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Chapter 427 Chapter 427 Outrageous Tactics

"Good guy! This is heading for the port!" Seeing the sudden change of the enemy army, Bernard was also taken aback.

Looking at the opponent's posture, he knew that the opponent's transport fleet was carrying army troops.Otherwise, the other party would not rush to the port so frantically.

His original plan was to gnaw the tortoise shell in front of him in circles until he ate all the opponent's warships.

But it was obvious that the opponent did not intend to sit still, but seized the best opportunity and planned to launch a Jedi counterattack.

According to the opponent's attack idea, they wanted to use the naval fleet to stop the small number of Datang Group's naval fleet, and then let the landing fleet take the opportunity to rush into Dongwan Port.

Bernard put down the binoculars, thinking about his own way to break the situation - he is now at the outermost level, sandwiching the mirage naval fleet with the port.

He also probably has several options now: the first one is to continue advancing according to the existing route, bypass the mirage navy fleet, catch up with the enemy transport ships preparing to land from the other side, and sink these ships preparing to attack the port .

The problem is that this method is not easy to succeed. The enemy is likely to kill him ashore before he arrives, so he may not be able to intercept the enemy's landing force in time.

The second method is to keep the route and continue to fight, leave the enemy's landing troops to the army to deal with, and concentrate on cleaning up those sea targets.The advantage of doing this is that at least Bernard can ensure that one of the mirage naval warships in front of him cannot escape.

But with this choice, the enemy's landing fleet will more or less cause some damage to the port, which Bernard doesn't want to see.

The third method is more risky. He can immediately turn the fleet around and pass through the enemy formation.Break through the opponent's defense line and catch up with the enemy's landing fleet.

The advantage of doing this is that it can catch up with the enemy's transport fleet as quickly as possible, but his fleet will directly face the close-range attack of enemy artillery fire-this is a test of his battleship defense.

In just two seconds, Bernard made a bold decision - he chose to use the most direct, effective, and most deterrent method to solve the problem he was facing.

"Order the fleet to full starboard! Adjust the course! Charge towards the enemy ship!" Bernard squeezed the binoculars vigorously with his fingers, and Bernard gave an almost crazy order.

He is going to take the initiative to give up the T-head, and with an unfavorable fleet formation, he will go straight to the enemy's battle line across the sea, penetrate the opponent's formation, catch up with the enemy's landing transport fleet, attack before the port.

"Full starboard!" The adjutant repeated his order faithfully.

"Full right rudder! Keep the speed!" On the bridge of the Wolf 1 battleship, the captain put his hands behind his back and loudly issued a steering order in a hoarse voice.

The helmsman standing in front of the steering wheel vigorously turned the steering wheel, and the heavy battleship drew an increasingly large arc on the sea.

The waves spread to both sides of the battleship until they hit the waves cut by another battleship, and then intertwined, and the mutual interference gradually faded away.

Accompanied by the lights and the signal from the flag bearer, all the warships of the Datang Group began to turn within 1 minute. The cruiser Wolf 1 in the center took the lead and accelerated towards the enemy's battle line.

Mirage Kazuo was taken aback by the scene in front of him. He really didn't expect that the opponent's commander had such courage and made the crazy decision to hit his battle line almost instantly.

Logically speaking, under normal circumstances, the enemy will not give up the superior formation and start a decisive battle with the most disadvantaged formation.

In his view, the opponent has already taken the lead by virtue of the speed advantage. At this time, as long as the formation is maintained, it can be consumed slowly and eat up his fleet at the smallest cost.

But the opponent seemed to care a lot about Dongwan Port, so he got confused and even gave up the speed advantage and came straight to his fleet.

This is a stupid decision to voluntarily give up the advantage of the T prefix and take on the enemy at a disadvantage!In Mirage Kazuo's view, the opponent's commander is simply an idiot.

Now that the opponent has given up the victory at his fingertips, he will seize this last chance for the mirage navy and turn defeat into victory.

Suddenly, the spirited Mirage Kazuo immediately opened his mouth and ordered: "Let the troops outflank the two wings in a crescent shape! The two wings turn!"

As an admiral, he decided to use his strongest and most advanced 15 paddle steamers to collide head-on with the opponent. This is his most sure arrangement.

When the two sides are entangled together, the advantage in the number of his fleet can be brought into play.

The opponent will soon find himself in a tight siege, already surrounded by sailing warships on both wings.At that time, the opponent is likely to collapse due to lack of determination, and there is a high probability that they will lead the fleet to surrender.

Even if the opponent leads the fleet to break through, he will pay a heavy price for the hard battle. If the landing force behind him captures Dongwan City, the opponent may not even have a place to retreat.

Thinking of this, Mirage Kazuo suddenly had a little expectation, hoping that the opponent's warship would arrive as scheduled and rush into his cloth pocket!

As time passed by, the enemy warships began to charge towards his fleet as he had expected.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and the shelling began.The cruiser of the Datang Group has three cannons directly in front, and they cannot exert all their firepower.

The Bunas class also only has two cannons that can directly attack the front, so in total, the Datang Group's fleet can fire at this moment, only 15 cannons.

What's different is that the paddle steamer battleship of the Phantom Navy just launched, because it is flanking the enemy at this time, can use the two cannons on the bow and stern at the same time, so 30 cannons can fire.

In terms of firepower, the Phantom Navy is twice as large as the Datang Group's navy, but in terms of firepower quality and other statistics, the overall strength of the two sides is not much different.

First of all, the Datang Group has 150mm cannons, but the Mirage Navy does not.The artillery of the Datang Group has optical sighting equipment, and the Mirage Navy obviously does not have such advanced gadgets.

Secondly, the Datang Group is not without advantages-they face the enemy head-on, and the area hit by the bombs is very small, which also brings trouble to the Mirage Navy, which lacks targeting capabilities.

Although there were a lot of shells flying towards the charging Datang Group navy head-on like raindrops, there were very few hits.

On the other hand, the battleship of the Datang Group, the situation is a bit different: after approaching the enemy ship, the artillery on the bow spewed out flames, and the sideboard of the Mirage Navy battleship was immediately aroused by the explosion. water column.

Then, a cannonball hit a mirage paddle steamer. Facts have proved that this kind of paddle steamer made by Cyric is actually a matter of fate...

There were several paddle steamers that were beaten into scraps and were still floating in the sea. For a time, the naval gunners of the Datang Group thought that the opponent's warship was extremely strong.

But this time, due to bad luck, the phantom paddle steamer that was hit by the shell immediately exploded. The shell inside the hull caught fire and exploded.

The tragic explosion startled the mirage sailors on the paddle steamers on both sides.They leaned on the railing and stared wide-eyed, seeing that some parts fell on the deck of the battleship they were on.

Because it was covered with iron armor, the paddle wheel of the paddle steamer almost sank directly. On the chimney of the battleship, flames from the internal combustion could still be seen.

While everyone was stunned, another battleship was also hit and caught fire, and lost its combat power in an instant. A few seconds later, the turret of this battleship was also thrown into the air by the explosion.

Kazuo Mirage, who lost two warships in an instant, also truly experienced the destructive power of the Datang Group's naval warships.

He saw with his own eyes that his warship hit the enemy ship, but the warship of the Datang Group Navy did not catch fire, and there was no sign of even being injured.

The opponent still rushed over recklessly, with an unstoppable terrifying aura, like a sharp sword, slashing at the battle line of the mirage navy.

"Keep in formation! Keep firing! I don't believe it! I don't believe we can't sink these monsters!" Mirage Kazuo clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and ordered his men to continue.

In his own bridge, Bernard saw that the warships of both sides were about to become entangled, ignored the enemy sailing warships that had already surrounded from the two wings, and ordered: "Pierce the enemy's battle line! Don't Tangling with them! There is no need!"

Accompanied by his order, the main gun on the bow of cruiser Wolf 1 fired again, and three shells hit an enemy paddle steamer that was close at hand, and directly shattered the paddle wheel on one side of the paddle steamer.

In fact, by this time, the battleships of the two sides were almost face to face. Mirage Kazuo could clearly see the towering and sharp bow of the Datang Group naval battleship, as well as the opponent's superstructure made of pure steel.

His artillery bombarded these copper and iron walls. Although it could still cause damage, the damage effect was really not worth mentioning.

But when the opponent's artillery attacked the hull of his warship, its destructive power was completely different-his ship was made of wood and iron, and its ability to resist attacks was obviously far worse.

"Boom!" This time, the wolf-class cruiser joined the battle with the broadside artillery of the attack angle, which made the Datang Group's attack suddenly sharper.

The ratio of artillery on both sides changed rapidly, and the 150mm caliber artillery that Datang Group could put into direct attack increased linearly, and the loss of the Phantom Navy fleet also became unbearable.

Within a few minutes, more than five of their paddle steamers were destroyed, and the remaining battleships could not look at each other end to end, and they were completely unable to prevent the Datang Group from breaking through their defense line.

(End of this chapter)