Chapter 126: Who Can Have the Last Laugh
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The old enemy Modo Blackwater has once again fallen behind in the mission of chasing down Luo Zhengdao, and the secretly happy bear goblin commander does not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, if he accidentally falls, he may not have the good luck of Modo Blackwater, and get the secret protection and mediation of a certain big man. Even though the Senate and the military department strictly ordered to hold accountable for the defeat, the final punishment board was raised high and gently lowered, as if Modo Blackwater was asked to write a written examination that was so deep that it touched the soul. In the unlikely event that Zheti Baishan had made the same mistake, don't be under the illusion that it would be easy to hand in an inspection, for it was destined to live its life in some desolate outpost in the Inner 6 region.
The thought of such a bleak prospect makes even a brave man as Jeti Baishan feel as if he is covered with lice and fleas, and he is full of discomfort!
It's not a good habit to think about it when you're about to go to war, and the more you think about it, the easier it is to make mistakes. The Bear Goblin Commander had to force himself to turn his attention back to the battle, and the question of how to deal with the aftermath after the defeat might as well be left to ponder when he had time!
"Quick, it's all up to the past to support the flagship."
The person who shouted loudly was the pirate first mate in the pirate fleet who commanded the Majesty in place of Zola Hegel, and after the "True Demon Pattern" was replaced, the battleship's voyage was raised to a level that can be called a frenzy. When the sixth-rank battleship approached the two entangled flagships of the enemy and us from the flank and rear, and entered the effective firing range, the right hand raised by the temporary captain fell abruptly.
"Tom ......"
Raining down on the flamingo flagship, the Goblin 6 Squadron, which was gathered on the deck and ready to jump, the first to suffer was a staggering 30 percent casualty in this round of shelling. In normal times, unless a military parade is held, no matter how lame the commander is, he will not pump a large number of sailors on the deck as targets, and the unfortunate fate of the Flamingo can only be said to be like this.
At close range, he saw his subordinates being blown to a blur by stone bullets, and the deck was instantly stained red with blood, and the experienced and calm bear goblin commander glanced at it, and the expression on its face was still calm and unmoved.
Does the soft-hearted Lord still want to lead his troops into battle? Do you use the mouse in front of the computer to circle the NPC units in the game? What does it mean to be a great success? That is, no matter how the outcome of the war is won or lost, the soldiers under the generals are the stepping stones on the road to this war, in other words, in a more popular way, they are nothing more than a group of cheap cannon fodder!
The slaughterhouse-like deck didn't make the Bear Goblin Commander feel much, and he turned his gaze back to the enemy, raised his hand to the Avenger on the opposite side, and roared loudly:
"Soldiers, do you see that? That's the flagship of the human nobleman Count Flue, and the Empire needs us to destroy this hairless monkey and start attacking immediately! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Empire! Long live the Senate! ”
"Attack! Offensive! Banzai! Banzai! ”
Shouting the motivating slogan of the Long Live Charge, the goblin soldiers, who had just suffered a heavy round of casualties, lifted their morale and were once again mentally ready to engage in the broadside battle. On the way to adjust the position of the hull for the broadside battle, the Flamingo inevitably suffered the second round of guns from the Avenger, and the giant sailing oarship with a slightly wolfish appearance paid a huge casualty, but it was close enough to start a gang fight, and the Avenger had successfully reversed direction at this time, and the fifth-class Yaling battleship was no longer aimed at the flagship of Zheti Baishan on the starboard side, and the ships of the two battleships were facing each other, and they were hedging with all their strength.
"Bang-boom-"
Unlike the previous collision, which could only be regarded as two ships scraping against each other, this time the two huge battleships actually collided head-on. The ship's ramming, which rarely had a chance to come in handy, was now unleashed with the lethality it deserved, and even the sturdy wooden hull was no longer reliable under the ravages of the violent impact.
"Your Excellency, the ship's board on the port side of the ship has cracked and flooded, and we are trying to plug the breach and drain it."
The Yaling Empire has not spared no effort to research the hull enchantment enhancement technology for many years, this unique contemporary high-end shipbuilding technology, coupled with Luo Zhengdao's previous shipbuilding borrowing from the ancient sailing ship design elements from the old world, optimized and improved the hull structure, the Avenger's structural strength and comprehensive performance are far above the normal level of ordinary fifth-tier battleships, even the high-quality warships also produced in the Yaling Shipyard are much inferior. Now that he has pulled up a posture and collided with the goblin battleship, the Avenger will not necessarily suffer, and Zheti Baishan, who has no inside information, chooses to fight hard, which is undoubtedly a bad act for Luo Zhengdao. Deliberately making the goblin feel that he was forced to use the ramming tactic, in fact, this move was in the hands of Luo Zhengdao, he was never a willing to suffer.
Their own flagships were all shirtless, and the other pirate warships certainly did not have the spare time to watch from the sidelines, and bombarded each other with long-range weapons for a while, and they all followed the flagships and played ramming tactics.
"The White Gull crashed over!"
"Goo-dong-"
"The Yellow Sparrow is also ......"
The Avenger's weapons on the upper deck were as rich as the Flamindivid's, and the pirates and goblins had not yet killed Redeye in the initial stages of the broadside battle, and no one had sent flesh and blood to be a target.
During a brief exchange of fire using light artillery such as the Rotary Gun and the Eagle Cannon, a goblin staff officer livestreamed live information about the nearby battlefield in the ears of Zheti Baishan, and needless to say, a series of battles unfolding around the perimeter were as hot as the two flagships that were fighting each other. At this time, he took the time to take a look at the surrounding battle situation in full swing, Luo Zhengdao's mood was really not relaxed, this bit of the privateer's fleet was obtained by him at the cost of selling himself to join the Yaling Empire, in case he accidentally lost it, he could only sell it back to China, even if he lost both, it was a goblin to take advantage, and in the end, Luo Zhengdao suffered a loss!
Thinking about how painful it was for him to lose money, Luo Zhengdao, who thought about it for a while, couldn't hold back any longer, and ordered the herald beside him to say:
"Get my secret weapon out there."
Soon, a strange-looking copper cabinet was hoisted from the lower deck to the deck, and a group of sailors braved the rain of bullets overhead.
"Huhuhuhuhu......"
With a cluster of sparks flashing, the sound of compressed air was like the low breath of a giant beast, and at this time, the orange flames erupted from the hollow brass pipe and flew through the gap between the Avenger and the goblin flagship, which was only more than twenty yards away, and burned straight towards the Flamingo mercilessly, just like a red dragon spitting dragon breath with all its might.
"Wow! Help me! What is it? ”
No matter how fierce the goblin soldiers are, it doesn't mean that they are fearless, there are too many special things in the new world that can make life worse than death, and the unknown mystery often means that it is extremely terrifying. At this moment, he was suddenly attacked by a flamethrower from the Avenger, and the goblin flagship was immediately in chaos, and the goblin soldiers didn't even bother to pay attention to the sail line that was ignited by the flames around them, and fled wolf-like to avoid the flame attack. This secret weapon is the flamethrower, which is a new naval combat weapon designed by Luo Zhengdao with reference to the fierce fire oil tank of the old world and the famous Greek fire, at least for the new world, this thing is indeed quite novel.
Due to its stubborn adherence to technical secrecy, the Byzantine Empire of the Old World brought the secret of making Greek fire into its coffin, and later generations of military historians could only speculate on what kind of fuel their predecessors used, and in any case, they were always inseparable from crude oil and flammable products such as sulfur, naphtha or asphalt. The situation of the fierce fire oil tank of the Northern Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty is not much different from that of the Greek fire, leaving only some sketchy exterior design drawings, and the internal structure and oil formula involving the core secrets are made up by later generations.
Luo Zhengdao is not the kind of retro enthusiast who is fanatical to paranoia, everything must be exactly the same as the ancient original before he is willing to give up, as long as the weapon is easy to use on the battlefield, delve into whether the product he designed is not deducted from the same mold as the ancient original weapon, that is full of food and nothing to do, idle eggs hurt!
At this time, with the help of the flamethrower's power to temporarily suppress the light artillery fire and long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows projected by the goblins, the Avenger was slightly more distant from the enemy. Immediately, Zola Hegel roared and shouted:
"Fire!"
"Boom-"
The distance between the two warships is only fifty yards, and at a distance where rookie archers can accurately hit the target, the cannon can still fly, which must be an extremely strict character problem.
While busy digging for water, while rushing to extinguish the fire and damage management, the Flamingo was hit by no less than thirty stone bullets at the same time, and screams were constantly heard from the inside of the hull, and the crisp sound of damaged and broken wooden components was also endless.
Judging from the cards in the hands of both sides, the goblin fleet was a big loss, and more than half of the capital ships under the command of Zheti Baishan were damaged in the battle, and three of them were caught off guard by flamethrowers, and they were about to burn into a bonfire. Rao was so, and Zheti Baishan was still unwilling to give up entanglement with the privateer fleet, and now it was only concerned with whether it could succeed in killing Luo Zhengdao. As the saying goes, if one handsome covers a hundred ugliness, if it can get rid of this goblin Second Empire's henchmen, no matter how big the cost of casualties the bear goblin commander pays, it will not be able to say anything wrong when it goes back to restore those big guys. If he is unlucky and fails again, even the current losses are enough to make Zheti Baishan unable to eat and walk, and he really can't afford to lose this big gamble!
Without much thought on counting the casualties, Zheti Baishan continued to yell and say:
"Ignore the other pirates and rush over to take out Will Needham, this is our last chance to win."
Hearing this, the goblin officers under Zheti Baishan were about to cry out collectively, today's ineffective combat is really not that they are not brave enough, let alone that they are afraid of sacrifice, it is really the objective conditions that do not cooperate, especially now, they want to fight hard and have no capital! A goblin staff officer whispered, with a sad face:
"Your Excellency, our steering wheel is damaged, and the paddle on the left side is broken by two-thirds, and we will not be able to catch up with the pirates until it is repaired."
ps:Come up and take a look at the automatic update of the vertical and horizontal again.,Manual update!