Chapter 24: The "Crazy" Knight
A fleet under dark clouds, black skeletal sails, pirates with tentacles and carrion, and eerie waves that reach several meters high...... When Tallinnham saw his opponent clearly, it dawned on him that they were not dealing with an ordinary fleet, but a legendary ghost fleet!
No wonder Berto had been so excited before the battle, it turned out that he had already known that what he was going to face today was not an ordinary opponent...... Tallinnam cursed in his heart again, he should have thought that although the knight lord he followed did not recognize their gods, he still retained the same urine as other Bretonnian knights in his heart, the stronger the opponent, the more exciting it was for them, and the stronger the opponent, the more it could stimulate their inner desire to fight.
"Full sails!"
Beside him, the nervous shouts of the sailors sounded. It was Duke Andak's subordinate, although he was literally a duke, but in Tallinnam's opinion, this duke's power was not as good as the lord of Rhodes that he followed before, Rhodes was just a baron, and the castles were bigger than the duke's. But this is also normal, the border prince's territory is chaotic, in general, whoever has a little army on hand can be called king, and it is already calculated to claim to be a duke, and some lords claim to be kings, but in fact, there are only 100 soldiers under his command, and they can't even get together a boat.
The wind whistled in your ears, and the closer you got to the ghost fleet, the more violent the waves became.
Tallinnam had never seen a terrible wave from this time, it was like a small mountain, pouring into the sea. For a human ship, such a huge wave is enough to tear their hull apart.
However, for the Ghost Fleet, this is little more than a pre-dinner treat. All the undead ships passed through the waves and then came out of the curtain of water, as if the waves had no effect on them, and indeed they had no effect...... Through the binoculars, Tallinnham saw the undead sailors of a ship emerge from the waves, but the moment they rushed out of the water curtain, everyone was unresponsive, and the sea water was left through the gaps in their bodies, while they were still doing their jobs, Yang Fan, pushing cannons......
"Stay in formation!"
The two fleets were about to meet each other, and the Duke's naval commander shouted loudly. In fact, they had only three ships, while the other side, at least six ships, although the displacement was a little smaller than the duke's battleship, but the power should not be underestimated.
Soon, the waves made the duke's battleship unbearable, and the bumpy deck made it difficult to even stand. The sky was pitch black, with dark clouds and torrential rain.
As the two battleships staggered head-on, the shelling began.
The gunners in the cabin barely had to take aim, so they opened fire. Because the bumpy hull makes aiming pointless. Moreover, only the guns of the upper cabins could fire, and the guns of the lower cabins did not even dare to open the gun doors, for fear of seawater pouring in.
Tallinnham and Berto stood on the deck, high-speed, solid bullets whizzing past each other, nearly shaving off their heads. Not far away, a deck sailor was shattered by a pirate's cannonball, shattering his body and spilling flesh and blood from mid-air...... Tallinnam watched in amazement, he had never participated in a naval battle before, but Berto looked calm.
The bombardment continued, shooting the hulls of both sides to a thousand holes, Tallinnam was already lying on the deck, clutching to the railing and crumbling, the sea was like a huge carpet that rose and fell, so he could not stand still, and the mad knight had just warmed up, and there was no need to pray, Berto was light, "Come closer!" The old knight shouted to the boatmen on deck, holding the hook and rope.
The fragile mast creaked, as if it could not withstand the wind and waves. Let's have a book
Berto, on the other hand, ignored the danger and stared straight ahead with his hands free and his eyes blazing. At this distance, the undead sailors on the ghost battleship were clearly visible, even their skeletons and tentacles were clearly visible.
"Tallinnam, come up, come with me!"
Berto, who was standing on the lookout, shouted.
However, as soon as Tallinnham let go of the deck railing and was about to run towards the mast, a huge wave knocked him into a stumbling and unsteady slide to the other side of the deck.
He struggled to get up, wiped the sea water from his face, and fixed his eyes to see that Berto couldn't wait, and jumped on the enemy ship alone. He is like a sturdy cheetah, roaming among the undead pirates. Alone in the midst of a raging storm and fighting alone in a horde of the undead...... At this scene, both Tallinnham and the Duke's crew of sailors were stunned.
The old knight was over fifty years old, but his body was still strong, he held the chain in one hand, and the knight's sword in the other, but the simple knight's sword was burning in the great waves and rain. With each swing, an undead sailor was killed. With a swing of the iron chain in his right hand, he overturned a pile of skeletons, lowering them on the deck, and smashing their skull heads with a single kick.
As the number of undead mounted, Berto fought and retreated, climbing the mast again, leaving the piles of undead sailors unable to pursue.
Some of the undead pirates shot at the mast with spears and crossbow arrows, while the old knights sheathed their swords, grabbed the cables, and glided one by one, sliding from mid-air to the other side of the deck, continuing to sweep away the undead sailors at the stern.
The undead captain let out an angry roar, and the undead pirate poured out of the cabin to kill the arrogant man.
However, Berto's combat effectiveness was simply outstanding, taking advantage of the narrow aisle of the deck steps, the old knight held the chains in both hands, and with a single swing he knocked four or five undead pirates into the sea.
On the duke's side of the battleship, the rest of the crew tried to board the ship to fight, but the waves were too strong to get closer. A few daring sailors were hit by the waves in mid-air and fell into the raging waters......
The whole naval battle turned into a one-man performance of the mad knight...... Here, Tallinnham met what is called a true peerless...... So much so that he doubted that the Holy Grail Knight of Bretonnia also had the combat power of his own knight lord.
In the midst of a roar, Berto did this, and one man forcibly overturned the entire ship of undead pirates...... Until the undead captain himself stepped in. Captain Ghost first shot Berto behind the crowd with a musket in his hand, but the bullet hit his left chest but did not cause fatal wounds. Bertor roared and kicked away the last undead sailor in front of him, then rushed with his cold chains, and the undead captain had no time to reload his bullets and shoot, he stumbled backwards, forced to draw his sword and fight.
But as soon as they fought, the undead captain felt the strength of his opponent. Berto's chain ball struck his longsword and knocked him flying. The bones in his body made a clattering sound, as if they were falling apart. Suddenly, a huge wave hit and engulfed Berto's entire body. However, just when everyone thought that Berto was finished and was about to be thrown into the sea by the huge waves, the old knight appeared from the water curtain intact, the sea water ran down his messy hair from his cheeks, and his eyes were still resolute, the flame of the long sword in his hand was not extinguished, only a lion-like roar was heard, Berto jumped high, and the iron chain ball slammed into the ghost captain, the undead captain hurriedly rolled and dodged, the chain ball smashed on the deck, smashing the fragile deck into a large hole, and the blazing flame sword fell, and the undead captain struggled to block, stumbling backwards again。
Soon, the third attack followed, the chains made the slightest sound of steel rubbing against the deck, and before the undead captain could react, he hooked his ankle, and with the old knight's sharp pull, the undead captain stood unsteadily and fell on the deck, the pirate sword in his hand fell aside, and the pirate captain struggled, but it was too late. Berto pulled back the chain with one hand and the flaming sword in the other, and in less than a heartbeat, the old knight threw the sword into the air, held the hilt of the sword with his backhand, and while the chain was dragged back to the pirate captain, he grabbed the longsword and stabbed it violently, and the burning knight's sword pierced into the heart of the undead captain. On the surface of the sea, the terrifying screams of countless undead sounded......