Chapter nine hundred and twenty seventh sea control and blockade
At night, the enemy's destroyers can sneak in, get close and launch torpedoes. If our light formation wants to be foolproof, it is impossible to drive out all the enemy's destroyers.
In addition, the Daheng Empire Navy itself also suffered heavy damage to many warships during a day of high-intensity battles. The speed of these warships dropped significantly, or they ignited fires. They would become the most dazzling stars at night, thus attracting the opponent's attention.
Destroyers and even submarines strike.
The navy also needs to ensure their safety. Even if the battleship cannot be saved, a large number of naval officers and soldiers need to be saved.
In order to avoid a large-scale accident, the Imperial Navy decided to evade with the main formation, and at the same time let the light formation follow up to find opportunities to launch a night attack.
As a result, the large-scale battleship duel that lasted for almost an entire day came to an end!
During this day, the Krul Kingdom's navy suffered heavy losses!
They were only battleships, and they lost seventeen battlecruisers. Twelve of them were directly sunk by the Daheng Navy one after another. Five of them were because their speed was too low after being severely damaged and they could no longer keep up with the retreating main formation.
, after they took the initiative to abandon the ship, they fired torpedoes on their own and sank it.
In addition, almost every remaining battleship and battlecruiser was injured, or the turret was destroyed, or the bridge was destroyed, or flooded, etc. Among them, only the power was left, but the battleship had lost all or most of its firepower.
There are seven or eight ships.
In addition, they also lost many old battleships, armored cruisers, and large cruisers.
In just one day, they lost one-third of their battleships, and almost all of the remaining ships were damaged.
In terms of combat effectiveness, the main fleet of the Krull Kingdom Navy has lost at least 70% of its combat effectiveness.
It is precisely because of this that the main fleet of the Daheng Empire Navy is pursuing closely. Although the main fleet tried to evade at night, it actually did not leave too far. It even organized a fleet with relatively good combat effectiveness and relatively high speed.
Battle cruisers, heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and new destroyers formed a high-speed formation. They circled directly and weaved in and out at a speed of about 28 knots, trying to get to the front of the opponent's fleet to intercept.
Hundreds of light cruisers and destroyers of various types frequently launched torpedo attacks at night.
All this shows that the Daheng Empire Navy is not willing to allow the main fleet of the Krul Kingdom Navy to escape smoothly.
They are fighting for every opportunity to keep them!
You know, this main fleet of the Krul Kingdom Navy is not a conventional fleet. It is a huge fleet that has concentrated three task force fleets of the Krul Kingdom Navy!
The task force formation in the Krull Kingdom Navy is similar to the mobile fleet of the Daheng Empire Navy. Each fleet is a powerful fleet with a large number of battleships and battlecruisers.
The total number of battleships and battlecruisers belonging to their eighth task force exceeds thirty, and their combat power is enough to defeat the entire current Kokell Empire Navy!
The strength of these three task forces can account for almost 80% of the overall strength of the entire Kingdom of Krul's navy.
Well, in fact, the four mobile fleets dispatched by the Daheng Empire Navy this time basically account for more than 80% of the strength of the Daheng Empire Navy.
Otherwise, how can this be said to be a strategic decisive battle that brings together the main fleets of both sides?
Otherwise, why would the Krull Kingdom Navy lose dozens of capital ships in just one day's battle?
Otherwise, why did the Daheng Empire still have enough troops to pursue it after losing nine battleships and battlecruisers?
It's because both sides invested extremely large forces in this battle!
The total number of battleships and battlecruisers participating in the battle reached eighty-seven!
This does not include some of the former Ning Yu battleships in both fleets, but specifically refers to the Ning Yu battleships with unified fire control.
The so-called Ning Yu battleship is naturally because the Ning Yu battleship is the first battleship on Blue Star equipped with unified fire control and unified large-caliber heavy artillery.
Taking the battleship Ning Yu as a classification, some people within the Daheng Empire Navy also called the battleships in the navy the battleship Ning Yu, the former battleship Ning Yu.
Because the troops invested were extremely large, it can even be said that even after a hard battle during the day, seventeen battleships and battle cruisers were lost, and many battleships were damaged, the remaining main fleet of the Krul Kingdom's navy was still able to
The combat power of dozens of battleships was gathered together.
If we let them go, it would be like letting the tiger go back to the mountain.
In the future, the Krul Kingdom's navy can completely rely on them and deploy other warships to reorganize their main fleet and surround their home coast. As long as they resist for a year and a half, they will be able to get another batch of cutting-edge ones.
A super battleship equipped with a 380mm caliber naval gun will not only be able to restore its eyesight, but will even surpass its previous strength.
Therefore, now that this decisive battle has begun, the Imperial Navy will never let them go easily. They must annihilate them. Even if they cannot annihilate them, they must sink more enemy capital ships to prepare for subsequent control.
Lay the foundation for sea control.
As long as it controls the sea, what can the Daheng Empire Navy do in the future?
Block the Krul Kingdom Navy in their naval port and make them a permanent fleet.
Just like what the Krul Kingdom Navy did to the Kokel Empire Navy before.
Through a series of early naval battles, the Krul Kingdom Navy directly blocked the main fleet of the Kekel Empire Navy in the port. It did nothing in the war for several consecutive years and became the so-called existence fleet. If it were not for Garfield
If the sub-imperial navy and the Oran navy are still there, and they are relatively far away from the Krul Kingdom navy, they can still protect the sea routes.
It is estimated that the maritime transportation lines of the Three Kingdoms Alliance have been finished long ago.
Similarly, if the Daheng Empire Navy can defeat the Krul Kingdom Navy in this decisive battle, it will gain control of the Endless Sea and force the remaining fleet of the opponent back to the port.
Then the Daheng Empire Navy can completely block the opponent's maritime transportation lines!
For an island country, even if their island is very large, the Kingdom of Krul, once their sea transportation lines are completely blocked, they will not collapse directly, but it can still greatly weaken their war strength.
If they can further attack their coastal industries, economies and other coastal cities, then they can continue to severely damage their war strength.
And what is all this for?
In order to force the Kruls to the negotiation table, they signed the truce agreement prepared by Daheng people!