Think about it, starting from two days ago, from the probability of ship failure, to energy consumption, to morale, and the sleepiness of soldiers... everything began to develop towards the "unlucky" side!
Gan Ning had already guessed something...
After all, the Chu State's advisers had already analyzed Guo Jia's abilities.
"Weakened the combat strength by 20% out of thin air, right? With this strength... it seems that the Wei State's 'ghost plot' is ready to do something evil!" Gan Ning had already judged.
However, this did not affect Gan Ning's belief in a decisive battle with the Wei navy.
From a pure perspective of victory or defeat, perhaps it would be best to delay for a few days and wait for Guo Jia to die suddenly. However, from a grand strategic perspective, Gan Ning actually couldn't wish for the current situation!
Although the gap between the two sides has now narrowed, Gan Ning, who understands some of the negative effects of Guo Jia's abilities, knows very well that in the next few days, the Wei army will inevitably choose a decisive battle with the Chu navy.
All his efforts are accomplished in one battle...
It’s not only Guo Jia’s wish, but also what Gan Ning, or Chu State, wants to see!
If Guo Jia is dragged to death suddenly, the current navy, assembled from both the court and the public, will definitely become cautious. Even if they can win by then, what if they are disbanded on the spot?
Once the opponent is beaten to pieces, Chu will also feel a headache - there are indeed too many!
Especially there are many privateer ships among them...
It is rare to have such an opportunity to catch all the rats in the sewers.
The most important thing is, in Gan Ning's opinion...the gap between the two sides has narrowed?
It has indeed shrunk, but after shrinking, there is still an essential gap!
Therefore, the "Decisive Battle" became the common will of both parties, and a naval battle began...
It was only less than half a day after the launch that Guo Jia began to regret it, even to the point of confusion, when the ships on both sides were close to each other or had already entered the war zone.
What is the giant ship in the distance that is half a mile long and seems to be wrapped in steel?
Why can something like this still sail?
Moreover...the artillery of the Chu army is not as scary as the Thunderbolt Chariot according to the intelligence, right?
That's right, at this time, Chu State's only large iron-armored ship, the "Ren Zhi Chu", had already appeared within the range that Guo Jia could see clearly with the naked eye.
After calculating the distance and length, Guo Jia even suspected that he had seen a mirage.
And what makes the Wei navy cry out for their parents the most at this time is not the uncontacted super giant in the distance, but the battleships, gunboats, escort boats, and mine boats nearby...
Because the ship-based artillery has a larger caliber, its range completely exceeds the mountain artillery used to demolish Yangping Pass in the Hanzhong military situation.
What's even worse is that the Chu Navy's gunboats also prepared some "explosive bombs"!
In the past few years, the Ministry of Industry has solved the problem of delayed detonation by using a tapered wooden tube with a scale on the outside and a gunpowder channel filled in the middle to detonate the gunpowder in the explosive bomb.
The principle is actually very simple. The heat of the gunpowder when firing the cannonball will directly ignite the gunpowder compacted in the wooden tube. The delay time can be adjusted by cutting off the wooden tube.
In the modern history of another world, it can be said to be a very simple technology that has been used for a long time...
Chu's "technology" is obviously relatively backward when it comes to explosive bombs, but when it vents its firepower on Wei's warships, which still use thunderbolt vehicles as their main weapons, they are still suspected of beating up elementary schools.
Even if due to Guo Jia's "Qi Zuo Gui Plot", the explosion rate of the already unstable shells is much higher, it will not change this...
After all, not to mention the range difference between the Thunderbolt vehicle and large-caliber ship-borne artillery, the effects of the Thunderbolt vehicle's stone bullets and explosive bullets are also very different.
For a gunboat, even if it is unlucky to be hit, it will only damage some buildings on the deck. If it hits the armor, it will be considered a "miss", but for Wei's warship...
If the bomb explodes on the deck, if you are unlucky, it will directly blow through the water leakage. If it happens to explode on the side of the ship, unless you are very lucky, it will directly enter the countdown to the sinking!
As for the densely packed small boats, Chu State simply ignored them...
Relying on their good water properties, the water ghost troops who want to build boats are even more impressive!
The Wei State has already figured out the prototype of battle line tactics with its improved thunderbolt chariots and sail technology, not to mention the Chu Navy, which is more advanced in power and strategically advanced than the Wei State?
The battleships led the teams separately, and the gunboats followed, drawing out the battle line...
In the parlance of land warfare, it is to set up a "long snake formation", and while "rubbing" the enemy array while driving, use the artillery on the side of the ship to greet them.
Connecting to the side? What side to connect to?
Not to mention the speed issue, the size of those small boats with five, six, or more than a dozen people is only close to the battle line. Even if they are not hit by artillery, they are still in danger of being swept into the battleship's current...
As for the Wei main ship that wanted to leave the battlefield and take a different battle angle, there were also mine boats wandering around to greet them.
The rod mine boat is also half as long as the main ship of the Wei army, and has a "rod" similar to the captain. The rod is equipped with slides and other mechanisms, and can release "mines" - high-explosive ones - at the front end.
Compared with artillery, this should be regarded as an enhancement of the collision angle of rod mine boats.
Although the risk factor is very high, every time the "pole" collides with it, it will directly detonate explosives and hit a main ship - a wooden battleship. In front of this thing, if it hits, there will be no chance of survival!
Compared with artillery which has a low hit rate, the rod mine boat is undoubtedly a very "refreshing" warship.
In addition, the escort boats, in addition to smaller ship-based artillery, also have manual levers - Wei Jun's small boats can basically only fight to protect the escort boats at the head and tail of the battle line.
However, every time we get close, a long pole equipped with a grenade chute will poke over, and it won't be a problem to drop a boatload of "children".
When he first saw Chu State directly setting up three "one-word long snake formations", Guo Jia was puzzled at first, and then suddenly realized.
Because the naval battle was already in its infancy, the Wei navy was also exploring and improving the power of the Thunderbolt Chariot, which had already given it the buds of battle line tactics. With Guo Jia's talent, after seeing the Chu army's Long Snake Formation, he could basically defeat it in an instant.
Understand the secret of naval warfare in the age of thunderbolt vehicles and artillery.
However, it was already more than one step too late.
If the Chu army were also thunderbolt chariots and wooden sailing ships, they would still have to fight, but now...
The various maritime battle formations and simulated situations that Guo Jia had previously trained have now become a joke.
Gan Ning hadn't thought about some battle formation for a long time... a naval battle?
There are three most important tactics: the armor must be thick, the caliber must be large, and the power must be sufficient!
There are only three secondary things: generals will not be stupid, soldiers will not shrink, and training should be more!
The thunderbolt car, which sounded like thunderbolt, was as quiet as a lady under the catharsis of artillery and explosive shells.
As the Long Snake Formation moved around, Wei Jun's navy continued to sink main ships...
Even if they want to retreat, the Chu navy will chase them to death and sink them regardless of size - and unlike on land, the enemy troops who fall in the water will not be saved even if they shout surrender, and there is nothing they can do.
Saved!
If a lucky gilded warrior or general with gold and jade can jump up and immediately remove his armor and surrender, there is still a chance of survival.
There is not only a hardware gap between the Wei Navy and the Chu Navy, but also a software gap between the "Navy" and the "Navy"...