Chapter 983 The Battle of the Straits suffered heavy losses
The calculations of the God of War Hammer were very accurate. When Jiang Qin and Zhang Zhiyuan's fleet left a certain distance, their team began to start, crossed the strait in a row, re-arranged on the west side of the strait, and then chased to the north.
Jiang Qin quickly learned about the enemy's actions from the report of the fortress on the island, and immediately returned to the south, choosing to fight with the fleet here first. Based on the distance he was traveling, Jiang Qin could easily calculate that no matter whether he fought with the enemy there, another enemy fleet would arrive within about the same time, but Jiang Qin still chose to fight with the enemy's team at the Straits mouth first, which is also a reason for the novel chapter.
The entire fleet of the God of War Hammer did take some time. Not long after they set sail again, they saw the shadow of sails covering the sky and the sun in the north. The enemy came.
A large fleet of thousands of warships is actually difficult to command, and such a large number of fleets are inefficient. Fortunately, the Hammer of War has cost more than 100 passes. Therefore, in fact, this huge fleet is a combination of small fleets, with each small fleet of about 100. Although it is still a bit too much, the command of local combat has been relatively improved.
The number of sea ships on both sides occupied almost the entire sea surface on the west side of Cuidao. The battle had not yet begun. The terrifying scene that almost even the sea surface was covered by people could not help but feel excited.
"Right thirty, seize the upper hand!" Jiang Qin stood on the podium, with a solemn and calm expression, but from his hands holding the railing, it can be seen that he was actually very nervous inside.
Zhang Zhiyuan stood aside. He carefully observed the changes in the entire battlefield, while writing and drawing on the board in his hand. He is now playing the role of a qualified deputy commander of the fleet.
"The left rudder is thirty. It's not that easy to meet them. The squadrons should pay attention to maintaining their formation."
The God of War Hammer made a formation with three arrows at the same time, and Jiang Qin is now a dense array.
"Left rudder thirty, attack at full speed! Each team fights on its own!"
As Commander of the God of War Hammer expected, Jiang Qin immediately broke up the huge fleet after taking a slight advantage. Now the number of the two fleets is similar, with a total of nearly 9,000 warships. The other party will definitely use the convenience of grassroots command to attack his own fleet in group formations.
"Left rudder fifteen, shrink the formation! Maintain the position of the fleet and fight back with all your might!"
As long as this round of impact passes, your fleet will turn with one turn. You can use the upwind position to force the opponent towards the strait position. Compress their activity space, and then use the large formation to crush them!
"Full speed, boarding battle!"
It turned out that from the beginning, Jiang Qin and Zhang Zhiyuan had the idea of placing a battle, so they chose the relatively narrow sea surface near the strait entrance, and attacked from here and took advantage of the wind to allow the other party to inevitably enter the platoon battle.
"Damn it! Forgot this. They want to fight a boarding battle!"
Seeing that Jiang Qin's warship did not deviate from both sides to launch a long-range strike using the range advantage occupied by the upwind, he was facing his fleet. While attacking, the fleet commander of the Hammer of War immediately understood that the opponent was going to fight on the shore.
In previous battles, turn-based warship battles would never have a situation of platoon battle. The closest situation was just the mutual shooting of ships stuck together, but the situation was different in real-time battles, because the opponent would jump over and kill, and the configuration of their own ships was low-level long-range troops of various races.
You can't expect crossbowmen or the ** division to shoot at enemies who are wielding short swords and sharp axes at a close distance, right? Especially those long-range shooters with group damage characteristics do not have any melee ability at all.
Unfortunately, the fleet commander now realized that the enemy's attempt was too late, and the fleets of both sides were entangled with each other almost instantly.
"throw!"
With a loud shout, several anchor chains connected to the ropes were thrown at the enemy ship, and with the tuk-tuk sound, they tightly grasped the opponent's hull!
"Pull it, pull it hard! Be careful of impact!"
"Bang!"
With a loud noise, the two warships collided violently, and the crew members of both sides were shaking violently, but the experienced side would stabilize as soon as possible.
"Click crossbow arrow!"
"Jump helper! Jump helper! Attack!"
The soldiers who were already looking at the skeleton archers opposite were roared by their boss, subconsciously jumped over, then raised their axe and chopped over a skeleton soldier holding a bow to the ground with a click. The timidity in his heart suddenly dissipated, and he suddenly became bold, and he roared and rushed into the sea of skeleton soldiers.
Warships fought each other, and some even connected with two enemy ships to shoot their bows left and right. The battle changed from naval battle to land war at sea, and the disadvantage of low combat power in the enemy fleet was magnified.
What's even more pitiful is that if one person commands a hundred warships, it's okay to form a team, deviate, attack or something, but it's impossible to command local battles. Even if they can't command the battle on their own ships, let alone command the fleet to fight.
"Hehe, the Japanese player, look at the knife!"
‘Ding!’ The blonde player used the long sword in his hand to hold the opponent’s short sword in time. He should be glad that he is a knight rather than a magician.
"Paper Talisman, blind! Hehe. I'll chop!"
The blonde player who had lost his vision was shocked and hurriedly raised his sword to block it up. However, his opponent stabbed him from the central palace with a knife, which was called a deception!
"You are lying!"
The blonde player complained unwillingly to his first real enemy in another world, and then returned to another world and reborn.
"Haha, I'm just lying to you guys! I'll kill you!"
The same battle takes place in every corner of the entire battlefield. Magician players can kill several enemy troops, but knight-type people are always killed by their opponents' skills. If they really compete in combat skills, they are actually not opponents, especially those indigenous generals, who are so fierce.
The battle lasted about an hour, and Jiliè's hand-to-hand combat was basically over. Some enemy troops who escaped the net fled to the north. Jiang Qin immediately ordered the rectification of the fleet, unconnected the enemy's unmanned ships, turned to leave the battlefield, and chased towards the fleeing enemy.
At this time, the enemy squadron that bypassed the north of Cuidao had appeared from the sea and sky junction. The second battle began soon. Although the Hammer of War had already made some preparations and had the upper hand first, after one round of exchange, the enemy, which had originally had a slow formation transformation, was soon caught up by Jiang Qin, and the two sides were once again caught in a platoon battle.
The war lasted until evening. In the setting sun, the battlefield where the sound of killing was originally shouting and killing was now extremely quiet. The survivors had no words to say anything. They just smiled at each other, silently packed up the spoils, and then tied up the enemy's warships with ropes, preparing to drag them back to the port for repair. Those seriously damaged had to be lit and burned, adding a lot of torches to the gradually darkened sea.
"The losses are heavy!" Zhang Zhiyuan murmured.
Jiang Qin twitched the corner of his mouth. The battle report statistics just now showed that his fleet had lost three quarters, and there were less than eighty warships left. However, the soldiers and sailors died less than three quarters, only about one-third, and the opponent's nearly 10,000 warships were all destroyed, and the results were brilliant!
"President Zhang, what are the losses of the guilds?"
Zhang Zhiyuan sighed, raised the statistics table in his hand, and said in pain:
"Now there are nearly 600 warships left, and this is yours. We stopped ten times and eight times, which is awful!"
"But the enemy was destroyed! We still won!"
"But the enemy recovered very quickly. In less than two months, the enemy will have thousands of warships, and their combat power will gradually increase. Next time, the results will not be like this, right?"
"Maybe, but so what! We can only fight and have no choice. I suggest that we will capture more than 5,000 warships this time, and after repair, we will give priority to the aliens who have lost the warships. The spoils will also be tilted towards the aliens first. Be sure to call on more aliens to come to the sea to fight. Without the final battle, the outcome will be unpredictable!"
Zhang Zhiyuan was shocked and said solemnly: "The general is right. The winner is not expected until the last moment."
In the battle of Hucui Strait, almost all the fleets of the two sides of the war were completely destroyed. It can be calculated that in the next month, the other side will have more than 3,000 warships, and Zhang Zhiyuan's number will be the prevailing number of warships due to the repair of the captured warships, which will be five or six thousand. However, in another month, the two sides will remain equal, and then the opposite side will surpass the past.
But at least in the past two months, the sea on the Han side should be calm. In the absence of military strength, the enemy on the opposite side will definitely not dare to launch a large-scale attack.
Jiang Qin and Zhang Zhiyuan used the fortress on Cuidao to build a port and began to extend the frontier of logistics support to Cuidao. However, neither of them had any idea of Hudao. Now their troops are precious, but they are unwilling to consume them. Instead, the two were very interested in clearing out and capturing pirates, in order to enrich the population and sailors of Cuidao Harbour.
As for the camps left by the enemy on the island, both of them felt that they should be kept for the time being. They also wanted to see what their opponents could do with this base. Only by fully understanding the enemy can they better attack the enemy.
As for the Marines such as Jack who were thrown on the island, they are working as pioneers in a miserable way. Yes, the problems they encounter here are problems they have never encountered before. Every day they are tortured by strange problems of one kind or another. Sometimes they even pray that the enemy troops on the other side of the mountain will come over quickly and send them back to the other side of the time and space road for free to go!
What are these questions? In the words of these Marines, it is a "problem of biology and human nature"! (To be continued. Please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
Chapter completed!