Chapter 22: The Battle Begins
"Right rudder 30, pull the foremast jib, intercept it for me!" A cold light flashed in Xu Mo's eyes, and he turned his head and shouted towards the deck.
"Admiral, the fog hasn't dissipated yet, I can't help the Vasa find the best battle gun position, why don't you follow it for a while!" Tie Lilie asked cautiously.
"It's okay, Tie Lilie, since we have an 'Eagle Eye', let's put him to good use!" Xu Mo raised his hand and pointed at Lookout Wood at the top of the midmast, "Trust him, Tie Lilie, adjust the line of the gun position battle according to the information he feeds back!" ”
“…… All right! Tie Lilie nodded suspiciously, with his knowledge and experience, he didn't believe that Wood would be able to see the enemy ship on the other side at this distance, so he could only grit his teeth and say, "Admiral, since you have made up your mind, I will do my best." Prepare the deck sailors for broadside battles, though! ”
"When, when, when!" A crisp alarm bell sounded on the Vasa, and suddenly, the sailors on the deck ran like ants that have exploded a pot and began to prepare for battle.
The gunner on the gun deck opened the gun porthole, began to clean the gun chamber, loaded the **, and passed the shells hand by hand. The armed sailors on the top deck began to check their short-barreled muskets and sailor knives, sticking spare daggers into their waists and leggings.
"At three o'clock, the enemy ship is turning, and we must have been spotted, and the starboard gun emplacements are at a 45-degree angle to us......" Wood shouted to his fellow sailors under the mast, passing them on the information they had observed to the Iron Column at the helm.
After a few moments, the dark shadow in the thin mist slowly magnified. At this time, the fog on the sea also began to dissipate, and soon the people of the Vasa saw the whole picture of the English warship.
It was a large battleship with three masts and sails, and a hull that was a bit wider than the Vasa. At present, it seems that the speed is not as fast as the Vaasa, driven by the wind and waves, staggering towards the Vaasa, like a large and vicious bear.
"Is it a Spanish galleon?" Xu Mo looked at the battleship opposite and asked cautiously.
"Yes, Admiral! After the Battle of Armada, the British captured a number of Spanish galleons of the Armada, and this should be one of them! Tie Lilie, who was standing beside Xu Mo, put down his binoculars, "This kind of battleship is a Karak ship, with a huge bow and stern, and most of the guns are short-barreled curved guns. However, the battleship has been refitted, and the bow and stern have been lowered! ”
"The hull seems to be taller than ours!" Xu Mo held on to the side of the ship and carefully observed the opposite side, "Judging from the side of the ship on this side, they have two layers of artillery decks, perhaps equipped with long-range cannons!" ”
"Well, though, no matter how strong this ship is, it is weaker than the Vasa in speed and steering, and as long as we don't engage it in a hand-to-hand battle at the beginning, we have a good chance of winning!" After seeing the battleship clearly, Tie Lilie finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said a little excitedly, "Our current battle position is very good, it looks like Wood is not lying, his eyesight is really good!" ”
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"Admiral, it's a pirate ship! Oh my God, this pirate ship is huge! A young sailor of the Spanish galleon, startled, lowered his binoculars and looked at the captain beside him.
"No, it's not a pirate ship, it's a battleship copied by some country! Judging from the course it came from, it should be a privateer warship of the Vikings! The weather-faced old captain took off the pipe in his mouth with an ugly face, "Henderson, sound the alarm!" The whole ship is ready to sprint, the old guy under our feet, must not fight with it~ artillery duel! ”
"Admiral, we're going to win, right?" Henderson, with a young face, asked expectantly.
"Yes, Henderson, the navy of the British Empire will not lose! Go ring the alarm bells! The old captain smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and when the young sailor was gone, he turned his head again to look at the great beast on the sea, and a haze flashed in his eyes.
The Spanish galleon, led by the old captain of England, was actually an armed privateer belonging to the English royal family. Its mission this time was to go north to plunder the Swedish whaling ships in the North Sea. Therefore, neither the old captain nor Henderson was surprised that the Swedish battleship was pretending to be pirates and came to attack them, and in their eyes it was a matter of course.
If you want to rob others, you must always be prepared to be robbed by others. The privateer crews of England were completely mentally prepared for this, and they only cared about one thing, whether they could win or not!
On this English battleship, in addition to their captain, there were other people who were also worried about this sudden naval battle.
"Damn, shit!" Looking at the Swedish giant ship opposite, a burly man on the deck cursed repeatedly.
"Boss, are we starting in advance? This battle is not easy to fight, and even if it can be won, this ship will have to go back to London for renovation, and I am afraid it will affect the plan of Captain Odin! Behind the big man, a one-eyed young man wearing a black blindfold said in a soft tone.
"It's useless, the battleship on the other side is faster than us, even if you control that captain and old man, you can't avoid this naval battle!" Dahan's face twitched, and he sighed bitterly.
The one-eyed, feminine youth fell silent, after losing Luth's coordination, the Temple of the Gods has encountered great difficulties in the last two mission worlds, there are other super teams secretly sniping at them, and there are more than one of them.
In this case, Odin, the head of the Temple of the Gods, reacted quickly and resolutely decided to abandon the Y-space before the foundation of the team was completely shaken. At the cost of ceding the rotating president of the senior senate of Y-space, he got the support of the other four super teams.
In fact, it was only after all the hole cards were revealed that the members of the Temple of the Gods discovered that their leader was wise. There are as many as three super teams that snipe them, and only another super team that usually cooperates with them a lot is not involved in this grand conspiracy.
Odin's move to abandon the rotating speaker made the other three super teams also breathe a sigh of relief, and they gave up their plan to completely destroy the Temple of the Gods, and instead supported the Temple of Gods to enter the battlefield of time and space. And promised not to spread this heavy news in the space before the Temple of the Gods changed its door, so that the Temple of the Gods could also get the support of other small teams in the Y Space in the space-time battlefield.
Despite regaining respite, the Temple of the Gods also had no way out. For a super team like them, who are standing at the top of the space, it is definitely not an easy thing to change the court. After they submitted their proposals, Y-Space took back all the space-granting skills and Y-space special equipment of the members of the Temple of Gods in disguise, and only kept soul equipment, class equipment, some special treasures, and their own fusion skills for them.
However, the members of the Temple of the Gods don't care about these things outside their bodies, their more than twenty core members are all second-order and above, and there are five third-order transfers, and the head of the group, Odin, is a transferee at the peak of the third order, and his own fusion skills have reached the fourth-order strength, and they are only half a step away from the fourth-order.
Before entering the age of sea power, none of the core members of the Temple of the Gods feared capsizing in the gutter. However, after entering this world, they found that with the power of the top team, all the members entered the Temple of Gods on the battlefield of time and space, where they were struggling and in a dangerous situation.
Several major sub-groups under his command, together with the cooperative team that signed an agreement in advance, were separated by the special geographical environment of the sea power era, and they could not play the role of a large number of people at all. The plot forces without any foreshadowing are destined to take violent measures in the era of sea power, and they must choose the most extreme way to break the situation.
The burly man was the head of the Pantheon branch of the Gods in England assigned by the two major spaces, the trench, and the feminine young man beside him was named Raven. They were divided into groups of six people, and their mission was to hijack the Spanish galleon at their feet, and then rush to the Mediterranean Sea to join the group.
Originally, the trenches had been mixed with another battleship in England, but he soon discovered that there was no way to hijack it. The Admiral of the English battleship would not be threatened by them at all, and the English Navy was so honored that it would not let a battleship fall into the hands of pirates for its own safety.
In desperation, the trenches had no choice but to settle for the second best thing and re-opt for this armed sailing ship. Although the Spanish galleon was not as old as the battleship and was nearing retirement, it was a large ship with nearly 300 fierce deck sailors on board. In the broadside battle, you can still compete with the battleship.
He chose this ship, of course, not because the old captain of this ship was greedy for life and afraid of death, and it was easier to hijack. Rather, because there was an important person on this ship, as long as this person could be controlled, the old captain had to compromise and participate in the war of the Temple of the Gods according to their requirements.
"Boom!" While the trenches and crows were relatively silent, the rumbling of cannons was heard on the sea, and the Swedish battleships opposite them opened fire. On the left side of the Spanish galleon, several waves up to three meters high were stirred up.
"This distance will be fired!" The trenches and crows looked at each other in horror, and the range of the Swedish battleship's guns was completely beyond their imagination.
"They're adjusting the gun pitch, this straight-line range...... At least an 18-pounder cannon, and possibly even a 24-pounder cannon! The trench slammed his face on the side of the ship, although he was not a navigator, but he had been in the English navy for nearly a month, and he did not understand anything.
"Boss, with this old ship, we will definitely not win the artillery battle!" The crow's face was equally ugly, "Let me go, only I can board that Swedish battleship at this distance!" ”
"Wait, wait, let's see if our old admiral can get up!" The trench gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "On the other side is the regular Swedish navy, these admirals regard honor as their lives, and they will never accept your threats. ”
"If I go, at least there's a chance!" The feminine youth muttered.
“…… No, even if you let the team fail because of this, I won't let you risk it, don't say it again! The trench sank his face and turned his head away.
“…… Well, well! A trace of tenderness flashed in the feminine young man's single eye, and he resolutely turned around and walked towards the bow of the boat, whispering to himself, "Brother trench, take care!" ”