Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Edward wanted to take advantage of the time lag before the Daxia Empire encircled him, defeat the Daxia Empire's Third Combined Fleet, and then rush through the Strait of Malacca.

Directly enter the South China Sea region of Daxia.

Then, he can leave a fleet to destroy the Strait of Malacca and block the navigation channel of the Strait of Malacca.

And he can lead the main force of the fleet directly into the mainland of Daxia and force Daxia to return to the negotiating table.

Edward now does not expect that Daxia will surrender as soon as he sees the Western fleet entering their homeland, as he did a few decades ago.

After all, Daxia has now become one of the most powerful countries in the world.

But Edward understood one thing. The coastline of Bactria was very long. Without the protection of the fleet, he could threaten all the coastal cities of Bactria from south to north.

Daxia must not be willing to bear such a huge loss.

In this case, it is very possible for me to use the coastal cities of Daxia as a threat to force Daxia to return to the negotiation table.

Therefore, Edward chose to confront the Third Combined Fleet.

As for the Third Combined Fleet having air superiority, Edward also thought of this.

He did not plan to engage in any long-range artillery exchange of combat with Daxia's Third United Fleet.

Instead, they plan to withstand the attack of the Third Fleet and engage in a sea bayonet battle with the Third Combined Fleet.

That's right, this time Edward wanted to have a sea bayonet with the Daxia people.

Just like the kind of sea bayonet that was used in the era of sailing more than a hundred years ago.

Edward planned to use full power to rush toward the Third Combined Fleet from the very beginning. The distance between the two sides narrowed to only one or two hundred meters, or even dozens of meters.

In this way, the Daxia people's air superiority will be wiped out by themselves.

Although doing this will cause certain losses on his side, it is worthwhile for Edward to use this loss to exchange for the loss of the opponent's air superiority.

Therefore, Edward chose to act impulsively.

The two sides met at 8 noon on August 28, 12 nautical miles south of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

At the beginning of the battle, Edward ordered that the fleets of the two countries ignore the Daxia people's attack and directly increase their power to hit them.

Seeing that the fleets of the two countries were not competing with him for the T-position, and were still indifferent even in the face of his attacks, Gao Bo instantly understood what Edward wanted to do.

At the same time, Gao Bo was also angered by Edward's move.

In his opinion, Edward was showing contempt for himself. Did he really think that his third alliance was really afraid of bayonets?

The Daxia of today is no longer the Daxia of the past.

Since you, Edward, want to fight with you on the bayonet, then come!

Therefore, Gao Bo also ordered his fleet to ignore the T-position and move downwind. They directly increased their power and rushed towards the fleets of the two countries.

Moreover, Gao Bo ordered to open the devices on both sides of the front and rear decks of the battleship and raise the rocket launchers inside.

Remember this weapon? "Heavy Rain" rocket launcher.

It was a weapon developed by the Imperial Weapons Research Institute to provide fire support to landing troops during beach landings.

这种火箭发射器，可以在30秒内将480枚120毫米的火箭弹发射出去，并且在滩头形成一个150X750米的火力覆盖区。

This thing was originally shot out to target the enemy troops on the beach and to provide fire support to the soldiers landing on the beach.

Therefore, at the beginning of its design, it had some shortcomings, such as a small caliber, a slow loading speed, and a short range of only two to three kilometers.

Therefore, Daxia has never used this weapon in previous naval battles, mainly because it could not hit the opponent.

But now, Edward wanted to fight with himself with a bayonet, so he just took out this weapon. This was also the first time he used this weapon in actual combat.

Soon, the distance between the fleets of both sides was less than one nautical mile.

At this time, Gao Bo ordered all battleships and cruisers to aim rockets on the deck at the battleships at the front of the two fleets.

"Shhhhhh..."

When the rockets were launched, a special scream resounded throughout the entire deck, and then the white smoke obscured the entire Daxia fleet.

There are 23 battleships equipped with rockets in Daxia, including battleships and cruisers.

Each warship has two sets of rocket launchers, each with 240 rockets.

23 warships, that’s one rocket.

So many rockets were all launched within 30 seconds. That scene...

Just like Edward now, he just saw the Daxia Third United Fleet opposite, the front battleship, suddenly rising into smoke.

It seemed as if those battleships had launched something, and then he saw a large number of small black dots rising into the sky in a very high parabola, and then falling towards him.

Although Edward didn't know what it was, he subconsciously felt that something was wrong.

Less than 20 seconds later, the first wave of rockets launched landed in the area where the fleets of the two countries were located.

Then there were dense explosions.

The 120mm howitzer has an explosion radius of a full hundred meters and a lethal radius of fifty or sixty meters.

As for such dense explosion points, there is no more than ten meters between explosion points.

This also means that the shock waves of the explosion are superimposed on each other.

For a moment, Edward could only see the light of fire on the entire deck, and could not see anything else at all.

Viewed from a distance, the flames from the rocket explosion enveloped all the warships at the forefront of the two fleets.

Hiding in the command room, protected by thick armor, Edward could only feel the battleship under his feet trembling.

The glass dozens of centimeters thick also turned into powder at this moment.

The broken glass hit Edward's body and made cuts on his face.

At this time, fear appeared on Edward's face. He didn't know what weapons the Daxia people used this time.

Why do Daxia people have such terrible weapons?

Edward prayed to his God in his heart, hoping that God would bless him and bless his fleet.

seem. Edward's prayers worked.

The explosion outside the command room disappeared. Edward waited for a while and found that there was still no more explosion outside.

So, Edward got up from the floor and glanced towards the deck outside.

At this time, the battleship under his feet was still moving forward at a very high speed.

When Edward looked out, the battleship had just passed through the smoke area.

Without the obstruction of the smoke, Edward could clearly see what the deck looked like at this time.

To describe it in one sentence, it is terrible.

At this time, there were incomplete corpses everywhere on the deck, and there were blood stains everywhere.

The wooden deck was full of holes and there were fires.

Some crew members ran out of the cabin to put out the fire on the deck.