Chapter 722: The Griffin Plague (28)
A soldier without morale, no matter how strong his own combat strength is, is just a lion with a sheep's heart, and even a sheep with a lion's heart can chase him down.
With the destruction of the turtle shell warship by the Xiyi light battleship that resembled a thousand fire ships in an unpredictable way that the world (for the original people of the King Continent is like this), some of the turtle shell warships of the Griffin Empire and those snooker warships that were separated from the main fleet to attack the main force of the Xiyi Fleet began to fall into a rout, perhaps because of the self-confidence of the people of the Griffin Empire, or because the Griffin Empire, a thousand-year-old empire, was unwilling to accept his fleet, They would be defeated by the naval forces of a great empire that had been established for less than 10 years, even though they knew that the sun never set on the great empire had the most terrifying navy in the world............
It is precisely because of these factors that these griffin empire warships that fought against the main force of the Xiyi fleet knew that they had been defeated, but they did not choose to flee, but fought desperately against the Xiyi warships of the Sunset Empire. This spirit is indeed commendable, but it does not change anything, and in the end, the performance of these griffon Empire sailors and officers is only an article or even a few lines in the history books of the future empire. After all, when the great empire began to popularize new weapons, the way of naval warfare had begun to become no longer a game of broadside warfare with a sword or shield, and when the times progressed, some seemingly shocking combat methods eventually became just the scenes that people wanted to see on the screen later, nothing more.
"Boom ......"
"Stop shooting!" With the shouts of the Xiyi sailors, the sound of the cannons in the Xiyi ship group gradually weakened, and finally disappeared without a trace, but the smoke generated by the artillery fire in the sky wrapped the Xiyi warships, and matched with the wreckage of the griffin Great Empire warships on the left side of the Xiyi warships. Witness how tragic the war situation in this area was before.
"It's a pity that this black wall blocks the view of the Griffon Empire, otherwise the rout of the Griffon Empire will not only appear in this area, so what should .......... do now?" After putting down the wooden monocular in his hand, Mori Moto, who was located on the Japanese maru, said with a somewhat distressed expression.
Just like Maori Yuan's current mood, although about half of the turtle shell warships destroyed by the Xiyi fleet, after Sunset has information about the Griffin Great Empire fleet, it is considered that the type of warship that poses the greatest threat to oneself in the battle between Sunset's fleet and Griffon's imperial fleet (the turtle shell battleship is almost equivalent to the giant whale-class Hawker 7-sail super first-class battleship in terms of tonnage, after all, the weight of steel plates is not comparable to the weight of wooden planks) and eliminated at least 30 snooker warships. However, the objectives set by the Xiyi battleship before this battle had already been disrupted by the black smoke spewed out by the turtle shell battleship during the battle.
It is important to know that the "black city wall" located in front of the Xiyi battleship is not only rear, high, and difficult to dissipate, but the most important thing is that this black city wall almost covers the right side of the griffin empire, this sea area that was originally exposed to the fire coverage of the Xiyi battleship No. 1 magic artillery.
Perhaps the Xiyi warship can use the number of artillery to cover the "Griffin Empire warships behind the black city wall, after all, the Xiyi warships have no characteristics, the only feature is that the number of guns they carry is particularly large. With so many artillery pieces bombarded indiscriminately, no matter how poor the accuracy of Type 1 artillery is. It can also hit some hapless Xiyi warships. But the problem is that this naval battle is not one of those strategy games in the original world, and the number of shells carried on all warships is limited, even if the fish-man warriors in the sea can salvage the solid iron bullets fired by the Sunset battleship from the sea, but this speed is far from being comparable to the consumption rate of the artillery shells above the Sunset battleship. What should I do if the Griffin Great Empire warships located behind the black city walls, especially those sharp knife warships, suddenly break out and kill here? When the time comes, Mao Liyuan and the Xiyi sailors in his hands can find who to cry with?
In addition, there is another point that makes Mao Liyuan feel very uneasy, that is, those Xiyi official ships that were knocked out of the paddle wheel device under the frantic collision of the snooker battleship, causing the battleship to be unable to move: because the snooker battleship is a medium-sized warship. Although the speed of movement is not as good as that of light warships, the speed of full sail is definitely not comparable to that of heavy warships, and the accuracy of the No. 1 gun on the side of the sun does not set, everyone knows the pain, in this case, in fact, the snooker battleship in the process of rushing head-on to those official house warships, the real destruction and loss of power can be counted on one finger, and the rest of the snooker warships are almost at the cost of one for one, in exchange for more than 30 official house ships warships lost the ability to move.
In addition, because the snooker warships used extremely scattered phalanxes during the assault, so that the battleships would not be hit by the guns of the sun as much as possible, the formation that these Xiyi official ships that had lost their ability to move now was also a long snake formation, and the distance between the battleships and the battleships in this long snake formation was still very large.
For the current situation, Mao Li Yuan has 200% confidence that even if the medium and heavy Xiyi warships have a certain number of guns on all sides because of the shape of the battleship, as long as there are more than 10 Ace support ships rushing out behind the "black city wall", then the more than 30 official ships that have lost the ability to move are very likely to sink one by one in the more than 10 Ace support ships, after all, as long as the kite tactics are used well, it is not a problem to pick 10, even in Mao Li Yuan's assumption, If the steering ability of those Ace battleships is fast enough and the movement ability is strong enough, these Ace battleships do not need to use the semi-mechanized ballista equipped on their warships at all, and only need to use the solid iron cannonballs fired by the official house ship battleship on their side to bombard the official house captain battleship of the other Xiyi captain to achieve victory.
"It seems that now we can only hope that our fleet will be able to crush the warships of the Griffon Empire head-on." Mao Liyuan sighed, looked at the "smoky" battlefield behind him and said helplessly. (To be continued......)