Chapter 236: 236 Encounter at sea
Chapter 236 236 Encounter at sea
Talen's fleet is advancing along the coastline. This fleet consists of 7 warships. After putting down the infantry and craftsmen, a warship escorted the transport ship loaded with food and other supplies to anchor at its own landing point. The remaining seven warships rushed out to search for possible towns and cities along the coastline. port.
Their mission was to capture the port, sink the nearby ships, and then make the other party surrender, so that the infantry who arrived on land would not suffer unnecessary losses.
After all, they are the navy, which is faster than the army and has stronger firepower than the army.
The kingdom has spent so much money on the navy, and naturally it has to see returns. Over the years, the Kingdom of Talon has expanded its territory at sea and gained a reputation, relying on its powerful and combat-effective maritime power.
Compared with other kingdom warships, the Talon Kingdom's warships are larger and more slender, which makes them look a bit awkward.
What is even more awkward is that the naval warships of the Kingdom of Talon do not use white sails, but light yellow sails, which look very recognizable.
In fact, the sails used by the Kingdom of Talon were brown in the beginning. However, due to the wind and sun at sea, these sails quickly turned into light yellow due to unqualified dyeing.
Replacement is more expensive, and there is no good way to solve the problem of fading, so the Kingdom of Talon just pinches its nose and endures it, and still uses this light yellow sail.
“I really didn’t expect that someone actually built a town for us here. Hahaha.” Standing on the deck, the commander of Talen’s fleet joked triumphantly.
He was not afraid of fighting, nor did he think that his fleet would lose. He calculated the enemy deliberately and unintentionally. As long as the enemy did not build forts at the most dangerous parts of the coastline, he had a great chance of winning.
The opponent's warships will be blocked in the port and will be destroyed by cannonballs before they can set sail. After the opponent loses its maritime power, in most cases it will choose to surrender.
The next thing is the diplomatic negotiations. Everyone sits down and bickers, attacks and abuses each other. In the end, the losing party holds its nose and admits the loss, and the Kingdom of Tarun will win another victory.
In short, he seems to have seen the outcome of the whole thing.
“Sir, the wind is in our favor now!” the adjutant came over, the flag with the wheel on it waving above his head.
He said with some worry: "Our fleet is moving at full speed! But this island is larger than expected."
The Talon Kingdom has not completely surveyed this island. When they actually used their own actions to measure this island, they discovered that they were really trying to reach the top of the mountain.
This **** island is really big. It is estimated that their navy will not be able to find the enemy's port as planned.
But if it gets dark, the people who escaped will definitely return early and warn their own port. But if the other party is prepared, things will be completely different.
If the opponent's warships are not in the port, but on the sea, then the naval battle will have to rely on real skills.
"It doesn't matter. We haven't seen the end of the island yet. This shows that the island is very big. If we don't find the port before nightfall, we can have plenty of time to wait for action tomorrow morning." The commander of the fleet thought. I thought, comforting my adjutant.
According to his calculations, the few deserters who might report the message would definitely not be even half as fast as his own warships, and they would not be able to rush back to the enemy's port that night to report the message.
What he didn't know was that just in the direction he was heading, there was a warship emitting thick smoke and rushing towards his fleet at a high speed of 30 kilometers per hour.
Because of the headwind, the thick smoke billowing from the battleship was picked up by the sea breeze and left behind in an elegant manner.
At the top of the mast, sailors with telescopes are carefully searching the sea. They want to find possible enemy fleets, and then let these enemies see God.
Standing on the bridge, the captain of Bunas 4 put his hands behind his back and squinted his eyes, waiting for his prey.
Like his opponents, he did not think that his warships would encounter enemies at sea. Those so-called enemies were all just his prey.
His battleships are made of steel, his cannons are new breech-loading cannons, and his shells are explosive shells. There is no reason why he should lose any naval battle in this era.
Those wooden sailing ships are just ants in front of him. As long as his warships find enemies, they can easily sink them.
The premise is that as long as he can find the enemy...
Looking for targets in the vast sea is a bit boring, because even if you know that the enemy is nearby, the planet under your feet is round. As long as the distance between the two sides is more than 40 kilometers, even the radar cannot detect the target.
The route near Dragon Island is not a popular one, so there is no way to follow the previous tactics of Bunas 1 killing dozens of transport ships along the route.
There is only the most primitive and undeveloped sea surface here, with leafy island forests and cliffs on one side, and the endless sea on the other. "Captain, we are almost reaching the central waters of Long Island...no enemy ships have been found yet." The adjutant looked a little anxious and opened his mouth to report.
The captain did not take his eyes away from the sea level, but comforted him without looking back: "Don't worry, not all ships have our speed. Calculate the time, the other party should be still far away from here. That’s right.”
“I hope we can make a contribution in this battle...otherwise the guys on the Bunas 1 battleship will have to show off to Chief Bernard again.” The adjutant explained his anxiety.
He is just eager to fight, that's why he is so anxious, anxious that he will miss the prey and then give up the credit in front of him to others.
Before the battle broke out, the long wait always made people a little impatient. It was not until the afternoon of that day that the Bunas 4, which had accelerated to 31 kilometers per hour, finally discovered the enemy's sail on the sea level.
A sailor with a telescope saw the light yellow sail and the brown flag flying on the battleship.
He quickly turned around and shouted loudly into the communication line behind him: "Directly ahead! Enemy fleet! Enemy fleet discovered!"
Then the battle alarm was sounded, and sailors rushing to their combat posts could be seen everywhere in the not-so-spacious corridors of Bunas 4.
“Finally it’s here!” The excited adjutant was obviously relieved. He picked up his telescope and looked at the enemy’s sailboat in the distance, as if he were looking at a golden mountain floating on the sea.
This is the feeling of the big bad wolf seeing the little white rabbit. He has already calculated the military achievements in his mind, and fantasizes about bragging about his glorious achievements with his companions on the Bunas 1 when he goes back.
“Three battleships can be seen, and there must be more behind them. We can cut to the open sea and engage in battle from the side.” The adjutant put down the telescope in his hand, and then looked at the captain beside him.
The captain nodded slightly and agreed with the adjutant's plan: "Slow down the battleship to 20 kilometers! Adjust the course...don't go too fast, and you won't have time to fire."
“Understood!” The adjutant hurriedly went to convey the order. With the roar of the steam engine, Bunas 4 began to slow down.
At the same time, at various artillery positions, the soldiers had skillfully opened the breech and pushed the shells into the barrel. They could not see the situation outside at all. For them, war was like an ordinary job. .
They just need to get used to pushing cannonballs into the barrel one after another in a closed environment, then wait for the cannon to roar, and then continue to repeat their skilled actions.
Before their warships were penetrated and sunk, they were actually just working, not fighting in the true sense.
So, they can maintain a peaceful mind and complete the killing in an orderly manner, just like their descendants will control drones 100 years later.
"Loading completed!" During the long wait, a loader closed the breech and reported loudly to the officer who had been waiting beside him.
This officer is the gunner of this artillery. He is responsible for deciding when to fire based on the correction parameters provided by the sight around him.
On the distant sea, the Talon sailors on the sailboats have also discovered the strange large ship that is cutting into their sides.
They could see the black smoke billowing behind the big ship, and could already see its slender side adjusting its course.
This is a ship that is longer than their sailing battleship, but it still looks like a battleship.
Because the sailors of Talen, who were also observing their opponents carefully, had identified two turning guns from the increasingly clear outlines of the opponent's warships.
Furthermore, the dragon flag on this battleship obviously declared that this battleship was related to the unlucky guy they killed. After all, the unlucky guy who came to negotiate also had the same mark on his body.
“The cannon is loaded!” The two sides were heading toward each other about 1,000 meters apart. The gunners on the Talon Kingdom’s warship here were also ready for battle.
At this moment, on the Bunas 4 battleship of Datang Group, the captain has given the order to fire: "Aim at the enemy ship! Fire when you are ready! Sink them! Avenge our comrades!"
Then, in the next second, the front and rear main guns of the Bunas 4 battleship spurted out flames, a thick cloud of smoke rolled out of the gun muzzle, and three shells also rushed towards two different targets.
The shell full of hatred flew a distance of less than 1,000 meters, directly hit the hull of the enemy ship, and then exploded, turning into a ball of flames that devoured everything.
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There is another update that is a little later, so let’s watch it tomorrow morning.
(End of this chapter)