Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 188
Originally, according to the plan of the five commanders of the joint fleet of the five navies, they planned to attack Huifeng Harbor again on the morning of January 24, forcing the main naval forces of the Datang Empire and the Ziyue Empire to continue with the joint fleet of the five navies. Make a decisive battle.

However, this plan was stranded due to the night attack of the submarine force of the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire. At around 24:[-] am on January [-], on the bridge of the super dreadnought battleship Princess Alice, the flagship of the Royal Navy of Inaba, five The commanders of the naval expeditionary fleets of the three countries gathered together again, and everyone's face was not very good.

During the night attack by the submarine force of the Royal Navy of the Tang Dynasty, a total of six super dreadnought battleships, five battlecruisers, four dreadnought battleships, three former dreadnought battleships and three large armored cruisers were attacked in the joint fleet of five navies. Shen, and many warships were seriously injured.

Of course, the submarine force of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire also paid a high price for this. A total of thirteen submarines were sunk by depth charges.

Commander of the Sharad Royal Navy Expeditionary Fleet, Janice gritted his teeth and said: "We can't wait any longer. Although we used depth charges to sink some enemy submarines last night, there must be many enemy submarines that escaped. If we If you continue to entangle like this, it is very likely that you will be attacked by enemy submarines tonight."

Pifanu, commander of the Monia Royal Navy Expeditionary Fleet, frowned and said: "But if the joint fleet of our five navies is engaged in a decisive battle with the main naval forces of the Datang Empire and the Ziyue Empire, those submarines will take advantage of the chaos and attack our five navies again." What if the combined fleet launches a torpedo attack?"

Janice hesitated and said: "In the previous battle, the navies of the Datang Empire and the Ziyue Empire did not dispatch submarines to participate in the battle, which means that during the war between the two sides, there must be some reason that restricted the enemy's submarines, so that the enemy's submarines could not Take the opportunity to launch a torpedo attack on the joint fleet of our five navies."

Petru, the commander of the Royal Navy Expedition Fleet of the British Royal Navy, sighed at this time and said: "As Earl Johnny said, we really can't continue to be so entangled, let the seriously injured warship stay here temporarily, and the rest The warships set off as soon as possible, and compete with the main naval forces of the Great Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire!"

Noomi Royal Navy Expeditionary Fleet Commander Porfi smiled wryly and said: "Let's fight! Although the combined fleet of the five navies suffered a lot, I think we still have the upper hand in terms of overall strength."

After the five fleet commanders reached a consensus, the main force of the joint fleet of the five navies once again headed towards Huifeng Port at 12:30 noon.

Soon, the news that the main force of the joint fleet of the five navies was dispatched again was reported to Wang Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, by the two destroyers responsible for monitoring the movement of the joint fleet of the five navies.

When Wang Chengliang learned that the joint fleet of the five navies was coming again, he immediately led the main forces of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire and the Royal Navy of the Ziyue Empire to meet them. At around 24 o'clock in the afternoon on January [-], the naval battle started again.

After the naval battle started, the joint fleet of the five navies still adopted the previous tactics, and the navies of the three countries Yingluoba, Monia, and Rielland faced the main naval forces of the Datang Empire and the Ziyue Empire, and the Sharad Navy and Noomi From the flanks, the navy outflanked the main naval forces of the Datang Empire and the Ziyue Empire.

And the joint fleet of the five navies is still trying to let their own warships rush forward to disrupt the formation of the Datang and Ziyue navies, so that the warships of the two sides can be mixed together, so as to continue to play the numerical advantage of the five navies joint fleet .

The Royal Navy of the Tang Empire and the Royal Navy of the Ziyue Empire also greeted them without showing any weakness...

It seems to be a replay of the last war. The two sides have been fighting until they were exhausted. From 24:[-] pm on January [-] to noon the next day, both sides were exhausted because the shells of their respective battleships were almost exhausted. Only then did they retreat.

On the night of January 25th, the [-] submarines of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire launched another night attack on the joint fleet of the five navies, and still achieved a good record. However, the last [-] submarines can leave smoothly. Only eight remain.

At the same time that the submarines of the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire launched a night attack on the combined fleet of the five navies, the combined fleet of the five navies also gathered the last twelve submarines, and launched an attack on the main naval forces of the Datang Empire and the Ziyue Empire. However, because all the warships of the Royal Navy of Datang and Ziyue were equipped with sonar detectors, the twelve submarines of the joint fleet of the five navies were not only wiped out, but did not achieve any results.

In the early morning of January 26, the five commanders of the joint fleet of the five navies once again gathered on the bridge of the super dreadnought battleship HMS Princess Alice of the Royal Navy of Inaba. At this time, the five commanders The officer's face was obviously more ugly.

Up to now, the most powerful British Royal Navy has only seventeen super dreadnought battleships, eight battlecruisers, nine dreadnought battleships, thirteen former dreadnought battleships, fifteen ironclad battleships, ten Five large armored cruisers, 34 small and medium-sized armored cruisers, 49 light cruisers, 68 destroyers, and [-] torpedo boats, the rest of the warships have all sunk to the bottom of the sea, and many of the remaining warships were seriously injured .

The most powerful British Royal Navy has suffered such terrible losses, and it is conceivable how many warships are left in the other four navies.

Yurik, commander of the Royal Rielland Navy Expeditionary Fleet, said with a sad face: "Our Royal Rielland Navy really can't fight anymore, and now our Royal Rielland Navy has only one super dreadnought battleship left, One battlecruiser, two dreadnoughts, three ex-dreadnoughts, two ironclad battleships, four light cruisers, seven destroyers and nineteen torpedo boats were sunk, even our flagship of the Royal Rielland Navy It sank, how can I explain to His Majesty the Emperor!"

Pifanu, Commander of the Monia Royal Navy Expeditionary Fleet, followed up and said: "I also feel that I can no longer fight like this. Our capital ships of the Monia Royal Navy only have seven super dreadnought battleships and six battleships left. The number of cruisers, five dreadnought battleships, four former dreadnought battleships and eight ironclad battleships has been reduced by more than two-thirds. Another bloody battle like before is the last point of our Monia Royal Navy. My son's family is likely to be wiped out."

Genis, the commander of the Royal Navy Expeditionary Fleet of Sharad, said coldly: "Everyone, although the losses of our five-nation joint fleet are very large, the losses of the Datang Empire Navy and the Ziyue Empire Navy are also not small, as long as we fight again , Maybe we will win the final victory of this war, if we retreat at this time, our previous efforts will be in vain."

Yurik, the commander of the expeditionary fleet of the Rielland Royal Navy, said immediately: "In any case, our Rielland Royal Navy is really not going to continue fighting. I must bring the remaining warships back to China. The remaining strength of the Royal Irish Navy is already very weak, even if our Royal Irish Navy leaves, it will not have much impact on the overall strength of the combined fleet of the five navies."

"No! You Rielland Navy cannot leave! If your Rielland Navy leaves at this time, it will deal a very heavy blow to the morale of the navies of the other four countries!" Shouted Jaynes, Commander of the Royal Navy Expeditionary Fleet of Sharad road.

Urik smiled wryly, "Earl Genis, in fact, the decision to leave was not made by me, but by His Majesty the Emperor of our Rielan Empire, who personally sent me a telegram last night, asking me to send a message to Rielan." The Royal Navy leaves a little seed."

Genesis also knew that the loss of the Rielland Navy was relatively worse than that of the other four navies, so he couldn't help hesitating and said: "Earl Ulric, in the next big battle, your Rielland Navy can stay behind the supply fleet. Now is the most critical time for the combined fleet of our five navies to defeat the main forces of the Datang and Ziyue navies, and you Rielland Navy can't let you down!"

As soon as Janis finished speaking, Polfi, the commander of the Noomi Royal Navy Expeditionary Fleet, said in a deep voice: "I'm sorry everyone, our Noomi Royal Navy is also preparing to retreat. For this battle with Datang and Ziyue I can't see any hope of victory at all, I think our navies should accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity to have another decisive battle with the Datang and Ziyue navies!"

When Janice heard this, he immediately stood up angrily, "Porfi, you coward, you actually want to run away!"

Porfi was not angry at what Genis said this time, but instead said sadly: "Jennis, when we retreated yesterday, you must have seen how many battleships of the Datang and Ziyue navies are left. It is very likely that in terms of capital ships, the joint fleet of our five navies has already been in a weak position after two major wars, and if we continue to fight hard, we may not be able to leave even if we want to."

Porfi's words made Genis sit down again like a deflated ball, and said with a wry smile: "Is it really retreating like this? If we retreat like this, the joint fleet of our five navies will be defeated." It's like losing the battle."

Petru, commander of the British Royal Navy Expeditionary Fleet, gritted his teeth and said: "It seems that we can't continue the fight. Now we can only save our strength and prepare for another battle with the Datang and Ziyue navies in the future. The strength of the navies of our five countries is exhausted, otherwise the command of the sea will all fall into the hands of the navies of Datang and Ziyue."

(End of this chapter)