ALL NOVEL Chapter 250 Squid Shot
Under the blue sky, the waves are rolling.
Captain Zheng He walked out of the bridge in the early morning as usual, stood on the bow deck and watched the sea and sky.
Originally this was a beautiful picture, but for Zheng He who had been at sea for two weeks, even the most beautiful picture became boring.
What Zheng He saw was not the seascape, but the English task force under him.
That is, the Zilong Federation is specially used to 'blockade' the main fleet of the Iberian Peninsula.
The actual strength of this fleet is not strong. Even Zheng He's flagship is an outdated steam ironclad ship, and it is the only steam ironclad ship with an all-steel frame in the fleet.
The remaining dozen warships are all steam ships converted from sailing warships. They are still wooden hulls, but with steam engines added.
In addition to relying on sail power, you can also rely on steam power.
However, due to the average quality of steam engines, these modified sail steam warships often use steam power only when there is no wind and fighting.
The Zilong Federation has a history of sailing for hundreds of years, and has always been the sailing overlord of the known world. There are many island colonies, so many sailing battleships were accumulated before the first industrial revolution.
The Purple Dragon Federation doesn't have any decent opponents in the ocean, so in order to save costs, not many steam ironclad ships are built. Most of them are experimental technical reserve warships, which are built to climb the technology tree.
Therefore, the Zilong Federation has the most modified sailing warships with steam engines.
They are the foundation for Zilong Federation to maintain its ocean hegemony.
As for the steam ironclad ship, it exists more as a deterrent force.
There were no warships in the Iberian Peninsula at all. Naturally, the English task force led by Zheng He belonged to the lowest-grade ocean-going fleet. Except for the flagship, they were all refitted sailing warships.
Many sailing warships are hundreds of years old...
Of course, no matter how old these warships are, they are more than enough to deal with the Han Empire without a navy.
It is precisely because this fleet is not taken seriously that Zheng He can become the commander of this fleet.
Otherwise, the commander of a fleet would not be able to be held by a person of middle noble origin.
The Zilong Federation is a typical sea power country, and the gold content of naval officers is often higher than that of the army.
Therefore, Zheng He cherishes this opportunity very much. Being able to control a fleet alone is already worth bragging about for a lifetime among the middle-class aristocrats!
As a matter of course, every day after getting up, Zheng He would go to the deck to take a look at his own fleet to satisfy his vanity.
Today was the same as usual. After getting up and washing, Zheng He went to the deck to look around the group of ships for ten minutes, and then went back to have breakfast, but as soon as Zheng He stepped on the splint, there were terrified shouts from the surrounding crew and sailors.
Just when Zheng He was about to ask, several tentacles thicker than his waistline shot up from the sea!
The rushing water fell from the sky, watering Zheng He's well-maintained fleet commander's clothes.
But at this time Zheng He couldn't care about these anymore, he was completely stupid!
How can there be such a thick octopus tentacles in the world?
Could it be that I haven't woken up yet?
Just when Zheng He was in a daze, the tentacles slammed down and hit the deck. One of the tentacles just covered Zheng He's body and smashed Zheng He's head into his chest cavity, turning his whole body into an oval meat sauce... …
The commander of the English Task Force was killed immediately...
Of course, no matter whether the fleet commander is killed or not, it is meaningless to this naval battle. When the steam ironclad ship as the flagship was dragged into the sea by a giant squid, the entire English task force was completely messed up!
One giant squid rushed out of the sea one after another, tied up the Federation ship, and then dragged it directly into the sea!
The whirlpool formed by the rapid sinking of the ship quickly engulfed the federal sailors who jumped into the sea, and none of them survived!
In just half an hour, the entire English task force was dragged into the bottom of the sea by the giant squid...
Wang Ziming, who used the legion link to direct this scene, saw that there was no more federal ship on the sea, and gave the giant squids an order to eat, and then withdrew the spiritual power of the legion link.
This giant squid is really as I expected, it is extremely easy to use, dealing with the Federation Fleet is as easy as an adult beating a baby.
The next step is to drag all their ships into the bottom of the sea before the federal people on England Island can react!
Well, especially outbound ones!
To create a tide of fear among the Federals, as soon as the ship leaves port, it will be dragged to the bottom of the sea!
In this way, those civilian and commercial ships can be forced to stay in the harbor, and when I lead the army to land on England Island, they will not be escaped by those ships.
Wang Ziming did as soon as he thought of it.
The sea is the home of the giant squid. Relying on the ports of the Isle of England as the core, they constantly attacked the federal ships going out to sea, and deliberately sent a few small civilian ships back to the port to spread the terrible news.
The disappearance of the English task force made it difficult for England Island to come up with a new fleet, and only a few spare warships were available.
When the England Island military sent these warships out to eliminate the so-called 'sea monsters', the entire army was naturally wiped out...
However, a plan is a plan after all. After the real battle broke out, Wang Ziming found that the number of giant squids he had was too small to block the entire England Island, so many ships still fled back to the federal mainland .
As the news came back, the Federal Supreme Council, which was organizing the siege of the royal fief rebels, easily dispatched an expeditionary fleet consisting of hundreds of warships!
Among them are twelve steam ironclad ships!
The background of Zilong Federation is fully revealed!
The Supreme Council of the Zilong Federation will never allow itself to lose control of the sea, especially the control of the sea against the Han Empire!
It's fine if you can't beat Wang Ziming on land, but if you lose again on the sea, the Zilong Federation will face the threat of the mainland!
More importantly, England Island has been developed by the Zilong Federation with a lot of money, and there are a large number of military factories on it. Once it is occupied by the Han Empire, the military strength of the Han Empire can step on the shoulders of the Zilong Federation to leap to a level!
Now the Han Empire can only manufacture rifle ammunition and imitation five-link rifles.
Cannons and water-cooled heavy machine guns are unable to imitate, even if there are captured sample guns, there is no way...
The legacy arsenal in Reese City is too backward.
But the military factories on the island of England are all built according to the standards after the outbreak of science and technology, and can produce all federal active equipment such as grenades, water-cooled heavy machine guns and even heavy artillery!