Chapter 125: A hand-to-hand fight

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There is an adage in the old world that if the sword is long, it will take a step back, and if the sword is short, it will take a step forward.

Limited by the range of the weapons in their respective hands, there is no possibility of overlapping the best attack positions of the pirate fleet and the goblin fleet, and for Zheti Hakusan, who is always looking for an opportunity to engage in a broadside battle, the pirate warship dangling in front of his eyes and maintaining a safe distance of hundreds of yards is doubly annoying than a flea hiding in a bed. Luo Zhengdao's important goal is so close that it is reluctant to give up its precious opportunity to retreat in vain, and it is conceivable that it will be punished more severely than the normal defeat when it returns. So, this problem went around and around, and if he continued to be kited by the privateer fleet like this, the goblins would sooner or later suffer a big loss, which Zheti Baishan knew in his heart, and Luo Zhengdao also knew it.

Thinking left and right and couldn't find a way out, the current embarrassing state of mind aroused the anger of the bear goblin commander, and he simply shouted loudly:

"Put down the speedboat, the daredevils assault!"

The kind of guy who will fall twice in the same pit must be the best fool, and if it weren't for his father's ascension, such a waste would never have a chance to command thousands of troops. The goblins of the Second Empire era were alienated into outright fighting peoples, not comparable to the brilliant minds of their ancestors, but the goblins were not mentally retarded by any means. Knowing that the pirates have a dual advantage in terms of both power and firepower, the Bear Goblin Commander would rush into battle without any preparation, which is unconscionable. Forced by the severity of the current situation, Zheti Baishan showed the killer weapon that had been prepared in the morning, and the privateer fleet immediately felt the pressure.

"Be careful, don't get caught up by the greenskins."

Luo Zhengdao looked at the fast-moving dots behind his fleet with concern, and couldn't help but remind Zola Hegel beside him.

Those light and nimble goblin speedboats, each with 30 goblin oarsmen and 20 elite warriors, such an exaggerated staffing ratio allows the speedboat to reach a terrifying 40 knots in the sprint stage, even if the oarsman's arm strength cannot maintain the power output for a long time, it is still a miracle to defeat the enemy on the battlefield where the activity space is cramped. The dinghy that sped on the sea cleaved the waves all the way, gradually catching up with the high-sailing pirate fleet. On the speedboat for Wei, a goblin officer set up a strange thing that resembled a whaling fork, as did the other dinghys.

Zheti Baishan, who estimated that the distance had met the conditions and had always followed the progress, yelled and said:

"Signal, do it!"

"Bang! Boom! Bang ......"

A red flare streaked across the sky, a low popping sound sounded, and the small four-claw anchor with a thick iron chain attached to the tail end of an ordinary person's thumb was shot out by the deflagrated stone pine powder at the bottom of the metal pipe. The iron anchors, which were raised high by the bow of the dinghy and dropped in a parabolic trajectory by the anchor hooks, landed on the side and deck of the pirate ship, while others hooked the sail lines and masts.

At this time, looking from a distance, the Avenger was like a big caterpillar being besieged and eaten by countless ants. This type of anchor chain projectile device was originally a sharp weapon to deal with the siege of the city, and for the goblin army, which lacked heavy siege weapons, with the help of these anchor chains to climb to the head of the city defended by humans, even if the battle was won by more than half of the battle. Now, this prop has been borrowed and used in naval battles by Zheti Baishan, who is good at opening up ideas, and the actual combat effect seems to be not much worse than in 6 places.

Seeing this scene, Luo Zhengdao was of course anxious, but the problem was that he couldn't think of any clever plan to solve the siege, so he could only shout loudly for the sailors to quickly use axes to cut off the chains connected to the iron anchors.

Since crossing into the new world, he has experienced countless life and death tests and battles, and Luo Zhengdao can be regarded as having relatively rich experience in actual combat and escape, and he knows very well what kind of danger he is facing. Even on the surface, it only takes a few minutes for the pirates to clean up these bug-like speedboats, he understands that it won't take more than a few minutes for the menacing goblin fleet to be killed, and these goblin boats only need to delay a little time, then the goblin fleet will be considered to have won. At that time, the initiative on the battlefield was in the hands of the goblins, and it was up to Zheti Baishan to kill or kill him.

Thinking of the last time he was almost strangled to death by this fierce bear goblin commander, Luo Zhengdao couldn't help but vaguely feel a cool breeze begin to rise on the back of his neck, this time the situation was indeed called 100,000 urgent.

After thinking about it for a while, Luo Zhengdao also put his mind on preparing to play with his life, if he didn't solve these boats, he would have no future at all, and immediately Luo Zhengdao reached out and snatched the copper pipe of the intercom system in the ship from Zola Hegel's hand, and shouted:

"I'm Earl Will Needham, and the two decks below are all ears, all guns are loaded with grapeshothulet, waiting for the order to fire."

In order to ensure the stability of the warship and good wave resistance in the offshore water environment, the New World warships also had to adhere to the same principle of shifting the ship's center of gravity downward as in the Old World, and the heavy guns equipped on the Avenger, the largest caliber 24-pounder gun, were arranged on the bottom gun deck close to the water line, and it was suitable for bombarding low targets close to sea level such as small boats from this position.

"Artillery loaded, waiting for instructions!"

Hearing the sound of the urn coming from the brass pipe, Luo Zhengdao, who was smiling, waited for this sentence, and he shouted without thinking:

"Aim at those dinghys and shoot freely!"

The length of the anchor chain ejected by the goblin speedboat is only a hundred yards, and the all-metal chain is not a paper paste, not to mention the cost, the storage of these anchor chains alone will squeeze a large part of the dinghy's load and cabin space. Limited by the length of these anchor chains and the limitations of the projectile position, the goblin armed speedboats were all exposed to the fire projection range of the pirate ship, like a stupid duck that only landed on the water.

On the dimly lit lower gun deck of the battleship, the pirate bosses, shirtless and wearing only a pair of loose shorts, shouted:

"Aim and then ignite, or the Earl will investigate it, and the whip will be light."

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Boom ......"

Grapeballs and shotguns are both small-grain shotguns, the main difference is the size of the head, a single grapeshot is at least a pound, and shotguns range from a few to a dozen shotguns. As a result, grapeshotfire is not only lethal enough against individual targets, but the goblin dinghy's one-inch-thick planks are not a hindrance. At this moment, as the bronze cannon spewed out golden flames and billowing white smoke, the grapeshot loaded inside the barrel shot out violently from a high forward that was invisible to the human eye, and in just an instant, the goblin speedboat team was bombarded by the rain of bullets. The stumps scattered all over the ship were not spared, and even the dinghy itself was not spared, and the planks of the ships were pierced by shells.

Moments later, the bubbling waters were pouring into the cabin from the broken hull of the dinghy, and it was only a matter of time before it sank. However, while the pirate ship was cleaning up the armed dinghy, Zheti Baishan had already led the other goblin warships to catch up, and he was only a little more than a hundred yards away from the Avenger, and at this distance, the warring sides could even see the changes in the faces and expressions of their opponents.

"Turn now and hit it with a banging angle!"

Zola Hegel, who was holding the steering wheel, was dumbfounded when he heard this, it was too late to run away now, Luo Zhengdao wanted to take the initiative to attack, was he crazy? The boatswain, with a look of astonishment, hurriedly dissuaded and said:

"Your Excellency, no!"

Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao had an impatient expression, squinted at him, and said:

"And you have a better idea to get us out of trouble?"

Hearing Luo Zhengdao say this, Zorrah Hegel, who had only a blank in his head, lost his temper, turned around and ran to say it very simply, looking back at the rhythm of the goblin paddle warships nearby paddling against time, I was afraid that it would not be easy to escape and escape. After thinking about it, there was no way out, so the boatswain had to silently accept Luo Zhengdao's crazy decision, he immediately turned the steering wheel and aimed the bow of the Avenger at the goblin fleet, and gave the sailors the operation order to sail with full sails.

"Boom-"

The dull, slightly short crash was accompanied by a sharp force on the colliding hulls, and there was a creaking and infiltrating sound when it landed, and the all-charging Avenger was like an angry rhinoceros, and the bronze ramming horns were pressed against the starboard side of the goblin flagship, the Flamingo. The impact was so powerful that the flamingo's hull tilted to a thirty-degree angle in an instant, and it almost capsized in the sea on the spot, but the flamingo was a giant sail oars after all, and its survivability was quite tenacious, and as the hull shook violently a few times, the former human royal fleet capital ship regained its balance.

Zola Hegel struck the right rudder after the impact, trying to take advantage of the opportunity to shake off the goblin fleet, but a huge battleship had to be added enough to leave the battlefield in a short time, which was not something that could be done in three or two minutes.

"All ready to take on the gunwale!"

Seeing his opponent's intentions, the Bear Goblin Commander shouted, and he jumped onto the side of the Flamingo with a halyard in his hand to swing towards the enemy ship.

Considering that the distance between the two warships was beyond the bounce limit of normal creatures, the symbolism of Zheti Hakusan's move was far more symbolic than practical, and it was more of a showmanship, but it did have the confidence to kill the stubborn enemy on the opposite side. Preparing for a real battle with Luo Zhengdao early, Zheti Baishan gave up his usual tomahawk and switched to a chain flail, not because of its whims, two months ago, Zheti Baishan suddenly received the spiritual inspiration of Bane, the god of war and conquest, and officially became a Bane's hand.

The fact that a bear goblin with a low social status was able to gain the favor of the gods caused an uproar in the Second Goblin Empire, and in addition to making Zheti Baishan famous, it also pushed it to the forefront of contradictions.