Chapter 58: Naval Battle (1)
The chaotic state of the crusade fleet is suddenly noticed by the besieging pirates, and these outlaws, who lick their blood all day long, are the best at grasping fleeting opportunities.
Although there was no unified order, all the pirate fleets released all the hole cards that were originally reserved for the final comeback at the first time.
A visibly bloated pirate ship quietly lowered its movable deck behind the ship.
The bright silver streaks of the dark green carapace stood out in the moonlight, and the icy waters made these behemoths that loved warm waters scream in exasperation, like soldiers who had been kicked out of their warm beds by officers in the middle of the night.
Dragons and tortoises, up to 20 feet long, were the first to attack, and not only were their shells sturdy, but they were also so powerful that they could overturn smaller ships with a slight shake on the bottom of the ship.
Sure enough, not far from the nearest armed merchant ship, these behemoths dived one after another, leaving only dark shadows illuminated by artillery fire.
"Get out of the guardrail and come to the middle of the deck!" The sailor who was familiar with the dragon turtle's attack method shouted, but unfortunately except for a small number of people who were close to hear it and came to the middle of the deck, the rest of the people were still wondering why the dragon turtle suddenly disappeared.
"Boom!"
"Wow!"
With a dull thud, the armed merchant ship tilted nearly 30 degrees to the right, and several mercenaries tumbled into the sea like barrels placed on sloping planks.
Before the mercenaries had yet to emerge from their stuns, the tortoises that had sneaked up near the ship opened their jagged mouths and tore the "prey" into pieces.
The first batch of victims let out the last screams before they died, reminding their companions who were still on the deck that there was a group of bloodthirsty beasts below, but before the panicked mercenaries could come to their senses, one by one the dragon turtles kept hitting the fragile hull with their huge bodies, and from time to time some mercenaries did not grasp the firm objects in time, and fell into the sea and became the snack of the dragon turtles.
"Die!" Seeing that his subordinates were constantly being hunted and eaten, the captain of this mercenary team finally couldn't help it, he saw the opportunity to [jump and slash], and the giant axe in his hand stretched out a dragon turtle and tore off the head of the prey.
But before the men on the ship could cheer, the [scorching steam] that erupted from the mouth of the dragon turtle from all directions broke the skin and flesh of this barbarian with good strength and died.
"Click!" With the sound of cracking from the bottom of the ship, something even more terrifying happened. The dragon tortoises finally smashed the "thin-skinned walnut", and their whole bodies rushed in to hunt for food.
Under the attack of this group of more than a dozen dragon turtles, the ship quickly sank. Of course, it is not the only victim, and now the sea has become a Shura field, where pirate pets hunt for food.
"Bang!" A young man held a musket and shot at the monster in front of him, but unfortunately this projectile that could easily tear the pirate's head could only tear the skin, and then helplessly embedded in the muscles of the pterosaur, and then the brave young man was disemboweled by the angry pterosaur with his claws.
Even if the blood of the dragon clan is thin, the physical defense of the pterosaur is very strong.
"Damn it, blow up those boats! Blow it up! Even though the captain's shouts were heartbreaking, and the gunners kept firing their guns, several boats filled with fuel still slammed into the ship under the impetus of the fishmen at the bottom, and the fire instantly burned most of the merchant ship.
Before the captain could organize the firefighting, there was a dense knocking sound from the bottom of the boat, which was a fishman scuttling the boat.
"Whew, bang!" With the creaking sound of the winch, a huge clap rod with a huge iron end tied to it was lifted to the highest point, and then from top to bottom, the mast of a ship of the bandit fleet next to it was broken, and blood splattered everywhere.
The massive, sloping lever became the best tool for boarding, and the bloodthirsty pirates screamed wildly, wielding their scimitars and sliding into the merchant ship, setting off a round of brutal killing.
And more pirate ships threw out their claws one by one to capture merchant ships, and fought the broadside battles that they were good at.
The ship of the dead surfaced at some point, and the demonized cables were like the wrists and feet of the giant squid king, strangling the merchant ships to death, coiling and strangling. Although the ship's crew continued to use swords, axes, and fire, until the merchant ship was strangled, all the crew members were killed by the undead, and the activated cable showed no signs of damage.
Barnier was pleased with his results, and although he was unable to command the ship of the dead to use other functions, the attack of a demonic cable that was not afraid of swords and fire and water had already taken advantage of him.
Zod couldn't have imagined that the turnaround would come so suddenly and so quickly, just now he was a loser who was about to be blown to pieces, and suddenly he became a hero who led his men to victory.
After killing the last recalcitrant sailor, Zod captured the ship entirely. This is already the second armed merchant ship that he has captured, and if he continues in this form, he can completely make up for the losses just now, and there are many more.
"Kill them all!" Zod couldn't help but shout.
"Kill them all!!" One by one, the pirates of the Seawolf also howled with Devil Cry Wolf.
Morey's expression was full of solemnity after smashing the pirate who jumped off with a mast swing rope with a magic missile.
"Young master, the situation is critical now, you can go first!" Hyde came to Morey's side and said.
The situation is now clear, the pirates have the upper hand with the help of the ship of the dead and other sea monsters, while their own side is in chaos due to the departure of the commander. Although there are more ships in the fleet of bandits than pirates, they are all scattered, and the real combat effectiveness is to be discounted.
So he had to plan for the worst in advance, but what made him feel fortunate was that Ios had made a teleportation scroll for Morey before he came, and as long as he tore Morey, he could instantly return to Red Leaf City, which was also the reason why Hyde agreed to Morey to suppress the bandits.
Morey naturally knew the captain's intentions, but he couldn't do it if he was told to leave so many subordinates behind and run away alone, even if they were ready to sacrifice.
Morey knew there was only one way to break the game.
"Capture the thief and capture the king first!"
The Seawolf's magical aura that was obviously different from ordinary pirate ships, even from such a distance, Morey could see it clearly through his perceptual ability, except for the ship of the undead, this ship seemed to be the strongest in this sea.
But before that, I had to deal with the pirate ship in front of me.
I don't know if I was stunned, or if I felt that the bright figure of Morey's men was really ridiculous, a pirate ship went straight to find it.
Morey had just smashed one when countless claws flung up from the pirate ship. Despite their best efforts to cut it off with their swords, the remaining claws captured the Exocet.
"Bump!" With a dull thud, the pirate ship used its huge crossbow machine to shoot a large crossbow arrow deep into the mast.
And the pirate, who was covered in strange grease and shirtless, slid into the Exocet quickly with a scimitar through the cableway built by crossbow arrows.
A saber guard stepped forward and slashed, and was bullied directly into his arms by the lean pirate, the dagger in his hand like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter to his eye socket.
His complexion changed, his head bowed desperately, and after a piercing sound of metal, he choked on the vicious eye-gouging with his helmet. Then the left hand stepped forward and swung the right hand downwards to deliver a deadly "steel grapple" to the pirate.
If this is the case, the pirate will lose half his life even if he does not die, but just as the steel cage was about to form, the pirate smiled disdainfully, and slipped out of the saber guard's hand.
The saber guard's face was ugly, and his arms felt the squeeze of his flesh, but the pirate seemed to be smeared with oil, no, they were smeared with oil.
The opposing saber guards soon found that these bare-chested pirates were extremely difficult, they were athletic and vicious, and without armor, they were extremely fast, often slashing with a single sword enough to attack them several times with scimitars and daggers. If it weren't for the [Weight Loss Armor] on his body to defend himself, he would have been bleeding a river by now.
If that were all there was to it, the guards worked together to attack a few greedy pirates. But when the sword slashes at those pirates, it will also unconsciously deviate, so that serious injuries become minor injuries, and minor injuries become no injuries.
And once a wound appears, the oil will seep into the skin, helping the blood to clot, and ensuring the pirate's combat effectiveness to the greatest extent.
There was the quick-witted iron guard, who took off the brazier on the ship and threw it over, but the pirates grinned and shook the flying coals with their arms, and looked like they were not afraid of fire.
The stance damage caused by several of Morey's magic missiles was also visibly deflected, and the pirate who had been smashed off staggered to his feet again.
Do you have to rely on your own [Ma Youfu Acid Arrow] to kill these pirates one by one? But looking at the warriors who were already entangled with pirates, and thinking that he didn't have the surreal ability to "not be able to hurt his teammates", Morey had no choice but to give up this dangerous idea.
The warriors of the North Wind Mercenary Regiment showed great combat effectiveness at this time, and if they hadn't stopped three times the number of pirates they had, the form on this deck would have been even more dangerous.
However, with the exception of Max, who wielded a pig-headed war hammer, the rest of the warriors could only wound but not kill the pirates.
The situation fell into a stalemate, but there was a frightening and dense chiseling sound under the ship, and everyone broke out in a cold sweat.
This made a group of armored warriors look at each other, do you want them to take off their armor and go down to the bottom of the water to find the fishmen to fight to the death? I didn't bring a water fork with me!
At this time, a voice came from the cabin.
"Jim, Snyder, you go help them!"
"Yes!"
Under Gary's command, several mercenaries who were proficient in water warfare were led by the two team leaders, Jim and Snyder, and went into the water to fight with the fishmen with a "poof".
It was only at this time that the young master Gary, who had always been hiding in the cabin and enjoying his happiness, finally appeared on the deck, if the Red Leaf City troops illuminated by the [Light Technique] were just seducing and mocking the pirates, then Gary was dressed in a gorgeous banquet dress, and several beautiful female mercenaries served as guest maids on the side, and Gary came out with a glass of red wine. Rose, as if she pulled the pirates' pants and glanced inside, then snorted disdainfully, "You can't!" ”。
This made Morey have to admire, a mountain is higher than a mountain!
Even the master of Red Leaf City, the master of the Far East, and the great Baron Morey, can't bear it, let alone those hard-pressed pirates who have always "hated the rich".
One by one, the pirates screamed and screamed, as if they had seen the enemy who killed their father. Ropeway, rope swinging, crotch piercing, leaping, in an instant, Gary's team was hit by the pirate's three-dimensional all-round attack.
Although Gary's defense forces were not vegetarians, they stopped most of the pirates. However, a few pirates, under the cover of their own crossbows and other pirates, managed to break into Gary's defensive circle.
A pirate managed to kill him, but he was pressed to his brow by a cold finger that had been waiting here for a long time. Before he could swing his knife and cut off the finger's owner's arm, he was like a water bag that had been blown up, expanding to the limit in a short period of time and then exploding.
Accompanied by a little bit of minced meat and internal organs, Gary took away half of the lung lobe that was stuck to his shoulder with a look of disgust. [Awakening Blood] is not good at this, and will instantly transform his image into a butcher without the slightest interest.
But at the moment when Gary lowered his head and his gaze shifted, a pirate desperately suffered heavy casualties and rushed forward, and the scimitar in his hand slashed Gary who relaxed his vigilance because of victory.
In the nick of time, Wade crashed away from Gary to take the vicious slash.
Seeing that his target had been knocked into the rest of the people's defensive circle and could no longer be attacked, the pirate condensed all his anger into his last sword. Because it condensed the last glory of the pirate's life, this knife had already brought out a faint green wind element, which showed how fast it was.
It's a pity that this fierce slash that should have split a cavity of flesh and blood only brought a metallic harsh scratching sound.
Looking at the silver metallic sheen on Wade's split chest, the pirate was killed on the spot by the guards who arrived later.
While Gary's team is a new force, the scene is still not optimistic because the largest number of melee pros have been overrun by pirates.
Just when Morey was at a loss, Sandru, who had not been seen for a long time, came to the deck.
"A mage's strength comes from his wisdom." After uttering this implied warning, Sandru snapped his fingers.
After a burst of white light, all the bloodstains, soot and other filth on the deck were all removed, and even the [weight loss armor] on the guards seemed to have been carefully scrubbed by the servants many times, and it looked spotless, which made the guards amazed.
The joyful atmosphere here is as quiet as death on the pirates' side, which has obviously been modified and strengthened by Sandru's [magic trick], and directly disposed of the grease on their bodies as filth by default, and now the sea breeze is blowing, and there is no warm grease to make them cold all over.
Looking back at the hungry wolf-like eyes of the guards, the pirates were also cold in their hearts.
After a while of chopping melons and vegetables, these "sea monkeys" were all thrown into the sea by the saber guards to feed the fish, and their pirate ships became Morey's trophies.