"What's going on?"

    Miss Loria finally came to her senses, and he grabbed Captain Sinbad and asked, "Where did the enemy ship come from?"

    "What are the undead?" Confused, the goblin captain waved his hand to signal silence before asking Loria, "We just found a couple of dinghys that look like pirates...... No, water thief, Miss Hillsbrad, do you want to avoid it or catch it?"

    William, who had hung himself on the mainmast, blew his special whistle again, and he made a few quick gestures to the deck.

    Sinbad looked up for a moment, then lowered his head and said to Loria, "Please make a decision quickly, those guys have spotted us and are coming in our direction." ”

    "How dare you mess with us?"

    Loria looked very surprised, she had seen the usual dinghys on the lake, even if there were a dozen of them, they were no match for the Roca, she thought a little and made a decision, "Go up and sink them." ”

    Hearing Loria's order, the goblin captain grinned, and he shouted orders for the crew to prepare to turn, and ran to the bridge himself - a group of pirates dared to provoke Sinbad, who was famous in the seven seas, and the goblins were planning to teach them a good lesson.

    Six or seven miles away is not far, and the opposite direction is a tailwind, Lolia, who was standing on the side of the boat, soon saw several small boats in the distance.

    "Right into two, left full rudder!"

    Sinbad's roar came from the bridge, and the helmsman hurriedly turned the rudder to the left to the end.

    And the captain's dwarf first mate was standing on the deck, trying to put the blindfold on his head. In a hurry, he was strangled around his neck, and the first mate jumped into the cabin and loudly passed the captain's orders. "Left back, right two!"

    After the gunner and mechanic, the order was passed to the steam engine room, and the mechanic turned on the boiler and shoveled coal into it quickly...... The gnome engineer who controls the steam engine pulls the left gear backwards and the right gear forward.

    The paddle wheel on the right side of the hull linked to the steam engine rotated with its help. The whole sailboat soon made a ninety degree turn to the left.

    "Full rudder left!"

    "Right car into two!"

     The return order from the engine room and wheelhouse was transmitted back to the bridge, and the Roka began to fine-tune its course. Maintain the starboard alignment of the dinghy.

    The other party was getting closer and closer, and William pulled out two small flags from his waist and waved them - these were flags of warning and threat, but the seven or eight dinghys had no intention of stopping at all.

    "Shelling!"

    Sinbad did not hesitate at all, and directly gave the order to open fire on the bridge.

    His roar was so loud that he didn't even need the first mate to pass orders. The gunners in the cabin heard it...... The shells and gunpowder had long been loaded, and the gunner, on the instructions of the observers, slightly adjusted the angle and lit the fuses in turn.

    There was a loud bang in the cabin, the whole sailboat tilted to the left, and Loria ran to starboard, snatched the binoculars from one of the crew members, and looked to the opposite side.

    Nine dhows were closing in on the Rocca, and all six shells in the first round were missed.

     in the gap between the second round of reloading. Loria had a vague glimpse of the dhows, each carrying six or seven men, and the bombardment seemed to have alarmed them for a while, but soon moved on.

    Roka has entered the lake of the kingdom of Lordaeron. Needless to say, these people must be legendary water thieves.

    By the time the second round of shelling began, Loria could already see the opposing ships with the naked eye.

    In the cabin, Elie Meow occupied the port gun emplacement at first, but who knew that the ship had actually become starboard against the enemy, she ran to the starboard side to snatch the rightmost gun emplacement. but was thrown away by the dwarven gunners.

    The command to ignite came, starting with the first shot. Each gun began to fire in turn, and when it was the last one, Elie Meow, who was scrambling, put her head against the barrel...... The shells deviated slightly from the expected trajectory, and the observers who were recording the landing point on the observation glasses thought that another six guns had missed, but the last shot hit one of the boats.

    ……

    "It's disgusting. ”

    Loria shoved the monocular back into the crew's hands, but her head kept replaying the image she had just seen, a cannonball slashing across a dinghy, breaking the mast and shattering the people on it.

    It's like a watermelon exploding.

    The small sailboat that had been hit began to spin in place, and the three men who were still alive pushed the fragments of their companions off the boat, drew their oars and rowed - their companions did not have time to rescue them, and in the face of the cannons of the Roca, they had to board the ship as best they could to avoid being beaten passively.

     Broadside battle may be bad for the Roca?

    Loria took a musket and loaded it expertly, her magic was useless unless the other party was very close - she was not much different from other magicians in the range of magic, the effective range was only around fifty meters, and it was difficult to hit the target any further.

    ……

    In naval battles, whether you hit or be hit is often a matter of probability.

     The small sailing ships of the pirates are small and fast, and it is normal for several rounds of shelling to fail to hit.

    The original prototype of the Rocca was designed for ocean-going cargo, and its twelve light cannons were very weak against warships, and only slightly self-protecting against pirate light ships - at the beginning of the design, there was no consideration given to how to deal with pirate sailing ships when sailing on the lake.

    The gunners poured water from the lake on the barrels with a clattering sound, and after cooling and drying the barrels, they reloaded and prepared for the final round of shelling.

    The gunner at the last gun position seemed to think that Elie Meow would bring luck, and agreed to let her light the fuse.

    The water pirates had come less than half a mile away, and the observer clenched his fists nervously, trying to time as well as possible to make as many hits as possible in the last round of shelling.

    "Shoot!"

    He shouted.

    The first gunner immediately lit the fuse, and when the shell was fired, the next gunner lit the fuse again, and when the second shell was fired, the ship stopped shaking.

    "Ready?"

    The dwarven gunner, who was fine-tuning the angle for Elie Meow, shouted at her.

    "Woo!"

    Emeow nodded vigorously, and the fifth shell overturned a small sailboat, now it's up to her.

    ……

    The last shot actually sank the small sailboat in the first place, and Loria first saw it burst out a lot of wood chips, and then sank headfirst.

    There were still six small boats with more than forty people left, and they were already within range of the muskets.

    Sinbad left the bridge, he jumped onto the side of the ship with a cable, drew the short musket at his waist and ordered: "Shoot!"

    With a banging sound, more than a dozen smoke rose, and several water thieves were shot, and their bodies that were originally wielding weapons shriveled, and they were immediately dragged up by their companions behind them as meat shields.

    Loria's eyesight was far better than anyone else's, and at this distance, she could see the enemies clearly through her crosshairs—plainly human, with no green skin, no horrible fangs, or rotting bodies.

    They may also have their own hardships, so they had to go to the lake to be an outlaw.

    "Miss, when I found them, they were robbing a merchant ship. ”

    William had already climbed down from the mainmast, and when he saw that Loria had been in an aiming position but had not pulled the trigger, he came up and said, "They are robbers." ”

    "They're still human, no different from us. ”

    Loria put down her musket, turned to William and said, "No one has the right to take the life of another, no matter who the other person is. ”

    "But miss, they're robbers. ”

    William argued, he looked at the approaching water pirates, and hesitated to step forward and snatch the musket from Loria's hand.

    "It is sinful to deprive others of their lives, for whatever reason. ”

    Loria was still talking to herself, "Someone once told me these truths. ”

    Just when William thought Loria was going to say some nonsense, she turned around again, raised her musket and aimed it at the head of a water thief, pulling the trigger.

    Sylvanas also sued Loria that taking responsibility means having to bear all kinds of sins. (Want to know more exciting news about "Lori's World of Warcraft"?Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right, select Add Friends to add the official account, search for "wang", follow the official account, and never miss every update!) (To be continued)

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