The end of the military era

Although the commander of the new Golden Lion Empire Expedition Fleet, Modes, also guessed that the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet may have submarines that can attack underwater.

However, in order to avoid causing greater panic, Modes did not report the matter.

3艘“幽灵”级潜艇总计携带的24枚450毫米鱼雷，除了4枚鱼雷因为故障、3枚鱼雷没有击中目标之外。

The remaining 17 torpedoes sank one all-main-gun battleship and one all-steel battleship of the Golden Lion Empire's expeditionary fleet, and seriously injured three all-main-gun battleships and three all-steel battleships. brilliant.

Thanks to the assistance of three "Ghost" class submarines, the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet gradually gained the upper hand in the confrontation between battleships.

The Commander of the Third Fleet, Majors, who took over the command, had no choice but to order some of the light cruisers and destroyers of each fleet to launch a desperate assault on the battle line of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet in order to restore the disadvantage.

However, facing the extremely fierce artillery fire from the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, the hundreds of light cruisers and destroyers of the Golden Lion Empire Expeditionary Fleet that participated in the decisive assault turned around and ran back after being sunk a few ships.

However, these light cruisers and destroyers did not receive an order to retreat at this time.

Maybe a deadly assault is really not suitable for the current Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire.

What broke the commander of the Third Fleet, Modes, was that due to the smog on the sea, the light cruisers and destroyers who fled back also damaged 2 full main gun battleships and 1 full steel battleship.

One of the rammed Hydra-class battleships with full main guns had been scarred in the confrontation before, and this collision directly brought the life of this Hydra-class battleship with full main guns to an end.

At around 4:1 p.m. on April [-]st, another bad news came to the expedition fleet of the Golden Lion Empire.

The battleship with full main guns, the Worker Bee, where Commander of the Third Fleet Moges was located, detonated the ammunition storehouse because he failed to control the fire, and the entire hull of the Worker Bee was blown into three sections.

The commander of the Third Fleet, Modes, did not have time to escape, and sank into the sea together with the flagship of the Third Fleet, the All-main-gun battleship Worker Bee.

The deaths of two consecutive commanders brought the morale of the Golden Lion Empire Expeditionary Fleet to a freezing point. Nakola, the commander of the Fourth Fleet who took over the third command of the Golden Lion Empire Expeditionary Fleet, met with the commander of the Seventh Fleet. After discussing through the radio station, Trow and the commander of the Eighth Fleet, Xivas, issued an order to retreat.

Before issuing the retreat order, Nakola didn't even communicate with the Golden Lion Empire's Navy Department and the Governor's Office.

Nakola, the commander of the Fourth Fleet who had gone through the last naval battle on Gaosnail Island, strongly disapproved of this time the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire fought alone with the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empire.

Since they have reached an agreement with the Red Tiger Empire and the Silver Wolf Empire to form a three-nation joint fleet, why do they have to slap their faces to pretend to be fat?

Nakola is very aware of Governor Kosno's character. If he sends a telegram to ask Governor Kosno's opinion, Governor Kosno will definitely demand that the expedition fleet must fight to the end with the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empire.

Song Limin, commander-in-chief of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, saw that the expeditionary fleet of the Golden Lion Empire was about to flee, and immediately began to organize teams to pursue it.

Zhou Rui, who had been anxiously waiting for the result of the naval battle, couldn't help but feel a little dreamy when he took the telegram sent back by Song Limin, did he win?

At this time, Zhou Rui did not know that the Golden Lion Empire Expeditionary Fleet had been attacked by two god-level dragons before. According to the information obtained by Zhou Rui, the strength of the Golden Lion Empire Expeditionary Fleet was to overwhelm the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

On the early morning of April 4, Zhou Rui, who had just woken up, suddenly received a reminder from the lottery system, congratulating him on completing the hidden task of "winning the largest naval battle", and rewarding Zhou Rui with a four-star lottery card and 2 points.

Sure enough, as Zhou Rui expected, this hidden mission of "winning the largest naval battle" can be done many times.

And just when Zhou Rui received the reminder from the lottery system, Song Limin, the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, issued an order to stop the pursuit to all the teams participating in the pursuit.

It was not until the evening of April 4 that the battle report, later known as the second sea battle of Gaosnail Island, was delivered to Zhou Rui.

The Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet has achieved brilliant results in this sea battle with the Golden Lion Empire Expeditionary Fleet.

总计击沉了金狮帝国远征舰队15艘全主炮战列舰、1艘战列巡洋舰、18艘全钢制战列舰、15艘大型装甲巡洋舰、22艘轻巡洋舰和25艘驱逐舰。

另外在一夜追击的过程中，逼降了金狮帝国远征舰队的21艘全主炮战列舰、16艘全钢制战列舰、3艘大型装甲巡洋舰、5艘轻巡洋舰和4艘驱逐舰。

西南海防舰队自身则损失了7艘全主炮战列舰、4艘战列巡洋舰、4艘全钢制战列舰、7艘大型装甲巡洋舰、9艘轻巡洋舰、10艘驱逐舰和2艘潜艇。

After the submarine Ghost IV completed the attack, it was destroyed by a large-caliber shell that fell into the sea on the way back.

After the Ghost [-] submarine and the Ghost [-] submarine returned to the sea area where the supply ship was located, they learned that the Golden Lion Empire expedition fleet had retreated before they had time to replenish new torpedoes.

With the speed of the "Ghost" class submarine, it is impossible to participate in the pursuit battle, so after the Ghost [-] and Ghost [-] submarines, they did not return to the battlefield.

西南海防舰队俘虏的21艘全主炮战列舰，包括8艘满载排水量30600吨的骁勇级全主炮战列舰，7艘满载排水量29000吨的黑王子级全主炮战列舰，6艘满载排水量25800吨的六头蛇级全主炮战列舰。

俘虏的16艘全钢制战列舰，包括7艘满载排水量21800吨的白蚁级全钢制战列舰，4艘满载排水量20500吨的赠礼级全钢制战列舰，5艘满载排水量18800吨红雀鹰级全钢制战列舰。

白蚁级和红雀鹰级，之前西南海防舰队都俘获过，赠礼级为白蚁级的前型舰，装备有2座双联装45倍口径330毫米主炮和3座双联装45倍口径200毫米副炮。

Many of these battleships captured by the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet were not seriously injured, but once the battleships of the Golden Lion Empire were surrounded, they basically stopped resisting.

As for the 3 large armored cruisers, 5 light cruisers, and 4 destroyers captured by the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, they all raised the white flag under the captain's order because they could not escape after being seriously injured.

The capture of so many all-main-gun battleships and all-steel battleships can be said to have completely made up for the loss of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet in the second sea battle on Gaosnail Island. .

Once again, a four-star lottery card obtained by completing the hidden task of "winning the largest naval battle". After being used by Zhou Rui, a total of eight rewards were issued, seven of which were warships.

50 catties of gold bricks 12 pieces

60 Russian Irrational-class destroyers

36 German Wiesbaden-class light cruisers

16 German York-class large armored cruisers

16 German Scharnhorst-class armored cruisers

8 British Lion-class battlecruisers

8 US New Mexico-class battleships

8 US Tennessee-class battleships

Among them, the US Tennessee-class battleship is a new warship launched by the lottery system. According to the introduction of the lottery system, it has a full load displacement of 35190 tons and a maximum speed of 21 knots.

装备了4座三联装五十倍口径356毫米主炮，14门127毫米副炮，8门76毫米高射炮，2具533毫米鱼雷发射管。

The side armor belt is 203 mm to 343 mm, the main deck armor is 89 mm, the main turret armor is 457 mm, and the crew is full of 1084 people.

Since the main guns of the US Tennessee-class battleships can be raised to 30 degrees, while the main guns of the US New Mexico-class battleships can only be raised to 15 degrees, this makes the range of the main guns of the US Tennessee-class battleships 9000 degrees longer than that of the US New Mexico-class battleships. Domi.

A three-star lottery card given for free in April also gave out two warship rewards, including a new warship.

4 US Nevada-class battleships

4 Japanese Ise-class battleships

According to the introduction of the lottery system, the Japanese Ise-class battleship has a full load displacement of 32062 tons and a maximum speed of 23 knots.

装备了6座双联装45倍口径356毫米主炮，20门140毫米副炮，4门80毫米高射炮，6具533毫米鱼雷发射管。

The side armor belt is 305mm, the main deck armor is 55mm, the main turret armor is 305mm, and the crew is full of 1360 people.

这样一来，抽奖系统中便又储备了24艘全主炮战列舰、8艘战列巡洋舰、32艘大型装甲巡洋舰、36艘轻巡洋舰和60艘驱逐舰。

If the four-star lottery card obtained because of the victory of this naval battle is also counted, the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet has made a fortune this time.