A baker's dozen

In the religious lore of the Holy See, it is a very ominous number.

Qin Shouzhuo, who had experienced materialist and atheistic education since childhood, had heard of this story, but he never took it to heart. The thirteenth ship is the thirteenth search transport ship built by the Barony of Babia, and the officers and men of the ship have trained very hard, and the graduation score ranks fourth, and it has always been ranked in the top five.

After it was completed and put into service, the 13th ship also participated in more than 10 missions, although the largest one was only 3 ships of the same class, but its performance was very stable and it had never been damaged. After the start of this battle, the first ships to be set on fire were also the first ships to be fired, the first ship was destroyed and persuaded to retreat, and the second ship was only bruised, both of which were examples of saying hello to death and then leaving safely.

Now that they have basically left the effective range of the other side, the officers and men who participated in a big battle of this scale for the first time will inevitably be a little slackened in their spirits after the firing line dance just now, and then they can only be said to be unlucky. In terms of extreme range, it is difficult to accurately lock on to the target with primitive observation and fire control methods, and 96 magic bullets that have begun to show signs of spreading have shrouded the thirteenth ship, but only 10-15 really hits, but I don't want to miss these rare hits, one of which directly blew up the mast.

The third mainmast fell suddenly, the three observers screamed, two fell off the boat, and the only one who survived was clinging to the rope and shaking. Due to the fall of the mast, the ship had a severe right roll and almost capsized, but fortunately there was enough design margin left, and the ship finally maintained a 22° tilt to the right.

The 13th ship, which had a serious shift in its center of gravity, inevitably shifted its course and rushed straight towards the enemy fleet.

"Damn, what are they doing! Why don't you cut off and throw the mast away!"

"There was also a surviving observer hanging from the mast, and they were rescuing. ”

A group of officers of the Baron Baron were arguing impatiently, all worried about their robes, and Qin Shouzhuo was naturally not exempt from vulgarity, but Qin Shouzhuo planned to use a more direct method.

"Our main cannon is a heavy magic cannon, and the ultimate range is 10,000 meters, which is enough distance. Tell the captain to fire immediately and attract the attention of the other party!"

"yessir!" a herald ran down the command tower, and after a while, the captain's roar came from the navigation bridge below: "Keep course!"

"Distance: 3000 meters, target: enemy ship three, main gun salvo!"

"Salvo of main guns!"

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

Four cyan beams, which were obviously much thicker than all the magic beams on the battlefield, came out of the cannon of the Baron Barbia, slashed across the battlefield and headed straight for the enemy fleet, accurately hitting the bow of the opponent's No. 4 ship, causing a violent explosion. The first hit, seeing this result, Qin Shouzhuo's face couldn't help but darken, and Princess Sally was already smiling. The order that everyone heard just now was to aim at the No. 3 ship, but the No. 3 ship did not do anything at all, but blew up the bow of the No. 4 ship.

From low to high, it is a long shot from a distance of more than 3,000 meters, and there is no school shooting in front, it should be said that it is normal to miss all the shots, and now it is a good shot, although it is an obvious luck cannon, Qin Shouclumsy is not too good to blame. There was still a roar from the captain: "Captain gunner, what are you doing, you made a mistake!"

"I'm sorry, Captain!!!

Compared with the powerful power of heavy magic cannons, the heavy magic cannon also has the weakness of slow recharging, and here we have to mention Qin Shouchuang's new invention, the sub-mother cannon. This is not a new invention, the medium-sized magic cannon originally placed on the city wall already has this setting, the principle is very simple, the storage part of the magic cannon is separated from the cannon body, so that a large number of energy storage modules can be used to take turns to load, to achieve the purpose of rapid fire. Unfortunately, the heavy magic cannon's energy storage module is too large to reload quickly, so the original design of firing, charging, and firing again has been maintained. What Qin Shouzhuo did was to extend this technology to heavy magic cannons.

Due to the progress of materials, Qin Shouzhuo's heavy magic cannon is much lighter than the original, and the corresponding size is also much smaller, and the energy storage module is naturally reduced a lot.

As a large artillery in the world of Elis, in addition to the most primitive energy cannon, it would give up the design of the sub-mother cannon because manpower could not load the energy storage module, Qin Shouzhuo said that he could not understand. A long time ago, when the Federation was not established, human beings began to use very large artillery systems in the struggle against each other, and the heavy ammunition of large artillery naturally could not be loaded by manpower, and must rely on mechanical strength. And this machine became more and more powerful, eventually making self-loading possible, such as the MK16 8-inch gun on the heavy cruisers of the Des Moines-class class, which even received the nickname "semi-automatic rifle" because of its fast rate of fire.

Therefore, when planning the design of a heavy magic cannon of the sub-mother cannon type, the priority of the artillery servo mechanism is higher than that of the gun itself, and the design of the loading machinery is the most important of all. The final result was that although there was no such thing as automatic reloading, under the operation of skilled officers and soldiers, it was still able to achieve a magical rate of fire of one round every two minutes.

It's amazing enough, the old heavy magic cannon can't replace the components, and the result of on-site charging is that the CD time also takes 12~14 minutes in overpressure charging mode.

Of course, the weakness of this cannon is still very big, first of all, it is still an open gun silhouette gun, with limited defense, and then there is the loading mechanism, which must be returned to a fixed angle to complete the loading for the time being, but fortunately, the speed of the turret is also specially accelerated for this problem.

I saw that the gun commander gave an order, and the magic drove the two forts in front and rear to rotate rapidly, and the muzzles of the guns returned to the front, pointing to the front and the rear. The aft deck of the gun opened, and a mechanical link came up with a metal gripper. A soldier stepped forward and pulled the wrench back, the tail structure of the gun unfolded, and a metal cylinder with a diameter of about 300mm and still emitting a trace of green smoke fell, and was firmly grasped by the steel claws, and then the connecting rod contracted, and the cylinder disappeared from the deck.

In a few moments, a steel claw with the same appearance grabbed a silver-white cylinder and came up from the hole again, a little higher than the previous height. The steel claw opens to 200°, and the cylinder rests firmly on the inverted figure-eight bracket in the middle of the steel claw, and is fed into the gun chamber. It was still the same soldier, pushing the wrench forward, the tail of the gun was closed, and the metal cylinder was completely wrapped in the movable structure of the tail of the gun, and there were still many gaps in the tail of the gun at this time, which was not the same as when the gun was fired before.

The gun emplacement officer shouted into the hole in the deck, the connecting rod fell with the steel claw, the deck closed, the hole disappeared, another soldier moved the wrench on the other side of the gun, and the gun tail suddenly closed and became tight, completely engulfing the metal cylinder that had been stuffed into it before, and the red light at the gun tail was on, which was considered to have completed a load.

After the reload is completed, it is necessary to turn the turret, aim at the enemy ship under the command of the officer, and then fire, and then the next cycle, which is very cumbersome and very restrictive, but it is much faster than the old magic cannon for ten or twenty minutes.

"The front main gun is reloaded!!"

"The rear main gun is reloaded!!"

"The target is still the enemy ship No. 3, distance: 2800!"

"The front main gun is aiming!"

"The rear main gun is aiming!"

"Attack begins!fire!!"

"Boom, boom!~"

Four wheals of wind reappeared, streaked across the sky, and headed straight for the phalanx of the unknown fleet, bursting out with a silver-white light, still a hit.

"Enemy No. 1 ship is shot, and the shield is gone!"

Qin Shouzhuo's face darkened, and Princess Sally almost rolled on the ground. Directly in the sky above, the ferocious attack of the Baron Baron was seen by the temporary commander of this fleet, the captain of the second ship, and he immediately understood Qin Shouchou's purpose, and led the fleet to move over, preparing for the next round of offensive, just as the shield of the leading enemy No. 1 ship collapsed, hoping to take this opportunity to take the lead in achieving results.

General Gran has experienced a hundred battles, all the way from a junior officer to the commander of the corps, naturally he is not a fool, seeing that the shield of the No. 1 ship was broken, he simply ordered the No. 1 ship to avoid to the right, and the remaining eleven ships and 88 guns still occupy an absolute advantage. Besides, the No. 1 ship was just killed by the special shield-breaking effect of the opponent's wind magic cannon, not that the shield was overloaded, the enchantment core was intact, just restart it, and it was different from the opponent's downed No. 1 ship (for this batch of old-fashioned transport ships, Qin Shouchuang's modular design did not spread out).

While the transport fleet was still cursing at the despicable approach of the opponent's retreat from the No. 1 ship, the No. 13 ship ushered in the next salvo from the other side. Countless rays of light weaved into a net, converging towards the center, and the observer hanging from the outside of the thirteenth ship that had become the center finally climbed the mast and ran back to the deck. The boatswain, who had been given the opportunity, immediately cut off the third mast completely, abandoned the mast, and suddenly regained its center of gravity and dropped a large load of the thirteenth ship quickly returned to the center and floated several meters upward, forming an eerie trajectory, but this did not help her avoid so much shelling.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Most of the dense firepower missed, but there were still magic bullets that hit the target one after another, and the hull shield had been overloaded and burned by the time it resisted the fifth shot, and the remaining dozen or so magic bullets smashed directly on the hull armor, blowing up sawdust. The 5-inch-thick planks were quickly blown open, and the magic bomb flew directly into the cabin, causing an even more destructive explosion, and even the specially reinforced bottom power compartment could not resist, and was blown through the bulkhead, detonating the magic crystal burning furnace.

"Boom!"

In the airspace where the thirteenth ship was located, a huge fireball suddenly appeared, engulfing everything.

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