0697 Hammer
The two fleets were indeed retreating, but in a hurry, the left wing of the Japanese fleet was cut by the opponent. Under the other side's strange short-barrel bombardment, the ships that rushed in front were all fired and swelled up on the sea! Liu Pei's fleet forced a bloody path before the left wing and the original formation closed and broke out! The desperate counterattack of the Japanese fleet only caused minor damage to them.
Just as the left wing of the Japanese fleet was united with the original formation and was preparing to pursue, the right wing that was retreating was followed by Wu Yizhou fleet. Wu Yizhou fleet also approached within two hundred meters, and also pulled off the mask covered by the short-barrel cannon, making the flower bullet show its power!
Although the Japanese fleet tried hard to fight back, their artillery was at a disadvantage in terms of quantity and caliber compared with Liu Pei's fleet. So in a short time, the Wu Yizhou fleet defeated the right-wing defender! Leaving more than a dozen ships either burned or sunk. In addition, there were also an equal number of ships that escaped with injuries.
When the furious right-wing fleet commander commanded the fleet to turn the bow, the fleet also turned around and sailed away. However, they kept a distance from the Japanese right-wing fleet without panic, constantly bombarding their opponents with their tail guns!
When Wu Yizhou's fleet lured the right-wing fleet to chase, the commander of the Japanese right-wing fleet did not notice that he had made a huge mistake! He focused all his attention on Wu Yizhou's fleet, but he was not careful that another fleet led by Liu Pei would tangle directly to his side after bypassing the formation!
This is also impossible. In the wars of this era, various messages are transmitted slowly. Especially on the dense battlefield, there is smoke everywhere, which can cover the eyes of the lookout hands! The sound of cannons overshadows the sound of drums and trumpets. It is difficult to find the opponent's movements in the messy battlefield.
In this chaos, it takes a long time to discover opponents from the outer ships and then pass the message to the command center of the fleet. Waiting for feedback back will take longer. Therefore, the combat in this era often emphasizes the personal performance of grassroots commanders.
Liu Pei's fleet cut into the right wing
The rear side of the side, a gun was set up to bombard the enemy at close range. Since the right wing had just turned to try to chase Wu Yizhou's fleet, it was in semi-chaotic itself. The sudden appearance of Liu Pei's fleet caused great chaos on their back side!
The bombardment of heavy artillery and the explosion of flowering shells kept ringing at the sea. In just over twenty minutes, Liu Pei's fleet fired a large number of shells, which severely damaged more than 30 ships. Eight of them ignited a raging fire, and half of the remaining ships were in danger of sinking.
During World War I and World War II, when there were already rapid communication and observation methods, the organization of each fleet would not be large.
Taking the aircraft carrier battle group as an example, there will never be more than two heavy main aircraft carriers in each aircraft carrier battle group. There will also not be more than two other light aircraft carriers responsible for escort missions. The reason is very simple, it is that it cannot command! Even a genius general, plus a group of genius staff officers cannot command!
According to mathematician calculations, the limit of any general's command ability is four aircraft carriers. Among them, the main force of heavy aircraft carriers must not exceed two! Otherwise, you will be waiting for chaos in the fleet!
Now the Japanese fleet made this mistake. Each of their fleets had a lot of ships, far exceeding the commander's personal abilities! What's more, they did not have the assistance of the staff team at this moment. So when the information transmission was slow, the side and rear of the Liu Pei fleet caused huge chaos. When the commander stopped pursuing and Zhu Hui fleet launched defense, the Liu Pei fleet had already seized the time and slipped away before the arrival of the Japanese fleet's main formation and the left wing.
Liu Pei left, and he led the Japanese fleet's main formation and left wing to the distant sea. At this time, Wu Yizhou fleet rushed over again in an abnormal manner!
Just as Liu Pei attacked the left-wing fleet just now, Wu Yizhou had already seized the time to repair the damaged sailors and injured boards, and rescued the injured sailors. By the way, the gunners got a certain rest time. So he rushed over in a nearly full attitude! First, he overwhelmed the Japanese left-wing fleet in a momentum!
The left-wing fleet suffered
After suffering from consecutive blows, morale inevitably declined a little. In addition, they were always in a state of tension in combat, and their physical strength dropped faster. Although they set up a defensive round formation this time, they still retreated step by step under Wu Yizhou's attack. They dropped them again. After more than a dozen ships, they received the support from the town, forcing Wu Yizhou's fleet to leave!
At this moment, Masaji Miura was almost mad! His fleet number was far higher than that of Liu Pei's fleet, but he was like a powerful giant dealing with a flexible little monkey holding a dagger! The arm that was swung out with force was obviously empty but not flexible enough, and often hit the empty space. Not only was it wasted power, but it would be dodged by this flexible little monkey and could stab him with a few slashes!
However, although Masaji Miura was angry, he did not let the anger break his reason. He had already seen that he could not encircle these two fleets on the vast sea.
He also saw the intentions of these two fleets. These two fleets clearly regarded themselves as two iron hammers and took turns to hitting the iron block of Masaji Miura! Every time he hit, he would hit countless pieces of slag on him! He could withstand it once or twice. If he did it a few more times, the iron block would probably be deformed and broken!
Masaji Miura immediately ordered all fleets to shrink into a circular formation and began to retreat slowly. He was preparing to rectify the situation and start the war again. Liu Pei and his two fleets swam around them, circling around the Japanese fleet like sharks hunting sardines, and pounced on them from time to time to take a bite! But Masaji Miura never gave them a chance to bite hard, and the losses were relatively light each time.
Although Liu Pei and Wu Yizhou can succeed every time, facing a large number of opponents, Liu Pei also has nowhere to bite the hedgehog. The number of opponents is so large that he will be entangled by the other party if he is accidentally entangled. He will engage in a battle on the sidelines in the future. So Liu Pei dared not approach this round hedgehog easily!
Chapter completed!