Chapter 746: ?Chopping grass and rooting

Everyone in the East China Sea Fleet knew that by doing so, they were only slowing the rise of the Evernight Army's navy.
They are now at the gate of Yongye Army Leader's house. As long as they are given a little time, they can salvage the relatively complete battleship.
Repairing a battleship is much easier than building one.
Not to mention that the Yongye Army was led on the Donau River and captured many of their warships intact.
With forty battleships that were not available, the Yongye army leader turned them around.
If you have a large number of old-fashioned warships and refit them on this basis, where will the East China Sea go?
This pessimistic atmosphere enveloped the entire East China Sea Fleet, greatly dispelling their joy of escaping from the Donau River.
Because they just jumped from a small encirclement to another larger encirclement.
This battle with Yong Yejun was undoubtedly a blow.
Thoroughly awakened the subjects of East China Sea who were immersed in the dream of maritime empire.
Their dream of the empire seems so ridiculous at this time.
They always thought that they had surrounded the Yongye army leader from the sea.
It now appears that the reverse is complete, and it was the leader of the Yongye Army who surrounded the East China Sea from the land.
Perhaps they wanted to treat them as big fish raised in the pond in their back garden from the beginning, and when they grew fat enough, they carried the cutting board and slaughtered the soup.
Statistics of the war damages of the East China Sea have been gradually released.
At the beginning, Steubin led the main fleet with three Dreadnought-class schooners, eight Dreadnought-class schooners, 50 Hurricane-class, 70-breaking waves, and more than 2,000 small and modified warships. .
When retreating from the Donao River, the three Dreadnought-class horizontal sailing ships were all captured by the Yongye Army leader.
Two of the eight Dreadnought-class schooners went, one was sunk on the Donau River, and the other sunk on the breakout road.
There are only 23 Hurricane-class warships left, and the surviving ones are more or less wounded. Its major damage is the ten former mine-breaking warships. Although they assisted the East China Sea Fleet in breaking the ground and stabbing the reef Array and Black Powder Water Thunder Array, but they have also been targeted by the Dragon Roar, and none of them can break out from the Donao River.
In addition to those captured and sunk by the leader of the Eternal Night on the Donau River, as well as the previous fog and melee, less than half of the surviving warships have been left.
Thirty-four Broken-class warships are left. Their condition is slightly better than that of Hurricane-class ships, but they are relatively limited. However, only a few are directly planted on the Donau River. The real damage to the big head is the same as their own. Melee.
As for small and modified warships, there are already less than 800.
For Steubin, these warships themselves existed like cannon fodder. The charge is at the forefront and the retreat is at the end. All dangerous tasks are carried out by them, not to mention the ancillary characteristics of the Yongye Army’s special artillery shells. Those large warships are not easy to use, but against them, the lethality is one by one, and heavy damage is inevitable.
Although the rescue fleet led by Prince Leiden had not suffered such a heavy loss, it also reached 30%.
The two fleets were combined into one, and the number of warships failed to reach the peak size of the East China Sea Fleet when the main force was on the expedition.
Such a terrifying proportion of battle damages made the kings and ministers of the East China Sea trembled.
This does not include the squadron led by Captain Xiamor. There is a Dreadnought-class schooner, two Dreadnought-class schooners, 15 Hurricane-class, 20 Wave-breaking-class, and 1,000 warships. .
If they defected collectively.
Then it is not a battle damage issue.
It's a matter of positive and negative.
The maritime power led by Yongye Army has entered a blowout state, and its maritime power has directly tripled or quadrupled.
The military strength of the East China Sea is directly cut in half, let alone a series of complications after the defeat.
The East China Sea itself did not have a stable situation on the island and completely collapsed.
Those captains and captains who responded to the call of Steuben and led the warship and crew on the expedition, not only did not get the expected gains, but also lost their troops. They will inject a series of losses and crimes on the ruler of the East China Sea. Stupin.
The East China Sea is called a country, but in essence, they are still the pirate group called the Third Fleet.
It is a model that can be rich and noble.
When they have enough common interests, they can come together under the same banner.
If faced with a huge threat, they may fall apart at any time.
Sure enough, the Yongye Army leader would not let the East China Sea Fleet return so easily.
After all the warships were fully replenished with supplies, they immediately became incarnations of predatory sharks, using their speed advantages to spin around the East China Sea Fleet.
This time Dragon Roar followed as the flagship of the Explorer fleet.
Most of the time, the Dragon Roar just looked at it from a distance, not to mention the magic guided gun, even the ship-borne gun was rarely used.
But the more it is like this, the more mysterious it becomes, because the East China Sea Fleet has experienced its horror and power, and the greater its deterrence, it is like a heavy stone, which is too heavy for people to breathe. Get out of breath.
In this way, the Explorer fleet followed the East China Sea Fleet for two days and two nights. On the third night, a large-scale disturbance occurred within the East China Sea Fleet.
Xiao En, who was listening to the summary after the war in Donau Plain, received the report, and his main consciousness immediately shifted to the Dragon Roar and asked, "What's the matter?"
General Arnold, the captain of the Explorer Fleet, reported in detail: "Tonight's wind direction suddenly changed. In the East China Sea Fleet, a small number of warships suddenly bulged their sails and separated from the East China Sea Fleet. The main channel, immediately after the East China Sea Fleet, reacted, biting the part of the warship that left the channel."
"What do you think of the general?" Xiao En asked, motionless.
"My initial guess is that our continued pressure tactics have achieved initial success. The internal morale of the East China Sea Fleet has collapsed. Some people have moved carefully and want to disembark from the devastated warship of the East China Sea. In order to avoid the spread of such dangerous thoughts, extreme high-pressure methods will be used to suppress them. If we are at this time, we will take the initiative to intercept Steubin’s pursuit fleet and let these two-minded people go. , They will help us further divide the East China Sea, so that we can completely eat them in the future."
General Arnold had obviously considered this question before then, and replied in a clear manner, "But there is another possibility here, that is, Steuben has been stunned by our fleet, and set up a situation to lure us. Take the initiative to attack. When we intersect, the fleet chasing in front will turn around and give us a knife."
"What do you estimate the size of the two possibilities?" Sean continued to ask.
"September is open. There are nine possibilities for splitting and defecting. There is only one possibility for trapping. After all, they have seen the psychedelic white fog. This trick is useful for us." General Arnold conservatively estimated.
"The general meant that I wanted to make a fight!" Xiao En used affirmative sentences instead of interrogative sentences.
"Yes!" General Arnold nodded, and then showed a little shyness again, "It's just that the Explorer fleet is related to the situation in the entire East China Sea. It may be lost again, so I want to ask Lord Lord to help us sit down just in case."
"Understood." Xiao En nodded clearly, "Get started!"
"Thank you Lord Lord." General Arnold walked away quickly after giving a military salute.
General Arnold asked Sean to come over, really just sitting here.
The Explorer fleet has drawn the two sides very close and is ready to attack.
Just like the other roads, although Sean has a avatar resident on the Dragon Roar, it does not mean that the various affairs and decisions of the Explorer fleet are all taken to him.
Doing so is distracting one's own energy and not conducive to cultivating the autonomy of the marshals.
Soon the results of General Arnold's analysis appeared.
The internal contradictions of the East China Sea Fleet have indeed begun to intensify, and they are not taking the opportunity to attack the Explorer fleet.
After the explorer fleet came forward to intercept, not only the separated warships ran faster than the rabbits, it even triggered a chain reaction.
Some East China Sea Fleet warships that were in the process of pursuing have also joined the ranks of fleeing.
Just like General Arnold said earlier, the East China Sea is now an out-and-out broken ship, let alone this broken ship, with powerful enemies on its side.
After all, there are only a few who want to coexist and die with this broken ship. After a long time, the passengers on it will naturally plan for themselves.
In particular, the news that the Captain Xiamor led the squadron to defect collectively and led the team to attack the Great Bay Islands. After being spread inside the East China Sea Fleet, the morale of them was low and caused further destruction.
Under this circumstance, the East China Sea Fleet was unable to continue the interception, the defector's Captain Xiamor's plan.
Let's not talk about whether it is possible to intercept Xiamor directly on the vast sea, even if it is intercepted.
Is Steubin pulling back more defectors?
Or did Captain Xiamor bewitch more people from the East China Sea Fleet to defect?
Still unknown!
Steubin and Dong Haiguo can't afford to gamble.
Although I don't want to admit it, this time the East China Sea battle is over.
They ended up losing their pants.
In order to prevent his lair from being upended by those who wanted to disembark, Steuben could only order the East China Sea Fleet to return.
The Explorer fleet is like a little tail, hanging behind them.
As the distance between the two fleets gets closer, the distance between the two fleets is far less, and the number of attacks will be far fewer. In the end, they only circled the area of ​​50 nautical miles outside the islands, and did not go deep into them.
Although the Explorer fleet bears the name of Explorer, his supreme commander, General Arnold, is a cautious person.
In many cases, we don't think about winning, but about losing first.
This is exactly why Sean put him in this position.
Because the Explorer fleet is too important to the leader of Yongye.
This is their only maritime power at present.
For every point they lose, their sea power will weaken a little.
Even the captain of the Seamore fleet led the squadron to surrender collectively.
That was also based on the premise that the Yongye Army leader had sufficient sea power.
If this force is damaged, even if Xiamor rebels back to the side of the East China Sea without leading a team, his right to speak will change, and there will even be scenes of bullying.
As long as they continue to maintain their current military advantage, over time, it will only be a matter of time before the East China Sea State is eradicated.
"Siamore, you bastard, I, Steubin Commons, will be at odds with you in this life. One day, I will scratch your head to pay homage to my people!" At the bow, he gritted his teeth and swore that the anger in his heart was so hot, the roots of the teeth were bitten so hard, the blood from the gums would be bitten out.
Because they were greeted by a burning Great Bay Islands.
Not one city or one port is burning, but countless cities and countless ports are burning, and the entire Dawan Islands is full of the smell of barbecue.
Xiamor not only betrayed, and led the squadron to attack the Great Bay Islands, doing even better than Stubin had imagined.
He not only borrowed his family, shelled all the important ports of the East China Sea, took away artisans and a large number of resident ships here, but also set off countless fires in those ports and shipyards that could not be taken away.
When Steuben led the East China Sea Fleet back, many ports and shipyards had burnt to nothing.
This is no longer a matter of ten years of hard work, it is cutting the roots of their East China Sea!
Stubbs didn't know that Captain Shiamore was a little confused this time.
The reason for this horror in the Great Bay Islands is that, on the one hand, the soldiers led by the Eternal Night Army leader mixed in the Siamor fleet captain's squadron, on the other hand, are created by their pirate nature.
Isn't that what they did when they plundered their enemies before?
It's just that the looted objects this time have become themselves.
"Your Majesty, please be sorry. Now anger does not help. The most important thing is, what should we do next?" The loyal Captain Lena asked everyone who dare not ask, but was extremely concerned.
As soon as this question exited, everyone fell on Steubin's body.
"You, what, what, meaning, thinking?" Steubin asked rhetorically.
Everyone can hear ~EbookFREE.me~ the suppressed anger behind this, everyone involuntarily wiped a sweat for Captain Lena, this question seems to be asked at a wrong time, and it is at the moment that Steuben is the most The node of rage.
Fleet Captain Lena seemed to look at the worried eyes around him, as if he hadn’t seen Stupin’s anger, and said: "The situation is now clear. With the participation of Siamore, plus the warship captured from our hands, Yongye The military commander will have enough sea power. Before they complete the modification of these warships, if we do not make a decision to change the status quo, we have only two destinies, one is to join the Yongye Commander obediently, and the other is Completely wiped out by them."
"..." Steubin opened his mouth, but he couldn't utter a rebuttal.
Because in the face of cruel reality, any rebuttal is self-deception.
Even an ordinary sailor can tell how much advantage Yong Ye Jun leader has against the East China Sea now, let alone Steubin.
In the end, Steuben said with a bit of irritation: "Do you want this king to abandon the Great Bay Islands and give up the foothold we finally got?"