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"Enemy attack! Now the pirate ship, ready for battle! ”

"Dangdangdang......"

Although the Yangwei ran a staggering and terrifying voyage under the premise of going all out, no matter how fast the battleship was, it was impossible to pass the light, and the pirate warship that rushed from afar was immediately seen by the lookout of the Boyle family fleet, and this strange warship that did not look like a friendly greeting from the Boyle family fleet, the alarm bell of the flagship of the Boyle family fleet was immediately sounded, the flagship's signal flag issued a warning ring order, and the sailors were driven to their respective posts by the whip and abuse. (Please search Bayi Chinese Net, the fastest updated novel website!) At this moment, in the golden light of the setting sun, the pirate warship is killing with great vigour, and the rapid alarm bell cannot change the real threat facing the Boyle family fleet.

In full view of the public, the Boyle Sail swept straight into the column of the Boyle family fleet, and in the blink of an eye, the rude intruder had approached the flagship, and it was the fragile stern of the Boyle's flagship Trade Wind that was exposed to the starboard side of the Boyle.

Holding a quadrant and several gunnerical measuring instruments resembling a plumb sinker or pendulum, constantly correcting the relative angles and degrees between the gun and the target, Vina Dubov shouted:

"Ruler four, one hundred and twenty yards away!"

Hearing the voice of the half-elf beauty, Luo Zhengdao, who had a slightly nervous expression, secretly rubbed his fingers against the counterweight round head at the end of the hilt of the sword, and shouted loudly:

"Fire!"

"Boom-"

At the sound of an order, on the foredeck of the Yangwei, in the temporary gun barricade temporarily reinforced by sandbags, short and heavy guns loaded with stone shells took the lead.

The stone pine spores burst into flames and white smoke in an instant, and the light was so blazing that one could not look at it, and the gold-lacquered stern of the Trade Winds, which was directly in front of the muzzle, was decorated with the most ornate carvings. In an instant, the scene of the disaster movie that was reduced to debris and fragments under the bombardment of stone bombs, the screeching of wood chips, and the sea surface was shrouded in a dazzling golden fire.

Only those who really know how dangerous it is for a battleship to be hit by heavy enemy fire on its stern is really great. Professional battleship designers have gone to great lengths to store spare stone shells in the bulkheads on both sides of the deck, which has helped to provide additional protection, as well as cowhide-reinforced broadside bulkheads, and even the canvas hammocks that sailors sleep in, which are folded and hung on the broadside planks in a uniform format when not practical. After several folds, the thick canvas hammock acts like the synthetic fiber lining in the turret of an Old World main battle tank, blocking the secondary damage that a shell from the broadside direction that could inflict on the crew from a splash of wood chips.

The sixty-pound stone projectile that slammed into the hull from the stern of the Trade Wind pierced through the two unprotected wooden partitions with great ease, and then it jumped and landed on the gun deck, and the undiminished momentum drove the stone projectile to bounce off the cabin like a bumper ball.

The destructive power of the stern close-range shelling method is no less than pulling the trigger on the back of someone's head with a shotgun, and it is needless to say how accurate the shooting is, and the lethality of this weak direct attack is even more inferior, which can be said to be extremely ferocious!

"Boom! Boom! Knock ......"

As soon as the scene opened, the matter was not over here, and as the hull of the Yangwei slowly moved forward, the long-barreled cannons that had entered the best firing angle one after another also began to fire one by one. In just half a minute, the former Yaling Rank 6 battleship poured more than 20 stone bullets on the tail of the enemy ship Trade Wind, and the Trade Wind, which had suffered heavy losses repeatedly, could no longer support it, like a drunken strong man who deviated from the formation sequence crookedly, and was obviously completely paralyzed by the fierce artillery fire of Shicai.

Seeing this scene, Luo Zhengdao on the Yangwei command platform clenched his fists excitedly to celebrate, and then he shouted loudly:

"Well done, ready to pack up for the next one."

Without the flagship in the center of the command and dispatch, the Boyle family fleet was scattered, and there was no one who dared to come up and wrestle with the Yangwei, they chose to scatter and flee for their lives, and they did not even pose to rescue the flagship.

With a group of enemies scattered by the trees, the pirates couldn't have made the rest of their job simple, chasing down and capturing these enemy ships. It didn't take long for the crisp naval battle to end with the complete collapse of the Boyle fleet, with three brigs attacked and captured by pirates, one set on fire by the desperate crew, and the remaining four sloops fleeing in different directions. Although the two pirate ships, which had been busy capturing prisoners, had more than enough to weigh their limited appetite, the pirates still gave up the idea of continuing to pursue the remnants of the enemy.

As long as a sail warship breaks its mast, it means that it loses the ability to maneuver, and the three captured brigs were all caught in this way, except for the flagship Trade Wind, which was hit by a burst of chrysanthemums at close range. However, the loss of the ability to escape is not the same as a complete loss of combat, and the pirates have to clean the sailors from the ship before they can enjoy the fat prey in peace.

"All hands up, if any of you want to be a hero, now is the right time to stand up and die."

Fierce-looking boatswain Zola Hegel, holding a patterned steel saber in one hand and slapping the grapeshot-loaded cannon beside him in the other, his voice cold warned the sailors on the brig opposite him not to act rashly.

There is no doubt that the power of the sail warship comes from the sails, and the control of the direction requires the cooperation of the rudder, and now, the sailors on these brigs who have been shelled are killed and wounded, and they can't run away if they want to.

His own losses were very small, and the victory made the pirates smile, and usually he always looked cold and suspicious of others owing money, and Zola Hegel was also very happy at this moment, and he ran over with a piece of parchment and said to Luo Zhengdao:

"Your Excellency, this is the list of seizures, we can prepare to distribute dividends, right?"

Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao frowned, then he looked up at the sky, shook his head and said:

"It's not safe in this place, let's talk about it in another place."

The natural environment of the new world, which is almost flat space, is very different from the old world, and the sail warships that sail in the Aether Sea like spaceships are even more different from the wooden ships in the old world that have to be soaked in the sea all year round.

New World ships are very easy to maintain, except that they often alternate between the Aetheric Sea and the inshore waters, and are prone to distortion and deformation of wood due to wet and dry changes, these ships are much easier to serve than Old World wooden galleons. Since the sea driftwood in the hull structure of the New World provides a buoyancy reserve for the battleship, as long as the overall structure of the ship is not damaged, it will not easily fall into the depths of the Aetheric Sea and become drifting, unless it is unfortunate enough to run into the thin particle area known as the "Aether Trap", then you can only throw away the ballast cleanly and see if your luck is good enough.

Ship materials other than sea driftwood are mainly used to fill the hull shell, separate the internal compartments and support the structural strength of the hull. Therefore, if a ship does not fall apart completely, it can be improvised by finding a few carpenters to beat and repair it.

The general disadvantage of these wooden warships is that they are flammable, although sea driftwood is not sensitive to flames, and even if it is thrown into the fire, it will only slowly turn to ashes, the problem is that the other materials on board, such as wood and sails, cables, and other accessories, are all excellent flammables, and once burned the whole ship is not saved. During the raid, the armed sailing ship, which was destroyed by the pirate fleet but was not captured, was set on fire by a group of die-hard members of the Boyle family hiding in the bilge.

The designers and users of the New World ships are not idiots, they already know that the fire protection of battleships is the first priority, how can they ignore their weaknesses?

In order to prevent the flames from devouring expensive wooden warships, during the initial design and construction process, the exterior of the hull will be wrapped in a thin or thick layer of copper and iron according to the budget, mainly to prevent small creatures in the seawater from attaching to and gnawing on the wooden hull, and by the way, it can also play some fire effect. On other exposed parts, such as decks and sail lines, on the eve of the battle, they will be coated with alchemical potions for fire prevention as much as possible, and if they are poorer, they will simply apply mud to deal with them, and the fire prevention effect will be stronger than nothing.

Although the expiration date of the fire prevention agent in the new world is quite sad, and when to start using it and how much to use it are quite difficult problems to scratch people's heads, but the effectiveness of the agent is not small. If all the fire prevention measures are put in place regardless of the cost, it is impossible to light them with torches, and it is not possible to build a bonfire to burn the sails in a while. Those warship designers with more financial resources, such as the Yaling Empire Navy and the Elven Federation Navy, simply arranged a magic array with flame retardant effect on their own warships, saying that it was difficult for someone to deliberately set fire, and it may not work to summon a hellfire to smash it down, and the disadvantage is still the high cost.

In view of technical secrecy and other considerations, these regular warships will dismantle the flame retardant magic array when they are decommissioned, firstly, to recover the usable spellcasting materials, and secondly, to prevent the leakage of their own technical secrets.

After a great battle in the waters near the port of Tartus, the laden pirate fleet broke away from the battlefield and temporarily anchored beside a grassy brown rocky reef, where the jubilant sailors dismantled the three brigs towed from pieces.

The cargo was counted point by point, and even the secret money that the Boyle sailors had hidden in the cracks of the ship's planks gave the pirates a lot of money, and even worse, the hapless captives were stripped of their clothes, which is said to be a common practice among pirates to prevent them from hiding their belongings and weapons.

After a thorough examination, Boatswain Zola and Quartermaster Haile Pope reported to Luo Zhengdao and said:

“…… Our results were calculated, and the ships captured this time, together with the sailors and the cargo and sundries, amounted to 6,859 alloy coins. ”