Chapter 73: Naval Battle

As the voyage followed, the Blackfire Fleet and Shi Fei's main fleet marched south together at a distance of 700 meters, with groups of sloops scattered farther out on the sea.

Da Liang hid behind the port side guard of the bridge and observed the enemy fleet, and then ordered.

"The fleet engages the enemy at an angle of 15 degrees, and all artillery is ready for fire. The target enemy flagship, the No. 5 gun group shoots! ”

A cannon rang out.

A cannon located under the tail tower of the Skeleton Warrior was fired, and the black projectile drew a parabola in the air battle and fired at the enemy flagship "Yinglong".

Then it landed in the sea 100 meters away from the "Yinglong".

"The artillery groups adjust their angles, and all guns are ready for a salvo."

While the gunners of the Black Fire Fleet were adjusting the angle of their guns, the "Ying Long" also fired a test-fired shell.

Cannonballs flew over the Skull Warrior.

The quality of the sailors on the Shifei battleship is also quite high.

"Fire!"

In a series of rumblings, clouds of smoke rose from the side of the Black Fire Fleet, and a row of projectiles formed a scattering surface, flying towards Shi Fei's main fleet.

Columns of water stirred up on the water where Shi Fei's main fleet was located.

The main fleet of Shi Fei, which was covered with shells, immediately counterattacked with a salvo of artillery.

Above the sea, artillery roared, and a column of water set off a white curtain of water around the two fleets.

The two fleets poured shells on each other and approached quickly on the course of the angle.

Gradually, the three sloops in the rear of Shi Fei's main fleet lost their firing angles, and as the distance approached, the firepower superiority of the Black Fire Fleet was revealed.

The 1st Fireteam led by Da Liang desperately thought about the 3-masted battleships and the 2 brigs of Shi Fei's main fleet raining down shells, while the 2nd Fireteam commanded by Sidney was attacking the enemy sloops one by one.

The three-masted and two-masted battleships had thick hulls and iron armor plates attached to the waterline, and the 12-pounder shells fired from the iron smoothbore guns could not cause much damage to their hulls for a short time.

The hull of a dhow is much weaker, and a 12-pounder shell can easily pierce through a dhow at close range.

When the distance between the two sides reached 300 meters, Sidney's 40 guns stopped a dhow in two salvos.

The Blackfire Fleet's firepower superiority began to come to the fore, and Shi Fei ordered a dhow to fill the vacant space, and then ordered the fleet to veer eastward in an attempt to steer the Blackfire Fleet away from the coastline.

The position of 200 meters to 300 meters can give full play to the artillery advantages of the Black Fire Fleet, watching Shi Fei's fleet change direction, Da Liang ordered the Black Fire Fleet to stick to the other party, and bite the "Ying Long" without letting go.

Just now, Da Liang had seen through the telescope that Shi Fei was on this three-masted battleship, it was obvious that this three-masted battleship belonged to Shi Fei, as long as he held down this ship and fought to the death, Shi Fei's hole cards would be revealed.

Attracted by Shi Fei's main fleet, the Black Fire Fleet began to move away from the coastline.

The sloops of the Combined Fleet of Lords were impatient to encircle the Blackfire Fleet, and they lined up in battle lines towards the end of the Blackfire Fleet, intending to inflict heavy damage on the enemy fleet at the T-shaped position.

The Blackfire fleet began to make a large serpentine maneuver.

It was difficult for the sloop formation to form a concentrated firepower straddle, and the Black Fire fleet relied on the elite sailors to quickly change the direction of sailing, so as to avoid too much shell damage from the bow and tail of the battleship, and at the same time use the guns on both sides to meet the approaching sloops.

In terms of the overall situation, the lord combined fleet seems to have completed the encirclement of the Black Fire Fleet, but on the actual battlefield, the Black Fire Fleet still has an absolute advantage in firepower in a local range through neat queues and changeable navigation.

One sloop after another was wrecked and brought to a halt on the water, but the combined fleet of lords did not seem to do much damage to the enemy in the encirclement.

Shu Xiao led the Ruling Legion to tightly protect the sky above the Black Fire Fleet.

Following Da Liang to experience many naval battles, Shu Xiao has a certain understanding of the situation in naval battles.

In the naval battle below, Da Liang's fleet had trapped the main force of the lord's combined fleet, and a dhow behind their main fleet had also been replaced, and the dhow that joined behind could not even find its place in the fierce artillery fire.

One three-masted battleship and two two-masted battleships of the enemy have been isolated, and the group of sloops on the periphery can only circle around the battlefield in the middle, and desperately fill the battleships into the battlefield in order to attract the firepower of the Daliang fleet and save the capital ships.

Above the sea, the battleships fought fiercely, and clouds of gunpowder smoke rose and filled the sky.

In the battle in the air, Shu Xiao obviously felt that the opponent had increased the intensity of his attack. They are already feeling the pressure of naval warfare and want to open up the situation from the air and then reverse the passivity on the sea with air supremacy.

The Legion was to stay in the skies above the Blackfire Fleet, and since the situation of the naval battle was favorable to its own side, there was no need to fight the enemy in the air.

Shi Fei stood on the bridge of the "Yinglong", and now his main fleet was left with this three-masted battleship and the two two-masted battleships behind, and the good defense allowed them to maintain their combat effectiveness, while the supporting sloops were separated by artillery fire far behind.

Now the bright fleet has shortened the distance of the exchange of fire to less than 200 meters, and a sloop cannot hold out even a salvo.

"How is this possible! It can be said that the quality of the system navy is high due to the compact formation and high frequency of firing, but what is the matter with this clever change of immediate route? The player is only now new to seafaring, and all naval tactics are still being explored. If air command requires talent, naval command relies more on experience than talent. And in the current game, when it comes to command ability and experience in naval battles, no player can surpass me.

But...... How does Da Liang do it?

If it weren't for the bright lights on the other side's flagships, I would have suspected that I was in the same system of elite navy in a firefight. ”

Shi Fei didn't know that Da Liang had been abused by Sidney more than ten times in the deduction for this battle, and Da Liang had learned how to deal with any tactical changes in the lord's combined fleet.

Therefore, Shi Fei's guess was not wrong, and now it was an excellent naval battle commander who was bullying him through Da Liang.

The frequent shots made the "Yinglong" violently turbulent, and the difference in the quality of the sailors made the "Yinglong" lower than the Black Fire Fleet in terms of firing frequency.

The effect of the Black Fire Fleet's consumption of a large amount of gold coins for high-intensity training was evident at this moment, and when the Black Fire Fleet fired five cannons, the "Ying Long" could only fire four cannons. And the other two brigs were even more unbearable, these two warships from the Dongyue Domain and the Sun and Moon God Domain had just entered the ranks, and when the Black Fire Fleet fired five cannons, they could only fire three cannons.