Chapter 36: The First Naval Battle

The mermaid mage Trina seemed to be a little irritated by Xiao Chen's taunts. She didn't answer Xiao Chen again, but pursed her lips, and with a wave of her hand, she ordered the subordinate Sea Clan army to attack, and the scale slaves behind the ships all moved at once and began to push the ships forward.

Xiao Chen had already learned enough information from the other party's mouth, and also gave the other party a warning, since these sea clans ignored his warning, it was no wonder that he used those methods later.

Xiao Chen raised his right hand.

The Houyi and Xingtian, who had been silent, began to speed up as if they had suddenly awakened. At the side of the guardrail on the deck, in the gun window below, a figure began to emerge. The two ships began to turn to the same side, aiming the sides of the ships at the sea tribe ships that were rushing up.

Xiao Chen's body appeared around him with a lot of warriors with air guns and magicians with magic staffs. They are all elite soldiers from the newly created Marine Corps. The two ships carried a battalion of more than 300 marines and four mage classes for joint spellcasting, for a total of forty mages.

The air gun in the hands of the marines is already Type 05, and the Type 05 air gun has been upgraded several times, and it is much more powerful than the original Type 01 air gun, not only the range and power have been greatly improved, but the bullet has also increased to ten rounds per magazine. In addition to the standard version, high-precision sniper rifles and chain-fed machine guns were also available.

Now on the upper deck of the Houyi, there are already four Type 05 machine guns set up, aiming at the Sea Clan soldiers in the distance. At the bow and stern of the ship, more than a dozen soldiers set up Type 05 sniper rifles, aiming at the mermaids who looked like mages on each ship.

The pneumatic guns on the lower two decks also began to turn their direction, and as the gunners maneuvered, they began to aim at the ships on the sea.

The sudden change of the two ships of the Chinese shocked those advancing Sea Clan warships, and their speed involuntarily slowed down by a few percent.

The Sea Clansmen, who had been preparing to attack, suddenly panicked, and the people on the ship no longer looked confident, and began to look around, or at the mermaid mages who were in charge of making ideas. Although they didn't know what these large and small metal pipes were, it was not difficult for them to guess that they were weapons after dealing with the magic crossbow arrows of the southern city-states.

However, among all the sea clans, the most surprising was Trina, she thought that Xiao Chen was the only mage on the other side who had carried the singing, but the fact slapped her in the face, seeing that the other party's boat was densely packed with people from top to bottom, she knew that the song of sleep that she was proud of had completely failed, and even the holy weapon didn't work for some reason. The ambush she spent a lot of effort on turned into a hard fight, and the other party seemed to be prepared and looked very sure.

"You guys, how can you all be awake? People who don't have enough singing strength can't hold on at all!"

Xiao Chen's hand was still raised, and he said to Trina from afar: "I'm really sorry, just now I just wanted to test your purpose, your plan is completely ineffective, and it has already failed completely." It's too late for you to choose to retreat. Otherwise......"

Trina's heart was a little confused, but at this point she had no way to back down, whether it was to invite that holy artifact or to gather this team, she had paid a great price, and if she didn't do anything and went back like this, it would make her status in the tribe plummet. She glared at Xiao Chen viciously, gritted her teeth and said, "Don't pay attention to these human nonsense! Their ship is big, but we have more people!"

Xiao Chen sneered and put his hand down.

Captain Ma Anmin saw his instructions and immediately gave the order to attack, while the observers on the Xingtian on the other side saw Xiao Chen's movements and also conveyed Xiao Chen's instructions to the captain.

The gunners gave the command to fire, and the gunners pressed the firing button on the pneumatic gun. The more than 30 180mm pneumatic guns on one side of the Houyi and Xingtian had already adjusted their firing and loaded the shells, and fired at the same time at this moment.

The pneumatic cannons made a dull noise, and shells whizzed towards the opposing ships.

However, this was, after all, the first real battle at sea for these gunners, and the first salvo of the pneumatic guns of the two ships basically did not hit the target.

In response to this expected situation, the gun commander on the Houyi was unmoved, and ordered the gunners to modify the parameters and continue firing.

And these gunners have a few mages around them, constantly bringing them blessings with precision and eagle eye magic. These two spells improved the gunner's hitting instincts, making the results of the later shots better than one at a time.

Due to the close proximity of the Sea Clan ships, the Hou Yi had already formed a straddle fire in the third round of firing, and the slightly inferior Xingtian also achieved a straddle fire in the fourth shot, and because the Sea Tribe ships were very dense, the gunner also fired a few close misses in this shot.

One of the cannonballs landed in the group of scale slaves behind a sea clan warship, and the fuse of the hedron cannonball touched the body of one of the scales, and the shell exploded, setting off a wave of blood in the water, and one side of the sea clan warship was opened a large hole, and countless severed limbs and stumps in the water were thrown into the sky and then scattered on the deck. The Sea Clan, who originally thought that the other party was throwing stones, were stunned, and they couldn't understand where this power came from.

In the fifth round of shelling, a cannonball landed on the deck of the Sea Clan battleship, and the merfolk mage and his guards who were standing there were blown away without a trace in this explosion, and the Sea Clan who was a little farther away was shocked to death by bleeding to death, and only one Shark warrior was able to withstand this blow at a close distance because of his strong body, but he also had a big bloody hole on his back, and he knelt on the deck and could not move. This single shell killed half of the Sea Clans on deck.

The shelling was also fatal to the ship, as a large hole was blown open in the middle of the deck, and the shattered planks pierced the bottom of the ship, and the mast fell down with a creak, causing the ship to completely lose its mobility, and the sea water overflowed from below, causing the ship to tilt.

Everyone around could tell that it wouldn't take long for the ship to sink.

Trina looked at the sinking battleship in a daze, she had never expected such a level of attack, obviously there was not much magic fluctuation, and the metal projectile exploded with such great power, but it was too late to retreat.