The fleets of both sides interlaced, and two ironclad ships of the Boston fleet began to slowly sink, while other warships were all injured. Even Admiral Gordal's flagship, the Missouri, was 330 mm.
The shells knocked off the main artillery and lost more than 20 sailors.
In the St. Martin Fleet, although two "Lanting"-class battleships had big holes on the side and one of them had a hole in the deck, the reasonable watertight compartment system of the Chinese leading warships prevented the influx of seawater.
Their speed was not greatly affected, and after balancing water injection, the warships could even continue to fight.
If you cannot break the opponent's armor, it is because you are not close enough. Admiral Gordal has always believed in this sentence, and the result of the naval battle is indeed the case. Two "Lanting"-class battleships were finally injured.
Although he finally defeated the opponent's armor, his own losses were even greater. Admiral Gordal had to admire the warships built by China. He saw that he could not gain any advantage, and his own cruiser fleet was three more on the opponent's side.
The fleet was in frequent emergency under the siege, and General Gordal had to order the withdrawal from the battle.
Admiral Gordal ordered the fleet to retreat, but did not notice that several "Tongjiang" class cruisers that had not been besieged by the Boston Cruiser Fleet had quietly made a big circle and circled around the Boston Fleet's side.
"Go forward at full speed, let's lean over and prepare torpedo." Major General Roms, who led the First Cruise Fleet, shouted, and his flagship began to accelerate first. Seeing that the flagship began to accelerate, all cruisers increased their speed to the maximum, and how many
The cruiser rushed towards the iron-clad fleet led by General Gordal, like a wild horse.
As the shelling was being carried out, Admiral Gordal's fleet was surrounded by gunpowder. In addition, there was no wind on the sea at this time, and the gunpowder had not dispersed for a long time, so their vision was seriously blocked. They did not see the galloping St. Martin at all.
The First Cruise Fleet of the Empire.
When Admiral Gordal found that the enemy cruiser was approaching, everything was too late. "The left rudder is full, and the torpedo is ready to be launched." Major General Roms shouted, and several "Tongjiang" class cruisers did not slow down at all.
Several cruisers turned right at the same time, and the strong inertia caused the cruiser's hull to tilt, and the starboard side almost hit the water surface.
"General, we cannot launch torpedoes now." The first mate tightly held the navigation table and tried not to fall. Major General Roms said: "I know, order the warship to slow down and the helmsman will return to the rudder immediately."
In a very short time, the cruiser almost completed the turn in a drifting manner. The cruiser had just returned to its horizontal state, and dozens of torpedoes broke out, and the straight waterline rushed towards the Boston fleet.
"What is that, please avoid it." Admiral Gordal, who had never seen a torpedo, exclaimed. Although he had never seen it, he knew very well that the St. Martin's fired at his side was definitely not a good thing, so he immediately ordered
avoid.
The bulky hull of a "Galino" class ironclad ship was inflexible and was directly hit by two torpedoes. Two large holes were immediately opened at its waterline, and the surging sea water poured into it.
The unreasonable ironclad ship could not withstand such a heavy blow. It quickly fell to the left and pressed it on the sea surface, revealing the bare bottom of the ship. Then, under the water pressure, the air inside the ship exploded.
After a loud rumbling sound, the hull slowly sank into the sea.
Almost at the same time as the ironclad ship was hit, the battleship "Missouri" was also hit by a torpedo. The huge explosion power made General Gordal, who was standing in the command room, suddenly resusciting himself on the ground, and his forehead was also drawing.
A bloody hole broke out on the iron corner of the table.
General Gordal climbed up with difficulty. He wiped the blood that flowed into his eyes and asked loudly: "Report the losses of the warship."
A staff officer said: "General, we were shot in the waterline, four cabins were destroyed, and there was not much water inflow. Everyone is repairing it, so there is probably no big problem."
Soon a medical soldier ran into the command room, took out gauze to hold General Gordal's wound, and General Gordal sat on a chair and let him do it, and ordered: "Get out of the battle immediately, don't worry about those battleships."
, concentrate firepower to attack the opponent's cruiser." After seeing the huge power of the opponent's weapons, he was already full of fear of the cruiser of the St. Martin Empire.
The severely damaged Boston fleet retreated quickly, and the already scarred St. Marshal Dinant also issued an order to retreat slowly, and the two sides gradually broke off contact.
After two hours of circumcision, the fleets of both sides left the war zone and headed towards their home port. In this battle, the St. Martin Empire sank five ironclad ships and six old cruisers.
The three cruisers also severely damaged the other party's flagship.
Although it seems that the Boston Empire has the advantage, they lose all the more innovative warships, while the St. Martin Empire has been sunk all the old ships.
After this battle, the St. Martin Empire finally regained some of the sea power. The Boston Empire Navy no longer dared to cruise on the sea unscrupulously, attacked the ports of the St. Martin Empire or landed on land. Even due to the excessive losses, the Boston Empire's Storm Ocean Fleet
They dared not go to the south again, while the Eastern Ocean Fleet of the Boston Empire did not dare to act rashly because of the existence of the Chinese fleet in the Oahu Kingdom, and the battle between the two sides at sea became calm.
After the two armies broke off contact for half an hour, Marshal Dinant gained unexpected gains. A part of the Boston Empire transport ship hit the muzzle of the St. Martin Empire Navy, seeing so many very fast
Naval warships, these temporary conscripted transport ships surrendered obediently, and Marshal Dinant accidentally captured more than 20 transport ships with a total displacement of up to 80,000 tons.
The naval battle was evenly matched, but the land war was very complicated. The meager force of the Central South Alliance could not stop the attack of the army of the 100,000 Saint Martin Empire. The army of General Kaoran, who had no worries, was unstoppable, until the troops attacked.
The Boston Empire and the Kingdom of Mos that arrived on the northernmost border of Chiapas in the Central Asian Nations blocked the progress.
Kaoran was not greedy for merit. After seeing the Boston army arrive at the front, he immediately turned to defense. The 100,000 Saint Martin army began to build fortifications and planned to hold on for a long time. The northern front gradually stabilized, but most of the Central and Southern Federations
The territory was occupied by the St. Martin Empire, and the Central South Alliance has been destroyed in name only.
But on the South Road, Admiral Pershing led only 50,000 landing troops left to attack the territory of the St. Martin Empire. "Run, run, if you still want to survive, hurry up." A regiment of the Boston landing troops
They were shouting loudly in front of the marching team. At this time, they had already penetrated the border of the St. Martin Empire and their food had just been exhausted.
Admiral Pershing sat on a small mound, a military map flat on his legs, and a kind of senior officials and guards surrounded the neighborhood. "Look, we are not far from Bandaya City now, as long as
We occupy there, and food and ammunition is not a problem."
Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Kerry frowned and said, "But according to the reconnaissance of the rear guards, the elite troops of the St. Martin Empire are only more than thirty kilometers away from us. Should we deploy a blockade and delay their actions?"
When they said this, Lieutenant General Kerry bit his lower lip. He had done this in a week, many times. Otherwise, they would not have been able to hold on to this place, but in such a piece of cake,
The Boston landing forces also lost a lot of people.
Pershing touched his chin and thought for a while, saying, "No, we can't block it anymore. It's not far from Bandaya City. If a large-scale firefight occurs, they will be alert. Order the entire army to speed up the marching.
We must conquer Bandaya City in one go, and rely on the strong city to block the elite behind."
The Boston army desperately accelerated its march towards Bandaya, but Bandaya was still unaware of it. There had not been a major war on the local area for hundreds of years, which made the St. Martin's army quite relaxed, especially in the Expeditionary Military Trial.
It is frequent, and the front line is still hundreds of kilometers away.
The St. Martin's army soldiers guarding the city gate were yawning, looking at the passers-by in a hurry with no eyes, not finding the increasing smoke and dust in the distance.
A soldier went to the corner to relieve his urine and came back, casually walking through the city gate hole. A companion joked: "Boke, why do you always go to the toilet today? Is it a bit unsatisfactory to have been struggling in the brothel yesterday?"
Boke cursed back, "You can't do it anymore. If you don't believe it, let's find a place to try it."
The companion smiled and said, "Just try it. Whoever loses will pay for it, you kid is not allowed to run away."
Boke smiled and looked up accidentally, and found the smoke and dust getting closer and closer in the distance and said strangely: "What is that."
His companion laughed and turned his head, but his expression instantly frozen on his face: "Enemy attack, it's an enemy attack, close the city gate." A shrill shout echoed through the sky, and the soldiers of St. Martin who were tilted around immediately jumped up immediately
, , ran to the heavy city gate in panic, but it was too late.
The Boston soldiers who were running quickly picked up their rifles and started shooting. Although the shooting during the running had no accurate point, they played a good deterrent role.
When the bullets passed by, smashing the bricks and stones on the city walls and dust were flying, the Saint Martin soldiers who had never seen blood were immediately scared. They no longer had the intention to close the city gate, but threw them away