Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 644 Chapter 644
On the sea between the distant Beiyuan City and the Mirage Kingdom, battle clouds were also densely covered.

Finally, when both sides were willing to fight, and at the same time, one did not want to go and the other wanted to come, the long-awaited Battle of the North Sea finally broke out.

The troops participating in the war were evenly matched. The Mirage Kingdom took out almost all of its family assets, and the Tang Kingdom Navy dispatched its own main fleet.

Bernard has a total of three East Bay-class battleships, 45 cruisers and destroyers, and a total of 48 battleships.

The Mirage fleet commanded by Kazuo Mirage has four battleships, 51 cruisers and destroyers, with a total force of 55 ships.

Both of them knew that the battleship in their hands could really determine the outcome of a naval battle!The rest of the battleships were only used to add insult to injury after the battleships had decided the outcome, and they could not influence the real situation of the battle.

Therefore, the two sides unanimously set up battleships to lead, and the formation of the rest of the battleships to follow, at a distance of more than 30 kilometers, set up a formation.

Both sides are very cautious, because whether it is Bernard or Mirage, they both know clearly that what they hold in their hands is the entire family property of their respective navies.

Standing on his own bridge, Bernard was nervous and didn't say a word. He silently stared at the billowing black smoke on the horizon without even blinking his eyes.

The Mirage Kazuo on the other side was also not much better. He even clenched his hands into fists subconsciously in order to stop his hands from trembling.

"The enemy ship is 29 kilometers away! Go in the same direction as me!" An officer loudly reported the distance between the two sides.

The fleets of the two sides are approaching, and the battle lines are roughly parallel. The Phantom Navy is actively seeking a battle, so the Phantom Navy is approaching the Tang Navy Fleet little by little.

"Keep on course!" Bernard didn't think of an idea, he decided to use his own advantages to win the naval battle.

He knew that his fleet was traveling at a high speed, so he planned to concentrate his firepower on the battleship at the front of the enemy fleet. After successfully injuring his opponent, he took the advantage of the T prefix and used all his firepower to sink the enemy first. The ship gains the advantage.

At the same time, in the fleet of Mirage Navy, Kazuo Mirage sits on the flagship and is also thinking about how to defeat the enemy.

As a veteran admiral of the navy, Kazuo Mirage certainly knew that the fleet of the Tang Army was much faster than the fleet of Mirage Kingdom.If it wasn't for the opponent asking for a fight, they could have distanced themselves and fled without giving the Mirage Navy any chance at all.

But the opponent did not retreat and run away, but opened his formation to prepare for a decisive battle. This shows that the commander of the opponent has made up his mind and is ready to fight him here.

Mirage knows that this is his only chance. If he wins here, the huge pressure on the route between Beiyuan City and Mirage will be relieved. Their Mirage may succeed Tang and become the leader of the endless sea. new overlord.

And he has at least several advantages: first, he has always been an admiral with rich experience in naval warfare, which Bernard cannot match; second, he has a clear advantage in the number of battleships, and the number of main guns He is also more; Third, the destroyers purchased by the Mirage Navy from Cyric are slightly better than the reduced Fengshun-class destroyers. Overall, the Mirage Navy has certain advantages.

However, in the entire fleet, these advantages are not obvious, and it can even be said that they do not exist at all.

"The enemy ship did not change course! The distance between us and them is getting closer and closer." An officer of the Mirage Navy reported to Kazuo Mirage who was waiting anxiously.

The warships of the Mirage Navy lack an accurate ranging system, so the naval officers of the Mirage can only rely on imprecise estimates to speculate on the actual distance between the two sides.

Compared with the Mirage Navy, the commanders of the Tang State Navy have more precise control over the distance.Almost at the same time, the officer of the Tang State Navy was also reporting the distance between the two sides: "The enemy ship is 27 kilometers away from our fleet!"

"It seems that they think the same as we do and are ready to solve the problem here." The adjutant stared at the black smoke of the enemy fleet on the sea and said to Bernard.

Bernard nodded, and then gave the order to turn the fleet: "Full left rudder! Correct the course to the west! Keep the distance!"

This sudden command to turn caused all the officers who were nervously preparing for a decisive battle to cast questioning glances.

After Bernard saw the enemy fleet, he didn't intend to let the enemy go.However, he has been hesitant about how to fight this naval battle.

Before, he was going to head-to-head with the enemy ship, battleship against battleship, a hearty battle, relying on hard power to decide the winner

But just now, he seemed to have realized something: the side with the speed advantage in naval battles obviously has the right to choose, the right to choose how to enter the battlefield!
His fleet has the advantage, so the opponent has no possibility of fleeing.Therefore, after seeing the black smoke all over the sea, he has been thinking about the way to win a complete victory.

Just now, he thought of a good idea: Since the other party is also here for a fight, he won't run away easily.

He can completely rely on the superior speed to change the head-to-head method of walking in the same direction with the opponent, and adopt a more secure posture of walking in the same direction and biting each other's tails to start a decisive battle.

In this way, the destroyers and cruisers in the rear of one's own side can use their speed advantage to throw off the enemy's battleships.But one's own battleship can bite the enemy's small ship and hammer it by virtue of its speed advantage.

Wouldn't it be safer to go back to chew on the hard bones of the Mirage battleships after the destroyers and cruisers of the Mirage Kingdom are dealt with?
Bernard understood that Tang Mo handed over all of the Navy's family property to him, which was a sign of trust in him, and war is not about being brave and ruthless, using the most reasonable tactics to preserve oneself, and at the same time causing the greatest damage to the enemy. It is the most reasonable tactical choice for the commander.

"Full left rudder! Turn! Re-formation!" The adjutant immediately conveyed Bernard's order, and Datang's fleet began to turn specifically, and the originally neat battle line became chaotic in an instant.

If the fleet turns collectively, the formation will become a state where destroyers are in front and battleships are behind.This was obviously not what Bernard wanted, so after turning around, the entire fleet needed to be adjusted, and finally formed an overall U-turn without changing the formation.

On the other side, Kazuo Mirage, who was getting closer to the Tang fleet, was startled slightly after seeing the chaos of the Tang fleet, and then a bad premonition came to his mind.

"Is the other party going to turn around and run away?" This was the first thought in his mind, and this was almost what he was most worried about.

He hardly thought about the possibility that the opponent could defeat him, so the worst scenario he imagined was that the Tang army fleet would escape, and then continue to use the speed advantage to attack the mirage's transportation line.

That would bring endless troubles to Mirage's sea transportation, which was the last thing Mirage's navy wanted to see.

However, he quickly ruled out this possibility in his mind. The opponent's navy had a speed advantage but stayed behind to deliberately contact the main fleet of the mirage navy. This was obviously a manifestation of the same intention to fight.

Mirage Kazuo didn't think Tang's naval commander would suddenly back off, change his mind and run away.If the opponent was really as timid as a mouse, he would not have made the decision to engage the enemy in a decisive battle before.

Since the opponent is not going to run, the worst situation has emerged: the enemy fleet wants to take advantage of the speed and bite the mirage fleet's tail in turn.

"Naive!" Mirage Kazuo snorted coldly, and also began to order a change of formation.The Phantom Fleet began to take the leading four battleships as the center of the circle, and the battle line of the entire fleet was the radius, sweeping out a circle to the north.

To put it bluntly, the Mirage fleet is playing a game of eagle and chick with the fleet of the Datang Kingdom: the four battleships are like old hens standing in front of them, and the small battleships behind them are all guarded behind the battleships.

Because the speed of these small boats is relatively high, and they are going closer to the inner circle, it is almost impossible for Tang Jun to catch up with these boats.

When Bernard's side completed the fleet's turn, prepared to organize an attack again, and approached the mirage navy fleet, they found that the mirage fleet was drawing a giant Taiji diagram with them.

The two sides were originally in a parallel state, but now with their respective battleships as the center of the circle, they are mixed together to form a large circle that keeps rotating towards the center.

Obviously, such a formation is too chaotic and not suitable for a decisive battle between the two sides, so the Tang fleet changed its course again, stretched out its formation, and prepared to cross over to seize the "T" prefix of the mirage fleet.

But then the mirage fleet also stretched out its formation along the battleships of the Tang Dynasty, and continued to maintain the parallel positions of the two sides.

As a result, after an hour of commotion, the two sides returned to the state of parallel formation driving in the same direction, but the original two parallel lines from east to west became two parallel lines from north to south.

Obviously, the mediocre Bernard had no way to take advantage of the experienced Kazuo Mirage in terms of naval warfare tactics.

Even, relying on his rich experience in naval warfare, Kazuo Mirage made up for the inferiority of the fleet's equipment and technology by virtue of his understanding of naval warfare, and maintained a state of evenly matched strength until the end.

After some contests, the actual distance between the two sides has been shortened to 17 kilometers, and until now, the two sides have not fired each other.

On Tang Jun's side, he was preparing to fire the first round of shooting at a more certain distance, and corrected his trajectory according to this round of shelling.

Mirage was embarrassed. They simply did not have the ability to fire at this distance. They had to continue to shorten the distance in order to improve the accuracy of their shells.

(End of this chapter)