Thus the central powers were summoned

Chapter 26 : Demise of Parlpadia (4)

Imperial defense fleet,

Arcaon looked out to the fog and saw dozens of bright orange flashes,

"what? did the enemy ships exploded?" asked the admiral

KRABOOM!

massive dozens of pillars of water hit before them,  then massive explosions rocked the fleet, 20 ironclads, impacted by the shells exploded into oblivion, they were so bright, it marked the location of the imperial fleet to the gunners and rangefinders of the battleships,  Arcaon looked in horror as this transpired

"shit! all ships spread out or we will be picked off!!!"

"yes sir" said the crew

At the bridge of SMS Bismarck,

"hmm.... 20 explosions, 20 of them either destroyed or we destroyed their ammo, they are beggining to enter the fog" said an officer

"continue the attack, the explosions highlighted their location, we can down at the very least 10 ships per salvo" said Gunther

 "yes sir"

The battleship line unleashed all their fury they can on the imperial fleet, they fired so much for the hour, their barrels became very very hot and to rely on their secondary weapons, after few salvos, only 300 enemies were left, more should have died, but the Austrians used the wrong shells, incendiary and beehive shells, accidentally loaded them in previous fighting, they will correct it later.

Parlpadian fleet

The bridge was in utter chaos, the enemy attacked from an unknown distance and destroyed more than 40% of his fleet,  in 2 hours, they lost 200 ships, even as an well respected war veteran Arcaon  was speechless and sweat trickled from his brows, the strategy conceived by Natal would have worked against Mu, but this enemy was having superior accuracy and firepower so devastating it destroying any ships in one shot

The enemy was from 30km estimating, not even Mu has that humongous range, with deadly precision and firepower and their reloading speed was godly, the imperial fleet need to get 10km away from the enemy to effectively respond, it would take 20 minutes to get to the desired range, yet as they moved, more ships were destroyed, they can't avoid such accurately placed shots from the enemy.

"...... Damn it ! Damn it all!!!"

Suddenly an voiced called out from the bridge

"10 enemies have formed up 25km away from our fleet in the fog"

As Arcaon looked to the vast sea, he found the fog lifting up for good, that's when he saw it, there were 10 ships, with different flags, some pairs of ships resembled each other, each was alone 6 times the size of their Dios III ironclads, and much larger than whatever Mu can build

"such size! ..... there's no hope, this was our fate!"

Arcoan steeled himself, this was the greatest assemblage of the imperial naval forces, the last bastion standing between the central powers and the mainland, there would be hell to pay, should the imperial forces surrender, if the fleet fell back, the imperial army too will lose morale and they can't carry on this senseless fight. They had no choice but to plow forward

"all forces charge at the invaders..... we'll show how stubborn the imperial navy is!!! charge!!!!"

The ironclads surged onwards, after 4 minutes of not firing at the other, all battleships turned their guns, even the secondary guns to face the imperial hoard, guns pointed at starboard, then

KRABOOM!

Dozens of shells flew into the Parlpadian fleet, destroying 40 ships at once, before long the imperial fleet is reduced to 200, salvo after salvo was fired, the secondary guns joined the fray as the imperial ironclads got in 15km , then more shells, the rest of the fleet had arrived !, the heavy cruisers, followed by the light cruisers launched an pincer attack flanking the imperial fleet, leading the charge was the German heavy cruiser SMS Admiral Hipper, followed by the charge of the Austrian light cruiser SMS Budapest smashing the enemies, whatever was left, only 20 ships carried on,