At that moment, suddenly the only lookout on the mast shouted: "Flotilla, chieftain of the Panu, flotilla of the Bakarians, southwest of the horizon." ”

"What?" the Scarface Chieftain, known as the Panu, was in high spirits, "Fleet, merchant fleet or warship?"

Everyone knew that Bakaria did not have a decent fleet of warships, and out of sheer caution, he asked.

"Thirty-two ships, most of them merchant ships, were wide and flat, and there were no ballistas or artillery armaments. ”

For the first time, a word called 'fat sheep' popped into Chief Panu's mind.

Without thinking, Panu ordered: "All turn around, rush forward! As long as you get on the boat, a hundred of those idiot Bakaria knights will not be a match for a Slinger!"

The land battles of the Bakarians were famous.

Their knights were even hailed as having the courage to catch cannonballs with their faces. Even in the cold of winter, if they encounter a full army of Bakaria Knights in the plains, the Slingers will definitely not be able to please.

It's not the same thing at all.

The Bakaria people are famous...... Landlubbers.

Anyway, there are so many knights who walked on the boat in armor like a tin can, accidentally tripped and fell into the sea before they could hit the enemy, and then fell into the sea and drowned, and this has become a well-known joke in the Slingers.

If it was a fleet of warships, maybe Panu would be a little weak.

If it is a merchant fleet, as long as it survives the two waves of bows and arrows of the merchant ship escort and gets on the ship, it is not the world of the Slingers?

The one-eyed chieftain near the sea to the north was furious: "That shit luck Panu!"

"Shall we go too?" asked the man.

"What did you do in the past? Pick up the bones left over from the Winter Wolf Clan? There are only more than thirty boats, and we couldn't even board the ships in the past. Leave it alone and continue to Lorrainburg in Bakaria as planned. ”

To the south, the Winter Wolf Clan is entering a state of euphoria. The Slingers, who were both sailors and warriors, rowed desperately for fear that the Bakaria merchant fleet would run away.

They soon discovered that these slightly fat merchant ships did not scatter and flee, but began to seize the upper hand direction, led by four warships at one end and one at the end, and formed a standard T-shaped artillery strike formation.

"Idiot!" Panu scolded.

Panu didn't know that three kilometers away, Martin, who was witnessing the scene, said the same thing.

"Idiot!"

Sylvie next to her smiled bitterly: "Please, even we Bakarians can't imagine that you have such a strange trick, let alone those ignorant barbarians." ”

Sylvie looked strangely at the strange 'cannons' on the deck of the merchant ship in two columns.

As we all know, merchant ships in this era could not be used as warships.

It's not that you can't put cannons on merchant ships, but you can't move them even if you put them on cannons.

The cannons of this era had no brakes to slow down the reaction force of the shelling. It was all slowed down by the wheels fixed to the gun body retreating backwards. Even so, a deck that has not been specially reinforced will not hold a cannon. Not even a small-caliber seven-pounder gun.

Reinforcing the deck will affect the keel of the ship, which is a problem for the interlocking type.

Martin's great invention completely solves this problem.

The so-called invention is a copycat version of the mortar.

A thick iron can is used as a cannonball, and a pile of black powder and steel balls are placed in it, as well as a small size of iron lumps, and the barrel is filled with black powder, which is not uncommon in this era, and then the mortar can be easily fired three or five hundred meters away with a slightly firmer thick barrel as the gun body.

Although it is not as brutal as a modern mortar with a range of kilometers, it is definitely the best weapon for the Slingers, who are only good at close combat.

Hit rate is an issue?

Just make up for it with quantity.

One of the largest merchant ships in the present day vacated the upper deck, and then placed on the deck a large number of planks that resembled sleepers to disperse the reaction force. One boat can hold thirty copycat mortars.

Unlike the cannons of this era, which were fixed in a certain direction, mortars could theoretically fire at all angles without dead ends.

It's just a thought, why are these all sailboats, can they still tear down the mast?

It was only possible to follow the angle of the sails, and certain mortars were assigned to fire.

Of course, the bow and stern of the ship, where the sails could not reach, were the most mortars.

Over there, the Slinger ships rushed wildly.

They rushed 300 to 1,000 meters away from the merchant ship with great nervousness. In legend, this was the most advantageous range for the Rick artillery.

Without firing the artillery, the attack went incredibly smoothly, and even Panu, who was supervising the battlefield from afar, couldn't help but raise his brows slightly.

Just as more than 200 ships had crossed the 300-meter dead line, there was a muffled thunder in the merchant fleet in the distance.

In the gray winter wind, it is easy to see a large dark cloud of something stranger than a cannonball, climbing high into the air at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then accompanied by a piercing whistling sound of "VVV", pouring down like a sudden heavy rain.

Almost instantly, the fleet behind Panu was watered like a flower.

Some of those strange large black shells exploded in mid-air, like fireworks. More exploded in the rear flotilla.

Several huge iron cans landed on the hulls of some ships and exploded, and there were several loud bangs.

Panu turned around and was horrified to see that the long warships carrying dozens of people were blown in half by the explosion on the spot, and the hull of nearly ten meters was erected on the sea, and it sank on the spot.

The whirlpool created by the wreck swept all the Slingers who tried to escape by boat to the bottom of the sea.

The Slingers who were not directly hit were not necessarily so lucky, and many large iron balls exploded right above the heads of the Slinger infantry gathered on the ship.

Their ships were not layered, in a sense they were a large sampan. The uncovered mortar shells exploded with a roar, and the steel balls and iron lumps contained in them suddenly formed scattered bullets, setting off a storm of death.

Flesh and blood flew in the crowd, and limbs were scattered.

The shields of the Slingers were placed on the side of the ship to defend against arrows, and when the scattered bullets fell from the sky like hail on the heads of the densely packed people on the ship, they screamed for a moment.

"Chief, we can't withstand such artillery, retreat!" one of his men cried out to Panu.

"Retreat! Can't retreat! Rush - rush for me! We can only win in close combat!" Panu screamed at once, but he immediately despaired. Because of the merchant ship, which seemed to have no defense, suddenly a long tongue of fire suddenly erupted from several positions on the ship.