Chapter 1534: Advance and Retreat
Previously, Bai Tu led the fleet to attack the North Sea port of the Badon Empire, and later the support fleets from the East Sea and West Sea arrived, disrupting his original plan.
However, he had already confirmed this matter from Harald.
At that time, Harald realized that something was wrong and immediately asked for help, but the two support fleets happened to arrive at the same time, which was just a coincidence.
As for this time, it is not certain...
Judging from the time, with the experience of Harald's previous request for help, there is a high probability that the fleet of the Patton Empire has already assembled this time, and is waiting here to trick him.
"What's the size of the fleet?"
"Currently, there are confirmed to be three large warships, with thirty speedboats!"
Bai Tu's eyelids twitched when he heard this number. Combined with the garrison in the North Sea, the total number of warships on the opposite side directly reached more than fifty.
In terms of military strength, ours has doubled compared to theirs.
This is a serious big scene.
"Why didn't we notice them before?"
"It must have been hiding outside our detection range before."
The enemy knew that they had air units and could not be unprepared. Pterosaur riders came to conduct reconnaissance, and the main reconnaissance area was the sea area centered on the North Sea port.
The easiest way for the enemy to avoid the detection of pterosaur riders is to hide further away.
The advantage of doing this is that they did succeed, but the disadvantage is that due to the long distance, the support would not be as timely.
If they were discovered right from the start, their Great Zhou fleet would have enough time to respond.
"What is the current speed of the other side?"
"The speed is estimated to be 10 kilometers per hour, and the large warship is slowly approaching."
After all, he had fought here before. Now, after confirming the information, Bai Tu immediately had an idea in his mind.
"Keep an eye on them the whole time and give us time to retreat. Once they get into a dangerous distance or if they make any new moves, come back and report immediately!"
"yes!"
The other side obviously has no intention of exposing itself at this point. Judging from their expression, it seems that they want to wait for their fleet to make further advances, and then quickly move in and cut off their retreat after they have fully penetrated the enemy.
As soon as he thought of this, Bai Tu immediately came up with an idea in his mind. He turned around and gave orders to the small communication cube in front of him.
"All ships, listen up. Do not go too deep. Stay in your current position and maintain your firing formation. Sink the enemy speedboats that rush up one by one. For follow-up actions, wait for my orders."
Due to the self-sacrificing collisions of those speedboats on Patton's side, the advancement speed of the fleet on the Great Zhou side was not fast.
At the same time, under this situation, it is very reasonable to slow down the advancement and stabilize the situation. During this process, the bombing of the pterosaur riders continued, and the opponent did not notice anything unusual.
In Bai Tu's opinion, there were too many ships on the opposite side, and it was impossible to complete a full bombing. Even if there were enough barrels of explosives, the pterosaur's physical strength would not allow it.
It would be better to launch a quick bombing first. After the bombing, let the pterosaur rest early and recover earlier.
Letting go, this wave of pterosaur riders also exploded with great force.
Faced with this aerial bombardment, the fourteen Patton clippers on the opposite side gradually lost their normal attack capabilities.
This is almost the physical limit of the pterosaur riders at this stage. All the pterosaurs are now foaming at the mouth from exhaustion. After landing on the deck, some of them can hardly even stand.
However, the results of the battle are also gratifying. More than half of the 26 Patton clippers of the North Sea garrison fleet have now lost their normal attack capabilities.
However, Patton's fleet, which suffered such losses, was not panicked, as if they had been mentally prepared.
After discovering that the aerial bombing from Da Zhou had stopped, the captains of the two formations felt relieved.
"The air attack has stopped. The enemy should have lost the ability to continue launching air attacks!"
"Okay, let's lure them to go deeper."
In the outer waters, on the main flagship of the Royal Fleet, Hans, the commander-in-chief of this battle, gave calm orders.
The loss of fourteen clippers is definitely not a small number.
However, the previous results have made them clearly realize that this is not an opponent that can be easily defeated.
If you want to defeat such an opponent, you must be mentally prepared to pay a high price.
Especially when facing the enemy's air attacks, they did not have much better means to deal with them and could only use ships to resist.
At present, it seems that the first stage of the work has been achieved, and the opponent has temporarily lost the ability to continue launching air attacks.
Outside the North Sea Port, the bombed Patton clippers continued to launch suicide attacks on the Great Zhou fleet.
However, the Great Zhou fleet seemed to have entered a standing still output mode. After deploying the attack formation, it did not continue to advance.
This made the two captains who were tasked with luring the enemy deep into their territory secretly anxious, and they frequently reported this situation to Hans.
After understanding the situation, Hans frowned unconsciously and quickly realized that something was wrong.
"I'm afraid the other party has already discovered our presence. Even if we crash into them directly, we can stop them!"
After receiving the order from Hans, the two captains of the North Sea garrison fleet secretly groaned in their hearts. This deadly job finally fell on their heads.
At the same time, Hans also directly ordered the entire fleet to advance at full speed.
Basically, as soon as there was any movement here, the pterosaur rider responsible for keeping an eye on this side would rush back as quickly as possible to report to Bai Tu.
Originally, Bai Tu wanted to cooperate with the other party and act for a while longer, but who would have thought that the other party would just stop acting.
After estimating the distance in his mind, Bai Tu gave no intention of fighting and gave the order to retreat very decisively.
The other side wants to cut off their retreat and catch them in a jar, but we can't just let them do as they wish.
At the same time the order was given, the ironclad ship No. 001, which had been hiding its tracks the entire time, had already adjusted its position.
At this stage in the North Sea, the Great Zhou fleet has a complete advantage in firepower and the initiative is in their hands. If they retreat in time, how can the Patton fleet on the opposite side stop them?
When they were about to leave Patton's northern territorial waters, the Patton fleet led by Hans came into their sight from afar.
The Great Zhou fleet did not stop and headed towards the open sea without looking back.
During this process, the two Patton formations responsible for garrisoning the North Sea ports failed in the interception and were left far behind.
The rapid change in the situation left Patton's fleet with no choice but to continue the pursuit.
The main fleet led by Hans, just like the support fleet at the beginning, approached steadily from the periphery in an oblique posture, while the garrison fleet was far behind.
Standing on the observation deck on the mast, the Patton Navy's lookout held up a monocular telescope and habitually checked the surrounding situation.
As a result, at this moment, a warship that was spewing thick smoke and looked like a steel monster crawling on the sea appeared behind their fleet! (End of this chapter)
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