Chapter 580: A Battle of Great Contrasts
"Hell yes! Which guy commanded the fleet, did he send out half of the flying troops in order to keep my ship? Isn't he afraid that this is us turning the tiger away from the mountain? ”
Goblin Miles couldn't help but curse as he looked at the flying troops in the magical screen formed by the Magical Eye's Eye.
As a former naval officer in Bracada, Myers was well aware of the detailed structure of the Bracada navy, which is why he personally went out to give early warning for this battle, and Sylvia needed to determine the approximate strength of the enemy through his observations.
In Miles' experience, the number of people on the Bracada ships was about 500 people per ship, and the number of non-combatants was also deducted, and the goblins who operated the giant crossbows, the humans, the stone men who specialized in hand-to-hand combat, and the Naga were only a hundred flying troops on each Bracada battleship, that is, the gods and gargoyles.
From the reports of the scouts, Miles knew that the enemy had fifty-seven warships, including four air warships, and according to his calculations, the total number of enemy flying troops should be about six thousand, only less and not more.
But now, there are more than 3,000 flying troops chasing behind his sea lion battleship alone! That's more than half of Miles' guess!
Miles was a little confused, he couldn't figure out what was going on, was it that Bracada had changed the number of garrison flight troops? Or did you underestimate the appeal of this sea lion battleship to the Bracadas?
This situation made the goblins nervous, and no matter how fast the sea lion battleship ran, it could not be faster than the enemy pursuers flying in the sky.
On the other side, Cattrick, who was roaring and commanding the fleet to pursue the enemy, was also a little distracted by the latest information from the scouts, because the scouts reported that the enemy's strange warship had released a flying force composed of more than 200 people in the harpies, gargoyles, and a few poisonous manticores.
Katrick remembered that the previous report had said that the enemy's warships were about the same size as Bracada's standard warships, which made him feel very puzzled, because he racked his brains to reduce unnecessary personnel, carry as few unnecessary supplies as possible, and squeezed the soldiers into the cabin, and barely managed to carry about 250 flying troops on each standard battleship, which was already the limit, and any more would affect the normal operation of the battleship.
In Cattrick's opinion, apart from himself, there should not be any fleet that can be equipped with such a high proportion of flying troops, even if it is an alliance, there should not be, because the alliance uses the tactics with the black dragon as the core, and their strange warship in order to carry the black dragon, as well as the supplies that the black dragon needs during the voyage, it is impossible to have too much space to carry other troops, and the combat effectiveness of the battleship itself should be very weak.
Even Katrick thought that if the enemy had no supply points in this area, maybe a few of their dozen warships would be specially used to carry supplies, otherwise, how could they make such a long voyage at sea?
Based on this speculation, Cattrick believes that he has an absolute advantage in the number of flying troops, and he must be able to easily crack the enemy's black dragon tactics.
But now, the performance of the enemy's battleship made Cattrick's speculation a little untenable, and the enemy's battleship did not fly out of the black dragon, but a large number of other flying troops flew out.
"Could it be that through the previous battles, they have realized the importance of air supremacy? The enemy's fleet, in addition to carrying black dragons, is also equipped with a large number of flying classes? Thinking like this in his heart, Cattrick suddenly felt a little lucky, because the enemy's fleet only had a dozen warships, and if the enemy had more warships, the outcome of this naval battle might not be as easy to win as he thought.
"Looks like it will take a little more time to win!" Muttering in a voice that he could hear, Katrick turned to the pirate envoy sitting next to him with a confident smile: "Miss Katarina, if there are no accidents, I think soon, our army will be able to capture the enemy's warship!" ”
More than 3,000 against more than 200, this is a duel of great disparity, but Miles has no choice, he must let his flying troops buy time for the sea lion battleship, and he must not let his ship fall into the hands of the enemy before the main flight force of the fleet arrives.
He was a little worried about whether the soldiers would be timid in the face of a strong enemy, but to the surprise of the goblins, the harpy and the magicians riding the poisonous scorpion lion were full of fighting spirit, and the soldiers on the ship were also quite fanatical, without his reminder, without his encouragement, the soldiers were already fighting with all their might, they seemed to be fighting a winning war, and they seemed to have not noticed how deadly the enemy's strength was, or maybe everyone had realized that there was no other way but to fight to the death at this moment.
Most of the soldiers of the Alliance Navy are new recruits, but they are not recruits in the pure sense, the reason why they say this is because most of them have worked in this or that Negan Lord's army before, and they are not stunned young people who have gone to war for the first time, many people have seen blood, but many people have experienced it for the first time in fighting at sea.
The battle was fierce, and after discovering the inferiority in strength, Miles reduced the flying forces around the battleship, allowing them to cooperate with the fire of the sea lion battleship to intercept the enemy, and also recalled the magicians in the sky, he wanted to delay the enemy's offensive as much as possible, this tactic greatly hindered the numerical advantage of the Bracada army to seize the ship.
From time to time, gargoyle fragments fell into the sea or on battleships, making different but equally dull sounds, and no one could tell which side of the gargoyle it was, and no one had time to deal with such a thing, and being distracted on the battlefield was quite a matter of death.
The Harpy Banshees of the Alliance screamed and entangled with the enemy in the sky, struggling to support them, their numbers were too small, if it weren't for the deterrence of the magicians who saw the enemy's strength and landed back on the battleship early and attacked the enemy with a wide range of magic from time to time, if it weren't for the giant crossbows, crossbowmen, and evil eye archers on the battleship who went crazy and kept sending fire support into the sky as fast as they could, they would have been wiped out long ago.
Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that the Bracada army wants to capture the enemy's warship completely and does not dare to use powerful and large-scale attack magic, and these harpies who hold on to the battleship make the mages on the Bracada side hate itchy, and they are too close to the battleship.
Monster Dai is a small leader in this wave of offensive of the Bracada army, with rich battlefield experience, he found that although the enemy is few but the resistance is quite stubborn, it is not easy to break through from the enemy ship and board the ship, the inspiration moved with dozens of gods and monsters, far away to reduce the altitude, close to the sea to fly towards the enemy ship.
Just as Dey had expected, the fire on the enemy ships was attracted by the numerous Bracada flying units in the sky, and the sea was calm and unhindered, and he approached the port side of the enemy ship with his men as fast as possible.
The weather on the sea today is very good, the sun is shining, and the sky is cloudless, but there is a fierce battle going on in this blue sky and blue sea, which is very incompatible with this beautiful scenery, Dai looked up and found that the enemy's flying troops have begun to be unable to support it, and there are already people in the Bracada army in the sky who have broken through the defense line of the harpy and the enemy gargoyle in this short time, and began to land in the face of the fierce aerial fire of the enemy ships.
To Day's surprise, even in this situation, the speed of the enemy ship's advance was very strange and did not slow down at all, and the strangely shaped battleship was still breaking the waves at an astonishing speed, as if it could move forward on its own without any human operation, completely unaffected by the change of the tide of battle.
When Dai and his party were only less than a few dozen meters away from the side of the ship, the enemy long-range attackers on the left side of the battleship who were using the shooting holes on the hull to shoot desperately finally noticed Dai Yi's actions and shifted their attack targets, and a dense crossbow arrows and evil eye rays flew towards Dai and them, but it was too late, under Dai Yi's command, dozens of gods and monsters that had been close to the hull of the ship suddenly rose in height and flew onto the deck, and only a few slower gods and monsters were shot into the sea by this wave of attacks, screaming and disappearing into the waves.
As soon as he stepped onto the deck, before Dai could see what was going on in front of him, a stray arrow flew past his ear from nowhere, which made Dai break out in a cold sweat and at the same time made a monster soldier who followed behind Dai scream and fell to the deck with a scream, this kind of stray arrow is really the deadliest killer on the battlefield.
After the shock calmed down for a while, Dai realized that although he was cunning, he was still one step late, he was not the first person to board the enemy ship, the enemy's flying troops were still too few, many of his own soldiers had already broken through them and forced down from the sky, and were fighting with the enemy's soldiers on the wide and unspoken deck in front of him, all kinds of battle cries echoed on this deck, and the enemy soldiers used all kinds of weapons to fight with the gargoyles and gods who boarded their ships, Some of the crossbowmen and the Evil Eye hid in the corner with cold arrows, and it was they who nearly killed Day.
Dai didn't immediately join the melee with his men, in his opinion it didn't make much sense to eliminate the soldiers on the enemy deck, it would only make more friendly troops fall down faster to take credit, and it was not interesting to attack the command room on the enemy bridge at the stern of the ship, he didn't think that the enemy commander would stay in the extremely vulnerable command room in this kind of ship-grabbing battle, his sharp eyes searched the deck, and then quickly, he found what he was looking for, A hatch leading to the interior of the enemy ship.