Chapter 1498 The shackles are not enough
"Everyone is dead? How is that possible?!"
Inside the tent, Charlie's face was full of disbelief.
If he could attribute the previous defeat to the huge disparity in military strength between the two sides and his inability to resist, then this time their Patton Empire sent out a full fifteen warships!
Although I don't know who is in charge of commanding the operation, I think it must be the other two captains of the North Sea Fleet besides myself! No matter who it is, their ability is unquestionable.
According to Charlie's thinking, if they commanded 15 warships to fight against the Great Zhou Fleet, even if they couldn't win, they couldn't be completely destroyed! This was really outrageous!
unless……
As his thoughts raced, Charlie suddenly thought of the bombing that his main flagship had suffered at that time.
Everything happened so fast that he didn't even know what was happening the whole time before he was blown into the sea by the impact of the explosion.
"If it was that kind of attack"
"That's not right!"
According to Charlie's idea, when the fleets of both sides were of similar size, even with that kind of explosive attack, he could hardly imagine a scenario where their Patton Empire's fleet could not even retreat and was directly destroyed.
Just as Charlie was struggling with this, the Great Zhou fleet, which had won a great victory, had returned in high spirits.
Six of them had obviously been attacked, with large amounts of blood on their decks. The flags of the Patton Empire were still flying on their flagpoles, making them particularly conspicuous in the eyes of the prisoners of war.
After docking, the soldiers of the Great Zhou Navy quickly disembarked, and then, one by one, the tied-up figures were escorted off the ship.
Seeing this scene, the soldiers in charge of guarding the camp hurried over to help.
One of them, seeing so many prisoners of war, couldn't help but complain...
"How did you catch so many? I'm afraid we won't even have enough shackles this time."
“…”
When these words reached the ears of the prisoners behind, they were truly heartbreaking.
They really miss their compatriots and want them to come over, but not in this way!!
For a moment, should we say that they were crying without tears? Or were they completely hopeless? In contrast, the soldiers of the Great Zhou were quite excited.
To be honest, in the previous battle with Charlie's fleet, except for the No. 5 ship which was patrolling outside and was directly hit, the other soldiers of the Great Zhou did not feel much of it.
It started suddenly and ended even faster, leaving them in a daze the whole time.
But this battle made them feel that they had won the battle! Compared with the excited soldiers, Bai Tu was much calmer. His attention was now more focused on the casualties of this battle.
After returning to the camp, post-war work was carried out quickly.
The ships that need to be repaired should be repaired, the wounded that need to be treated should be treated, and of course the bodies that need to be dealt with should also be disposed of.
During this process, Lin Youshu, who was responsible for the statistics work, had also compiled the report and came to report to Bai Tu.
"Report to the colonel. According to statistics, six speedboats in our fleet were damaged in this battle. However, the damage is relatively minor. Tell the shipbuilding team to speed up the work. They should be able to repair them all in about ten days."
Their core tactic for this operation was to use the aerial bombardment of pterosaur riders to directly deprive the opponent of the power to resist, and then use the fleet to press forward to finish it off.
This largely controlled the damage to their own ships.
"The assault ships suffered heavy losses, and most of those sent out were scrapped."
In naval battles, assault ships themselves are disposable consumables.
The main feature is lightness, and the materials used are not solid.
Under this premise, the assault ship has to withstand enemy attacks during the advance, and after successfully breaking through, the self-sacrificing collision will basically leave the hull half destroyed.
This is also the main reason why the North Sea Fleet of the Patton Empire has about 300 assault ships according to the previous interrogation results.
If the enemy's entire army attacks, nearly a hundred or even hundreds of ships may be scrapped in a single battle.
Without a reserve of 300 ships, you will be completely unable to cope with any emergencies.
When the report reached this point, Lin Youshu paused.
He and Bai Tu knew that the loss of this battle was not about the ships, nor about the consumables such as explosive barrels and gunpowder bullets, but about their casualties! Bai Tu did not want to miss this opportunity to completely destroy the enemy fleet. In order to forcibly retain the six enemy ships, he would have to pay the price of casualties.
And this move will directly affect his entire subsequent strategic layout!
"As for casualties, according to the current statistics, 89 people were killed, 17 were seriously injured, and 321 were slightly injured."
The casualty figure is more than ten times that of the previous battle.
At the same time, Bai Tu knew clearly that most of the casualties were concentrated on the four speedboats he led at the time.
Among them, the enemy officer at the Hundred Refining Realm level alone killed at least twenty or thirty of them.
Apart from the confrontations between ships, the main battlefield for naval soldiers is basically concentrated on the decks of each ship.
However, there is generally no way to achieve stable splicing and connection between the ships.
Therefore, the decks of each ship can be regarded as small battlefields separated by the sea, and the conflicts that break out on them are basically small-scale armed conflicts.
In this kind of small-scale armed conflict, the value of a warrior in the Hundred Refinements Realm can almost be maximized.
At this moment, even Bai Tu did not expect that in the field of land warfare, the Bailian Realm warriors, who had basically bid farewell to high-end combat power, would actually have a second spring in the field of naval warfare...
After adjusting his mood a little, Bai Tu made simple follow-up arrangements for the casualties.
Three hundred and twenty-one lightly injured people are not a big problem.
The standard for determining a person to be slightly injured is that if an emergency occurs, the person can still join the battle as a combat force.
There is not much to say about the follow-up arrangements for the eighty-nine people who died in the battle.
After a battle, the most troublesome people to deal with are often the seriously injured.
After all, once he is diagnosed as seriously injured, it means that he will no longer be able to provide any combat power or labor in the short term.
For these wounded soldiers, the Great Zhou troops would generally choose to send them back to the rear as soon as their condition stabilized, because the front line itself was not safe and was not conducive to their recovery.
But the current situation is that they are too far away from the rear. If they are sent back, these seriously injured people will most likely die on the way.
In response to this, Bai Tu made a quick decision after a brief thought.
"Those seriously injured personnel, once their injuries are stable, will be sent to the central camp on the island to recuperate."
"yes!"
(End of this chapter)
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