readx;?“ Do you see what happened just now" Miro hurriedly shouted at the top of the mast, and the lookout on the top of the mast shouted loudly, "Captain, the explosion was from the water, and there was no water column before the explosion"

"There is no water column" Miro, who heard the reply, couldn't help but be stunned, and muttered back, "There is no water column"

"What's the matter, Captain" The first mate looked anxiously at the chaotic fleet and asked Miro, "Captain, what should we do, do we want to follow suit?"

"Don't turn around and play the lights, form a circle to protect the fleet," Miro said to the first mate with a sudden flash of inspiration in his mind. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info [full text reading] The first mate looked puzzled, "Captain, why is this?"

"The attacker is in the water," Miro shouted anxiously at him, as he rushed to the platform that sent the light signal, pushed away the signalman who was standing next to the signal light, and began to signal the light towards the ship not far away.

"What is Miro doing" On the command platform of the Sea Power, Babcockman looked at the light signal in the distance and couldn't help but be a little curious. As a freshwater supply vessel with a desalination system, the Vinopolis in Miro was conspicuous because of the large seawater storage tank mounted on the top of its tail, and Kirkman didn't even need to look closely to know that the ship that was sending light signals was the Venopolis, and the large metal tank stood out in the flames of the shipwreckage on the sea.

"He had the auxiliary fleet surround our fleet from the east and west." The first mate next to him stared at the light signal and said to Kirkman, who nodded, "Yes, but what does this mean?"

Miro's light signal did not stop, but continued to be transmitted, "The enemy is in the water" The first mate's voice changed a little, "Watch the water" Kirkman nodded, shouting to the sailors around him.

The sailors took out the navigation lanterns from the bilge, which they did not usually use, took out their fire sickles, lit them, and then covered them with glass and hung them around the ship. The hundreds of nautical lights that suddenly appeared suddenly lit up all sides of the fleet, and the sea was chaotic, with fragments of hulls, floating sailors, and broken sails undulating with the waves on the sea, and the waves shattered the sea water into countless fragments, reflecting the light of the navigation lights everywhere like countless diamonds, and the eyes of the sailors were dazzled by these crystal waves for a while.

Many of the capital ships on the sea lowered their dinghys, and the people on the boats quickly rowed their oars, and many small boats rowed around on the sea to save their comrades who were crying for help in the water. Although the sailors on the ship were dizzy from being shaken, they still forced their eyes to stare at the situation on the surface of the sea.

"What is this?" suddenly made a sound on the sea, causing the people in the dinghy next to him to look over. It turned out that there was a black iron ball on the surface of the sea, which was about a meter in size, and it was floating on the surface of the water with the undulation of the waves.

Curious sailors gathered around, "Is this our thing?" and "What a strange round iron ball." "It's an iron ball." Someone knocked on the ball with a paddle, and sure enough, there was a dull "thump" sound.

"It still seems to be hollow inside, this thing belongs to our fleet" There are also people who are entangled in the letters on the iron ball, "Poseidon's Fury." Why is it called Poseidon's Wrath?"

"I don't know why there are so many small sticks on this ball" Someone soon noticed that there were a lot of small iron rods on the ball, like a few thorns on the back of a porcupine, facing the sky. "What the hell is this thing for?"

"Why do I have a bad premonition" "When did your premonition get better" "Can you stop knocking on this thing" A sailor kept hitting the shell of the iron ball with a wooden paddle in his hand, "This thing is iron, oh, how can iron float on the sea"

"I don't know why it's floating on the surface, can you stop knocking," the other sailor reached for his paddle to block his tapping.

"Why can't you knock on me, I just want to smash it open to see what's inside, if there's really a Poseidon inside." As he spoke, he lifted the oar again and smashed it, and the other tried to block his strike, only to smash the paddle crooked, smashing right on one of the metal sticks.

The ship is not cool, and the trick is noisy

Everyone heard a crisp cracking sound, and before they could ask what it was, a huge fireball appeared among them.

The 20 kilograms of TNT** in this mine exploded quickly under the trigger of the detonator, and the huge shock wave set off a monstrous wave, rising more than 20 meters high, and the shock wave tore the ship's debris, debris on board, and the sailors full of curiosity were torn into pieces and thrown into the sky, and the farthest was even thrown more than 100 meters.

Sun Yuan is not far away, Sun Shu Moyue is not hate

Kirkman watched in amazement as a sailor's half-cut body spun in circles in the air like a doll thrown out, plunging headlong into the deck of the Sea Power, all sorts of fledgled debris smashed into the bulwark. The explosion set off huge waves, rocking several nearby ships from side to side, and a sharp class battleship was pushed to the side by the waves because the bow was lowered, and the stern was pushed to the side by the waves, and slammed into the bow of a gorgeous cruiser, both ships were shaken, and the sailors who did not stand still and the things that were not fixed on the deck suddenly dripped. Fortunately, the wood used in the hulls of the two warships, Sharp and Gorgeous, was relatively strong, and although the slow impact made the people on board disgraced, the hull itself did not cause structural damage.

Sun Yuan is not far away, Sun Shu Moyue is not hate, "Don't turn around and play the lights, form a circular formation to protect the warfleet" Miro suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and said to the first mate. The first mate looked puzzled, "Captain, why is that?"

"What just exploded" Kirkman hadn't stared at the sea before, and by the time he could hear the explosion and look past, the explosion had already occurred. He hurriedly asked the sailor who was in charge of observing on the side, and the sailor was stupid by the explosion just now, and did not respond for a long time. Kirkman was so anxious that his hair was about to fall out, and he slapped the sailor in the face and yelled viciously, "Did you see what exploded?"

"Yes, it's an iron ball," the sailor was slapped in the face, and then he came to his senses and covered his face in reply.

"Iron Ball" It was Kirkman's turn to be stunned, and the first mate next to "How could it be an iron ball" was also stunned, and said loudly to the sailor, "The iron ball sinks when it encounters water, how can it explode on the sea, if it is thrown into the water, it will sink directly to the bottom."

After the distant ghost of the far branch hated the moon and I caught the ball

"It's really really an iron ball," another sailor next to him spoke, "Captain, I saw it too, it's an iron ball, it's so big" and compared the size of his hands as he spoke.

Kirkman looked distrustful and waved his hand at the sailors, "If you see it, you see it, if you don't see it, you don't see it, don't think about these weird ghost ideas." ”

"It's really the iron ball that makes a thump of iron when it hits, don't believe it, there's another one there," the sailor's words sounded next to him, and this time Kirkman laughed, and looked in the direction of his finger, the expression on his face stiffened there.

Sure enough, on the surface of the sea not far away, there was really a round iron ball floating on the water. The waves were slowly lifting and lowering the iron ball, and it was slowly drifting towards the Sea Power. "That's what this thing exploded," Kirkman asked nervously, pointing nervously at the iron ball, and the sailor next to him was too scared to speak, nodding his head hurriedly, his eyes fixed on the iron ball.

The enemy is far away, and Sun Shu is cold and cold

Sun is not far away, and Sun Xuezhan is cold

Kirkman didn't care if the iron ball was really the culprit behind these explosions, and hurriedly yelled at the boatswain, "You guys hurry up and anchor and we'll get out of here."

The gunner shouted, "Load the gun and prepare to shoot"

The gunners hurriedly pulled the guns back to the deck and nervously carried out the loading work. "Remove the front wheels of the gun truck," the gun commander continued, "to aim the muzzle of the gun at a lower target"

The nervous gunners scrambled to lift the front of the gun carriage and remove the two front wheels of the gun carriage, and some people pressed the toes of their comrades as they nervously lowered the gun carriage, and screams and shouts came one after another. The gunner didn't care what the people below were shouting, he just shouted nervously, "Hurry up, it's already close, we can't hit it any closer."

Although the Haiquan is a double-deck artillery deck, the current mine is about thirty meters away from the Haiquan, and the tall bulwarks that the Haiquan is usually proud of have become a lifeline at this time, and the height of the artillery deck is at least five meters from the sea. But at this time, the mines were still approaching the Sea Power unhurriedly, and the people on board had already seen this Grim Reaper, and everyone was in a cold sweat, but at the moment no one had anything but to hurry up and do what they were doing. With the sound of chains, the anchorers finally succeeded in lifting the anchor from the seabed, and the sea power finally slanted to the north under the action of the current, and the hull began to move towards the south.

Seeing this, the gun commander hurriedly shouted, "Open the gun"

With a continuous burst of cannon fire, the gun window on the right side of the Sea Power spewed fire and gunsmoke in turn, illuminating several nearby warships. Kirkman was so nervous that he almost fainted, and he hurried to the bulwark to look at the position of the iron ball, which was surrounded by thick gunpowder smoke and a monstrous column of water, and the sea water was so loud that even the people around him could not be heard.

But the chill soon arose, and after the water column disappeared, the iron ball soon re-emerged from the edge of the mist. Everyone saw that the shell of this Death Iron Ball was hit by a salvo of cannonballs, and it was deflated, but it did not affect its floating ability at all, it still floated towards the bow of the Sea Power without hurry, everyone was stunned, how to fight such a thing to die, is it really a ghost in the sea

"Hurry up the sails" The boatswain was the first to react, shouting at the sailors on the deck who were still looking at the mines in a daze, "Hurry up the sails, don't raise the sails soon, let's get out of here"

"Yes, yes," Kirkman also reacted, and hurriedly waved his hands at the sailors, "Hurry up, move fast"

The sailors were frantically pulling the sail rope as if they had just woken up from a dream, and no one noticed that the sailors who were almost twice as many as they were pulling the sail rope were different from ploughing the fields, not that the more people the better, but that there was a certain skill and strength required, the more people there were, the greater the strength of the nature, but the greater the damage to the cable. Now in this frenzied situation, no one noticed the problem, and so the accident happened. With a crisp "pop", the mainmast sail cable pulled by more than twenty sailors broke off from the top of the mast, and the sailors did not have time to let go of the cable, and rolled all over the deck.

"It's over" Kirkman covered his eyes in despair, at this time, the right gun had removed the front wheel, and it was impossible to retract the deck for loading before the front wheel was installed. The breakage of the mainmast sail made the sea power lose sixty percent of its power, the Fengrui class has no rowing room, there will be no manpower to propulsion, the loss of the mainmast sail is basically the loss of most of the power, at this time the Grim Reaper is only ten meters away from the sea power, and it is still approaching, a capital ship that has lost its attack power and power has no other way to go at this time except to wait for death.

"Boom" Everyone heard the sound of the iron ball hitting the hull of the Sea Power, but they didn't hear the explosion that everyone was waiting for in despair. "What's going on," one sailor asked curiously, "why didn't it explode"

Many people immediately forgot their fears, and rushed to the deck railing to look down, and sure enough, the iron ball was at the bow on the right, hitting the side of the ship twice with the waves of the water, and then drifting down the current towards the stern.

Because the "boatswain" did not explode, Kirkman regained his previous temperament at this time, "Let the chief of the mainmast, sail and cable gun, and let the gun commander put the front wheel of the gun back and reload"

"Yes," ordered the boatswain and gunner, and ran away at a brisk pace. Kirkman took a deep breath and shouted at the second officer, "You take a few people down in the dinghy and scoop up that iron ball to see."

"Ah" The second mate looked embarrassed, but an order is an order, and he can only salute and receive the order, and order someone to put down the dinghy and prepare to scoop up the iron ball to take a look.

"Boom" Another violent explosion sounded on the periphery of the fleet, and an auxiliary ship touched a mine outside the warning circle, and a huge hole was blown out by the violent explosion, and the hull tilted to the left so badly that even the sail had fallen to the sea, and people could walk directly into the water from the deck.

"Hit the lights, all the ships be vigilant, be careful of the iron balls on the sea, that things will explode, and gather the captains of the warfleet, and Miro, we have to analyze this iron ball," Kirkman said, waving his hand, and the signalman hurriedly ran to the signal light and began to light outward.

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