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Chapter 167 Battle for Sardinian Territory 5 (Naval Battle 2)

PS: In the previous section, the number of warships of the merchant alliance was somewhat unreasonable. The original 240 warships were changed to 120 warships, which is hereby corrected.

About 10 seconds later, the Vestylos reappeared at the nearest sea resurrection point, and all the players on board were resurrected.

The resurrection point is very close to the battle area, and as soon as you drive out of the resurrection point, you can see the scene of complete chaos.

At this time, the unlucky ship had sunk twice. Yun Xiaohan didn't think about counterattacking, but chose to surround it from outside the battlefield.

However, the Vestylos was still too conspicuous. As soon as it appeared in the battle area, 4 enemy ships gave up their original pursuit targets and started chasing the Vestylos instead.

The speed of these 4 enemy ships is not as fast as the previous ones, and their speed is even slower than that of the Vestylos, because the Vestylos needs to take a large arc to arrive. The landing point, and they can split up to outflank the relationship, which poses some threats to the Vestylos.

There is no danger to Yun Xiaohan's side in a short time, but other ships are still being sunk continuously, calm as Yun Xiaohan can't help but feel a little anxious, can't help but think: "Why hasn't the Sea Lion Army arrived yet?"

Just as he was thinking, Yun Xiaohan suddenly discovered that a large group of ships entered the battlefield in a double column formation, and began to gain the upper hand.

Yun Xiaohan counted, and there are 80 large ships, all of which have a capacity of about 70-100 people. This number is only about 10 more than a fleet of the Merchant Alliance, but there are still many in the fleet of the Merchant Alliance It is a medium-sized ship, so it is completely incomparable in terms of strength. The fleet of the Sea Lion Legion can at least hold up to one and a half merchant alliance fleets.

If it is replaced by a super large ship with a capacity of more than 400 people, then only about 15 ships are needed to completely destroy the fleet of the Sea Lion Legion. Of course, no faction in the current game can build such a large ship. boat.

The reason why the Vestylos has a large number of passengers is mainly because it also has an additional oar room, and the manpower required for paddling has increased a lot.The fleets of the three camps are all pure sailing ships.

When the sea lion fleet completely took the upper hand, they suddenly divided into three columns, with 3 ships in the main column, and 35 ships and 2 ships in the other two sub-columns. Inserted into the battlefield at high speed, and before entering the artillery range, three beautiful battle lines have been formed, and the distance between each battleship is about 30 yards.

In this way, the entire battlefield was completely divided, and the merchant alliance fleets that were originally chasing the players could no longer join together, let alone reorganize the artillery battle formation, and were completely passive.

In naval battles in the age of sails, most of the time was wasted on finding the enemy, approaching the enemy, and taking positions before the battle, but once the fleet really approached, the battle often ended quickly.

Because of the distance of the shelling, everyone basically shoots at close range, or simply fights on board, so the winner can be determined very quickly. The naval battle in the game ends much faster than in reality. It is only a short period of time. In 8 minutes, the naval battle came to an end. Both merchant alliance fleets were severely damaged. About 30 ships were sunk, and more than 50 ships were captured. The ships fled.

However, the Sea Lion fleet only lost one warship, but there were about 1 casualties.

As spectators, the players witnessed the naval battle while sailing towards the landing point. Many players turned on the camera function.

During the battle, some players sent text messages in the chat room, offering to step forward to join the battle, but Yun Xiaohan stopped them.

The reason is very simple. It’s easy to watch other people fight naval battles if you only watch thieves eat meat, but it’s easy to watch others fight at sea, but it’s definitely not possible if you change players. Except for the Vestelos, the ships of other players have no long-range firepower, let alone magic cannons. , not even a trebuchet.

The Merchant Alliance fleet can't beat the Sea Lion fleet, but that doesn't mean it can't beat the players. Players can only go up and fight side by side. This will inevitably cost a lot of casualties to get close to the enemy ship, and it is easy to be accidentally injured by the sea lion army's artillery fire.

In contrast, it is better to preserve strength to deal with the subsequent land battles, and land battles are more important. After all, if you want to really decide the ownership of the Sardinian territory, you still have to go through land battles.

Therefore, during the naval battle, the players did not participate in the battle, but just circled around and drove from the periphery of the battlefield to the landing point.

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The naval battle on the other side also ended at 20:20. This battle was far more brutal than the battle of the Sea Lion Fleet. In order to cover the landing of the army and the evacuation of the Merchant Alliance transport fleet, the combat fleet of the Merchant Alliance fought to the end.

The fleet left by the Merchant Alliance is the largest and best-preserved of its three fleets, and it has an outstanding record and enjoys a high reputation in the Merchant Alliance. A battle fleet, and the flagship of the merchant alliance's maritime commander is also in this fleet, all of which have greatly improved its will to fight.

It was the hard work of this fleet that caused the Austrian Parliament, which had a numerical advantage, to suffer a very large loss.

Therefore, the final result is that the battle fleet of the Merchant Alliance was completely wiped out, only a few ships surrendered due to complete loss of power, and the Merchant Alliance transport fleet fled after being severely damaged. He resisted and directly chose to surrender.

However, it was precisely because of the desperate battle of the battle fleet that the army of the Merchant Alliance did not suffer any losses, but left the port of Cagliari in order not to be hit by the artillery fire from the Austrian side.

The losses of the two battle fleets of the Austrian Law Council are equally astonishing. One has about 15% left, and the other has only 12%. It's not to cover the army, they have already returned home to rest.

After completely defeating the fleet of the Merchant Alliance, the army of the Offa Council also began to land at the port of Cagliari, but the army of the Merchant Alliance was stationed some distance away from the port.

Although the Austrian Parliamentary Army landed safely after a period of time, the Business Alliance still has the strength advantage of 2 NPC armies and 1 player army, temporarily suppressing the 1 NPC army and 1 player army. in the port.

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In the Central Empire, the player army basically completed the landing at around 8:24, and quickly completed the assembly work of most of the players, within half an hour of the landing assembly time limit.

The Sea Lions, on the other hand, chose to proceed to the port of Cagliari because the ships were too large to land on a random coast like the players.

　A few of the contents in this section draw on the analysis of battle cases in "Virtual Military Exercise - War Game, Combat Simulation and Simulation".

　　

　

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