Chapter 442
Jonah thought about it carefully, then gnashing teeth: “There is only one probability, this thing, it should be from Westwind Town, only that strange town of unfathomable mystery , specializing in the production and manufacture of this unfathomable mystery.”
“Now is not the time to trace where it came from.” The commander-in-chief said: “It’s coming, it’s charging at us, and the landing operations must be stopped immediately. , solve this thing first, otherwise, if he releases the fireball rain just now on our landing troops, our landing troops will be wiped out in an instant.”
Joona said: “There are nine ships left. Let’s go around and fight together.”
The commander-in-chief accepted the proposal, and that’s all there is to it, the ship must be secured first, and then the landing operation is possible.
“Encircle and fight!” The commander-in-chief issued a semaphore: “If the cannons are not moving, pick up the ship and jump to fight. Sailors will board the opponent’s battleship, hack all the enemies above, and seize the ship. Just come here.”
The remaining nine battleships were originally landing on the shore, but now they all dare not land again, they turned together, and rushed towards the Zephyr…
“Come, come, they come.” Robb said with a smile: “After finding out that my ship is a steel battleship, nine of their ships rushed up together. This is the right choice, hehehe.”
Madeleine was a little worried and said: “You should go back to the cabin, it’s too dangerous to stand on the deck.”
“Okay.” Robb, in order not to worry the girl, stood The bow of the ship pretended to be the head of the ship, took Madeleine’s hand, and returned to the command room of the ship building.
The No. 2 Necromancer and the captain of the rowboat are all here. In the short artillery battle just now, Mr. Captain commanded a little, but when he found that his ship was full of artillery shells. When you can’t wear it, you feel that it doesn’t matter what the command is, just let the well-trained crew perform on their own.
Now seeing Robb and Madeleine back, he immediately shouted excitedly: “Grand Duke, Baron, this battleship is amazing, amazing, it’s actually made of pure steel. , I didn’t know it was so powerful in advance.”
“Oh, is it fun?” Robb said: “It’s going to be a one-on-nine.”
Captain look Looking at the other nine Norma battleships that were rushing towards us, I was a little nervous: “If what I expected is not bad, the opponents will spread out, bombard us from several directions, and there will be several ships at the same time. With full sail at full speed, ram into us and try to fight with us.”
Madeleine nodded: “Yes, the opponent will definitely adopt such a tactic. After all, it is Knight’s In the battleship of Norma, they are never afraid of close combat. Whether it is the quality of the generals or the quality of the soldiers, they are inclined to the melee style. And the generals and soldiers of my magical kingdom Gran are better at long-range combat.”
The captain said, “Once we are successfully picked up by the other party and the sailors kill us on our ship, we will have no chance of winning.”
Robb secretly rejoiced in his heart: what’s the point of killing it? afraid? With me, the opponent has no chance of winning.
But this can’t be said, he can’t reveal that he is Godfather.
He turned to the captain and said: “Don’t worry, this ship has no probability of being connected to the side, pick up the small horn in your hand and give an order to the whole ship, this ship will start maneuvering operations next, add coal , the power is fully turned on, and at full speed, keep a distance, and keep fighting with the enemy.”
“Huh?” The captain was a little disbelieving: “Mr. Baron, this ship is a full-fledged ship. A steel ship, it’s already very difficult to float on the water, even at full speed, how fast can it be? I think… we should not be able to outrun the wooden galleon.”
Robb was happy: “Yo, can’t you win? Why don’t you run and try to talk about it.” , but you have to run even if you can’t win, so let’s try first.
He grabbed a small horn and loudly said: “Power pack, add more coal, full speed, this ship is about to start maneuvering operations.”
Chapter 619 The opponent’s impossible run Quickly
Nine Norma battleships surrounded him, and the commander-in-chief of the Norma Kingdom’s fleet was looking at the Zephyr with a serious face.
Jonah stood beside him and whispered: “General, don’t worry, we still have nine ships with nearly three thousand soldiers on board. As long as it is approached, sailors swarm up, there is no reason. They will lose.”
“I’m afraid they will escape.” The commander-in-chief also believed that there was no reason for nearly 3,000 people to rush on the ship to hack and slash, but the commander with rich experience in naval warfare also understood one The truth is, if you are caught in a one-on-nine situation, it is absolutely impossible to let the other party pick up the boat stupidly, and you will definitely drive at full speed, taking advantage of the strong defense of your big iron ship to fight the enemy with artillery.
Jonah said: “Escape? General, the other party is an iron ship, how can it run so fast? You see it just slowly and staggeringly sailed from the shipyard. Come here, its speed is no different from a turtle, how could it possibly outrun our galleon?”
These words make sense, and the commander felt a little at ease. Although the big iron ship was amazing in the shelling battle just now, it was indeed traveling relatively slowly, and the speed was like a snail. If such a broken ship can’t catch up with the ship, then you might as well jump into the sea and kill yourself.
All he needs to do now is to be careful of the enemy ship’s artillery fire on the way to rush to pick up the ship.
The commander issued a series of orders to let each ship be careful of artillery fire and flexibly wait for an opportunity to catch up.
But…
They didn’t know that in the previous round of shelling, the reason why the Zephyr was running very slowly, like a snail, was only because The reason why the crew of the power crew on the ship are all rookies, they are just a group of sailors who were temporarily arrested and turned into power crews. , even the speed of one third did not play out.
However, after the crooked sailing just now, the sailors have a little understanding of what this power system is about.
This is not a very complicated machine, unlike computer equipment that has to be learned for a long time to use.
After a short period of learning, anyone can use it quickly.
The sailors had just become familiar with the steam engine when they heard the command from the captain: “Full speed, this ship is about to start maneuvering operations.”
“OK! Try how this boat can run.” The sailors were very excited, add coal, add coal, get power, GOGOGO!
The steam engine ran wildly, and the huge power was output to the large water wheels on both sides of the hull through the rotating shaft. The two huge water wheels slammed and turned frantically.
The ship’s helmsman couldn’t keep up with the power’s response for a while, and the ship rushed forward with a swipe of the ground, and actually rushed straight towards the enemy ship, which made me startled. Knowing to avoid a gang battle, of course the helmsman also knew this, and hurriedly steered with all his might.
The Norma battleship on the opposite side saw the Zephyr rushing towards him. He thought that the enemy’s brain was blocked. He was about to be overjoyed when he suddenly saw the Zephyr turn sideways. The speed was unimaginable. , the hull was thrown away at once.
It turned out that there was no high building on the deck of the Zephyr, only a very short building. Its design concept was completely different from the current large three-masted galleon.
Although the three-masted galleon of Norma Kingdom is also equipped with artillery, its design idea is more inclined to “sea fortress”. Help fight. This kind of ship has a towering ship building, and it is convenient for soldiers to attack enemy ships from a commanding height on the ship building.
The towering building, coupled with the high masts and sails, of course, the steering is not flexible enough, and it is easy to capsize if you turn too fast.
But the Zephyr is a “dwarf ship”, with a very low building, no masts and sails, only a round chimney, and the steering is flexible, far exceeding that of a three-masted galleon.
Once the Zephyr turned, it turned into a fleet facing the Norma kingdom with broadsides.
This is the most favorable T-position in modern naval warfare!
Without orders from Robb and Madeleine, the ship’s gunners caught this rare opportunity.
“Fire!”
“Fire!”
One side of the Zephyr was full of fire. Katyusha fired at the same time, and the physical cannonballs flew out together with the magical fireballs. The scene was extremely spectacular.
The Norma fleet rushed to the frontmost battleship, and was instantly hit by several guns and sawdust fluttering by physical shells.
And then eat a lot of fireballs, the magic Defensive Array flashes one after another beautiful ripples, and finally can’t withstand the intensive blows, and smashes into a heavenly demon magic rays of light , and then, the fireball behind it hit the ship firmly, causing a fire.
A magician used Water Element magic and wanted to put out the fire, but followed by a bunch of Arcane missiles, which hit the magician continuously, the poor magician screamed and fell dead. on the deck.
The fire cannot be extinguished!
The crew on the ship had to jump off the ship again to escape. The rabbit merchants who were detained in the bottom cabin also quickly jumped into the sea. When they jumped, they were thrown underwater by Robb and took a breath. They obediently hid. underwater.
Robb saw from a distance that a rabbit who was jumping into the sea was still holding a dead companion. After taking a look, no one paid attention to him, and quietly threw a shaman’s resurrection technique at the dead rabbit man.
The resurrection of the shaman is different from the resurrection of the light priest and the dark priest. It will not fly out of the sky like angels or other feathers. The animation effect is relatively simple, just green light flashed, and it ends. . In this sea battle with the roar of artillery fire, who he meow noticed a green light flashed on a rabbit.
The dead rabbit suddenly opened his eyes, and the companion who jumped into the sea with his arms screamed in fright, but he just barked and fell into the water, wanting to bark. Can’t call out.
“Bombardment!”
“Fire!”