Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 203
At around nine o'clock in the morning on June 3014rd, [-] in the Tang Dynasty, two fleets were fighting in a sea off the coast of the Noomi Empire. Hand over the fleet, and the other side is the encirclement and suppression fleet sent by the Noomi Royal Navy.

The Royal Navy of the Great Tang Empire's fleet included four King Kong-class battlecruisers, four large armored cruisers, four light cruisers, eight destroyers, and six military transport ships, while the Noomi Royal Navy's encirclement and suppression fleet included six With four fighter-class battlecruisers, six large armored cruisers, ten light cruisers and ten destroyers, the Noomi Royal Navy's encirclement and suppression fleet occupies a numerical advantage.

After the above-mentioned fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire destroyed three civilian ports of the Noomi Empire in succession, it finally annoyed the emperor Edgar of the Noomi Empire, who then ordered , Let some super dreadnought battleships, battlecruisers and dreadnought battleships in active service of the Noomi Royal Navy also join the various encirclement and suppression fleets, hoping to destroy the fleet of the Datang Empire Navy that ravaged the coast of the Noomi Empire.

Early this morning, the Noomi Royal Navy's encirclement and suppression fleet, consisting mainly of six fighter-class battlecruisers, finally discovered the whereabouts of the Datang Imperial Navy's breaking fleet.

At this time, the distance between the two fleets is about [-] kilometers. The main guns of the battlecruisers of the two sides have launched a confrontation, but the other warships have not fired. After all, only the main guns of the battlecruisers can pose a threat to the other party at this distance. Other warships The range of the main gun is not enough.

On the bridge of the King Kong-class battlecruiser Jinxiang, the captain of the Jinxiang Huang Rui frowned and said to Liu Xiang, the first officer beside him: "I didn't expect the Noomi Navy to send out the battlecruiser so soon. Where is the backup fleet?"

Huang Rui, the captain of the Jinxiang, is also the temporary commander of the fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire.

Chief Officer Liu Xiang said with a smile: "We have already contacted the backup fleet, and the backup fleet is about [-] nautical miles north of us. Since the Noomi Navy is willing to send out the battlecruisers, we just cooperate with the backup fleet. Eat up the six battlecruisers of the Noomi Navy."

The commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, Wang Chengliang, and the deputy commander-in-chief, Zhang Qihui, considered the lack of strength of the three fleets to break the war, and sent three additional backup fleets to the waters near the three countries of Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi. However, these three support fleets did not merge with the break-off fleet, but were cruising in the outer waters of the three countries of Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi, ready to support the break-off fleet at any time.

The support fleet that came to the sea off the Noomi Empire was composed of warships dispatched by the First Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire, including four Nagato-class super dreadnought battleships, four Hood-class battlecruisers, three Baltimore-class heavy cruisers, six light cruisers and ten destroyers.

In fact, the two support fleets rushing to the waters of Yingluoba and Sharad were also dispatched by the First Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire.

Su Yi kept the fourteen Nagato-class super dreadnought battleships and fourteen Hood-class battlecruisers rewarded by the system in the First Fleet.

The capital ships of the three backup fleets are four Nagato-class super dreadnought battleships and four Hood-class battlecruisers, and it is precisely because the capital ships of the three backup fleets were extracted by Su Yi just now, so The intelligence department of the Noomi Empire did not discover that another fleet of the Datang Empire Navy appeared in the outer seas of the Noomi Empire. After all, the many capital ships of the Datang Empire Navy known to the Noomi Empire intelligence department were all It is still in the various military ports of the Tang Empire.

Huang Rui, the captain of the Jin Xiang, nodded and said, "Then send a report to the backup fleet, tell the backup fleet the direction of our evacuation, and let the backup fleet greet us."

First officer Liu Xiang rubbed his hands and said: "Finally we can do a big job. It's really meaningless to always bombard some civilian ports."

The fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire then retreated to the open sea of ​​the Noomi Empire, while the four King Kong-class battlecruisers were at the rear, and bombarded the chasing Noomi Royal Navy's encirclement and suppression fleet. The main attack targets are the six fighter-class battlecruisers of the Noomi Royal Navy.

On the bridge of the Noomi Royal Navy's fighter-class battlecruiser Jutis, the captain of the Jutis, Igor, looked at the four battlecruisers of the Datang Empire Navy in the distance, gritted his teeth against the big battlecruisers. Deputy Cassit said: "Today, the fleet of the Great Tang Empire must not be allowed to run away. In addition, we will send a telegram to the fleet led by Lavro, asking them to come and join us as soon as possible, and strive to eliminate this Great Tang Empire. fleet."

The captain of the Jutis, Igor, is the temporary commander of the Noomi Royal Navy's encirclement and suppression fleet. The fleet he said is composed of six Ocean-class super dreadnought battleships, three dreadnought battleships, and four former Another encirclement and suppression fleet composed of dreadnought battleships, five ironclad battleships, and more than 20 other warships.

Originally, the two encirclement and suppression fleets of the Noomi Royal Navy should actually be one, but considering the speed of the battleships, these warships were divided into two encirclement and suppression fleets. Not too far.

First officer Cassit frowned and said: "Captain, the fleet led by Viscount Lavro originally had a disadvantage in terms of speed, but now the fleet of the Tang Empire is obviously planning to go all the way to the north. I think Viscount Lavro It will be difficult for the fleet you lead to catch up."

Captain Igor said in a deep voice: "Although we have six battlecruisers, the fleet of the Great Tang Empire only has four battlecruisers, but we want to completely wipe out this fleet of the Great Tang Empire, but we are not It's so easy, we must let the fleet led by Lavro come up, we try our best to entangle this fleet of the Great Tang Empire first."

As soon as Captain Igor's words fell, the Noomi Royal Navy fighter-class battlecruiser Natalie was hit by a 356mm shell, which destroyed the Natalie's ship at once. A main gun turret also caught fire, and soon thick smoke rose tens of meters above the Natalie.

The corner of Captain Igor's mouth trembled slightly. This is already the main gun of the armored cruiser of the Tang Empire. It hit the third battlecruiser of the Noomi Royal Navy, and the six battlecruisers of the Royal Navy of Noomi The main guns of the Tang Empire, but none of the shells could hit the battlecruisers of the Datang Empire.

Such a disparity in hit rate made Captain Igor secretly feel a little uneasy, but Captain Igor did not express his uneasiness.

Captain Igor pondered for a moment and said: "Pass my order to bring the distance between the battlecruisers of the two sides closer. Now the distance between the two sides is close to [-] meters, and our fighter-class main guns are at this distance. , The shooting accuracy is really too low.”

First Officer Cassit hesitated for a moment and said, "Captain, after the distance is shortened, the hit rate of the opponent's battlecruiser's main guns may be higher."

Captain Igor waved his hand and said: "That can't be passively beaten all the time, just do as I say!"

Although the battlecruisers of both sides are equipped with 45 times the caliber and 356mm main guns, the King Kong-class main guns of the Datang Empire are much stronger than the fighter-class guns of the Noomi Empire in terms of range and shooting accuracy. This made the main guns of the six Fighter-class ships and the four King Kong-class ships face off, and it turned out that the six Fighter-class ships were temporarily at a disadvantage.

The Noomi Royal Navy's encirclement and suppression fleet and the Datang Empire Royal Navy's break-off fleet chased each other for nearly [-] nautical miles. The main force of the Noomi Royal Navy's encirclement and suppression fleet was destroyed, while only two of the four King Kong-class battlecruisers of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire suffered minor injuries, which basically did not have much impact on combat effectiveness.

But soon the roles of the two fleets were reversed. The Noomi Royal Navy's encirclement and suppression fleet began to turn around and flee, while the Datang Empire Royal Navy's Breaking Fleet turned around and launched a pursuit.

The reason why such a role change occurred was because of the appearance of a backup fleet of the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire.

On the bridge of the battlecruiser Jutis of the Noomi Royal Navy, Captain Igor’s face was very ugly, “The intelligence department is not saying that the many capital ships of the various fleets of the Datang Empire are still staying in the Datang Empire Where did those super dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers that suddenly appeared in front come from?"

The first mate Cassett said anxiously: "Captain, we must join the fleet led by Viscount Lavro as soon as possible, otherwise..."

Before the first mate Cassiter finished speaking, there was a violent explosion on the sea. The battlecruiser Noomi Royal Navy Natalie was hit by another 356mm shell and detonated. An ammunition depot.

Although the Natalie was not immediately sunk by the martyrdom explosion, the situation of the Natalie was very bad. The speed of the Natalie dropped in an instant, and soon came to a complete stop.

Captain Igor slowly put down the binoculars, his face became even more ugly, "The Natalie is finished, even if it won't sink, it won't be able to escape."

In the end, the Noomi Royal Navy's encirclement and suppression fleet led by Igor successfully merged with another encirclement and suppression fleet mainly composed of eighteen battleships. However, at this time, the encirclement and suppression fleet led by Igor, Only two Gladiator-class battlecruisers, three large armored cruisers, six light cruisers and seven destroyers remained.

One Fighter-class battlecruiser was sunk, and the other three Fighter-class battlecruisers were severely wounded and captured by the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire because they were unable to escape. As for the other warships lost by the encirclement fleet, It was either sunk or seriously injured and captured.

After the appearance of a Noomi naval fleet consisting mainly of [-] battleships, the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire chased the four Hood-class battlecruisers, four Kongo-class battlecruisers and four Nagato The first-class super dreadnought battleship immediately suspended its pursuit.

The speed of the Nagato-class super dreadnought battleship is not slow, and the maximum speed can reach 26.5 knots, so when chasing, it can keep up with the speed of the other eight battlecruisers.

Although a fleet of the Noomi Navy appeared again, and it also owned six super dreadnought battleships and twelve other battleships, the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire did not have the slightest fear, and the four Nagato-class super dreadnought battleships He and the four Hood-class battlecruisers immediately formed a battle line, and greeted them aggressively.

Relatively speaking, the armor of the Hood-class battlecruisers is not even worse than that of ordinary super dreadnought battleships, so they dared to join the battle line, while the four King Kong-class battlecruisers quickly retreated behind their own battle line. After all, the armor of the King Kong class cannot be compared with that of a battleship.

After the two encirclement and suppression fleets from Noomi's Royal Navy converged, they saw that the Tang Empire's naval fleet dared to rush over, and they also greeted them aggressively.

Immediately, a naval battle broke out between the fleets of the two sides, which lasted for more than six hours, and finally ended with the victory of the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire.

In this naval battle, the Noomi Royal Navy has a total of two super dreadnought battleships, one battlecruiser, two dreadnought battleships, three former dreadnought battleships, five ironclad battleships, five large armored cruisers, and seven light battleships. The cruiser and nine destroyers were sunk.

Facing the 410mm main gun of the Nagato-class super dreadnought battleship, some Noomi Royal Navy warships, including some former dreadnought battleships, ironclad battleships, and large armored cruisers, were even sunk by a single shell.

In addition, the Noomi Royal Navy also has three super dreadnought battleships, a battlecruiser, three large armored cruisers, two light cruisers and a destroyer. Because they were seriously injured and could not escape, they finally became the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire. loot.

The remaining Noomi Royal Navy warships took advantage of the darkness to escape the pursuit of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire.

On the side of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, not a single capital ship was sunk, only one large armored cruiser, two light cruisers and three destroyers were sunk, which can be described as a brilliant victory.

In addition to the three battlecruisers captured during the pursuit, Su Yi, who was far away in Chang'an City, received three super dreadnought battleships and four battlecruisers as rewards from the system.

The three super dreadnought battleships awarded are still the Nagato class of Japan, and the four battlecruisers awarded are still the Hood class of the United Kingdom, which makes Su Yi very satisfied. After all, these two battleships can be regarded as the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire. The two most powerful battleships.

(End of this chapter)