As soon as he finished speaking, a naval officer hurried over, stood at attention and saluted and reported: "Marshal! The artillery fleet on the south side is under attack!"
"Submarine?" Bernard immediately guessed the other party's method.
"Yes, the submarine fired several torpedoes... and hit the side of a battleship, causing a large amount of water to enter." The officer nodded awkwardly.
"That cunning fish that evaded the search an hour ago!" Bernard muttered through gritted teeth. The navy radar had previously detected the existence of a submarine. Unfortunately, the other party was very cunning and resorted to sinking to avoid it.
Passed Tang Jun's sonar search.
The captain of the other side was also very brave and skilled. He used an old submarine to escape the pursuit of the Tang Army's anti-submarine troops by taking advantage of the night and his familiarity with the terrain.
There is never a shortage of smart people in this world, and the navies of various countries are not without talents. Obviously, this captain is one of those talented players who are skilled and bold.
Now, the other party had bitten the Tang fleet in turn, which made Bernard feel somewhat depressed and unable to control himself.
When Chu's battleships were manufactured, there was no so-called submarine threat, so it had no anti-torpedo design at all. In that era, the underwater part could even be said to be relatively safe.
Therefore, the trouble caused by this torpedo hit was quite exaggerated. A large amount of water entered the battleship and caused the entire battleship to tilt, and even affected the artillery firing, so it had to withdraw from the battle immediately.
But before they could adjust their formation and withdraw from the battle, warning news came from the cruiser modified with radar installed on the periphery: a large number of torpedo boats from the Dwarf Navy appeared in the sea further south.
The carrier-based aircraft of the Tang Navy fleet immediately dispatched urgently and began to intercept these speedboats. Unfortunately, the effect of interception at night was not very good, and the artillery support fleet sent forward did not have new interception methods.
New rapid-fire cannons capable of hitting targets more than ten kilometers away are installed on the bows of new destroyers. These artillery cruisers and battleships do not have similar weapons at all.
They are equipped with a large number of secondary guns of various calibers. In terms of shooting accuracy and rate of fire, they are obviously unable to intercept so many fast-moving targets.
But no matter what, no matter whether the weapon in your hand is suitable or not, when the enemy rushes over, you can only fight! Especially the navy, because it is useless for you to shout surrender alone.
As time passed, the cannons on the Tang Navy warships that were originally pointed in the direction of the land began to turn, and the warships also began to adjust their course and increase their speed.
The fire suppression on the opposite shore was paused, and the entire fleet was reorganizing and pointing its broadside in the direction of the enemy speedboat.
"Boom! Boom!" Soon, the first 150 mm caliber secondary gun opened fire, followed by the second one. Along with the sound of gunfire one after another, the smaller artillery also roared.
The entire fleet became more noisy, and the injured battleship was hit by a torpedo again during the turn, causing a violent explosion.
Immediately afterwards, another cruiser was hit by a torpedo, and even with only starlight, the water column rising up from the side of the battleship could be seen.
After all, these old warships were not built to cope with this kind of battlefield environment. Even in the hands of the Tang Empire, it was impossible to ignore the generation difference and continue to exert its lack of combat effectiveness.
"Cruiser Nishiyama 05 was hit!" The commander of the squadron saw the battleship taking on water not far in front of him, and looked at the officer beside him with some annoyance: "Where is the destroyer? What are you doing?"
"They are already fighting those speedboats with all their might." The officer replied, looking at his warship that had begun to roll.
In the distance, the only two modern destroyers in this squadron were firing desperately. The fully automatic cannons were pointed at targets that were invisible in the darkness. The sharp bows were rising and falling in the waves due to the high-speed sailing.
volt.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Every time a fire breaks out, the barrel of the artillery expands and contracts back and forth. As the barrel expands and contracts, the ejection window will open, and a steaming shell will hit the ground with a bang.
The deck is covered with fireproof cotton blankets.
After impacting the shell case of an earlier dropped artillery shell that had not completely cooled down, the newly thrown shell stopped moving, waiting for the arrival of a new shell like the predecessors who were piled together.
On the distant sea, water columns were already rising into the sky one after another, and the dwarf torpedo speedboats were shuttled among the water columns stirred up by these shells.
From time to time, a torpedo boat was directly hit by a shell and turned into a ball of parts flying on the sea. The remaining torpedo boats continued to move forward, and the waves cut by the bow wet the clothes of the dwarf soldiers on the speedboat.
On the ground, the dwarves who reacted fired flares one after another. They knew that there were countless demons in the night that could kill them all silently, so they tried hard to turn the surroundings into daylight.
After losing the cover of the night, or losing the advantage of the opponent not knowing its existence, the Tang Army's attack became sluggish, and the effect of the night vision devices was suppressed by the flares.
Fierce battles began to break out on the battlefield, with tracer bullets flying back and forth between the trenches. The dwarf troops used the familiar terrain to launch counterattacks again and again. The tenacious Tang army refused to retreat, and the two sides would even engage in bloody hand-to-hand combat in local areas.
Soon, reinforcements from the Tang Army arrived, and the appearance of the Type 96 main battle tank caused a significant change in the balance of power between the two sides on the battlefield.
Because of the mobile and flexible heavy weapons, the balance of victory began to tilt toward the Tang Army. For a time, they could not find heavy weapons to provide support, and the dwarves, who were unable to hedge against the Tang Army's armored forces, had to give up their counterattack and began to switch to fixed harvest.
The status of your own position.
However, because the barrier of artillery fire was suddenly lost on the south side, the dwarves, knowing that part of their coastal positions had been lost, also began to organize a frantic counterattack from this side.
Along the trenches, the dwarves began to press toward Position 5 like ants, but they soon discovered that their shooting range was wide, there were almost no blind spots, and the extremely strong bunker trenches... became an obstacle to their progress.
The fortifications originally designed to trap the landing Tang troops had now become a trap to massacre the dwarves. The waiting Tang soldiers only needed to hide in the bunker and open fire easily, harvesting the lives of hundreds or thousands of those dwarf soldiers.
The battle was bloody and brutal from the beginning. No one backed down and both sides fought tooth and nail. For a while, corpses piled up like mountains in some trenches and near bunkers.
