Chapter 553: Total Suppression
If it were to be replaced, the South China Sea would definitely be the calmest sea area in the King Continent.
Due to geographical factors, storms occur in the South China Sea only in July, and the rest of the year when the sea is extremely calm.
In terms of piracy, the Southern Continent has a natural and the largest golden river channel in the King Continent - the Auckland River, and there is a strength area in the river that is specially occupied by his peers, and there is also an impenetrable hiding place.
But today, on the morning of the fifth day when the two Xiyi fleets arrived in the South China Sea to be exact, the six fleets on the orc side received the news that the port of Bona was raided by the Sunset Fleet on the eighth hour. The six orc fleets that had just sailed out and joined together, including the two main orc fleets of the Leaping Fish and the Dire Crocodile, met the combined fleet led by the two fleets of the Sunset Xiyi, including the four Crescent Empire fleets, and the location of this operation was on the sea more than 100 nautical miles away from Port Barber.
The number of warships on both sides of the battle exceeded 1,000, but the number of ships maintained by both sides did not exceed 1,010, and the weather was very clear, and the wind blowing today was a southerly wind that was not beneficial to both sides, so on the whole, the two sides were evenly matched.
But in fact, the battle was at a disadvantage before the battle was even engaged.
"Turn the bright wheel! The Ataka ship is the one to absorb the firepower, and the Thousand Fire Ships are attached to the Ataka Ship to move forward, find the right time to fight into the local fleet, and use the world-destroying flame that the Emperor has given us to ignite these stinking green-skinned monsters! The official ship is used as a fire cover, and our friendly forces are well helped to deal with those orc iron crocodile warships! ”
Under the command of Mori Motosatsu, the two merged Xiyi warships quickly unleashed the battle formation that had been planned to be used against the mammoth warships on the orc side.
During this period, the Ataka ships from Xiyi, including the Great Antaku, were lined up on the sea under the command of Mori Motosho, and there was only a gap between the battleships that could only allow two thousand fireships to move side by side, and as a ship with a speed comparable to that of the Hawker assault ship, the thousand-fire ship with a degree of flexibility that could completely stun the Hawker assault ship was controlled by the Saiyi sailors to follow behind the Ataka ship and make a ready assault at any time.
As the medium-sized warships in the Xiyi fleet, these Xiyi warships, each equipped with two giant crossbows to defend the city, moved sideways and a loose formation, moving towards the two wings of the ship-shaped wall formed by the Ataka ships, and with the presence of paddle wheels and giant oars, the official ships always maintained a fast and even speed and moved diagonally forward.
And this is one of the reasons why the orc side is at a disadvantage: whether it is the orc side or the Crescent Empire side participating in this sea battle, the warships used are all battleships driven by the wind, while the warships of the Xiyi fleet of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets are the strange existence of all the naval warships present and even the entire King Continent naval warships, because the driving principle they use is a giant paddle and a built-in and external paddle wheel that is stepped on by manpower.
This design does not compete with the ship's movement speed by itself, but it allows the ship to maintain a constant speed of movement in any weather and in any wind direction. And in this naval battle, because the wind hanging on the sea is the south wind, regardless of the movement speed of the battleship on the crescent side and the movement speed of the battleship on the orc side, the movement speed of the battleship on the side of the sun is affected, but the side on which the sun does not set still maintains the usual speed, and the orcs have already lost this alone, and they have lost the only mobility that can threaten the battleship of the sunset.
Needless to say, any wooden-hulled ship would eventually become a ship's ruins in the face of the Greek fire on which the sun never set.
For these strangely shaped warships to change into such a strange formation in a short period of time, although the orc side was puzzled, but the sense of solemnity in their hearts became heavier and heavier, after all, the discipline shown by the side on which the sun never set was something that all orc captains had never seen in their lives.
"All the mammoth battleships will meet the sunset battleships, and the two wings of the Iron Crocodile fleet will break through to deal with those warships of the Crescent Empire." The Orc side was surprised that the fleet of the Crescent Empire would appear here, and at the same time showed a rare recognition of the situation in front of them, because only such a situation could explain why the sun did not set on the side suddenly attack the port of Beauna.
"Defend the city with a giant crossbow! Shoot! "As the mammoth battleships entered the range of the giant crossbows defending the city, these powerful war equipment, under the operation of the Xiyi soldiers, began to comprehensively attack those mammoth battleships, and a salvo of hundreds of mammoth battleships, while giving the orc side and the crescent moon side an incomparable shock, completely destroyed 3 fierce battleships and damaged the other 5 in less than 10 seconds.
"W-What kind of weapon is this? It's so terrifying! Just when the two sides were shocked by the powerful power of the giant crossbow defending the city, the Xiyi Anzhai ships lined up in a row began to rush towards the mammoth warship on the orc side in front of them under the full rotation of the paddle wheel.
However, the orcs and the crescent moon were shocked, but the battle between the two sides in the war equipment never stopped, and when the Ataka ship entered the range of the orc goblin return cannon, the orc side also used stones to attack the Ataku ship.
After all, they couldn't get out of the wooden hull ship, so under the blow of the stone rain, although all the Ataku ships did not suffer losses, they were all damaged to a certain extent, and even a more unlucky hand-held giant crossbow was destroyed by the flying stones, and several Xiyi sailors holding the giant crossbow were also killed on the spot.
For the battleship on the side where the sun never sets was severely damaged, the orc side also let out a burst of cheers after taking it in the eyes. After all, before this, the Shark Fleet was said to have not held on for more than 1 hour after meeting the Sunset Fleet, and the news that it was completely annihilated by the Sunset Fleet made the morale of the Orc Navy depressed for a while, and even many people thought that the battleships of the Sunset Side were blessed by God and could not be pierced with return guns.
And now, after seeing that the battleship on the side of the sun never sets was shot and damaged by its own return fire, the rumor was witnessed as false, and the orc side of course had to cheer to raise the morale that had been lost before.
It's just that the orcs don't know what to do, although they hit the Ataka ship that was also damaged, but in fact, these losses are equivalent to pulling a hair off the skin, although it will hurt at that moment, but it can't be regarded as an injury at all.