Chapter 360: Change

"Let the destroyers and cruisers outflank the past! Attack the enemy's wings first! Give full play to the speed advantage! The battleship forces head on! Keep firing!" Putting down the binoculars in his hand again, Lawnes changed the formation of his fleet.

The lined up snake formation was immediately divided into three sub-compartments. The battleships and some cruisers with larger gun caliber remained on the front, while some light cruisers began to accelerate forward.

When these cruisers were built, new technologies of varying degrees were used. The coal-burning boilers were eliminated and replaced with oil-burning power systems. Because of this, the speed of these cruisers is much faster than that of the old cruisers.

The speed of a single ship of many cruisers can even reach an astonishing 50 kilometers per hour, which is much faster than that of dreadnoughts.

It's just that when they were in formation with the Dreadnought, their speed was restricted.

Now, they are ordered to act alone, which is equivalent to lifting the seal. So, soon these warships with small artillery calibers accelerated their departure from the slower main fleet.

At the rear of the entire fleet, the destroyer fleet following in the distance also received the order at this time, began to turn its bow, and chose a more aggressive route.

"I don't have so many textbook tactics! I know one! Punch the master to death!" Lawnes grinned, smiled and said to the adjutant standing next to him: "When I fight the bayonet, I Look at the devil's fleet, what is it capable of!"

He is now almost in a state of fearlessness, with his back on the Osa Naval Port. As long as he buys enough time, the devil's fleet will become more and more disadvantaged.

Soon, Ailan Hill's new destroyers will be put into service. Those destroyers equipped with missiles will have much more combat capability than the warships in his hands.

By that time, Ailan Hill's navy was no longer a defensive navy. He will command his fleet to the endless sea and take the initiative to find the demon naval fleet for a decisive battle.

Therefore, Lawnes doesn't care about the loss at all, as long as he tries his best to fight the battle before him.

"Keep firing! Let the group of demons focus their attention on the front! It is important to give them a little bait so that they can bite the hook!" Lawnes scattered his squadron and came a crescent formation, both sides fronted. Stopped in the middle, put on a posture of attacking the demon fleet on three sides.

Inside the floating castle, seeing Ailan Hill’s fleet begin to divide into three groups, the demon general snorted and raised his mouth: "You want to eat my fleet? I have a big appetite! I want to see it. , Is your wings outflanking faster, or my central breakthrough faster!"

In fact, this is a collision in tactical arrangements. Sometimes it's not who is stupid or idiot. I don't know that the enemy has outflanked the two wings, and he is in danger.

Sometimes, the side that divides the forces is actually the side that takes the initiative to take risks, and the concentration of forces to defeat each one is a more reasonable tactical arrangement.

Seeing that the Demon Fleet did not divide its forces, but instead picked up the regiment and rushed directly into the encirclement of the Ailan Hill Navy, Lawnes knew that the enemy was going to fight him decisively.

After all, the devil knew that he couldn't afford it. The kind of nuclear weapons that would fly anytime and anywhere without knowing when was the sword of Damocles that really hung over their heads.

It is absolutely reasonable for the Demon Fleet, which is pursuing a quick battle, to adopt this kind of central breakthrough tactics.

Moreover, from another perspective, the demon fleet's strategic attempt to go north is to land and destroy Osa, or to control Piripi Island.

If the naval battle is prolonged, Ailan Hill's pre-war preparations will become more and more complete, and the suddenness of attacking these two places will disappear.

Therefore, no matter from which direction you look at it, making a quick fight and destroying the human naval fleet in front of you as soon as possible is a strategic task that the demon fleet has to complete.

"Boom!" Ailan Hill's navy began its third salvo, with 24 shells also falling within the Demon Navy fleet.

This time, the accuracy of the hit was higher. Three shells directly hit the demon warship, sinking three huge black warships in an instant.

The Demon Warship is not a battleship in the true sense. It looks majestic and a strange warship full of barbeds. Although its defensive ability is much higher than that of a sailing ship, it is actually not as strong as it looks.

Its defense enhancement is mainly reflected in the two innovations of the steel shell and the magic defense barrier. It's a pity that the magical defense barrier is still reluctant to deal with small-caliber artillery, but it seems incapable of dealing with large-caliber artillery.

At the same time, the steel hull, which is not armored and has a very general thickness, has very limited physical defense performance for large-caliber artillery shells above 300 mm. Therefore, it is not surprising that the hull was penetrated all at once.

Ever since, the three demon warships broke and exploded, and there was no possibility of persistence at all. And the hapless demon battleship that had penetrated the hull earlier, has now completely disappeared on the sea.

After all, these warships are powered by magic. This kind of power system is very unstable, and large-scale explosions will occur as long as they are destroyed, which is similar to the principle of the explosion of a tank's gasoline engine.

It's just that the smallest of these demon warships in front of them is more than 150 meters long, and they are really huge in size. When they explode, they are much more spectacular than tanks.

"Tweet!" On the other side, on the demon battleship that had been passively beaten, the weird magical cannon turret of the huge magic array composed of magical inscriptions also spewed out huge energy.

The demon fleet began to fight back. They could not take care of the problem of aiming, and could no longer bear it, and started a frantic attack on Ailan Hill's main fleet.

The demon fleet, which has an absolute advantage in number, fired dozens of warships in one breath, and countless magic guided artillery energy bombs flew towards the target. For a time, Ailan Hill's fleet was shrouded in gunfire.

Some blazing energy directly crashed into the sea water next to the Ailan Hill battleship, and also stirred up a water column as high as tens of meters. Some of the energy difference was very far, directly over the Ailan Hill fleet, flying to a far place before falling into the sea and exploding.

This round of crazy attacks also did not cause any trouble to Ailan Hill's fleet. However, this gorgeous attack also made Lawnes, who had never seen this scene, feel the strength of the enemy.

Unlike previous enemies who could not fight back or fight back at all, this time the enemy was not the target, so Lawnes instantly felt the pressure on his shoulders.

Regrettably, his tactical arrangements have been implemented, and now he can't change anything. What he can do is just wait and wait for a result.

His Majesty Chris once said that the Navy is a very tragic service because it is the only service that can lose the entire war in one morning...

Before, when Lawnes's navy was invincible, he used to disagree with this sentence, but now, at this moment, he truly agrees with this sentence.

"Hurry up and reload! The distance is good for us!" Lawnes urged his men, and the entire bridge was full of busy atmosphere.

"Boom!" As the distance between the two sides kept getting closer, following the cruiser behind the battleship, the main gun began to roar.

These 203 mm caliber guns joined the ranks of the roar. This time, not only the 305mm main gun was fired, so the number of shells that flew into the enemy camp was doubled.

A dense rain of shells fell, and the sky above the demon fleet, those huge magical defense barriers, were splashed by the impact of these shells.

The magical resonance bomb destroyed these defensive barriers, and then more shells fell and hit the deck of the demon warship.

The seemingly sturdy and heavy demon battleship was hit by these long-range artillery shells, and soon ignited a big fire, emitting thick smoke, and turning into a steel coffin.

The poor demons on these battleships had not had time to show how powerful and fierce they were, and along with their battleships, they became food for all kinds of creatures in the ocean.

Many warships collided with each other in the burning and explosion. Those demon warships that were gathered together and looked magnificent were in chaos at this moment, and even the most basic order disappeared.

The reloading time of the magic cannon was too slow, and the interval between one attack was too long. After Ailan Hill’s naval battleships fired another round, these demon battleships that fired in the first round had not had time to hit their second. Volleys.

If it weren't for the existence of that floating castle above their heads, perhaps this naval battle would have turned into a one-sided slaughter.

Seeing that his fleet had lost dozens of warships in one go, the demon general standing behind the crenel was a little uncomfortable.

You know, not all of his fleet is naval battleships. On these battleships, there is also a demon army for landing!

If he fights with the human navy here, where will he go to find the landing troops to destroy Osa and land on Piripi Island?

He must destroy the human navy in front of him as soon as possible, and then rush to land on the beach and mix with the enemy before the mankind drops the atomic bomb. This was his first plan, and now he still thinks this plan is the most perfect plan of action.

"Let the demon dragon troops press forward! Take off the demon fighter! Cover the floating castle! Prepare all the magic cannons on the castle! Target the human fleet!" The demon general commanded the black shadow behind him word by word.