Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 43 The Great Harvest After Victory

After Genis, the commander of the expeditionary fleet of the Shararad Empire, gave the order to retreat, the remaining warships of the Shararad Empire turned their bows one after another and began to retreat to the north.

Wang Chengliang, the commander of the independent fleet, found that the expeditionary fleet of the Sharad Empire was about to flee, and immediately ordered the warships that maintained their combat power to pursue them, forcing some seriously injured warships of the Sharad Empire to surrender as much as possible.

The commander told him in private that apart from ironclad ships, as long as one enemy battleship is captured, the Creator will reward the commander with a battleship.

So far in this naval battle, the Independent Fleet has lost the Earl of Cavour-class battleship Fuan and the Edward VII-class battleship to build the signal. Wang Chengliang hopes to capture a few battleships of the Sharad Empire Navy to make up for the loss of the Independent Fleet, and even Expand the size of the independent fleet a little bit more.

Both the Fu'an and the Jian Signal were sunk by torpedoes by the destroyers or torpedo boats of the Sharad Empire after being damaged by the main guns of the battleships of the Sharad Empire.

In addition to Fu'an and Jian Signal, the independent fleet also had the large armored cruiser Feichen, two Vickers-class light cruisers and three Wiesbaden-class destroyers were also sunk in the naval battle.

Commander Wang Chengliang was not frustrated with the sinking of so many warships. After all, in such a large-scale naval battle, losses are inevitable. In the last battle with the Jisk Empire Navy, the independent fleet was able to win without a single warship. The sinking can only be said to be extremely lucky, and of course it has a lot to do with the combat quality of the officers and soldiers of the Gisk Empire navy.

After the warships of the Shararad Empire's expeditionary fleet began to evacuate one after another, on the bridge of the Shararad Empire's super dreadnought battleship Helios, the first officer Oleg sadly said to Captain Pahomi: "Captain, Earl Denis The order to retreat has been issued, but our Helios has serious water leaks, and four boilers cannot work. Now the Helios can only reach a maximum speed of about 7 knots, and it is really difficult to retreat..."

Captain Pahomi sighed and said: "I really didn't expect that the baron fleet of the Liuyun Empire would have such a powerful force. It seems that I am going to experience a life of a prisoner of war. Fortunately, Earl Genis issued an order to The order to surrender, I will not be too responsible when I return to China.”

First officer Oleg hesitated and said, "Captain, should we raise the white flag now?"

Because of being seriously injured, the Helios had already left the first battle line of the Sharad Empire's expeditionary fleet at this time, and was at least [-] meters away from the many battleships of the independent fleet.

Captain Pahomi waved his hand and said: "According to the current situation of the Helios, there is no chance of escape. Since you have to surrender sooner or later, it doesn't matter if it's sooner or later. Let all the boilers start to decompress and prepare to stop the ship. Raise the white flag!"

Not far from the super dreadnought Helios, another super dreadnought battleship of the Sharad Empire, the Luna, saw the Helios raise the white flag, and soon after, it also raised the white flag. The Luna at this time The speed was less than 8 knots left, and there was no hope of escape, and there was no other choice but to surrender.

In the end, the expedition fleet of the Sharad Empire, with only the flagship Ares, escaped the pursuit of the independent fleet with three dreadnought battleships, two pre-dreadnought battleships, three ironclad battleships, twenty light cruisers, four destroyers and two torpedo boats , The loss can be said to be unprecedented for the Sharad Empire Navy.

The independent fleet captured a total of two super dreadnought battleships, three dreadnought battleships, three former dreadnought battleships, four ironclad battleships, and two light cruisers after pursuit. It can be said to have achieved a brilliant victory.

Seeing that so many battleships were captured, Wang Chengliang, the commander of the independent fleet, was overjoyed.

Su Yi, who was far away in Kangshan City, couldn't even close his mouth with joy. He had already received a reminder from the system, congratulations to him for capturing the enemy's two super dreadnoughts, three dreadnoughts and three former dreadnoughts. Su Yi was rewarded with two British Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, three French Guba-class battleships and three German Brunswick-class battleships.

The British Queen Elizabeth-class battleship belongs to the super dreadnought battleship, with a standard displacement of 29150 tons, a full load displacement of 33020 tons, and a maximum speed of 25 knots. It is equipped with four double-mounted 42-caliber 381mm main guns and twelve 45-caliber 152mm secondary guns. , two 76mm rapid-fire guns, four 533mm torpedo tubes, 330mm main armor on the side, 63mm to 127mm deck armor, 330mm main turret armor, and a crew of 920 five people.

The French Guba-class battleship belongs to the dreadnought battleship, with a standard displacement of 23475 tons, a full-load displacement of 25579 tons, and a maximum speed of 20 knots. It is equipped with six double-mounted 45-caliber 305mm main guns and 22 55-caliber 138mm secondary guns. Four 47mm anti-aircraft guns, four 450mm torpedo tubes, 262mm main armor on the side, 25mm deck armor per layer, 300mm main turret armor, and a crew of 85.

The German Braunschweig-class battleship, which belongs to the former dreadnought battleship, has a standard displacement of 13208 tons, a full-load displacement of 14394 tons, and a maximum speed of 18 knots. mm secondary guns, four 40mm rapid-fire guns, four 283mm torpedo tubes, 40mm main armor on the side, 170mm to 88mm deck armor, 500mm main turret armor, and a crew of 225 and seven people.

After the system rewarded these three battleships, several types of shells for these three battleships were automatically added to the system mall.

At present, there are only four former dreadnought battleships, one armored cruiser, three light cruisers, and six destroyers in Kangshan Port. Although there are more than 24 coastal defense guns in 300 forts in Kangshan Port, Su Yi is not worried about the Jisk Imperial Navy. They will take the opportunity to attack Kangshan Port, but only a powerful fleet stationed in Kangshan Port can truly guarantee the safety of Kangshan Port.

So Su Yi couldn't wait to extract two Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, three Guba-class battleships and three Brunswick-class battleships from the system item warehouse, and then mobilized more than 7000 marines The cyborg officers and soldiers filled the eight battleships.

The two Queen Elizabeth-class battleships were named Crown and King by Su Yi.

The three Guba-class battleships were named Agile, Minli and Sensitive by Su Yi.

The three Brunswick-class battleships were named Ruiyun, Ruixue and Ruichang by Su Yi.

What gave Su Yi a little headache was that among the four marine brigades, there was not a single mid-level marine cyborg, and among the fourteen warships left behind in Kangshan Port, there were only four Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleships. The captain is a mid-level navy-type biochemical, so Su Yi had no choice but to be taller than a dwarf, and let some low-level naval-type biochemicals temporarily act as captains.

The four captains of the former dreadnought battleships were drawn out by Su Yi and appointed as the captains of the Crown, King, Agility and Minli respectively.

(End of this chapter)