At the same time, unlike the land battlefield that had temporarily fallen into calm due to the influence of seasonal climate, on a vast sea area to the south of this battlefield, the intensive roar of artillery fire directly tore this tranquility apart.

Crush!

Breaking through the waves on the sea surface, steel battleships were moving rapidly while maintaining speed.

The single vertical formation quickly spread out, and on the side of the ship, the naval guns continuously adjusted their attack positions, and then followed the order and opened fire in unison.

The dazzling flames instantly connected into one, and amidst the continuous roar of artillery fire, the tyrannical artillery fire swept directly towards the enemy fleet on the distant sea!

There is no doubt that on this vast ocean, the two steel fleets of the enemy and ours have met at this moment.

Almost at the moment when they met for the first time, the commanders of both fleets who were responsible for the surprise attack clearly realized that only one of their two fleets could leave, otherwise the surprise attack mission this time would definitely fail!

This situation was probably something neither Luo Ji nor Charlie Crombell had expected.

It can be said that the two players almost dispatched their own maritime fleets at the same time as the war began, trying to bypass the enemy player's coastal cities and surprise them.

And here, it must be mentioned that the territories of the three Europa players are only Charlie Crombell’s territory is connected to the ocean. In other words, he is the only one of the three players who has sea power!

The Yangtze River Fleet led by Yuan Xi apparently encountered an opponent of the same level for the first time.

However, as a top-level naval general, Yuan Xi did not show much panic on his face.

Are you kidding me? In the Yangtze River Basin, he even faced off against the Hydra, which was simply beyond common sense. An ordinary steel fleet was not enough to make him lose his position.

Yuan Xi, who was on the flagship, calmly issued orders.

The battleship's huge main gun with full caliber slowly rotated, and at an extremely long range, the two battleships with the largest range and the most powerful firepower were already engaged in a continuous exchange of fire.

Including the flagship Yangtze River, the Yangtze River Fleet had eight battleships. Obviously, after that, when the financial situation became stable, Luo Ji expanded his naval combat power.

But that time, he no longer frantically built battleships. He only built three new battleships, and he made up eight ships. He felt that the number was more auspicious. Later, considering the possible maritime expeditions in the future, he built another one.

Six supply ships of sufficient size are specially used to transport materials and supplies to the Yangtze River Fleet.

Apart from that, he is mainly building destroyers.

After all, compared with battleships, the current cost of destroyers and daily maintenance costs are much cheaper.

Moreover, after being equipped with torpedo weapons, the threat of the destroyer in naval battles cannot be underestimated, and it has a very good cost performance.

Now let's look at Charlie Crombell's steel fleet. The opponent is undoubtedly implementing the typical big ship and big gun doctrine. After all, in this sea without aircraft carriers, battleships are the top units in naval battles!

Although when he first started to develop his maritime combat power, he definitely did not have the same manufacturing efficiency as Luo Ji, but after all, his development time is longer. Considering the national financial problems, even if it takes five or six years to build a ship

The number of battleships definitely exceeds that of the Yangtze River Fleet, reaching fourteen.

Let’s not talk about other small and medium-sized battleships for the moment. As a large battleship, this battleship is a money-burning thing after all. When Charlie Crombell got excited, he also built a large number of battleships quite frantically.

Among them, when he had the largest number of battleships, he had reached a total of thirty-one, not to mention the number of other small and medium-sized battleships.

Then, he quickly discovered a problem, that is, it was useless to build so many battleships!

This side is different from the real world.

In the real world, big countries from all continents are all crowded into one world. They must ensure their own naval combat power. After all, this is an important deterrent. Therefore, the number and tonnage of warships are naturally crucial.

However, in this world, the player's country itself is the strongest, and there are basically no other maritime threats.

When fighting other players, the army units are definitely used more, rather than the naval units.

This directly resulted in the huge fleet in Charles Crombell's hands having little use.

On weekdays, except for naval battle training, we usually dock at the port and eat dust in the dock...

For this reason, he had to pay a maintenance fee every once in a while that was so expensive that it would make people vomit blood.

At the beginning, Charlie Crombell naturally had a mentality of 'If you build a battleship yourself, you must maintain it to the end even if you cry!', and regularly paid huge maintenance fees until his country broke out into the first warship.

financial crisis...

At that time, he was undergoing a wave of urban development and had to accept the fact that his finances were tight and he was no longer able to maintain this huge fleet.

It was from that time on that he began to dismantle these ‘gold-burning machines’.

After several financial problems occurred one after another, Charles Crombell only had fourteen battleships left in his hands.

According to the calculations of the Finance Minister, this is a relatively safe number for their current national financial situation.

After the all-out war started this time, Charlie Crombell, who checked the surrounding situation, was pleasantly surprised when he learned that there was a large sea area.

He quickly pulled out his maritime fleet, which only knew how to spend money but had not done any serious work for who knows how many years.

And he formulated a surprise attack plan at sea as his trump card!

When the time comes, his land army and sea fleet launch an offensive at the same time, and he doesn't believe that he can't kill this Chinese player.

However, at this time, Charlie Crombell would never have imagined that his trump card would actually collide with Luo Ji's Yangtze River Fleet...

The exchange of fire at sea continued. The enemy fleet with fourteen battleships indeed surpassed the Yangtze River Fleet with only eight battleships in terms of firepower.

However, naval battles are not just about who has more guns and more powerful firepower, technology also plays a decisive factor.

As a top five-star naval general, Yuan Xi not only has the talent effect bonus of 'Naval Commander', but the silver-level naval combat skills that Luo Ji paired with him are definitely not for show.

This battle is undoubtedly the time for him to make contributions and show his value!
Chapter completed!