Chapter 393
2020-11-02
Chapter 393 Head Portrait·Lucky gold coin
Wow wow wow——
The naval battle in the rain has completely started .
At this time, when the privateer fleet is full of cruisers, when the opponent is a large-scale fleet, it is of course not suitable to use the battle line tactics of battleships lining up to bombard each other.
At the same time, the cannons within the firing angle collectively emit fury flames.
The fleet made full use of its speed advantage, and the entire fleet quickly interspersed with breakthroughs.
The four battleships were lined up with the “Morning Star” at the head, like a sharp knife, slashing to the slave fleet from a 45-degree angle.
[Specifications] The displacement is 2340 tons, the captain is 56.42 meters, the width is 14.90 meters, the sail area is 3213 square meters, the crew is 450, and the speed is 12 knots (the monsoon Goddess and the ocean current horn are not activated).
【Arms】Double-layer penetrating artillery deck: 28 32-pounder guns, 28 24-pounder guns, 2 24-pounder fore and aft guns.
In both sides of the war, no matter what kind of data “Day Star” occupies absolute dominance.
Other Level 5 ships, after targeted modifications by Alwin, are themselves faster than fully loaded brigs.
As the fleet charges, it looks like a team of fast cavalry spearheaded by the Elephant Knight!
even more how Alwin also activated the effect of [Ocean Treasure·Ocean Current Horn] at the same time, creating a high-speed ocean current under the assault fleet, allowing the fleet to accelerate again.
hu hu——
At this time, it seems that the whole sky and the whole sea have become their help.
“Pirates who act recklessly!
Command: Adjust three compass points to the right.
The gunners are ready, open their muzzles and shoot parallel to them! “
“Santa Cruz Merchant” as flagship and lead ship.
Captain Hobbian saw that this group of pirates appeared out of nowhere, and he really dared to do something to the Santa Barbia company.
Like an aristocrat offended by beggar, with disbelief mixed with sulking, roaring out his orders.
This is the most correct tactic for a battleship to fully utilize its firepower advantage.
“How could it be so fast?!”
However, not long after his order was issued, he found that the four battleships on the opposite side had already rushed in front of him like flying, and plunged straight into him. in the array.
The speed was even as fast as his Level 4 ship, and he didn’t even complete the tactical maneuver of turning to face it.
bang! bang! bang! bang!
The orange-yellow flames shine in the rain.
In the dead-end shooting of stuck slave ships at close range, the three Level 5 ships mainly used chain and grape bullets to injure the crew of the slave ships, destroying the masts to limit their mobility.
Plundering is not a war. If the enemy’s ships are bombed and sank, wouldn’t they even pay for their own ammunition?
As the main force of the fleet, the “Day Star” aimed its muzzle at the bloated ass of the Level 4 ship “Santa Cruz Merchant”.
A moment of passing by.
“Fire!”
The 24-pound and 32-pound heavy artillery shells carried by the heavy cruiser roared out one after another in the unbelievable eyes of the opposing crew.
“Impossible—!”
The 32-pounder can only be equipped by battleships above Level 3, and the hull of ordinary battleships can’t withstand their shocks at all, which is almost a kind of common sense.
It was a cruise ship with such a large number of 32-pounder guns that the crew of the battleship stared wide-eyed as if they had seen a ghost.
The artillerymen of the “Daystar” did not care what they thought, and followed the tactical procedures of the training to shoot the artillery step by step.
At this time, the cruise ship has only two continuous decks, and the uppermost deck is still open-air design.
After predicting the weather, Alwin had already ordered the pirates to build a rain cover in advance to ensure that all the artillery on the battleship deck could fire normally.
It may not work in the pouring rain, but at present this kind of moderate rain with not heavy wind is still no problem.
A few minutes later the two sides completely disengaged.
The results of the three cruisers were good, and the fleet of slave fleets was cut into pieces in just one raid.
Two slave ships had their foremasts cut off with cross-sails and were almost completely incapacitated.
However.
“How did you do it?!”
In contrast, the “Venus”, whose main target was on the battleship, was really embarrassing.
Although the interspersed time was very short, especially the pirate gunners could not reach the speed of the elite navy after emergency training, the 28 32-pounder guns only had time to shoot once on average.
But
The Merchant of Santa Cruz was almost unscathed until out of range!
You must know that the 32-pound heavy guns loaded on the heavy cruiser can break the keel of the enemy ship at close range!
The Gunnery Chief from the twenty-four men in the Navy on the “Day Star” was ashamed to death, feeling that he had completely betrayed the trust of His Excellency the Captain.
If it weren’t for the war, he would have just pulled out the gun and shot himself.
However, in the meantime, Alwin also discovered the anomaly on the other side’s ship from another angle.
The brightness of the solidified spell aura shrouded on the battleship will change every time the cannonball is supposed to land on the opponent’s battleship.
After each flash, it creates all sorts of surprises, causing the shell to shoot straight into the air, especially if the target is a relatively small poop.
“The head portrait on the Level 4 ship is really weird!”
The conclusion was silent in my heart, and when the two fleets passed by, Alwin issued a new order.
The three cruisers turned back with their right rudders and continued to attack the slave fleet.
“The gunners are ready! Do it again!”
The moment the Level 4 ship passed by, the guns on the ship fired in sequence.
bang! bang! bang!
This time the result is slightly better, a 24-pounder shell finally hit the opponent’s poop, but still not as expected Give it a chill like that.
It only penetrated a few cabins and fell into the sea diagonally, and even the personnel were not able to kill a few.
At the same time, the heavy cruiser was reloaded, but it was also hit on the broadside by the 6-pounder placed on the poop of the battleship. Although the heavy hull of the heavy cruiser was not painful at all, this contrast also It’s just too unusual.
simply cannot be explained by inexperienced artillery operators.
From start to finish on the “Santa Cruz Merchant”, Captain Hobbian and Alwin, who were standing on the command post of the poop, looked at each other from a distance, and saw that the heavy artillery fired by the “Daystar” was no longer in use. Back with success.
Even astounded by the ferocity of the cruiser’s firepower, he cheered up and seemed to laughed heartily:
“Hahaha, no battleship in naval battles can take the lucky ones. The ‘Santa Cruz Merchant’ was sunk, not even a Level 1 ship!”
On the surface, it was a mockery of the pirates on the opposite side, but in fact it was almost intimidated by the firepower of the “Day Star” The weak-legged crew took a reassurance.
And his confidence is that the [Head of the Ship·Lucky Gold coin], which has just been installed on the battleship for a long time, is in the shape of a bare-ass wooden little angel. Holding a shiny gold coin in both hands.
Effect: Solidify the “Chain Accident”, so that the battleship has a certain probability to save attacks (missing hits).
Of course, although this save ability is powerful, it is not omnipotent, and shooting at close range is one of the most effective methods.
Minimizing the chance of chance happening can greatly reduce the effect of that bowhead.
Alwin soon found this out after two tries and a reminder from Milan who was next to the cultivation house.
I looked back and saw that the three cruise ships behind me had beaten the slave ships to nothing, and even the “Iron Bone”, which was a little slower than the other two ships, had already been “shaking” with the enemy’s Level 5 ships. No.” launched a tragic overboard battle.
The sound of killing is shocking and scaring the enemy!
“ao——”
“Kill!”
Especially one of the wolf roars made people look sideways.
Since the split between the navy and the pirates, Alwin quickly found a new material that is very suitable for making “animated animal skins”, and then finally extended his claws to land creatures.
That’s the continent’s gray wolves in the forests of the new continent’s north at this time!
This is a large canid that lives in the northern forests of the new continent, and may even be the largest wolf ever explored by humans.
The body has gray and white fur, the average weight can reach 90kg, the shoulder height is 90cm, the body length is 250cm, and the bite force is 700 pounds.
And unlike most of the larger sharks that can be used for “living hides” but prefer to live alone, wolves come together in packs to catch them.
And generally, wolves are composed of homologous family members. Although limited to a strict hierarchy and territorial scope, the number of members in a wolf group can expand infinitely, but the largest group has close to forty heads. .
It is enough for the production of Alwin’s “revitalized animal skin”, and it also greatly improves the production efficiency of “activated animal skin”.
Especially now that the second discipline Calvin has become the wizard apprentice of the Activation School, he can do some simple auxiliary work for Alwin, and greatly increase the production capacity of activated hides.
The pirate cadres of the “Iron Bone” were the first users of this animal skin. At this time, the hungry wolves, who had already turned into humanoids, rushed towards each other. battleship, set off a foul wind and bloody rain.
The escort team members who have long been exhausted by their comfortable life are not their opponents at all.
Alwin has decided to gradually expand the equipment range of “revitalized animal skins” and establish a series of assessment systems.
In addition to the pirate cadres, as long as you make enough merits, you can also get this immediate and powerful equipment!
The subordinates are making rapid progress, and their own side cannot be left behind.
It’s just a trifling slave fleet, even if there are some tricks, but the final outcome will never change.
“Get the upper hand, get close and shoot!”
Even if it has been changed to a cruiser, the hull of the original Level 3 ship “Venus” is more than a single ship. Level 4 ships are not much shorter.
Alwin had enough confidence to let the opponent lose his resistance before the ten 9-pounder guns also exposed to wind and rain showed their formidable power.
Phew——
Under the dual action of “Monsoon Goddess” and “Ocean Current Horn”, the “Dawn Star” crossed a large arc on the water.
The billowing black sails and the streamlined hull look like an elegant black swan rowing across the sea, re-buying the “Santa Cruz Merchant”.
Almost a clumsy Level 4 ship compared to a cruiser, it was too late to adjust the engagement stance.
And this time the target of the cruiser was no longer the small poop, but on the starboard side of the battleship.
“Attention to all artillery crews, solid bullets, fire!”
bang! bang! bang! bang! bang! The distance between the two is only 50 meters in trifling posture. If they can shoot in the air without committing suicide, Alwin will sink the waste into the sea.
And the adjustment of tactics this time, it is also true that they finally experienced the thrill of heavy cruisers crushing their peers!
Even with the protection of “the head portrait · lucky gold coin”, it cannot change the destined ending of the battleship.
Boom—! ! !
It was just a round of salvos. The heavy artillery shells carried irresistible kinetic energy and easily penetrated the hull of the “Santa Cruz Merchant”, hitting the lower deck and the artillery with continuous bounces. Up and down.
The large chain rounds fired by the 24-pounder guns on the open deck swept across the deck of the Level 4 ship, easily severing its foremast.
“Report to the captain, it’s not good, the waterline was shot twice, and the bottom tank has been seriously flooded!” Sex, it can no longer be a barrier for oneself, he quickly turned around and shouted to his side:
“Rice wizard!”
hearing this thin black robe old man did not speak, cold He glanced at the “Venental Star” that was still pouring out firepower 50 meters away.
He took out a bottle gourd-shaped flute from his robe and put it on his lips, and put a dark wide-mouthed clay pot under his feet.
wu wu——
In the low and hoarse sound of the flute.
Hey! hiss! hiss!
The sudden screeching of snakes on the boat made hair stand on end.
At the same time, from the earthenware pot under his feet, a line of blue purple stench suddenly rushed out!
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(end of this chapter)