Become a Feudal King From Today

Chapter 754: Battle of the Raging Sea

"Your Highness, the British warships have withdrawn!"

In the tent, Zhao Xu was drawing a blueprint, and Chang Wei came in excitedly.

Since the south wind blew, he ordered people to observe the movements on the sea at all times.

Zhao Xu stopped writing, and was excited. It must be Zhou Yi's fleet that arrived. He said: "Seize this opportunity and immediately launch an attack on the East Earth Coalition on the coast."

"Yes, Your Highness." Chang Wei saluted Zhao Xu and turned away.

Zhao Xu also left the tent and came to the position of the Wangfu's personal army.

Taking the telescope from Xu Lie, he looked at the coast.

Sure enough, the British warships had turned their bows and headed east.

The departure of the British warships meant that the other side had lost five or six hundred artillery pieces.

The pressure faced by the Wangfu's personal army was immediately reduced.

The orders were passed down one by one, and the howitzers roared first.

Howitzers flew into the sky, drawing perfect curves, and fell into the trenches of the East Earth Allied Forces.

"Boom boom boom..." The loud noise of the shells exploding filled the coast, blasting out one pit after another.

Some soldiers of the East Earth Allied Forces were blown away by the shock wave and flew into the air with the soil.

"Don't be afraid of wasting shells, hit hard and shoot all the shells." Zhao Xu said.

This is the last battle. As long as the remaining East Earth Allied Forces are annihilated, Goryeo will have won a complete victory in this war.

There is no need to save ammunition.

With Zhao Xu's order, the artillerymen suddenly became happy.

The howitzers roared continuously, and the shrapnel fell on the enemy's trench positions like they were free.

Compared with the ease of the Wangfu's personal army, the East Earth Allied Forces soldiers in the trenches were very miserable.

They lay tightly on the ground, buried their heads in the soil, and dared not move.

Some soldiers were so scared that their crotches were wet and they were trembling all over.

"For the general, for Japan, we must fight to the death!"

Some Japanese generals walked through the trenches with their bodies lowered, shouting.

They had escaped from Rangcheng and had experienced the fear of being bombarded by shells.

The soldiers were encouraged in this way to make them persevere.

"We will definitely win! Kill him, kill them all!" There were also Japanese generals who looked crazy. One of them tore off his shirt and shouted loudly while walking in the trench without lowering his body.

Before he walked a hundred steps, a shell fell beside him.

He flew up and hit the earth wall of the trench heavily, spitting blood and dying immediately.

The soldiers around looked at the generals who died tragically, and their eyes were suddenly filled with fear...

"Boom boom boom..."

While the howitzers bombarded the trenches of the East Tu coalition.

The harassment war at sea also began.

The steam engine ship pulled twelve British warships out of the bay.

The Wu warships followed the British warships and attacked the Yan Wang fleet.

Flashes of artillery could be heard from time to time on the sea.

"Don't engage them head-on, divert the British warships, and then order Gong Ying's left team to attack the Wu warships." Zhou Yi gave the order.

The British warships were obviously much faster than the Wu warships.

As long as the British warships were diverted, the remaining Wu warships were just lambs to be slaughtered.

Realizing this, he decided to personally lead the 18 warships of the right team to fight the British warships.

His orders were issued, and flags of different colors changed.

The 18 warships led by Gong Ying headed towards the Wu warships that were clustered together.

"Boom boom boom..."

While Gong Ying was taking action, Zhou Yi led the fleet to continue to move towards the British warships.

The British warships also came towards them.

The warships of both sides were moving towards each other.

But just when they were 500 meters away from them.

The British warships suddenly turned under the towing of the steamer and aimed their sides at them, like a "one" formation.

Zhou Yi's eyes narrowed. At this moment, he finally saw the significance of steamships to sailing warships.

Because it was a south wind, from south to north, he was in the upwind direction.

In naval battles, the fleet in the upwind direction often has an advantage.

Because the opponent was in the headwind, the warships must turn slowly.

But because of the existence of steamships, the British warships turned like flowing water, even a little faster than them.

Noticing this, he immediately ordered the fleet to turn right, leaving the side to the British warships.

The opponent had twelve ships, but he had eighteen ships.

Even if the opponent turned a little faster, he would not suffer in the bombardment.

"Boom boom boom..."

The fleets of both sides turned into a parallel "two", and the British warships opened fire first.

Dense shells flew towards the Yanzhou warship from 500 meters away.

Most of the shells fell into the sea, but many shells still hit the Yanzhou warship.

"Boom boom boom..." The Yanzhou warship made dense loud noises, like hail hitting wood.

Some shells hit the fence on the ship, smashing it and sending wood chips flying.

Some shells hit the mast, causing the entire mast and the soft sail on it to shake violently.

More shells hit the wooden boards on the side and fell into the sea.

"Boom boom boom..."

After the British warships fired, the Yanzhou warships also heard the roar of artillery.

Eighteen warships threw shells at the enemy's sailing warships.

There were no cannons on the steamships, so it was not worth wasting shells.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh..." Shells that were much denser than those of the British warships flew towards the British warships.

Similarly, the British warships were smashed into pieces.

Wolfe listened to the sound of the shells hitting the wooden boards, his face solemn.

"Their artillery is not inferior to ours at all." Wolfe said to his adjutant.

"They have more people than us." The adjutant added.

Although they took the lead in this round of shelling, they actually suffered a loss.

The duel of warships at sea is to see whose warship can resist longer.

It is very disadvantageous for them to continue bombarding like this.

"Grab the upwind direction!" Wolfe gave an order.

He wanted the Yanzhou fleet to be downwind.

In this way, the steamships will be more flexible with the upwind direction.

So as to turn faster and bombard their warships.

His order was issued, and the steamships dragged the sailing warships eastward, escaped the shelling range of the Yanzhou fleet, and then drove south, trying to go around the back of the Yanzhou fleet.

Zhou Yi immediately judged the intention of the British fleet.

Now, he finally understood why the King of Yan was so cautious about naval battles.

The fundamental principle of naval warfare of sailing warships lies in the "T" tactic.

The fundamental purpose of this tactic is to be able to aim the side of the warship at the front of the opponent as soon as possible.

Since a large number of artillery are loaded on the side, the front is the most vulnerable place, and there is no artillery to fight back.

Once the opponent successfully seizes one horizontal line in the "T", the opponent will be at a disadvantage.

Now, the British fleet obviously wants to gain the upper hand and cooperate with the steamship to continuously gain an advantage in the process of seizing the T.

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