Republic 267, February 11, afternoon.

Near the entrance to the Gulf of Aden, on the sea about 600 miles from Longshi Island, two fleets with red dragon flags and blue flags are approaching each other at their fastest speed.

Although the sound of the cannon of the battle has not yet sounded, the naval personnel on both sides are mostly nervous to the extreme, so that when singing the national anthem before the fire, many people even forgot the lyrics!

This statement is not exaggerated, but comes from the memories of many naval officers and soldiers from both sides who have experienced this battle.

The reason for this is actually easy to understand.This time and space has always maintained a friendly alliance between the two maritime powers of Da Zhou and the East Song.And the West Song did not go to the sea, can not join the era of great navigation.

At the same time, Western powers, including Egypt, Mongolia, and the gold account, whether it is comprehensive national strength or science and technology, are far from the gap between the big week and the East Song Dynasty, and it is impossible, and it is impossible, and it is not afraid to join the maritime hegemony.

Even as strong as Egypt, it can only pick up the leftovers of the big week and the East Song.

Therefore, although the two maritime powers of Da Zhou and the East Song have powerful navies, their navies have not fought a vigorous naval battle in the past 200 years.The actual battle is nothing more than catching a pirate and bullying a weak country.

In other words, the officers and men of the two fleets encountered at sea at the Republic on the afternoon of February 11, 267, were all new soldiers on the battlefield.

Up to the marshal of the navy, down to the ordinary sailors, have never seen blood, nor have they ever seen the peacemen of war.

Even the textbooks they use in the naval academy have no actual combat examples to refer to.

Generations of naval personnel can only imagine real naval warfare through exercises.

But the exercise is, after all, false!

So the military knowledge and equipment they use have not been tested by actual combat, and no one knows how to make it.

If you let the British and French naval officers in the 18th century and the 19th century windsurfing battleship era in the era of the other time, they will most likely lose their jaws when they see the equipment and tactics used by the two navies today.

The first thing that surprised people was the tactics of the two navies.What T-tactical tactics, what two-ship tactics don’t exist – both tactics seem too simple.For more than 200 years, there has been no decent combat, relying on various exercises to express their own big weeks and the navy of the East Song, of course, to engage in a little complicated formation.

Simple and practical... how can it show the Navy’s high-facing navigational technology and tactical organizational capabilities?

Therefore, the more popular formations of the two navies are "geese array", "squadrian wing array", "frontal array", "long snake array" and so on.

It is good when the exercises are staged, and it is often wrong when the actual combat exercises are, and what kind of high-tech formation method is only known to God in real war.

The second thing that will scare people is the equipment of the two navies.Their battleships were, of course, very good, very strong and reliable... Both countries had money, and they had good wood, and the shipbuilding industry was very developed, and they had great navigational needs.More than 200 years have developed, of course, the ship is good.

As for the gun, of course, nothing, are cast iron guns of white-mouthed iron and gray-mouthed iron, and the quality is quite good, and it is impossible to blow up the chamber.

What really scares people is the shells used by both sides!

Now the cannonballs used by the Da Zhou and the East Song Navy are very simple, there are only two kinds, one is called a solid-hearted bullet, that is, a big iron ball, nothing unusual.And there is no use of heating as a firebomb, that is, directly into the cannon shelling.

Another one called a flowering bomb!It is a spherical explosion bomb filled with black gunpowder.The explosion was made of a thin iron clamp on a wooden flint, and a wooden hollow fuse.When used, the fuse is placed with a fire inserted into the cannonball, and then filled into the gun, and fired with gunpowder.

It seems that there is nothing, and there is no flowering bomb in another time and space?

This is true, but people use flowering bullets carefully.There were only a small number of flowering bombs on the battleship, which were carefully stored.And now at least half of the ammunition on the warships of Da Zhou and East Song is a flowering bomb that will explode!

The large-caliber artillery on the warships of the two countries, including heavy artillery in the four, six and eight-inch classes, was used in a very powerful flowering bomb.

In other words, the battleships of the two countries are bomb ships filled with large-calibre bombs!

The sail battleships of the two countries can use all the artillery decks... Once the flowering bullets stored in the artillery deck are hit by the shells fired by the enemy or ignited by the fire, the consequences are unimaginable!

And the sail battleship that looks like a city on the outside, in front of the huge power of the flowering bomb, is actually very fragile.Wooden boatboards can't withstand the power of large-caliber flowering bombs... It is an exaggeration to say that the capital ships of the two countries at this time, the capital ships of the big week and the East Song Dynasty are all suicide bombers!

In 267, on February 11, Shin Shi just passed, and two fleets, with suicide bombing ships as the main force, were rapidly approaching.

The smaller number of large-scale Zhou Navy's western dispatch fleet has put out a "breakout special" front.That is, the head of the front is composed of three Shenzhou class battleships, followed by two second-class battleships, five class III battleships and more than a dozen other four-class, five-class and six-class ships.

The subtlety of this formation is that three powerful Shenzhou-class battleships break through the enemy formation and take the entire fleet out of danger.Under normal circumstances, on the side of the wind, it is more suitable to use frontal arrays.

In addition, it needs to be mentioned that the Navy likes to use the front line.Because the big craftsmen of Yanshan Iron Factory invented the hollow casting method 10 years ago, so that the big week can cast more than 8 inches of giant guns.

Because of its large size, it is no longer suitable for installation in straight-through gun decks.So the ship designer of the big week built a gun bay on the Shenzhou class and placed two 9-inch guns.

The Eastern Song fleet is set up by the crane wing.The so-called crane wing formation is to divide the fleet into three, which form the three parts of the crane body, the left and the right wing.Among them, the crane rushed to the enemy with a cross-team, and the left and right wings were columnary, copying from the two wings.

After the crane team approached the enemy, it was transformed into a column and fired with a sideboard artillery.

The two wings will be wrapped behind the enemy, and the crane body will form a blow to the back of the abdomen.

"Close to the point, and then closer to the point, the goal is their 'new Song' class, six 9-inch guns are aimed at the 'new Song' level, be sure to kill it!"

On the flagship Shenzhou, the flower shouted and gave the order.

Now the sea just blew the northwest wind, the uninjured fleet holding the wind, full of sails rushing, a rush to highlight the look.

Pan Wuyang, who is on the left wing of the Eastern Song fleet, is also shouting: "turn to the left, turn left, turn left now, rush over, and break the formation of the Zhou people!"

It turned out that Pan Wuyang had found that the Zhou Guofang fleet was in a hurry to run, so he changed his strategy and was ready to break it.Then divide the encirclement.

“Hold on...”

At this time, three Shenzhou-class ships in the shape of three Shenzhou-class 9-inch guns fired.

Six 9-inch flowering shells were blown up by the high-pressure gas generated by the gunpowder fire, and whistled to a new Song-class battleship "Sichuan" outside two thousand steps.

The shells did not hit, and two of them exploded during the flight, and four fell in the seawater hundreds of steps away from the Siam, stirring up several high water pillars.

“The ship gun?”

Pan Wuyang was surprised and ordered: "Quick, fast... fast, let the crane team turn left!"

The first battleships of the Eastern Song Dynasty were without bow guns, that is to say, they had no firepower when the ships were against the enemy.Light can't be hit back!

And the big week should use 8-inch or even larger caliber artillery, if hit a shot, the "Shime" may be hit hard.

Pan Wuyang's order was transmitted through the signal flag and the signal rocket at the same time, and there was no problem in the exercise.Lookout soldiers can always see the flagship model flag and signal rocket in time.

But it was wartime, and the fleet was still firing.Everyone was nervous to die, and some of the watchmen forgot to stare at the flagship, but looked at the three Shenzhou-class ships in Zhouguo.But some of the soldiers saw it.

So the Eastern Song's crane team suddenly appeared in chaos, some warships turned to the left, and some continued to impact forward.And the left-turned warship is not in a straight line, if you look down from the air, you will feel that it is a mess, and it is a mess - this is the problem of the cross.It is difficult to maintain the formation in wartime, not like the column, just one and one.

The watchmen on the Siamese noticed the signal of the flagship East Song, so they slowed down, drew an arc at sea, and turned to the left.

But how can three Shenzhou class let go of this big fish?They also slightly changed course in order to continue to bombard Siam with a bow.

The bombardment...

Another round of bombardment, six shells whizzed toward the Siam, still did not hit.But the point of the cannonball is very close to the Siamese!

This is a powerful 9 inch flowering bomb!

One of the shells exploded in the air less than 20 steps from the Siam, blowing up a huge fireball, standing on the top deck of the Eastern Song Navy officers and soldiers, and even felt the heat wave and shock waves hit.Some of the fragments of shells hit the ship directly, and a white spot was placed on the black boat.

I don't know if it was because the air of the shell exploded was not far from the Siamese helmsman, and the Siamese rudder was scared and stupid, forgetting to control the rudder wheel that was spinning rapidly.The ship turned its head and gradually turned its ass to the three Shenzhou-classes, putting out a look of running away.

The captain of the Siam rushed up to seize the rudder wheel and personally control it, and when he wanted to turn the ship back, the Siamese hull was a violent shake and shake.

Then it was a deafening roar!

The Siamese are shot!

He was hit by a 9-inch flowering bullet.The shells went straight through the walls of the gun deck on the third floor of the ship's hull and rushed into the cluttered deck, and then there was a big explosion!

Not an explosion, but a continuous explosion!

The seemingly very strong hull was vulnerable in the explosion of large-calibre flowering bombs.As for the gunners in the three-layer gun deck, they were killed by the flying cannonball fragments.The entire gun deck became a place like hell.

The fire then burned up, spread across the gun deck, and soon spread to the warehouse where gunpowder and flowering bombs were stored.

Then there was a series of explosions!

Giant battleships with a displacement of more than 50,000 stone burst from the inside, and the seemingly heavy shipboard was as fragile as an egg shell, breaking into pieces in the big bang, or ignited by a blazing fire.

In the midst of the stunned sailors and officers of the warring sides, the Siam had become a burning ball of fire.

A first-class battleship is vulnerable to this degree!

“How is that possible!”

This exclaim was not only made by the sailors of the Eastern Song, but also by their enemies.

After the accident, the sailors on both sides soon entered the combat state again.

Anyway, today they are all scoring a you dead I live!

The second was hit by a fireball or the East Song Dynasty warship, this time is the second-stage battleship Shanghai, it was also hit by three Shenzhou-class 9-inch giant guns at close range, flowering bullets in the interior of the straight-through gun deck, suddenly the result of this displacement of more than 40,000 stone giant ship.

Compared with the great power of the flowering bomb, the defense of the sail battleship does not exist!

Seeing that Pan Wuyang, who had lost two giant ships, was going crazy, and he could not take care of any formation, and directly played no matter the flag and all the charge flags - now no matter what formation, he rushed to his mother!

And the response of the Zhou Guofang fleet to him was to sink a three-stage battleship again!

Zero to 3.

The first stage of the Dragonstone Island Sea Battle, the Grand Zhou Republic won the Navy!

But that big win didn’t last long.Because the ships of the Great Zhou Republic lacked the necessary protection.The loss soon appeared, and the battleship Jofa was first hit by a second-class battleship that passed close to it.

Of course, the side of the "Dofa" side of the giant cannon also hit each other!

The two battleships came together - they could not resist several 8-inch flowering bombs at the same time!

Both ships were turned into fire ships!

Less than a quarter of an hour later, the battle with the death again, a large week of three battleships and a second-class battleship of the East Song Dynasty passed by, and both sides used 8 inches of shelling through each other's gun deck!

This is really to kill... it turns out that the battleships on both sides are tofu shelves, and they are not carrying them at all!

The naval personnel of both sides were horrified by such casualties, but now they meet on a narrow road and can only fight hard.

Although the battleships on both sides are vulnerable to tofu shelves, the Longshi Island War is still a battle that determines the Huaxia Sanxiong National Movement!

Because the main force of the South China Ocean Fleet of the Eastern Song Dynasty, in this war that lasted for two days and one night, it suffered a devastating blow, thus losing the cost of competing with the Grand Zhou Navy for maritime hegemony.

The failure of the Eastern Song Navy began with the failure of their large Zhouxi sent fleet under the uninjured command.The array of the big Zhouxi sent the fleet to break through shows a considerable degree of flexibility - the front line is actually a longitudinal array, one after another can maintain the formation.Moreover, the column can also focus the sideboard firepower of the fleet, which is indeed very beneficial.

After using the front line to break through the interception of the Eastern Song fleet, the ship led the fleet to him and the Great East Ocean Western Task Force agreed to the division to Longshi Island.Pan Wuyang, who was not willing to run away from the enemy fleet, packed up the fleet and chased after it.

As a result, in the waters near Longshi Island, we encountered the big Zhou Dongxian fleet in the north!This is a huge fleet far beyond the main force of the Eastern Song South Ocean Fleet!

And after completing the meeting with the Western Task Force, the Grand Fleet had six first-class battleships, and although the six first-class battleships were a little unmissable, their 12 9-inch guns were very powerful.

Because the range of the 9-inch gun is very long and powerful, and the East Song ships have no bow guns, and the ship has no giant guns that can launch large-calibre flowering bullets.Therefore, the re-decided battle between the two sides has become a tragic battle for the loss of sea power in the East Song Dynasty.Pan Wuyang's Grand Fleet suffered heavy losses, losing all first-, second- and third-class battleships, and losing one-third of its light warships, and he himself was killed in the battle.Zhou lost only one first-class battleship and sixteen second- and third-class battleships, and the light ship lost less than half of its opponents.

You could say it was a big win!