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Chapter 397 Chapter 395: Silver Sea Chaos (Subscription Request)
In a certain area above the Silver Sea, two navies are fighting hard.

On one side flew the flags of the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Bonaparte Empire.

Their warships were mainly made of wood, all three-track sailing ships, with many magic cannons installed on both sides of the hull. Every attack was a volley of artillery fire, and the hull shook.

Although these warships were not small in size, they were at least much larger than ordinary merchant ships and pirate ships.

But compared to their enemies, they are nothing.

A flag was flying at the highest point of the ironclad ship, and the strong wind made it rustle.

Before, although the Empire also had ironclad ships, their number was extremely small, and the most famous one was the Emden, which liked to hang around outside.

But when the war started, everyone discovered that the number of ironclad ships of the Habsburg Empire was more than they had imagined.

These warships are silver-white all over, sparkling with metallic luster under the sun, and have magical energy flowing through them. They are themselves huge magical machines.

They are generally several times larger, and when put together with other warships, it's like adults bullying children.

The steel hull also has a greater carrying capacity, and the magic cannons installed on it are all the most advanced and specially designed for naval battles.

Both the range and power are far superior.

There were not many of them, only three. The enemy had at least a fleet, with more than twenty large warships and more than fifty small and medium-sized escort ships of various types.

In a melee between the two sides, the ironclad ship should be at an absolute disadvantage.
But they did not choose to fight head-on, but fought and retreated!

The magic-powered ironclad ships have faster speeds, and the more advanced magic cannons have longer ranges and greater power. When coupled with sufficiently professional artillery, the accuracy of the shelling is far greater.

So, they hung far away, like flying a kite, and carried out precise strikes outside the enemy's range.

Of course, the commander of the allied forces of the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Bonaparte Empire was no good either.

They responded quickly after losing several warships.

On the one hand, they sent out many of the fastest warships to the front to attract as much firepower as possible.

On the other hand, other warships were sent to encircle the enemy from both flanks to cut off their retreat.

As long as they act fast enough, they can take advantage of their numbers and encircle the ironclad ships.

By then, even if they all rushed forward, no matter how powerful the ironclad ships' firepower was, it would be impossible to destroy all the warships.

Only when they get close can their magic cannons show their power. They can even squeeze together and use boarding warfare to attack the ironclad ship.

This tactic is certainly feasible to a certain extent, but the cost is also extremely heavy.

The naval battles between the two sides were fought back and forth in this sea area. From time to time, a warship would explode and turn into a burning fireball.
Countless naval soldiers wailed in fear, jumped into the sea, or were burned to death.

But there is no other solution!
The generation gap in equipment is so unsolvable that the Bonaparte Empire has felt it deeply since the war began.

Of course, it's not like they really have no ability to fight back at all.

There was a fourth-order natural disaster strongman who led a number of extraordinary warriors and came from the air and launched a direct surprise attack, intending to use decapitation tactics to kill all the navy of the Habsburg Empire.

They couldn't solve the disadvantage of warships, but the problem would be solved as long as they killed all the imperial navy.

This is another version of: If you can't solve the problem, then solve the person who raised the problem!

However, there were also many strong men on the ironclad ship, and with the help of artillery fire, the battle between the two sides was difficult to determine.

This naval battle lasted for several hours, stretched over hundreds of nautical miles, and was littered with wreckage of warships.

As it was getting dark, both sides stopped fighting and rested, licking their wounds.

However, this does not mean the end of the war!
In fact, both sides were constantly gathering troops, and various warships were gathering more and more.

By daybreak, the coalition forces had more than 120 warships, and the Imperial Navy had five more ironclad ships and twenty wooden tri-track warships.

As a result, the two sides fought a brutal and long naval battle in the vast sea.

They each use their own methods and show their abilities.

The coalition forces used powerful methods including but not limited to legendary magic, summoning of sea beasts, underwater raids, decapitation of the Scourge Squad, etc.

The Empire was not willing to be outdone, and also used new killing techniques including underwater bombs, fixed-point torpedoes, infrasound waves to drive away sea beasts, and precise sniping with guns and artillery.

Especially the precise sniping of guns and cannons, a fourth-level magic gunner sniped thousands of meters away in the chaotic battlefield. A group of natural disaster warriors were fighting fiercely, but the enemy's head suddenly exploded. Neither the fighting spirit protection nor the magic defense worked.

Not to mention the coalition forces' natural disasters, even the powerful natural disaster masters on the Empire's side felt horrified.

Fortunately, there are very few magic gunners like this, and the specially made bullets are even rarer, otherwise, even the powerful scourge warriors would have to cower in fear.

Of course, the most effective ones are the underwater bombs.

It is fired through a special magic cannon, which has a final locking function. It can reach the bottom of the enemy ship silently and then explode loudly.

Needless to say, its lethality was huge. The most important thing was that for a long time, the coalition forces didn't even know where the attack came from, causing the naval soldiers on the warships to panic and have no desire to fight.

And at a higher level, even more legendary strongmen appeared and confronted each other.

In this battle, even with the strength of the ironclad ships, one of them lost its power and was hit by concentrated artillery fire, eventually capsizing and sinking to the bottom of the sea.

This is the first imperial ironclad ship to capsize since the war, and it also proves that this kind of steel machinery is not invincible!

Of course, the price paid by the coalition forces to achieve this result was extremely exaggerated.

Among the powerful natural disasters alone, more than a handful of people died, and even more were injured.

As for the destroyed warships and dead naval personnel, the number is even more difficult to count.

Anyway, after the war, all that was floating on the sea were either corpses, broken fences, or floating buckets.

This battle was called the Silver Sea Battle by later historians.

In this battle, the Empire fought against the Allied Forces, and the ironclad ships and traditional warships fought desperately. Although the result was a loss for both sides, there was no real winner.
But there is no doubt that the ironclad ships, with their extremely excellent battle loss ratio, told all the great nobles and emperors of the kingdoms in the Old Continent that
In the future, the mode of naval warfare will also change!

Although this battle was not as historically influential as the Battle of Antwerp, it was far more shocking and cruel.

Of course, although this was the largest naval battle on the Silver Sea, it was definitely not all.

In another sea area, the pirates jumped onto a merchant ship, howling and slashing at anyone and stealing anything they saw.

In just half an hour, there was only a merchant ship covered in flames, which gradually sank into the sea.

And, a fully loaded pirate ship sailed against the wind and waves, moving farther away.

In another sea area, the Sardinian fleet was sailing, but suddenly fog spread, accompanied by ethereal chanting sounds.

It carries a power that makes people obsessed and sink, making their eyelids heavier and heavier, and finally falling into a dream.

After a while, holes were dug in the bottoms of the warships, seawater poured in, and the warships sank.
Sailors drowned in their sleep without even a struggle.

Only two powerful natural disasters woke up at the last moment, flew into the sky again, and escaped from the sinking warship.

Looking down, their faces looked extremely ugly.

In another area, on the sea, a naval warship of the Bonaparte Empire was attacked.

The attackers were from the sea tribe. They were a group of shark people with dorsal fins. They held their weapons high and drove huge sea beasts to ram the ships desperately.

Although Bonaparte's navy fought desperately, they could only watch the ships tilt and sink.

No matter how good a swimmer the navy soldiers who fell into the water were, they were all food for the shark people.

……

After the Kingdom of Sardinia declared war on the Habsburg Empire, it certainly would not sit idly by.

Although their speed was not as fast as that of the Slavic Empire, large numbers of the kingdom's navy gathered under the orders of the Queen of Sardinia.

They joined forces with the navy of the Bonaparte Empire, preparing to deal a heavy blow to the Habsburg Empire on the Silver Sea, and preparing to transport troops from the sea to land in the Bonaparte Empire.

As a result, the war spread to the empire's homeland.

Of course, it is impossible for the Imperial Cabinet to fail to see such an obvious strategy.

Thus, throughout August of the 314th year of the New God Calendar, the two sides engaged in a brutal battle on the Silver Sea, and the Silver Sea was no longer as peaceful and tranquil as before.

When the news reached Flower Territory, Luo Yi looked at the battle report and felt an immense headache.

(End of this chapter)