Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

Chapter 501 Post-War Summary

The so-called "February 18th Sea Battle" was the second maritime confrontation between the Invincible Fleet of the Commercial Alliance and the North Sea Fleet of the Norton Family. After the battle, the Invincible Fleet claimed that it had won an unquestionable victory, but the North Sea Fleet did not refute this.

Judging from the results announced by the Invincible Fleet, the victory of this naval battle should indeed belong to them. It was only the Fourth Squadron of the Invincible Fleet who fought back. They regained more than 30 merchant ships full of military supplies held by the North Sea Fleet. Escort them back to the Golden Bay, and at the same time destroyed two lightning warships and four large armed warships of the North Sea Fleet in the sea battle.

It's just that the Invincible Fleet did not announce their losses. In fact, if you calculate from the warships destroyed on both sides, the Fourth Squadron can be said to have been maimed. More than 100 large and medium-sized armed warships that fought in the battle finally returned to the Zangjin Gulf. Fewer than 50 ships, most of which still need to go to the shipyard for repair. This is also the real reason why the Fourth Squadron has been shrinking in the Golden Bay before the rainy season and no longer patrols the sea. There are 7,000 casualties and the loss of a great swordsman. It can be said that the Fourth Squadron has no courage and capital. Go to sea again to fight.

No one could have expected that the North Sea Fleet would be so cruel and cunning. When two lightning strike ships and a large armed battleship fell into the control of the Fourth Squadron, the senior officers of the fleet were relieved in their hearts. I was able to capture the enemy’s three warships and rescued my own 30 or so merchant ships. Even if the fleet’s losses were a bit large, I could go back to the mission, and I captured the two main battleships of the North Sea Fleet and took them back to study. The fleet can also be equipped with that kind of bronze artillery, and it will not fail to fight back when it encounters the North Sea Fleet in the future.

It’s just that the commanders of the Fourth Squadron were too early to be pleased. No one thought that the North Sea Fleet, which had broken through the encirclement, would not take the opportunity to escape. Instead, it killed a horseback and fell into the Fourth Squadron. The two lightning warships and the large armed merchant ship. Not only did it sink and destroy three warships, but also concentrated artillery fire and shot shots to blast the great swordsman who had captured a thunder-strike warship with a single sword to death and fell into the sea with no bones left...

This was a heavy blow to the Fourth Squadron. Seeing that a victory was in sight, they didn't expect the enemy to have spare power to slap themselves. At this time, the warships from the third wave and the fourth wave rushed over to rendezvous. The warships of the Fourth Squadron gathered together and there were nearly a hundred warships. In addition to the dozen or so warships that were severely damaged by the shelling, they also had powerful Combat effectiveness.

It's just that the North Sea Fleet has escaped from the encirclement, and 14 lightning warships are cruising a thousand sea yards away. The commander of the Fourth Squadron decided to end the battle and ordered the defensive array under the ship formation to search for the merchant ships running around, and abandon the severely damaged warships to prepare to return to the Golden Bay. The North Sea Fleet in the distance didn't seem to be interested in fighting anymore. After turning around, it quickly disappeared between the dark sky and sea.

According to the past naval battle experience of the Invincible Fleet, this naval battle has ended, but what they didn't expect was that Sunbawood, who had suffered a great loss, was not prepared to give up like this. For the North Sea Fleet, today’s encounter was a shame and shame. Not only were four large armed warships destroyed, two of them even fell into enemy hands from lightning strikes. Although they were finally destroyed, there were nearly 1,000 casualties and six warships. The loss is proof of a big defeat.

The final U-turn blow allowed Sun Barwood to find an opportunity to defeat the enemy. Judging from the number of warships, the North Sea Fleet is not as good as the Fourth Squadron, but the speed and flexibility of the warships, coupled with the long-range attack power exceeding the enemy Any warship that can surpass the enemy. So the Norton family's sea wolf tactics to make the enemy fleet fearful was born, just like the wolf pack on the prairie hunting the buffalo herd, the battleship group of the Fourth Squadron in front of them has become the buffalo herd in the eyes of Sun Barwood and the North Sea Fleet.

Sunbawood led the remaining fourteen lightning warships in a large circle, and suddenly appeared behind the Fourth Squadron at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and suddenly launched an attack while the enemy was in a panic. All lightning-strike warships are one-shot and they will never fight with the enemy. The first attack disrupted the defense array of the Fourth Squadron. The last five medium-sized fast-armed warships were directly sunk, while a dozen warships and merchant ships were injured by artillery fire.

The commanders of the Fourth Squadron were very painful. If the situation continues, the entire fleet will be in a situation where it cannot be beaten back and will collapse sooner or later, but if you want to counterattack, you will have enough of the enemy. Now any lightning warship in the North Sea Fleet is as slippery as a loach, and can't be caught. Send warships to chase it and turn around and run away. If you chase it farther, you may not be able to return. Several lightning warships cooperate with each other. Deal with those warships that are lured out. If you ignore it, those lightning-struck warships will bombard the Fourth Squadron as long as they reach range. Now the morale of the entire fleet is getting lower and lower.

It's not that the Fourth Squadron has never counterattacked, so Ji Zhongshi wants to re-enclose the North Sea Fleet by relying on its numerical advantage. But the North Sea Fleet was not fooled this time. As soon as the Fourth Squadron found out that the fourth squadron was outflanked in three directions, it turned around and ran away, and then drew a big circle and blasted the warship that was outflanked by the right wing. After the battleship withdrew back, the commanders of the Four Fleet found out that a dozen battleships would never return...

Next is the performance time of the North Sea Fleet. Sunbawood divided the 14 lightning warships into groups of three or four, and carried out surprise attacks on the Fourth Squadron from various directions. As long as they entered the range, it was a round of artillery firing. No pursuit continued. Launch, run when there is a chase, and lure the chasing warship to the outer periphery to attack together...

At that time, the commanders of the Fourth Squadron thought that if this continued, the fleet would soon collapse and annihilate the entire army. In their hearts, they began to consider whether they should raise the white flag and surrender. But the darkening sky soon and the North Sea Fleet finally ran out of ammunition gave the Fourth Squadron unexpected vitality. The remains of the Fourth Squadron, which returned to the Golden Bay the next day after the night had passed, was unbearable. Three days ago, the more than 120 warships that flew out with great vigor returned only more than 50 ships, most of which were warships. The shell still has traces of damage caused by artillery bombardment and temporary repairs.

The only commendable thing is that the Fourth Squadron has rescued more than 30 merchant ships that were hijacked by the North Sea Fleet this time, and escorted them back to the Golden Bay. These thirty-odd merchant ships full of military supplies finally solved the problem of insufficient supply of military supplies for the desperate senior executives of the Chamber of Commerce. Now that the sea channel has been cut off by the Norton family’s North Sea Fleet, nearly fifty merchant ships and cargo ships full of military supplies and grains have been hijacked and headed for Silovas Island. The news has been passed over land to the Chikkad Chamber of Commerce. I'll send merchant ships and cargo ships stupidly to transport supplies over to the wolf's mouth.

The senior executives of the business alliance found helplessly that if they wanted to rely on maritime transportation to obtain supplies and reinforcements, they had to defeat the Norton family's North Sea Fleet. They are ready to wait for the rainy season to order the Second Squadron and the Armed Fleet of the Chickard Chamber of Commerce to go northward. On the one hand, they will **** supplies and reinforcements to Morient, and on the other hand, they will find the Norton family’s North Sea Fleet for a decisive battle at sea, if possible. He also hopes to occupy Hilovas Island and completely eliminate the threat to maritime traffic from the Norton family’s North Sea Fleet.

But soon the Fourth Squadron's summary report on this naval battle was in front of the top of the Chamber of Commerce. In this report, all the commanders of the Fourth Squadron who have experienced this naval battle signed their names to ensure that this report is correct. The combat history they mentioned in the report shocked the senior leaders of the Chamber of Commerce, and they could hardly believe that the Invincible Fleet did not even have the slightest power to fight back in front of the Norton Family's North Sea Fleet.

A senior captain stated in the report that most of the Invincible Fleet’s warships lag far behind the Norton family’s North Sea Fleet in long-range attack power. At a distance of more than 300 meters, the iron projectiles fired by the North Sea Fleet’s artillery can easily smash or break the thick wooden hull of a battleship ten centimeters thick, and a distance of more than 100 meters can break the thick mast. Regardless of whether it was a stone cannon or the latest type of stone rappel launched on their battleships, even if they hit an opponent's battleship within a range of 100 meters, they would only leave a mark on the hull, which could not pose a threat at all. s damage.

Not only that, even in the design and protection of warships, the large and medium-sized armed warships of the Invincible Fleet cannot match any of the main battleships of the Norton family fleet. Those warships that can fire artillery are extremely flexible in maneuvering, turning swiftly, faster than the warships of the Invincible Fleet, and are even better than those of the Invincible Fleet in terms of seaworthiness.

Perhaps in addition to having an advantage over the Norton family’s North Sea Fleet in terms of numbers, the Invincible Fleet also competed with the Norton Family Fleet by relying on the small fast-impacting warships in the southern waters, but these small fast-impacting warships will also be in the wind and waves. It was scrapped. Therefore, the commanders of the Fourth Squadron hope that the senior management of the business alliance can allocate a large amount of money, one is to research artillery, and the other is to rebuild a new type of warship that can compete with the Norton family fleet.

The executives of the business alliance smiled bitterly at this report. The Norton family invented a very powerful artillery, not even inferior to the legendary dwarf kingdom’s weapon of the kingdom. The dwarf artillery has long been known to them. The great swordsman dispatched last year Infiltrated the Northland to assassinate Lorester, who was heavily wounded. When searching the artillery training base, he was attacked by artillery, causing four deaths and three injuries. Although the remaining great swordsmen carried out a massacre on the soldiers of that base, the power of the artillery had been passed to the ears of the senior leaders of the business alliance after all.

It is a pity that the great swordsmen have obtained many new and powerful design drawings of weapons from the Norton family, but there is no information about artillery. And it is not clear where the Norton family got the gunpowder from. Just looking at so many hills and mountains on the map of the Northland, the senior executives of the business alliance believed that the Norton family was likely to unearth a nitrate mine to deploy the gunpowder needed for the artillery.

In the artillery research, the Commercial Alliance pinned its hopes on the dwarf kingdom in the Titanini Mountains, but the communication and negotiation with the dwarves did not go well, and it took some means and a period of time. However, the large amount of research funding required to build a new type of warship proposed in the report left the business alliance executives at a loss.

Although the business alliance is known for its great wealth, this does not mean that the business alliance has endless wealth. Since the Glass War, the business alliance has suffered hostility from all over the world and its commercial activities have been suppressed, which eventually forced the business alliance to adopt a policy of external expansion to ensure its commercial interests and sphere of influence. It took so much time and thoughts to finally break down and disintegrate the hostile Indo-South African Kingdom Alliance, making the business alliance the largest country in the Asian continent in Gailint. But looking back, I was confronted with the Kingdom of Antinac again, and the intensity of this war was even greater than those wars that the business alliance had participated in in the past.

The business alliance can't bear it anymore, and now it's a matter of smashing the jaws and the Antinac kingdom to the end to see who collapses first. The new territory obtained by the expansion has not been sorted out for effective management, and here is a **** battle with the Antinac Kingdom. To put it bluntly, the business alliance has put all its resources into this war. At such a critical juncture, where can a large amount of funds be allocated to research on new types of warships...

The post-war summary report submitted by the Fourth Squadron allowed the senior executives of the business alliance to reach a consensus that the North Sea Fleet of the Norton family will be destroyed at all costs and the island of Silova is captured. Since the development of the Norton family fleet has left the invincible fleet far behind, so that the invincible fleet cannot catch up and surpass in a short time, then take advantage of the number of the invincible fleet to take advantage of the number of the invincible fleet when the North Sea Fleet is not large. To be eliminated, no matter how much sacrifices are made, the Norton family’s maritime power must be brought to the same level as the Invincible Fleet, and everyone will compete and develop together.

As long as Silova is captured, there is no need to worry even if the Norton family vigorously develops maritime power. The Norton family's loss of Silovas Island means that they will lose the initiative and mooring base on the sea battlefield, and will no longer be able to pose a threat to the maritime trade route south of the Golden Bay. The senior executives of the business alliance are very confident. With the golden coastline of the Sunshine Sea in the central and south of the mainland, the invincible fleet will only grow faster and faster, and relying on a remote and desolate northland, how can the Norton family and the invincible fleet of the business alliance again Fighting for the crown at sea?

The determined business alliance executives once again expanded the size of the northbound fleet. This time they are preparing to let the first squadron of the invincible fleet stationed in the Kingdom of Chigda also go north together, first rendezvous with the second squadron, and then unite with Qikeda. The chamber of commerce's armed fleet escorted grain, grass, military supplies, and reinforcements to the Tibetan Golden Bay. Then gather all the fleets and head straight for Hilovas Island. Even if the North Sea Fleet of the Norton family is very powerful~www.wuxiaspot.com~ How can more than a dozen warships equipped with artillery be more than seven or eight hundred warships, even if it is a target, it is impossible to shoot so many...

Just when the top of the business alliance was thinking about how to attack Hilovas Island and remove the threat from the Norton family fleet to the sea. Sunbawood also led fourteen lightning warships back to Silovas Island. This attack was a failure in the eyes of Samba Five. Not only were four large armed battleships destroyed, but even two lightning-struck battleships were sunk by their own orders. This is an intolerable shame to the members of Sun Barwood and the North Sea Fleet!

Only later the North Sea Fleet adopted the correct Seawolf tactics to besiege the enemy. Seeing that the number of warships in the Fourth Squadron became less and less, and when it could be wiped out with more effort, the North Sea Fleet ran out of ammunition. Sambawood had no choice but to return to Silovas with fourteen lightning warships. The failure to do so made Sambawood very unhappy, and now he only hopes that the warships equipped with artillery can return as soon as possible when going to Niujiao Bay in the Northland to be transformed.

However, the rainy season is coming soon, and Sun Barwood has no time to set sail again on the sea road south of the Golden Bay to find trouble with the Invincible Fleet. The lightning warships returning from this battle will more or less go to the shipyard for some refurbishment. Sunbawood could only keep the thought of revenge in his heart, looking forward to finding the Invincible Fleet after the rainy season.

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