C1038 The Great Sea War of the Ikek (1/2)

There had never been a war in the history of Central America that ended without exception. The Ikek had already become a purgatory.

The two fleets in the sea stood facing each other in the north and south, forming two parallel lines about two thousand meters apart. They were pouring firepower towards each other with all their might.

The Esmeralda was the warship with the greatest firepower in this war. Every time she fired her gunpowder, it would form a black cloud that covered the entire warship. The tremors created countless ripples on the sea surface, and all the fish under the sea had already escaped.

”Shoot …” Fire on starboard... The Huska is on fire! They can't hold on for long... Keep firing! ”

The Peru soldiers on the other side had also gone mad. All of the battleships had sent out a flag, ”Concentrate Fire, Annihilate the Esmeralda!” Ignore and kill the enemy's flagship! ”

Shoot, load, reload, reload... Shot, fire, fire, fire, fire! The battle in the sea had become a fixed cycle of death. At the end of the fight, the Navy soldiers had become heartless machines. They could only instinctively complete the movements they were familiar with.

After the artillery war had lasted half an hour, the Peruvian Navy, who had the advantage in numbers of warships, gradually suppressed the Chile's fleet. Even the old sail battleship had moved to the west side of the battlefield and started to attack the side of the navy.

The situation of the parallel lines shooting at each other was broken. The Peruvian Navy had already formed an L-shaped shooting array on the sea, attempting to break through from the west side of the Chile's navy.

The pressure on the left wing of the Chile Navy had never been greater. They had to split up some of their firepower to deal with the already-changed Sail battleship, which caused the flagship Esmedale to suffer even more gunfire.

When the later generations analyzed this war, they felt that it was inconceivable. This was clearly an era of pure Iron-armored Ship battles, but the commanders of both sides had subconsciously adopted the same tactic, which was beheading.

The two armies were just like the two cavalry soldiers of the Middle Ages. Everyone focused their firepower on the commander of the other side, leaving the two flagships to fight with each other.

Right now, Esmeralda and Huska were like two burning ships. The iron armor on the side of the ship had already been charred, and a few areas had been blown up, revealing the white stubble of wood.

These were all transitional products from the Iron-armored Ship era. It was already not easy for them to be able to hold out in such a high intensity battle.

The Chile Naval Generals looked at the enemy fleet in anger, then looked at the soldiers fighting for their lives on the land, a sense of doom and sorrow welled up in their hearts.

He ordered in his deepest voice, ”The Esmeralda... Prepare to charge! Make the Left side prepare to shoot at the same time … We'll rush up and shoot from close range, and we'll take down the Huascar with a white blade fight! ”Get ready to charge!”

”General …” The surrounding officers cried out, ”We can retreat first!” Now that the battle has reached this stage, we have already done our best, and we are at a disadvantage in this war, so let's retreat! ”

”Shut up! Retreat? Do we still have a way out!? The army is fighting hard, and you say retreat? ”I'm going to shoot you …” The roaring Captain was about to pull out his gun, but luckily the surrounding officers swarmed in like a swarm of bees and stopped him.