Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 418 Chapter 418
Time passed by every minute and every second, and the naval warships of Mirage Kingdom did enter the landing field.However, the trouble they caused to the Datang Group's naval transport fleet was not as much as imagined.

The three Bunas-class ironclad ships left behind are fighting with 3 paddle steamers and 15 sailing warships at this time, and they have already gained the absolute upper hand.

In front of them, the mirage navy fleet, which has an advantage in numbers, is already full of smoke at this time, and has almost lost its combat effectiveness.

But because there were too many enemy ships, five sailing warships took advantage of the chaos to bypass the battlefield and entered the formation of several Liberty ships moored in the offshore.

These free ships didn't have warm boilers yet, so they could only stand still and be beaten. In fact, the Datang Group's landing fleet never expected that the enemy troops would break through their own battleship defense line and kill them in front of them.

For a while, the fleet sailors who were still washing were dumbfounded, and could only watch these tall sailing warships raging around the periphery of the fleet.

Of course, they couldn't just watch, and soon some soldiers took out their rifles and started firing from the side of the ship to prevent these enemy sailing warships from approaching.

Soon the sound of gunfire spread across the sea, followed by the rumble of gunfire. It seemed that the landing fleet was in danger this time.

But in fact, the damage caused by the five sailing warships of Mirage to the Datang Group's Liberty Shipping fleet was far less serious than imagined.

Seeing that the mirage battleships of their main fleet suffered heavy losses, they did not dare to rush into the middle of the unknown Liberty fleet, so they could only fire from the periphery.

You know, in the eyes of mirage naval commanders, these huge ships parked on the sea can almost scare them no matter how big they are.

Just looking at these behemoths twice the size of the battleships, these mirage goblins felt awed, and they were too timid to move forward.

And because there were gunshots on the ship, they didn't dare to step forward recklessly to start a boarding battle. Therefore, shelling with solid ammunition from the front-loading gun became the safest attack method they thought.

As a result... these solid bullets hit the tall ship side of Liberty Wheel, and they didn't have a very good effect.

Most of the shells were bounced off directly, and a few shells were inlaid on the hull, and did not achieve the effect of penetration.

On the other side, the short attack window that the main force of the mirage's southward fleet worked so hard to win for them was wasted in vain.

When Bernard led the two Wolf-class cruisers back to the landing site, the five sailing warships failed to do anything to the Liberty Ship fleet...

Immediately afterwards, they were severely attacked by the cruiser fleet of the Datang Group, and the entire naval battle instantly turned into a massacre at sea.

The commander of the Mirage Navy watched the five sailing warships hovering around the periphery of the enemy's moored fleet instantly destroyed, and almost vomited blood from anger.

Standing on the deck, squinting through the drifting black smoke, he pointed at the sunken sailing fleet in the distance and cursed: "Bastard! Coward! Why don't you go on board? Why don't you get close and fight to the death?"

In fact, more than ten minutes ago, he had already ordered the semaphore to let the five sailing warships rushing up to join the battle.

But I don't know if it's because of the too much smoke, or for some other reason, those five battleships... obviously didn't follow his orders.

"The only chance... the only chance!" the naval commander groaned in frustration, beating on the ship's rails.

He has already sent out the news that the enemy has a more powerful ironclad ship. In his opinion, there is no chance of turning defeat into victory in this battle.

Now the fleet of Mirage Navy, the three paddle steamers including his flagship have been completely paralyzed, but they are still floating on the sea, lingering on their last legs.

Two-thirds of the remaining 20 sailing warships have sunk, and the rest are already waiting to die.

The opponent's battleship was almost unscathed, which completely extinguished the admiral's fantasy of turning defeat into victory.

What he can do now is to send the news back to the country as soon as possible, reminding the mirage king to carefully examine this sudden war!
In his view, Mirage cannot win this war.If the navy loses, Dongwan Island will not be able to keep it anyway. This is an inevitable result, and it cannot be changed by the bravery of a few people.

The only thing that can cause trouble for the opponent is the 130mm main gun on the paddle steamer. The rest of the weapons are almost jokes.

Although the rate of fire of the 75mm breech-loading gun is sufficient, its power is very weak, and it cannot damage the enemy warship at all... As for those Cyric front-loading guns that seem to be useless, they are actually useless at all.

Thinking of this, the mirage navy commander couldn't help feeling desperate. He looked at his own fleet billowing in thick smoke, and couldn't stop crying.

The enemy has such a powerful fleet, which is almost equivalent to saying that the thousands of miles of sea and territory of Mirage Kingdom have become an undefended existence.

The seemingly huge naval fleet has also become a decoration, and only less than 30 paddle steamers are barely able to fight against it.

If you want to keep your own territory, you need to purchase a large number of updated warships and buy more artillery... Can Mirage afford all this?
After thinking wildly, the general hammered the railing of the ship heavily with his hand, and cursed loudly: "I heard that this war was provoked by that bastard Mirage Kazuo? He should be killed! Bastard! He should commit suicide and apologize!"

Just as he was cursing loudly, a cannonball struck right where he was, and the huge explosion engulfed him and the deck beneath his feet, leaving only two sections of the warship floating stubbornly on the sea. .

Although there was a slight loss, Bernard finally repelled the incoming enemy fleet without any risk, and kept the landing site.

Meanwhile, fighting on land has also broken out.

On the south side of the landing field, the troops of the 1st Battalion fought fiercely with the three mirage corps who came to attack.

Because there are a large number of automatic weapons, the defense line of the 1st Battalion is established on the basis of the high ground on both sides of the road, and the road is just blocked with crossfire, forming a deep defense position that relies on each other.

The attacking Mirage troops had never seen such a line of defense, and their first attack was repulsed without even knowing where the enemy was.

More than 200 corpses were hastily left on the road, and these mirage goblins withdrew from the battlefield crying and howling.

Then they started shelling, shelling aimlessly.Because the Datang Group's defensive position was on a high ground, those front-loading guns fired upwards did not cause any damage at all.

To put it bluntly, the enemy army was just firing cannons to embolden themselves, and it didn't have much practical significance at all.This tactic is forbidden within the Datang Group, because precious shells are not used for such squandering.

The two sides remained in a stalemate for more than half an hour, and then the commander of the Mirage Kingdom, Mirage Baisui, discussed with Mirage Yuan, sent two battalions of troops, and launched a fierce attack again.

The mirage troops spread out layer upon layer, rushing desperately towards the defensive position of the Datang Group's defenders.

Then...then they didn't even get the machine gun fire, and they were defeated again!Because under the guidance of the observation post, the mortar unit of the battalion let the other party see what is called modern artillery.

The artillery of the Datang Group, which has a precise shooting meter, has high shooting accuracy and powerful shells. It only took two rounds of salvos to let the attacking Mirage troops learn what it means to be full of artillery fire.

More than a dozen cannonballs fell almost at the same time, and exploded among the crowd of goblins in the Mirage. It felt so refreshing.

They lost more than 500 people without even touching Datang Group's frontier positions. Mirage Baisui and Mirage Yuan finally realized the seriousness of the problem.

No matter how stupid they are, they can see that the troops in front of them have nothing to do with Zheng Guo, and they are not enemies they can deal with by themselves!

So, they decided to... wait!
Yes, wait a minute!They were going to wait two hours where the friendly army in the north launched an attack to disperse the enemy's forces before they started their operations.

From Mirage Baisui's point of view, the reason why this army is so strong is because they put the main force right in front of them.

As long as the friendly army in the north, that is, the troops commanded by Mirage Bear, arrives and starts to attack, this enemy army will inevitably be unable to look at each other head to tail.At that time, if he launches an attack again, the resistance will definitely be much smaller than it is now.

What he didn't know was that after blocking the two attacks and finding that the mirage troops were not moving, the head of the 1st regiment immediately began to mobilize his own troops.

The 2nd Battalion began to move towards Fengshun City along the edge of the battlefield, and had already begun to encircle the troops of Miwu Yuan and Mirage Centenary.

On the other side, in fact, as early as more than an hour ago, Miwuxiong's troops had already launched a fierce attack on the 3rd Battalion.

It is a pity that, just like what happened to Miwu Centenary, Miwuxiong's troops were also severely frustrated in the attack, and also lost hundreds of soldiers.

Under such circumstances, Mirage Bear made almost the same judgment as Mirage Centenary—he believed that the main force of the enemy army was right in front of him, and he could wait until Mirage Centennial launched an attack to disrupt the situation. Act after the enemy troops are deployed.

Ever since, due to the inability to communicate and the poor communication, the mirage country's advantage of attacking from both sides disappeared, and it became a passive battle on both sides.

What's even more ridiculous is that just like that, the mirage attacking force wasted more than an hour of precious time, standing still and waiting stupidly.

What's even more tragic is that they still don't know the news that their own fleet has actually suffered a disastrous defeat.They also thought that if the fleet achieved results, the enemy would be in chaos.

After all, if you don't have dreams in life, what's the difference between that and salted fish? ——
Thank you readers for the rewards of "more than bad than bad" and "Yangyang O_o".

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