Chapter 334
2020-11-02
Chapter 334 crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood!
“And please call me Boris.”
I was recommended by Lieutenant General Gustav to board the ship, and it took only ten days to go to sea.
This middle-aged officer with sloppy eyes and melancholy eyes has used his excellent ability to convince all the officers on board, including Captain Alwin.
This is probably the daoist not showing up?
But on this ship, anyone can see that this somewhat maverick Major Boris is clearly a person with a story.
Currently.
The main body of the crew and officers of the Level 4 battleship “Cape Storm” was originally composed of the lowest Level 6 cruiser “Conch” as the core.
In the middle, there was a big change of blood, filled with a large number of outstanding recruits who were at the same time as Captain Alwin, and then respectively before performing cross-border missions and setting off to a new continent, each had a troop replenishment.
Now the staffing of 350 people has been completed.
However, the problem of insufficient quality of officers and inexperience of personnel still exists.
Sails are better.
After Alwin took over as captain, the crew was hardly idle.
I have been running around all the time, and I have also dealt with various dangerous sea conditions including “rainstorm”, “tsunami” and “black embankment”, even if it is practiced, it is almost the same.
But another key skill, “fuck the gun”, really can’t be called an “excellent” comment.
According to the naval code stipulated by Ephraitis, each gun consists of 6 members of the gun crew and one gunner.
Each row of artillery decks (Level 4 ships plus the main deck have three artillery decks in total) shall have one chief and one deputy fire control officer.
In medium and long-range engagements, the artillery crew members are responsible for loading ammunition, while the fire control officer is responsible for setting the artillery firing parameters and adjusting the up, down, left, and right firing angles.
Finally, under the command of the gunmaster, the gunners of each artillery group are responsible for activating the guns in charge.
Artillery shooting is a delicate and complex tactical action that requires the cooperation of many people, especially in the chaotic battlefield, the quality of artillery has a great influence on the firepower of the battleship.
Even if you have the battleship and artillery of first under the heavens, if you give it to a group of half-baked people, you may not be able to beat a level 1 or even a second level opponent.
Although Boris joined the team halfway, he is an official Knight with the rank of major, and he is also a well-known “artillery expert” in the new continental naval base!
As soon as he took office, he served as the artillery commander on the “Storm Horn”, responsible for the daily training of artillery.
In just a dozen days of going to sea, the artillerymen’s appearance is not to mention a new look, but at least they have slowly laid the foundation for becoming an excellent artilleryman.
Especially under the guidance of this Major Boris, as long as there are a few more real thing wars of baptism, the future can be expected!
As for why this well-known and capable artillery expert is willing to condescend to run to the Alwin ship to assume the position of artillery commander who has no strong sense of presence on the “Cape of the Storm” before him ?
The reason is simple.
The seemingly brilliant Major Boris has actually received the promise of the base commander, Lieutenant General Gustav:
As long as this battle is over, it will be successful. Help the kingdom accomplish its set goals, and the general will agree to his application for retirement!
Why he retired at the peak of his military career is another story.
At the command of Captain Alwin.
Boris has unceremoniously taken over the command that originally belonged to the gunner Reeves, and issued his own orders with the powerful lung capacity of the official Knight:
“The gun crew Take your place!”
Ta ta ta ta
The artillerymen on the ship have been running quickly and entered their respective combat positions according to the artillery code.
The two artillery decks and the main deck are equipped with a total of 18 Sects of 24-pounders, twenty 12-pounders, ten 9-pounders, and two 6-pounders on the poop.
Just because of the battleship of this era, half of the firepower of the side guns must be idle, so the gun crew only needs to take into account one side of the side of the ship at the same time.
During this period of maritime training, although the artillerymen had the most direct improvement, they also suffered a lot at the hands of the ruthless and ruthless Boris.
Boris, who had no long-term plans to be on the “horn of the storm”, was not afraid to offend anyone at all, and asked them to the highest standard in everything.
Even even Reeves, the gunslinger who is older than him, is saddled, cautiously for the gunnery expert who is higher in rank, stronger than himself, and more capable than himself. .
All the artillerymen, up and down, did not dare to neglect in the slightest.
“Let’s go downwind! Stay in formation!”
In his usual cautious style, Alwin ordered the two battleships to be contained from downwind, which would not only prevent the pirate ship from escaping, but also Avoid the transcenders with eccentric abilities, who can spot battleships ahead of time by scent.
The navy battleship reached the stern of the pirate fleet, and the distance between the two gradually approached 500 meters.
Although the effective range of the artillery is 1 km, the hit rate, the formidable power of the artillery, and the firing frequency have reached an optimal balance point at the current distance.
“The guns are loaded with hot bullets!”
The “solid bullets” are quickly burned to red by the fire of each gun, and they are blocked between the gunpowder and the shells when they are loaded. A lump of wet mud takes slightly longer to reload than normal solid bullets.
But now that he has the initiative and has plenty of time to prepare, Boris has of course chosen the favorite of all artillerymen – “Searing Bullets”.
Boris personally entered the lower artillery deck, guarding the nine 24-pounder guns on the side of the ship, and the full-time gunnery Reeves went to supervise the upper deck.
Seeing that all the artillery units had been reloaded within the specified time, Boris slightly nodded the commander’s knife, and calmly pulled out the artilleryman with a brass gauntlet on his waist.
When the command knife was slightly raised, a layer of extraordinary aura that was hard to see in naked eyes exploded simultaneously on the blade’s edge, spilling over to each of the battleship’s ready-to-launch artillery.
Each gun seemed to be fine-tuned in an instant.
“All in, get ready, fire!”
bang! bang! bang! bang! bang!
The orange red flares illuminated Sea surface under dense fog.
The two battleships adjusted the firing range, and at the same time, a total of 18 24-pound artillery shells, 20 12-pound artillery shells, 10 9-pound artillery shells, and 2 6-pound artillery shells turned into a fiery line of fire like a torrential rain. Dumped out.
Just getting started.
Thinking that the pirate fleet encountered ordinary fog, it had temporarily stopped on the sea with the tactical action of the sailboat braking, but did not expect a sudden disaster.
Actually, with their strength, they are not afraid even if they encounter multiple cruise ships of the Navy. If they can fight and escape, and they have not reached the War Zone, their vigilance is not so strong.
When they heard the sound of the cannon, they had ushered in the justice of the navy!
ka-cha
“enemy”
“Ah!”
Boom–!
The hull of the sloop was as fragile as a cardboard shell under the attack of the scorching bullet, and the hot iron cannonball easily cut off the mast of the sailboat and penetrated the layers of the ship’s plank.
It even shoots in from the stern, bouncing all the way to destroy everything on the see-through artillery deck.
The human body, even if it is a transcender’s body, will only be easily torn to shreds under the strong kinetic energy.
In just one salvo, a giant firework was created among the four pirate ships.
Because.
It was a coincidence that the ammunition depot of a sloop at the end of the queue was penetrated by a scorching bullet, which directly triggered a spectacular martyrdom!
Careful observation will reveal that the shells fired by the “Cape of Storms” are far superior to those of the “Endeavour” in terms of penetration and accuracy, and the biggest results are almost all “storms”. Horn” was created.
At this time.
The pirates who were suddenly attacked and surrounded by thick fog were scattered in formation. Apart from sporadic and blind fire, they could not even transmit signals, let alone systematic resistance.
“All artillery units, load scorching bombs!”
The commanding knife that was raised high once again overflowed with extraordinary aura.
“Ready! Fire!”
The torrential rain of iron and fire poured out again.
second round After the volley is over.
The sporadic counter-attacks on the remaining three pirate ships have been completely misfired, and even the wailing of pain after being injured can hardly be heard.
The flaming flames rose from the three pirate ships. Even if it was covered by heavy fog, it was clearly seen by the ordinary crew members who did not open the mind connection on the ship.
The naval battle was over in less than a minute.
The opponent is not Evil God, not a large sea monster. “Battleships” are the biggest reliance for mankind to conquer the oceans, and have exerted incomparable combat advantages in the face of ordinary sea ships.
The comparison of firepower between the two sides is not a grade in itself, even more how the navy side added a powerful buff to itself.
[Ocean Treasure Artillery Command Knife! ]
A powerful treasure belonging to the family of Major Boris.
Abilities · Artillery Artillery: 200% of the range, precision, and formidable power of ship-borne artillery.
Restrictions: The premise is that the definition of “ship-based artillery” must be met on a large scale.
Special equipment is excluded, such as the Anti-Cross on the Commander of the Guard.
Alwin clearly saw that with the help of this magical command knife, after the shell penetrated the opponent’s hull, it flew out through the other side of the bulwark.
The already overwhelming firepower advantage has been bolstered by additional strength, and the lethality of these ship-borne smoothbore guns on board has jumped a generation.
At this time, the “Cape Storm” is like a crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood to these pirate ships, even Level 5 warships!
Even without the support of Endeavour, Alwin is confident that he will kill them all without injury!
(End of this chapter)