Chapter 439: A Tragic Battle at Sea
As the two ships collided together, a fierce artillery battle, an exhilarating artillery battle ended. Immediately afterwards, the fierce hand-to-hand combat that made the man's blood boil began.
The sailors aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, tugging at the rope with both hands, screamed strangely. From the ship to the flying Dutchman, engage in fierce melee combat with these inhuman undead sailors. Both sides have their own advantages, and both have shortcomings and strengths to a certain extent.
The Flying Dutchman has undead seafood sailors, and the Queen Anne's Revenge also has regular human sailors as well as undead zombie sailors. And......
Boom!
"Edward Titch!"
"David Jones!"
The swords in the hands of the two collided together, competing in a primitive wrestling contest. The captain and the captain compete with each other, and the crew and the crew also compete with each other, each performing its own duties, and no one should offend anyone. In the area where the two captains were fighting, none of the sailors attacked the other captain, and no one bothered them.
"Edward, I'm amazed at how you've behaved!" David Jones looked at Blackbeard's face, and kept pushing his hands hard, trying to force Blackbeard to bow his head. However, Blackbeard is not to be messed with, "David, your end is coming. ”
"I'm not dead!"
The two of them used their strength together, and the swords that collided together separated in an instant. Immediately afterwards, the two captains each used exquisite swordsmanship, a stab, a pry, a split, a slash, a defense is different from the barbaric style of play, with a bit of strength and beauty.
The two of them fight unrestricted in a limited and narrow space. The two captains themselves are the best of the pirates, and they are also the best of swordsmanship, and it is not so easy to distinguish the winner from the defeat with the fight of swordsmanship. You come and go, you retreat and I advance, you keep my merits, the seemingly unlimited cycle, you can't distinguish the vital victory or defeat in a short period of time.
For a moment, the fight seemed to be in a stalemate, and so did the sailors. Ordinary human sailors, who can't resist the seafood and aquatic life, will work in groups of two or three to deal with an immortal seafood aquatic life. It will not fall behind for a while, but after a long time, there will still be casualties. After all, it's hard to get rid of it.
On the other side of the battlefield, more intense Armageddon and artillery battles are about to begin.
The Combined Navy, with its absolute superiority and numbers, directly crushed it head-on. Although the pirate coalition is in a disadvantageous position in terms of numbers, it is not inferior, and there are very few people who dare to go to sea to beg for a living, or dare to go to sea to do pirates. Everyone, in the face of death and fighting, is not afraid of challenges, and dares to engage in face-to-face hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. More daring to face, more fierce and unpredictable artillery battles.
The sailors shouted their trumpets, and under the guidance and encouragement of their respective captains, they methodically pushed open the gun windows to fill the gunpowder and the artillery battle, waiting for the moment when they were about to pass by.
And the navy is still crushed with a calm attitude and an unchangeable and disorderly formation. Compared to the chaotic pirates, the professional and personal qualities of the navy are better than the pirates. However, in the midst of fighting and fighting, both sides are the same. Moreover, there are no absolutes in the world, and the navy is not invincible. And pirates are not invincible to the navy!
And what about the Spanish Armadama?
At that time, the English Navy basically had few ships, relying on the patriotism of well-known pirate leaders such as Drake, but it defeated the famous and dominant Armada on the European continent.
With these predecessors in front of him, as the pirates of the juniors, he is not afraid of the navy at all. Not to mention, the pirate coalition on the side is also quite numerous.
Moreover, it is also the Nine Great Pirate Kings Qi Zhi, and the victory or defeat can only be known by fighting.
Time is slowly passing, and the large fleets between the two sides are getting closer to each other. It seems like a long time, but in fact, it is very short, and in the blink of an eye, the fleets of both sides have already sailed into each other's arrays.
There's a reason for that, too!
First of all, in terms of time and area, the navy and pirates did not have enough time or enough area of the sea area, and each set up a huge and continuous battle line formation.
Then in this situation, there is only one way to settle for the next best thing and choose a hand-to-hand artillery battle that is very unfavorable to both sides. In this situation, the superiority of the navy is very obvious, and they have more ships and more guns. The pirates, on the other hand, were at a disadvantage in this kind of engagement, and could not have an overwhelming or equal advantage.
Even this kind of sea battle, which is somewhat tragic for the warring parties. But on the whole, the victory of the United Navy is much greater. The advantage of the people is there, and this happens to be the disadvantage of the pirates. Moreover, in the Combined Navy, there are mostly third-class ships with large tonnage and many guns (70 guns) and more than a dozen powerful second-class ships (80 guns), plus the first-class ship (100 guns) as the command flagship, and the huge number of frigates (more than 30 guns. And then there are armed merchant ships, which, if you look at it literally, turn out to be a situation where there are more pirates than there are too many to lose.
Moreover, each side will stick their ships into each other's formations, and the navy will have a much greater advantage than the pirates. The inevitable result is that the navy and the pirates, the fleets of both sides will be faced with fierce artillery fire on the left and right sides of the fleet. The sailboat, on the other hand, cannot fire back at the same time, which means that one side will face a situation where it will only be beaten and unable to fight back.
The vast fleet, in the stillness of the night, clad in the immaculate moonlight, sailed towards each other towards the vast shadows opposite. The navy and the pirates did not want to fight in the night, but the Norwegian sea monster attacked at night. And in order to prevent the pirates from scattering and fleeing, the Combined Navy can only choose to meet them at night!
In fact, it is also because of the navy that it has incomparable self-confidence, confident that even in the dim darkness of the night, it is enough to completely annihilate this pirate gang in one battle. Then, even if a few pirates took advantage of the darkness to break out, it would not help. Compared to a small number of pirates, there is no need to be afraid in the face of powerful navies, even if the colonial ports only need to be on guard. There will also be no attacks on Port Royal, or even the looting of Blackbeard's landing.
The sails of each ship caught the bulging sea breeze, and each sailed into the other's formation under the moonlight. With the fleets of both sides, a moment passed by......
"Fire!"
"Fire!"
Boom Boom!
A fierce artillery battle began, and the ships of the navy and pirates who entered the opposing formation first. In an instant, seven or eight ships were directly sunk.
Facing super firepower on both sides, there is no wooden ship in this era, which can escape safely and soundly under the blow of several times the fire of its own artillery.
Therefore, with just a single face, the huge fleets of both sides were out of seven or eight ships in an instant.
The sailors on the sunken ships were swallowed up by the endless sea without a word. Only a few sailors survived, floating helplessly on the surface of the sea, clutching the broken planks or barrels of the warship. The seawater, mixed with blood and corpses, attracted a large number of sharks. And these survivors, who are constantly struggling in the seawater, have no right to live. Wailing in terror, he watched the sharks swimming around him, and then he was torn to pieces by the sharks that surged in all directions. The blood escaping in the sea stimulates the senses of sharks, making them more brutal and vicious, and attracting sharks from distant seas to gather here again.
However, this fierce naval battle is not over. The forward fleet sank seven or eight ships, and the two sides together had their own losses. However, the navy has huge ships, and there are also strong ships, and how many ships can the pirates fight for? However, there is no way back. The pirates could only rush forward one by one, fighting their way out in the face of enemy fire.
Thick smoke filled the air, fierce artillery battles, and the fierce fire of thousands of guns every time. Let the smoke of gunpowder gather and permeate, and it will not dissipate and recede in a short time. The white smoke of gunpowder obscured the sight of both sides. However, both sides in the fierce battle had no intention of thinking about it, and relied on their senses to seize the time to fire back, and at the same time quickly clear the chambers, reload the gunpowder and shells, and carry out the second round of shelling that was about to begin.
The fierce fighting between the two sides continued, and the repetitive work was constantly carried out, loading and firing the cannons, and cleaning the chambers. The pirates actually broke through the formation of the navy and rushed out safely. However, only a dozen of the dozens of ships remained. And the navy also lost dozens of ships, among which there were even second-class and third-class ships. However, even so, it was the Navy that prevailed. And under Beckett's order, the navy pressed again. And the pirates can't speed up their escape in an instant, so they can only choose to fight again! Neither of the warring sides noticed, hiding another ship in the shadows not far away!