The basket was finally raised to the top, and the crane moved a short distance horizontally along the slide rails to the boarding platform on the side of the ship.

Weiss climbed out of the basket and walked to the bulkhead next to it, and tapped his heel twice, hearing the crisp sound of steel plates.

This is really a flying steel battleship!

Thinking that a new door to science was opening to him, Weiss couldn't help but feel a little excited.

"Gentlemen, welcome aboard the Ulster Free Federation Army First Class Cruiser 'Ranger Del Longe'!" The crew who had come to lead them said in a high-pitched tone.

"It's such a mighty guy!" Weiss sighed heartily.

The crew smiled, noncommittal.

"Gentlemen, please pay attention to the weapons you carry, and be sure to lock up the safety, as it will be troublesome if you misfire on the ship." The lead ship crew reminded.

The three warriors, as they had arrived, each carried a "Grumman Burning Stick", a revolver, and a dagger, which were their standard equipment. Weiss carried his shotgun on his back and a tall "Grumman Burning Stick" in his hand.

The way the lead ship reminded him was very kind and made Weiss feel very comfortable. After inspecting the weapons, the group walked down the passage and headed inside. The passage was filled with the rumbling roar of machinery, the sour and bitter smell of burning coal in the air, and the black soot in the corners, all of which told people that this was really a coal-burning flying battleship!

After a few steps, there was a sudden rush of metal striking like a church bell, followed by the sound of passwords, footsteps, and the roar of machinery speeding up.

"What happened?" "Blonde" asked eagerly the crew member who was tasked with leading them the way.

The ship's crew member changed his serious expression: "It's a second-level combat alert, and we're ready to fire." ”

"Brown-haired and brown-eyed" gritted his teeth and said, "You must have found those Norman dogs on the run!" Boom, smash them to slag! ”

As soon as the words fell, two cannon sounds were heard, and there was an obvious tremor in the hull.

Hearing the sound of the cannons, the crew leading the way quickened his pace without saying a word, and Weiss, curious and worried, followed closely.

After walking about seven or eight meters, turning the corner, there is a circular porthole.

The crew of the leading ship leaned over to the porthole and looked at it, and said, "As you expected, the Norman dog who escaped must have been found!" ”

Weiss approached the porthole and followed the two pillars of smoke and dust from the explosion, and the flying battleship was attacking a towering snow-capped mountain to the northwest, and both of them hit near the top of the mountain.

"Look, there's an avalanche!" The leader said, "Those Norman dogs are dead!" ”

Looking at the avalanche scene on the snowy mountain, Weiss frowned slightly. The snow-capped mountain was more than a dozen kilometers away, and unless the Normans' mules had the magical ability to travel through the snow, it would be impossible for the Normans who had besieged the wooden house to retreat there in such a short time, and besides, they didn't need to climb the high snowy mountain at all!

The situation is not quite right, alas!

After more than a minute and two minutes, seeing that there was nothing unusual on the side of the snowy mountain, and his own battleship did not fire again, the leader turned around and said, "Okay, let's go!" I'll take you to the cabin, where you can rest in a hot soup and comfortable beds. ”

The lead crew had already begun to move to the other side, and Weiss's eyes were still staring through the porthole at the snow-capped mountains in the distance. After a while, he suddenly had a feeling that the snow mountain was moving, and when he looked at it again, the snow mountain did not move, but a dark gray big guy floated out from behind the snow mountain.

In an instant, the flying battleship was filled with hurried alarm bells and shrill whistles, and the crew of the leading ship hurriedly turned around and returned to the porthole, and when he saw the dark gray figure, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he muttered:

"Oops! We've met a Norman armored ship. They actually sent armored ships across the border? This is to provoke a war! Twenty years of peace have come to an end? Oh my God......"

Weiss hurriedly took out his binoculars, and in his sight, the "armored ship" in the mouth of the leading ship crew was revealing its true face from behind the snowy mountainside. Its side profile is also in the shape of a sardine can: the top and bottom lines of the hull are straight, and the sides are full and convex arcs. It was also equipped with guns in the bow, and the barrels were thick and long, looking like the tentacles of a catfish; The upper part of the battleship is a twin-mounted enclosed turret, with a towering tower bridge and longitudinally arranged chimneys; On the broadside were single-mounted guns, with several pairs of "oars" on the front and back, and the huge blades turned rapidly, providing the ship with forward and steering power......

In terms of size, Weiss estimated that the guy was more than three times larger than his "corvette", and the number of guns was at least that proportion. In this kind of one-on-one encounter, will your side have a chance of winning?

Suspend!

Very suspenseful!

He narrowed his eyes, and the "Identification of Friend or Foe" projected a bright red box in his mind, and the values in it were indeed much more spectacular than the "cruiser" on his side:

Biological Function 1984.3/1984.4

Mental vitality 2413.9/2586.0

Combat potential 6243.7-39655.9

Equivalent protection 2937.4-4533.4

Action speed 163.4-1172.2

Meow, the maximum combat value of this cargo is actually close to 40,000, which is four times that of your own "corvette"!

Weiss's mind was still in the midst of all kinds of speculations and reveries about what he saw in front of him, when suddenly, two clusters of orange flames appeared one after another on the top of the enemy's flying battleship, and the twin turrets in the front position were immediately obscured by a large cloud of gray gunsmoke.

It fired!

It was the first time in Weiss's life to witness the real scene of large-caliber naval gun fire from the first perspective, and his uneasy little heart was shocked in a different way, and it was like the first corner of a roller coaster, and the excitement was still to come......

Looking at the two shells fired by the enemy's flying battleship like two meteorites across the sky, Weiss was silent and prayed silently. In the face of battleships and cannons, the strength of the individual is insignificant, whether you are a sniper ace or a fighting master, a famous queen or a star of hope, you can only be at the mercy of fate.

Time passed second by second, the shells from the air were getting closer and closer, Weiss's heart hung in the air, even more bottomless than the previous shooting with the enemy soldiers, he couldn't bear to look at it directly, and he was unwilling to die in the unknown, so he wrung his eyebrows and glared, clenched his teeth, and even involuntarily held his breath. At the last moment, the naked eye could barely catch the exact trajectory of the shell, only to feel something flash through the porthole, and then a sharp, rapid, almost soul-devouring whistling sound poured into the ears and hit the eardrums!

Through the porthole, Weiss saw the shells fall to the ground, and the bright light from the explosion prevented him from opening his eyes for a moment, and the moment he closed his eyes, a violent explosion accompanied by a strong shaking.

Weiss hurriedly reached out to hold on to the bulkhead to prevent him from falling out of balance.

"Let's go! Go to the cabin! Be safe there! The crew leading the way shouted at Weiss and the others.

The "blonde" just walked to the porthole and asked inexplicably, "What's the situation now?" ”

Without waiting for the crew to answer, there was a thunderous "boom" sound from the ship, and there was a clearly recognizable tremor.

"We were ambushed by Norman armored ships." "They've crossed the border and are firing at us, it's a naked invasion, and we're returning fire!" ”

"Blonde and blue-eyed" looked surprised: "But the cruiser is not an opponent of the armored ship at all!" ”

The pilot crew was silent, but the resentment on their faces had turned to grief.

Then, two more cannon sounds, "Dong Long" and "Dong Long", sounded powerful and powerful at first, but after hearing the majestic and agitated cannon sound of the enemy ship, the feeling in my heart was very different.

Woohoo...... Woohoo...... Woohoo......

The flight of the battleship suddenly sounded the alarm of the emergency diving of the submarine in the movie, and Weiss turned his curious eyes to the crew of the leading ship. The young soldier, dressed in a brown turtleneck and a black leather jacket, was about to say something, when a huge explosion that seemed to engulf the world cut everything in, and the passage of the ship's cabin was shattered in an instant: the solid steel bulkheads and hardwood floors were easily torn apart like pieces of paper, and the blazing flames poured in from the bow, as if all life here was about to be charred!

Weiss closed his eyes in despair.

If you die like this, it will be a relief. But Weiss didn't die, and when he opened his eyes again, the whole person was in the process of falling at full speed. In sight, our "cruiser" broke at the waist, but it did not crash immediately, but floated in the air, filled with thick smoke, and countless fragments - the steel parts, wooden blocks, and various utensils that made up the hull, as well as the complete human body, fell like raindrops.

Falling from a height of 100 meters, will you still have a way to live?

Weiss's question was answered by fate a few seconds later: he was cushioned by the branches of the cedar tree, fell into a thick snowdrift, vomited two mouthfuls of old blood, and miraculously survived.

In the sky, the "cruiser" belonging to the Ulster Free Federation Army had lost its ability to resist, and even so, the Norman "armored ship" continued to fire mercilessly, and in the blink of an eye, multiple shells hit.

Even if it's an iron plate, it's also beaten into a sieve at this time.

In a few moments, the blazing "cruiser" suddenly lost its floating power and fell straight down with everything on board.

The moment it hit the ground, the mountain shook, and then a series of explosions, billowing smoke rose into the sky......

Here, Weiss lay motionless in the snowdrift, enduring the pain of tearing muscles and bones, listening to the rumbling sound of thunder, and his heart was helpless, sad, and painful, but he could only clench his fists, grit his teeth, and let the tears condense in his sideburns. In the era of peace, he, like ordinary people, has a lot of complaints and dissatisfaction with reality, housing prices are too high, wages are too low, girls worship too much, local tyrants are too ostentatious, the weak are too pathetic, the fools are too hateful, sometimes feel pessimistic, sometimes feel dazed, sometimes lament bad luck, sometimes lament the injustice of fate, lack of enthusiasm in life, lack of faith in spirit, and when he is in the battlefield of flesh and blood, constantly facing life and death, he suddenly finds in an instant, how precious and happy that simple and peaceful life is!

Messily leaving people, not as good as a peace dog. As the ancients said, honesty does not deceive me.

I don't know how long later, the surrounding area began to sound scattered gunfire, but only the "snap" of the Norman standard rifle, and the "snap" of the "Grumman burning stick", which made Weiss fall into deeper despair.

The enemy is starting to clear the field, maybe they are in trouble, but this is not the most important thing, the important thing is that Dr. Z and the military secrets he brought may not be able to be kept. If he and the black suitcase were reduced to ashes in the explosion, if not benefiting the Ulster Free Federation, at least it would not help the abuse, but if he and the black suitcase fell back into the hands of the Norman Empire, what would happen to the Ulster Free Federation and its freedom-loving people?

Perhaps due to tiredness, or perhaps due to pain, Weiss fell asleep unconsciously. When he woke up again, it was almost dark, and he struggled to get up, and looked around to see a huge forest of snow burned to char.

Searching around with great difficulty, he could not find a single survivor, and near the wreckage of the flying battleship, he saw two delicate, tightly hugged remains, they were charred and hairless, and they could no longer distinguish their faces. Just a few meters away, the middle-aged man in black was facing the sky on his back, holding the revolver in his right hand, his chest was bloody and fleshy, and his eyes were full of unwillingness.

Farther away, Weiss managed to identify the bodies of two soldiers from the 1st Special Service Brigade of the Free Federation Army in Ulster, who survived the enemy attack and the siege of the enemy, but eventually died there.

Many of the crew members who served on the cruiser did not even leave their bodies intact, and the woodland was littered with mutilated limbs.

As for Dr. Z and his black box, there was no trace of him at the scene, along with the Normans who had been killed, or even the mulemen who had died, as if they had never been there.

Weiss stood in a daze in the glade in the woods, lost and dazed......