Chapter 89 Volley(2/3)
Seeing that we seemed to finish speaking, the King of Chuang hurriedly asked, "Did the enemy go to sea now?"
"Of course, otherwise why would I be in a hurry to find you?"
When the King of Chuang heard this, he immediately said anxiously: "Then we have to hurry up, otherwise it will be difficult to fight once the number of islands in the deep sea area increases!"
"Don't worry about this, I have ordered the fleet to go out to sea."
"What should we do?"
"Is your spear good-looking?"
"Oh, I often don't use summoning creatures on the sea, I forgot this thing!"
After we cut off the contact, we rode my bird together and chased towards the fleet. After all, birds are evolved creatures with long spears, and their speed is much faster than ordinary spears. Although the fleet was immediately transferred out after the King of Break, the speed of the ship was really negligible compared to the birds flying in the sky. We only flew for more than ten minutes and caught up with the huge fleet that was advancing towards the RB at high speed.
I saw the high-mounted flagship command flag of the Eternal. Near the flagpole was a large area of small black dots. Both the King of Chuang and I knew that each black dot represents a warship of a considerable tonnage, because this ship with a distance of tens of thousands of tons could not even be seen. "What fleet is this?" I asked casually.
The King of Chuang was immediately dissatisfied when he heard this. "Boss, you don't care about our navy too much. You can't even recognize our own fleet."
"Please, such a big guild is full of things. Isn't it going to be exhausted?"
After thinking about it, the King of Chuang seemed to feel that I was busy more than I was idle. I didn’t say anything anymore and answered directly: “This is the first fleet, that is, the local fleet, which is responsible for the affairs of China’s offshore and the RBH country. It also has the largest number of ships, but the tonnage of the ship is not very large. However, the Eternal is not a ship of the local fleet. It has just recently returned to the port to change clothes and then followed it out for a lap as a trial sail. If there is no problem after this battle, I will go back to the port to replenish ammunition and then return to the Pacific Fleet.”
I nodded and looked at the huge fleet in front of me. It was indeed as the King of Chuang said, but there were very few large ships. King of Chuang pointed to those ships and introduced to me: "Since the warships of RB and H countries were almost wiped out by our guild before, the strength of the navy dropped sharply. It can be said that there was no decent fleet in Asia. Under such circumstances, we had no need to leave the main warships in the local area, which caused the number of large main warships in the local fleet. However, although Japan and South Korea did not have any big ships, there were many small ships, and because they could not compete with our fleet head-on, they all started to engage in maritime guerrilla warfare. Every time a large number of small fleets were disrupting trouble. In desperation, we could only increase the number of warships in the local fleet. Even if the troops were dispersed, we could still ensure the absolute firepower advantage in some areas. However, after a while, we created so many small and medium-sized warships. Now it is really scary!"
"Anyway, I don't want you to spend money, what are you worried about?"
"Hehe, am I just sighing!" The King of Chuang suddenly pointed to the bottom and shouted: "Go down quickly, we are going to fly over!"
"oh."
The bird was directly taken back to the Phoenix Dragon Space by me, and then I spread my wings in the air to grab the King of Chuang, slowly glided down, and landed steadily on the bridge of the Eternal. The commanders inside the bridge immediately rushed out, and after saying hello to me one after another, they dragged the King of Chuang to the chart and started talking about the arrangement of naval battles. Speaking of this, I was basically an amateur, so I didn't understand it when I stood on the side, but in the end I heard something I could help with - the fleet needed reconnaissance.
When it comes to reconnaissance, there is naturally nothing more suitable than my ghost insects. These guys can be vained. One is that they are more concealed, and the other is that they are not afraid of water. The most important thing is that these guys can stay empty for a long time, and the number is super large, and they can fully assume the responsibility of large-scale battlefield reconnaissance. After I took all the defense reconnaissance in the area near the fleet, the King of Breaking can safely send all the leading ships to search for the enemy's traces, so that our search range has been greatly improved.
After sailing boredly on the ship for more than three hours, until dawn was approaching, we suddenly discovered a large cloud of rain in front of us. The meteorological conditions of the sea surrounded by China, Japan and South Korea are notoriously good. Unless we enter the storm belt, it is basically impossible to encounter bad weather. Generally speaking, the first strategy we consider when encountering this situation is to avoid it. It is not that the fleet cannot cross the thunderstorm area, but that is not necessary. It seems that you know you can break the wooden board with your fists, but no one will just play with the wooden board, right? But today's situation is slightly different.
A fleet commander looked at me and asked, "Boss, can we enter this rainy area?"
"Then you have to ask?" I asked back. At this time of war, nothing can be considered according to normal circumstances, just like a tank will not pay attention to traffic lights during a war. At this time, if the enemy mingles in the clouds and rains, he will run over to the country H. It will be in chaos.
The King of Breaking is much more fierce than me, so he slapped the member directly. "Are you stupid? Why are you hiding from the thunderstorm area at this time? The command to keep the fleet's course unchanged, so that everyone on the deck can enter the cabin, and don't leave anyone outside."
"yes."
The local fleet said that the tonnage of ships was not large, but that was compared to the Pacific Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet. In fact, our ships were still quite large, and the general wind and waves had no effect on us at all. As the fleet gradually entered the cloud and rain area, the sky became obviously darker. It was early morning and we should be getting brighter and brighter as we opened, but the rain clouds blocked the sunlight, which was similar to that at night. There was almost no light at all except for the lightning that shone from time to time in the distant sky. The instrument lights had to be turned on in the bridge to continue operating.
As the fleet continued to deepen, the wind and waves began to grow bigger and bigger. The anemometer at the bow of the ship was rotating wildly in the strong wind. The huge waves threw the warships worth more than 100,000 tons into the air and buried them in the bottom of the water. The pitch angle of the warships that were nearly 500 meters long could reach more than 20 degrees. Even some people who often went to sea were shaken and began to experience seasickness.
"His grandma, what the hell is this weather!" King Chuang held the handrail inside the bridge and shouted to the seaman in front of him: "Open the wiper, I can't see anything here!"
"Captain, is the wind and waves a little bit unnatural?" The seaman asked loudly while opening the wiper in the observation window.
"God knows what's going on. Anyway, we just rush forward. As long as we can find the Japanese, it's worth it."
"But the fleet cannot aim at this kind of storm conditions!"
The King of Chuang scolded loudly: "I made a promise. Do you think I was scolded to death by the Rose Chief Executive?"
"But……"
When the King of Breaking was about to speak, I immediately interrupted him and said, "Don't shout, you can't attack in this kind of weather, but even if we encounter RB warships, we are not completely unable to fight. At least we still have underwater troops, right? If it really doesn't work, we will carry out underwater blasts. The warships built under such storms cannot run fast, right?"
"That's right." After the communication machine in the cabin, Chuangwang suddenly sounded Didi's prompt. "What's the situation?" Chuangwang stepped next to the communication machine.
"The 813 predecessor ship discovered that the ship shadow is located in the 875 sea area, and its current course is 180 and its speed is 14."
"Order."
"yes."
"The 813 front ship is approaching for reconnaissance, and the nearby front ship shrinks the encirclement to find out the number of enemies and the fleet organization."
"A command to issue."
After the King of Breaking orders, the first mate immediately reported: "Captain, the relative position of the enemy fleet has been calculated."
“Turn now.”
"Yes." The first mate immediately shouted to the helmsman: "Switch to 328, full speed."
The King of Chuang ran to the chart and looked at the line drawn by the first mate before sighing: "Huh, it's so dangerous, I almost slipped over. This damn storm!"
The entire fleet's steering is not as simple as the car's steering. Due to the storm, the warships in the fleet dare not get too close, so the final steering process took more than half an hour to be completely completed. Fortunately, we are not far from the enemy, mainly because of the poor vision, so we have never discovered each other.
"Province Ship Report." The report that the fleet had just completed turning to the forward ship was also sent back.
"read."
"My front-line guided ship formation has surrounded the enemy fleet. The opponent has discovered our fleet, but has not made any moves so far. The number of enemy fleets is 374 plus more than 7,000."
"What? The RB people have so many transport ships?"
The amount of the report is to add up the combat ships and non-combat ships, so that the report can report the total number and the number of various ships at once. More than 300 warships are not many for us, because our warships are more than this, but the more than 7,000 non-combat ships followed behind are a bit scary. Even if such a large fleet is followed by small transport ships, the number of people loaded by people will be absolutely terrifying. Moreover, the ships that are too small under the wind and waves cannot advance at all, so it is certain that these ships are definitely at least medium-sized ships.
A staff officer suddenly asked: "Do you think it is possible that the enemy used illusion-like abilities to create some fake ships? I always feel that the number of 7,000 is too large."
"I don't think so." I stood up and said, "The recent investment of the RB people has increased significantly, and the transport ship itself is not as expensive as a warship, so it is understandable to have more. In Europe, the British and French alliance invested more than 100 million troops at one time to encircle and annihilate the Iron Crusaders. Even if the RB side is not that much, there will still be 70 to 80 million, right? You all know the transportation capacity of the teleportation array. Some advanced troops are still okay. If we transport 70 to 80 million troops at a time, we will go bankrupt first without fighting the RB people, so they can only use sea transportation."
The King of Chuang said: "If you need to transport 1,800 million soldiers, then the number of 7,000 transport ships is not big. A transport of more than 5,000 troops can be considered a relatively large transport ship. Moreover, it is not enough to fight a war, but you also need enough equipment and materials. Generally speaking, the corresponding materials of a soldier actually occupy more space than this person. Therefore, the transportation volume of 7,000 to 80 million soldiers is basically equal to transporting 15,000 people. Even if the 7,000 transport ships this time are all large ships with more than 5,000 people, they have to run back and forth several times. It is not surprising that 7,000 ships will be thought of this way."
After hearing the King of Chuang’s addition, everyone nodded. It is understandable that the other party prepares more ships with such a large transportation volume.
"Captain." The correspondent suddenly shouted again.
"What's the matter?"
"The predecessor said that the enemy's warship had taken action."
"Are you in war?"
"Not yet, but the enemy's warships are moving out of the transport team, seemingly intending to threaten our preamble."
"Order the front guide to stay vigorous and do not have any contact with the enemy before our team arrives."
"learn."
As the fleet turned and completed, we continued to sail for more than 30 minutes and finally entered the contact distance. Everyone in the bridge was looking around for traces of enemy ships, but the dark environment and dense rain screen seriously affected the sight range, and even the huge observation lens above our heads could not see anything.
"Damn it, according to the report of the front ship, we should be very close!"
"Don't relax, the enemy is nearby, it must be blocked by the rain curtain. We will always... wait, the enemy is on our side!" The King of Chuang suddenly screamed as he spoke. We followed his fingers and even the huge observation mirror at the top of the battleship immediately turned in that direction.
The previous guided ship reported the approximate area and course of the enemy. After that, our course was calculated by the first mate based on the relative speed and distance between the enemy and us. Generally speaking, under normal conditions, the enemy will definitely appear directly in front of us by sailing under this method, but we are now sailing in the storm area, and the speed of the fleet is very unstable due to the influence of wind and waves. The speed of the warships on both sides is not very correct, and the wind and waves have caused some deviations in the course of both sides, so that the enemy actually passed by us and ran to our side. Just now, it was because a bright lightning flash that happened to appear above the enemy's fleet. With the help of the sudden flash, the King of Break happened to see several ships on the outer side of the enemy fleet.
Our warships are equipped with ultra-long-distance observation mirrors but still fail to detect the enemy. The people of the RB fleet are even more impossible to see us. However, since they discovered the leading ship, they naturally knew that we were nearby, and they were just uncertain about our specific location. Now that we first discovered the enemy shadow, it means that we can first change the array and seize the advantageous position for us to launch a sudden attack.
"Left full rudder. All warships first-level combat alert."
The entire fleet suddenly turned sharply in the wind and rain, and the main turrets of the warship began to turn and aimed the muzzle position in the direction of the enemy. The entire fleet quietly surrounded their prey in the dark like a pack of wolves hidden in the grass, and the last pounce was the one that was missing.
"Accelerate and push me to the front." The King of Chuang shouted at the engine driver. "Where is the gun position! Load my entire gun door with high-explosive armor-piercing bombs."
"Captain, the high-explosive armor-piercing bomb has been loaded, but the ship is shaking too hard now, we...!"
"It doesn't matter, we have many boats and use cover shooting. Although we can't hit our own target, we will always hit the crowd of birds with random guns."
"But is this a waste of shells?"
"I……!"
The King of Chuang said a word and I held it down. "First mate."
"yes."
"Notify each ship to find an auxiliary mage who can accurately perform the skills on this ship to assist in shooting at the main turret."
"Ah?" the first mate was stunned for a moment and asked uncertainly: "What do you mean is to ask the mages to cast precision techniques on the shells?"
"Is there any problem?"
"Is the precision technique useful for shells?"
"No, why do I let them release it?"
"Yes, I'll send the order right now."
Our guild has never been crowded, so most of the NPCs are operated on the warships, and some even the captains are NPCs. However, there are always a few of these people who can assist spells. Although there are not enough numbers, I believe it is still okay to only take care of the main turret. Anyway, a ship has only five main shells at most, and a small boat even has two main turrets. How come there are thousands of people on a warship that can't even bring up five auxiliary wizards, right?
Although we suddenly discovered that the enemy caused a little chaos in our formation, fortunately, our fleet had been working for a long time and finally the encirclement was finally completed. The King of Chuang took out a headband-style headset and handed it to me, and I quickly put it on my head. I was about to enter the shelling state after a while. Although we were inside the bridge, the shock wave generated by the shelling can definitely shake the ears of ordinary people to deafness, so we must use headphones for some protection.
"Report the status of each squadron."
"The First Squadron is ready to be completed."
"The Second Squadron is ready to be completed."
“…”
"The 18th Fleet is ready to be completed"
After hearing the report, the first mate turned around and said, "The fleets are already in place."
The King of Chuang looked at the clock on the wall and said: "Start coordinate the shelling time, cover the shooting in thirty seconds, and first hit the transport ship. As long as the enemy does not rush over, don't care about the warship."
To be continued...