Chapter 1198 Long-Range Firefight

After the Britannian army's attack fell, the Frankish army's counterattack was launched immediately.

The same huge rocks and huge arrows roared towards the Britannia army.

"Get out of the way! Turn the helm!" Blaise shouted, waving his knight's sword and instructing his men to get out of the way quickly to avoid the huge rocks and crossbow bolts thrown by the Frank army.

This battle was the first battle of the Anga Lake Water War.

Since this is the first battle, naturally we cannot neglect it.

The victory or defeat in the first battle will have a certain impact on the morale of the entire army.

Therefore, whether it is the Britannian Army or the Frankish Army, the troops involved in this first battle are their respective elite divisions.

The soldiers who followed Blaise into battle to face the enemy were all top-notch elites in the navy who had participated in countless battles to annihilate pirates.

As the first-class elites in the navy, they are quite good at manipulating equipment on board and ships.

Under the command of Blaise, the generals on the ship were steering wildly, and their warships were twisting and turning like loaches on the vast surface of Lake Anga.

Although in terms of intensity of firepower, the vanguard of the Frankish Army was not inferior to the vanguard of the Britannian Army.

But - the hit rate of the Frankish Army's vanguard was really poor compared to that of the Britannia Army.

There are two reasons why the hit rate is much lower than that of the Britannia Army:

Reason 1: The ships of the Britannian Army were too small compared to the ships of the Frankish Army. Hard to hit.

The second reason: The Britannian Army's ships have been dodging flexibly, making it more difficult for the Frankish Army to hit them.

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The vanguard units of the two armies seemed to have free boulders and crossbow bolts. They seemed to be going crazy, pouring firepower at each other.

In this long-range shootout, the Britannia Army had the upper hand.

Although the ships of the Frankish army have been fighting back hard, their hit rate is only a fraction of that of the Britannia army.

From the perspective of the Frank army, they were stoning kittens.

From the perspective of the Britannia Army, they were using rocks to hit the big tiger.

The Frankish ships were so big that it was very easy to hit them.

The ships of the Frankish army were traveling very fast, but their ships still had a fatal weakness: the ships were not able to turn flexibly.

In short, it's just not flexible enough.

With such a large size and poor flexibility, I don’t know how to hide even if I want to.

To give a vivid example: Throw a stone at a big tiger. Although the big tiger dodges very flexibly, when it dodges, it just jumps a step to the side, causing its butt to be replaced by its head. s position.

To put it simply, this tiger just changed the part where it was hit from the head to the butt. It still couldn't escape the fate of being hit by the stone.

The Britannia Army has no worries in this regard.

The ships of the Britannia Army were small enough and flexible enough, allowing them to easily dodge left and right, avoiding the boulders and crossbow bolts of the Frankish Army.

Frankish ships were constantly hit,

The ships of the Britannian Army continued to avoid attacks.

Under such ebb and flow, the Britannian army gradually suppressed the Frankish army under this long-range exchange of fire.

Looking at the Frank ships that were constantly being hit by their boulders and crossbow bolts, Blaise thought to himself:

——Sure enough...exactly the same as our previous inference...

——Although the ships of the Frankish army are large, their flexibility is really poor.

——In long-distance battles, we have the advantage because of our greater flexibility and smaller attack area!

Before the Anga Lake Water War started, Su Cheng had held countless meetings with Mu De and the others.

In so many meetings, Su Cheng and others made various conjectures and inferences about the performance of Frankish ships.

Su Cheng and others unanimously concluded that although the ships of the Frankish army were large, their flexibility should be very poor.

Now it seems that it is indeed the case. Su Cheng and the others were right in their inference.

In a long-range exchange of fire with the huge and less agile Frankish warships, the Britannia army was indeed more advantageous.

However - although the Britannian Army's hit rate was much higher than that of the Frankish Army, after such a long time, Blaise and the others still failed to successfully sink even one Frankish Army ship.

Blaise saw with his own eyes that two battleships had been riddled with holes by their boulders and crossbow bolts, but they had not sunk at all.

If it were the strongest No. 1 warship in their Britannia army, it would have sunk long ago after suffering so many attacks.

The Frankish ship sank, but Blaise's face gradually darkened.

——This level of sturdiness... is really amazing...

——After being hit by so many attacks, there is no sign of sinking...

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While Blaise's face darkened, someone from the Frank Army also darkened his face.

Frankish army, vanguard——

"Tsk..." Ge Yunse, whose face was full of displeasure, curled his lips out of impatience and annoyance.

As Otto's adjutant, he received Otto's order and led 20 warships to attack the vanguard of the Britannia army.

The reason why they only brought 20 warships was because both Otto and he believed that with only 20 new warships of their Frankish Empire, they could easily destroy all the ships of the Britannian Army.

However, now it seems that both he and Otto overestimated the performance of their new warships and underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Britannian warships.

Although their new warships are large and strong, their flexibility is far less than any type of ship of the Britannian Army.

This also made them suffer a lot when engaging in long-range firefights with the Britannian Army's ships.

They could not hit the Britannian Army's ships, but the Britannian Army could focus on them.

This "unfair" battle had long made Ge Yunser angry.

"This can't go on..." Ge Yunser whispered in a voice that only he could hear.

Use your own strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses - this is Ge Yunser's principle of using troops.

What is the biggest advantage of their Frankish warships compared to the Britannian warships?

Undoubtedly, it is the size and strength of the ships.

Once you have figured out the most advantageous points of your army, it will be easier to formulate a strategy to meet the enemy.

"Order!"

Geunser shouted.

"Stop shooting!"

"Ramp the enemy ship!"

Relying on the unparalleled size and strength of their warships, ramming and sinking the Britannian warships - this is Geunser's new strategy to fight the enemy.

After receiving Geunser's order, the Frankish ships stopped shooting at the Britannian army one by one.

With Geunser's main ship as the center, the ships gathered together and formed a huge wedge formation, pressing towards the Blaze army's warships.