Chapter 934: Strategy

"Hahaha... Want to have a boarding battle with us? That's wishful thinking. Reading" On the deck, Gong Ying looked at the coalition warships that were left behind and laughed wildly.

With zero losses, he exchanged for the loss of six steamships and eight sailing warships of the other side, which made him particularly refreshed.

"The other side's naval commander must be mad." Song Xiang looked at the coalition fleet.

In this short naval battle, they were originally prepared to use their firepower advantage to attack the other side.

Afterwards, before the enemy's encirclement closed, jump out of the encirclement.

"It's better to be mad. A general who loses his mind is more likely to make wrong decisions." Gong Ying said.

After a pause, he said: "But the other side's generals are two brushes and should not lose their sense of proportion. Next, we will cruise beside their fleet and look for opportunities to sink a few more of his warships."

Song Xiang nodded after hearing this.

At the same time.

Malfoy, the flagship of the Formidable, was indeed almost mad with anger.

For him, this naval battle was like a fish on the hook, but it slipped when he lifted the rod.

Looking at the Dasong fleet running to the side of the fleet, he wanted to command the fleet to rush over until they were all crushed.

But calming down, he retracted this idea.

Because if he did so, it would definitely become a cat and mouse chase.

The other side's twelve sailing warships were all towed by steamships, and they might not be able to catch up.

And if they ignored it, the Dasong fleet would inevitably continue to harass the fleet, and their warships would continue to suffer losses.

In general, they might not be able to take Yizhou or destroy the other side's fleet this time.

Thinking of this, he frowned and pondered for a while.

After a long time, he made a difficult decision.

Retreat to Malacca!

Malacca is the only way from the southern region of Dongtu to the Tianzhu Sea.

Here, a narrow passage is sandwiched between Yaga controlled by Sterdam and Marley controlled by Britain.

At present, a large number of artillery batteries and trenches have been built on both sides of Malacca.

If they preserve their strength, they may be able to stop the Yan Wang fleet in Malacca.

But in this case, they must sacrifice the Portuguese Luzon.

"But the sacrifice of Luzon will be worth it. We need to delay the Yan Wang army, send more support to the West to win time, and also win time to crack the Yan Wang's muskets and artillery." Malfoy said secretly.

Then, he waved his hand and spit out the word "retreat".

The order was issued, and the coalition fleet turned its bow and headed for the sea east of Luzon.

They will bypass Luzon and go to Malacca.

At the same time, in order to prevent being pursued by the Yan Wang army during the retreat, causing more losses.

Malfoy ordered the warships to disperse, and each warship retreated independently.

The movements of the Western Allied Fleet fell into Gong Ying's eyes. He and Song Xiang looked at each other with a ridiculous expression.

They thought that the Westerners would continue to tangle with them or attack Yizhou.

But they didn't expect them to run away like this.

Facing the fleeing Western warships, he immediately ordered a pursuit.

Most of the Westerners' warships were sailing warships, without steamships towing them.

The slowest twelve sailing warships were immediately in trouble.

After a chase, the Dasong warships caught up with these warships and sank them.

At this time, the rest of the Western warships had run far away.

So Gong Ying ordered the fleet to withdraw to the port of Wanghai City.

"Keep the general and His Highness safe, so that the general does not have to rush back to rescue, and let His Highness rest assured." Back in the office, Gong Ying gave orders to his guards.

The guards responded and left.

At this time, Gong Ying looked at the sea chart on the wall, and there seemed to be a glow on his face.

This naval battle gave him a deeper understanding of the Dasong warships that were armed to the teeth.

During the naval battle in Japan, each of their warships had only three or five rifled guns.

But now their warships are all equipped with rifled guns.

The firepower is more than a little bit stronger than before.

Not to mention the Westerners, even if they face warships of the same level, they will be terrified.

"No wonder our navy only has 60 sailing warships and 60 steamships, and Your Highness is not afraid of the Western Alliance Fleet." Gong Ying smiled.

Then, he came to the window and looked at the generals who were chatting and laughing in the city.

Although this naval battle was very short, there is no doubt that through this naval battle, he and the generals and soldiers have established strong self-confidence.

From now on, the ocean will belong to them.

Three days later.

The news of the Yizhou naval battle arrived in Yancheng.

At this time, Zhao Xu had just come out of the Armory.

Glancing at the news sent by Gong Ying, he smiled, and then frowned again.

This news was only one day apart from the news sent yesterday.

In other words, the crisis in Yizhou was resolved in just one day.

Yesterday, he replied to Gong Ying that he should contain the Western Land Fleet, wait for other fleets to rush to help, and destroy the main force of the Western Land Fleet in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, the generals of the Western Land Fleet seemed to be frightened by the warships of Dasong and chose to retreat.

In this way, the Dasong Navy will have to spend time looking for them and destroy them.

Moreover, since they know the performance of Dasong warships, they are probably more prepared.

This is why he frowned after being happy.

While thinking, he returned to the palace.

When he came to the study, he cast his eyes on the southern region of Dongtu.

This time when Zhou Yi went south, he did not think about the possibility that the Western Land people would abandon Luzon and attack Yizhou or even Jinghai instead.

But the reason why he agreed to Zhou Yi's plan was that he firmly believed that the warships left behind could deal with any emergency.

This was indeed the case.

Moreover, before Gong Ying fought with the Western Turkic Fleet.

There were small-scale naval battles between the island chains in the Ryukyu Sea and the East Sea.

The Dasong warships beat the other side and fled in panic.

These proved that for warships, the range and power of cannons are the truth.

"After this battle, the navy of the Western Turkic coalition will definitely switch from offense to defense, and will not dare to take any major actions until the next support arrives." Zhao Xu looked at Luzon and Yaga, as well as the Australian continent to the east of Yaga, "But in this case, the sea area to the east of Malacca will belong to the Dasong Navy, and these places will also belong to Dasong."

After saying that, the corners of his mouth rose.

He believed that the only place the Western Turkic Navy could go to during this retreat was Malacca.

Because only in this place did they have the advantage of location and people.

If the coalition fleet fought with the Dasong Navy anywhere else, it would be a dead end.

However, it is not impossible to bypass Malacca.

But the premise of bypassing is to take Luzon, Yaga and Australia and establish supply points.

Moreover, there is no point in bypassing.

Because he can't attack Tianzhu directly.

After all, so many marines need to eat.

Without supply points, it still won't work.

Therefore, the strategy for the southern region of the East can only be carried out step by step.