Another World: Naval Storm

Just as Leo was wreaking havoc in the English Channel, kicking the lame giant Taren's good leg.

"The Tarun people are such losers. They lost so many warships and soldiers, but they couldn't even take the Dardanelles! The idea of ​​establishing a supply line from the Black Sea to the Rakshasa Empire has come to nothing! You know, the empire needs a huge amount of supplies every day, and the existing transportation lines can't meet them at all." Lieutenant General Kotsar, commander of the Rakshasa Empire's Black Sea Fleet, sneered as he looked at the ruins of the Ottoman port of Tebzhenzong in the distance.

What made him say this shamelessly was the neatly arranged Black Sea Fleet behind him. The huge scale of 5 battleships, 3 cruisers and 15 destroyers made him arrogant now.

"Commander, don't underestimate them. The Ottomans' performance in recent battles is amazing. They have begun to call themselves the rising lions!" Major General Alyosha, Chief of Staff of the Black Sea Fleet, said in a deep voice.

"Haha, lions? Are you kidding? They are still sick men! In the 12 wars between Russia and the Ottomans over the past hundred years, we won more and lost less. Even when we lost, we still got a lot of land. Today, let us teach the Tarun people how to beat up the sick Ottomans!"

"It's different now. The Draks have provided a lot of supplies and trained German-style troops. Their combat effectiveness is incomparable!"

"It doesn't matter, we can just pile them up and kill them!" This is the traditional thinking of the Rakshasa people, to overwhelm the opponent with numbers.

"Yeah... that's right. We do have the upper hand on the Black Sea. The battlecruisers Goel and Wroclaw sold to them by the Ottomans, or the Drakes, are capable of a fight!"

“Without numbers, even a lion will be preyed upon by a pack of wolves!” After attacking Tebzhenzong, the Black Sea Fleet continued to search for the Ottoman transport fleet on the sea, but they were unlucky. When the Ottomans learned that the port of Tebzhenzong had been attacked, they hid and retreated the nearby ships.

The Ottoman fleet commander, Vice Admiral Aini, led his fleet with unparalleled courage to block the returning Rakshasa fleet.

"They are looking for death! Order all battleships to move closer to me! Then turn and seize a favorable formation!" Kochar still had some skills. His idea was to use a long-range multi-ship coordinated artillery attack on the same target to concentrate fire to kill the enemy ships, but there were some problems with his two orders. The Black Sea Fleet, whose officers and soldiers generally had low quality, could not execute them well.

In addition, he overestimated the performance of the old battleships of the Black Sea Fleet. When Andrei's flagships Eta and Ivankas had completed the turning action, the three old battleships could not even do the basic braking of the turning. Not only did the horizontal formation he imagined fail to form, but it was even out of touch due to the different speeds of the fleet. The fleet immediately panicked, and the auxiliary warships hiding at the outermost periphery did not dare to come forward to help. Their weak bodies appeared in the center of the battle, which would be a death wish.

The Black Sea Fleet is on the decline and has only five old battleships to keep it together. Vice Admiral Eini, who owns a new Drak battlecruiser, is willing to take a gamble with himself.

Although the Rokshasas have five battleships and the number of 305mm main guns exceeds the Goel battlecruiser's 10 305mm main guns, the service condition of the Rokshasas' battleships is too poor. The Eta, Ivankas and Popov are almost outdated. When they were put into service, the dreadnoughts equipped by Drake had already been in service for five years. The Avislia and Slavster are even grandfather-generation turret ships with weak defense.

The three battleships Eta, Ivankas and Popov were responsible for the main battle. Their main guns had a caliber of 3 mm and a maximum elevation angle of 305 degrees. The main guns of the Televislia had an elevation angle of only 35 degrees, and the main guns of the Slavster had only 25 mm, which could not perfectly cooperate with the three battleships.

The Black Sea Fleet's armaments were lax and morale was low. The Romanian-Japanese War interrupted Russia's future naval plans, and the Russian Navy has never recovered since then.

The soldiers were extremely undisciplined, the officials were enriching themselves and drawing salaries without doing any work, resulting in a serious shortage of troops. The combat effectiveness of the entire Black Sea Fleet was not as high as Lieutenant Admiral Kochar had imagined. After all, he only commanded battles on the warships when the fleet was dispatched, and usually lived a carefree life in his own mansion in the city, and holding balls and banquets was more important to him than the lives of the soldiers.

In contrast, the Ottoman fleet was a fleet that was gathered together with all efforts, and each ship had undergone precise maintenance and modification, with even more care than serving one's ancestors.

Although the ships had different tonnages, their speeds were generally fast. If Vice Admiral Eini wanted to retreat, the Black Sea Fleet would have to wait and see what the Ottomans did.

The biggest confidence for Vice Admiral Aini in a direct battle with the Black Sea Fleet was his flagship, the Goel. In order to win over the Ottomans, the Drak Empire spent a lot of money and sent the latest battlecruiser with full sincerity. You should know that this was a battleship that was only put into service in 1915.

The Goel battlecruiser is the second ship of the Deveringly class battlecruiser. It is the first to adopt a new hull design with good wave resistance and seaworthiness. Its full load displacement exceeds 26,400 tons, its length is 186.6 meters, its beam is 29.8 meters, and its power system uses 14 boilers and 2 Parsons steam turbines with a maximum power of 63,000 horsepower and a maximum speed of 26.5 knots. It has twin rudders, four shafts and four propellers. It has four twin-mounted 4mm back-mounted main guns, 4 4mm secondary guns, and 305 12mm rapid-fire guns. Its waterline armor and main turret front armor defense are generally higher than those of other countries' ships of the same level.

It has powerful firepower, amazing defense and a speed that is far beyond the reach of the old Rakshasa battleship. It can easily defeat any old battleship of the Black Sea Fleet.

"General Leo, I hope you can bless me!"

As a pro-German in the Ottoman Empire, Lieutenant General Eini often reads various military works of the Drak Empire.

Ever since he read Leo's works, he became his fan and believed in his various theories. Especially with the support of Leo's various achievements, Aini almost regarded Leo as a belief.

An anxious Kochar ordered his flagship Eta to fire first. At a distance of 7000 meters, the first round of shelling destroyed an 88mm rapid-fire gun of the Goel.

The accurate bombardment of the Russians made Vice Admiral Eini fall into self-doubt. Was it a mistake to let his country's only advanced warship fight against five at once? If the Ottoman Empire, with its declining national strength, lost the Goel, it would be a heavy blow to them.

In fact, Goel's first salvo also hit Eta, causing even greater damage.

"Vice Admiral Eni... are you planning to retreat?" Major Berg, Drake's naval instructor on the Goel, saw that his fighting spirit was rapidly declining.

"Yes, Major, the firepower of the Russians is indeed fierce. I thought they were too weak!" Eini said, pointing to the rear of the battleship, which had been hit by several shells and the Ottoman sailors were urgently putting out the fire.