After a night of hard work, Catherine finally left the Imperial Capital port area with the escort fleet, although it was not yet six o'clock in the morning at sea, but the faint light was enough to make people see the condition of the ships. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This sudden battle caused heavy losses to the convoy of forty warships, and more than twenty ships were taken and burned in the harbor, and because of the darkness, Catherine had only seven warships here, including the Skyfire and the Count of Liel, and had to break up the sailors, otherwise the ships could not be moved at all.

In addition, the old warship Count Lehr was accidentally damaged during the voyage, and it has not yet recovered its full speed, which is undoubtedly a drag on everyone here, but it is absolutely impossible for the admiral to directly abandon his comrades, so he can only wait here for repair operations.

Unfortunately, there were no clouds and mist to obscure their ship, and there were no stormy waves on the sea to stop the enemy's advance, and just an hour after they stopped to repair, in the distance in the direction of the imperial capital, patches of black sail shadows appeared in the lookout's field of vision.

“… Discover the fleet! Our six o'clock in the direction! ”

“… No friend or foe flags were found! Wait a minute...... It's Rogers! It's Rogers' Black Flag! ”

"Damn pirates, sons of bitches! Immediately pull up the sails and speed up, everyone is ready for battle! Catherine cursed outboard the ship, and it was a misfortune that these haunting pirates had come.

It's a pity that there is not much sea breeze blowing at this time, and the already damaged fleet is desperate to find that if its speed cannot reach full speed within ten minutes, it will not want to get rid of the enemy's pursuit, but at this time, except for the mage on the Skyfire who can barely do this, the others are destined to be bitten by the enemy's tail.

Encountering this unavoidable situation, Admiral Catherine did not choose to leave, believing that she was the only remaining existence in the Kingdom of Riberia who dared to face blood, she knew that at this time there was no other way but to fight, and in the hundred-year imperial magic transformation plan in this area, almost all the reefs that could pose a threat were eliminated, and there was no other area for her to hide.

"Bell! Bang Bang! The Tianhuo rang the bell and began to accelerate alone, but the direction of progress was to make a big turn and rush towards the enemy in the rear, and the sailors on the other six battleships could only watch their comrades run to death speechlessly, and there was nothing else they could do but bless.

"Your Excellency Admiral, have you really decided to fight a single battleship against a pirate fleet?"

"Isn't that obvious?"

"But ......"

"Nothing," Catherine said, looking back at the officers and sailors behind her, "I know you all think I'm crazy, and yes, I want to say that I'm crazy. ”

"As the overlord of the sea, we have never encountered a precedent for the enemy to turn in, even if we have to retreat, the commanders will lead the troops to the rear, this time our opponent is the cruel Rogers, you all know how he will treat the Riberians, whether they surrender or not, the final outcome is nothing more than a dead body or a tombstone."

"So--even if I get another chance, I'm going to say it! Go! He! Mother! Target! Rogers! The old lady will never shrink her eggs in front of him! Not once! Not twice! Not a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand! Cheer me up! Let the bastard on the opposite side go to hell! God bless my emperor! ”

“AYA！ AYA！ ”

Everyone was up to action, the gun windows were opened, the guns were prepared, the ammunition was taken out of the well-preserved arsenals, the sails were full, the garrison mages unleashed the wind as much as they could, and the Skyfire, with its will to fight, reached twenty knots in a matter of minutes, something that had never happened before on a large battleship.

Catherine, who was born as a practical and academic student, was shelled by a number of pirate warships as soon as the Skyfire under her command broke into the battlefield, and the splashing of water around the ship made the ship look very dangerous, in fact, most of the other side were pirates with cruisers as the main force, and the main focus was on speed rather than firepower, even if a cannonball hit the Skyfire, it would be difficult to penetrate its defenses.

The extremely fast ship completed the turn when the pirates were stunned and successfully cut into the opponent's flank and rear, this position has no ship as its opponent, of course, the cost is that the garrison mage is tired into a dog, several unlucky sailors wail into the water and are destined to be rescued, and there is the damage caused by the ship's speeding.

Seeing this scene, Catherine raised the long sword in her hand and shouted: "Soldiers! The time has come to test us! The cannon door is wide open, and the left chord is fired in a volley! The officers and men of the Navy had already prepared the guys in their hands, and their fighting spirit was as strong as if they had eaten a small blue pill, and with the help of magic, they fired fiercely at each other

Since it is a single ship against the enemy, it is inevitable that the density of the artillery is a little sparse, but don't forget that the Skyfire now has a position advantage, and at the same time, it carries as many as 128 guns on it, and it is very powerful to attack the enemy with intensive artillery bombardment, and the pirate fleet is now congested for unknown reasons, or the terrible posture of ship to ship.

Huge shells roared, the hit rate of long-distance naval combat shelling should be very low, but the enemy's attitude made the hit rate of the Tianhuo increase geometrically, after the two sides had just finished seven rounds of firefighting, the Tianhuo only lost more than a dozen sailors and an extra hole in the deck that was not very big, but the pirates directly sank four warships, twelve unlucky ships ignited a fire, not to mention the ships that were interrupted by various important equipment and heavy casualties.

Encountering such a favorable situation, Catherine was so excited that she continued to approach the other party to attack regardless of ammunition reserves and distance, and the six warships observing the battle from a distance also did not escape, but turned around and cooperated with the Skyfire to flank the pirate fleet.

In a short period of time, the pirates were almost tearless, and rows of shells flew over the battleships of the Riberian convoy, and according to Catherine's adjutant, 30 pirate cruisers were sunk during this time, and 16 small ships that could not move and were broken to pieces.

Perhaps the pirates' fate was not to be killed, or Catherine's doom was too late, and the shadow of the fleet appeared behind the Skyfire again, this time not allies, but large ships flying the flag of Rogers Pirates.

Originally, pirates would never learn from the regular army to raise large warships, not only because of savings, but also because there were no reliable ports, and the warships that appeared now were all produced by regular shipyards, equipped with perfect artillery and magicians, soldiers and commanders were extremely experienced, and even Catherine's lost ships existed.

The only bad thing is - these people are all nobles, surrenderers and pirates, there are not so many miracles to replicate in the naval battles of the hot weapon era, it is difficult for the ancient mages or priests and priests who can be on their own to play a role here, unlike land warfare, they may also rely on equipment and strength to resist dozens of platoon guns, but the appearance of artillery makes them cannon fodder, no matter how strong you are, as long as you are bombarded by artillery for a short time, you will become scum, The difference is in the question of how long the strength can resist.

So in an instant, Catherine also reached a critical juncture, more than ten large warships completed the establishment of the battle line with the help of the mage, even the Skyfire's emergency right-chord salvo could not do anything, and the opposing mage was completely able to resist their shells.

As the other party finished preparing, the terrifying platoon of artillery began, round after round of artillery, let the sailors of the Skyfire enjoy the hellish 'happiness', in the smoke of gunpowder, Catherine still did not give up, under her roar, the kingdom gunners stubbornly resisted, and hit the ship's fastest rate of fire - a terrible speed of six rounds in 1 minute, even though the hull was on fire, the sails were tattered and could not hold the wind, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but everyone was gritting their teeth and persevering.

As the battle continued and the opponent approached, the hit rate began to increase significantly, and the crowded pirates began to become sober, which caused a lot of damage to the six battleships on the periphery, and the enemy battle line that pressed over used solid shells to directly attack the side in an attempt to destroy the Skyfire, Catherine's response was all kinds of flowering shells, grapeshot bullets and chain bullets, frantically killing and injuring the opposing sailors, the reason for this was because the previous uncontrolled shelling had exhausted the solid shells on the ship, and had to use other shells to attack the enemy.

But the difference of dozens of times in the number has not changed at all, and when the situation of the six warships on the periphery is becoming more and more dangerous, and the Count of Lehr is even ganged by several pirate ships, Catherine knows that she has no chance to leave this sea area, and the more intolerable the naval battleship is, the more intolerable it is, directly using magic props to force the mages to speed up the battleship together, crashing into the enemy's battle line, trying to help the other party make a final effort.

The crew on the Tianhuo are all good, even if half of the artillery has been silent, all kinds of damage make the battleship tattered, but with the help of magic, like a swimming fish to avoid the bombardment of artillery, magic and magic were desperately intercepted by the mages on the ship, and the terrifying battleship that accelerated to level 30 directly completed the scalpel-like cross-cutting action, sinking the enemy's two battleships, and by the way, the artillery salvo at close range shot each other, for a while, the flesh and bones flew sideways, and the enemy's blood flowed all over the ground!

But this is also its last journey, because after crossing this battle line, it is not facing the peace - but the griffin air knights of the Holy Orlando Empire, these forces controlled by the noble faction in Catherine's desperate eyes, volleys of all kinds of magic javelins, almost instantaneously ignited the Skyfire into a flame, except for the first small cloud of blue magic light, only orange flames and smoke are left, and from time to time there are screaming sailors running around and falling into the water, Badly burned, they could only get a few seconds of comfort, and then death awaited ahead.

At this point, the Allied navy was completely wiped out in this area, and there were no other reinforcements that were closer to the imperial capital to rescue, as for the next thing the royal family could do was to persevere, but this did not include Her Royal Highness the Princess, because after rushing into the portal, she saw a stunned scene.