Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Strength of the Plague God
As a gunner, it doesn't really matter that you are born with a shooting talent, because the gunner's hit rate is gradually honed by tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of shots, if you want to ask what is the most important talent for a gunner, then Will will tell you two words: vision.
Will is 33 years old this year, and his ability to become a fourth-order gunner at his age can be seen from his extraordinary, and the reason why he can be famous on the sea is due to his natural farsightedness, which makes his sniping ability in naval combat stronger than that of gunners of the same rank.
I saw Will's pupils glow, and in his eyes, except for the target ship he selected, any other scene in the field of vision turned into darkness, which is the gunner's special skill - accurate sight range, which allows the gunner to aim without being affected by other things in the field of vision.
"Bang, bang!"
Three shots rang out, leaving a bloody hole in the eyebrow of the lookout on the Rattlesnake, and two other shots destroying the guardrail on the lookout.
"Damn!" Nathan was so angry that the roots of his teeth itched, in his opinion, the death of a lookout is nothing, and it is enough to make up for it when he is dead, but the guardrail of the lookout is really fatal, even if the other party does not attack, only let his own unilateral artillery fire cover will affect the stability of the ship, and without the guardrail, the lookout will not be able to stand on it to survey with peace of mind. And losing the advantage of vision, you can only rely on the approximate position of the opponent on the deck for fire catharsis.
It was clear that Will was aware of this to launch such an attack, and after three shots, the pupils that had been shining with light also returned to their original state, and his vision gradually recovered as the light disappeared, and he knew very well that his previous attack would inevitably make Nathan angry and increase his firepower.
This is a very normal choice, since the loss of vision affects the hit rate, then use the attack frequency to make up for the lack of hits, not to mention that the Rattlesnake has a hit rate far beyond that of ordinary ships even if it loses its lookout.
It's just that in the Dragon's Tooth Pirate Regiment, except for Cervantes, who can capture some situations, the rest of the people don't know what Will's attack just now means, even Sorges is no exception, fortunately, he has positioned himself before to intercept the opponent's shells, so he didn't seem panicked after the Rattlesnake suddenly increased the frequency of shelling, however, the opposite side is obviously also experienced in a hundred battles, and after several rounds of test firing, the specific location and speed of the Hope have been determined, and with the increase in firepower, everyone needs to intercept more and more shells。
"It's not a way to go on like this!" Cervantes shouted as he shot nine cannonballs with a series of arrows to explode nine cannonballs, his quiver was all a hundred branches, and he had used up a whole pot of arrows in less than five minutes after the battle, and his entire reserve was only six, and if he continued like this, he was afraid that he would have to use his body to intercept the cannonballs.
Sorjes didn't have a good solution, because there were two shells that hit the Edgearrow and the Hope at the same time, Cervantes and Will didn't cooperate and actually intercepted the shells hitting the Hope at the same time, and the Blade was blown up by that shell and blew up a cannon door.
"Will, find a way to dismantle their cannon doors, and if you can't do that, find a way to injure Nathan and lower their morale!" "Will, find a way to dismantle their cannon doors, and if you can't do that, find a way to wound Nathan and lower their morale!" Sojes jumped onto the guardrail and slashed out his sword energy, the frequent sword qi greatly consumed his physical strength, even if it wasn't exhausted, but he had to reduce the strength of his sword qi, only maintaining it at a level just enough to break through the cannonballs.
Thankfully, the news to the Dragontooth Pirates wasn't all bad, at least, the battleship on the far right of the Scorpion Pirates had already had its mast destroyed, and the hull had been shelled in multiple places, so it was a matter of time before the ship sank.
It is not surprising that the three ships of the Dragon Tooth Pirate Regiment are scattered, and the distance between them is not small, while the distance between the ships of the War Scorpion Pirate Regiment is much closer, and the relatively dense formation is also easier to be hit by artillery, and in order to pursue the hit rate of the Rattlesnake, the original distance of two nautical miles has also been shortened by nearly a kilometer, which is no wonder, although Nathan said that he has two brushes in cultivation, but when fighting, he basically relies on himself or the strength of the fleet to crush him, and his strategic literacy is inevitably inferior to the elite from a naval family。
"Mother, sister, big brother, thank you for keeping me alive and teaching me so much...... "The faces of his dead mother and sister came to his mind, and at the same time, he seemed to hear the greetings of his eldest brother Raymond when he cared about him in his life.
"I can't die yet...... I haven't let my mother see that I'm married, I haven't got revenge, and even if I die, I can't die at the hands of these bastards in Fiana!" Sojes, who was already tired, muttered softly, and in the end, he was already a little impatient in his heart, and his whole heart was filled with anger.
"War Scorpion Pirates, give me death!" With a crazy roar, Sorjes threw out the long sword in his hand, the sword was attached to his own fighting energy, and after flying at a high speed for thousands of meters, it suddenly exploded, and the entire sword turned into fragments, and this fragment also shot towards the Rattlesnake like a storm with the help of inertia, and the extremely fast flight speed coupled with the fighting spirit that had not completely disappeared made these dense fragments like raindrops actually have the power of bullets.
"Boom!" "Boom!"
"It's crazy!" Nathan didn't bother with such a dense attack, only to see him pull out the long sword called Soul Eater pinned to his waist, and then the rattlesnake pirates could only see his arm swinging at an extremely fast speed that was invisible to the naked eye, and immediately, a sword qi net made of sword qi intercepted ninety percent of these fragments, and the remaining fragments passed through the gap, and some unlucky ghosts who couldn't dodge were killed by the seemingly inconspicuous fragments.
"Bastard, don't hide!" Fiona's sudden angry scolding made Nathan distracted, and when he looked back, he was so angry that he saw a pirate choose to dodge in order not to be hit by the flying debris and chose to dodge despite the power source behind him, although he narrowly avoided the shards, but the armor outside the power source had cracked.
"Damn it, wolf, eat him!" Fiona screamed, and the giant wolf, who had been crouching beside her, pounced on the timid pirate at her command, and bit off his neck before he could beg for mercy.
Nathan, who was still angry, shouted angrily while ordering to fire: "You all listen to me, even if you use human life to block, you must ensure that the power source is not damaged, who dares to retreat, the waste just now is the ...... Uhh And the rest of the pirates who were too frightened by the giant wolf's cannibalism to speak out were even more frightened by the accidental injury of the regimental commander.
Once upon a time, Nathan had always brought them the image of being brave and invincible, and since the battle with the Dragon's Tooth Pirates, first Captain Frederick, and this time even he himself was injured, before they knew it, the pirates of the Sidewinder had developed a trace of fear for the Dragon's Tooth Pirates.
"Don't come here!" Nathan's intact right arm swung out a soft sword aura to push Fiona away, since the opponent's bullet can dodge his own perception, then it is enough to show that the gunman's strength has reached at least the fourth order, and the attack sent by such a gunner is definitely not something that Fiona can catch.