Chapter Twenty-Six: The Road to Rivalry is Narrow
It had been two days since they set sail again, and Sorjes had finally untied his knot, and suddenly he wanted to drink a bottle of rum but suddenly remembered that there was another person on his ship, and this person had not seen her in two days.
Walking out of the captain's room, he grabbed a pirate who greeted him: "Have you seen Genevia?" "Oh, the captain's wife?" The pirate showed a smile of "you know, I know, everyone understands", "I just saw her on the deck looking at the sea in a daze, captain, you better go and have a look." β
"Fuck you, what the Captain's Lady!" twitched the back of the pirate's head, and Sorgeth couldn't help but run straight to the deck without explanation.
The weather was a bit overcast today, and since Old Wibull had been sent to captain the Blade, Sorjeth couldn't tell if it would rain or not. But even so, the new pirates could still be seen on the deck, they were busy at this time, and they didn't seem to care about the clouds overhead, and the arrival of Sojeth only made them say hello to the captain, and did not affect the original action.
"Sure enough, the pirate who came out of the pirate city is really good!" said Sorges, but soon, the approval that had just risen in his heart dissipated with a back in his eyes, and was replaced by a wave of confusion.
At the guardrail on the edge of the Hope, Genevia's hands were on the guardrail, quietly looking out to sea, she seemed to be struggling with something since she was rescued from the slave trader by Sogers the day before yesterday, so she didn't deliberately show up when he was at his most decadent in the past two days, in fact, even she didn't know what kind of attitude she should take to face her future life.
Looking at the familiar figure, Sojes walked gently to her side, and said softly: "I'm afraid it's going to rain when the weather happens, why don't you go in and take shelter?" Like, really like...... There was an indescribable emotion surging in Sorjes's heart.
Genevia looked at the sea quietly and chuckled: "It's okay, it won't rain now, but you, have you figured it out?"
Sojes didn't answer, they both had something in their hearts that they didn't want to mention to outsiders, and finally Genevia sighed: "Sojes......" "Call me Jack......" "Okay, Jack." I know, you think I'm a girl you know, can you tell me who that girl is you?"
Finally, I still asked this. Sorjes took a deep breath and said sadly, "You, look a lot like my dead sister......" Shuais's urgent voice interrupted the conversation only halfway through his words.
"Jack, about two nautical miles away, 35 degrees to our right, we found the ships of the War Scorpion Pirates!
"Damn! their ranks have expanded again!" Sorgeth cursed, "Shuaisi, wave the flag, tell the Treading Wave and the Blade to keep going, don't slow down!" While giving a loud command, he hurriedly pulled Genevia and ran to the hatch, and said urgently: "Our opponent is coming, you will distract me here, hurry up and hide in the cabin!" After saying that, he pushed her into the cabin without her consent.
On the other hand, Bode, who was in charge of the Treading Waves, saw the flag that Cervantes had played, and he also chuckled in his heart, seven ships, except for the flagship Sidewinder, the other six were all battleships, and if they fought hard, they would have no chance of winning at all! In addition to him, there were also several pirates with binoculars who saw the flag, and the lofty ambitions before boarding the ship seemed to have been left behind, and they trembled their arms and persuaded Pod to use the Hope and the Edge as bait, and the Treading Wave took this opportunity to escape.
Many people are like this, they always appear to be fearless before they experience disaster, and when disaster strikes, these warriors often turn into cowards in an instant.
When Bode heard this, he was so angry that he shot the coward who was the first to speak, and scolded: "Run? You went to sea earlier than me, and you have more experience than me, and this is the attitude when you encounter a strong enemy? Damn! Send me cannonballs one by one! Who dares to say such discouraged words, Lao Tzu will shoot him down!"
Fortunately, the previous kind of strange things were only a few, and most of the pirates were relatively calm, and they were able to carry out them in an orderly manner after listening to Bode's orders.
At this moment, almost the same thing happened to the three ships of the Dragon's Tooth Pirate Regiment, and the three captains dealt with it in the same way, Sojess had a gloomy face, and his usual sunny smile had long since disappeared, only to hear him say coldly: "Will, two nautical miles away, can your gun hit so far?"
Will shook his head: "If you just pursue range and accuracy, it's okay, but the power will be reduced a lot, the normal range of the thunder musket in my hand is one kilometer, if the power remains the same, it can reach a range of 2.5 kilometers after attaching the telekinetic power, and if it is farther, the power will be reduced, with a distance of two nautical miles, it is estimated that the power of the bullet will be reduced to a level that is not much higher than that of ordinary guns." β
Sojes was a little disappointed, but he was not discouraged, he just said: "It doesn't matter if the power is reduced, the Sidewinder is just a C-class magic ship, this level of magic ship is generally an external power source, you try your best to kill their lookout first, and then find a way to defeat their power source, lose it, the Sidewinder is no different from an ordinary ship." β
It's easy to say, but it's not so easy to do, not to mention that the range is too far, with the strength of Nathan's fifth order, intercepting shells is simply easy, and Will's gun skills are powerful, but after exceeding the normal range of 2.5 kilometers, the power will be weakened with the flight trajectory, and although the power source of the C-class magic ship is external, it will also have a certain defensive ability, at least it can't be destroyed with one or two shots.
"Boom!"
While talking here, the War Scorpion Pirate Regiment fired the first shot first, although it failed to hit, but it also caused a period of tension up and down the Dragon Tooth Pirate Regiment, the Hope is okay, Sojes, Will, and Cervantes all have the strength to intercept the cannonballs, but the other two ships need their support, otherwise a round of artillery hits will make them perish.
"It's not time to talk on paper, Will, you lead the gunners to fight back, Shuais, tell the Blade and the Treading Wave to organize the crew to fight back, and then you are responsible for intercepting the shells that are hitting them!" Sojes was more calm in the face of adversity, although he might not be able to cause much damage to the enemy, at least, after the crew of the Hope looked at the calm appearance of the regimental commander, the hope of victory rose.
After the order was given, the Hope and the Treading Wave also opened fire one after another, although they were far inferior to their opponents in terms of ships, but their ranged profession had a great advantage, the threat of ship guns mainly came from a large amount of fire catharsis, relying on the coverage area to cause damage to enemy ships, and its own hit rate was not very high, therefore, except for the Sidewinder's directional shells, the other six battleships had a bad hit rate, and even if there were shells that were about to hit the ships of the Dragon's Tooth Pirate Regiment, they would be fired by Cervantes before they hitγ
The war had already started in an instant, and everyone on the deck was desperate to survive, but Genevia, who was in the cabin, clenched her fists, as if she was fighting some kind of thought.