Chapter 408: The Great Escape
The steel ship was large, and when the lookout could see the ship clearly, everyone could see the steel ship spin, revealing its sideways and a whole row of gun muzzles sticking out of the outer wall of the side-chord steel armor.
The long cannon reflected sunlight, and the orcs could faintly see the reflection of the muzzle of the cannon from a great distance, as well as the fire of the cannon when it was fired.
In the next second, Quake saw a large number of dark shadows projectile into the sky, rapidly approaching their ship in a parabola.
The orcs were not stupid, they recognized it as a black shadow of a cannonball flying, and they were a little nervous in their hearts, but seeing the other party launch from such a long distance, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"It scared the hell out of me, but luckily it didn't shoot at close range."
"At such a distance, if you can hit me, you will eat Xiang!" The Tiger Clan sailor clutched his belly and laughed.
The Tiger Orcs on the ship also laughed, mocking the Vanguard's range.
But Captain Quake didn't think so, he became even more nervous when he saw the enemy firing the cannon, his palms and backs were full of sweat, and his feet were a little weak.
Quake is not a native of the country, when he saw the Vanguard, he knew that the other party was a player with a strong industrial civilization, and once the cannon was fired, it meant that the opponent used shooting skills to predict factors such as wind direction, gravity, acceleration, and initial velocity, which meant that this round of shells must have a high hit rate.
"Damn, this range is more than two thousand meters." Quake knew that the weapon generation gap was terrible, and he immediately ordered the sailors to speed up, "All men have orders, enter the manpower pulp room, and speed out of this place!" ”
He didn't know how many steamships the other side had, if the enemy only had one, now he still had a chance to escape, the number of enemies was too small, and he could take advantage of the large number of ships to escape back to the base camp.
Why didn't Quake use fifty pirate ships to surround the ironclad? Because the other side is steam-powered, and they are sail-powered, the two are not in the same speed class.
The enemy runs away if they want to run, and they can use the kite style to play kite, and they only have the share of passive hanging.
The sailors below opened their mouths to refute the captain's incredible order, but the captain's decision was not missed, and they immediately complied and ran out of the cabin.
In less than a few seconds, the boards under the deck of Galen's ship opened, and the orcs were about to stretch out their oars, and the bullets from the sky fell on their heads impartially.
The sailors under the ship could not see, but the sailors on board could see clearly, and they saw with their own eyes that the shells flew over great distances, flew over their heads, and landed on their mainsails.
Click!
The middle section of the mainmast was hit by a shell and cracked in response.
As it cracked, the orcs heard a loud explosion and saw a raging flame erupt from the mainsail, and the light flashed away, followed by flying wood chips and burning fire blocks.
The orcs opened their mouths wide, goosebumps protruding all over their bodies, and wordless fear took over their minds.
Boom, the explosion resounded in the sky again, the whole ship was shaking, and the orcs realized that it was two cannonballs that would explode in the side chord, and the screams of the orcs and the sound of the explosion were mixed together, making it impossible to tell how many casualties there were.
But they were sure of one thing, and that was that the ship was finished, the mainsail had turned into a mass of incendiary cloth, the flames were spreading rapidly to the deck, and the hull itself was under fire from two howitzers, and the huge hole was almost impossible to plug with manpower.
"I can't make it up, the hole is too big, the ship can't be mended, Captain Quake!" A soaking wet sailor climbed onto the deck and cried out.
The captain was now standing on the side of the sailboat, his whole body nailed to the ground like a nail, and his eyes were looking at the sea in a daze.
"Captain, captain......" the sailor shouted twice, and he found the captain in a daze, his gaze also looked in the direction of the captain, and his body froze.
"This, this, this is the first round of shelling!" The sailor screamed loudly, and the tiger's tail exploded with cold hair.
Before their eyes, five ships were on fire.
Either the mast was on fire, or there was a huge hole in the hull, and the wood at the edge of the hole was burning, and the sea water below was greedily pouring into the hold.
The orcs walked back and forth, splashing water and sand, trying every means to extinguish the fire, but they couldn't plug the hole.
The hole opened up the upper and lower three or four floors of the cabin, and the hull of the ship was slowly sinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the victims on board abandoned the ship in tears and got a light plank to drift on the sea.
"Tell the other brothers to run away if you have the chance." Quake said with a grim expression.
The sailors on board also nodded sadly, waving flags on the deck and issuing their own flags to flee for their lives.
The rest of the ships were the escort ships and secondary fire output ships of the Black Flag Pirate Regiment, and now the captain's ship was sunk by a grenade, and the orcs of the rest of the ships were terrified.
Some people wanted to save the captain, and some orcs saw the flag "Escape", and immediately turned around and ran, and the human paddle room opened the baffle, and the whole ship was paddling hard.
There was no Alan himself on the ironclad ship, and the gunners fired cannonballs according to the experience of shooting sea monsters in peacetime, and the rifled guns on the ironclad ships were carefully crafted weapons, and there were several new rifling lines, the accuracy was different from the past, and the hit rate at a distance of two thousand meters was quite high, so the first round sank six Galen ships, and only ten shells smashed into the sea.
The orcs scattered and fled, and less than thirty seconds later, a second round of shelling returned.
Boom, boom, boom.
The shells mercilessly hit the fleeing sailboats, and the enemy ships consciously evaded them for a short distance, so this time the hit rate was not so high, and only three ships were hit by grenades, and the sea water poured back.
When the orcs of Tomorrow City saw the pirates fleeing, the orcs on board erupted in a burst of celebration.
"Haha, we only have one ship, and we actually beat away dozens of pirate ships, it's so cool!"
"Steel giant, who can fight us!" Captain Felton was now heroic and touched the lion's beard.
The steamship made a foul sound, dragging its long chimneys, and slowly sailed into the war zone to see its own masterpiece of victory.
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