Chapter 1994: Landing and Fighting

Boom!

Under the pincer attack of the Longyan military's supply ships, the French fleet could not withstand such an assault at all.

Countless large cannonballs struck the French fleet's battleships.

The French fleet was sunk by the Longyan supply ships without even having the ability to counterattack.

Meanwhile, the rest of the French forces' battleships besieged another Longyan supply ship and confronted the Longyan Yinzhou ship.

Large-scale battleship combat is not like land-based troops; the navy places more emphasis on advanced weaponry.

Furthermore, things like ships are very difficult to control in their movement.

This gave them the possibility of predicting the opponent's course.

The Longyan supply ship is a type of ship that is very difficult to control, which is also a disadvantage brought about by its speed and volume.

At this moment, the two supply ships that had finished attacking the French battleships staggered and moved forward in parallel.

One of the supply ships sailed directly into the effective attack range of the French fleet.

This gave the French fleet an opportunity to attack.

Their troops quickly launched an attack on the Longyan forces.

Having long since predicted the direction of the Longyan fleet's advance, the French fleet quickly mobilized its main cannons, aiming their muzzles at the positions they had predicted.

With a boom!

A huge cannonball was fired, tracing an arc in the air.

The only thing the French fleet had that could break through the thick defenses of the Longyan supply ship was their true main cannon.

The attack from the main cannon was capable of causing danger to the supply ship.

The French commander, seeing through his telescope that this cannonball of theirs was about to fall and strike the Longyan supply ship.

But just at this moment, the Longyan supply ship suddenly halted its forward momentum; its hull seemed as if it had been pulled to a stop.

Not only that, the supply ship executed a hard right rudder.

The entire hull made a sharp turn on the sea, but the Frenchmen's prediction this time was extremely cunning.

It could even be said that they had predicted every possible situation; they had long since anticipated this scenario, even a hard right rudder.

The Longyan military's supply ship would still move forward due to inertia.

In their view, this cannonball would absolutely strike the Longyan military's battleship with unerring accuracy.

Although Longyan had sunk the French battleship, now, Longyan was also paying a heavy price for its own actions just now.

This Longyan supply ship would also accompany the French battleship and sink into the deep seabed.

Yet just at this moment, something unexpected to the French fleet happened.

While executing the hard right rudder, the Longyan supply ship actually accelerated crazily.

This caused their already uncontrollable Longyan supply ship to sway even more, looking as if it could capsize at any moment.

And at this time, the French commander, watching the waves churned up by this move of the Longyan supply ship, laughed and said.

"Is Longyan trying to rely on the waves to bounce our French cannonball back?"

However, just at this moment, Longyan performed an operation that left their troops and soldiers dumbfounded.

After the hard right rudder, the Longyan supply ship dropped its anchor; the immense gravity stabilized the hull of the supply ship, which had been almost out of control from the hard right rudder.

And at this time, the French cannon fire did not strike the supply ship as they had predicted.

It merely grazed the railing of the supply ship and fell into the sea.

It made a loud bang, kicking up waves over ten meters high that crashed onto the Longyan supply ship, just like taking a bath, causing absolutely no damage at all.

The French troops stared blankly at this maneuver by the Longyan Navy, their eyes filled with looks of disbelief.

And at this time, the Longyan military's supply ship also adjusted the angle of its artillery.

The specifications of the cannons on the supply ship surpassed all current naval fleets; even the main cannons on Britain's Dreadnought-class battleships were much smaller in specification than the Longyan cannons.

If this cannonball from the Longyan artillery were to land solidly, their French battleship would absolutely fall apart.

And precisely at this moment, this battleship of theirs had nowhere left to hide; the maneuver by the Longyan military's supply ship just now had closed the distance between them.

At such a distance, the Longyan supply ship did not even need to predict the French fleet's direction of travel to know that their ship would absolutely suffer an attack from the supply ship.

In this very instant, the Longyan supply ship struck out at high speed, and the French forces' battleship had no time to dodge.

A cannonball smashed onto the French battleship with unerring accuracy.

Boom!

The violent explosion blew the main cannon mounted on this French battleship to pieces.

The shattering of the main cannon immediately caused the French fleet to lose its combat capability.

The soldiers on the ship, the moment before the cannonball descended, had long since stopped caring about the battleship and threw themselves into the sea; others quickly seized sailboats, wanting to save their lives in the ocean.

But the Longyan supply ship, at this time, bombarded the French battleship at full power.

Their fleet was quickly routed by the Longyan military's troops.

After this ship endured countless Longyan cannonballs, even its steel-reinforced hull fell apart.

The destruction of the battleship dragged the French soldiers who had not managed to escape in time into the deep sea.

Those French soldiers and officers who had left the ship early watched the battleship they served on be destroyed on the sea so casually.

Their hearts were filled with shock and terror.

Because they saw the Longyan supply ship heading in their direction.

If they were run over by such a huge supply ship, their tiny sailboats would absolutely be destroyed and everyone killed in an instant!

The French soldiers on the sailboats immediately rowed at full power toward the distance; they felt their hands had never been like this before.

Just like the wheels driven by a Steam Engine, moving rapidly!

They completely ignored the pleas for help from the French soldiers who had fallen into the sea along the way.

At this moment, Captain Long Yan, who was commanding this Supply Ship, looked at the French Fleet besieging his troops in the distance and coldly ordered: "Drive over there!"

The Steam Engine on the Supply Ship ran at full power, speeding rapidly in the direction he commanded!

Just then, Captain Long Yan suddenly heard a scream from beneath the ship, sounding like something had been crushed by him.

He did not pay much attention to it; perhaps it was just the sound of the French Fleet wreckage being struck.

After the Supply Ship departed, a few broken wooden planks and sails floated up to the surface of the sea.

No one cared about what had once been here.

……

At this time, the situation of the naval battle had reached a stalemate; after another Long Yan Supply Ship finished off the French Battleship, it did not join the battlefield again, as its target was Sydney Port.

Only by occupying Sydney Port would their troops have the ability to land in Australia and be able to launch a full-scale war against the French troops.

And when their Supply Ship was about to approach Sydney Port, they suddenly saw that the flags hanging over the port were actually those of Long Yan and Australia.