The white waves of the "pop" slammed into the side of the Dragon-class battleship Askert, the flagship of the North Sea Fleet, and made a heavy impact, turning into white broken waves and quickly dissipating with white bubbles, the sea breeze blew the white sails of the battleship, and the heavy bow protruded heavily in the waves, as if it was squeezed forward by the huge waves.

At the front of the fleet's assault formation, there are two large dragon's tooth battleships, the 20-meter-long hull and the wooden veneer full of rivets on both sides are distributed with uneven marks left by many naval battles, there are pits left by catapults, and there are also speckled black scorched wood left by the opponent's rockets, and the warships pass through the turbulent waves, like the legendary monsters in the sea

As the line of sight extended, a heavy squeezing sound came from the rear flank of the Dragon Tooth Ship, like the front end of a sharp blade cutting through the shallow ice floe on the sea surface, and the capital ship group composed of 4 Unicorn-class assault ships and 2 Dragon-class battleships appeared impressively, and then 9 large troop carriers located in the rear,

In order to reduce the load on the hull, the catapults on both sides of the troop carrier were removed, and the position that was once used as a bridge became a three-story cabin, and the command position of the bridge was shifted forward by twenty meters, which maximized the carrying capacity, and the huge sea surface was separated by the fleet, and it seemed that even the seabirds on the sea surface were scared away.

In the cabin of the flagship, smoke fills the air, and the air is filled with a strong smell of oppression - Urcondo, the head of the Falcon Empire's North Sea Fleet, examines the map on the table with blazing eyes,

In the narrow fleet conference room, in addition to Urcondo, there were four people standing around, namely Captain Naisauer, the Dragon class battleship Fisa Wolf of the North Sea Fleet, Commander of the Forward Fleet Detachment Dylans Donander, Commander of the Flank Escort Squadron Kuber, and Fleet Adjutant General Berus

These are the elites of the Imperial Fleet who have gathered in the North Sea region at the same time in recent months. In order to strengthen the control of the North Sea region as quickly as possible, the Imperial Admiralty, under the order of His Majesty Falcon, sent down 2 Dragon-class warships from the southeast cape to the north, and also dispatched 4 Dragon's Tooth warships and 8 troop transports.

On the ground side, a flag regiment dispatched by the Central Army also arrived at the Northern Fleet's small island stronghold in the waters east of Willandra at the beginning of the month, and with the arrival of a large number of combat materials in the fleet, the North Sea Fleet was directly promoted from a poor roadside beggar to a rich and handsome man that the Admiralty was most concerned about

Urcondo looked at the four of them. Finger dotted on the map and said, "According to the latest battle report, in just half a month, Austin Carlos, who is based in Willandra, began to show unbelievable strength, he attacked everywhere by defeating the main city crusading army, not only doubling the territory, but also I said in the inner line of the main city of Austin, behind the rebellion of Austin Carlos, in fact, the dissatisfaction of his domestic army with the new king of Austin's naval supremacy policy"

"This is the Austins Civil War. If we get involved, I don't know if it will arouse the hatred of the Austens."

The captain of the Dragon-class battleship Fisa Wolf next to him, Naisauer, said in a solemn voice: "Although it is said that the army rebellion that occurred in the main city of Austin this time was the flag of Willandra.

You and I both know very well that it was just the rebels trying to make their own noise, but I'm afraid that even Austin Carlos is very depressed, he is still hundreds of miles away in Willandra, and his battle flag is planted on the top of the palace in the main city!"

"Do you know who is in charge of the rebels?" Urcondo raised his head, took a deep breath of the cold air in the cabin, and said in a condensed voice...,

"I heard that the leader of the rebels is Duke Langla, the Minister of War of Austin, the head of the army faction!" said Captain Bellus, the adjutant of the fleet, with a stern expression, "I have heard some inside information from the Austens about this incident, although I am not sure that it is true. But in the current uncertain situation, it can only be guessed for the time being!

Belus's voice paused, and he said, "According to the Austin, the failure of the first crusade has greatly reduced the strength of the Admiralty, and the Admiralty Minister, who has just been in office for less than two months, has resigned. Because of the heavy damage to the navy, the second group of 7,000 crusaders sent by the Austin dynasty had to cross the cold and covered interior, and they could only rely on the command of the army.

From the very beginning, the city of Austin undoubtedly took the initiative to hand over the control of the war to the army faction, and the army generals took the opportunity to control the army while secretly accumulating savings to separate those troops loyal to the new king

I heard that the second group of crusading troops sent from the royal city this time was composed of those clansmen who were loyal to the new king, although they claimed to have 10,000 people, the real strength was only 7,000, and most of the troops were braving the bad cold weather to get closer to the preset assembly point, suffering unspeakably, freezing to death and frostbite, and before they reached the city of Willandra, the crusading army began to collapse because of low morale,

By the time the few crusaders arrived at the city of Willandra, the estimated 7,000 troops had only reached a few 2,300 men, and they were faced with a large number of people in the city, eating abundant food, generally achieving excellent equipment, and recuperating 5,000 Wilandra's main force, as soon as they made contact, the crusading army collapsed without a fight, and Austin Carlos broke the crusading army's defense line with only 14 casualties,

Belus sighed and said, "It's really ironic to say! The high-level officials of the royal city almost don't know anything about the army faction's secret defeat of the crusading army, so it can be seen that the army faction has long had a plan to take the opportunity to rebel, and it is not a plan for a day or two, so once it is launched, it will not only occupy the main city of Austin in one fell swoop and force the new king to flee, but also dissolve the Council of Elders and hunt down the Austin royal family, which should have made a plan to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots!"

"You say, if the Army faction controls Austin, will the chance of us colliding with the other party in the sea be smaller!" Ulcondo looked gloomy and walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, and suddenly turned around and asked,

The tone was not as excited and depressed as at the beginning, after so many ups and downs, he also practiced a little bit of normalcy, and worked hard to learn to accept the ground he was facing with a normal mentality. Yes or no.

"Not necessarily, according to the intelligence, this Duke of Langla is a typical main battle faction, and the most he talks about is that he wants to make the Austins the masters of the Northlands. So he's not going to sit idly by and watch the traditional waters of the Austins being touched!" said Belus with a hesitant expression

"So, we're going to have a battle with the main battle faction!" said Ulcondo after a moment's thought, his eyes flushing with a little tiredness. Then with a heavy heart, he swept the map on the table, on this map. Marking the name, population, resources and strategic importance of each city in Austin, red represents key nodes, while blue indicates the city close to the sea.

From the stronghold of the North Sea Fleet to the north. In the direction of the main city of Austin, you need to pass through at least 3 coastal cities, and these numbers are all information that Urcondo spent countless efforts to figure out when he was active in the main city of Austin.

Looking at the city closest to him on the map, Urcondo said with regret, "Time is the most important opportunity, we can't afford any delay, order the fleet to continue to drive north, we have to take advantage of the other party's confusion." open a gap near the main city of Austin"...,

"Commander, what if war breaks out because of this? Judging from the location chosen, this is still within the control of the main city of Austin. The other party will not sit idly by"

Dylan Donander, who served as the commander of the forward fleet, asked with some hesitation

"How is it possible, don't forget, we're flying the flag of Willandra," Ulcondo said as he tapped his hand on the table, sneering at the corner of his mouth

"In this chaotic situation, unless the other party completely controls the main city of Austin, there will be no energy to deal with us, at most it will send someone to negotiate, then we will sue him, we are the fleet sent by Willandra. If they want to confirm it, then they need to send someone to ask Austin Carlos, and we will be on our feet long ago!"

"Commander, we're still an hour before Boos, do we need to dock for supplies!" came the sound of a sailor's request from outside the cabin. Ulcondo put the map in his hand upside down on the table, and said quietly, "Sue the front fleet, continue north, and don't come to trouble me before you reach the sea area of the main city of Austin!"

As if sensing everyone's surprised gaze, Urcondo raised his head and said, "For the inexplicable fall of the main city of Austin, His Majesty is very concerned about this, and personally sent a letter to inquire about the illness and asked us to seize this rare opportunity, even if we can't force the Austins to submit, at least we must take this opportunity to firmly grasp the control of the northern sea!"

Urcondo finally made up his mind and said, "Before this, because of the size of the fleet and the problem of materials, we can only follow the Austins to fight, now we have the opportunity to become a fleet in the sea, the Austins are in civil strife, and the navy will inevitably be idle, if we suddenly occupy their ports and take these naval warships for ourselves, what do you say the Austins will behave!"

"You're going to eat the Austin's navy in one bite!" The four giants of the North Sea Fleet all looked at Ulcondo with some surprise, and the face of Dylan Don Ande, who was in charge of the forward, was even more solemn, no matter how he listened, it seemed like an adventure that had never been done before, for a traditional Dylans navy, he did not understand Ulcondo's long-distance attack tactics of bypassing the enemy's defenses and leaping like a frog, as a soldier, he had to admit that this plan was a genius plan,

"Take the initiative to attack the Austin fleet!"

The others were also calmed by Ulcondo's low tone, and they could feel that Ulcondo had made a lot of determination in his calm tone, and what would follow would be a violent storm that would sweep across the entire North Sea, and in this storm, it would be Austin's maritime control or the Imperial North Sea Fleet, which had just been established for less than 2 months, that would be overturned

On July 21, the Falcon Empire's North Sea Fleet arrived off the coast of Austin's main city, and after confirming the location of Austin's capital ship group, the North Sea Fleet quickly headed for a port called Condesus, 40 miles away from Austin's main city.

In the afternoon, when the sun's rays shone on the white mist-covered sea, the attack queue of the North Sea Fleet, like ghosts, quietly invaded the outer waters of Port Condesor.

"Prepare to attack!" Urcondo raised the lookout goggles in his hand, looking at the chaotic scene of the North Sea Fleet in the opposite port, the corners of his mouth grinned slightly, and with the order given, with the three main dragon classes as the center, the long fleet was arranged diagonally in a line, and the flap was lowered. A row of swarthy gun muzzles is exposed

Sensing the other party's abnormal behavior, dozens of Austin warships docked in the harbor also began to move rapidly, although they had suffered heavy losses, as the sea overlord of the North Sea region. Is the strength of the Austin Navy still tenacious, more than 20 North Sea sail warships are the first to kill, and dozens of small warships are close behind, dense white sails, covering the sea in front of the North Sea Fleet in an instant, even in the blowing sea breeze, it seems that the angry roar of the Austins can be heard...,

"A bunch of idiots!" Ulcondo sneered at the corner of his mouth.

In the gun compartment of the Dragon-class battleship at his feet, the sailors also began intense and methodical combat readiness, the gunwales of the guns were opened from the sides, and Thor's shells began to be delivered from the ammunition depot to the side of the cannons, and the rangefinder began to work, measuring the distance to the target while waiting for orders from above.

"Concentrate all your firepower and give priority to the first sail warship to break out of port," Ulcondo put down his gauge. Calmly said to the adjutant General Berus behind him, the sea breeze was fierce, and the formation of the North Sea Fleet was like a pair of huge arms. Completely close the narrow entrance,

In the distance, the Austin fleet, which did not yet know what it was about to face, was rapidly picking up speed, like a herd of lambs targeted by hungry wolves, their hulls were not large, and the sails on their tops were too large, almost unreservedly exposed to the guns of the North Sea approaching team

"Commander, a qiē ready" Adjutant Belus came over to report,

Urcondo put down the lookout glasses in his hand and said calmly, "Attack." After 3 hours, I don't see any enemies in front of me."

"Boom..."The fierce salvo of the dragon-class battleship shook the battleship violently, and the 30 curved guns on the right flank of the Thor burst out with the flames of death at the same time, and the hull of the ship seemed to be about to shatter under the huge recoil. The muzzle of the cannon continuously spat out shells across the vast sea. With a piercing whistling sound of breaking through the air, dragging a long black tail, it landed in the center of the Austin fleet.

Boom, boom, with the continuous loud noise, the red fire, exploded in the middle of the Austin battleship like a sail, the dazzling firelight, the sound of explosions and screams faintly came, the originally calm sea, instantly became bright, more than ten black smoke straight into the sky immediately came out of the Austin battleship group,

The firelight lit up the air. The burning ships affected the surrounding warships, making the burning area larger and larger, and the suddenly falling cannonballs fell down like a torrential rain, and the dense sound of cannon cannons, and the continuous cannonballs rained down on the crowded Austin fleet group, blowing up the Austin Navy's battleships to the ground, crying dad and shouting mother, and making a mess.

"Smack" part of the Northern Sail battleships were even broken directly from them with the roar of shells, and the bow and stern were cocked high. Slowly sinking into the sea, leaving one whirlpool after another on the surface of the sea, the lucky Austin sailors struggled in the whirlpools to escape the clutches of death. The white mist of the sea was soon dyed dark red, and there were more and more corpses and debris floating on the surface of the sea.

"Boom" huge water columns rose into the sky in a row, and the debris and corpses on the sea surface were lifted into the air, and the exploded water columns were dark red, and the surging red sea water slammed into the bottom chord of the flanks of the Falcon fleet with the shock wave generated from the explosion area

Through the lookout glass, Ulcondo saw that in just ten minutes, 6 Austin North Sea sail warships were penetrated, and 4 were damaged.

The dense formation limited the agility of the ships, and they were not stopped by their companions in a chaotic and panicked turn. It was affected by the nearby flames, and it was not until more and more battleships sank that there was enough space on the sea for the remaining dozen or so northern sail warships to escape from the fire.

The bay of Condesus was burning, and this large port built by the Austins was not a strong fortress in itself, and the makeshift trebuchets erected on both sides of the bay looked intimidating.

But most of them are some projectiles that are designed according to tradition and can throw about 200 meters, but now the fierce battle on the sea is outside the range of the trebuchet, and many Austensian soldiers can be willing to watch one navy warship after another being sunk in a violent explosion, white smoke fills the sea, and the entire Condesus sea area shakes in the rumbling cannon. Shiver.

Looking at the Austin main fleet, which was completely dispersed, Ulcondo began to order the four faster unicorns to move above the flanks of the forward fleet,

It's the upwind of the entire sea, and like the North Sea sail ships, the Dyrens family's unicorn ships are also known for their high-speed maneuverability and impact, and if the sails are fully extended, the unicorn's speed is still above that of ordinary sail ships

The sea breeze was howling, thick black smoke filled the sea, and the four unicorn warships that had arrived at the position began to send out a line of formations, and began to accelerate towards the tidal flats leading to the side of the harbor in front.

There is no obstruction of the Austin battleship, as long as it rushes to the beach as fast as possible, the fully loaded shipboard soldiers on the unicorn can immediately rush along the beach to the catapult on one side, opening the way for the fleet to enter the port on a large scale (to be continued......