Chapter 721: Griffin Plague (27)

PS: There is one more more

When the first giant fire ball appeared in front of everyone, there was a brief calm on the originally noisy battlefield in a short period of time, of course, those who were not located on the carpenter shell battleship and snooker battleship of the Griffin Great Empire, and the sailors on the battleship of the Sunset Xiyi battleship The two naval soldiers were only temporarily interrupted by the sudden explosion and the subsequent explosion, when those explosions like the roar of a giant beast began to appear in their minds one after another, These naval soldiers on both sides, who were located outside the battle area of the main force of the Xiyi fleet, came to their senses and began to slash the enemy in front of them with their swords, or manipulate the naval weapons in front of them, or the devices that made the battleship move.

But for the soldiers on both sides who were in the area where the sun never sets, the impact and blow of these huge fireballs were even greater than when the sky fell.

As one of the heavy warships of the Griffin Empire, the turtle shell battleship has always been dominated by the heavy warship in the king continent with extremely strong defense capabilities, because nearly 3/4 of the surface of the turtle shell battleship is covered by heavy steel plates, and the only wooden area, that is, the hull part of the turtle shell battleship, but because of the special features of the turtle shell battleship in the volume design of the battleship, the sound of the turtle shell battleship is very low, and the overall sound of the ship exposed to the water is only about 3 to 5 meters.

This situation may be caused by the weight of the turtle shell battleship itself, because the height of the wooden hull to the bottom of the turtle shell battleship is nearly 10 meters when it is not in the water, but it is undeniable that this situation makes the turtle shell battleship more strange and more powerful existence among heavy warships: the surface of the turtle shell battleship is covered with heavy steel plates, The thickness of these steel plates is fully capable of reaching the armor thickness of the early modern tank: the early tank referred to here is not the tank with a rectangular iron body like a rectangular iron block and shells on both sides of the tank, as in the First World War, but the body thickness of the early World War II, such as the No. 2 tank, and since there was no so-called welding technology in the Middle Ages. Therefore, these steel plates are supported by iron rings and wooden shelves, and although there are areas that reach the thickness of tank armor, they are distributed on the surface of the turtle-shell battleship like a honeycomb in a honeycomb, so the surface of the turtle-shell battleship is still brittle in many places. However, despite this, this is enough for those fleets that only have ballistas, and even the No. 1 guns, which are currently commonly equipped with the Great Empire.

It is important to know that the Ludao No. 1 artillery shot a solid round shell when the artillery first came out, not the armor-piercing shell with a cone shape used in the future World War 2, let alone the high-explosive shell that can explode in later generations. It is a very strong and heavy steel plate, which means that the No. 1 gun may not be able to penetrate the body of the tortoiseshell battleship.

PS: Of course, the No. 1 Demon Transformation Cannon of the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets and the Giant Crossbow of the City Defender can, the former because it is powerful enough, and the latter because it is used when it hits objects such as steel plates. More penetrating than cannonballs: after all, cannonballs are round, and to put it bluntly, they rely on the terrifying force generated when they are knocked out by artillery to produce powerful penetration. And the giant javelin spear shot by the giant crossbow of the defending city had a pointed head. Of course, it can also be said that the armor-piercing method of the iron ball bullet relies on the shock force generated when the object hits, and the giant javelin pays attention to the defense of the object by pointing, and the armor-piercing method of the two is different in nature, resulting in the difference between the two in the face of objects made of certain materials. And what I want to say here is that although the No. 1 gun may not be able to penetrate the steel "turtle shell" on the surface of the turtle shell battleship, it can change the original shape of the turtle shell battleship, such as leaving a huge groove on the surface of the turtle shell battleship. It's still very easy to do.

Previously, a few days before the 4 fleets of the Griffin Empire and the 3 fleets of the Sunset Empire officially engaged today, the fleet of the Griffin Empire deliberately let a turtle shell battleship be surrounded by the Hawk assault ship for the sake of insurance, so as to test the threat of artillery to the turtle shell battleship, and it turned out that in most cases, as long as the No. 1 gun on the side of the sun does not hit the low hull of the turtle shell battleship, or hits the weak point in the steel plate on the surface of the turtle shell battleship, Most of the shells could be bounced off the surface of the turtle shell battleship, and this was the main reason why the griffon empire dared to let the seemingly slow-moving turtle shell battleship in the eyes of the No. 1 gun rush towards the Xiyi warship group.

However, just when the Griffon Empire thought that most of the artillery possessed by the fleet of the Great Empire of the Sun Never Setting should not be able to penetrate them, and the turtle shell warships on their side could resist and even flatten the main force of the strange fleet on the side of the sun never set with their strong defensive power, something that should not have happened happened: a seemingly non-threatening small ship rushed towards them, and suddenly turned into a dazzling light in front of them, and finally after a few seconds, left an overall form like a crescent, The wreck of a tortoiseshell battleship that began to sink slowly.

You must know that the Griffin Empire relies on the intelligence network it has mastered to know that the sun does not set in that strange fleet does have a thousand fire ships that pose a great threat to heavy warships and is known as the killer of heavy warships, but in the eyes of the Griffin Empire, even if they want to use the Greek fire jet device it is equipped with to deal with the turtle shell battleship, because the wooden hull of the turtle shell warship is extremely low, it must be closer to the turtle shell warship than when it is against ordinary heavy warships in order to ignite the turtle shell battleship. And this short distance is definitely enough for the kind of semi-autonomous mechanized ballista equipped with the turtle shell battleship, which is fast and lethal, and it is definitely enough to sink the random arrows in this small distance.

But the truth was a big joke on them: these small ships that resembled ships of a thousand fires suddenly turned into a blinding light at a distance more effective than the Greek firethrowers, and destroyed a tortoiseshell warship in a matter of seconds. And this situation of subverting the heads of the sailors and admirals of the Griffin Empire also made all the sailors on the side of the Griffin Empire who were fighting with the main force of the Xiyi Fleet plummet in an instant, although because these sailors were soldiers of a country like the Griffin Empire, it was almost impossible for the so-called escape from the battlefield, but if Sun Lin was present at this time and used the system to watch, it would be found that the combat effectiveness of these Griffon Empire sailors (in fact, there were only 3) had dropped by almost half.

If there was anything that could make the sailors of the Griffin Empire who were fighting with the main force of the Xiyi fleet feel more desperate at this time, it was only one: under the influence of the culture of the Sunset People and the so-called "unscrupulous" tactical purpose of the Sunset Army, all Xiyi soldiers and officers understood that there was nothing more refreshing on the battlefield than "beating the water dogs". (To be continued......)