Chapter 537 When the counterattack is in progress
On the other side.
Lu Meng, who had not yet known that the empire's maritime fleet had been dispatched, was carrying half of the combat power of the Xiahai fleet and rushed back to the southeastern waters at the fastest speed along the artificial river that penetrated most of the northern border.
But even though it was going downstream and knowing the route, it would take at least two months to rush back to the South China Sea after setting sail from Roland City.
During this period, in order to obtain information from the southeastern waters as soon as possible, Lu Meng had sent the elf druids who accompanied the army in advance.
In order to obtain information from the South China Sea as soon as possible, he had sent the elf Druid, who accompanied the army, to confirm.
However, after that, Lu Meng was still worried.
"College, with Lieutenant Colonel Tang Han here, nothing should happen, right?"
The person who spoke at this time was another adjutant of Lu Meng, Wang Jin.
Now that he is less than thirty years old, he is already a naval captain. He can be regarded as a young and promising young talent. He is also one of the young talents currently being cultivated by the Navy.
However, his qualifications are much shorter than Tang Han, and he still has a lot of things to learn, so he is currently following him and acting as a deputy.
After hearing Wang Jin's words, Lu Meng immediately shook his head.
"Lieutenant Colonel Tang Han's ability is naturally fine, and he also has very rich experience, but he has one shortcoming, which is that he is too rigid in doing things and lacks a kind of spirituality."
For example, if he and Tang Han conduct a battle deduction, after seeing the other party's first step, Lu Meng can accurately guess his next ten steps.
That is definitely a textbook-style operation that is extremely standardized, without any surprises.
But it is precisely because of this that Lu Meng is worried.
Judging from the entire naval battle situation, Daxia has an absolute advantage, and the enemy's maritime combat power has been completely suppressed by them.
But now the fleet led by him was exposed in the battlefield of Roland City, the fact that their Xiahai fleet had dispersed its troops was naturally exposed.
If the opponent wants to turn the tables, it is an excellent time to disperse the combat power of the Xiahai Fleet.
In other words, even if the number of warships on one side is not as good as that on one side, the other side will choose to fight.
And this special tactical method happens to be what Tang Han is most not good at dealing with.
And this time, Kilfito was just the right move.
As the commander of the fleet, Spruenz is a talent at the level of a good general. Kilfito does not expect him to save the world, he just needs to implement the plan.
Just as the heavy firepower warships of both sides exchanged fire with each other, the enemy's civil warships and destroyers, as small warships, quickly evacuated, and then rushed towards the Xiahai Fleet on a large scale with an encirclement attitude.
In response to this, Tang Han, who confirmed the situation at the first time, was quite calm and directly signaled his destroyers to come forward to fight.
At this moment, the second stage of the battle has begun on this sea area!
Under this scattered formation, the numerical advantage of the small warships of the Imperial Fleet is quite obvious.
If one-on-one interception is conducted, it is unlikely that Xia Hai Fleet, which is not as large as the number, will be blocked.
For the current Xiahai Fleet, reducing the number of warships on the other side has become an urgent task.
The priority attack targets of destroyers quickly locked in the enemy's civil warships.
One thing is undeniable, even these civil warships will pose a threat to them if they are left alone.
At the same time, another main reason is that civil warships are more likely to sink.
As long as they seize the time and sink part of the enemy's civil warships, they will soon be able to control the number of warships in the Imperial Fleet.
At that time, the Imperial fleet, which was deprived of even the numerical advantage, would naturally have to die obediently.
The naval guns carried on the destroyer quickly opened fire. As the distance between the two sides continued to get closer, the shells that flew out accurately smashed the deck of the bow of a civil warship.
However, I don’t know what the situation was. The civil warship that was shot by the destroyer neither launched a evasion nor turned its hull to counterattack with a naval gun.
Instead, he rushed towards them without hesitation.
This situation caught a sudden surprise from a destroyer that was preparing to pursue.
I knew in my heart what the other party was going to do, the captain quickly ordered the distance to be widened, but at this time the destroyer on the side of the ship was not as fast as the other party rushed forward.
The destroyer's speed had just been raised, and before he could run far, the civil warship that rushed straight towards him had already hit the destroyer's hull.
The powerful impact caused the entire destroyer to shake violently, and the interior was even more chaotic.
However, warships are warships after all, even the destroyer with the thinnest armored plates has significantly stronger defense capabilities than temporary transformed civilian warships.
Under this impact, the civil warship smashed its entire bow, but the damage caused to the destroyer was relatively limited.
However, just when everyone thought that the Imperial Fleet's approach was useless, they heard an explosion, accompanied by a deafening violent explosion, and while raising a large wave, the destroyer sank on the spot.
Then, before Tang Han could come back to his senses, one after another of explosions on the battlefield on the sea surface were heard.
"Notify the entire fleet to avoid enemy civil warships and don't let them get up!!!"
Inside the temporary flagship of Xiahai Fleet, Tang Han's voice roared quickly, and he was almost crazy at this time.
The Imperial Fleet actually launched the most crazy self-killing style. Those civil warships were all self-killing ships filled with strong explosives!
That’s right, this is the “surprise” that Kilfito prepared for the Xiahai Fleet!
In comparison, the battleship and four heavy cruisers in the rear became bait for implementing tactics.
Under this premise, in order to ensure the speed of these self-killed ships, he also tried every means to reduce the weight of civil warships.
Take the naval guns on civil warships as examples, they are completely empty shells and are made of wood, just to cover up their eyes and ears.
How should I fight such a guy who doesn’t want to live?
It can be said that for this comeback, Kil Fitto really invested a lot.
These guys are not really not afraid of death, but they are made with money.
Compared to this amount of funds, the strong explosives installed on civil warships did not cost him much, because they were all his previous inventory.
Get back to the point.
This attack by the Imperial Suicide Ship not only sank several destroyers of the Xiahai Fleet in one breath, but also brought great psychological pressure to the naval soldiers.
From this moment on, the battle situation on the sea changed drastically.
The situation of the Xiahai Fleet began to become passive, but this was impossible. Who could not be affected at all when facing such a group of outlaws?
During this period, the Imperial Fleet, which finally seized the opportunity, naturally would not be polite to these invaders.
Destroyers followed behind the killing ships and chased them up. The continuous shelling and the thunder shot from time to time made the Xiahai Fleet's situation continue to worsen.
The most troublesome thing is that they are not worried about hurting their own people by mistake.
After all, these crew members who killed the ship had already sold their lives to Kiel Fitto.
All the money to buy life has been paid, and then death in this battle has become their obligation.
It can be said that the current chaotic battle situation has completely exceeded Tang Han's control.
Those self-killing ships with very light tonnage were extremely fast. Even the fastest destroyers on the Xiahai Fleet could not get rid of them at all.
Moreover, the most important task of the destroyer itself is to act as a frigate for the battleship.
As soon as they ran, wouldn’t they expose the battleship?
I believe that the enemy's naval commander will not miss this opportunity to expand the results of the war.
Therefore, Tang Han issued another order, and must sink those suicide ships before they hit their warships!
With Tang Han's order, the warships and cannons of the Xiahai Fleet fired together, and fishes shot out quickly on the thunder launch device.
Three of the destroyers even joined forces and blocked the sea route with fish and launched a range strike.
Faced with such an attack, civil warships that will only rush to the brainlessly and catch them blindly.
Two of the killing ships were hit by fish on the spot. With the explosion of the thunder, the strong explosives they carried were also produced and exploded.
The terrifying explosion directly blew the two civil warships into pieces, and even an enemy destroyer following behind was affected.
Although this is a waste of mine, it is also an effective method.
This naval battle can be said to be more and more violent. The suicide-style fighting style has rapidly reduced the number of suicide ships in the Imperial Fleet.
But in contrast, the Xiahai Fleet also paid a heavy price.
boom!!!
The deafening explosion continued to impact Tang Han's eardrum, but now, he had no time to care about this.
Just now, the battleship of the Justice, the closest to him, was hit by the enemy's suicide ship!
"Go and confirm the situation!"
“Confirming.”
"Lieutenant Colonel! I found the enemy destroyer approaching from the rear right!"
There was chaos on the sea surface. In order to prevent the killing ships from approaching, Tang Han had sent out all the frigates around him.
Now, it is undoubtedly because of the two enemy destroyers who have taken advantage of the loopholes.
"Sink them!!"
Under the emergency response of the damage management team, the combat power of the USS Justice battleship still exists.
The naval guns of the four battleships of Xiahai Fleet began to rotate slowly, trying to aim at the two enemy destroyers attacking backwards.
However, as the commander of the Imperial Fleet, Spruins would not sit and watch the show.
In the previous rounds of confrontation between the two sides' heavy firepower warships, the Xiahai Fleet failed to cause a fatal blow to them.
Except for the main gun of the head of a heavy cruiser that was exploded, the damage of the other three heavy cruisers and the Counterattack battleships was relatively limited, and their combat effectiveness was protected to the greatest extent.
Now, for Spruins, it is a time to fight back.
Chapter completed!