"What's going on?"

Miss Loria finally came to her senses, and he grabbed Captain Sinbad and asked, "Where did the enemy ship come from?" Undead? ”

"What are the undead?" Confused, the goblin captain waved his hand to signal silence before asking Loria, "We just found a few dinghys that look like pirates...... No, water pirates, Miss Hillsbrad, do you want to avoid or catch up? ”

William, who had hung himself on the mainmast, blew his special whistle again, and he made a few quick gestures to the deck. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Sinbad looked up for a moment, then lowered her head and said to Loria, "Please make a decision quickly, those guys have spotted us and are heading in our direction." ”

"How dare you mess with us?"

Loria looked very surprised, she had seen the usual dinghy on the lake, even if there were a dozen of them, they were no match for the Roca, she made a decision after a little thought, "Go up and sink them." ”

Hearing Loria's order, the goblin captain grinned, and he shouted orders for the crew to prepare to turn, and ran to the bridge himself - a group of pirates dared to provoke Sinbad, who was famous for the seven seas, and the goblins were planning to teach them a good lesson.

The distance of six or seven miles was not far, and the opposite direction was a tailwind, and Loria, who was standing on the side of the boat, soon saw several small boats in the distance.

"Right into two, left full rudder!"

Sinbad's roar came from the bridge, and the helmsman hurriedly turned the rudder to the left to the end.

The captain's dwarf first mate was standing on the deck trying to put the blindfold on his head, but in a hurry he strangled his neck, and the first mate jumped into the cabin and loudly passed the captain's order, "Left back, right go in!" ”

After the gunner and mechanic, the order was passed to the steam engine room, where the mechanic turned on the boiler and shoveled coal into it at a rapid pace...... The gnome engineer who controls the steam engine pulls the left gear backwards and the right gear forward.

The paddle wheel on the right side of the hull was rotated in conjunction with the steam engine, and with its help, the whole sailboat quickly completed a ninety-degree turn to the left.

"Full rudder left!"

"The right car is two!"

Orders from the engine room and wheelhouse were transmitted back to the bridge, and the Roka began to fine-tune its course, keeping it on starboard for the oncoming dinghy.

As they drew nearer, William drew two small flags from his waist and waved them—these were warnings and threats, but the seven or eight boats had no intention of stopping.

"Shelling!"

Sinbad did not hesitate at all and gave the order to open fire directly on the bridge.

His roar was so loud that the gunners in the cabin heard it without the first mate passing on orders...... The shells and gunpowder had long been loaded, and the gunner, on the instructions of the observers, slightly adjusted the angle and lit the fuses in turn.

There was a loud bang in the cabin, and the whole sailboat was tilting to the left, and Loria ran to starboard, snatched the binoculars from one of the crew members, and looked to the opposite side.

Nine dhows were closing in on the Rocca, and all six shells in the first round were missed.

In the gap between the second round of reloading, Loria could faintly see the dhows, each carrying six or seven men, and the shelling seemed to panic them for a while, but soon moved on.

The Roka has entered the lake of the Lordaeron Kingdom, and needless to say, these people must be the legendary water pirates.

By the time the second round of shelling began, Loria could already see the opposing ships with the naked eye.

In the cabin, Elie Meow occupied the port gun emplacement at first, but who knew that the ship had actually become starboard against the enemy, she ran to the starboard side to snatch the rightmost gun emplacement, but was thrown away by the dwarven gunner.

The order to ignite came, starting with the first gun, each gun began to fire in turn, and when it was the turn of the last one, Elie Meow, who was in the scramble, put her head against the barrel...... The shells deviated slightly from the expected trajectory, and the observers who were recording the landing point on the observation glasses thought that another six guns had missed, but the last shot hit one of the boats.

……

"It's disgusting."

Loria shoved the monocular back into the crew's hands, but her head kept replaying the image she had just seen, a cannonball slashing across a dinghy, breaking the mast and shattering the people on it.

It's like a watermelon exploding.

The struck sailboat began to spin in place, and the three men who were still alive pushed the pieces of their companions off the boat, drew their oars and rowed - their companions did not have time to rescue them, and in the face of the cannons of the Roca, they had to take the board as soon as possible to avoid being beaten passively.

Perhaps the broadside battle was bad for the Rocca?

Loria took a musket and loaded it expertly, her magic was useless unless they were very close - she was no different from other magicians in terms of range, the effective range was only around fifty meters, and it was difficult to hit the target any further.

……

In naval warfare, whether to hit or be hit is often a matter of probability.

The small sailing ships of the pirates were small and fast, and it was normal for them to miss a few rounds of shelling.

The original prototype of the Rocca was designed for ocean-going cargo, and its twelve light cannons were very powerless against warships, and only slightly self-protected against pirate light ships - at the beginning of the design, there was no consideration given to how to deal with pirate sailing ships when sailing on the lake.

The gunners poured water from the lake on the barrels, making a clattering sound, and after cooling and drying the barrels, they reloaded and prepared for the final round of shelling.

The gunner at the last gun position seemed to think that Elie Meow would bring luck, and agreed to let her light the fuse.

The pirates had come less than half a mile away, and the observer clenched his fists nervously, and he had to time as well as he could to get as many hits as possible in the last round of shelling.

"Shoot!"

He shouted.

The first gunner immediately lit the fuse, and when the shell was fired, the next gunner lit the fuse again, and when the second shell was fired, the ship stopped shaking.

"Are you ready?"

The dwarven gunner, who was fine-tuning the angle for Elie Meow, shouted at her.

"Quack!"

Elie Meow nodded vigorously, and the fifth shell overturned a small sailboat, and now it was up to her.

……

The last shot sank the small galleon at the top of the line, and Loria first saw it burst out of many pieces of wood, and then sank headfirst.

There were still six small boats of more than forty people, and they were already within range of the muskets.

Sinbad left the bridge, he jumped to the side of the ship with a cable, drew the short musket at his waist and ordered: "Shoot!" ”

With a banging sound, more than a dozen smoke rose, and several water thieves were shot, and their bodies, which were originally wielding weapons, shriveled, and were immediately dragged up by their companions behind them to act as meat shields.

Loria's eyesight was far better than anyone else's, and at this distance, she could see the enemies clearly through her crosshairs—plainly human, with no green skin, no horrible fangs, or rotting bodies.

They may also have their own hardships, so they had to go to the lake to be an outlaw.

"Miss, when I found them, they were robbing a merchant ship."

William had already climbed down from the mainmast, and when he saw that Loria had been aiming and had not pulled the trigger, he came up and said, "They are robbers." ”

"They're still human, human beings no different from us."

Loria put down her musket, turned to William and said, "No one has the right to take the life of another, no matter who the other person is. ”

"But miss, they're robbers."

William argued, looking at the approaching water pirates, hesitating to step forward and snatch the musket from Loria's hand.

"It is sinful to deprive others of their lives, for whatever reason."

Loria was still muttering to herself, "Someone once told me this. ”

Just when William thought Loria was going to talk nonsense, she turned around again, raised her musket and aimed it at the head of a water pirate, pulling the trigger.

Sylvanas also told Loria that taking responsibility means taking on all kinds of sins. (Want to know more exciting news about Lori's World of Warcraft?) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends to add an official account, search for "Qidianzhongwenwang", follow the official account, and never miss every update! (To be continued.) )