The end of the military era

The Blood Skull Flag is a flag used by the navy of the Han and Tang Empires in ancient times.

Among the three columns assigned by Song Limin, the third column was stronger.

Among them, the four battleship battleships under the fourth formation have a total of 26 US Nevada-class battleships with full main guns.

The four battleship teams of the fifth formation have a total of 18 US New Mexico-class full-main gun battleships and 8 US Tennessee-class full-main gun battleships.

The four battlecruiser squadrons of the Seventh Formation, the battlecruisers that can fight at this time include 9 Dongying King Kong-class battlecruisers and 15 British Lion-class battlecruisers.

On the opposite side, the expedition fleet of the Silver Wolf Empire has only 24 battleships with full main guns and 26 battleships with all steel.

The strategy of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet is obvious, that is, to concentrate its forces to defeat the Silver Wolf Empire Expeditionary Fleet, the weakest of the three navies.

Glia, the commander of the expeditionary fleet of the Silver Wolf Empire, found that the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet had put the main force on his side, and immediately sent a letter to Kuzier, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary fleet of the Golden Lion Empire, and the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary fleet of the Red Tiger Empire. Officer Jesto, sent a telegram separately.

The Navy of the Golden Lion Empire and the Navy of the Red Tiger Empire are required to deploy some warships to support their own direction.

However, Glia's telegram was like sinking into the sea. The two sides fought for more than three hours, and the Golden Lion Empire Navy and Red Tiger Empire Navy did not send warships to support the expedition fleet of the Silver Wolf Empire.

"Boom" Amidst a series of explosions, another Fire Pigeon-class battleship with full main guns in the Silver Wolf Imperial Navy was blown into two pieces and quickly sank to the sea.

This is already the fourth battleship with full main guns sunk by the Silver Wolf Empire Navy after the war started.

The Fire Pigeon class is the latest battleship with full main guns in active service of the Silver Wolf Empire Navy. It has a full-load displacement of 27500 tons and a maximum speed of 20 knots. It is equipped with five dual-mounted 5mm main guns of 45 times the caliber.

Glia's flagship, the Colorful Diao, is also one of the Fire Pigeon-class battleships with all main guns.

On the bridge of the Caidiao, seeing that another battleship with full main guns had been sunk, Glia's expression was very ugly.

If we only look at the combat quality of the officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers of the Silver Wolf Empire Navy will definitely surpass those of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet. This can be seen from the hit rates of both sides.

But the problem is that the American Nevada-class full-main-gun battleships, the American New Mexico-class full-main-gun battleships, and the American Tennessee-class full-main-gun battleships of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet are all very resistant to beating.

Nine King Kong-class battlecruisers of the Dongying Kingdom and 9 British Lion-class battlecruisers hid behind three full-armor battleships. As a result, the Silver Wolf Imperial Navy has not sunk any of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet so far. battleship.

"Commander, Kuzier of the Golden Lion Empire Navy sent another telegram, asking our Silver Wolf Empire Expeditionary Fleet to entangle the main force of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet at all costs.

So that the navy of the Golden Lion Empire and the navy of the Red Tiger Empire can take the opportunity to annihilate the other two squadrons of the enemy. "Dayavi, the captain of the Caidiao, said in a deep voice.

"Boom" Glia slammed his fist on the table in front of him, "They are killing people with a knife!

When they wiped out the two squadrons of the other side, we were almost eaten by the main force of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet! "

"Commander, what shall we do now?"

Glia gritted his teeth and said, "We are followed by 5 army groups and 10 independent divisions of the Royal Army.

If our navy is destroyed, maybe the 5 armies and 10 independent divisions of the Royal Army will also become cannon fodder.

No matter, order all warships to turn around, we will stop fighting! "

"Ah? Commander, are we really going to withdraw?"

"If you don't withdraw, are you waiting to die? Immediately execute the order that was conveyed to me, and I will be responsible for all consequences!"

Kuzier, the commander-in-chief of the Golden Lion Empire's expedition fleet, and Jie Situ, the commander-in-chief of the Red Tiger Empire's expedition fleet, were very angry when they learned that the Silver Wolf Empire's expedition fleet had escaped.

They sent several stern telegrams to the commander of the Silver Wolf Empire Expeditionary Fleet, Gelia, demanding that the Silver Wolf Empire Expeditionary Fleet must return to the battlefield.

However, Glia ignored the demands of the commanders-in-chief of the expeditionary fleets of the other two countries, and directly withdrew from the battlefield with the remaining warships of the expeditionary fleet of the Silver Wolf Empire.

The fourth, fifth, and seventh formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet saw the silver wolf imperial navy's warships running away, and did not pursue them. The nine formations work together to deal with the Red Tiger Empire's expedition fleet.

The expeditionary fleet of the Red Tiger Empire Navy has 80 capital ships, including 40 full main gun battleships and 40 all steel battleships.

The capital ships of the third formation of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet included 10 German König-class all-main-gun battleships, seven Dongying Fuso-class all-main-gun battleships, and four Dongying Ise-class all-main-gun battleships.

The battleships of the Eighth Formation included 5 Valiant-class battleships, 9 Black Prince-class battleships, and 7 Hydra-class battleships captured by the Golden Lion Empire Navy.

The capital ships of the Ninth Formation participated in the battle, a total of 20 all-steel battleships.

In this way, the second column of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet has 44 all-main-gun battleships and 20 all-steel battleships.

Although it was a little disadvantaged in the number of battleships, it fought vigorously with the Red Tiger Empire's expeditionary fleet on the scene, and did not show any disadvantages.

Moreover, after more than three hours of capital ship confrontation, the number of capital ships sunk by the Red Tiger Empire Expeditionary Fleet was more than double that of the second column of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet. There were already 4 battleships with full main guns and 7 An all-steel battleship sank during the engagement.

When the three formations of the third column of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet came over, the Red Tiger Empire Expeditionary Fleet immediately couldn't hold on.

On the bridge of the Provocateur, the flagship of the expeditionary fleet of the Red Tiger Empire, Jestu, the commander of the Second Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire, shouted angrily to Captain Blaise: "Send a telegram to the Lion Clan immediately, if If they don't send warships to support, our navy of the Red Tiger Empire won't fight either!"

The Challenger is also the flagship of the Second Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire. It is a battleship of the Red Tiger Empire's robust class with full main guns. It has a full-load displacement of 29000 tons and a maximum speed of 20 knots. mm main gun.

Captain Blaise hesitated for a moment and said, "Commander, the Lion Clan people should have the same thoughts as us, and I'm afraid they won't come to support us."

"Then let's learn from the navy of the Silver Wolf Empire. The southwestern coastal defense fleet of the Han and Tang Empires will be left to the navy of the Golden Lion Empire to deal with it alone!"

After receiving the telegram from Jestu, the commander-in-chief of the Golden Lion Empire's expeditionary fleet, Kuzier, not only did not send a support warship, but instead ordered a certain distance from the battle line of the first column of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

If the navy of the Red Tiger Empire also ran away, there would be no need for the navy of the Golden Lion Empire to continue fighting.

Kuzier always remembered Governor Kosno's explanation that the elimination of the southwestern coastal defense fleet of the Han and Tang Empires was only secondary. The most important thing was to reduce the loss of the Golden Lion Empire's expeditionary fleet and increase the loss of the Red Tiger Empire's navy.

Due to the fact that the expedition fleets of the Golden Lion Empire, Red Tiger Empire, and Silver Wolf Empire had their own ulterior motives, the naval battle on the Black Coral Island turned out to be somewhat dramatic.

The more powerful combined fleet of the three navies collapsed after a few hours of fighting, and the expeditionary fleets of the three navies withdrew from the battlefield one after another.

Since the navy of the Red Tiger Empire and the navy of the Golden Lion Empire began to retreat almost at the same time, the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet then launched a ridiculous pursuit.

Chapter 177 Anticlimactic

When the navy of the Red Tiger Empire and the navy of the Golden Lion Empire retreated, due to the fierce battle between the two sides, the sea surface was already covered with smoke, causing the pursuit of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet to become very chaotic.

Even during the pursuit, warships collided with the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

And the navy of the Red Tiger Empire, the navy of the Golden Lion Empire, and even the navy of the Silver Wolf Empire, which retreated first, also appeared a little chaotic when they retreated.

To make matters worse, at about 6 o'clock in the afternoon on June 1, there was a sudden fog on the sea, which made the chasing parties even more confused.

Seeing this situation, Song Limin, commander-in-chief of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, had no choice but to order all formations to stop pursuing.

The Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet stopped pursuing them, but the retreating naval fleets of the three orc nations didn't know that the enemy stopped pursuing them.

As a result, under the thick fog, fierce artillery battles broke out between many warships of the three orc nations due to a misunderstanding, and many warships were sunk or seriously injured by friendly forces.

It was after 6 o'clock in the evening on June 1 that the naval fleets of the three orc nations discovered that the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empire had long since stopped chasing them. carried out in between.

On the bridge of the Provocateur, the flagship of the Red Tiger Empire's expeditionary fleet, Captain Blaze said to Jestu in frustration: "Commander, many of our warships may have been sunk by the Lions."