The deduced chess pieces represent each basic participating unit, and each chess piece has a corresponding description of combat power.

Since it is a naval battle, of course it is based on ships. So the staff members made the flags into ship shapes and divided the ship types in different sizes.

Among them, the black chess pieces represent the Spanish Expeditionary Fleet, with a total of 139.

According to intelligence, in the Spanish fleet, there are 18 warships above 1,000 tons, 32 800 tons, and 70 600 tons, and the remaining 19 are Spanish Clippers below 200 tons.

This time, the Spaniards focused on strengthening their firepower. The thousand-ton warship guns were about 40; the 800-ton warship guns were about 30; the 600-ton warship guns were about 20; and the 200-ton warship guns were about 10, with a total of about 3,270 guns.

The firepower was greatly enhanced, reducing their disadvantages during artillery shooting. At the same time, in addition to 7,000 crew members, the 139 warships also carried 25,000 Spanish soldiers, and still maintained strong counter-board combat power.

The red flag represents the Coast Guard Combined Fleet—

Among them, the Coast Guard Strategic Fleet has 8 battleships, 12 cruisers, 10 destroyers, and 12 frigates.

The Luzon combat readiness fleet has 4 battleships, 8 cruisers, 10 destroyers, and 12 frigates.

The main fleet of Taiwan's security zone has 2 cruisers, 8 destroyers, and 16 frigates.

The main fleet of the Danluo Guard Area has 2 cruisers, 8 destroyers, and 16 frigates.

The combined fleet of these four major fleets has 12 battleships, 24 cruisers, 36 destroyers, 56 frigates, a total of 128 warships, and 23,600 participating soldiers. In terms of force, there are fewer than the enemy.

However, we have many guns. Battleships 74 guns, cruisers 60 guns, destroyers 24 guns, and frigates 16 guns, so our fleet has a total of 4,600 guns, which are far more than the Spanish in terms of quantity and quality.

Therefore, the referee team preset that our ship's long-range firepower will be a 30% bonus. However, the combat effectiveness of Spanish warships on the shore battle gave a 50% bonus.

This aroused dissatisfaction among many people, who felt that it underestimated our long-range firepower and overestimated Spain's melee ability. Moreover, we waited for it, and melee should have damage bonuses, but based on the principle of lenient guessing the enemy, we finally deduced according to this setting.

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In the next five days, the commander of the Strategic Fleet Wang Rulong; the commander of the Luzon combat readiness fleet Lin Feng; the commander of the main fleet of the Taiwan Security Zone Xin Fei; the commander of the main fleet of the Danluo Security Zone Haierdi; and the deputy commander of the Strategic Fleet Xiang Xuehai performed war games with Jin Ke and Ma Yinglong, who played the commander of the Spanish fleet.

All the generals are very clear that the tactics of the winners in this wargame deduction may be used in the decisive battle with the Spaniards. And the winners may naturally become the de facto commander of the joint fleet.

Because Wang Rulong has been lingering in sickness since the second year of Wanli, and is older, his physical strength and energy are not as good as before. The young master may have let him serve as the nominal fleet commander, but he is not allowed to fight on the front line.

Although these guys are very concerned about superiority and inferiority on weekdays, they are all very wild. Seeing that Lao Wang is about to retreat, who doesn’t want to replace him?

So they all tried their best, and then worked with their subordinates to come up with a satisfactory combat plan before taking it to the war room for deduction, hoping to laugh to the end.

After taking turns to deduce, Jin Ke announced the scores of the five players on the sixth day.

The highest of them is Wang Rulong, followed by Lin Feng, then Xiang Xuehai, Haierdi and Xin Fei...

"After the evaluation team calculated, Wang Rulong's plan, five out of ten deductions, 70% of the enemy, two out of the enemy, 50% of the enemy, and one out of the enemy, 80% of the enemy, and the comprehensive combat loss ratio, the final score was 85 points."

"Lin Feng's plan has killed 20% of the enemy five times, killed 90% of the enemy four times, killed 100% of the enemy once, and scored 80 points in the comprehensive combat loss ratio."

The other three ratings are quite different, all of which are around 70 points, and there is a high probability that they will kill 40% to 50% of the enemy.

The three of them are naturally a little dissatisfied, especially Lin Feng's record, which is lower than them in weighted average. Why are the scores higher than them?

Is it because of her...

However, when they entered the stage of public tactical comments, they probably understood the reasons.

The tactics formulated by Wang Rulong and Lin Feng are very similar. They both break the conventions, boldly intersperse, and then chase after defeating the enemy.

The coast guard fleet was trained in Portugal. Since its establishment, it strictly required the fleet to keep a column in a row shooting at the enemy ships during combat. Only when the enemy is destroyed or retreated can the supreme commander decide whether to give up the formation and start the pursuit.

Xiang Xuehai, Xin Fei and Haierdi are all experienced coast guard creators. In the past ten years, they have been adhering to this set of tactics and have never been defeated, conquering the current 10,000-mile seaside for the group. Naturally, they will maintain the battle line as the standard and hate the melee that ignores formation.

Of course, this tactic is correct. It can easily eliminate enemy troops who are weaker than itself with basically zero casualties. Even if it encounters an opponent with the same qualifying power, it can first stand invincible, and then use the advantages of range and firepower to defeat the enemy through long-term artillery attacks.

Therefore, although the three commanders had bold strategies in combat plans, Xiang Xuehai divided the fleet into two, one after another, and took the upper hand in the shape of a ‘man’. In this way, no matter how the Spanish fleet maneuvered, there were a large number of warships at the disadvantage of the character ‘Ding’.

However, the three of them all agreed to maintain formation and distance. They would not break up the formation and attack freely until they were exhausted during the pursuit.

Therefore, they can both win, but the problem is that the battle takes too long and there are too many enemy ships that escape. The Spanish sailboats are also thick-skinned and the hull is difficult to be destroyed by long-range shooting. Jin Ke and Ma Yinglong, who served as Spanish commanders, are determined to escape again, so they can naturally avoid being completely wiped out.

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"So the plan of the three of you cannot be said to be bad." Jin Ke's eyes swept over the three of them comfortably and said in a deep voice: "But this time the commander-in-chief and the war zone were determined to wipe out all the money, at least to annihilate most of the Spanish fleet! Obviously, your plan cannot meet this requirement."

"Yes." The three nodded, Xiang Xuehai said: "If the Spaniards just want to escape, it will be really difficult to wipe out them all."

"They will definitely choose to escape." Jin Ke said: "If you put yourself in your shoes, you will know that after a long voyage, the warships and soldiers were in poor condition. Before entering the port to reorganize, the Spaniards were unwilling to fight."

"So Commander Wang believes that to defeat enemies with equal strength to his own side, we must break the rules and boldly intersperse. Concentrate more warships, cut off the local lineup, and surround the vanguard and annihilate them!" Ma Yinglong continued:

"This way, the encircled enemy ships can be used to attack artillery fire, thereby achieving the goal of quickly annihilation of the enemy!"

"But this tactic may cause the enemy to detour and counter-encircle, and will be attacked by the enemy!" Xiang Xuehai said in dissatisfaction.

"The cleverness of Ma Rulong's plan is to attract the enemy's subsequent fleet by placing the iron armored cruiser outside the encirclement circle to counter-encircle it. In this way, the other half of the fleet that he ambushed behind can break out and counter-encircle the enemy ships. It forms a circle of situations, and attacks at close range to achieve the results we want!"

"I understand." The three generals nodded. Lao Wang is really strong and he can't accept it.

"So what about Commander Lin's plan?" Haierdi asked again.

"Similar to Lao Wang's tactics, she plans to divide the joint fleet into three, and the first team is led by her, responsible for breaking through the center of the enemy fleet and cutting off its front and rear contact; the second team attacks the enemy's rear guards and forms a clamping attack with superior forces. The third team is responsible for eliminating the enemy's flagships, causing the opponent to fall into chaos, and finally annihilate the divided fleet one by one." Jin Ke said in a deep voice:

"The difference is that she chose the first battlefield in the Bay of Let, while Lao Wang set the first battlefield in the Surigao Strait. After winning the blocking battle, her subsequent pursuit battle will be launched in the relatively narrow Surigao Strait; and Lao Wang's pursuit battle will be launched in the wide Baohe Sea. This difference determines that the upper limit for her annihilation of the enemy is higher than Lao Wang."

The three generals showed incredible expressions. Xin Fei looked at Lin Feng sitting opposite him and said, "No more, how can you let the fleet appear silently on the first battlefield?"

"That is, the Spanish have lighthouses in the Surigao Strait and the Bay of Leyte. At that time, they will definitely send ships to provide guidance and alert for the expeditionary fleet!" Xiang Xuehai nodded and said:

"And since the Marquis of Santa Cruz is known for his caution, if we knocked out the Spaniards who were picking him up in advance, he would definitely not enter the Bay of Let."

"Yes, it was precisely because I was considering that I could not alarm the snakes that I decided to ambush them in the strait." Wang Rulong, who had been keeping his eyes closed, also nodded and said: "I also considered the Bay of Leite at that time, but I could not think of how to hide the truth and appear in the bay without disturbing the Spaniards."

"You won't be discovered when you walk here!" Lin Feng stood up and pointed at a gap between Leight Island and San Meow Island on the sand table.

Everyone looked at each other and said, "Can you take a boat here?"

"No." Wang Rulong shook his head and said, "I have been there a few years ago. I remember there was a section of reefs in the middle, and the water level was too shallow and unpassable."

"Yes, the Spanish think so too." Lin Feng said lightly: "But if we can get over, we can catch them off guard."

"The question is how can we get through it?" Xiang Xuehai curled his lips.

"Just move the reef off." Lin Feng said in a plain tone: "I took the Luzon port engineers to survey it on a small boat. The water depth of the entire strait is fine, and there is only that infarction less than two kilometers. They said that it should not be difficult to clear a channel."

"The referee team received this reply after consulting Luzon Port." Ma Yinglong added: "However, after calculating the data provided by Commander Lin, the referee team believed that the risk of failure was still very high, so the judgment success rate was 50%.
Chapter completed!