With a loud bang, a violent wave of air instantly set off in the hatch passage, and the corpse of a Norman soldier close to the hatch was actually blown out directly. Weiss and the two Demomen crawled to the ground, borrowing the remains of the Normans to avoid shrapnel, and so did it, the violent impact and violent concussions that made their organs tumble......

Thick smoke poured out of the passageway, and Weiss looked up and squinted, the hatch had been blasted open, and there were seven or eight wounded Normans inside, and a closed hatch further on.

Weiss didn't hesitate, and Ma Yuer retrieved a pineapple bullet from the dead Norman soldier, pulled the buckle, and threw it into the passage. Until more Federation soldiers board, the three of them must find a way to hold the hard-won boarding gate.

Next?

On this Norman battleship, there are more than 2,000 crew members and marines, and the total combat strength of the 931st Regiment is only 2000+. It will not be easy to capture this battleship!

At the moment, we can only take one step at a time.

After throwing the spinball bomb into the passage of the ship's cabin, Weiss heard the shouts of the Normans and vaguely saw someone running, and after the explosion, there was no sound and no one moving. Squinting at it, the living Norman soldiers just now were either dead or dying, and they were no longer capable of fighting, and the hatch inside was still closed, and two explosions in a row had caused some damage to it, and I didn't know if it was stuck. At this time, if the hatch gets stuck and can't be opened, it will be good news for Weiss and them, at least the Norman soldiers inside will not swarm out and kill the three intruders like ants.

"You two keep an eye on the passage!"

After instructing the two Demomen, Weiss returned to the crane console, thankfully that the simple machine had not been damaged in the explosion, but it was unknown what was going on. He poked his head out and looked, the Norman crew in the gun emplacements next to him was suppressing from top to bottom, and the Union soldiers below were also shooting from bottom to top.

The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and Weiss hurriedly shouted: "Ruo, let the brothers enter the hanging frame, I'm going to pull up!" ”

There was a commotion below, pistols and rifles opened fire intensively, and then, Hartbauer's voice came: "Dragon! Pull it up! Pull it up! ”

Weiss immediately cocked the lever and the crane hummed. It only took more than half a minute to lift the hanging frame and the Union soldiers inside to this hatch thirty feet above the ground, and the Normans in the gun emplacements "next door" seemed to notice the abnormality, some shouted, some echoed, and some tried to climb over, but halfway through the climb were hit by the bullets from below, and fell down with a wail.

After the longest half-minute wait, the hanging frame finally went up. Seeing Captain Hartbauer being the first to jump over, Weiss's eyes widened: "Why are you here?" ”

"I told Milas to go back and report to Colonel Butich." Hartbauer replied not to the question.

He was joined by six Federation soldiers, who were surrounded by bullets and bullets, and who could be hit at any moment if they stayed in the frame, so they jumped over in a hurry before the frame could move into the hatch. Although there are not many people, it makes Weiss feel much more at ease.

Seeing that the hatch passage was full of the corpses of Norman soldiers, Hartbauer was speechless: "Ha, dragon, you are really a god!" With two Demomen, he killed so many Normans, and these are all Normans! ”

"There are several more in there." Weiss put the frame down again, and then squinted at the inside of the passage, the hatch had not yet opened, but there were already many Norman soldiers gathered behind the door. So he said to Hartbauer, "I guess the Normans inside are about to come out." Tell everyone to get ready to fire, greet them with pineapple bullets, and blast them directly to slag! ”

One of the federal soldiers who followed was a sergeant. Hartbauer called him by name and conveyed Weiss's advice to him. In this narrow passage, the Union soldiers used the Norman corpses as sandbags, and quickly formed firing positions. After receiving the sergeant's battle order, they kept the bullets and spinax bullets in their hands.

Hearing someone below shouting "pull up" in Ulster, Weiss pulled up the control lever, and at this moment, a Norman soldier appeared next to the side of the hatch, he was clinging to the outer wall of the battleship like a spider, stepping on the rivets that fixed the armor steel plates, and when he saw Weiss and the others, he immediately shouted loudly, obviously to inform his companions on the gun emplacement next to him.

Hartbauer raised his hand and fired two shots straight to the guy, but that's not all. In the blink of an eye, someone threw a pineapple bullet from the side, but instead of falling into the hatch, it deviated a few feet and bounced off the outer wall of the battleship.

The frame was still in the process of rising, and although the creature was made of steel and iron, the bullet holes on it showed that it did not provide much protection. Seeing the pineapple bullet falling in smoke, Weiss's heart suddenly rose to his throat, he really didn't want to see a group of federal soldiers appear in a bloody state, but he couldn't make the crane speed up, so he could only roar: "Pinerice bullet!" Beware, brothers below! ”

As soon as the words fell, the falling pineapple bullet exploded. A spinax bomb that exploded on the outside of the hull had little impact on such a battleship. Seeing the two steel ropes of the lifting frame swaying left and right, Weiss was very worried, and after a while, the hanging frame finally appeared in sight, and the federal soldiers inside seemed to be alive, but some people were covered with blood, and some people were holding their arms, presumably injured by the shrapnel of the pineapple bullet just now.

This time, only three soldiers jumped directly through the frame, and the remaining three barely managed to board the ship with the help of their companions after the frame was moved to the hatch.

It wasn't until this moment that Weiss realized that his plan had to go through too many hardships from conception to implementation.

Before the hanging frame was lowered again, someone exclaimed, and the gunshots suddenly rang out. Through a narrow passage in the ship's cabin, the Union soldiers occupying the hatch threw jack bombs inside, and the Normans inside also threw them outside, as if they were fighting for their lives.

After a violent explosion, Weiss's eardrums ached and his ears buzzed, and Hartbauer could only be seen talking to himself, but he could not hear what he was saying. After holding on for a while, his hearing regained somewhat, so he grabbed the intelligence staff officer's arm and said loudly, "What did you just say?" ”

Hartbauer replied in a loud voice: "I said, this is too slow to transport people, we have to find a way!" ”

The lower part of the battleship's hull only has these hatches for personnel and materials to enter and exit, and the thick outer wall of the ship is difficult to break, not to mention that there is at least one layer of armored partition inside the outer wall, even if it is blasted from the inside out, a large amount of explosives must be used.

Seeing Weiss's dazed face, Hartbauer said: "You accept, if we can take out the command room of this battleship and capture their commander, we should be able to solve the problem!" ”

Weiss almost didn't roll his eyes. Eliminate the battleship command room, when this is a Hollywood movie? There are more than 2,000 Norman soldiers on this battleship, there is no need to fly, there are not a few people who burn the boiler to watch the engine, in addition to the gunners, there are thousands of people who can be mobilized, even if a thousand pigs are blocked in the passage of the ship's cabin, they will kill all the way to the point, not to mention that these are fierce Normans.

"Beware of enemy spinball bullets!" Someone next to him shouted, and Weiss and Hartbauer hurriedly lay on the ground. If it weren't for the corpses of the Normans killed earlier, the few Union soldiers who boarded the hatch would have been swept away long ago. Whether or not you can hold the hatch is still a big question, and it is simply impossible to go through the long and winding passage of the ship's cabin to the end command room!

The more you have no way out, the more you need to calm down and think. Weiss carefully recalled the structure of the battleship he knew, and considered whether there were any weak points in the protection system, firepower system, and propulsion system, and then had an idea.

"Our idea is to take this ship so that we can serve as a firepower fulcrum after we regain the fortress of Bellacasser, and in that case, there is no need to think about protecting its power system. Its tail has the weakest armor protection compared to other parts, and if we can blow up the two auxiliary thrusters under the stern, we can open a boarding tunnel very close to the ground. ”

"Auxiliary thrusters?" Hartbauer thought for a moment and argued: "Our current position is close to the middle of the battleship, very close to the command room, and far from the stern, and if we walk over, we will definitely be blocked by the Normans, it will be too difficult!" ”

Weiss analyzed: "The gunfire of this battleship is concentrated in the front of the hull, and the soldiers should be more in the front and less in the back, so the pressure on us to advance to the stern will be less." However, with our current situation, it is difficult to walk from the inside of the battleship, whether it is to go to the command room or to the stern of the ship. ”

Upon hearing this, Hartbauer was very surprised: "You mean that we will go down first, go to the stern and figure out how to get up, or ...... Like the Norman soldier just now, crawling straight from the outside? ”

Weiss himself explained: "My idea was to strike from inside and outside, with a small number of men moving laterally on rivets, capturing the enemy's anti-aircraft gun positions one by one, and picking up others to advance from the passage of the ship's cabin to the stern. It sounds crazy and ridiculous, but it's probably the quickest way to do it right now. Drag it out any longer, and when the smoke clears, our soldiers will be exposed to the enemy's sight, and whether they stay under the battleship or attack the fortress, sooner or later they will be swept away by the enemy's guns and bombs, and they will end up retreating in disarray. ”

Hartbauer gritted his teeth: "Then try it?" ”

"You and your soldiers continue to stay here to attract the attention of the enemy." Wei Si said, "Just find two quick and bold people to follow me." ”

"No!" Hartbauer said, "This time you stay, let me go." ”

Weiss disagreed: "This is not the time to compete for merit or guts, I think I am better suited to take risks, and your task is daunting—to hold this hatch anyway, and to use this crane to bring up as many of our men as possible." Joao, please listen to me again! ”

Hartbauer hesitated, then reluctantly agreed: "Take care, Dragon!" When this battle is over, I will invite you to drink! ”

"Okay, it's a deal!" Weiss's tone was firm, but he didn't know anything in his heart. Rock climbing is not difficult, it is rare to have to fight wits and courage with the enemy while climbing, and the slightest mistake may cost you a small life.