Chapter 345: Catching a Big Fish
"Can't rush, General, can't rush forward, there's a trap ahead, there must be a trap ahead!" Bree, the deputy captain, pleaded bitterly.
"Get out!" Stubin kicked him to the ground and roared loudly, "If you disturb the morale of the army again, I will chop you with a knife first, and if you don't open your dog's eyes and see what is going on now? ”
Vice Captain Bray, who turned over on the spot, jumped up for the first time, checked the surrounding situation, and couldn't help but gasp, cold all over.
The Cummins family had just chased too cheerfully.
It was not found at all that the closer the Danube was to the Grim Reaper, the narrower the channel, the closer the battleships would be.
It's like boiling a frog in warm water, and when the frog finds that the water is too hot, it has no strength to jump out of it.
By the time the Cummins family was awakened by the black powder keg bomb that the Eternal Night Army leader had chopped off his head and face, the situation was already quite bad, and the warships of the Cummins family's Third Fleet had already begun to pile up.
Just now, the Sea Dragon 5 was severely damaged by the black powder keg bomb of the Eternal Night Army, and the Sea Dragon 6, which was closely behind his ass, did not even have time to completely change direction, and it can be seen from here how close the two sides are.
Not to mention a U-turn.
If they did so rashly, there would be only one result, and that would be to squeeze into a lump of lumps on the Danube and become a living target for the Eternal Night Army's Cloud Trebuchet.
Although the Cummins family has not been able to see it until now, the appearance of the Sky Trebuchet mounted on the top of the mountain on both sides of the Death Aqueduct by the Eternal Night Army is one thing is certain, compared to the brother port, I am afraid that it is not too big.
Now it is located on the top of the mountain at a distance of two or three hundred meters, and the shooting is completely impossible to measure with common sense, and it is possible to directly hit the river two or three kilometers away.
On the contrary, the foot of the mountain outside the Death Waterway will become a blind spot for those mountaintop cloud trebuchets.
Where they are now.
Rush over, crush the fleet led by the Eternal Night, and then calmly turn and leave here.
Stubin was able to become the captain of the Cummins family's Third Fleet, not by luck, but by virtue of his own ability, he climbed up little by little.
Even if there is a flaw in his character, the most basic overall view on the battlefield is still superior, and he discovered the loopholes of the Eternal Night Army Leader at a glance.
How did he not know that there was a possibility of a more sinister trap for the Eternal Night Lord?
But at least there is a glimmer of life, and they can grab it with their own combat power.
If you turn your head now, not only will your warship turn into sardines, but the enemy's bombardment, the fleet led by the Eternal Night Army will definitely turn into the most vicious shark and rush towards them.
It's complicated to say, but in fact Stubin made a decision, and the first wave of bombardment from the top of the mountain had just come to an end.
The remaining warships of the Cummins family fleet, led by the Dragonwreck battleship, rushed towards the inevitable fleet of the Eternal Night Army at unabated speed.
Boom! Boom!
A series of violent explosions came, and black smoke rose from three Cummins family warships on the spot.
Even the flagship dragon wreck battleship of the Third Fleet was hit twice, and at this time, the evil of this legendary battleship was revealed, and at the moment of the explosion, there was an energy shield similar to that of the golden armor when it cast a spell, keeping out the most terrifying wave of impact, and the rest fell on it, only letting it shake violently a few times, and even the upper deck was not broken a few pieces, let alone hurt the muscles and bones.
"Be careful, everyone, there is also the wrath of the mountain god in the water, follow me as much as possible. Stubin commanded in a loud voice.
That's right.
The attack on the Cummins fleet just now was not bombarded by a black powder keg from the top of the mountain.
Instead, it originated from the water, and the black powder mines laid by the Eternal Night Army.
This is the killer weapon that the Eternal Night Leader has prepared for the Cummins fleet.
Whether it is a black powder mine, a black powder mine, or a black powder keg bomb, it sounds quite high-tech, but in fact, it is not so difficult to really do, it is nothing more than black powder plus a impact ignition device.
Compared with sophisticated modern weapons, it is the difference between accuracy and lethality.
But as long as it doesn't get in the way of them being able to use it, that's fine.
From top to bottom, the Eternal Night Leader has never been in the habit of putting his eggs in one basket.
Of course, they had prepared a plan to thwart the Kingsley family at Brother Harbor, but they also prepared a plan to thwart the Cummins family fleet from the river.
Single-fight warship.
The Eternal Night Commander, who has just started in the shipbuilding industry, will definitely not be able to compete with the Cummins family, who have been the leader in this industry for many years.
Even if the development momentum of the shipbuilding industry in the territory of the Eternal Night Army is rapid, and more technological and reasonable shipbuilding methods are used, it cannot change the fact that the development time is too short and the foundation is insufficient.
Compared with the lack of foundation in the past, the foundation mentioned this time is real and in front of you.
The large ships built by the shipyard in the past few years have all been pulled out, and they are not more than half of the Third Fleet of the Cummins family.
And such a fleet, the Cummins family has as many as seven, and the warships in front of them are not all of the Third Fleet.
Competing with others in what they do best is the most stupid thing to do.
Naturally, the higher-ups of the Eternal Night Army Leader would not do such a stupid thing.
It is the most correct choice to use what you are best at to deal with the enemy.
Black powder, a cross-era weapon, is undoubtedly the existence of breaking conventional warfare and conventional water warfare.
According to the normal development trend, it will take at least decades or even hundreds of years for black powder to evolve from its advent to its official use in large-scale wars.
But because of the existence of Sean, an outlier, it directly changed the law of natural development, whether it was the advent of black powder or the way it was used.
The development and growth of the Eternal Night Commander, black powder played an indelible role in it.
Without it, it wouldn't be so easy for the Eternal Night Leader to restore the Jacob River.
If the Jacob River had not reflowed, the Eternal Night Army would still be an indigenous force nestled in the mountains.
It is precisely because of the earth-changing power of black powder that a large number of solid supporters have emerged from top to bottom, and they are actively developing its various uses.
Even without Sean's suggestion, when the Eternal Night Army Leader was completely passive on the water, the first thing that many officers of the Eternal Night Army Leader thought of was black powder.
The emergence of black fire powder mines is naturally an inevitable thing.
It's just that the use of black powder by the Eternal Night Commander is still relatively primitive.
Sean wanted to get the artillery out directly, but the problem was that the technology in all aspects was up to standard.
The Firearms Manufacturing Bureau, which was established some time ago by the Eternal Night Army, has made many attempts in this regard.
As a result, with the cannon barrels now made by the Eternal Night Commander, eight out of ten are blown up, and the steel quality is too poor.
This is still secondary, after all, the technology is not up to standard, and it can be improved slowly.
The key problem is the scarcity of steel resources.
Even if the Eternal Night Army leader researched artillery technology, there was not so much steel to make them artillery, and that thing could easily weigh tons of steel.
The Eternal Night Warlord can only settle for the next best thing, using the most abundant resources at hand to combine it with black powder.
The Sky Trebuchet is a product of this situation.
In the Andes Mountains, there is no shortage of solid giant trees that have grown for an unknown number of years.
However, this relatively primitive usage greatly limited the power of black powder.
Therefore, the Eternal Night Commander did not use all the black powder methods in the first place, including in the attack and defense of Brother Port.
Of course, this kind of cover means that when dealing with the Cummins family, when they were finally stopped, the Cloud Treult only used ordinary boulders, and did not use black powder bombs.
In the offensive and defensive battle with the Kingsley family, the Eternal Night Army leader did not fight to the death at most, and all the means that could be used were used, and in the end, the Kingsley family, who activated the golden armor, had a slight upper hand, which is an indisputable fact.
The fact that the battle artifact has such a big name in Ashan's war is not blown out, but that it does have the ability to change the final outcome of a battle.
Fortunately, the Eternal Night Commander did not have more than one plan to prepare, and when he found that the situation was not right, he immediately activated the backup plan and adjusted the strategy.
In the late stages of the Siege of Brother Harbor, the tactical core of the Eternal Night Lords had shifted to paralyzing the Cummins family as much as possible, allowing them to jump into the battlefield that the Eternal Night Lords had carefully prepared for them.
Judging from the current situation, the plan went more smoothly than expected.
There are many reasons, and the acting skills shown by the Eternal Night Army Leader from top to bottom are only one of them.
There are two other factors that cannot be ignored.
One is that the Cummins family does not understand the new weapon of black powder, although they have observed from a distance the difficult situation of their allies Kingsley family in the face of the bombardment of black powder kegs in the siege of Brother Port, but it is one thing to see it, and it is another thing to feel it personally, they never expected that this black powder would be able to play so many new tricks.
Second, naturally, because of their confidence in their fleet, they are the most formidable water force on the Danube, and no one can help them.
Even if it is the Sky Treult Array of Brother Harbor, the Cummins family from top to bottom does not see much fear, but simply does not want to lose the battleship on it.
If they break through the blockade regardless of losses, it is not impossible to do it.
In addition to the fact that they do have such capital, and because the Eternal Night Leader has been helping them shape this cognition, every time the Eternal Night Commander runs away from the wind, there is a bit of a deliberate taste in it.
Brother Harbor's Tallinn-like Sky Trebuchet Array is also implying in disguise that the entire Third Fleet of the Cummins family is the last resort of the Eternal Night Warlords against them.
When they were taken, the Eternal Night Warlord had nothing to do with them.
With this mentality from top to bottom, it is only natural to jump into the pit carefully prepared by the Eternal Night Commander.
Stubin was not in the mood to analyze the reason why he had jumped into the trap of the Eternal Night Commander, and now he could only grit his teeth and resist, and he could no longer care about cherishing the precious energy of the dragon wreck battleship.
With it as a pioneer, it is crazy to move forward.
The rumbling explosions reverberated around the Dragonwreck Battleship, all of which were blocked by the energy shield that suddenly appeared.
Magical energy broke many of Sean's laws in his previous life, but there was one that never broke, and that was the conservation of energy.
Even the magic energy must be followed.
No energy is born out of thin air, and the battle artifact is not successful.
Naturally, the dragon wreck battleship did not make it.
If you put aside the appearance, the similarity between the dragon wreck battleship and the battle artifact is quite high.
They all rely on the magic energy they usually accumulate to cast more than normal energy.
There is no doubt that the dragon wreck battleship must have an energy gathering device similar to an energy reaction chamber.
However, due to the general environment, the speed of energy gathering is definitely not fast, and it can only be accumulated over time.
The nature consumed now is all the stored energy in the past, and how long it can support depends on how much magic energy it has accumulated in the past.
However, judging by Stubbin's crazy performance, there should be a lot of magic energy stored on this dragonwreck battleship.
However, the Eternal Night Warlord's choice of this place as the final battlefield for the destruction of the Cummins family fleet naturally did not simply prepare a bunch of black powder mines.
The fleet of the Eternal Night Army, which was waiting outside the Reaper Waterway, parted like a tidal wave, leaving the way for the section of the river that was rushing through the Reaper's Waterway.
Rows of giant trees flowed down the river, pushed by the rushing water, and crashed into the Cummins fleet.
Knock! Knock!
Many of these adults, twenty or thirty meters long, crashed directly into the Cummins family's warship.
Although the water in the Reaper's waterways is turbulent, it is obviously not enough to kill them, especially the dragonwreck battleships that are fearless against black powder mines.
However, the Eternal Night Warlord didn't expect the logs to be very lethal, and under the pull of the ropes tied to them, the logs stopped in front of the Eternal Night Warlord's fleet.
Their real role is to stop the most powerful ability of the Cummins fleet, the Rush.
When they rushed in front of the Eternal Night Army's leading ship with a pile of giant trees on their heads, it was really hard to say how much of their impact power was left.
Even if there are, most of them are separated by several logs, and most of the stress points will be completely crooked.
In particular, the five ships of the Eternal Night Army Leader, with the largest number of logs floating around, are the focus of the Eternal Night Army's protection, and they are also the focus of the Cummins family's attack.
Click! Click! Click!
The sound of ship's side, planks, and logs breaking is endless.
The Cummins family and the fleet led by the Eternal Night Army collided violently at the doorstep of the Andes.
The ramming effect was not satisfactory for the long-awaited fleet of the Cummins family.
After the bombardment of the catapult on the top of the mountain, the delay of the black powder mines in the water, and the relatively small water.
The speed of the Cummins family's fleet is less than thirty percent out of ten.
Now the water is even more chaotic with logs, not to mention the building ships that are not much worse than them, even if they are against those relatively petite assault ships, as long as they are not too unlucky, it is difficult to have the original kind of rolling game, including the flagship dragon wreck battleship.
It is equally powerless against the giant trees floating in the water.
This is just an artificial obstacle, not an attack, the magic ability possessed by the dragon wreck battleship has no way to automatically counterattack, and the counterattack of the Eternal Night Commander has also arrived.
"Rocket ready, shoot!"
The overwhelming rockets, like flaming clouds, fell on the Cummins battleship.
The five building ships led a rain of arrows composed of more than 150 assault warships, and the crew of the Cummins family fleet could not raise their heads, and if they were slightly exposed to unsheltered places, they would be crucified in place.
"Whale hunting crossbow ready, shoot!"
Countless specially made siege crossbow arrows were shot out from the ships of the Eternal Night Army.
Compared to ordinary siege bolts, these arrows are made of stainless steel throughout, especially the head, which has a tapered front end, a sharp barb like a ring of claws, and a slender rope behind it.
Just listen to their names, they are designed to hunt huge sea creatures such as whales.
The siege crossbow that fires this crossbow is directly fixed to the ship, and is no longer called a siege crossbow, but a whale hunting crossbow.