Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1085

[Chapter 1075 Wolf Pack Tactics]

Yue Yun looked at the burning sail battleship on the sea with a strange smile on his face.

Liu Chen’s laughter never stopped beside Yue Yun, “General, I didn’t expect your joke to come true. These Europeans really come and attack at night.”

“What I said during the day was definitely not just a joke .

, Facing our armored ships, they can only use unusual attack methods,” Yue Yun said.

After arriving off the coast of Calcutta, he joked with the general that the European fleet might launch a sneak attack at night and use a boarding battle to shorten the gap between the two sides.

It is for this reason that they did not turn on the searchlight warning at night as usual, but this time they did not turn on the searchlight to hide the fact that there were searchlights on the ironclad ship. They did not expect that these Europeans actually took advantage of the darkness to come over.

“In any case, the European combined fleet has hit our guns. Let them all sink into the sea tonight.” Liu Chen said.

After arriving at their destination, they learned that all the battleships of the United Fleet were hidden in the upper reaches of the Ganges. This terrain was very unfavorable to them, because if they entered the Ganges, their armored ships would be attacked by the army’s artillery.

Yue Yun’s eyes were always focused on the sea. His expression gradually became serious and he said: “Don’t take it lightly. Let all the marines be in place. The battle has just begun.”

After hearing this, Liu Chen looked forward and found a burning sail warship. Rushing towards them, it is obvious that this time the joint fleet war will be equally strong.

“Aim at the enemy ships trying to approach us and sink them!” Faced with this situation, Yue Yun gave the order.

At this time, Liu Chen also realized that the danger had not been eliminated. He immediately asked the Marines to set up machine guns on the deck. Once it was hit by an enemy ship, it was their task to protect the warship.

“Boom, boom, boom…”

The King’s armored ship suddenly opened fire, and shells flew towards the sailing battleship that was rushing over. After being hit continuously, the battleship finally sank slowly.

At the same time, other ironclad ships were also exerting their maximum firepower, and bright fires continued to appear on the entire sea. After each fire, several battleships of the combined fleet were hit and sunk.

For a time, the entire sea was filled with the remains of burning warships. In addition to the sounds of firefights, the cries for help from enemy soldiers in the sea also rang through the night sky.

“Cobansi, what should we do?” Felin asked anxiously amid the deafening sound of cannons.

Their flagship was in the center of the fleet, and now their forward fleet was suffering a devastating blow, much to the worry and fear of the onlookers.

Cobansi came back to his senses after the initial shock. He said: “We can no longer rush over so recklessly, otherwise our warships will be destroyed. Put down the boats and let the soldiers approach the enemy warships in small boats. This will destroy the enemy’s warships.” The firepower of the Fang warship will be dispersed, and we will still have a chance to win.”

After a pause, he pointed to the lights emitted from the imperial warship and said, “These strange lights expose us, tell the soldiers to attack once they are within range. Shooting in these bright places, although I don’t know what it is, it must be the empire’s new technology.”

Feilin nodded heavily when he heard this, and he immediately called the messenger, and asked the messenger to make each action with the lantern. This is how messages are passed between them.

After receiving the order, the soldiers on the battleship immediately put down the small wooden boats and headed towards the imperial battleship in groups of twenty. The two small boats were filled with explosives. This was also the order of Cobansi.

Each sail warship dropped ten small boats, and the remaining hundreds of warships dropped thousands of small boats and rushed towards the imperial fleet.

For a time, the entire sea was filled with small wooden boats of the United Fleet. As they rushed towards the Imperial Fleet, the boats kept rescuing soldiers who fell into the water onto the boat and rushed over together.

The actions of the combined fleet were quickly discovered by Yue Yun. In the distance, the warships of the combined fleet adjusted their postures and were shelling each other. The thousands of small wooden boats coming towards them had a hint of wolf tactics.

Yue Yun was no stranger to this kind of tactics adopted by the combined fleet, because there were such examples in the textbooks of the Imperial Naval Academy.

Moreover, the textbook also records a naval battle between Spain and Britain. At that time, Britain used small arson ships filled with explosives and soldiers to finally win.

Because in this kind of large-scale naval battle, the flexibility of large warships is far less than that of these small wooden ships. Once approached by a wooden ship, the soldiers on the wooden ship can attack by drilling, blowing up, or burning the ship.

In this battle, their numbers were already at a disadvantage. Now that the combined fleet uses this method, they are immediately passive. After all, there are many enemies and their targets are small. There is no doubt that hitting them with cannons will kill mosquitoes.

But if you don’t deal with them, it will be very troublesome once they are approached.

“Convey orders to other warships, and the main guns continue to fire at large enemy warships. Use secondary guns and sampan guns to shoot at small boats on the sea to prevent them from approaching. At the same time, let the marines strafe local ships trying to approach, and have grenades ready. “

The densely packed small boats were approaching them. This scene really made people feel a little hairy. Yue Yun did not dare to be careless this time.

After receiving the order, the searchlight of the Sovereign ironclad immediately flashed. After installing the searchlight, they immediately mastered the language of lights. There is nothing more convenient than the language of lights to communicate with each other in the dark night.

The changes in the searchlights on the ironclad Sovereign were instantly captured by other battleships. They all took action in accordance with the orders. The marines resting in the battleship’s cabin quickly entered combat mode.

“Whoosh whoosh…”

In order to find the location of the enemy’s boat more clearly, illumination bombs were launched over the sea. Under the light, the boats of the combined fleet were fully exposed.

“Click, click, click…”

At this moment, the machine guns on the armored ship King spewed flames, and they first fired at a small boat that entered the range.

A series of bullets hit the wooden boat, and the soldiers on the boat fell into a pool of blood before they could react.

At the same time, more and more machine gunfire sounded, and soldiers on small boats fell under machine gun fire.

The soldiers on the small boat also launched a counterattack. Flames erupted from the guns on the boat continued to light up, and the soldiers on the ironclad ship began to suffer casualties.

The battle situation became more and more tense. Although the machine gun fire severely damaged the small boats, there were too many small boats. They scrambled to get closer to the ironclad ship, like soldiers charging madly.

“Crack!”

While Yue Yun was observing nervously, a bullet hit the searchlight, and the beam of light illuminating the enemy warship disappeared immediately.

Seeing this, Yue Yun’s heart tightened, and he shouted: “Quickly put on the backup searchlight!”

(End of Chapter)