Chapter 164: Battle for the Sardinia Territory 5 (Naval Battle 2)
PS: The number of ships of the Shang Alliance in the previous section is somewhat unreasonable, and the original 240 warships have been changed to 120, which is hereby corrected.
After about 10 seconds, the Vestelos reappeared at the nearest respawn point at sea, and all the players on board were resurrected.
The resurrection point is very close to the fighting area, and as soon as you drive out of the resurrection point, you can see the scene of complete chaos.
At this time, the ship with poor luck had already sunk twice, and Yun Xiaohan did not think about doing some counterattacks, but chose to surround him from outside the battlefield.
However, the Vestelos was still too conspicuous, and as soon as it appeared in the combat area, 4 enemy ships abandoned the original target and began to pursue the Vestelos instead.
The speed of these four enemy ships was not as fast as the previous ones, and their speed was even slower than that of the Vistellos, that is, because the Vestelos needed to travel a large arc to reach the landing site, and they could outflank each other to pose some threat to the Vistellos.
There is no danger on Yun Xiaohan's side in a short period of time, but other ships are still being sunk, and Yun Xiaohan, who is as calm as Yun Xiaohan, can't help but be a little anxious, and can't help but think: "Why hasn't the Sea Lion Legion arrived yet?" ”
Just as he was thinking about it, Yun Xiao suddenly found that a large group of ships had entered the battlefield in a compound column formation and began to gain the upper hand.
Yun Xiaohan counted for a while, there are 80 large ships, all of which are ship types with a capacity of about 70-100 people, which is only about 10 more than a fleet of the Shang Alliance, but there are still many medium-sized ships in the fleet of the Shang Alliance, so in terms of strength, it cannot be compared at all, and the fleet of the Sea Lion Legion can at least top one and a half merchant alliance fleets.
If it is replaced by the kind of super ship with a capacity of more than 400 people, then it only takes about 15 ships to completely destroy the fleet of the Sea Lion Legion, of course, no faction in the current game can build such a large ship.
The main reason for the large number of people carried by the Vistelos is that it also has an additional paddle room, which increases the number of people required for paddling. And the fleets of all three factions are pure sailboats.
When the sea lion fleet completely occupied the upper hand, they suddenly divided into three columns, the main column was 35 ships, and the other two columns were 30 ships and 15 ships, and then with the help of the wind, according to the number of ships, they were successively diagonally inserted into the battlefield at high speed, and before entering the range of artillery fire, they had already formed three beautiful battle lines, and the spacing of each battleship was about 100 yards.
In this way, the entire battlefield was completely divided, and the merchant alliance fleets, which were already scattered and pursuing players, could no longer meet together, let alone reorganize the artillery battle formation, and were completely in a situation of being passively beaten.
Most of the time spent in naval warfare in the Age of Sail was spent searching for the enemy, approaching the enemy, and moving in pre-battle positions, but once the fleet was actually close, the battle often ended quickly.
Because of the distance of the shelling, everyone is basically close shooting, or simply a broadside battle, so it can quickly distinguish the winner and loser, the naval battle in the game ended much faster than in reality, just a short 8 minutes, the naval battle came to an end, the two merchant fleet were heavily damaged, sank about 30 ships, and more than 50 ships were captured, most of which were fleets under the command of the Minister of the Navy, and the other 40 ships escaped.
The Sea Lion fleet lost only 1 battleship, but there were about 500 casualties.
As bystanders, the players witnessed the naval battle as they sailed towards the landing site, and many players turned on the camera function.
In the course of the battle, some players sent text messages in the chat room, offering to come forward to join the battle, but were stopped by Yun Xiaohan.
The reason is very simple, just watch the thief eat meat, and don't see the thief being beaten, it's easy to watch others fight naval battles, but it's definitely not okay if you change players, except for the Vestelos, the other player ships don't have long-range firepower, not to mention magic cannons, not even a trebuchet.
The merchant alliance fleet can't beat the sea lion fleet, but it doesn't mean that it can't beat the player, the player can only go up to fight the side battle, which will inevitably cost a lot of casualties to get close to the enemy ship, and it is easy to be accidentally injured by the sea lion legion's gunfire.
In contrast, it is better to preserve the strength to deal with the land battle behind, and the land war is also more important, after all, if you want to really decide the ownership of the Sardinia territory, you still have to go through the land war.
So in naval battles, the players didn't participate in the battle, but just drove around in a big circle from the periphery of the battlefield to the landing site.
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The naval battle on the other side also ended at 20:20, this battle was far more tragic than the battle of the sea lion fleet, in order to cover the landing of the army and the withdrawal of the merchant alliance transport fleet, the merchant alliance battle fleet fought to the end.
The fleet left behind by the Merchant Alliance was the largest and best-preserved of the three fleets, and its outstanding achievements and reputation among the Merchant Alliance surpassed that of any of the Arcane Parliament's battle fleets, and the fact that the flagship of the Merchant Alliance's naval commander was also in this fleet, greatly enhanced its will to fight.
It was the hard work of this fleet that caused the Austrian Parliament, which had a numerical advantage, to suffer very heavy losses.
Therefore, the final result was that the merchant alliance battle fleet was completely destroyed, only a few ships surrendered because of complete loss of power, and the merchant alliance transport fleet fled after being severely damaged, while the merchant fleet of the merchant minister did not have such blood, did not make any resistance at all, and directly chose to surrender.
However, it was precisely because of the desperate battle of the battle fleet that the army of the merchant alliance did not suffer any losses, and only left the port of Cagliari in order not to be hit by the Austro-French naval fire.
The losses of the two battle fleets on the side of the Arcanthus were equally staggering, with about 15% left in one and 12% in the other, indicating that the two fleets were close to total annihilation, and that they would have returned home to recuperate if it had not been for the cover of the army.
After completely defeating the merchant fleet, the Alpha Council's army began to land in the port of Cagliari, although the merchant army was stationed some distance from the port.
Despite the fact that the Arcantic Council landings were all safely landed after a period of time, the Business Alliance still had the advantage of 2 NPC armies and 1 player army, temporarily suppressing the Arcane Parliamentary Army with 1 NPC army and 1 player army in the harbor.
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On the side of the Central Empire, the player's army basically completed the landing at around 8:24, and quickly completed the assembly of most players, without exceeding the half-hour landing and assembly time limit.
The Sea Lion Legion, on the other hand, chose to continue its march towards the port of Cagliari because the ships were too large to find a random shore to land on like the players.