The day passed by in a blink of an eye. The entire Qinglan City was quietly waiting for the enemy's attack. The construction of various defense fortifications never stopped for a moment, and Li Mu and his infantry squads had also entered their respective defense zones.
Wearing armor and ready to go.
Various mechanized chariots manufactured by the Mohists were lined up at the port, their gleaming gun barrels glaring at the rough waves in the distance. The warships docked in the inner harbor were all setting sail at this time. The enemy was ten miles away from the coastline.
Forming a defensive formation, they will be responsible for facing the first wave of attacks from the Penglai Fleet.
"Captain, are all the bastards in the Penglai Army really monks? Are their warships really as indestructible as the rumors say?"
The defense area Li Mu's team is responsible for is located to the south of the port. The towering city wall was originally a platform for installing cargo equipment. Now it has been transformed into a series of positions. The waiting before the war was the most difficult. Liang Shan, who was sitting next to Li Mu, pulled down his helmet.
, and asked Li Mu.
Liang Shan's question also aroused the interest of other team members, who all turned their attention to Li Mu. After all, he was the only one present who had fought against the Penglai fleet, and in that battle, the Penglai army, which was known to be invincible at sea, was disgraced.
"It's very strong. Whether it's the cultivation of the soldiers or the layout of the tactics, coupled with the advanced warships and weapons, from the perspective of naval combat alone, it is indeed much stronger than us. If we didn't rely on Mo Lao's mechanism and the ambush in advance,
It’s even harder to win.”
Facing the questions from the team members, Li Mu did not hide anything. For these battle-hardened warriors, wrong intelligence would be fatal. Only by accurately judging the enemy's strength can corresponding tactics be implemented.
"boom"
A sudden sound of artillery shelling in the distance interrupted the conversation between Li Mu and Liang Shan. Everyone stood up in excitement and looked towards the sea under the cover of the fortifications. The blue beam of light had illuminated the entire sky.
Li Mu was very familiar with this look in his eyes. It was the energy fire fired by the Penglai battleship.
"The battle has begun, everyone is ready and waiting for orders."
All the teams on the entire defense line moved at the same time when the sound of artillery was heard. Although the current battle stage has not yet reached the time for their infantry to go into battle, the battle situation is changing rapidly, and the order to change defenses may come at any time. The densely packed soldiers are all
Their nerves were tense, and their eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes. The battle that decided the life and death of the empire finally officially began.
Compared with the tight formation at the port, the Cangyun Empire warships located on the first line of defense have already started a fierce exchange of fire with the enemy. The defensive formation arranged by Liu Qingling is very exquisite, but after all, the Penglai fleet has the only energy artillery in the East China Sea.
Katori, who had been defeated before, was even more merciless. The energy cannons of all battleships continued to output without distinction, and the blue light almost covered the entire Cangyun Empire fleet.
"Fire, fire, fire with all your strength, hit as many as you can!"
Under such intensive firepower attacks, Cangyun Empire's battleship group soon suffered heavy losses. Even though stronger armor had been installed before the war, more than half of the battleships had been destroyed by the opponent's several rounds of bombardment regardless of consumption.
Damaged by fire.
The commander of each warship seemed to have anticipated this scene, and ordered his own artillery to use full firepower, and launched an artillery exchange with the Penglai fleet at sea. The gap between the two warships was obvious. Liu Qingling was arranging the first line of defense.
At that time, we never thought about winning. Attrition is still the mission of this imperial navy, in order to reduce the artillery support provided by enemy warships in the subsequent landing battle.
It can be said that the chance of survival of the soldiers on these battleships is very low, but at this moment, none of them showed fear. Even the youngest recruits were riding heavy artillery, roaring towards Penglai in the distance.
The fleet fired cannonballs.
From the very first moment, this battle began to harvest lives. Broken decks, broken sails, and broken limbs could be seen everywhere. The toughness of the Cangyun Empire made Katori, who was sitting in the command room of the main ship, feel a little embarrassed.
Surprisingly, this fighting method of injuring the enemy by 800 and damaging yourself by 10,000 simply violates the basic principles of the art of war.
"Pass my order, and the energy artillery fire will be output with full force. The fleet will control the speed and break through their defense line quickly. Don't give them a chance to trade their lives for their lives."
How could she, who is also a famous general of the same generation, not know the reason why Cangyun Empire did this? The key point of this battle is whether it can successfully land and occupy Qinglan City. The battle at sea is just a prelude. For the party that has made the final decision
, the meaning of the existence of these navies is consumption. If they can reduce the strength of the Penglai fleet to the greatest extent, they can gain an advantage in the subsequent landing battle.
Just when the two fleets collided violently, in a place where no one noticed, several figures wearing Penglai Immortal Kingdom military uniforms flashed rapidly on the sea, and after complicated hand gestures, streams of blood emerged from the sea water, and finally
gathered between their hands.
This almost invisible blood slowly turned into red blood beads under the control of these figures, and then was included in the space ring. The uniforms of these figures were of different levels, ranging from ordinary soldiers to countless.
They were officers in the border area, but their uniform behavior and uniform space rings revealed their identities. It turned out that members of the "Blood" organization had long been lurking in the Penglai Army.
The fleet of the Cangyun Empire did not last long. Even though the soldiers fought back desperately, they were still breached by the huge Penglai fleet. However, their sacrifices were not meaningless. The energy reserves of most of the Penglai warships were simply destroyed.
More than half of them were consumed, and five of them were hit and damaged, making them unable to move forward.
Such an achievement is completely acceptable to Liu Qingling. With the breach of the sea defense line, all the machine artillery units set up on the coastline have entered a state of preparation, and a hundred heavy machines made by the Mohists are ready to go.
The gray-haired Mr. Mo even visited the position in person, directing the soldiers who had just learned how to use this machine these days to aim at the target area. These machine guns, which the Liu family and the Mo family had spent a lot of effort to transport, were the last trump card before the landing battle.
The result of this round of artillery attack is directly related to how much strength the Penglai army can save to carry out the landing.
Nervous emotions permeated the entire artillery position. Whether it was these novice artillerymen or Mr. Mo himself, sweat had already slipped across his forehead. Their success or failure may be the turning point of a normal battle.
"The enemy ship's range is five miles, and its visual speed is five knots."
"The enemy ship's range is three miles, and its visual speed is seven knots."
"The enemy ship has entered the firing range, with a visual speed of nine knots."
The lookout's shouts continued to echo above the artillery position. When the main formation of the Penglai fleet completely entered the firing range, Liu Qingling's order sounded instantly, and then green tongues of flame spit out from the entire row of mechanisms, like meteors.
The dazzling beam of light streaked across the sky and landed precisely in front of the Penglai fleet.