On a traditional high-latitude route thousands of kilometers away from the coastline of the continent of Elta, a gray-black Liberation ship is sailing on the crest of a somewhat bumpy wave - followed by two traditional wooden cargo ships. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The leader's opinion has been sent!"

The hidden cab door was slammed open by the telegrapher. At the same time, the Liberation was heading into a valley of waves, and the sudden change of angle to lower the cabin floor made the telegraph operator almost fall on his stomach, and he managed to balance his body by holding the hook with the schedule hanging on the hatch.

"How?" The captain who was draped in a military coat and personally steered did not look back. "What's the opinion above? Resolutely not to fire the first shot? ”

"No, no, no!" The telegrapher, who was holding the telegram, blushed and said three nos in a row. "The leader told us to immediately prepare for battle and decisively defeat the incoming enemy!"

After reading this sentence in one breath, the telegraph man swallowed his saliva and added the missing sentence, "All means are allowed, and at all costs, the personal and property safety of foreign guest cargo ships must be protected!" ”

"All the staff are in place at once!" The captain, who had long been unable to bear it, immediately followed and shouted on the radio, "Prepare for battle!" ”

"Gun Position No. 1 is in place! Wait for the battle order to be given! ”

"The four deck damage pipes are in place!"

……

A series of resolute replies came from all the battle positions. The captain held the steering wheel in his hand and gave the first order of this naval battle:

"Speed up! Increase the steam pressure and overload the boiler! We must have a decisive speed advantage over the enemy fleet! ”

The steam in the side room, which had been imprisoned in various pressure relief valves, was rerouted to the central pipeline after an order.

It didn't take long for a low, long roar to be heard from the center of the hull of the Broken Liberator, which gradually picked up speed, shaking off the ships that were being escorted behind.

"It seems that the Chinese still have a hand." On the bridge of the new propulsion ship of the West Sea Fleet of the Bimoon Church Navy, about four nautical miles away from the port side of the liberation ship, Admiral Jolsesson, dressed in a fine fur coat, sighed and praised the shadow of the ship speeding up in the distance. But even so, he still has enough confidence in the upcoming naval battle - it is already eight against one, and as long as those steel monsters in the sky do not come to stir up the situation, their operation will definitely not fail!

"General, do you need to be ready for battle? Our ships in the vicinity should not have arrived yet......" Unlike him, the captain of the Wheel of Fortune was clearly not so confident about the outcome of the battle, and even showed obvious concern.

"In naval warfare, the side with the advantage of speed has an irrefutable initiative in the choice of fighters." Admiral Jolsesson patted the wool and navy-specific epaulettes on his shoulders, "Mr. Captain, go and order your Underground Warehouse Magicians to speed up, this is a race to look forward to, the event is a boat race. If we can succeed in winning over the people of another world, our Bi-Moon Church will continue to live; If not, then I am afraid that there will be no way back. ”

Admiral Jolseson and his 1st Guerrilla Fleet of the Western Sea Fleet had already used new ships with high speed to raid and raid ships entering and leaving the "shady world" of Elta Continent many times before this - thanks to the ship's magical thrusters that landed from the blueprints captured by the Red Dragons, the ships of the Church of the Two Moons were able to lower their sails and use the burning of magic powder in the void to propel their warships forward quickly to catch up with the civilian transports of the Elta Empire with new hard sails.

And just two hours ago, he and his eight new propulsion ships, including the "Wheel of Fortune", "Fair Judgment", "New Elta", "God's Melody", and "New Era", had already broken into this sea area, preparing to intercept and plunder two cargo ships sailing from the "dark world" of Elta to another continent.

But for them, it was bound to be a very unfortunate mission. Because the "Elder" broke the liberator ship has been following closely between this small merchant fleet, using the uncommon low-visibility deep-sea gray paint to protect itself from detection, which can be regarded as an escort after the looting incident, or it can be regarded as a "fishing law enforcement".

It was only when the eight new propulsion vessels officially joined the encirclement and interception of the merchant fleet, that is, that they came within ten nautical miles, that they really discovered the phantom of the giant ship hidden in the waves—a huge steel ship they had never seen before. There are no sails or oars on it, and the whole body is the same dark gray and black, and it is a little difficult for people to catch even the figure, let alone confirm that there is any armament on it......

Of course, the Elder frigate had to detect the other side earlier than the Twin Moon Navy's side - even in the background of bad weather and sea conditions close to the fourth level, the marine radar on the top of the bridge was working normally, accurately depicting the tracks of several thousand-ton wooden ships on the LCD screen.

This is the request from the Elder frigate to the above - the crew of the Elder Ship may not know it, this request has been passed all the way to the hands of the Elders who even they dare not think about, and then they will start a war that has not stopped in essence, and now they have only one thing to do, and that is to defeat the enemy in front of them.

The steam that makes up the 90,000-horsepower power output is continuously introduced into the turbine room, and its acceleration is so fast that even most of the crew in the ship can feel the "surging push back feeling". Under this powerful propulsion, the Elder doubled its speed from 6 knots in an instant, and still did not accelerate unfavorably to 15 knots.

"Keep getting closer!" General Jolsesson on the wheel of fortune did not even perceive the danger in the face of this acceleration. Fluctuations in velocity a few nautical miles away without instruments to provide a frame of reference are too small for an observer who is himself accelerating. Feeling that he still had the chance of victory, he ordered the flag officer to play the flag, but he did not think that he was doing so to give up the precious maneuver space and at the same time drive his subordinates into the range of the opponent's firepower.

Powerful magic naturally has an extremely long range, but the artificial intelligence that planned the magic system with Chen Heng and the others at the beginning will obviously set an upper limit, so that the magic will not be too powerful, and it will be strong enough for people to enjoy a priceless war - as long as there are enough magic fans.

Admiral Jorgesson's fleets are generally equipped with weapons made from the "latest scientific research" of the Forbidden Spell Society, in which two different winds of different nature interfere with the ammunition of the same ballista from different directions, causing it to naturally have a slight right-hand rotation when fired from the barrel of the barrel.

The large-charge Magic Powder Cannon, which was previously designed to imitate the guns of the Otherworldly People, has been abandoned because it has been proved to be completely unsuitable for use on naval vessels, and the material cannot break through the boundaries of use. As a trade-off, this ballista has an astonishing range of one nautical mile, and it is already a very powerful weapon in the eyes of the high-ranking officials of the Double Moon Church and the admirals, and it can be directly mass-produced to challenge the authority of the people of the other world.

However, the armament on the side of the Elder frigate is several times more powerful than that of this ballista - the quadruple 25 mm anti-aircraft guns installed on the main gun emplacements have a range of at least two nautical miles when firing horizontally at the sea, and the high-explosive grenades allow the ammunition fired by the anti-aircraft machine guns to be destructive even if the kinetic energy at the end and end of the trajectory is reduced.

The visible/infrared/radar multi-channel sensors mounted on the unmanned turret accurately marked the enemy ship on the dim sea, and the real controller gently shook the handle in front of the screen below deck, and the barrels of the quadruple anti-aircraft guns hummed at the hapless "Fair Trial".

"The enemy ship is three chains away!"

"Our speed is eighteen and a half knots!"

On the screen of the battery, the fire control system had already been automatically reloaded—but in the tradition of the Navy, the gunners still read them out loud on the radio.

"Zhuyuan is loaded! Combat Ready Complete! "The gunner went through the last procedure in all seriousness, and he was waiting for the order of the gunner, and even the captain—arbitrariness is always the last quality that an army needs, and it is certainly the same at sea.

"Fire!" The captain of the Elder has long been choked by these flies.

On this cloudy sea, the Elder Ship was jolting and moving fast one second as if it was racing against Hong Kong reporters, and the next moment it shot out a chain of fire with a noise like tearing cloth without warning, and the end of the chain of fire was none other than the "Fair Trial" closest to the Elder.

As soon as the barrage of tracer high-explosive grenades and high-inclammation grenades touched the side of the Fair Trial, it caused almost irreparable damage: the bullet holes in the ship's planks from the bow to the center of the side were dense, and a fire was burning inside and outside - it was just a long burst.

"What's going on?" The stunned General Jorgesson had just been in a trance, when the chain of fire fired by an enemy three nautical miles away smashed into his subordinates.

In the distance, screams and exclamations abounded on the Fair Trial. It was so loud that even Jorgetson could hear it. The watertight on one side of the Fair Trial had been completely breached, and some of the stray bullets from the 25mm anti-aircraft guns had a devastating effect on the facilities on deck - the flames burning down from the top of the sail, at least the crew had nothing to do at the moment.

The Fair Trial is over. Both General Jorgesson and the crews of the ships who witnessed this were well aware of this.

"If the people of the other world only have this blow, then the 'Public Trial' may still have some hope......," the panicked General Jolsesson had just finished speaking, and the chain of fire from the frigate Elder swept up the poor wooden ship once again.