Chapter 278

"The enemy ships have appeared?" Ma Yao was stunned: "have we reached the enemy's right wing?"

"No... no! General The voice of the observer was already trembling: "you'd better have a look for yourself..."

Ma Yao shook his head for some unknown reason. As soon as his figure unfolded, he rushed to the lookout tower and looked forward to the front of his fleet. In the blink of an eye, the expression on Ma Yao's face became as shocked as that observer!

"This... What's going on?" Ma Yao's eyes are not big. He stares at them! His face turned black, and his hands holding the railing of the observation platform turned white because of too much force... All kinds of signs clearly showed Ma Yao's inner panic at this time!

In fact, it's no wonder Ma Yao is so panicked, because what kind of Sea fleet is there in front of him and his fleet? It's a huge fleet of nearly 200 warships!

"No way! No way Ma Yao slapped the railing angrily and cried out: "what kind of fleet is opposite? In terms of scale, is it enough to divide into two first-class fleets? Isn't the sea fleet that escorts Prince Jingyun just an ordinary fleet? Where did all these warships come from? "

The messenger and the observer standing next to Ma Yao looked at each other helplessly and said to themselves, "General Ma, are you asking us this question?" You, the general in charge of command, don't know where the fleet in front of you came from. How can we, soldiers, know It seems that general pony was scared so much... "

After a while, the observer stepped forward gently and asked Ma Yao: "dare to ask... General Ma, we are now caught in the chain and can't move forward. There are a large number of unknown warships in front of us. How should we deal with them?"

"How to deal with it?" After being reminded by the observer, Ma Yao finally recovered, just like a cat whose tail had been trampled on, and shrieked: "does he still use me to give orders? Withdraw! Let's move back as fast as possible! The scale of the fleet in front of us can't compete with the fleet in charge of encirclement! If you go further, don't you want to die? "

After listening to Ma Yao, the observer quickly winked at the messenger, who quickly waved the flag in his hand and ordered the whole army to give up the encirclement task and retreat the same way!

However, the mysterious fleet in front of them has found their whereabouts before they have completely adjusted their bow! The reaction of this fleet is obviously much faster than that of Ma Yao. In addition, their bow is aimed at the direction of Ma Yao when they came. Therefore, as soon as Ma Yao's fleet is about to escape, this mysterious fleet rushes towards them at a faster speed!

Not only that, this fleet did not hesitate to attack Ma Yao's fleet with omni-directional and covering artillery! This made Ma Yao complain endlessly

As you know, the common feature of warships in Lingtian is that they are equipped with guns in the front and back of the ship. A standard battleship is equipped with four guns in the front and two guns in the back. Of course, each gun can rotate 180 degrees. That is to say, if you want to attack the enemy on the side, The muzzle of the gun must be rotated at least 90 degrees!

On the earth, warships have realized automation. Rotating the fort only needs a rocker or a button. But in Lingtian continent, where science and technology are relatively backward, the task of rotating the fort must be completed by manpower, which takes a lot of time!

Before, Ma Yao saw that the enemy was so powerful that he could not compete with him. He was so frightened that he wanted to run away quickly. How could he expect that the enemy's reaction speed would be so much faster than theirs? When other people's warships rushed on, Ma Yao's fleet was in the awkward situation of turning around to half!

In other words, the muzzle of the enemy's warship is just on the side of the Ma Yao fleet, while the muzzle of the Ma Yao fleet is completely on the other side, exposing the defenseless side of its fleet to the enemy!

It was too late for Ma Yao to take remedial measures. The number of the enemy's fleet was more than three times that of their side, and he launched a full-scale artillery attack when they had no fighting power. "Tongtong..." after a roar, 50 warships of Ma Yao's fleet were directly sunk by others!

"I'll be the second Olympic!" Seeing this, Ma Yao's eyes were red. He couldn't help saying, "are you all fools? Don't know to turn the muzzle to fight back quickly? Just waiting for someone else's shell? Waiting for our warships to sink one by one? He's a bunch of idiots! Idiot

The herald and the observer who stood beside Ma Yao looked at each other again. They were disgusted and said in secret: "who are you talking to? You're the top commander of the left flanking fleet, right? As soon as you see the large number of enemy ships, you are scared out of your wits and forget the steps of orderly retreat. Now that you are beaten, you want to put the blame on others? You don't have to talk about other people. In our opinion, you are an idiot! A coward

Although they scolded Ma Yao completely in their hearts, they didn't dare to say these words directly. The observation soldiers tried to comfort Ma Yao. They were very excited. The messenger soldiers waved the flag in their hands and ordered the ships to turn their guns and fight back to the enemy.

For a moment, the fire continued to flash and the gunfire rumbled! Many shells, dragging long tail flames in the dark night sky, cut through the sky and fell into the formation of the enemy fleet. How lively they were!

It was not only Ma Yao's left wing army that was obstructed by several times his own mysterious fleet, but also the right wing army was attacked by a considerable number of enemies! In this way, the decisive encirclement tactics originally recognized by General Ma completely fell into the void, and even the left and right fleets sent by him might be eaten up by the enemy!

"How could that be?" General Ma, who is on the top of the flagship and beside Prince Tang Feng, looks at the gunfire flashing at the left and right ends in front of him with a look of panic and doubt. His head is already in a cold sweat: "shouldn't the dominant party be our side? Why? Why are we the ones who are beaten to the ground? Where did Prince Jingyun and Cao Hong get so many warships? Are there really other forces involved in our war? "

Prince Tang Feng frowned, with a trace of impatience on his face, and said: "judging from the artillery fire on both sides, the number of enemies is really far more than that on our side..." at this point, Tang Feng could not help but pause. He tried to calm down and think about it carefully, and then said: "General Ma, you said that my brother is going to return to the Tongtian empire, Will it be a bureau set up by them? Its real purpose is to lead us here so as to concentrate our superior forces and wipe us out at one stroke The reason why my brother fled to the Tongtian empire after being pursued by us is to wait for their reinforcements, right? "

The general was shocked and said with difficulty: "it's true that as the prince said, the possibility is quite high in terms of the current situation... We really hit the crown prince and Cao Hong's plan!"

Prince Tang Feng gritted his teeth and said, "the key is, where did my brother get so many warships to help them?" I'm afraid that even if all the warships that the whole sea clan can fight were moved here, there would not be such a heavy artillery fire scale, right? "

General Ma will be a horizontal heart, firm way: "prince, now the situation is extremely unfavorable to us! Where did his highness get reinforcements from? It's not the most important problem It seems that the fleet in charge of encirclement on the left and right wings can't escape any more. Even if our troops want to give up chasing the prince, it's impossible to return to the sunset kingdom. The situation is reversed. If the prince is chasing us at the end when we run away, we can't run away safely! "

"What do you say?" Prince Tang Feng asked.

The general raised his hand in front of them and said in a cold voice, "for today's sake, we can only put all our eggs in one basket! The whole army is rushing to the fleet that is blocking our army I guess the prince and Cao hong must be there! As long as we capture the crown prince before the fleets on both sides rush back to help them, it is our side that will win the final victory! "

"Good!" Prince Tang Feng patted his thigh: "just do as you say, General Ma! My brother must have thought that when we saw that their reinforcements had arrived, we would turn around and run away. They also happened to chase and pick up bargains from behind. I certainly didn't expect that I would burn my bridges and fight with him to the end! "

Seeing that Prince Tang Feng had no objection, General Ma raided the whole army and gave the order to arrest the prince

At the moment, Prince Tang Yun, Cao Hong and Longnu are standing on the bow of their flagship ships. Just an hour ago, their fleet was finally successful. They joined the fleet that Wanghai city came to support them!

Now, Cao Ke has already planned to escort Prince Jingyun back to Tongtian empire! He sent Kanaka to return to Wanghai city. He told master Cao to mobilize the fleet of Wanghai city to drive to the present place to meet Prince Jingyun's fleet, and then annihilate Prince Tangfeng and the fleet of sunset kingdom. In this way, it is not only possible to catch Prince Tangfeng as the culprit, There is also a chance to greatly weaken the naval strength of the sunset Kingdom and pave the way for the sea people to fight back against the sunset kingdom in the future