Chapter 1917: A Group of Drama Spirits
In the surveillance video, Taylor actually saw an old-fashioned black powder cannon!
It's a breech gun!
Is that thing funny from a museum?
Three kilometers away...... I'm sorry, but I haven't reached the theoretical maximum range yet.
Quiet!
It's very quiet!
After a brief silence, laughter erupted from every gun position and every bridge of the entire coalition fleet.
"Hahaha!"
"This is the main fleet of the Horde?"
"Isn't it a tribal circus sent to be funny?"
In fact, it is really difficult for the tribe. Brainless Roar doesn't know anything about flying battleships. Gary Vix was forced to pull out such a bunch of antiques to make up the numbers.
Anyway, he got it back by kidnapping, and he didn't want money. The sailor is also the unlucky ghost of the alliance that he used various means, money lending or something, or mercenary.
Of the 666 warships, only 80 were diesel-powered air-to-air warships of the new type, and the rest were old steam warships with wooden hulls and thin iron sheets.
Training or something, it's even more miserable. After 5,000 meters of shelling, the hit rate was only 0.3%.
The Gilnesian warships are not second-hand, they are the lowest-grade Alliance-style airships. The entire fleet, with the exception of three battleships, was all Cleveland-class cruisers and Benson-class destroyers.
Cruisers and destroyers of this design are notoriously resistant to beating.
There were many places where the guns were fired, but the losses were not large, and the losses of personnel on each ship were in the single digits.
Taylor was in a cold sweat.
If you do it like this, how can you lose?
Admiral Taylor also didn't care about moderation, and directly exercised the authority given to him by Varian, and cursed in the secret communication loop.
"Idiot! What are you doing so well! Commander Urion gave me a secret order to lose! Wait for another round of shelling on the other side, I will set me on fire no matter what you do, and there will be something like a martyrdom. But I can't really destroy the boat, or I'll go back and slaughter you bunnies!"
This operation is simply amazing!
The captains of the boats, if they hadn't heard the familiar roar of Taylor himself, really thought it was Taylor's false order.
In fact, none of the captains were idiots, and they had been wondering.
There are so many elite soldiers and strong generals for the Mao Alliance, and it is their turn to make a move.
If it's a military training, just kill it.
Although there is a unified command in the alliance, everyone knows that the air force is basically formed independently.
The strongest of the air force are the dwarves and gnomes. The [Electric Thrower Fleet] they formed blinded the entire army with a 41.3% hit rate at a distance of 5,000 meters in the Alliance's military exercise in Twilight Heights last year.
Then there is the Seventh Fleet of the Stormwind Kingdom and the Ice Queen Fleet of Kurtilas. The two are basically comparable.
The third bracket is Lordaeron and Outlake.
The fourth pot is the small countries of Stormgard and Gilneth.
If the alliance is going to fail, then it makes sense.
The Coalition has recently brought in a number of troops in Theramore, but none of them are the main force. In addition to a small number of alliance soldiers, more mercenaries were invited from the hot sand group, a total of 150,000 people.
In other words, when did the alliance become weak enough to rely on mercenaries to defend the city?
Even those Union soldiers knew at a glance that they were a small-town-level garrison pulled from some remote corner. Discipline is lax, there is no righteousness, and it is clear that he is a ruffian.
Now, the bad thing is that his Gilneth fleet is still too good.
So, the whole fleet fryed.
"Damn! It turns out that the higher authorities want us to fail. Hurry up, take out the blankets for sleeping, and immediately light the blankets after the next round of local shelling. ”
"Isn't there still black powder in the warehouse to be used as a sample? everything is ready, and after the next round of cannons, it will be thrown directly to the thickest part of the bow deck and blown up. ”
"Get ready to set fire! Get those idiots to pay attention, don't burn yourself too. ”
"The gunners are paying attention, they are all stroke gunners for me! ”
A few minutes later, when the Horde fleet trembled and forced the commander to drive the ship at high speed close to the Union fleet and open fire again, it suddenly became clear that everything had changed.
The alliance fleet suddenly seemed to be unable to fight, the cannons rumbled, and there were only a few tribal flying ships that were really hit. Although it exploded with one shot, causing a martyrdom, turning into garbage falling from the sky and falling into the sea, this scene was terrible, but the loss was acceptable.
On the side of the Alliance, dozens of warships burst into fireballs. The raging fire can't be hidden.
The happiest thing was that one of the Alliance's main warships, which was less than 200 meters away, exploded violently, and the black smoke column that rose into the sky made the entire fleet of the tribe jubilant.
"Hahaha!
"In that case, didn't you hit the ammunition bay and exploded?"
"Probably so. ”
On the tribal bridge, the goblins and the Forsaken cheered together in a rare way.
On the Alliance's side......
Admiral Taylor was suspicious: "Hey!fuze!fuze!It's really a big deal, right?"
The big man called Fuze smiled in the video: "Haha! It's okay, the boys have always hated why our new warship is still equipped with a reconnaissance aircraft of the previous generation, so they blew up that [Ruiyun] by the way." Anyway, our bulletproof bay is pretty good, isn't it? Be realistic! That's what you're asking for!"
"Grass!" Admiral Taylor's face darkened.
I blew up a plane that I don't like, what kind of is this?
Turning off the communication, Fuze immediately changed his face: "You little bastards, you don't want to use the old-fashioned 356mm main gun, you can't blow up the gun door yourself!"
"It's not easy to change turrets! We looked at the 460mm guns in the Alterac next door. Isn't our hull also able to stand it? Let's change to a main gun of more than 400mm. ”
Well, it's a loss on duty anyway. The alliance will reimburse!
Soon, the battleship [Maozi] controlled by Fuze performed a thrilling 'crash'!
The left rudder was 15 degrees, the right rudder was 31 degrees, dragging a long black smoke, and staggered 'down' to the side of the Theramo military port diagonally behind, and leaned firmly on the dock, and then the old oilman on the ship began to play mahjong......
This great battle, which was later named the [Battle of Theramore], ended with the loss of 437 warships by the Horde and more than half of the losses of the Alliance (132 ships on the surface, but in fact zero crashed warships and 81 casualties).
After weakening the Alliance's air force, the Horde finally came up with a mass killer three days later.
It was a desperate charge of hundreds of flying warships, just to cover a ship higher in the sky disguised by wind magic and illusion.
On that ship, a magic blast that shook the Alliance and the Horde was dropped - [Rainbow of Focus]!