Chapter 118 - Sea Fortress
Another gust of wind blew across the waters of Paz Bay. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
On such stormy days, even the best sailors would refuse to go to sea. The beauty of the sea fascinates every good sailor, but it is also a ruthless killer, and if you ignore its majesty, even those who love it will be devoured by it.
But there are always people who want to break it, and now there is one person ready to do it, and that is Elda, the Admiral of Parci.
To be precise, Elda didn't deliberately want to challenge the rules, but out of helplessness. The saying that the sky is unpredictable is still true even for a man like him, who has spent most of his life at sea, and the time he agreed with Li Tianhao cannot be delayed because of this strong wind - he must rush to the Anmen Fortress, the most important coastal defense fortress in Arubania, within five days and attack it.
The sailors were obviously unhappy with the commander's unkind orders, but Elda could not explain to the soldiers, so he had to rely on his years of sailing experience and his superhuman fleet command ability to confront the sea head-on. There were only ten outer ships made by the Silk Country in his fleet that could barely withstand such a strong wind, but Elda deliberately did not stay on these ships, but chose one Yaki warship as the flagship - he did not want the soldiers to be left behind by saying that the commander himself stayed on the safe ship, but did not care about the lives of the soldiers. He wants everyone to understand that the manager will be with them at all times.
Elda knew very well that in the face of such a strong wind, it would be difficult for the entire fleet to remain intact and reach the intended destination, but as long as the main force of the fleet was still there, then Li Tianhao's plan could still be implemented, so he had to force his way through this wind belt.
"My lord! Three of the defender's battleships lost contact with the team! The Commissioner reported.
"At this time, we no longer have the ability to rescue them, and the primary goal at the moment is to keep the fleet's course from drifting!" Elda Road.
The commander of the Second Fleet, Misheva, shouted, "I'm afraid this is impossible, my lord. At the moment we are at least 20 degrees to the southwest, and the distance we travel is difficult to control, and we have to re-determine our position after leaving the wind belt before we can recalculate the course! ”
"I know this, so we need to take advantage of this strong wind and correct the course to the west, and with the wind we can more than double the usual speed!" Elda responded.
Misheva was taken aback and said, "Could it be that you plan to hoist the sails at this time?" In that case, our small and medium-sized ships will surely capsize! ”
Elda smiled and wiped the sea water that had just been slapped on her face with her hand: "That's right, so don't spread the sails of small and medium-sized boats, let them go with the wind!" When we leave this wind belt, you take a few ships to find them, and then join me at Anmen! ”
Misheva rolled her eyes and shouted, "Your Excellency, you are a crazier than a pirate like me!" I like people who do it, though! ”
Thus, at this time, the Palci fleet split into two groups, and the main force, consisting of large and large ships, broke away from the wind belt after a day and a night of a brush with death. However, all the small and medium-sized ships of the Second Fleet were lost, and the large ships that survived the disaster were also severely damaged. As a result, Elda had to make simple repairs as she sailed, while sending Misheva with three of her best ships to begin searching south for the traces of her own fleet.
However, Elda's choice had a positive effect, and that was that his fleet arrived at the Anmen fortress half a day earlier than scheduled.
The Anmen Fortress has always been valued by Arubania as the most important location in Arubania to contain the Bay of Pass, but unfortunately its environment is not suitable for mooring large ships, so the Fortress of Pas Bay can only be stationed in another important place, Port Carter, from which it only takes a day and a night to reach Anmen. In order to ensure the safety of the fortress before the arrival of its own fleet, Arubania has made sufficient fortifications here, because large ships cannot approach it at all, and it is quite difficult for small ships to land or attack the fortress itself, so it is not an exaggeration to call this fortress impregnable.
This time the situation was different, however, as Elda's weapons were different from those found in the Sindra Sea and Paz Bay in the past, and Eldar had a long-range catapult and ballista, both of which alone could do enough damage to the fortress itself. As for landing at the fortress, this is not a problem for Elda, because he had no intention of doing so, his main purpose was to fish out the fleet of Arubania, and now the biggest danger he faces is that his large ships lack the cover of small and medium-sized ships, and in naval battles will expose the shortcomings of lack of steering and flexibility, if this shortcoming is exploited by Arubania, it will not be an easy thing to deal with.
For this reason, Elda's fleet did not rush to attack after appearing on the sea of the Anmen fortress, but put on a bluff. Elda judged that once the defenders in the fortress found that their ships were too large, they would be relieved, thinking that they were not enough to pose a threat to the fortress, and that they would have half a day to wait for Misheva's follow-up troops before the scheduled time came.
At dawn the next day, Elda unfurled his fleet and began the assault on the fortress of Anmen. When the first ballista was fired at the outer wall of the fortress, there was a commotion among the defenders - although they had heard all the rumors about the Palci fleet before, they had never seen an arrow shoot so far and that it could go into the walls! The shock of seeing is believing still makes them staggering.
Then came the rain of stones, and the defenders began to shout and prepare for a counterattack, but the counterattack had to be stopped, for none of the Arupanian weapons could reach the fleet, and their poor boats were sunk at the berths before they could even go out to sea to harass them. For the rest of the year, the Arubanian defenders were left to be beaten, and the defender Metis had to evacuate his men out of the range of the opponent's weapons, leaving only the monitoring post to prevent the enemy from sneaking into the landing, and at the same time Xiushu asked the fleet stationed in Carter Harbor to come and destroy these hateful Palchi for himself.
According to Myrtis's judgment, it would take about three days for the letter to be sent to Carter, and if the fleet was to strike well, it should arrive four days later, and no later than six days, after which the torture of the Palci fleet must continue.
But things didn't always work out as planned, and things changed early in the morning of the third day of the Palcian attack. (To be continued.) )