The underwater attack weapon Tony designed specifically for the Prinz Eugen could not only lock onto and automatically track targets, but was also extremely powerful.
Considering the possibility that the enemy might also possess magical energy defense equipment, Tony's design incorporated targeted improvements, for example, launching multiple warheads at the same target simultaneously to break the energy stability of the defense layer through sustained, dense attacks in a short period, thereby destroying the target.
The effectiveness could be seen from the ten oddly shaped submarines that were all blasted into fragments.
"The enemy warships have left the port."
Perhaps not expecting the Prinz Eugen to have a means of attacking underwater vessels, the enemy clearly panicked for a moment, and two warships even collided while leaving the port.
The quality of the warships was quite good. No disastrous accidents occurred as a result, and both colliding warships successfully reached the surface of the sea, confronting the Prinz Eugen from a distance.
"How are the missiles preparing?"
"Ready to launch."
Looking at the more than twenty warships that had appeared opposite, some data could be roughly obtained through the detectors, such as displacement and the more obvious number and caliber of naval guns.
The warships that appeared this time were generally over ten thousand tons, with even two massive ships approaching fifteen thousand tons. Judging by the array of cannons on them, like a porcupine, one could tell how fierce the firepower of these warships was.
What a shame...
Ethan was not prepared to engage in a traditional naval battle with this fleet, which could be called the most powerful in the Sea of Miracles. As most of the enemy warships had reached the surface and were slowly forming a formation, Ethan's intelligent system had already calculated all the parameters, and the anti-ship missiles carried by the ship were ready for launch.
"Launch."
There was no button, no loud roar. Ethan calmly gave the attack order.
Upon receiving the command, Eugen immediately launched the prepared anti-ship missiles, replenished new warheads through the internal automated loading equipment, entered new parameters, and continued launching.
From a distance, the Prinz Eugen's funnel area looked like a suddenly erupting volcano, continuously spewing out brilliant fire, while one anti-ship missile after another shot into the sky, then drew an arc in the air, turning to fly at high speed toward the Guild's fleet.
All of this happened too quickly, and more importantly, the Guild's fleet commander had no idea what these things were. Coupled with his confidence in their defense layers, he made no reaction.
A few seconds later, he realized how big a mistake he had made.
Missile after missile slammed into the energy layer, the terrifying impact tearing the energy layer to shreds almost instantly. The missiles that followed directly hit the hull, then erupted in dazzling fire.
Accompanying the fire were warships being blasted into fragments one after another. The few that were not completely shredded were not in good shape either, floating silently on the sea like burning iron coffins. The crew inside were likely mostly dead.
In this round of attack, the Prinz Eugen used up almost half of its missile reserve. After all, the Prinz Eugen was not a warship that primarily relied on missiles for attack, and not much space was reserved inside the ship to store more missiles.
Also, to deal with warships with shields, each warship needed to be hit by at least two or even three or four missiles to be sunk.
This round of attack destroyed over ten enemy warships and also shattered the shields of the remaining ones, an outcome that Ethan was very satisfied with.
"Begin shelling."
Naval gun battles on Earth evolved over several eras.
In the age of sail, gun battles, apart from two fleets lining up in a battle line to bombard each other, involved single-ship duels where distances were occasionally closed to ensure accuracy when exchanging fire.
Later, with technological development, the engagement range of warships gradually increased, and soon tactics involving gun battles at the maximum visual range appeared.
After another technological revolution, naval warfare entered the era of beyond-visual-range combat, and at the same time the mode of naval warfare underwent earth-shattering changes, after which naval gun battles gradually retreated from the mainstream stage.
However, in this sea area, the mode of naval warfare was still at the stage of warships exchanging fire in gun battles, and the mode of beyond-visual-range shelling had not developed.
The Prinz Eugen cruised in the distance, adjusting its direction. The modern turret drive system designed personally by Tony Stark ensured that the Prinz Eugen's main guns could adjust their barrels very quickly. Almost simultaneously with the Prinz Eugen adjusting direction, the gun barrels had already aimed at the enemy fleet and launched their first attack a few seconds later.
This was the first time the Prinz Eugen's main guns roared. Because it was a pure energy attack, there was no smoke or deafening sound when firing, which seemed a bit lacking in presence.
But when the energy shell crossed an extremely long distance, accurately hitting one of the enemy warships and blasting that ship, which had lost its shield, into a torch floating on the sea, those minor details could be completely ignored.
Compared to the Prinz Eugen hitting its target with a single shot, the enemy fleet, after a period of confusion and readjusting its formation, had a first attack that was quite off target.
"It seems the technical level of the enemy warships is very consistent with their corresponding era."
During this time, the Prinz Eugen's intelligent system had been analyzing the detected data and generally concluded that the technical level of the warships in the opposing fleet was roughly equivalent to the Dreadnought era.
Comparing them horizontally with Earth's naval warships, the engagement range of warships during this period was still within visual range. Although the effective range of magical cannons might be farther, issues with observation and aiming systems limited their ability to attack from greater distances.
Moreover, although the Guild had secretly built more advanced warships, they lacked sufficiently powerful enemies, preventing them from exploring correct tactics and the correct direction for technological research.
Therefore, this enemy fleet was still using old tactics for naval warfare, the fleet forming a battle line, relying on a greater number of main guns to increase the probability of hits.
Ethan was naturally happy to see this situation. He only needed Hill to control the Prinz Eugen, cruising outside the enemy's range, and slowly wear down the enemy ship by ship.
The enemy fleet gathering together actually increased the Prinz Eugen's probability of hitting them. As for wanting to disperse and surround the Prinz Eugen?
The prerequisite was that they could outrun the Prinz Eugen.
Although the Prinz Eugen was a large warship with a displacement of over twenty thousand tons, the largest in this world, its speed was faster than many small ships. The Prinz Eugen at full speed was not a target that these outdated warships could catch up to.
Even though these warships using Core-grade magic stone propulsion devices also had speeds far exceeding Earth's warships of the same era, they still couldn't compare to the Prinz Eugen.
Besides power, propulsion systems, and other factors, the design of the hull also determines a warship's speed. Tony Stark put a lot of effort into this aspect.
Looking at the enemy, although the Prinz Eugen treated the Guild's warships as equivalent to Earth's Dreadnought-era warships, their hull designs were very unscientific. Turrets were piled up everywhere, the layout of various facilities was chaotic and disordered, the main guns on a few warships were placed on both sides of the ship, the entire warship appeared bloated and its speed was incredibly slow. These few should be experimental warships.
In this situation, the Prinz Eugen could very leisurely increase the distance and pick off the enemy ships one by one. By the time the enemy realized this strategy wasn't working and began to actively disperse, only six of their warships were still able to move normally.
These six warships were not undamaged either. The shields of these few warships had been heavily damaged. The more serious ones needed to return to the factory for a thorough repair. Those in slightly better condition also needed some time to repair their shields.
But Ethan wouldn't give them any time at all. This time, he wasn't prepared to have any contact with the enemy. From the beginning, he planned to eliminate all of them.
He had been relatively calm during this period, thinking about whether the large circular building opposite was the control room he was looking for.
Only Betty could answer this question. She came here for the assessment and should know something.
Unfortunately, Betty didn't know either, because when she arrived here, the initial explanations were given on the spaceship she was on, and then she was sent directly to the central starting point, so she had no idea what the endpoint and control room looked like.
In that case, the only hope was the Prinz Eugen's intelligent system, to analyze whether the technology used on the island opposite, through various observations and analyses, had a high probability of being the control room.
To facilitate the Prinz Eugen's analysis, Ethan had previously taken out the hibernation pod Betty used and let the Prinz Eugen compare the technology.
After analyzing for some time, the Prinz Eugen finally gave an answer.
"After comparison, there is a significant technological gap between the circular building opposite and the hibernation pod. The technology is closer to that used by the warships opposite."
Hearing this answer, Ethan knew that this thing was also built by the Guild, not a facility that was originally part of this training ground.
Then there was nothing to hesitate about. He was also getting a bit tired of circling around for so long.
"Fire at full power, let's end this boring battle."
Following Ethan's command, the Prinz Eugen's main guns began to output at full power, and the remaining missiles were also launched.
With a series of loud explosions, the last few movable warships were also turned into scrap metal by the Prinz Eugen. Only the Prinz Eugen was left moving in this sea area.
(To be continued.)
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