#1075 Wolf Tactics

Yue Yun looked at the sailing warship burning on the sea with a strange smile on his face.

Liu Chen was beside Yue Yun, and his laughter never stopped, "General, I didn't expect your joke to come true. These Europeans really came to attack at night."

"What I said during the day was not just a joke. Facing our ironclad ships, they had to use an unusual attack method." Yue Yun said.

After arriving off the coast of Calcutta, he joked with the general that the European fleet might launch a sneak attack at night to shorten the gap between the two sides by taking advantage of the battle.

It is for this reason that they did not turn on the searchlight warning at night as usual, but this time they did not turn on the searchlight, hiding the fact that there were searchlights on the ironclad ship. I did not expect that these Europeans really came over in the dark.

"Anyway, the European combined fleet hit our guns, and let them all sink in the sea tonight." Liu Chen said.

After arriving at the destination, they learned that the battleships of the combined fleet were all hidden in the upper Ganges River. This kind of terrain was very unfavorable for them, because if they entered the Ganges River, their ironclad ships would be attacked by the artillery of the army.

Yue Yun's eyes have been focused on the sea, his expression gradually became solemn, and he said, "Don't take it lightly, let all the marines be in place, the battle has just begun."

Hearing this, Liu Chen looked forward and found a burning sailing warship rushing towards them. Obviously, the combined fleet's will to fight was equally strong this time.

"Aim at the enemy ship that is trying to approach us and sink it!" Facing this situation, Yue Yun gave an order.

Liu Chen also realized at this time that the danger had not been lifted. He immediately asked the marines to set up machine guns on the deck. Once they were hit by the enemy ship, it was their task to protect the warship.

"Boom boom boom..."

The ironclad Sovereign immediately turned on its full firepower, and shells flew towards the sailing battleship rushing over. After being hit in a row, the battleship finally sank slowly.

At the same time, the other ironclad ships were also exerting their greatest firepower, and the entire sea surface was constantly bursting with dazzling firelights. After each firelight, several warships of the combined fleet were hit and sank.

For a time, the entire sea was full of burning warships. In addition to the sound of the exchange of fire, the cry for help of the enemy soldiers in the sea also resounded in the night sky.

"Corbanci, what should we do?" Filmin asked anxiously amid the deafening cannonade.

Their flagships were at the center of the fleet, and their vanguard fleet was now being devastated, which worried and terrified their onlookers.

Corbasi recovered after the initial shock, he said: "We can't rush past like this again, otherwise our warships will be destroyed, put down the boats, let the soldiers take the boats to approach the enemy warships, so that the enemy The firepower of the warships will be dispersed, and we will still have a chance of victory."

After a pause, he pointed to the lights on the Imperial battleship and said: "These strange lights have exposed us, tell the soldiers to shoot at these lights once they are in range, although I don't know what it is, it must be the Empire. new technology.”

When Fei Lin heard the words, he nodded heavily. He immediately called the messenger and asked the messenger to make a move with the lantern. This was the way they communicated messages.

After receiving the order, the soldiers on the battleship immediately put down the small wooden boat, and went to the imperial battleship in groups of 20. The two small boats were filled with explosives, which was also ordered by Corbansi.

Each sailing warship put down ten small boats, and the remaining hundreds of warships put down thousands of small boats and rushed to the imperial fleet.

For a time, the entire sea was filled with small wooden boats of the Combined Fleet, and in the process of rushing towards the Imperial Fleet, the small boats continued to rescue the drowning soldiers onto the boat and rushed over together.

The actions of the Combined Fleet were quickly discovered by Yue Yun. In the distance, the battleships of the Combined Fleet adjusted their postures and were shelling each other with them. The thousands of small wooden boats coming towards them had the meaning of wolf tactics.

Yue Yun was no stranger to this tactic adopted by the Combined Fleet, because there were examples of such battles in the textbooks of the Imperial Naval Academy.

And the textbook also recorded a naval battle between Spain and the United Kingdom. At that time, the British used small arson boats, and the ships filled with explosives and soldiers finally won the victory.

Because in such large-scale naval battles, the flexibility of large warships is far less than that of these small wooden ships. Once approached by wooden ships, soldiers on wooden ships can attack ships by cutting, blowing, and burning ships.

In this battle, their numbers were already at a disadvantage. Now that the combined fleet uses this method, they are suddenly passive. After all, the number of enemies is large and the target is small. There is no doubt that they can hit them with cannons and mosquitoes.

But if you don't solve them, it will be very troublesome once you are approached.

"The order was given to the other ships, the main guns continued to fire at the larger enemy ships, the secondary and sampan guns were used to fire at the small ships at sea, preventing them from approaching, while the marines were strafing the ships trying to approach, and the grenades were ready. "

The densely packed boats approached them. This scene really made one's scalp full. Yue Yun didn't dare to be careless this time.

After receiving the order, the searchlights of the Ironclad King immediately flickered. After installing the searchlights, they immediately mastered the language of lights. In the dark night, there is nothing more convenient than the language of lights to communicate with each other.

The change of the searchlights on the ironclad HMS Sovereign was instantly captured by other warships, and they all acted according to the order, and the marines resting in the cabin of the warship quickly entered a state of battle.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

In order to find the position of the enemy boats more clearly, a flare was launched over the sea, and the boats of the Combined Fleet were exposed in the light.

"Da da da……"

Just then, the machine guns on the HMS Sovereign spewed flames, and they fired first at a small boat that came into range.

A series of bullets hit the wooden boat, and the soldiers on the boat fell one after another in a pool of blood before they could react.

At the same time, more and more machine guns sounded, and the soldiers on the small boats fell under the machine gun fire.

The soldiers on the small boat also launched a counterattack. The fire from the muzzle continued to light up on the boat, and the soldiers on the ironclad ship began to suffer casualties.

The battle situation became more and more tense. Although the machine guns had severely damaged the boats, there were too many boats, and they scrambled to get close to the ironclad ships, like soldiers charging frantically.

"Crack!"

While Yue Yun was observing nervously, a bullet hit the searchlight, and the beam of light illuminating the enemy warship disappeared immediately.

Seeing this, Yue Yun's heart tightened, and he shouted, "Quickly put on the spare searchlight!"