Start with an Archangel

Xu Man used a tough attitude to suppress the unstable mood in the college alliance. Now she has all the military agencies under the alliance in her hands, and without making any major mistakes, her position is still very stable.

Daliang now built 220 single-masted warships in four military port shipyards, giving Xu Man great confidence. Two days later, a new fleet was established and sailed out of the port. The entire sea area was the hunting ground of the Yunxiao Fleet and the Judgment Fleet.

The Black Fire Fleet continued to park in the north of the Lords' Combined Fleet under the banner of the Pudong Fleet. Based on the information provided by the Judgment Corps, Da Liang used a model to lay out the formation of the Combined Fleet on the tactical chart, and then worked with Sidney to deduce what would happen two days later. A naval battle occurred.

In the deduction, Daliang commanded the Lords United Fleet, and Sidney commanded the Blackfire Fleet.

Seeing that the opponent turned out to be a fleet dominated by single-masted battleships, Sidney said: "If the lord only has one three-masted battleship and two two-masted battleships, I can destroy your fleet by commanding the Black Fire Fleet. "

Daliang pointed to the single-masted battleships outside the lords' combined fleet and said: "I still have 80 single-masted battleships, and their firepower far exceeds the Blackfire Fleet."

Sidney shook his head and said: "If whoever has more artillery has the advantage in a naval battle, why would the Pudong Fleet build battleships? The cost of one battleship is enough to build dozens or hundreds of single-masted battleships. These single-masted battleships It can be equipped with far more artillery than a battleship. Please take a look, my lord!"

Sidney asked the Blackfire fleet to form a battle line, and then used single-masted battleships to form a battle line. He said: "Naval battles are about the ability to deliver firepower within a region. The real effective artillery attack is between two hundred meters and three meters." At a distance of 100 meters. After my Black Fire Fleet opened the battle line on the sea, only about ten single-masted battleships could attack the Black Fire Fleet within the artillery engagement range. The other single-masted battleships were unable to attack due to the shooting angle. For us, no matter how much firepower we have, it will be a waste.

The ten single-masted battleships have fifty guns, but all 90 guns on one side of ours can exert their power, and the firepower is nearly twice that of the opponent.

The role of a sloop in the navy is to conduct reconnaissance and establish tactical isolation zones, so it pays more attention to speed, and defense is its weakness. The two-masted battleship is a conventional combat ship and pays more attention to defense. Our battleship completely crushes the single-masted battleship in terms of defensive capabilities.

Therefore, when a single-masted battleship fights a two-masted battleship and a three-masted battleship, it is basically to die again.

For example, the naval battle in this deduction. After entering the battlefield, I used the "Skeleton Soldier" and "Skeleton Warrior" with relatively strong defensive capabilities to serve as the first and last ships of the fleet, close to the coastline and close to the enemy fleet, so that the enemy fleet could not attack us from the head and tail.

In the battle line battle, the enemy fleet will soon find that using a single-masted battleship to fight us will give us results. Even if the three-masted battleship and two brigantine battleships are sent up, they will not be our opponent. .

Their only option was to sail out to sea, lure us away from the coastline, and then use the speed of the sloop to attack us from both ends.

If they change their course and sail to the open sea and cause chaos, we can directly rush in and defeat them.

If their front remains intact.

We can avoid being attacked from the head and tail by taking a serpentine route.

Again, their firepower cannot be used, and even if they occupy some favorable positions, they cannot threaten us.

In short, the performance of the warships on both sides is very different. As long as we can maintain a good formation, keep an eye on their three battleships, and without losing air superiority, there is no problem in defeating this fleet of mainly single-masted warships. "

Kao!

In Sidney's words, this fleet showing off its power on the sea is like a chicken or a dog. No matter how many they are, they can just go over and crush them.

But with only the seven battleships of the Black Fire Fleet, is it really okay to defeat the 80 or so ships of the Lords United Fleet?

"Can the Blackfire Fleet really defeat so many ships?"

Sidney said confidently: "As long as we don't make big mistakes, there will be no problem in defeating them. Of course... If you want to annihilate them all, you still need the cooperation of a large number of single-masted battleships. After all, the enemy fleet is fast. The single-masted battleship is the main force, and if it escapes, our battleship will not be able to catch up."

If the Blackfire fleet can really crush the lords' combined fleet, the Yunxiao fleet and the Judgment ship will only fight in the late stage, which will reduce a lot of losses.

In order to prove Sidney's statement, Daliang used the Lords' combined fleet to conduct deductions with Sidney on the tactical charts.

Sure enough, as Sidney said, as long as the Black Fire Fleet makes good use of the terrain or takes a serpentine route, there are far more warships in Da Liang Kong than the Black Fire Fleet, but most of them can only watch the battle. And Sidney could even use Daliang's mistakes and positioning to allow the United Fleet to only invest eight warships in engaging the Blackfire Fleet.

No warship could withstand the attack of the Blackfire Fleet. The unsuppressed Blackfire Fleet was firing on all cylinders. The Lords' Combined Fleet could only use refueling tactics, filling the middle of the battlefield with warships one by one. And many of the single-masted warships that Daliang put into the battlefield were sunk before they could even find their positions. It was like lining up to die.

After going back and forth several times, the combined fleet of lords commanded by Daliang ended in disastrous defeat, proving once again that naval battles are indeed where giant ships and cannons show their power.

Daliang used his authority to view the naval battle plan formulated by the staff office and expected to lose 50-60 single-masted warships.

"Stop, stop, stop, it costs nothing to build battleships. Even if a battleship sinks, you can't fish it out. The loss of 60 sloops means a loss of 600,000 gold coins. The naval battle plan is redone. The task of all sloops is to prevent the defeated lords. The combined fleet fled to minimize losses."

The staff at the staff office asked in confusion: "Commander of the Daliang Army, all our single-masted battleships prevented the defeated lords' combined fleet from escaping, so who is going to defeat them?"

Daliang, who had learned all the tactics and countermeasures from Sidney, said arrogantly: "Of course it is the commander of our army. I borrowed two three-masted warships and five two-masted warships from the Pudong Fleet. By then, I will be responsible for attacking the lords' combined fleet, and you just need to formulate a later encirclement and annihilation plan."

"Seven ships against more than eighty ships, Brother Daliang...have you drunk too much?"

"I'm not drinking, I'm sober! Just make the plan as I said. Then watch carefully, watch the video carefully, and watch the commander of the army perform a textbook for you. What is the victory of the weak against the strong, and what is level? Crush. You staff officers, don’t think about winning with numbers, but learn tactics. Do you understand tactics?”

"Okay, you are the legion commander, you have the final say."

Under Daliang's order, the staff of the staff office began to re-formulate maritime tactics.

The two-masted merchant ship transporting the red dragon's body reported that they had docked at Shidongkou Pier and were escorted by an undead army to Jiading City.