Chapter 121: A Hard Battle

It's just that what Xiang Hui didn't expect was that after modifying the Elizabeth, the system was modified, and the crew recruitment was gone, only the system store remained, and the battleship was upgraded with two functions, according to the system's explanation, the purpose of crew recruitment was to allow a person to complete the crew as quickly as possible after owning the ship, and this function would be withdrawn when the user of the system arrived for five months, which means that this is a novice benefit. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, Xiang Hui also figured out the opening law of the Void Ring, the Void Ring can only be opened on land, and at sea, the Void Ring is closed, which means that whether it is the system or the Void Ring, it will not play a big role in the battle, unless you can have the money to directly spend money to buy a weapon that can directly affect the battle situation, but that is impossible.

However, there are really some good things in the system store, such as this statue that is now placed on the bow of the ship, the Seraphic Statue, which increases the speed of the battleship by 50%, increases the turning speed of the battleship by 30%, increases the power of the battleship's guns by 30%, increases the resistance of the battleship's hull to fire damage by 30%, and Xiang Hui has just changed to a new sail, the night flag, and the speed of travel in the dark is increased by 70%.

The appearance of these two pieces of equipment immediately pushed the speed of the Jackdaw to a new peak, although Xiang Hui didn't know how fast the fastest Black Pearl in the Caribbean was, but Xiang Hui felt that the Jackdaw should not be much worse, at least similar to the British Interceptor, after buying these two pieces of equipment, Xiang Hui only had money left in his pocket to buy supplies, if he still couldn't get money when he went to sea this time, Xiang Hui could only go to some harbors with weak defenses and try to attack.

Since there was no money in his pocket, Xiang Hui did not stop in Tortuga for more, and simply carried out the replenishment, and the Jackdaw set sail again, because there was no money in his pocket, Xiang Hui had no way to hire ordinary sailors, so he had to still let the assassins and the golden warriors be in charge of the daily work on the ship, fortunately, these two arms were fought on the battlefield, and they didn't care too much about things like cleaning.

This time Xiang Hui brought out not only soldiers, but also Nova and Lin Yawen, Xiang Hui originally wanted to summon Altaïr, after all, he was the leader of the assassins, but Xiang Hui remembered that our invincible assassin mentor Altaïr was a landlubber, and he would die if he fell into the water, so forget it after thinking about it.

In the vast sea, everything looks very small, but Xiang Hui now feels that the Jackdaw is really tall, it is too conspicuous, looking at the seven battleships on the opposite side, the Royal Navy fleet of nine cruisers, Xiang Hui knows that he must have been betrayed by the group of pirates in Touruga, the Jackdaw is too dazzling, and the richly decorated Jackdaw in the broken place of Tortuga can be recognized at a glance.

As a result, the Jackdaw was blocked by the Royal Navy as soon as it sailed out of Tortuga, Xiang Hui didn't expect the British to really hold a grudge, it was only seven days since they robbed the Elizabeth, and they came to the door, although the enemy's lineup was strong, but Xiang Hui was never a person who liked to run away without a fight, even if he couldn't fight, he had to try the depth of the opponent before leaving.

Open the cannon door, load the shells, prepare for battle, and rush forward with full sails, perhaps in the days when Tortuga rested, the soldiers were also contaminated with some of the habits of pirates, the originally silent assassins and golden soldiers also learned to shout like pirates, as gods, they were never afraid of battle, and they were never afraid of any enemy, Xiang Hui looked back at the soldiers with high morale and smiled.

These soldiers were originally clones, and they were emotionally weaker than normal people, and they never had high morale in previous battles, and of course they would not have low morale, no matter what kind of enemy they faced, they would remain silent, of course this is good in battle, calmness always makes people make fewer mistakes, but as a person, such calmness is not a good thing in daily life.

The full sails made the Jackdaw rush towards the opponent at a speed far beyond the opponent's, and the four triple 24-pounder guns located in the bow of the ship were the first to fire, the triple gun is not the triple gun emplacement we see in modern times, it is a triangular installation of three barreled guns together, the advantage is that the three barreled guns only need to occupy one position, and the trajectory of the three guns is exactly the same without additional aiming.

The four triple guns in front, together are equivalent to a total of twelve ordinary guns, which are not weaker than the average cruiser sidestring firepower, in the last modification of the Jackdaw, the guns have also undergone a certain upgrade, although the caliber has not changed, but its material is completely bearable, the infusion of ghost energy, instead of only three rounds as before, and then burst the pipe.

The flying cannonballs carried the blue ghost energy, whistling away, the first round of salvo fire naturally did not hit, Xiang Hui did not expect the first round of shooting to be able to hit the opponent, fortunately, although the artillery at this time is not as powerful as those in the later generations of artillery that are often hundreds of millimeters, but its loading speed has an absolute advantage, the first round of shooting has just ended, when the Jackdaw is facing the baptism of the opponent's front-loading gunfire, the second round of shooting is also ready.

Xiang Hui stood at the bow of the ship, letting the cannonballs fly by his side, quietly mastered the rudder and aimed the bow at a cruiser of the Royal Navy, the collision angle on the ship was used as a sight by Xiang Hui, Xiang Hui gently turned the rudder to aim the collision angle at the other party; Fira, Xiang Hui's loud voice could be heard clearly even in the cabin, and the golden soldier who heard the order ignited the gunpowder, bang, bang, four triple guns fired one after another, and then the gun turned to remove the barrel that had just fired away from the other gun that had been prepared for the number to fire, turn again, fire, the previous gun had finished loading, turning, and firing.

This is the power of the triple artillery, they are like a row of guns, one fires, one loads, one is loaded, standby, one after another fires, as long as the shells are enough, the fire never stops, of course, this kind of firepower is also costly, because the barrel and the barrel are next to each other, the temperature when they fire will also be transmitted to the other barrels, so that the other guns have not yet fired the high temperature, it is easy to explode, so although the firepower is strong, no one will do this.

Ordinary people use triple cannons, all three guns are fired at once, and then loaded one by one, and wait until all three cannons are loaded, before firing, so that the barrel can have a time to dissipate heat when the state cannonballs, but the Jackdaw does not have this problem now, because the golden soldiers have the ability to control the elements, these abilities are in the mutant abilities from mutants, and ice is not a small among mutants.

Although the strongest of the elements that the golden soldiers can control are lightning and flame, it doesn't mean that they can't control other elements, although these elements are not as good as ghost lightning and celestial flames, but they can be used to cool down the artillery, although the one who has just fired will run and immediately cool down, there will be thermal expansion and contraction, but as long as the cooling is a little slower, and the temperature between the cannons is transferred to each other, which can also offset the heat escaping from other artillery when firing.

The whistling cannonball accurately hit the cruiser that was targeted by Xiang Hui, although the power of the 24-pounder gun is not too great, but in the face of the cruiser, the destructive power is still very objective, not to mention that the cannonball has not stopped since hitting the first one, this is another advantage of the triple gun, the three guns are stacked together in a triangular shape, and the fire is located at the top when firing, and then the gun rotates to turn the gun to the bottom, so that the trajectory is fixed, as long as another shell hits, The other guns can all hit each other by firing them in turn.

The cannonballs of the city line continued to smash on the opponent's cruiser one after another, the cruiser facing the Jackdaw with its bow was hit by four triple guns in succession and forty shells, with these heavy steel, it was sent into the sea by the sea, after all, the British Navy is a strong one, and the hit rate in the artillery battle is still quite high, and when the Jackdaw sent one of the opponent's cruisers into the sea, there were also three shells that hit the bow of the Jackdaw.

Fortunately, the flame damage resistance attached to the Seraphic Angel statue made the Jackdaw not receive much damage, at this time the distance between the two sides was gone, a battleship and a cruiser sailed from both sides of the Jackdaw, and the sidestring guns of the three battleships were already ready, Xiang Hui smiled and watched the other party's face cross in front of him, Fira, the 60 guns on both sides of the Jackdaw immediately fired one after another, at such a close distance, all the shells hit the opponent's hull, and immediately hit the opponent's hull with sawdust, At the same time, the other side also opened fire.

The flying cannonballs and gunpowder smoke immediately blocked both sides of the Jackdaw in a white mist, and in the interval when the guns were reloaded, the long-range fire of the three ships also opened fire one after another, this kind of thing is what the golden soldiers are best at, they have put the bullets in front of them before the battle, and the bullets floated in the air under the control of the ghost, and then under the acceleration of the ghost, all of them poured on the opponent's sailors.

The three battleships passed by but did not cause fatal damage to the other party, but Xiang Hui knew that he was still not optimistic, because the other party still needed to face at least two battleships behind, and now it should be fortunate that the current combat distance is too short, and the numerical advantage of the opponent's fleet cannot be brought into play, so he can only engage in a close artillery battle with Xiang Hui, otherwise if he stands on the pile like the battleships of later generations, the Jackdaw will not know how many times he has died.

After another salvo, the Jackdaw finally penetrated from the sandwich of the two battleships, but the Jackdaw still did not stop, and the four triple guns located behind the battleship suddenly pushed open the gun doors and fired, the target was the battleship that had just given the Jackdaw the maximum damage, of course, there was no missing cannonball at such a close distance, and the powerful cannonball wrapped this ghostly energy and crashed headlong into the stern of the opponent's battleship.