertent stray bullet.

Boom—

The battle is over.

Perhaps the outcome of this battle will not only determine the position of Cyrus and Tulip on the sea, but will also determine the development trend of future naval equipment and tactics.

Who’s route is more correct, just try it out.

Thousands of cannons are fired in unison, as if the sea will be shattered.

“Spectacular!”

For the first time in their lives, Alwin, Olivia and most of the officers on the quasi-Legendary battleship “Cape Storm” in charge of peripheral maneuver operations Witness the offensive and defensive battles of this class of battleship fleets.

The tempering of tactics, command ability, equipment application, etc. is even more difficult to describe.

The spirit net network built by the seagulls will faithfully record every bit of what happened on the battlefield, which will be used for Alwin to review and study after the war, turning it into his extremely valuable experience.

After seeing the “May Wind” join the siege sequence of “San Juan”, Alwin said to Olivia beside him:

“Hersey, Pay attention to support!”

“Understand!”

The female officers of valiant and formidable looking have set up “electromagnetic guns” on the podium, ready to support any corner of the battlefield at any time. Geer and Elantra have even higher priority than the commander.

Meanwhile.

Wow.

The Longnose Mermaid, which once flew the “Storm Horn” once, has dragged a long white line and rushed over quickly.

The battle for the Horn of the Storm begins.

The northern part of the Gulf of Benin, where the battlefield is located, is Lagos, the largest port in Nigeria, the colony of Pharretis.

Almost at the same time as the battle began.

“The Lord’s grace!”

“All things belong to the Lord!”

“Ulla-“

batch by batch The dark indigenous warrior rushed to the port in a small boat roaring. Obviously, this is the reason why the kingdom of Dahomey, which has completely resembled Cyrus, did not even appear on the battlefield.

Almost all the main warships of the alliance have been put into the battlefield, and only a few offshore cruisers are left behind, it is impossible to block this group of dark natives.

This is Cyrus’s conspiracy. No one said that the frontal fleet battle and the rearward battle cannot be carried out at the same time. Regardless of whether the alliance’s reconnaissance system finds an abnormality or not, it is impossible to withdraw from the battlefield and go back home.

For the Cyrus, nothing is impossible for victory.

Even if they were attacked by their extremely dreaded alchemy artillery, they would not lose the lives of the Cyrus people anyway.

According to the intelligence of the Cyrus people, the Dahomey specially replaced the landing ships with a large number of small offshore sampans, just to prevent them from being caught by alchemy artillery.

Cyrus promised them that all the loot would go to Dahomey, and that they would never interfere even if the tulip-robbers became slaves.

The pie painting is really good enough.

However, when they got their wish to attack the port, thinking that they would easily break the defenseless city like other native tribes in the past, they were ruthless slapped in the head.

The female commander of Dahomey Kingdom vividly displayed what is called colorful black:

“Why are there so many Union soldiers here?

Those bragging Cyrus, don’t they say that the Tulip Army has suffered heavy losses now?”

The indigenous soldiers of the Dahomey Kingdom flooded into the port city like a flood, but they hit the A large number of army soldiers of the alliance in a neat queue.

Under the cover of artillery fire from the harbor bastion.

Bang! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom!

A military-style rifle that is far superior to the trade rifle. It breathes flames, and the fiery lead bullet is like a steel dam, which firmly blocks the tide of black.

During the special period, even the colonial governor, Sir Winston, came to the city in person and sighed slightly in relief when he saw the battle situation:

“I’m a little fortunate that the information was timely, and these After the young men recover from their injuries, they can still take up arms to guard home and defend the country.”

The army commander next to him looked at the tide that was darker than the coal produced in Nigeria, and came faintly. One sentence:

“Your Excellency the Governor, I’m even more glad that the Anuma didn’t hold back until the night before launching the night attack”

“Uh, you’re right.”

According to the normal ratio of casualties of wounded soldiers in this era, it may be true that there were no small casualties in the war with Cyrus, but it was certainly not as exaggerated as the Cyrus and Anuma said.

Combined with the spread of “divine medicine” throughout the Southern Continent colonies, many soldiers who were destined to die were brought back to life.

Before the final battle, the alliance’s base camp had already begun to move towards the Gulf of Benin, the center of the whirlpool, and the soldiers who were healed were no exception.

So, of course Dahomey’s commander felt that the actual situation was seriously inconsistent with the Cyrus intelligence, and the damn Cyrus simply pushed Dahomey off the Fire Pit.

Looking at the soldier who was hit head-on, the heart of the commander, who is also the king’s concubine, is already bleeding.

Alwin: Cough, blame me?

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(end of this chapter)