Off Bunas, there are countless ships on the busy waterway. These ships are generally not large in tonnage, and most of them are used to transport goods over short distances.
Although most navies in the world have eliminated sailing ships, because the scale of military shipbuilding plans is too large, the development speed of civilian transportation is not as fast as expected.
Most offshore transport ships are small boats with wooden hulls. In fact, they have little attack value and little transportation capacity.
However, there are still many giant ships being built, and some civilian passenger ships have a tonnage of more than 3,000 tons, which can be called a giant ship.
Near the outer anchorage, there were countless patrol boats shuttled around, and the huge battleship chimneys were emitting thick smoke, making the already dark sky even more gloomy.
The Lines Empire declared war on the Tang Kingdom, and the navy had almost entered a state of war. Although the rainy season came suddenly and the floods came suddenly, the Lines Empire completed the battle preparations as soon as possible.
All the warships have been assembled, and the huge fleet is docked off Bunas, bringing an endless sense of security to the new residents of Bunas.
No joke at all, the four Bunas-class battleships are very strong, as well as more than ten cruisers and nearly twenty destroyers. Compared with the past Lynes fleet, the entire fleet can be said to be a shotgun.
They are waiting for the Dornish fleet heading north to join them, and then they will set off to join the Yangmu Empire's fleet and head to the Mirage Kingdom.
After the Mirage Kingdom obtained supplies, they gathered together with the Mirage Kingdom's fleet and attacked Linshui. They used their absolute military superiority to completely destroy Linshui Port and paralyze the maritime transportation of the Tang Kingdom.
In order to be able to compete with air threats, all warships participating in the operation were equipped with many large-caliber machine guns to enhance their air defense capabilities. It can be said that they have armed themselves like a hedgehog.
In the auditorium of the battleship Bunas No. 1, advisors from Cyric were celebrating their upcoming victory in advance with the admirals of the Lions Empire.
You know, when dozens of battleships are assembled, they are simply invincible. They simply couldn't figure out how Tang Mo could resist such a powerful fleet.
"It doesn't matter, we won't take too many risks this time." Cyric's advisor comforted the admiral of the Lions Empire: "Even if we just cut off the enemy's ocean routes and sink their ships transporting oil, we will definitely win. !”
They have no reason not to be confident, because the ground troops of the Great China Empire have already invaded Tang State, and there will be reinforcements from Qin State and Chu State in the future, which can be said to be overwhelming.
If it is not enough, they can also transport the troops of the Ice Empire and the Mirage Kingdom to Beiyuan City to land in Beiyuan City through the Mirage Kingdom, and put pressure on the Tang Kingdom on the other side.
Coupled with the superior navy's attack on Longgang in Linshui Dongwan... it can be said that the Tang Kingdom was restrained in every aspect and had no chance to resist.
Even if the Tang State has air superiority, the anti-Tang Alliance that can participate in the war also has an air force, and the total number of these air forces exceeds 10,000!
Even if most of these aircraft are old-fashioned and double-winged, it is more or less possible to persist and prevent Tang from taking advantage of its air force and disrupting the opponent's combat deployment.
No matter how you calculate it, it is all your own advantage. How can this not make these high-level empire leaders participating in the war excited? After all, the destruction of the Tang State would be of great benefit to them.
On the one hand, they can divide the wealth of the Tang State, divide the technology of the Tang State, and get everything they want.
On the other hand, they can also destroy the Tang development model that keeps them awake at night, extinguish the spark that they hate, and prevent Tang's reform methods from flowing out and affecting their respective countries.
In short, this is a war that is very beneficial to all countries and can be fought once and for all, so there is no reason not to fight! At the same time, they had no reason to allow Tang State to continue to exist.
"I still suggest that we focus on cutting off the enemy's transportation lines! There is no need for us to enter dangerous coastal areas to fight." The admiral of the Lines Empire was worried that his warship would have problems and suggested.
"Don't worry! The Ice Empire's naval fleet is approaching the Mirage Kingdom's naval fleet. They will attack first. We are just here to help. There is no danger." Cyric's advisor continued to comfort him.
In his opinion, by the time the subsequent fleet arrives in the Mirage Kingdom, the battle at sea should be almost over. The naval fleets of the Mirage Kingdom and the Ice Empire were already powerful enough to crush the Tang Navy.
At this time, an officer knocked on the door and walked into the small auditorium. He walked behind his commander and lowered his voice and said: "Sir, the news just came is that the Tang Army is trying to attack the border defense line of the Dahua Empire. Frustrated.”
Redman's attack did not go well. He assembled an armored corps and tried to launch an attack, but progress was slow because of the lack of air superiority.
In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, the Tang Army withdrew from the battle, which greatly enhanced the confidence of the coalition forces and made them believe that the Tang Army's armored torrent was nothing more than this.
"After all, the strength advantage of the Dahua Army is too obvious. They have at least 300,000 troops defending on the northern front. The Tang Army may not even have 100,000 troops in total..." The smile on the face of the admiral of the Lions Empire was even bigger. I also began to feel that this time the war to destroy the Tang Kingdom might really be in sight.
The Tang Kingdom was flooded internally and was besieged by so many empires outside. It could be said that it was overwhelmed by internal and external troubles and had little chance to turn around.
So he raised his glass to Cyric's advisor, smiled and said, "Then, I wish us a successful start!"
"Victory!" Cyric's advisor also smiled and raised his wine glass, but before the two of them drank the wine in the glass, they heard a vague muffled sound in the distance.
"Huh?" Even though it was separated by thick armor and still inside the ship, the dull explosion still clearly reached everyone's ears. Cyric's advisor frowned. The navy of the Lions Empire The admiral also looked unhappy.
If something goes wrong at this time, a boiler explodes or ammunition catches fire, they really want to kill a few unlucky guys to make a warning to others.
"What's going on?" The admiral of the Lions Empire held a wine glass and looked at the people around him with an unlucky look on his face: "Go and have a look!"
The officer quickly turned around and went out after hearing the order. When he climbed onto the deck, he saw that the deck was already full of sailors. They were looking at the Bunas 3 battleship in the distance, pointing and talking.
He pushed aside the crowd, and then saw Bunas 3, which was billowing thick smoke. He was slightly startled, somewhat frightened by the sight in front of him, so he subconsciously murmured: "What, what's going on? "
"I don't know... Bunas 3 suddenly exploded. I don't know what happened. It might be..." The sailor who heard the murmur answered the question, but he just wanted to say that it might be a boiler. When it exploded, an explosion suddenly came from the bow of the battleship Bunas No. 3.
Although the sky is no longer bright, with the lights of Bunas City in the distance and the afterglow of the setting sun, you can still clearly see that the bow of the Bunas 3 battleship was slightly lifted by the explosion. The horrific explosion had already distorted the deck.
"What, what's going on, what's going on..." The officer who came to investigate looked at the Bunas 3 battleship exploding in the distance with a look of disbelief on his face.
At this moment, on the sea in the distance, at a position that no one noticed, a tubular device drew small ripples on the water. It was moving forward slowly, and the lens above was focused on the parked Battleship Bunas 2 behind Bunas 3.
"Prepare torpedoes!" The captain of the U-11 submarine, with his face pressed against the periscope, issued a low command. In the dim command room, the crew repeated the captain's orders.
In the front torpedo cabin, the soldiers opened the torpedo's safety device, then unscrewed the front torpedo loading hatch, and struggled to push the torpedo into the torpedo tube where the torpedo had been fired.
At the same time, the three torpedo launch tubes on the other side were already aimed at the target docked at the anchorage. For this submarine, the battleship was completely undefended prey.
"Launch!" After completing the steering and aiming of the submarine, the captain once again issued the order to attack.
Because the opponent is completely unaware of the existence of weapons and equipment such as submarines, they have too much and too much time to shift the launching position, complete the aiming and then calmly launch the torpedo.
Tang Mo's 533-caliber torpedoes are mature designs with improved reliability in the later period, and there is no quality problem of not exploding when they hit the target.
Because the process and design itself are mature products that have been tested on the battlefield, the testing process is omitted, and large-scale mass production and deployment are very fast.
"Torpedo launch!" The sailors repeated their captain's order, opened the submarine's torpedo launch tube, and then skillfully unscrewed the compressed air valve in the darkness.
As the torpedo hatch at the bow of the submarine opened, a stream of bubbles jumped toward the sea. Then three torpedoes were pushed out of the hatch one by one by compressed air and accelerated towards the target in the distance.
The propeller rotated rapidly, stirring up a bubble, and a white track appeared on the sea, leading from the submarine to the Bunas-class battleship in the distance.
The three straight lines moved straight forward, getting closer to the target little by little. At this time, most of the sailors on the Bunas 2 battleship were still crowded on the deck, watching the excitement of the Bunas 3 battleship.
They didn't realize at all that there were three white lines on the side of the battleship under their feet, which were very close at hand and were about to hit the steel plate under their feet.
