Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Revival Battleship

"Command, the direction remains the same, full sail at full speed!" Nicole ordered.

In fact, when driving against the wind, even if the sail is full, it is not much faster. Although the special structure of the sail allows the ship to sail the wind in all directions, after all, it is the condition that the sail can only be satisfied after the conversion of the wind, so the ship against the wind is very slow, extremely slow.

"Captain, Your Highness the Princess!" Several instructors came to the captain's room and yelled at Nicole, "If the ship is not fast enough, it will collide!" ”

"I'm just going to rush over!" Nicole said.

"Captain, if it collides, the battleship stalls and the hull is damaged! Not only can't we rush out, but the other party jumps to help, and we are in trouble! An instructor said.

"Do we have any other choice?" Nicole asked.

"Downwind to the south, you won't stall if you hit it!" The instructor said.

"You're trying to get me out of the battlefield and abandon the mission?" Nicole said angrily.

"But......" The instructor didn't know how to answer, the battlefield disobeyed, that was to kill the head.

"Get back to your place and get ready for battle!" Nicole said angrily.

"Attention all personnel, ready for impact!" Nicole ordered.

"All soldiers on both sides of the board are on guard to prevent jumping, and no attacks are allowed without my orders!" Nicole ordered.

"Mr. Higg, you immediately lead forty sailors and twenty crossbowmen on both sides of the ship, to prevent jumping, and not to use the arrow tower!" Nicole ordered.

"Yes, Captain!" Higg commanded.

The pirate ship to the northwest arrived at the designated position ahead of the Nicole battleship, turned around, and sailed downwind towards the battleship due south.

Nicole's battleship is not afraid of impact, the thick front armor, coupled with the impact of the impact angle, will not damage the battleship too much, she is worried that after the impact, the battleship will lose its speed, the opponent's ship is more, and it will be able to immediately besiege it and jump over the ship, so even if it can escape, it will be a heavy loss.

"Again, except for Mr. Higg's team, no one is to attack without my orders!" Nicole ordered again.

"Without my command, the direction remains the same, the speed does not change!"

Nicole's orders were sent out one after another, and she knew that she was likely to fall into a siege and fall into a tragic hand-to-hand combat, but in order to complete the mission, she could not expose her military strength too much at present, lest the other party feel that she was tricky and give up the pursuit.

Six pirate ships due north are speeding towards Nicole's battleship, which rises to the wind. She needs to gamble, bet that the other party will not dare to hit her battleship at the last moment. After all, their own warships are much larger than pirate ships, and even if they are outlaws, they don't dare to hit their own warships so quickly!

It's a game of the brave – a game of the steering wheel. Two cars driving at high speed collide opposite each other, and whoever hits the steering wheel at the last moment and gives up the collision is the loser.

Nicole is playing a game of steering wheels, and she has decided not to play the steering wheel.

The ships of both sides are getting closer and closer, and the faces of the people on board are gradually clearly visible. Six pirate ships form an inverted goose-shaped formation, with two in the middle coming side by side, one of which is facing Nicole's battleship.

The faces of the people on both ships were pale, and the helmsman's hands trembled, and he waited for the captain to call out the order to turn the rudder. Nicole was unmoved.

"Turn the rudder!" The helmsman on the battleship trembled with his hands and almost turned the rudder, only to find that the sound came from the pirate ship ahead.

A smile finally appeared on Nicole's expressionless face.

Two pirate ships sailed past the battleship, snapping, on the sides of the ship, each hung dozens of hooks, hooks were connected to a long rope, and at the other end of the rope, the pirates swung the rope towards the battleship.

The battleship was much taller than the pirate ship, and the ships of both sides were not slow to sail by each other, so the pirates would not be ideal for gang jumping, they would need to swing to the back of the ship and then climb the deck. So, as long as she doesn't bump into it, Nicole has already won eighty percent.

Sigg commanded forty sailors and twenty crossbowmen on either side of the ship. Sailors cut ropes from hooks, while crossbowmen shot arrows at pirates.

The opposing pirate ship also sent out a rain of arrows at the same time, and more than a dozen sailors and six crossbowmen were killed in an instant. Fortunately, the two pirate ships and battleships just crossed shoulders, and there was no time to create a second wave of arrow rain attacks.

There were still more than a dozen pirates jumping on the deck, Higg commanded the remaining twenty sailors and crossbowmen to start hand-to-hand combat on the deck, although Higg's numbers were superior, but they were all new sailors, compared with these pirates, there was not much advantage, plus they couldn't expose their power too much, so after a hand-to-hand fight, forty sailors and twenty crossbowmen lost more than half, and all the pirates were killed or forced to jump into the sea.

Nicole and Higg's deliberate weakness made this hand-to-hand combat on the deck extremely fierce, and also made the pirates who turned around see it clearly on their own ships!

Sigg and Ni were able to exchange the lives of thirty soldiers for the pirates' recognition of the ship's weakness, making all the red-eyed pirates even more desperate to gather and chase after them.

There are still more than a thousand kilometers away from the battlefield in Xinxinlu Bay, and because of the headwind, the battleship needs to sail for at least three days and three nights, or more, because Nicole has to wait for pirates and can't run too fast.

A few days and nights are nothing at all for a voyage at sea.

On the first day, Nicole ordered the ship's soldiers to throw hundreds of large wooden barrels into the sea, which were filled with food, fresh water, and even armor and sword equipment.

The next day, when it rained heavily, Nicole ordered the sailman to cut the ropes of the foresail so that it would fall naturally to the deck, and then ordered the sailors to repair the sails, but they could not be hung.

On the third day, Nicole ordered more than 100 fake corpses to be thrown into the sea, floating scattered behind the battleship along course.

When there were more than 100 kilometers left from the scheduled battlefield, Nicole ordered all the soldiers on the battleship to move all the supplies to the port side of the battleship, so that all the soldiers also stayed there, the battleship began to slowly tilt to the left, Nicole ordered to slow down and sail, and the distance from the pirate ship was basically the range of the longbowmen.

On the fourth day, after three days and four nights of sailing, before the sun rose, the battleship sailed into the established coordinate position, a bright light rose from the battleship, and in the dawn night sky bloomed gorgeous flowers, the ten heavy battleships of the Second Legion appeared in a faint offensive formation in the night before dawn, and the heavy battleships sailing quickly with full sails with the wind rushed to the rear of the Nicole battleship.

"Drop anchor and turn the rudder due south!" Nicole's first order.

"The first group of sailors, immediately hang up the backmast, it must be completed in half an hour!" Nicole's second command.

"The second and third groups of sailors removed the camouflage of the battleship, which must be completed within half an hour!" Nicole's third command.

"All soldiers, crossbowmen, take their positions at once, and fight in half an hour!" Nicole's fourth command.

All the people are busy, hanging the sails, disassembling and disassembling, and carrying and carrying......

Nicole hadn't rested for a few days and nights, the sailors were in rotation, and the newly formed fleet didn't have a deputy captain, so Nicole had to hold on alone.

Half an hour later, the battleship returned to its original appearance, with a crossbowman standing at each firing port on the arrow tower, and all the sailors lined up on the fore and aft decks, with three red pennants of the Fuxing battleship being drawn between the foremast and the bow, the middle mast and the top of the arrow tower, and the aft of the ship, and the flags fluttering in the wind.

"The lookout is in place!"

"The sailman is in place!"

"The helmsman is in place!"

……

"Anchor! Due south, full sails, full-angle sails, foresails, tail sails! Nicole gave the order, and the anchor of the battleship Fuxing slowly rose, and on the three high masts, three huge sails were slowly raised, and then, on the side of the giant sails, the triangular auxiliary sails were hung, and the triangular sails at the bow and stern of the ship were also hung up.

The Fuxing was like an arrow from the string, heading towards the battlefield to the south, and the soldiers of the navy who had been suffocating for several days were in high spirits and shouting to kill.

Now the main task of the Fuxing is to pursue the pirate ships that escaped from the encirclement, and the six fast sail warships of the Second Legion are also working in this work, and the main battlefield has been divided in the previous half an hour, and the rest of the time is only to chase the remnants of the pirate ships and level the few remaining pirates in Yaning Bay, although it is inevitable that there will be pirates who will escape, but they will definitely not dare to appear in this sea area again!

The Fuxing did not join the main battlefield, but caught up with a pirate ship that escaped from the main battlefield, just with a fast sail warship left and right, after getting close to the pirate ship, the two battleship arrow towers immediately flew out of the arrow rain, covering the entire pirate ship, the condescending arrow tower two waves of arrow rain killed the pirates on the deck, Nicole commanded the Fuxing to stay away from the pirate ship, and then turned around and accelerated, rushing towards the pirate ship, the sharp impact angle was deeply submerged into the hull of the pirate ship, and the two ships were tightly connected, The pirates hiding in the cabin were shaken by the violent impact, and the sailors on the Fuxing immediately jumped into the pirate ship and began to clear the remaining pirates from cabin to cabin. In less than twenty minutes, all the pirates on the pirate ship were killed or jumped into the sea, and the screams of killing finally stopped.

Nicole immediately dispatched sailors to take over the pirate ship, then retracted the ramming horn and began to sail further south in search of a second target.

The Alchemy Kingdom warship that Higeren bought by deception is the most powerful and fastest among all the warships, and the technology and manufacturing of the Alchemy Country are beyond the reach of Erathia.

"Your Excellency, Captain, Level 2 distress signal, southeast, about fifty kilometers!" The lookout reports to Nicole.

"Turn the rudder now, full sails, full speed rescue!" Nicole ordered.

At the same time, there were two fast sail warships ten kilometers away, but they were left far behind by the Fuxing.

The Fuxing sailed quickly for more than half an hour, and the lookout reported again: "Your Excellency, Captain, double signal flares, first-class distress signal, ten degrees south, about thirty kilometers!" The lookout reported to Nicole.

"Turn the rudder to ten degrees south, full sail at full speed!" Nicole ordered.

The sea rescue signal is generally issued every half an hour to facilitate the rescue ship to adjust the rescue direction and ensure that the rescue route of the rescue ship is basically straight.

After many adjustments, the Fuxing sailed for more than half an hour, and the lookout reported again, "Directly ahead, ten thousand meters, five pirate ships, one fast sail battleship, combat state, immediately alert!" ”

"All ready to fight, first-level alert!" Nicole ordered.

"Straight ahead, four thousand meters, five pirate ships, and a clipper battleship are capsizing!" The lookout continued to report.

"One or two groups of sailors are ready to rescue, Mr. Higg is escorted by a hundred crossbowmen, and the others are on guard!"

Woowoo......

A melodious horn sounded on the Fuxing......