The Red Bear Is in Nihonkoku Shoukan

Battle of Fenn(2)

'The Navy will always shine when in battle, for each man knows it will be a long time before they can embrace the love of their lives.' -Vasily, 1966

Kingdom of Fenn, the waters off Nishinomiyako, November 25th, 7AM

The Papaldia Empire's imperial navy had 200 ships-of-the-line in their grand fleet of 250 ships.They were getting into combat positions to engage the 11 ships sent by the Russian navy. Their 100-gun ships-of-the-line came to the forefront; they were the pinnacle of Papaldia's technology and the apotheosis of their pride as a superpower. General Cius observed Russia's fleet from the deck of Papaldia's largest, strongest ship, the commander of this enormous fleet, the super-F class ship-of-the-line Pall. This flagship monitored the fleet from its center. 

"Darda, do you think you'd win?" he asked the captain standing next to him.

"With this giant fleet and our latest ships-of-the-line, I don't think I could even lose against the Holy Mirishial Empire's famous 0th Magic Fleet. Strength in naval combat is based on both the quality and quantity of ships-of-the-line. We have 200 of the best gunboats in the Third Civilization; there does not exist a fleet that can surpass ours. Even if this Russian navy's warships were stronger than ours, they have fewer cannons, and there are only 11 of them. They're helpless before our fleet."

Captain Darda had absolute confidence.

The fleet of ships-of-the-line poured as much magic power as they could into their Tears of the Wind God, filling their sails with wind and tearing forward through the waves. The Russian navy advanced with all their ships in a horizontal line with only one far behind, Unmoving. General Cius kept constant watch on the Russian navy.

He had never seen any ships as big as Russia's, Maybe The HME or Mu had ships of this caliber. They only had a single cannon, installed in the front of the ship. From the size, the cannon was probably similar to the gun turret found on Mu's La Kasami. Russia's ships also, just like in the magic pictures he'd seen of the La Kasami in the past, had no sails.But the Gigantic ship further back reminded him of their Dragon Carriers, if that was the case then they could have hundreds of Wyverns, While he had none, this was a bad omen, If they had many of them then he was surly going into a suicide fight.

He had a bad feeling about them.

As far as aggregate firepower, their 100-gun ships-of-the-line had far more.

However...

"They're fast."

The enemy ships' speed was well beyond their own sense of how fast ships could travel. If they were that fast, it would be rather difficult to hit them with their magic cannons.

"Well, it's the same for them..."

The Russian fleet was about 15 kilometers away from them. He started to feel tense.

"Hm?!"

He saw a light, then smoke coming from the mouth of the cannon on the 10 Russian ships.

''The Enemy fired!'' Came a Shout

"But they're still about 10 kilometers way. Is this some kind of ritual or ceremony?"

"Are they trying to intimidate us, maybe?"

To Papaldia, Which never saw any Cannon fire at a range greater than 2 Km, were baffled by the Russians firing at such a long range.so General Cius and Captain Darda hypothesized about what the Russians were doing.

Suddenly, the 10 foremost 100-gun ship-of-the-line in the imperial navy flashed.They Were hit in the center, causing massive amounts of gunpowder to ignite, creating flamings wrecks in seconds.A magnificent pillars of flames blazed upwards in front of the Fleet, splitting the ships in half and sinking it.Most of the Crews were killed in seconds.