The battle at sea was about to erupt! As fifteen fast ships of Great Zhou rapidly pressed forward, the two Steam Ironclad Ships lying in wait on the outskirts moved as well. Under Lin Youshu's command, they swung around behind the East Sea Fleet.
The aerial bombing unit that had rescued the royal warship did not continue providing support afterward, mainly to conserve its barrels of explosives.
But this had little effect on Lin Youshu.
With two Steam Ironclad Ships in hand, if he still couldn't win this naval battle, he might as well retire and go back to Volcano Island to fish!
"Good heavens, look over there!!"
Relying on their superior speed, the two Steam Ironclad Ships completed their flanking maneuver almost simultaneously with the formal clash between the Great Zhou Fleet and the East Sea Fleet on the main battlefield. Belching rolling clouds of thick smoke, they charged into the battlefield at full power!
Their hulls were even larger than those of the great warships, and their steel bodies constantly belched black smoke. They were steel monsters utterly beyond the imagination of people in this era!
From the East Sea Fleet's perspective, those two steel monsters charged into the battlefield with an almost brutally unreasonable momentum.
As they rapidly closed the distance with the East Sea warships, a barrage of cannons opened fire. Before that artillery, the hulls of the East Sea warships were as fragile as thin paper, and several warships were completely destroyed in a short time!
The East Sea Governor witnessed the scene with his own eyes, his expression changing drastically as he quickly realized something was wrong.
"Pass on my order! Retreat immediately! Have the entire army withdraw to the island!!"
After that simple exchange, the East Sea Governor had already realized that with