Chapter 279: Naval Battle
"If it's not an enemy, leave them alone, if it's an enemy, then try a new weapon." Karel also understood what Edward meant, weapons, they must be used after all, if they can't even deal with some pirates or something, then it's better not to go to the Sorrow Continent to die.
Hearing Karel say this, Captain Hook smiled and waved his hook at one of the sailors next to him.
The sailor nodded, then climbed onto the mast and began waving the model flag.
Rumble! A few seconds later, I saw a flash of fire at the front of the opposing ships, and then a low cannon sound, splashing a 4-meter-high column of water in the middle of the two sides.
The other party actually opened fire! Although the cannon hit a distance of almost 3 kilometers, it was clear that it was a 45° projectile, and the aim was almost negligible.
"What signal did you send to them?" Looking at the other party's obviously very aggressive behavior, Karel asked Captain Hook with a frown.
"The signal I sent is: this is an armed merchant ship, and those who don't want to sink into the sea should get out of here." Captain Hook said with a sinister smile.
This is already considered a provocation at sea, especially since the other side is still a group of pirates with a bad temper, and it is no wonder that the other side has to respond with shelling, so that the battle is inevitable, and the side that shrinks first will definitely have no face to mix at sea.
"Now that the other side is five kilometers away from us, slow down and let them come up, I don't want them to be scared away." Although he didn't know about naval warfare, he still knew how to maximize the power of his weapons.
As the signal flag waved, the speed of the 3 ships became slower and slower. Soon the opposing ships also came to a range of 2 kilometers, and as long as they advanced a little further, it would be within the range of direct fire from the naval guns.
The opposing side had 5 ships, with red blood-colored skull flags on the masts, and the foredeck was full of sailors, each with torches standing on the guns, and the other party's ship was larger than the ship Carrel was riding, and 12 guns were arranged in the bow alone.
"Fu Hongxue, Gosla, the welcome ceremony is ready to begin." Karel pulled out a small radio. He said as he pressed the button on the side.
"Of course!"
"It's time for the show!"
Karel's orders were heard over the radio. Fu Hongxue and Gessla took out a long pipe from the wooden box on the ground, and then shouted to the sailors around them how to use this weapon, and Karel did the same.
"Everyone, look ahead. This is the weapon you are going to have at your disposal. You can think of it as a mage's wand. You can shoot a burst of flame from inside. "These pirates obviously don't know much about the rockets, and they absolutely don't understand the technical terms of those rockets, so Karel chose a more local term.
"First of all! Carrying it on my shoulders like I do. Karel carried the rocket launcher on his shoulder. Remove the shield from the launch port, "After removing the shield, put your face on it." Karel pointed to the scope, then pressed his face to it, "When you launch, make sure that the triangle in the middle of the field of view is always aimed at the target you want to kill, and then you can pull this trigger, and the thing inside will shoot out, and then just stuff this from the back of the launcher and repeat the previous action." Karel gestured to the beerbottle-sized rockets in the boxes on the ground.
Because of concerns about the cultural level of these pirates, Karel provided rockets that fired in a straight line, not the kind of advanced guided rockets, so don't accidentally blow up your ship.
Taking a cloudburst bomb, Karel slipped it from the back of the launcher, then motioned to the people behind him to get out of the way, then grabbed the launcher, carefully steadied the crosshair, and swayed a little in the sea, aiming was very difficult.
It's still better to be guided, Karel muttered to himself, and then pulled the trigger.
Shout! With a flash of firelight, a fast thing that couldn't be seen clearly dragged a phantom towards the pirate ship a little farther away, and 3 seconds later, the sailor with better eyesight saw a gray-black mushroom-like object appear on the bow of the opposing ship, followed by a violent flash, and a huge fireball suddenly bloomed on the foredeck of the pirate ship at the forefront!
This fireball was so big that it even wrapped most of the entire pirate ship, and when the flames dissipated, the entire front half of the originally tall and mighty pirate ship was directly burned away, and the front deck was blown to pieces, and all the people on it were all dead, and the whole ship began to sink slowly.
Hiss! Suddenly, there was a toothache-like inhalation.
In their imagination, the naval battle should be like this, the two sides are separated by a few kilometers with naval guns, and when the two sides get closer, they either use side guns to bombard, or they engage in hand-to-hand combat, but they never thought of sinking the opponent's capital ship at once from a long distance!
As Karel's rocket was launched, the other two battleships on both sides also had a rocket at the tail of each of them, which was also a cloud burst bomb, and it was also a direct sinking of the opponent's battleship at once!
Surrender! The only remaining battleship raised the white flag very sensibly, these people are all pirates, there is no discipline at all, there is nothing to say about surrendering if you can't fight, even if you are caught and put in prison, then you can escape No, if the ship is sunk at sea, then there is no way.
"Let them come over or keep attacking." Karel said to Captain Hook, who nodded, still the same sailor, nimble as a monkey climbing the mast, skillfully waving the flag.
The opposing ship visibly hesitated, but finally approached.
"Crossfire within 800 meters." Karel took out his radio and said to Fu Hongxue and Gosla.
"Are you sure?" Fu Hongxue said with some hesitation, and the other party obviously surrendered.
"They're pirates!" Karel said in an accentuated tone.
The meaning of this is very simple, if there is anything you can't bear in your heart, confess to the souls of these pirates.
"Understood." Fu Hongxue is not a virgin, he knows where the bottom line of kindness is.
The surrendered pirate ship slowly approached. Just when they were close enough, the three Karel controlled the multi-barreled cannon and opened fire instantly!
Boom Boom!
The rate of fire was so fast that the people around couldn't hear the interval of the shots at all, and the fire whip composed of three tracer bullets swept around the ironclad ship, and the thin armor of the ironclad could not resist the armor-piercing burst incendiary bombs with uranium cores, and a dozen holes the size of a human head.
And this battleship is obviously not sincere surrender, when it approached, the ship had already turned sideways, in the period when the sail-powered battleship and the magic ironclad ship alternated, where was the battleship with the strongest firepower? The answer is definitely to the side side!
The ship's guns are mainly concentrated in this position, if the pirate ship is put in a good position. And then come a salvo. Then Karel, Fu Hongxue and the battleship where Gessla is located will more or less have to suffer a little, and even some people will die.
But the corsair did not have this opportunity, under the full speed of fire from 3 multi-barreled cannons. Almost instantly. The pirate ship became a hornet's nest. Large patches of blood erupted from each of the muzzles, followed by flames and roars from gunpowder detonation after 1 minute of continuous firing. The entire battleship was completely torn to pieces and slowly sank into the Endless Sea.
Of course, with the cloud burst bomb in front of you, the multi-barreled machine gun is a little unexciting, but no one underestimates the power of these strange-looking weapons.
You can fight a battleship like this, but what if you hit someone? And what if it was against the enemy's infantry phalanx in a war?
This scene is unimaginable.
Captain Hook remembered when he was a child mowing grass in his garden, and if this weapon did go to war, it would be similar to mowing the grass.
It seems that he was right to defect from the army and become a pirate, and for the first time in his life, Iron Hook is glad that he has chosen a good career.
This sea area between the Redemption Continent and the Sorrow Continent is the most chaotic sea area in the whole of Imis, the fleet of the undead, the subhuman fleet of the Black Light Empire, the navy of Fordton, and the ubiquitous pirates, for these guys who are black from the inside out, this fleet in the name of merchant ships undoubtedly makes a piece of delicious fat.
As for armament, what armament can a merchant ship have?
The entire fleet was like a magnet attracting predators from a large area around it, and countless ships rushed in the direction of the fleet.
And then......
It's all tragic.
Whether it's the ghost ship of the Empire of the Undead or the ironclad ship of Fordunton, if you don't have a magic shield, none of them can withstand a cloud burst bomb, of course, even if it is a magic shield, there are concussion rockets that specifically break the shield, 3 directly break the shield, and then a cloud burst bomb will send you into the sea.
The originally chaotic strait is now even more chaotic, all the forces don't know which side this inexplicable fleet is, and they are both afraid and greedy for those powerful weapons, and there is a storm in the dark for a while.
But obviously, this thing is not going to be available to these guys.
"Where are we?" Standing on the foredeck of the battleship, Karel said as he looked at the gray sky.
The closer you get to the Sorrowful Continent, the worse the environment becomes, the sky is always gray, the sea is also covered with a layer of wave fog, the visibility is no more than 1 kilometer, and when you find the opponent's ship, it is almost the distance to tear your face.
"We're still half a day away from that public port, and as long as there are no warring fleets around, then there won't be any problems." Captain Hook said, looking at the nautical charts and compass.
"So we're betting on our luck right now that we won't fall headlong into a battlefield?"
"That's right."
"The fog makes me uncomfortable, so I'm going to go ahead and take a walk." Karel unleashed the flying machine, rode on, and flew forward.
The ironclad ship uses magic power to sail, with an average speed of 30 kilometers, and the journey of 1 day, then it is seven or eight hundred kilometers, which is not close.
drove the aircraft Karel around the fleet in a circle, because now the fleet has been targeted by many forces, so it is no longer the shape of the previous long snake, but a group of 3 ships, forming a diamond-shaped formation, so that even if it is surrounded by the enemy, it has the strength to fight.
It can even be counter-killed.
Flying in the air, Karel flew in the direction of the public port, which was filled with smoke, and no one knew what was behind the fog.
The thick smoke also gave Karel very good cover, and he flew easily above the public port.
The shouts below caught his attention.
Holding the flying machine hovering in mid-air, Karel was stunned by the scene below, what should have been a relatively prosperous public port was plunged into a sea of fire at this time, there were seventy or eighty ghost ships emitting gray-black mist on the sea surface of the port at this time, purple and green soul cannons bombarded the port like a storm, and countless undead rushed among the ruins of the port, looking for any living creature.
Roar! With a whistling, Karel subconsciously slammed the joystick, and the aircraft immediately rushed to dodge a black shadow, and at the same time was affected by the air flow brought by this black shadow, and began to sway from side to side.
Karel carefully steered the craft to keep it steady, then carefully watched what had struck him.
Undead Bone Eagle! This big guy with a wingspan of more than 6 meters is an undead aerial scout, although the attack power is not very strong, but it is enough to kill an ordinary griffin knight in one hit, and it is very agile in the air, and it has always been a headache to deal with this creature. (To be continued......)