At this point in the war, although Randy had made up his mind to compensate for the numerical disadvantage by committing his army in this naval battle, the soldiers would not be able to get close to the battlefield for a while, and the Barbary pirates would have the upper hand in the battle for ships on the periphery.

What made Emperor Randy feel that the situation had gotten worse was when a battleship was completely overrun by the Barbary pirates.

Although this battleship was only the lightest speedy ship, and although the Norman sailors on the battleship died extremely heroically with all their might, and the entire deck seemed to be washed with blood, the cheers of those pirates were particularly harsh.

Randy turned the telescope in the direction from which the sound came, and then saw hundreds of pirates shouting wildly with weapons and torches on the deep, heavily tilted clipper ship with a deep draft and a heavily tilted left side.

Although it is impossible to replicate the sophisticated ships of the Norman Empire with the technical level of the Barbary pirates, it is also possible to gain some technical benefits from this clipper, and after repair, the ship can also join the pirate array.

Thinking of this, Randy said to Apraxins, "I don't want to see that ship again, sink it." ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! Get over and sink the ship! ”

"Wait, General!"

Randy shook his head to stop Apraxins, "I don't want to get this ship too close, it's too dangerous, isn't there a long-barreled cannon on board?" It is possible to shoot at long distances. ”

"But Your Majesty, it's dark now, and the accuracy of our artillery will drop greatly, although the long-barreled cannon has a long range, but that doesn't mean we can ......"

"Just do what I tell you to do! I have a professional person to solve the problem of hit rate. ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! ”

Since Randy insisted on doing so, it was naturally impossible for Apraksin to argue and re-issue the order.

The transports around HMS Victory began to move out of the way, some sailing towards their own ships in the midst of fierce fighting, others leaning against each other, temporarily connecting with each other with hooks and planks to form a more stable temporary position.

At this time, after hearing Randy talking to his admiral, the kings of several other countries seemed a little inexplicable, the long-barreled cannon they were talking about sounded like a weapon, a brand new weapon that the monarchs of other countries had not heard of, several kings wanted to talk and stopped, wanting to ask what was going on, but Randy was not interested in talking to them, turned to Sonia and said: "Tell the captain of the musketeers, Asami, that I will give her all the command of all the guns on this battleship, and she can do whatever she wants, As long as she can sink as many other ships as she can. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Sonia bowed her head and ran out quickly, leaving behind a kind of bewildered monarch.

"Guys, I know you're weird, weird what I'm going to do? You don't have to guess, I will soon be able to open your eyes. ”

Randy said this, while picking up the binoculars again and staring at the clipper occupied by the pirates, this will make the pirates have already started to get busy, some run to the cabin, some try to fiddle with the sails, it seems that they want to reactivate the badly damaged warship, but the principle of the clipper is more complicated than the ordinary galley, the pirates will not be able to figure it out for a while, and after a while, the pirates who originally entered the cabin will come out again, presumably not to find a place to paddle, Ballista battleships don't have paddles at all, so these pirates would find it very strange!

A violent roar sounded from under the hull......

Randy's heart pounded, followed by a second, third, and eleven roars in a row!

Eleven long-barreled cannons on the opposite side of the clipper fired a salvo!!

A lead projectile turned into a black light and flew towards the captured clipper, followed by a burst of wood chips, three large holes broke on the captain's surface in an instant, and the hull shook violently, and the hull, which had been seriously damaged, suddenly accelerated the speed of breaking, and Randy looked at the originally fanatical faces of those Barbary pirates and became panicked, and smiled.

"The keel is broken! No, the ship will sink! ”

At that time, the panicked Barbary pirates on the clipper exclaimed, scrambled to jump into the sea, and swam in the opposite direction of the clipper, such a whirlpool formed by the sinking of such a large ship will suck everything nearby into the sea, and before this whirlpool disappears, the person who is sucked in will die due to water pressure, inability to breathe, etc.

"Those damn Normans!"

The pirates who had survived the death shouted angrily at the sinking ship, and then swam to the other ships that were fighting fiercely, and some of the men who had exhausted their strength were adrift half-dead at sea with large pieces of scrap planks, unable to move.

"Five hits! Three shots hit the cabin! One shot hits the deck! One shot hits the canvas! Four of the remaining six were close to the target, and they were well hit. "Apraksin excitedly reported the data, the Royal Navy Victory is also jubilant, the early artillery this kind of painful hit rate, can actually achieve such a good result, this is simply a miracle, that little girl named Ba Asami, he has seen it before, originally thought that it was just the new favorite of His Majesty the Emperor, but I didn't expect to have such a skill, I really underestimated her.

"Venerable Emperor Randy, what the hell is this? What just happened? Charles, King of Burgundy, couldn't help but ask.

"Don't you see?" Randy asked rhetorically.

"Of course I didn't see it, I didn't have the magic props in your hand, I just heard a loud bang, and then the ship started sinking, is this magic?"

"Of course not, my friend, I am the most devout believer, and I am not interested in heretical alchemy at all, this is a new type of weapon, the thunder of heaven that God has given him, don't go around talking nonsense."

"Is that so? What is the name of this weapon? ”

"Artillery!"

"Artillery?"

Charlie chewed on the new word and finally shook his head: "I'm sorry, I can't really imagine, what is that?" ”

"I'll show you a chance, my friend, but for now we'd better focus on winning this war! You see, the infidels are attacking again. ”

On the battlefield, with the addition of the Norman Empire and other countries' armies, the war situation has become better again, although the 20,000 army soldiers are not very suitable for naval warfare, but it is also a help, the most important thing is that they are more well-equipped, with a better defense, the pirates' scimitars can not cause damage to the Norman army's armor at all, although they are familiar with naval warfare, they can occupy a little advantage, but every attack of the crusader soldiers, as long as they hit the target, it is deadly!

The tide of the battle was deflected again, in favor of the coalition forces, and the pirates were defeated after a long battle, which caused many pirate leaders to feel sorry for their lost troops and ships and want to retreat.

Soon the pirates found a way to deal with the hoplites, and the red-eyed pirates pounced on their opponents, knocking them into the sea and dying them with them, and soon the pirate leaders saw the benefits of doing so, and shouted: "Throw all these heretics into the sea, and let them all drown." ”

The Pirate Gate took advantage of the armor flexibility of its light infantry to force the Crusader infantry to the sides of the ship, causing the opponent to lose their balance, and then slammed into the sea, and those heavily armored soldiers fell into the sea, with no chance of survival, and the pirates would also be pulled by the desperate soldiers, and they would all die together.

"Don't waste time, our target is the Norman Emperor, he is on that big ship, concentrate on attacking there!"

Seeing the heavy casualties of his own pirates, Hyreddin, sitting on a heavy galleys, leads his descendants around the battlefield in the midst of fierce fighting, burrows through the gap in the battleship, and charges Randy's ship.

The sea battle between the Norman fleet and the Barbary pirates broke out in full swing, and the vast majority of the soldiers joined the battle, and the Normans relied on better tactics, equipment, organization, and achieved a certain advantage, but the Barbary pirates, like outlaws, were still attacking frantically.

The Barbary pirate leader, Hayreddin, was sure that he had grasped the line of victory, and that if he could capture the leader of the opposing party, Emperor Randy on that huge battleship, the war would be won, and it didn't matter how many pirates he lost or how many ships he sank.

Driven by this idea, Hareddin commanded a full fifty galleys to rush towards Randy's Royal Navy Victory, most of these ships were directly subordinate to Hareddin's warships, much larger than the small or medium-sized galleys used by ordinary Barbary pirates, and were the most versatile large three-row galleys of this era, each of these ships was full of crazy and bloodthirsty Barbary pirates, and Hareddin's ship was an even more exaggerated five-row galleys, in terms of size alone, Even surpassing the improved heavy ballista warships of the Norman Empire, three hundred of the most elite and capable pirates were densely packed on this ship, and they were ready to use their hooks and gangplanks as tools to attack the opponent's warship and kill all the Catholics on it.

"Attack! Don't let those pirate ships get close! Ready for battle, other transport ships are ready to assist. ”

With that, Randy turned around and ran briskly inside the cabin, ready to take a look at the Norman gunners, and then went back to his room to put on his armor and prepare for battle.

At this moment below deck, at the port side of the Norman battleship, Asami, as Randy's new general, was struggling to run between the various gun emplacements, and this young looking girl immediately crouched down before she ran to a gun position, squinted one eye through the not too big gun port to aim, then adjusted the angle, loaded ammunition and the best time to shoot, and then stood up and ran to another gun position.

This series of processes took no more than five seconds, and those gunners were surprised to find that this girl only needed to glance at it, and she could get an answer with a correct rate of more than 80%.

The shelling was carried out according to her orders, and the hit rate could reach almost 50%.

It's just incredible!

The girl ran through the gun emplacements on the second deck, then ran down the stairs to the third floor, where she began to direct the short-barreled cannons placed on the third floor.

After that, he ran back to the second layer and continued to command the long-barreled guns on the second level, and so on, it only took about five minutes, and the hit rate was ridiculously high, which was able to complete the salvo with tears in the eyes of modern admirals.

However, this crazy approach, a lot of calculations and movements, also caused a great burden on Ba Asami, the first time to command the long-barreled cannon to aim at the captured clipper was a little better, but as the pirates began to approach the Royal Navy Victory, those short-barreled cannons, also reached the range, the short-barreled cannons on the second level of the side also needed to be commanded, and after those galleys detoured to the other side, the musketeer captain finally had no choice, the entire three-thousand-ton weight, like a small fortress-like hull, asked her to run back and forth up and down, left and right, and it took nearly fifteen minutes to go down in a lap, but Ba Asami was tired.

Randy didn't sit idle, he quickly ran back to his room, changed into his light plate armor with Sonya's help, brought a large bag full of twenty gunpowder packets, checked his pistol, and returned to the battlefield with Sonia after confirming that it was correct.

Although Asami worked extremely hard, and the guns of the Royal Navy Victory showed great strength, greatly hindering the attack of the Barbary pirates, but in the end, there were still pirate ships approaching, and the pirates cheered and threw their hooks, these larger galleys were taller and could directly place the gangplank, and a large number of Barbary pirates rushed along the gangplank, which resembled a single-plank bridge, towards the side of the Royal Navy Victory, which was a little higher.

"Attack! Capture that pagan emperor alive! ”

On the large sailing ship in the rear, seeing that his pirates had rushed up, Hyreddin couldn't help but boil his blood, slammed the railing and yelled, and then heard several henchmen around him shouting: "Danger! ”

The battle-hardened Hayreddin immediately made a decision, immediately bowed down, and felt that he was violently pushed away, and his left arm was in sharp pain, and then a miserable scream came, and when he looked up, he found that the henchman who was originally standing beside him was shot by a crossbow arrow from nowhere, which pierced his chest, and even his left arm was scratched.

"Damn it!" With a swing of his scimitar, Hyreddin ended the suffering of his subordinates, and the pirate king became angry at the tragic death of his henchman who had been with him for many years.

"If you have the guts, come with me!" As he said this, Hayreddin jumped overboard and swam towards Randy's ship.

As the first Barbary pirate and the first Norman sailor began to fight on the springboard, the battle finally burned to the core of the Norman fleet, and under Randy's orders, many transport ships rushed to his ship to meet the Barbary pirate ship outside, and at the same time, more and more Barbary pirate ships sailed towards Randy's ship, and the warband became bigger and bigger, and gradually became a large melee between hundreds of warships and thousands of soldiers.

Whether it was the Crusaders or the Barbary pirates, they all rushed towards the heart of this battlefield, the Norman Emperor's ship, the Royal Navy Victory, at this moment the Royal Navy Victory was already crowded with people, the artillery was close to firing at this time, there was no need to aim at all, Basumi took the fifty musketeers assigned to this ship under her command out of the cabin, ready to enter the deck battle, as the cabin got closer and closer, the noise became louder and louder, and then she saw such a scene, The original wide deck of the HMS Royal Navy Victory now looks extremely cramped, Barbary pirates armed with scimitars, Norman soldiers armed with battle axes, soldiers from other countries armed with long swords and short spears, crowded together, frantically slashing and slashing the enemy, and at the same time, on the ships around the HMS Victory, there are more people jumping towards the ship desperately, making the already chaotic battle even more chaotic!!!!!

(End of chapter)