Chapter 103: Desperate Situation
In Jiang Qin's waiting, those monitor lizards finally appeared, facing those dragon-class battleships, those monitor lizards naturally jumped up directly like last time, and caught the soldiers above off guard, but in the face of those dragon-class and true dragon-class battleships, these monitor lizards could not jump directly on the ship. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 After all, the hulls of these warships are very high, even those dragon-class battleships, the hull height is three or four meters, and it is too difficult for these monitor lizards to jump so high from the water.
So these monitor lizards can only climb the hull of the boat, little by little. This gave Jiang Qin a great opportunity to block them.
"Hit!"
With Jiang Qin's order, countless heavy crossbows and muskets pulled the trigger on these monitor lizards who were trying to climb towards the ship. Under this dense rain of arrows, these monitor lizards were immediately beaten like dumplings, and they fell back into the water one after another.
After stabilizing the situation on their own ships, these dragon-class battleships and true dragon-class battleships immediately approached those dragon-class battleships, supported their allies with firepower, and beat the monitor lizards that were committing murder on their ships. Although those monitor lizards also have the ultimate ability to spew corrosive venom, their spitting has a large distance limit, and they can't hurt those enemies on other ships at all.
Seeing that their monitor lizard troops were actually suppressed by the enemy and didn't dare to take their heads, those Inca generals couldn't help but get nervous, and then hurriedly dispatched two other powerful war beast troops to open up the situation.
This time, one of the war beasts dispatched by the people of the Inca God Kingdom is a super monitor lizard with a body size of more than ten meters and a one-horned dragon more than one meter long on its head. The other is a giant firefly the size of a football. Among them, there were only five super monitor lizards, and those giant fireflies were dispatched in thousands.
Those super monitor lizards with a length of more than ten meters, like those smaller monitor lizards, were directly driven into the sea by the soldiers of the Inca kingdom and used diving to quietly approach the fleet of New Carthage. And those giant fireflies, guided by the sound of the bone flutes of some beast masters, converged in the air, and then pressed towards the New Carthage fleet from the sky like a black cloud moving rapidly.
"Pay attention, the enemy forces are coming with air power, and the air defense forces are ready for battle!" After Jiang Qin saw the movement in the air, he hurriedly issued the latest order.
Under Jiang Qin's orders, the air defense units in the fleet immediately prepared for battle, and as soon as the giant fireflies came into their range, they launched attacks on them. These attacks consisted only of crossbow arrows, rockets, and even bullets from some large-caliber muskets.
Those crossbow arrows and musket bullets are okay, as long as you are careful to avoid them, but those rockets are much more difficult to deal with, these guys are still the same as before, flying up and twisting, irregular, so even those beast masters of the Inca God Kingdom have been very careful, but they still can't completely dodge these nasty weapons.
What's even more annoying is that these things are not like crossbow arrows and bullets, which have to hit the target directly to produce damage, and its real damage is completed by its own final explosion. Because the main enemy that the air defense forces of New Carthage used to deal with was the enemy's airship, their air defense weapons were naturally designed for the characteristics of the airship, and after the explosion of these rockets, countless iron nails and iron pieces were immediately ejected, as well as some very flammable fire oil. These two things, no matter which one they get touched, are terrible enough.
And those beast masters of the Inca God Kingdom suffered a big loss because they encountered this weapon for the first time, and as those rockets exploded in the air, more than a hundred giant fireflies were immediately shot down, and even those beast control envoys, several of them were hit because they couldn't dodge. These beast harnessers who were affected by the rocket explosion directly turned into large fireballs in the air along with the giant eagles under their seats, and then fell from the sky with a miserable scream.
However, Jiang Qin and the others were able to take advantage of the other party's defenselessness to yin the other party once, and after suffering this loss, those beast control envoys rode their giant eagle mounts one after another, pulling up the height, so that those rockets could no longer reach them. However, in this way, in order to be able to continue to command those giant fireflies, they had to use their own strength to use the bone flute in their mouths. Without the command of these beast masters, these giant fireflies immediately turned into headless flies, flying with no purpose at all, and were quickly wiped out by the anti-aircraft fire of the Neo-Carthaginians.
It wasn't until those beast control envoys regained those giant fireflies that they found that the accident just now had caused these fireflies to lose about one-third.
At the same time, these beast envoys did not dare to delay any longer, and immediately used their bone flutes to command these fireflies to rush towards the enemy's largest warships.
Jiang Qin was immediately shocked when he saw these giant fireflies rushing directly towards their battleship, although he didn't know the specific attack methods of these strange insects, but his rich battlefield experience still made him feel a huge threat from these strange insects. So he immediately ordered all anti-aircraft fire to intercept this group of strange insects at all costs.
Under Jiang Qin's order, the air defense units on these battleships also fought desperately, forming a dense crossfire network in the air, knocking down one giant firefly after another. However, these strange insects obviously have no intelligence, let alone any fear of death, and under the guidance of the flutes of those beast riders, they all swooped towards those warships one by one. In the past, the air defense units of the New Carthage fleet were all used to deal with the enemy's airship units, and it was impossible to stop all of these large insects, which flew extremely fast and were extremely agile.
Soon, several giant fireflies broke through the blockade of the firepower network and swooped down on one of the Dragon-class battleships.
To Jiang Qin's great surprise, the way these giant fireflies attacked was completely different from the previous battles, these guys were all real suicide troops. After knocking down the dragon-class battleship, the light behind the buttocks of the giant fireflies burst into flames, and then exploded directly like a big bomb.
Compared with the black powder developed by Shi Jinshui, the explosive power of these giant fireflies is much greater, almost the same as the high explosives of later generations. Therefore, the attacked Dragon-class battleship was blown out of several large holes several meters wide in the side and deck on the spot. This huge damage was catastrophic for these dragon-class battleships, and without waiting for the New Carthaginian soldiers on board to take any remedy, the dragon-class battleship quickly poured due to the entry of the hull, and then completely sank to the bottom of the sea in less than five minutes, and most of the hundreds of soldiers on this battleship sank to the bottom of the sea because they could not evacuate in time.
"Damn it! How the hell did these enemies breed such big bugs! This power is almost as powerful as the guided bomb that the teacher said! Seeing that one of his own dragon-class battleships was so easily sunk by the other party with a few big bugs, Jiang Qin was completely desperate in his heart, he knew that he really couldn't leave alive today, facing such a powerful group of enemies, dying in battle was his only ending. As for surrender or something, it is completely beyond his consideration, unlike those ambitious guys, he has always kept in mind the grace of Shi Jinshui's adoption and inheritance, no matter what the other companions think, he himself has always decided to swear allegiance to Shi Jinshui. From this point of view, Shi Jinshui's painstaking approach at the beginning can be regarded as a certain degree of success, because Jiang Qin has the same idea, among the orphans he adopted, there are not a lot of them, at least more than half.
Just when Jiang Qin had already made up his mind to die in battle, the hull of the True Dragon-class battleship he was riding on suddenly shook violently, causing him to fall to the ground while he was distracted.
"What's going on! Was it our battleships that were also attacked? Before he could get up from the ground, Jiang Qin immediately asked his subordinates loudly.
But none of those subordinates could answer his question, just when Jiang Qin and his subordinates were all at a loss, a guy whose clothes had been torn to tatters climbed onto the battleship with difficulty, and said to Jiang Qin: "I know, those enemies took advantage of the opportunity that you were attracted by those big insects, and released several super monitor lizards with a length of more than ten meters, the single horn on the head of these monitor lizards is very sharp, and just a collision made a big hole in the bottom of our battleship!" ”
The person who came forward to answer Jiang Qin's doubts was named Ling Tong, another student of Shi Jinshui, and he was also the commander of all the Wind Guardian warriors in this fleet. The monitor lizards that were smaller before couldn't attack Jiang Qin's battleship, so they poured their anger on the New Carthaginian pilots who fell into the water. Under the culling of these monitor lizards, hundreds of neo-Carthaginian pilots who fell into the water were almost wiped out, and only Ling Tongren, relying on his outstanding skills, desperately killed the monitor lizard that was eyeing him, and then fled to the ship.
After listening to Ling Tong's explanation, Jiang Qin's heart couldn't help but sink, there were no depth charges in New Carthage now, so he had no way to deal with the monitor lizard that could potentially destroy the bottom of his warship. And if the other party is allowed to wantonly destroy the bottom of the battleship, no matter how powerful the battleship of New Carthage is, then in the end it will not be able to escape the fate of sinking, and once the battleship sinks, the soldiers on these ships will not all have to be reduced to the meal of the large number of monitor lizards in the water! Just look at the fate of the members of the flying unit who fell into the water, and you can see the final outcome of the duel between humans and these ferocious behemoths in the water.
For a time, the entire fleet was completely caught in a desperate situation with no chance of winning.