Another World: Naval Storm

Chapter 110 Small-Scale Attack

On November 1916, 11, the Atlas Sea turned violent in late autumn.

As night fell, Leo personally led a fleet consisting of the HMS Broad, eight destroyers and twelve minelayers, and set off for the dangerous English Channel.

This operation was not supposed to be carried out by Lieutenant General Leo, but he was too short of merit points. As the battlecruisers of the First Reconnaissance Fleet did not go out, this operation did not attract attention, and no one except a few people knew he was in the fleet.

Fast forward to November, the war on the mainland is getting more and more brutal. The emperor would rather leave his expensive toys idle in the port for the people of Drak as decorations, and ignore the strong desire of the navy to fight.

The emperor took it for granted. Cheating superiors and concealing the truth from subordinates is not exclusive to the people of Xunyang.

With the tacit approval of General Apeven, the active cooperation of the Operations Department of the Naval General Staff and Leo's audacity, the light ships of the First Reconnaissance Fleet often stirred up trouble and provoked the Tarens in the vast Atlas Sea and the narrow English Channel under the pretext of routine patrols and minelaying missions. A large number of Drake minelayers disguised as Taren merchant ships sneaked into the Albion coastline to lay mines. Drake Empire cruisers, submarines and destroyers frequently attacked in the southern Atlas Sea, causing huge losses to Allied merchant ships. The Tarens' life became increasingly tight, and many Taren and international news reported that the Royal Navy was losing the sea.

However, what attracted the most attention was the war on the continent. The Drake Army and the Frank Army were still confronting each other near the Marne River. Hundreds of soldiers died every day and a large amount of supplies were consumed.

The Tarun people's assistance was very timely. Even if the Tarun government had to tighten its belts for the people, it would still supply the supplies to the coalition forces on the mainland first.

The Drake Navy, which was waiting for the opportunity, sank dozens of transport ships and escort warships over the years, seriously delaying the speed of the Talen Army's reinforcement of the Fran Republic, and also causing heavy casualties, with tens of thousands of soldiers sinking to the bottom of the sea with the ships.

However, the Royal Navy of Talen still transported an astonishing number of soldiers to Fran, effectively replenishing the missing troops.

After the army suffered massive casualties, both sides were forced to engage in positional warfare and confront each other.

After nearly three years of war, the Drake Empire's plan for a quick victory failed. In order to reduce the pressure on the east and west fronts, the army asked the navy to cooperate in cutting off the Allied transportation lines, and the army and navy reached a partial consensus.

The cruiser Broad took the small fleet out of Heligoland Island under the cover of night and headed towards the English Channel, the last line of defense of the Kingdom of Talen.

The next morning, the Broad cruisers and destroyers will launch a surprise attack

The coastline south of Albion Island was used to provide cover for minelayers laying mines in the busy shipping lane.

"General, what's the point of such a small-scale battle? Our efforts still cannot change the fact that the army is in a difficult battle in Fran."

The emperor did not allow the ocean fleet to sail out of the safe Heligoland Bight. Without battleships, the navy could only dispatch light warships and submarines to intensify surprise attacks on the sea transport lines of the English Channel to support the army's operations.

In the view of Dawson and others, this harassment tactic could not prevent the Kingdom of Talen from replenishing the Frankish army's defense line. The Drake Empire had already been caught in a terrible protracted war and war of attrition, and the knowledgeable people throughout the empire were deeply worried about this.

"The Talens have been frantically sending troops to the Republic of France for two consecutive years. They have done everything they can to defend their allies on the mainland. Before the war broke out in 1914, they only had 23 land forces. Now they have more than one million land forces after exhausting all their young and strong men. Eighty percent of them have been sent to the mainland to fight with France. As for the cannon fodder in the colonies, although there are many of them, very few of them can be used." Leo sneered, "When we approach the Talen coastline, the Talen people will be terrified, and then they will find that as long as they cross the English Channel, the three islands of Talen will be in a situation where there are no soldiers to send and no strategic locations to defend!"

Up to now, except for Xunyang Republic and some countries in America, the whole world has been involved in the war.

In the Felix continent, Talen and the Fran colonial army attacked the German colony, but they were no match for the Drak colony's self-defense force. After several battles, they were beaten badly and could only surround the Drak colony with superior forces. In order to be on the safe side, Talen even transferred a large number of troops from the Far East and Bharata, but still failed to eliminate Drak's resistance in the Felix continent, which made many countries realize the weakness of colonial soldiers.

As for the sea, Drake's navy's commerce-breaking warfare was still very powerful, and the Allies lost a large number of transport ships and warships in various sea areas. The Allies often jointly cleared a sea area for this purpose, but the effect was not great. Drake's navy's guerrilla warfare and submarine warfare caused great panic among the Allies.

In the Far East, Japan occupied Qifeng Port, but Leo's reputation was still enough to stop Japanese children from crying. The Japanese emperor woke up in the middle of the night more than once, often asking the cabinet whether the Allied Powers would definitely win.

As expected, the so-called President Yuan declared Xunyang neutral, and the German colonies in the Pacific had already changed hands.

Since the war began, the Talen Royal Navy, which had been so arrogant and conceited for hundreds of years, has suffered continuous defeats, and the government and naval officials, including two prime ministers, have been in a state of embarrassment.

In the Mediterranean, the alliance between the Drakes and the Ottomans kept the main force of the Mediterranean Squadron firmly pinned down in the Aegean Sea. The failures in the Battle of the Dardanelles and the Battle of the Khaymos Peninsula forced the Royal Navy to bite the bullet and send more troops to the Mediterranean Fleet.

The barely rebuilt Harden Fleet, no no no, it should be the new Harwich Fleet. Harden is now drinking coffee in the Drake native prisoner-of-war camp.

This fleet is now weak, with the replenishment of warships not yet in place and exhausted from the harassment of Leo's fleet. It decides to block most of the English Channel and heavily guard the few entrances and exits. Only in this way can the Harwich Fleet get a good night's sleep.

"Dawson, let the minelayers take action!" In the early morning, the HMS Broad and its accompanying destroyers raided the port of Dieppe. The minelayers took the opportunity to break away from the fleet and sneak into the main channel of the English Channel to lay mines.

Looking at the port filled with thick smoke, Leo left with satisfaction. Although there were only some gunboats and merchant ships in Dieppe Port, even a mosquito leg is meat. It is not a bad thing to gain merit points by defeating them, and even happier things are yet to come.

[Report to the commander, the mines laid by your minelayer sank a destroyer at 7:33]

[Report to the commander, the mines laid by your minelayer sank a transport ship at 7:34]

In Leo's mind, he could already imagine the transport ship running in panic when encountering mines. Then the system received news of five more transport ships being sunk.

[Congratulations Commander for obtaining the Merit Points]