The sudden appearance of the orcs was discovered several kilometers away by militia on the perimeter guard.

Lu Cheng didn't know if the orcs had discovered the battleship or had followed the people from Kolo Village, but they were definitely not passing by.

Because the scout team found that the orcs were coming straight towards the beach, it could not be a coincidence.

The materials needed for the maintenance of the battleship were basically enough, and Lu Cheng asked the villagers who were busy on the beach to stop immediately and arrange for them to take a detour back to Kolo Village to avoid colliding with the orcs head-on.

Afternoon is the thinnest time of the day, and it is also the time when the field of vision is the most open, Lu Cheng saw some shaking figures slowly approaching from a distance with the help of a telescope.

The iconic green skin, as well as the pair of fangs, were the orcs who were chased and killed by Lu Cheng for several miles a few days ago.

However, after Lu Cheng roughly estimated the number of orcs, he lost the idea of going ashore to kill.

On the coast are thousands of orcs.

The place where the battleship ran aground was 500 steps away from the beach, and the main long-range attack method of the orcs was the throwing axe, but the range of the flying axe was simply not as far as the battleship that was 500 steps away, and the orcs seemed to be very surprised when they arrived at the coast, and many orcs pointed at the battleship in the sea, a little caught off guard.

Rumble~

Rumble~

......

Lu Nan followed Lu Cheng's instructions and ordered to open fire as soon as he discovered the orcs.

The loud sound of the cannon roaring, the flash of fire, and the whistling of the cannonballs were clearly startled, but the orcs apparently did not understand the attack pattern of the artillery, and after a brief fright, the orcs did not notice any signs of attack, so they came to their senses and rushed to the beach to try to attack the warship stranded in the sea.

, the first round of platoon guns actually missed the target, this touching accuracy!

Lu Cheng raised his forehead and sighed, it was really touching to be able to fly all the distances of hundreds of steps.

"Your Excellency...... Because the battleship ran aground and could not unload the impact of the guns, the huge recoil force after each cannon fired would tilt the hull several degrees, causing the elevation angle of the guns fired from behind to be higher and higher, so all the shells flew over the heads of the orcs. Lu Nan explained with a red face, "I have asked the gunners to lower the elevation angle, and I believe that the next round of shelling will be effective." ”

Lu Cheng felt that what Lu Nan said was very reasonable, he almost thought that the accuracy of the artillery was too poor, so bad that he couldn't hit the muzzle.

But there is also a bonus, Lu Cheng looked at the orcs who were trying to attack from the seaside in the distance.

Just let these idiots gather together and wait to eat the cannonballs!

Minutes passed, and the gunners were busy reloading all the guns.

This time, instead of letting the artillery fire in succession, Lunan fired every few seconds.

Rumble~

The huge movement of the battleship firing once again attracted the attention of the orcs, but because of the first experience, the orcs did not care, and still went about their own business. In their simple minds, this frightening movement was just a bluff, not a threat to them.

Woo~

A jet-black solid iron ball swept past the orcs in the front row and smashed into the orcs in the middle and back rows, and the solid cannonball flying at close to the speed of sound tore five or six orcs in a row, and then smashed several orcs with residual power before running out of energy and tumbling to the ground, leaving behind a bloody alley full of blood mist and corpses, and the orcs who had not died immediately rolled on the ground with their mutilated limbs and howled miserably.

Rumble~

Woo~

......

After testing and confirming the correct firing elevation angle, the battleship's guns attacked in turn, and the mortar at the bow and stern of the ship, although not very powerful, won because of the faster rate of fire, and soon joined the team of reaping the lives of the orcs.

From the moment the first solid cannonball fell into the orcs, almost every time the cannon was fired, a cloud of blood would explode in the orc ranks, and various severed limbs and fragments of corpses were constantly thrown into the distance, although the orcs were stupid but not really stupid, after paying the price of hundreds of casualties, they finally discovered the correlation between the loud noise of the battleship and the large number of casualties in their ranks.

One of the mortar shells hit the ground at a low angle, bounced off and scratched several orcs before rolling to the ground, and the orcs picked up the somewhat deformed shell and finally understood what the battleship was using to attack them.

Then, without the command of the orc commander, the orcs, who had already suffered nearly forty percent of the casualties, desperately fled from the shores of the Shura field, leaving corpses everywhere, and the battle, which lasted less than half an hour, ended in a hurry.

Lu Cheng is not a soft-hearted person, and after the orc army left, he asked Li Tiezhu to lead people to the beach to reimburse all the more than 100 remnants of the orcs who were still wailing.

"It's finally clean."

The fishy smell of the seaside was mixed with a strong smell of blood, because there was no one to dispose of the corpses of the orcs, Lu Cheng could only endure in silence.

"Battle...... The battleship is so strong and terrifying! Marven was both excited and frightened after witnessing the battleship severely damage the orcs with its powerful firepower, under the huge power of the artillery, there was no difference between the strong orcs and the papier-mâché, each shell could kick off a large area of blood mist, and the mutilated limbs of the orcs flying in the sky made Marven feel terrified.

Zhuo De is better than Marven, and there are dozens of orcs who died in his hands, so he didn't feel uncomfortable, he patted Marven on the back and comforted: "Don't be afraid, the adults are helping us, and the orcs will never dare to bully us in Kolo Village in the future." ”

"Hmm!" Marven immediately felt much better when he thought about it.

After driving away the orcs, the repair of the battleship was unexpectedly sped up.

This reason is a bit frightening, because the orcs died so much that the sea water was also stained red with blood, so the water seepage on the battleship was quickly investigated.

After several more inspections found that there were no omissions, the repair work of the battleship was declared complete.

"I'll be able to go tomorrow morning when the tide rises." Lu Nan looked at the moon with only a faint outline and said.

Following.

Just like on Earth, there are high and low tides in the Ocean Century, and before 8 o'clock in the morning, when the tide is gradually rising, Lunan orders the crew to throw a lot of unnecessary things into the sea to lighten the weight of the ship, and it is not long before the battleship creaks and gradually detachs from the bottom of the sea.

"Pay attention to the direction of the wind, put a quarter sail, course XXX, and the helmsman pays attention to the tide current, and does not break the rudder."

After rubbing the bottom of the sea several times, the battleship slowly left the place where it ran aground, pushed by the sails.

"Zhuode, Marven, you start showing the way."

After Lu Cheng saw that the battleship had been freed, he asked Zhuode and Marven to perform the duties of guides.

"My lord, first advance along the Misty Island, there is a mountain on the coast near that sea area that is missing a semicircular mountain halfway up the mountain, which is a clear sign."

In the foggy area, it is safest to follow the coast of Misty Island, otherwise you will encounter strong winds and waves if you strayed into the edge of the fog, which is a life-or-death experience.

After a slow day's sailing, the scenery along the coastline changes a lot, the westernmost part of the island is plain, and then the further east you sail, the more peaks along the coast, and most of the foothills are continuous marshes.

Lu Cheng also found a river nearly 100 meters wide on Misty Island, the water of the river was actually turbid black and gray, and even the sea near the mouth of the sea was dyed gray.

"My lord, we call this river the Gray River, no one who has explored the Gray River has ever come back alive, and it is rumored that the upper reaches of the Gray River are likely to be the settlement of the Wyvern." Marven pointed to the gray river and introduced.

Lu Cheng looked thoughtfully at the gray river churning with black and gray water.

Not long after, Zhuo Dra's corner of Lu Cheng's clothes pointed to a mountain peak: "My lord, that mountain peak is the symbol we are talking about, and after this peak, sail one kilometer further to the destination." ”

Lu Cheng took out his binoculars and looked in the direction indicated by Zhuo De, and sure enough, there was a mountain with a dagger-like sharp appearance near the shore, and a third of the way from the peak, a semicircular mountain was indeed missing, as if it had been bitten by some monster.

A distance of one kilometer is quickly accessible for a battleship.

The next step is to wait for the fog to dissipate.

"In fact, no one has mastered the law of the window period for the dissipation of the fog, and there is no fixed time, it may dissipate at any time in the morning, noon, afternoon or evening, so it is necessary for people to observe the sea surface 24 hours a day, and once they find that the fog is quickly thinning, they must immediately rush outward, because as the fog dissipates, the wind and waves will become stronger and stronger, and once the best time is missed, it is likely to be torn to pieces."

Zhuode pointed to the fog in front of him.

"Uh...... When the fog dissipates quickly, does it suddenly feel like the field of vision is rapidly expanding, and there will be two obvious walls of fog on the sea on either side? Li Tiezhu asked hesitantly.

"How do you know?" Zhuo De looked at Li Tiezhu suspiciously.

"If I'm not mistaken, the fog is already lifting." Li Tiezhu pointed in the direction of the bow of the boat and said.

Everyone was startled and immediately turned their heads to look at the bow of the ship.

Just as Li Tiezhu recounted, a second ago, the fog was churning endlessly, and the vision was only a few miles ahead, and suddenly the fog disappeared out of thin air and quickly faded, and in less than a minute, a sea area several kilometers wide in front of it suddenly opened up, and with the disappearance of the fog, everyone also felt that the wind and waves on the sea began to grow and become stronger rapidly.

"Quick! This is the window period, hurry up and rush out! Zhuo De exclaimed excitedly, he had only learned this knowledge from the previous generation, but he had not really seen the scene of the window period.

"All the sails are lowered, head to XXX, the helmsman pays attention to the wind and waves, the lookout pays attention to the surroundings, rush out for me!"

Lu Nan reacted quickly, and hurriedly commanded the crew to drive the battleship out along the passage that suddenly appeared.

The wind and waves began to increase gradually, and the frequency of wind speed and direction changes too fast, Lu Cheng felt that the wind in nature should not be so irregular, and even a little contrary to common sense.

However, it is not the first time that Lu Cheng and Lu Nan have sailed in this environment, and the crew members are also experienced, and even the helmsman is not as busy as the first time.

Bang~

As time passed, the huge waves crashed into the hull of the ship again and again, and in the face of the great force of nature, the battleship could barely support it, and Lu Cheng could hear the creaking sound from all over the ship, as if it could break at any moment due to being overwhelmed.

However, fortunately, the waves in this passage were not as violent as they were when they accidentally entered the fog area, and although there were many seepage and leaks throughout the battleship, the situation was not bad, and as long as you persisted, you could survive it.

"My lord, the wind and waves are starting to get smaller."

Zhuode and Marven pointed ahead and shouted excitedly.