February 11, Republic of 267, afternoon.

Near the entrance to the Gulf of Aden, about 600 miles from Dragonstone Island, two fleets of red dragon flags and blue talisman flags are lined up to each other at their fastest sailing speed.

Although the sound of artillery fighting had not yet sounded, most of the naval soldiers on both sides were extremely nervous, so many people forgot the lyrics when singing the national anthem before the fire!

This statement is not an exaggeration, but comes from the memories of many naval officers and soldiers on both sides who experienced this battle.

The reason for this situation is actually easy to understand. This time and space has always maintained a friendly alliance between the two maritime powers of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty. The Western Song Dynasty had no sea port and could not join the era of great sailing.

At the same time, Western powers, including Egypt, Mongolia, and Jin Treasures, have a long gap with the Great Zhou and Eastern Song dynasties, and they are impossible, and they dare not join the maritime battle for hegemony.

Even if it is as strong as Egypt, it can only pick up leftovers from the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty.

Therefore, although the two maritime powers of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song dynasties had powerful naval forces, their navy had not fought any vigorous naval battles in the past 200 years. The actual battle they experienced was nothing more than catching a pirate and bullying a weak country.

In other words, the officers and soldiers of the fleets of the two countries encountered at sea on the afternoon of February 11, Republic 267 were all new soldiers on the battlefield.

From the marshals to the ordinary sailors, they have never seen the bloody or the smoke of war.

Even the textbooks they used in the naval academy have no practical combat examples for reference.

Generations of naval soldiers can only imagine real naval wars through exercises.

But the exercise is fake after all!

Therefore, the military knowledge they mastered and the equipment they used have not been tested in actual combat, and no one knows whether it is good or not?

If we let another space-time and space-time officers in the 18th and 19th century sail battleship era, they would probably be shocked to see the equipment and tactics used by the navies of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song dynasties.

The first thing that shocked people was the tactics of the navies of the two countries. The T-shaped tactics and the dual-ship tactics did not exist. These two tactics seem too simple. There has been no decent practical combat for more than 200 years. They rely on various exercises to show their own navies of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty. Of course, they have to develop some complex formations.

Simple and practical... How can it show the navigation technology and tactical organizational capabilities of the Navy Gaochao?

Therefore, the more popular formations of the navies of the two countries are "Geese Array", "Crane Wing Array", "Strike Array", "Long Snake Array", etc.

It’s all good when practicing in the picture, and often makes mistakes during practical exercises. It’s really a clever formation that only God knows about when fighting.

Secondly, what scares people is the equipment of the navies of the two countries. Of course, their battleships are quite good, both are very strong and reliable... Both countries have money, good wood, the shipbuilding industry is very developed, and there is also the need for large-scale navigation. After more than 200 years of development, ships are of course good.

As for cannons, of course, nothing is it. They are all cast iron cannons with white tin and gray tin. The quality is quite good, and it is impossible to explode the chamber.

What is really scary is the shells used by both sides!

The artillery shells used by the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song navy are very simple now, with only two types, one is called solid bullets, which is a large iron ball, nothing strange. Moreover, it is not heated as arson bomb, it is just filled in the cannon chamber and bombed out.

Another type is called flowering bullet! It is a spherical explosive bomb filled with black gunpowder. This kind of explosive bomb is hung with thin iron sheet on a wooden bullet holder, and there is also a wooden hollow fuse. When used, the fuse is lit and inserted into the shell, then filled into the barrel and fired with gunpowder.

It seems nothing, isn't there a flowering bullet in another time and space?

This is true, but people are carefully using flowering bullets. There are only a small number of flowering bullets on the battleships and are carefully stored. Now at least half of the ammunition on the warships of the Great Zhou and Dongsong are flowering bullets that explode!

The large-caliber artillery on the warships of the two countries, including three levels of heavy artillery of 4-inch, 6-inch and 8-inch, were all powerful flowering bullets.

In other words, the battleships of both countries are bomb ships filled with large-caliber bombs!

The sail battleships of both countries use all-purpose artillery decks... Once the flowering shells stored in the artillery decks are hit by the enemy's shells or are ignited by a fire, the consequences will be unimaginable!

The sail battleships that look like city walls are actually very fragile in front of the huge power of the flowering bullet. The wooden boards cannot withstand the power of the large-caliber flowering bullet... To put it exaggeratedly, at this time, the main battleships of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song dynasties were all suicide bombers!

On February 11, 267, just after Shen Shi, two fleets with suicide bombing ships as the main force were quickly approaching.

The small number of Dazhou Navy's Western Expedition Fleet set up a "breakout" front arrow formation. It is composed of three Shenzhou-class first-class battleships to form the head of the front arrow, followed by two second-class battleships, five third-class battleships and more than a dozen fourth-class, fifth-class and sixth-class ships.

The exquisiteness of this formation is to use three powerful Shenzhou-class battleships to break through the enemy's formation and lead the entire fleet out of danger. Generally speaking, the side in the upper wind position is more suitable to use the front arrow formation.

It should also be noted that the Dazhou Navy likes to use the front arrow formation. Because the masters of Yanshan Iron Factory invented the hollow casting method 10 years ago, allowing the Dazhou to cast giant cannons of more than 8 inches.

Because this giant cannon is too large, it is no longer suitable for use in the straight-through gun deck. Therefore, the ship designer of Dazhou built a cannon cabin at the bow of the "Shenzhou" class and placed two 9-inch giant cannons.

The Eastern Song fleet set up a crane wing formation. The so-called crane wing formation is to divide the fleet into three parts, forming three parts: the left wing and the right wing. The crane body rushed towards the enemy in a horizontal line, and the left and right wings were in a column, encircling the two wings.

After the crane body approaches the enemy, it then changes into a column and uses side guns to shoot.

The two wings will surround the enemy's back and form a force of attacking the crane's body with both sides and back.

"Get closer, get closer, the target is their 'Xin Song' level. All 6 9-inch cannons are aimed at the 'Xin Song' level. You must kill it!"

On the flagship Shenzhou, Hua Wushang yelled and issued an order.

The northwest wind happened to be blowing on the sea surface. Hua Wushang's fleet was carrying the wind and charged at full speed, looking anxious to stand out.

Pan Wuyang, who was on the left wing of the Crane Wing Formation of the Eastern Song Fleet, was also shouting: "Turn left, turn left, now turn left, rush over, break the Zhou people's formation!"

It turned out that Pan Wuyang had discovered that the Zhou fleet was in a hurry to run away, so he changed his strategy and prepared to break it in half. Then he divided it and surrounded it.

"Boom boom boom..."

At this moment, three Shenzhou-class bow 9-inch guns arranged in the shape of a font opened fire.

Six 9-inch flowering bullets were pushed out of the high-pressure gas generated by the explosion of gunpowder and flew roaring towards a new Song-class battleship "Siam" two thousand steps away.

The shells failed, two of them exploded during the flight, and four fell into the sea water a hundred steps away from the Siam, stirring up a water column several feet high.

"Bow gun?"

Pan Wuyang was shocked and quickly ordered: "Hurry, hurry up... send the order quickly, let the Heshen team turn left together!"

The first-class battleships of the Eastern Song Dynasty did not have bow guns, which means that they had no firepower when facing the enemy at the bow. It would be impossible to just be beaten and not fight back!

Moreover, the Dazhou should be using an 8-inch or even larger caliber artillery. If it hits a shot, the "Siam" might have suffered a severe blow.

Pan Wuyang's orders were transmitted simultaneously through the signal flag and the signal rocket. There was no problem during the exercise. The observation soldiers could always see the flagship model flag and the signal rocket in time.

But now it is wartime, and the fleet of the Great Zhou is still firing. Everyone is nervous and dies. Some of the lookout soldiers forgot to stare at the flagship, but are looking at the three Shenzhou-class ships of the Zhou Kingdom. However, some of the lookout soldiers still saw it.

Therefore, the Heshen team of the Eastern Song Dynasty suddenly became in chaos, with some warships turning left and some continuing to rush forward. The warships that turned left were not in a straight line. If you look down from the air, you will feel that they are in chaos and are in chaos. This is the problem of horizontal formation. It is difficult to maintain formation during wartime, unlike the column, just one ship and one ship.

The lookouts on the Siam noticed the signal of the flagship Dongsong, so they slowed down and drew an arc on the sea and turned to the left.

But how could the three Shenzhou-class ships let go of this big fish? They also changed their course slightly in order to continue bombarding the Siam with bow guns.

Boom...

Another round of bombardment, and six shells flew towards the Siam, but still failed to hit. However, the landing point of the shell was already very close to the Siam!

This is a powerful 9-inch flowering bullet!

One of the shells exploded in the air less than 20 steps away from the Siam, and a huge fireball was blown out. The officers and soldiers of the Eastern Song Dynasty, standing on the top deck, could even feel the heat waves and shock waves. Some of the shells' fragments hit the hull directly, creating a white spot on the black hull.

I don’t know if it was because the shell exploded in the air not far from the Siam helmsman, which scared the Siam helmsman and forgot to control the rapidly rotating rudder wheel. The warship turned its head and gradually turned its butt to the three Shenzhou-class ships, showing that it was about to escape.

The captain of the Siam quickly rushed up and grabbed the steering wheel and controlled it himself. Just as he was trying to turn the hull back, the Siam hull shook violently and shaking.

Then, there was a deafening roar!

Siam was shot!

The stern was hit by a 9-inch flowering bullet. The shell directly passed through the guard wall of the third layer of the stern, rushed into the chaotic gun deck, and then a big explosion occurred!

It was not an explosion, but a series of explosions!

The seemingly very strong hull seemed vulnerable to the explosion of the large-caliber flowering bullets. As for the gunners in the three-layer gun deck, they were killed by the flying shells. The entire gun deck became a place like Avici Hell.

The fire immediately started to burn and spread across the gun deck, quickly reaching the warehouse where gunpowder and flowering bullets were stored.

After that, there were another series of big explosions!

The giant battleship with a displacement of more than 50,000 stones exploded from the inside, and the seemingly thick boards were as fragile as egg shells, turning into pieces in the big explosion or being ignited by a burning fire.

Just as the sailors and officers on both sides of the battle were stunned, the Siam had turned into a burning fireball.

A first-class battleship is actually vulnerable to this level!

"How is this possible!!!"

It was not only the naval officers and soldiers of the Eastern Song Dynasty who made this exclamation, but their enemies were just as surprised.

After the accident, the sailors on both sides quickly entered a state of combat again.

No matter what, they have to score to the death today!

The second one was fired into a fireball was the warship of the Eastern Song Dynasty. This time it was the second-class battleship Shanghai. It was also hit at close range by three Shenzhou-class 9-inch cannons. The flowering bullet exploded on the inside of the straight-through gun deck, which immediately resulted in the giant ship with a displacement of more than 40,000 stones.

Compared with the huge power of the flowering bullet, the defense of the sail battleship simply does not exist!

Seeing that his side lost two giant ships, Pan Wuyang was almost crazy, and he didn't care about his formation. He directly cast out the flag and the charge flags, no matter what formation they are, now, no matter what formation they are, and he is rushing to the fuck!

The response from Zhou Guo’s fleet was to sink a third-level battleship again!

Zero to three.

In the first phase of the Battle of Longshi Island, the Navy of the Great Zhou Republic won a great victory!

However, this great victory did not last long. Because the ships of the Great Zhou Republic lacked the necessary protection. The losses soon appeared, and the battleship "Yafa" was first hit by a second-class battleship that passed by it at close range...

Of course, the giant cannon of the "Yaofa" also hit the opponent!

The two battleships died together and they could not resist the hits of several 8-inch flowering bullets!

Both battleships turned into fire ships!

Less than a quarter of an hour later, the battle of death occurred again. A third-level battleship of the Great Zhou Dynasty passed by a second-level battleship of the Eastern Song Dynasty. Both sides used 8-inch cannons to penetrate the other party's gun deck!

This is really a death--it turns out that the battleships on both sides are all tofu racks and don’t take the fight at all!

The naval soldiers on both sides were frightened by such casualties, but now they meet on a narrow road, so they can only fight with one stone.

Although the battleships of both sides are vulnerable tofu racks, the Battle of Dragonstone Island is still a battle that determines the destiny of the three heroes of China!

Because the main force of the Nanyang Fleet of the Eastern Song Dynasty suffered a devastating blow in this battle that lasted for two days and one night, and thus lost the capital to compete with the Great Zhou Navy for maritime hegemony.

The failure of the Eastern Song Navy was the failure of their encirclement and annihilation of the Great Zhou Xidian Fleet commanded by Hua Wushang. The arrow formation used by the Great Zhou Xidian Fleet to break through showed considerable flexibility. The arrow formation is actually a vertical formation, and one ship after another can maintain its formation. Moreover, the column can also concentrate the firepower of the fleet's sideways, which is indeed very beneficial.

After using the front arrow formation to break through the interception of the Eastern Song fleet, Hua Wushang led the fleet to rush to the agreed meeting with the Eastern Atlantic Fleet to arrive at Longshi Island. Pan Wuyang, who was unwilling to let the enemy fleet run away, took the fleet and chased after him.

As a result, he encountered the Great Zhou East and West fleet heading north in the waters near Longshi Island! This is a huge fleet with its strength far exceeding the main force of the Eastern Song Dynasty South and West fleets advancing westward!

Moreover, after completing the meeting with the Xidian Fleet, the Great Zhou Fleet had 6 first-class battleships. Although these 6 first-class battleships were a bit inactive, their 12 9-inch bow guns were very powerful.

Because the 9-inch gun has a long range and is powerful, and the Eastern Song ships do not have bow guns, and there are no giant cannons that can fire large-caliber flowering bullets at the stern. Therefore, the decisive battle between the two sides became a tragic battle of the Eastern Song Dynasty losing its maritime power. Pan Wuyang's large fleet suffered heavy losses, losing all first-level, second-level, and third-level battleships, and one-third of the light battleships, and he himself was killed in the battle. The Zhou State only lost one first-level battleship and sixteen-head second-level, third-level battleships, and light ships were less than half the losses of the opponent.
Chapter completed!