The artillery of the United Fleet fired Tunisia for several days, making the pirates curled up in Tunisia frightened.

The Imperial Fleet finally entered the Tunisian Strait when the Joint Fleet was shocking Tunisia, and the fleets of both sides met on the sea outside Tunisia!

There are 41 warships on this side of the Joint Fleet, divided into three formations and one reserve team.

Because the Royal British Navy did not want to declare war on the Ottoman Empire, it temporarily hung the Qinglong Banner of the Fourth Fleet. In other words, the three formations used the Qinglong Banner, and only the reserve team hung the octagonal cross flag of the Knights of the Hospital.

The Imperial fleet opposite has more than 200 warships, most of which are small and medium-sized galleys, as well as Arabian spinning boats, imitated Spanish sailing boats, large Calais galleys, and red and white star-and-moon flags that make people feel numb!

Because the joint fleet is waiting for their leisure, they have selected the upper hand that is suitable for the offensive.

Although the Imperial Fleet has a large number of ships, the average size of the ships on the Joint Fleet is larger and the artillery is more fierce!

"It is worthy of being a great empire with a population of 30 million. It can gather such a large number of ships in a short time, and it is said that even if we defeat their current fleet, they will be able to re-launch 200 galleys in six months. They have mature technology to produce galleys."

Zheng Zhibao's ironclad ship is located on the left wing of the United Fleet. He was observing the grand occasion of the Empire Fleet with a telescope and couldn't help but be amazed.

It seems that the Ottoman fleet came very slowly, but they were in a situation of latecomer and could urgently mobilize the main ships and 30,000 sailors and soldiers of the entire empire to form a combat power, and have fully utilized the centralized advantages of the Eastern Empire.

"Their galleys have mature technology, but in our opinion, galleys are already much behind. The need for paddlers to occupy the two sides of the ship means that the number of artillery is reduced, and large-caliber artillery is concentrated at the bow and stern of the ship. Such galleys still lack armor, and the paddlers will be easily killed by enemy artillery. Without paddlers, these ships will lose more than half of the mobility of these ships." said the second deputy of the Iron Armored Ship.

"They may try their best to adopt the melee tactic of boarding battles. We must remember to maintain the formation and not be surrounded by division." Zheng Zhibao understood that the opponent's ships seemed to be decades behind the combined fleet, but the opponent had a large number of people and was usually close to the side and close combat, which might cause major casualties to the combined fleet.

The purpose of the Joint Fleet was to defeat the Ottoman fleet with as little loss as possible!

Li Jinde came to the deck with a standard Dereser rifle in his hand. He was as nervous as almost all the soldiers on the ironclad ship about the upcoming battle.

Like a "half-baked" soldier like Li Jinde, there is the Dutch merchant Reit, who was forcibly left on the ironclad ship.

"Oh God, it's a hell. I actually wanted me to fight like a soldier. I would have known that I would not help them with work!" Reitt complained when he saw the Ottoman fleet filled the ocean opposite.

"Li Dingguo, you see, that is the legendary Ottoman fleet. It is said that they traverse the Mediterranean a hundred years ago and are invincible!" The trainee soldiers of the ironclad ship participated in the naval battle for the first time, and were both nervous and excited.

"Our fleet will definitely win the final victory!" Li Dingguo, as an intern naval soldier, said firmly.

Their group of trainee soldiers did not have muskets. Their mission was to assist the sailors in getting the ironclad ships forward bravely when the war officially began!

The most important thing in sea war is no longer the battle between the boarding, but the cannon!

The Malta fleet is located behind the Joint Fleet as a reserve. Their mission is to join the battle when the frontline fleet is not in good condition to reverse the situation.

The female knight Hannah's ship was deployed on the rear right wing, and she was a little dissatisfied with the current layout: "Our hospital Knights should be at the front when facing the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary pirates, why did we put us in the rear?"

"Because their ships are much larger than our Malta warships. The current naval battles are no longer the Middle Ages where there were more people and more ships before. The Turks just didn't know this and were defeated by the fleets of Spain and Venice 60 years ago." The captain of the Malta warships said to Hannah.

Since Hannah had arrived on the ship, he had no time to alarm the entire fleet for one person.

Defeating the Ottoman fleet was the purpose of this war. As for whether Hannah could survive this naval battle, no one could guarantee that.

"Hmph." Hannah pressed her hand on the hilt of the sword and looked at the big ship ahead.

In front of the left side of the ship she was located was the ironclad General Fubo, the sail battleship Dongwu and four frigates, the commander was the captain Zheng Zhibao. In front of the right side was the sea king, the Crown Prince, the two sail battleships and five frigates, and the commander was Sir Pennington of Britain.

On the right is the Shu Han, the Wei State and four frigates, and the commander is Sun Xu.

The combat tasks of each formation are very important - the central army needs to withstand the impact of the main force of the Imperial fleet and cannot be defeated! The left and right wings need to attack in an offensive formation to quickly defeat the enemy's left and right wings, forming a pincer attack on the Imperial fleet! The importance of the reserve team is self-evident.

Hannah really couldn't deny that both the Fourth Fleet and the Royal Fleet were larger than the warships of the Malta Fleet.

Most of the Malta warships are small and medium-sized warships with a capacity of 200 to 500 tons. Even the ship of the Grand Commander Castella is just a Calais warship with a displacement of 700 tons.

The battleships of the Fourth Fleet and the Royal Fleet reached an astonishing 1,000 tons, not to mention the 3,000 tons monster of the Iron Craft.

"Miss Hannah, don't use the Knight's sword. This roulette can protect you. If the ship is captured by the enemy or sunk by artillery, you will abandon all your armor and jump into the sea. Maybe you will have a chance to survive. Never fall into their hands." The captain handed his roulette to Hannah.

Hannah took the revolver and heard the captain's somewhat resolute tone, she seemed to realize the cruelty of the war.

"Looking at the banner of the Grand Commander, I'm ready to fight. Young men, in order to protect our hospital Knights Order and Malta Island, we will raise our spirits and fight well! Don't look at us just a reserve team, our joining may change the situation of the battle at any time! Do you still remember the slogan of our Knights Order?!" the captain shouted.
Chapter completed!