Another World: Naval Storm

Chapter 163: Vengeance

"Yes, fortunately we can go home!" Doyle sighed and felt a little relieved.

The Battle of Simbrica, from night to day, the Drakes' highly mobile tactics and precise gunnery opened Doyle's eyes. This native of Albion, who had heard about the Royal Navy's centuries-long march across the oceans and witnessed the Union Jack flying all over the world, realized that Taron's throne in the North Atlantic was already precarious.

"Doyle, get down!" Doyle, who was still distracted, was suddenly knocked down by Jackson, and a violent shock came from the cold steel plate under him.

The two men fell on the deck and looked to the starboard side. There was a destroyer and the 102mm gun, 76mm rapid-fire gun and 37mm gun in front of it were firing desperately.

"Jackson! It's a torpedo! There's a Drake submarine! Go help!"

"You have to be careful!" The two men ran to the two gun positions respectively and took on their respective responsibilities.

The fast battleship HMS Vengeance, which had to return early due to damage, was ambushed by Drake's U-boat. Mehus gained the supreme honor of completely sinking one of Talen's latest battleships to the bottom of the sea.

The tragic HMS Vengeance had never thought that it would encounter a Drake submarine so close to the mainland of Talen. The HMS Vengeance survived two torpedoes with the desperate efforts of the damage control soldiers, but its important keel had been severely damaged. Even if it was repaired, the HMS Vengeance could not sail in the open ocean.

The Battle of Simbrica on April 4th made people's blood boil when they heard about it. The two most powerful dreadnought fleets in the world, which were sworn enemies, met each other.

At the beginning of the naval battle, the Oceanic Fleet fell into an unexpected disadvantage. The Oceanic Fleet collided with the Grand Fleet, which had already deployed its battle line, in a column formation.

At this time, Vice Admiral Malawi suddenly appeared and led the six pre-dreadnoughts of the Second Battleship Squadron to launch a decisive charge towards the battle line of the Grand Fleet, covering the formation of the Ocean Fleet.

Navies from other countries around the world expressed admiration for the actions of Admiral Malawi and the Second Battleship Squadron and admired the bravery of Vice Admiral Malawi.

The most anticipated dreadnought battle line decisive battle actually lasted for more than ten minutes in a dull manner. The result of no achievement certainly could not satisfy Admiral Leon. After all, the Ocean Fleet had already gained the upper hand after the battle line was deployed.

When Admiral Leon could no longer suppress his emotions, good news one after another eased his anger.

The Reckless sank due to an explosion in her ammunition magazine.

The Ajax was sunk by its own destroyer because of severe damage to the hull and excessive water intake.

At the beginning of the battle line bombardment, the British had twenty-one battleships, while the Great Ocean Fleet had only seventeen battleships. In order to avoid the four Nassau-class battleships of the First Battle Fleet Squadron at the end of the battle line from being hit by the concentrated fire of the Grand Fleet, Admiral Lyon had to issue a dangerous order to incorporate two old Prussian-class battleships into the battle line to make up the numbers. Fortunately, the German battleships had super strong protection, which allowed the two old Prussian-class battleships to withstand the attack on the battle line for a while longer.

After the sinking of the HMS Reckless and the HMS Ajax, the numerical disadvantage of the High Seas Fleet was reversed. In order to reap the fruits of victory, Admiral Leon did not gradually and evenly distribute the firepower, but instead concentrated his forces to ensure a local firepower advantage over the Talens.

King Friedrich and Kaiser focused their fire on the battleship Centurion of the Grand Fleet, while Nassau directly joined the battle group of Hannover and Bellerophon. The time for the High Ocean Fleet to reap the fruits was about to come.

However, the Grand Fleet seemed to be blessed by God. No matter how hard the gunners of the Ocean Fleet tried, they could not achieve any results during this period of time. Instead, the Schilesia exploded and sank due to continuous bullets in this wave of confrontation.

Then the High Ocean Fleet began to exert its strength again. Helgoland hit the Titanic continuously, causing its bow to be pierced, forcing the Titanic to withdraw from the battle.

The Aussiland's counterattack was accurate and fast. After hitting the Collingwood four times, the Collingwood could only barely parry in the face of the Aussiland's rain of bullets.

Seeing that the battleship Collingwood was about to be sunk, Jericho's decisiveness saved it. The Iron Duke was the first to send out the retreat flag, no longer maintaining a complete battle line, and withdrew from the battle in an inglorious way by turning and retreating at high speed of the squadron.

The decisiveness of the Grand Fleet made the Oceanic Fleet somewhat overwhelmed, but since the Grand Fleet withdrew, the victory of this naval battle belonged to the Drake Empire.

The long battle lines, the mighty steel warships, the endless smoke, the trajectory of the shells, the high-speed destroyers, the thick smoke that stretches for miles, the beauty of cyberpunk is reflected in the eyes of the high-altitude Drake pilots.

A 350mm armor-piercing shell flew into the battleships of the large fleet in six-column formation. The huge explosion indicated that a giant steel ship had suffered severe damage. Flames and thick smoke were clearly visible in the sky.

Drake pilot Terry Xia was flying a two-seat seaplane in a circle over the Talen fleet. Ouning Lant, who was sitting in the back seat, was flipping through a ship identification manual, identifying the battleships of the fleet below one by one.

They took off from the Zeppelin assigned to the First Scouting Fleet. The Drake Navy now only had two seaplane carriers converted from merchant ships. The other was the Pirtz assigned to the Ocean Fleet.

The seaplane driven by Terry now needs to be craned onto the water surface before it can take off, and the only self-defense weapon is a pistol. This makes Leo very dissatisfied. This is not what he wants, but fortunately, any technology is slowly being improved, and he can afford to wait.

"Ou Ning, are we just going to watch this?" Terry shouted loudly to Ou Ning in the back seat, and the cold wind blew directly into his mouth.

"So what! Our mission is just reconnaissance! Besides, the plane's rear-firing machine gun has been removed, and we only have two pistols for self-defense. What's the use?" Ou Ning also responded loudly.

"Look what this is?" Terry took out two iron lumps from under his feet.

"WC, when did you load the grenades?"

"Don't worry about it, will you do it?"

"Let's do it!" Ou Ning was also a bold man. Just now, he was trying hard to suppress the urge to throw the maintenance wrench under him down to kill the Taren people.

Terry-Xia smiled happily, pushed the joystick lightly, slowly lowered the flight altitude, and picked out the unlucky ones in the fleet.

"Ou Ning, that's the one we're looking for. Aim carefully. I only have two grenades with me!" Terry's eyes were fixed on the huge steel battleship, the St. George, which was traveling at high speed.

"Don't worry, I'm much more accurate at throwing grenades than you are! Go ahead~~"

Ou Ning leaned half of his body out of the seaplane, shouting and screaming as the plane dived down.