Chapter 1299: 1300 starts counterattack

Chapter 1299: 1300 starts counterattack

 Chapter 12991300 begins counterattack

Lu Qianshan certainly knew that the fleet of the Lions Empire was already on the way. Not only did he know, he also knew the specific location and even roughly how many ships there were.

Yes, approximately how many ships there are... Because the scale is too large and the organization is too complex, no one can tell how many ships the Lions Empire's fleet has.

 From time to time, there are ships falling behind. Some transport ships are already very slow. The closer they get to their destination, the more they fall behind.

 Some merchant fleets even deliberately lag behind: they themselves did not want to conflict with the Tang Empire, which would seriously affect subsequent commercial activities.

The war will eventually end. Even if the Tang Empire loses Dragon Island, there is a high probability that it will continue to exist. When doing business with the Tang Empire, it is difficult to say whether the other party will pursue your past.

It is possible that the Tang State will not pursue the Lanes Empire’s war actions, but it would be too easy to pursue them against a small company.

The Tang Empire imposed sanctions casually. If it did not sell some machine tools and equipment, some spare parts and the like, it would kill a small enterprise. At that time, even if a certain shipping company's ships are not allowed to dock for supplies, that shipping company will lose money.

Of course, companies that dare to leave the fleet and pretend to be left behind are partly because they have close ties with the Tang Empire, and partly because the goods they transport are not important.

  After all, if you transport a shipload of soldiers and fall behind at this time, it would be tantamount to offending the Lions Empire, and shipping companies like them can't afford to offend them, right?

 Hence, the straggler ships basically transport some spare parts and miscellaneous items, Class II items that do not need to be landed urgently.

The Lions Empire itself is organizing a cross-sea landing of such a scale for the first time, and there is not much experience at the top and bottom.

They just relied on their huge size and wanted to use their strength to overwhelm the Tang Empire in one fell swoop, seizing Dragon Island with ten times and a hundred times more troops!

In order to prevent this large fleet from approaching Long Island, the forces deployed by the Tang Dynasty Navy near Long Island were mobilized by Lu Qianshan.

 First of all, the fleet composed of a remaining aircraft carrier as the core has set off, and at this moment it is already lying across the path of the Lines Empire Navy fleet.

Secondly, the Tang Army also dispatched a large number of submarines, preparing to launch attacks when necessary to sink these invading enemies.

To be on the safe side, Lu Qianshan also assembled a large number of shore-based aircraft on Long Island. These aircraft can be dispatched at any time to attack the fleet of the Lions Empire.

The entire Dragon Island sea area has now become a big bag that invites you to enter the urn, just waiting for the fleet of the Lions Empire to crash into it.

However, from a quantitative point of view, the fleet of the Lines Empire still has an absolute advantage. The ratio of the number of aircraft carriers between the two sides is 5 to 1, and the Lines Empire is completely victorious. The ratio of battleships is 5 to 0, and the Lines Empire is also completely victorious.

The Lanes Empire's army troops landed on Dragon Island exceeded 100,000, and the 4 divisions stationed on Dragon Island were less than 80,000. The Lanes Empire still had the advantage... Of course, this advantage was not as big as imagined.

The intelligence department of the Lions Empire has no way of knowing how many Datang troops are stationed on Dragon Island. They can only guess. In the end, they believed that the Tang army on Dragon Island would not exceed 20,000. This estimate was greatly different from the actual situation. In fact, it was not that the intelligence department of the Lions Empire had gone crazy and underestimated the Tang army. But the "fact" that their superior, immediate boss, Emperor Lions I of the Lions Empire could accept was that the Tang army only had 20,000 people.

The logic of this matter is this: When Lions I decided to land on Dragon Island, he began to calculate how many troops he could send to Dragon Island at one time.

 After calculation, he could only invest 100,000 troops on Dragon Island, which was almost the limit of the sea transport capacity of the Lions Empire.

So... how many Tang troops can the 100,000-strong army of the Lines Empire defeat? A more cautious estimate would be that they can defeat about 20,000 Tang troops. This is already a relatively optimistic estimate, and I wouldn't dare to brag about any more.

The question is, how many Tang troops are there on Dragon Island? The intelligence department of the Lions Empire believes that there should be about 50,000. This figure is reasonable, but cannot be accepted by Lines I.

Lines decided to launch a sneak attack on Dragon Island, but in the end your army said it couldn't defeat the garrison on the island? Wouldn't that be a failure?

 So, after modification, the number of Tang troops stationed on Dragon Island was adjusted to 20,000, which was almost the limit that the 100,000 landing troops of the Lions Empire could barely overcome.

As for what to do if more Tang troops come out? Lions I believed that by then they would already have sea and air superiority and could help the army suppress Tang's ground forces.

 No one knows the source of this confidence. In fact, even if the Tang Army did not take off its planes, the anti-aircraft missiles deployed on Longdao alone were enough to clean up the planes of the Lions Empire Navy.

"Your Majesty! A call came from the warning fleet ahead, and a fishing boat from the Tang Empire Navy was spotted..." An officer of the Lions Imperial Navy walked behind King Lions I, stood at attention and saluted to report.

Lines I seemed to be in good spirits and could not tell the impact of seasickness and vomiting along the way. He is still excited now, excited that he is about to become the master of Dragon Island.

 “Sink him! Don’t let him expose the fleet’s position!” Lions I ordered with a pale face but full of energy.

 “Yes!” The officer immediately went to convey the order.

A few seconds later, the Lions Empire cruiser Dream, which had aimed its main gun at the fishing boat, opened fire. After several rounds of salvo fire, the fishing boat was hit by one shot and burst into flames.

What no one knows is that this fishing boat was deliberately left here to be attacked by the fleet of the Lines Empire. In this way, the sneak attack by the Lions Empire was confirmed.

There was no one on the fishing boat. They had been picked up by another boat a few hours ago. Not far from the burning fishing boat, a Tang Empire submarine recorded the entire process of the Lions Empire fleet opening fire and sinking the Tang Empire fishing boat.

The opportunity Lu Qianshan was waiting for finally came. After hearing that his fishing boat was sunk, he immediately grabbed the phone: "The Tang Empire was attacked! Dragon Island was attacked by the Lions Empire Navy warship! We regard this as Declaration of war! All troops...Repeat! Start counterattack!"

 (End of this chapter)