Chapter 262: The First Battle at Sea
The navy ships were neatly groomed, and dozens of British soldiers were methodically doing the work at hand, preparing for battle. Even though the sun was high and the weather was hot, they still wore red uniforms, apparently a group of highly trained regular navy.
Ling Xiyue raised the bolt-action rifle in her hand, glanced at it, shook her head, and said, "I can't hit it." "Although she has a high shooting accuracy with the blessing of personal enhancement, the constant swaying of both boats at sea under the impetus of the waves makes it much more difficult to shoot. Ling Xiyue hadn't been on a boat before, and now she had already spent too much energy on the top of the mast just to stabilize her body and not be thrown off, and it was impossible for her to devote herself to shooting.
"Whoosh..."The navy was the first to fire, and a projectile flew past Ling Xiyue's hair, hitting the black flag next to her, hitting the skull's eye socket. This is obviously not a deviation from the other side, it is purely a warning to us, let us give up resistance, and everyone will have less trouble. If he is obsessed, the next shot may hit Ling Xiyue's head.
Ling Xiyue was frightened by the projectile, and hurriedly jumped off the mast to hide her figure. "Xiyue, you can't do it, the weapon used on the other side is hundreds of years behind you!" Liu Weixian roared. "You can do it, I can't do it, I'll come down!" Ling Xiyue shot back, being suppressed by the enemy with backward weapons, and she was also very depressed.
"What a!" The navy's combat power is much higher than I expected, and we trialists may not be able to exert half the strength on land at sea, and this is the home of an experienced navy, and it will be difficult for us to gain the upper hand in the confrontation. "Coco, turn, slip!" I immediately revised my strategic deployment.
Kehui turned the rudder to the left, and the Twilight turned left on the water, changing from a crosswind direction to a downwind direction. The navy on the other side thought that we were going to bombard them sideways, and quickly prepared to meet them, but we didn't expect that we didn't fire a single shot, and slipped away directly with the help of the wind.
The Navy was not slow to react, and hurriedly turned the bow of the ship to pursue us. But the small ship has the advantage of being small, and their big U-turn is enough for our Gazing Sky to turn three times. "The musketeers on the other side should be loaded by now... So his next target..."I thought about it and took out the dark energy from the Taiping Technique to protect Ke Hui, and then a projectile hit the dark energy shield.
"It's accurate, but it's not powerful. The shield didn't even ripple after being hit by the projectile, "But our ship hasn't been strengthened in any way, and the artillery of this era is enough to bury it at the bottom of the sea." ”
Although the warship's bulky turn gave us a lot of time to escape, no matter how fast we were, we couldn't beat the bombardment of shells. "Be careful!" Ling Xiyue reminded loudly, but Ke Hui realized that the warship's shells were coming, and rushed to dodge. But after all, the boat is not a part of the human body, and it is difficult to do it to the extent that it is like an arm.
The two guns in the bow of the warship opened fire at the same time, and one shell missed, falling into the sea water next to the ship, stirring up layers of waves. The other hit the Sky directly on the buttocks, and the wooden armor couldn't resist the iron shells at all, and it broke and fell into the bilge in an instant.
"Fei Fei, go to the bilge to see the damage!" I instructed, "Lao Liu, Sun Jie, go paddle, we can't get rid of it just by the wind speed." Xiyue, bombard the with the stern!"
This blow just now shocked me, but fortunately, the technology of this era limited the bow of the ship from being able to put too many guns, and the main firepower of the general ship was concentrated on the side of the ship. Two shells are already a bit of a mess for us, and if the warship gets the opportunity to turn sideways and give us a salvo, we will definitely not have good fruit to eat.
We had no practical experience with the artillery of this era, and Ling Xiyue and I hurriedly stuffed the gunpowder and shells into the barrels, forgot to aim and shot out. But even if we aimed, it was useless, we had less gunpowder, and the shells were pulled into the sea by gravitational acceleration as soon as they flew ten meters.
"Hey, there's less gunpowder. "Sun Jie stood behind me to guide the work. "Aren't you supposed to be fucking paddling?" Sun Jie didn't open his mouth to explain, his thumb pointed behind him, and I saw that the wine swallowing boy was with Liu Weixian, swaying the oars back and forth. Although the two of them were tired enough, they provided no less power to the ship than the sailors on the warship behind them, who were several times larger than them. Please net
"Okay, you come and fight!" I didn't care that my speech was a little confused, and pulled Sun Jie to the tail cannon. "It's okay, it's not leaking!" Gong Feifei climbed out of the bilge, and then exclaimed: "Here we go again!"
Almost instantly, Ling Xiyue raised her gun and took aim. "It's a shame today, this shot, watch me perform! Dynamic Hunt!" she thought about it, activated her skill, and the speed of a cannonball that shot straight at her instantly slowed down in her eyes.
"Bang..."Mosin Nagant fired a bullet from his rifle and hit a cannonball in the air, and the kinetic energy against the flight trajectory of the lower cannonball deviated, missing by a fraction of a millimeter. But there was nothing Ling Xiyue could do about the other cannonball, although her vision captured the flight trajectory of the other cannonball, her limb speed could not keep up, and the muzzle of the gun could not be moved in time.
I don't have Ling Xiyue's perverted eyesight, but I have simple and crude ways to defend against cannonballs. I didn't react before, but this time, under Gong Bifei's reminder, I took out nearly half of the dark energy from the Taiping Technique in time to protect the stern, and blocked another shell and the third projectile fired by the opponent's sniper.
"Rats don't threaten you, I'm a wonderful house!" I was so upset that I had been pressed and beaten for so long, and I threw away the Taiping Technique, and the fragment jumped back into my soul before it fell to the surface of the sea. I pulled out another book, and while I didn't know what I could do with it, it was my only counterattack.
"Yin Yang Secret Technique!" I activated the skill of "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", and as I expected, the random elemental spell on this vast sea was indeed a water attribute. I don't know what the spell is, but the power... Strong enough.
I saw that behind the ship, the huge waves rose up to a height of more than ten meters, and fell towards the warship like a cockroach, as if they wanted to bury it directly in the sea. Although the warship still stubbornly floated on the surface of the sea after the attack of the huge waves, it was already badly damaged, both masts were broken, and there were only a few sailors left on deck, so there was no longer a threat to us.
"It's too damn meow, isn't it..."I'm a little dumbfounded, I didn't expect this random spell to be so powerful, I knew that I would have used it at the beginning of the battle, otherwise I wouldn't have been beaten so badly. However, I also firmly believe that it is not my luck, but that the water elements in this vicinity are too prosperous, and with their blessings, the skill effect of the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" has also risen, and with it.
At this time, the Twilight Sky was also damaged, and a big hole was broken in the stern, and it was not advisable to stay here for a long time, in case of another naval ship, we would not be able to eat and walk around, and the Yin and Yang secret skills were still cooling, and in addition to this, we had not found any other effective means of controlling the enemy in naval warfare. Therefore, we gave up the plan to mend the warship behind us and took advantage of the wind to fly away.
In the evening, the sea breeze took us to the vicinity of a small group of islands. Because it was located on the trade wind belt and there were many ships coming and going, the empire set up a similar office here to supply the ships. There are not many native inhabitants on the island, and most of them come to make money and be earned. But after all, it is royal territory, and it is relatively orderly compared to the rest of the Caribbean.
We need to repair the ship, recruit some sailors, get some supplies, and maybe strengthen the Twilight if we can, but it's too wasted right now, so we choose to dock. Due to his lack of experience, he almost hit the dock when mooring.
"There's another Black Flag, these bandits...""That's it, the locusts who rely on privateering permits to do evil, God bless the fucking empress. "Okay, okay, they're also legitimate British battleships, let's not say a word. ”
Seeing the arrival of the black flag, the crowd on the shore talked about it. We don't have a privateer license, of course, but I can pretend to be, and if we don't jump, no one will come and look through our papers.