Chapter 304, Shipwreck Ruins
The harsh sound came from the collision between warships.
To be fair, neither human warships nor rat warships are that small.
Sixty-eight meters in length, eighteen meters in width, and eight meters in height, these are the data of human warships, like a square suspended on the ocean, and there are a total of thirty-eight such warships gathered in this sea area at this time.
This is a very good data. Perhaps benefiting from the existence of mages and spells, the industrial capacity of these island residents is obviously stronger than the era they are in now.
It’s just a pity that the enemies they face are more exaggerated.
The radius is twenty and the height is six meters. These are the data of the rat warships, which are inferior to the human sailing warships, but the fact that they are all cast in steel and the number of fleets make up for this.
The number of rat warships is almost twice that of human sailing warships, and the number of rat warriors piled up in them is almost more than twice that of the sailors in these human sailing warships.
At this moment, the two sides collided with each other in an almost tragic posture.
The war on the ocean reached its most brutal moment at this moment, with expensive warships colliding with each other in the most primitive posture.
Such a scene came from the coercion of Sheng Qi.
At the beginning, the two sides were still chasing each other on the sea. Relying on flexible maneuverability and familiarity with this sea area, the sailing fleet wanted to drag this war into their rhythm, the kind of sea chase war where you chase me.
But Sheng Qi was more decisive than they thought.
The Western Fleet of the Rat Man ignored the human fleets from beginning to end, but moved forward on its own, even passing the islands and reefs where chaotic fighting was taking place. Sheng Qi misled the humans very effectively. His target was not these scattered islands and reefs from beginning to end.
He wanted to attack the Hurricane Island in front of him, this huge island, and he wanted to spread the flames of war to the largest home of the residents of this island and reef.
When the island residents noticed this and reacted, Sheng Qi had already led the Western Expeditionary Force through the island and reef belt.
They were already very close to the island.
This is not an easy task, especially when the rats are not familiar with this sea area.
Reckless advance.
Clustered reefs, eddies, and complex sea conditions are all obstacles for the Western Fleet to approach Hurricane Island.
In this process, the special hull structure brought a lot of help to the Western Fleet.
The bathtub-shaped hull brings huge buoyancy and extremely shallow draft. The rat warships can pass through most of the seas with reefs without hindrance. These bathtub warships are not even qualified to collide with those dangerous reefs under the sea surface.
Excellent passability.
Of course, it is not without disadvantages. When facing eddies, the performance of the rat warships is not so good. The power output by the slave rats is still not strong enough. Facing those strong eddies in the ocean, they are played like toys and difficult to break free.
The situation is both good and bad, not so absolute, and it has caused considerable losses to the Western Fleet.
There are several more leaking rat warships, and some of them stopped somewhere on the sea surface and began to rotate spontaneously.
However, Sheng Qi, the commander of the Western Fleet, did not feel anything about this. He excitedly urged the other members of the Western Fleet to continue moving forward, and a fluttering red flag was hung high.
Inspired by the human fleet and his own thinking, Sheng Qi easily developed a branch of the Ratman flag language, relying on flags of various colors to command the huge Western Fleet.
Compared with the perfect regulations of humans that are complex enough to transmit a large amount of information, it is too simple, but it is enough for the Western Fleet of the Ratman.
It is not the Ratman who should be anxious now.
Soon after, the human fleet came back, no longer staying away and pulling the Ratman warships, but actively welcoming them.
After many attempts, the human fleet wanted to pull the Western Fleet of the Ratman away, but it was obvious that the Ratman was the one who had eaten the weight and the initiative was also the Ratman.
For Sheng Qi, even if all the Ratman warships in his hands were damaged and stranded on the coast of the huge island in front of him, it would not be a tragic price. Soon after, a steady stream of Ratman warships would be replenished again.
This is not worth hesitating about. For these island residents, are they willing to see the scorching flames burning in their homes?
So, such a scene happened.
In front of the coast, the warships of both sides collided with each other in the most rude and barbaric form, which was a boarding battle.
In the collision, the ratman's bathtub warship did not show the strength that all metal should have. In the harsh sound, the first to be distorted and deformed were often these metal-cast bathtubs.
It is not surprising that although the island residents' sailing warships are made of wood, they have multiple structures and complex supports, while the ratman's warships are all cast from high-quality steel, but they only have a thin hull.
It can even be said that in such a collision, the island residents' sailing warships completely crushed the ratman's bathtub warships.
However, the boarding battle is not entirely about the quality of the warships of both sides.
In the surging waves, beams of lighting were raised to the sky, and the world suddenly became bright, and the collision was about to happen.
The harsh sound was the sound of metal twisting and deforming.
There was also a violent shock that almost made everything fly into the air.
There was not much good news. The twisted and deformed warship of the ratmen was firmly embedded in their warship. The two sides were probably inseparable for a while.
The boatswain immediately began to organize order. No, that was not the boatswain, that was the first mate. That's right, he didn't need to steer the helm in such a bad situation.
Originally, there were barrels of wine on the deck, which was for courage. It would be too bad if he couldn't even drink a sip of wine before he died.
But damn, now those wines are probably fed to the sea god. Although this is not a bad thing, maybe the sea god will protect us after accepting such an offering, but I still want to drink a sip myself first.
The first mate with a beard and wearing a tight and dirty noble dress was still holding his brass telescope in his hand, but in the collision, the brass telescope was slightly deformed.
Shouting loudly.
I really wanted to hear what he was saying, but the guys around me were making a lot of noise. Damn, those new guys who just came on board a month ago, these guys really don't know the rules, when the boss is talking, you must not contradict him.
I thought so unhappily, but I also listened to what they were shouting.
Several dark young men were shouting loudly, talking about the boatswain. Finally, someone finally knew where the boatswain had gone.
The unlucky guy was knocked off the warship by the flying barrel, and now he is probably going to see the sea god.
The unshaven first mate's eyes are ready to kill, and those new guys who don't know the rules are still making noise.
I unconsciously straightened my chest, hoping that the first mate would not see me.
At this time, a rat man had climbed up along the intersection of the two warships. The thin guy looked at everyone on the deck with scarlet eyes, but what greeted him was a heavy brass telescope.
At this moment, the last sentence of the first mate's words was finally heard clearly.
"Only the brave ones can return to the sea!"
The chaotic battle began.
A large number of rat warriors, these poor skinny guys, climbed up to the human fleet.
The situation of the war was very chaotic, especially when those big claw priests manipulated their big toys again.
There was no worry about accidental injuries, and the kerosene barrels were almost thrown at zero distance.
The dark and sticky black oil splashed everywhere, and almost instantly turned the scene into the cruelty of the hell.
He remembered the last words of the first mate and became a brave man.
Although the first mate was pulled down by a ratman carrying three spears shortly after he said this, even the brass telescope in his hand disappeared in the scramble of the ratmen.
They were lucky. The rat priest who was going to throw bombs close to his face encountered a malfunction of the catapult, and the terrifying flames were ignited on the rat warship that collided with them.
But their luck was not good enough.
Because another Skaven warship stuck to them with a sharp and piercing sound.
Shaking horribly, it flew high and fell into a pile of chaotic debris, wailing in pain, blood flowing from its forehead, but it was attracted by a shiny little pot.
It was the boatswain's wine pot.
A surprised expression appeared on his face, and he held it tightly in his arms.
The boarding battle between the Skaven Western Fleet and the Human Fleet was extremely cruel and chaotic. One warship after another was intertwined, and the human fleet was trying to prevent any Skaven warship from approaching the Hurricane Island behind them with a resolute attitude.
And the Skaven warships were destroying them.
These expensive warships, in a very short time, became a huge mass of marine garbage in the interweaving.
Countless humans and Skaven fought desperately over this mass of marine garbage.
The rat warriors fought very hard, perhaps because they were tortured by hunger, harsh environment, harsh bells, unpleasant smells, and diseases for too long, or perhaps it was related to another simpler thing, such a strong fighting spirit.
There is no way out for them on this ocean.
Well, maybe it's just such a simple reason.
The reason on the human side is also direct. They will never let the rats move forward. If they retreat, they will be at home, or they will have no way out if they push back.
Fighting, killing, bleeding, and corpses falling from warships.
Roaring, screaming, fighting everything, unwilling and unable to retreat.
The chaotic war lasted for a long time, so long that both the Western Expeditionary Force and humans have already cast all the cards in their hands.
In the end, humans won, relying on the human warriors who continued to arrive in this piece of marine garbage or shipwreck graveyard, relying on the small sailboats that continued to flow into this shipwreck graveyard.
This was a hard-fought victory, not an easy one, and both sides suffered heavy losses, with countless dead island residents and countless dead ratmen warriors.
The human side did not completely clear out the rat people in this shipwreck cemetery. In this chaotic ruins, this is a difficult thing to do. The poor guys who survived, those hungry rat people , hid in the dark corner of the ruins, and started eating amidst the rustling sounds.
Eat and tear apart the corpses left in the ruins.
These dead human warriors are not the only ones who have to pay the price. The human fleet group has been almost wiped out. They are all piled up in this twisted ruins, intertwined with the simple warships of the rat people, and it is almost difficult to separate them. .
Although the rat barbarians also paid a heavy price and buried almost all the rat warships together, this was not a too difficult problem for the rat people.
The overly simple structure and the overly cheap and abundant labor force significantly lowered the cost of the Skaven warships.
Their return is almost certain, even if they encounter failure at this time.
On the edge of the ruins of the shipwreck, on a rat-man battleship.
Obviously, Shengqi did not escape from this cruel fight, but faced with the continuous reinforcements from the human side, the balance of victory inevitably began to tilt towards the human side. This irreversible situation, Shengqi gave There aren't many solutions,
But he was simply not unprepared for this situation.
A small boat was lowered from the rat warship embedded in the ruins of the shipwreck. It was manned by a team of rat runners. The movement was very fast. It came from the capture of the human warship. As the commander of the Western Fleet, he certainly could not Will really live and die together with the Western Fleet.
This small boat was what he had prepared. After getting on the small boat, the Rat Runners started paddling quickly, and the wooden little boat rushed out like a swimming fish.
The destination was the islands and reefs not far away. In the frontal naval battle and the collision of fleets, the rat people were defeated, but in the battle for the islands and reefs, the rat people successfully won.
That was the destination of Sheng Qi's escape. He looked a little embarrassed, but it was not a big problem. At least Sheng Qi survived and did not die.
From time to time, sea monsters want to attack Sheng Qi. This tragic war attracts many wandering sea monsters, but the battle flag carried by Sheng Qi can make these sea monsters retreat in an instant.
Sheng Qi is also a lucky rat man with a gift from God.
Obviously, he who carries the name of luck will not die so simply.
On the messy deck, a guy pulled out the stopper of the silver pot in his hand and poured it into his mouth. It was a pity that nothing came out. There was a disappointed expression on his face. He had planned to wait until he survived. He went to drink wine from the silver pot to encourage himself, but he survived, but he didn't expect that there was no wine at all in the silver pot.