Chapter 397 Chapter 395: Silver Sea Chaos (Subscribe)
In a certain area above the Silver Sea, two navies are fighting fiercely.
On one side flew the flags of the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Bonaparte Empire.
Their warships were mainly made of wood, all three-track sailing ships, with many magic cannons installed on both sides of the hull. Every attack was a volley of artillery fire, and the hull shook.
Although these warships are not small in size, they are at least much larger than ordinary merchant ships and pirate ships.
But compared to their enemies, it is nothing.
A flag was flying at the highest point of the ironclad ship, and the strong wind made it rustle.
Before, although the Empire also had ironclad ships, their number was extremely small, and the most famous one was the Emden, which liked to hang around outside.
But when the war started, everyone discovered that the number of ironclad ships of the Habsburg Empire was more than they had imagined.
These warships are silver-white all over, shining with metallic luster in the sun, and with magical energy flowing through them, they are themselves huge magical machines.
They are generally several times larger, and when put together with other warships, it's like adults bullying children.
The steel hull also has a greater carrying capacity, and the magic cannons installed on it are all the most advanced and specially designed for naval battles.
Both the range and the power are far superior.
There were not many of them, only three. The enemy had at least a fleet, with more than twenty large warships and more than fifty small and medium-sized escort ships of various types.
In a melee between the two sides, the ironclad ship should be at an absolute disadvantage.
But they did not choose to fight head-on, but fought and retreated!
The magic-powered ironclad ships have faster speeds, and the more advanced magic cannons have longer ranges and greater power. When equipped with sufficiently professional artillery, the accuracy of the shelling is far superior.
So, they hung far away, like flying a kite, and carried out precise strikes outside the enemy's range.
Of course, the joint commanders of the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Bonaparte Empire were no useless people.
They reacted quickly after losing several warships.
On the one hand, they sent out many of their fastest warships to the front to attract as much firepower as possible.
On the other hand, other warships were sent to encircle the enemy from both flanks to cut off their retreat.
As long as they move fast enough, they can take advantage of their numbers and encircle the ironclad ships.
By then, even if they rushed forward together, no matter how powerful the ironclad ships' firepower was, it would be impossible to destroy all the warships.
Only when they get close can their magic cannons show their power. They can even squeeze together and use boarding warfare to attack the ironclad ship.
This tactic certainly has certain feasibility, but the cost is also extremely heavy.
The naval battles between the two sides were fought back and forth in this sea area. From time to time, a warship would explode and turn into a burning fireball.
Countless naval soldiers wailed in terror, jumped into the sea, or were burned to death.
But this is the only solution!
The generation gap in equipment is so unsolvable that the Bonaparte Empire has felt it deeply since the war began.
Of course, it’s not that they really have no ability to fight back at all.
There was a fourth-level natural disaster strongman leading a number of extraordinary warriors, who came from the air and launched a direct surprise attack, intending to use decapitation tactics to kill all the navy of the Habsburg Empire.
They couldn't solve the disadvantage of warships, but the problem would be solved as long as they killed all the Imperial Navy.
This is another version of: If you can't solve the problem, solve the person who raised the problem!
However, there were also many strong men on the ironclad ship, and with the help of artillery fire, the battle between the two sides was difficult to determine.
This naval battle lasted for several hours, stretched over hundreds of nautical miles, and was littered with broken warship fragments.
As it was getting dark, both sides stopped fighting and rested, licking their wounds.
However, this does not mean the end of the war!
In fact, both sides were constantly gathering troops, and more and more warships of various types were gathering.
By daybreak, the coalition forces had more than 120 warships, and the Imperial Navy had five more ironclad ships and 20 wooden tri-rail warships.
As a result, the two sides fought a brutal and long naval battle in the vast sea.
They each use their own methods and show their abilities.
The coalition forces used powerful methods including but not limited to legendary magic, sea beast summoning, underwater raids, decapitation of the Scourge Squad, etc.
The Empire, of course, was not willing to be outdone, and also came up with new killing tactics including underwater bombs, fixed-point torpedoes, infrasound waves to drive away sea monsters, and precise sniping with guns and cannons.
Especially the precise sniping with guns and artillery, which was carried out by a fourth-level magic gunner at a distance of thousands or tens of thousands of meters in the chaotic battlefield.
A group of powerful natural disaster warriors were fighting fiercely, but the enemy's head suddenly exploded. Neither the fighting spirit protection nor the magic defense was effective.
Not to mention the coalition forces' natural disasters, even the powerful natural disaster masters on the empire's side felt horrified.
Fortunately, there are very few such magic gunners, and the specially made bullets are even rarer, otherwise, the powerful Scourge warriors would have to cower in fear.
Of course, the most effective ones are the underwater bombs.
It is fired through a special magic cannon, which has a final locking function. It can reach the bottom of the enemy ship silently and then explode.
Needless to say, its lethality was huge. The most important thing was that for a long time, the coalition forces didn't even know where the attack came from, causing the naval soldiers on the warships to panic and have no desire to fight.
And at a higher level, even legendary strongmen appeared and confronted each other.
In this battle, even with the strength of the ironclad ships, one of them lost its power and was bombarded by concentrated artillery fire, eventually capsizing and sinking to the bottom of the sea.
This was the first Imperial ironclad ship to capsize since the war began, proving that this type of steel machinery was not invincible!
Of course, the price paid by the coalition forces for this victory was extremely exaggerated.
Among the powerful natural disasters alone, more than a handful of people died, and even more were injured.
As for the destroyed warships and the dead navy, the number is even more difficult to count.
Anyway, after the war, what was floating on the sea were either corpses, broken fences, or floating buckets.
This battle was called the Silver Sea Battle by later historians.
In this battle, the Empire fought against the Allied Forces, and the ironclad ships and traditional warships fought desperately. Although the result was a loss for both sides, there was no real winner.
But there is no doubt that the ironclad ships, with their extremely excellent battle loss ratio, told all the great nobles and kings of the Old World that
In the future, the mode of naval warfare will also change!
Although this battle was not as historically influential as the Battle of Antwerp, it was far more shocking and cruel.
Of course, although this was the largest naval battle on the Silver Sea, it was definitely not all.
In another sea area, the pirates jumped onto a merchant ship, howling and slashing anyone they saw and robbing anything they saw.
In just half an hour, there was only a merchant ship engulfed in flames, which gradually sank into the sea.
And, a fully loaded pirate ship sailed against the wind and waves, going farther and farther away.
In another sea area, the Sardinian fleet was sailing, but suddenly a fog spread, accompanied by an ethereal chanting sound.
It carries the power to make people obsessed and sink, making their eyelids heavier and heavier, and eventually falling into a dream.
Then, after a while, holes were dug in the bottoms of all the warships, seawater poured in, and the warships sank.
Sailors one after another drowned in their sleep without even a struggle.
Only two powerful natural disasters woke up at the last moment, flew into the sky again, and escaped from the sinking warship.
Looking down, their faces looked extremely ugly.
In another area, on the sea, a naval warship of the Bonaparte Empire was attacked.
The attackers were from the sea tribe. A group of shark people with dorsal fins raised their weapons and drove huge sea beasts to ram the ships desperately.
Although Bonaparte's navy fought desperately, it could only watch the standing ships tilt and sink.
No matter how good a swimmer the navy soldiers who fell into the water were, they were all food for the shark people.
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After the Kingdom of Sardinia declared war on the Habsburg Empire, it certainly would not sit idly by.
Although their speed was not as fast as that of the Slavic Empire, large numbers of the kingdom's navy gathered under the orders of the Queen of Sardinia.
They joined forces with the navy of the Bonaparte Empire, preparing to deal a heavy blow to the Habsburg Empire on the Silver Sea, and preparing to transport troops from the sea to land in the Bonaparte Empire.
As a result, the war spread to the empire's homeland.
Of course, it is impossible for the Imperial Cabinet to fail to see such an obvious strategy.
Thus, throughout August of the 314th year of the New Divine Calendar, the two sides engaged in a brutal battle on the Silver Sea, and the Silver Sea was no longer as peaceful and tranquil as before.
When the news reached Flower Territory, Luo Yi looked at the battle report and felt an immense headache.
First update!
(End of this chapter)
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