Chapter Seventy-Five: The Battle of the South China Sea (2)
"Your Majesty, those orcs, they're catching up. β
The messenger shouted.
On the battlefield of the South Seas, the sea breeze blew across the face of King Teletham, and the years did not leave too many traces on this young king, although King Alonso has experienced the vicissitudes of time, but as a descendant of the Northern Ranger, the age of ninety-five is just the prime of life for him, and the Northern Ranger can live to be more than two hundred years old.
"The northeast corner of the 1st Battleship Group turned, and the 2nd Battleship Group turned southwest. Speed dispersion. β
Standing on the deck, the "young" king gave the latest combat orders. After eight years of studying in the land of the elves overseas, King Alonso has finally returned home, but once he returns, there is a great battle for the survival of mankind waiting for him to face. Alonso's fleet returned from the overseas elf belt is not large, only more than two dozen warships, and there are some elves and dwarves on it, all of whom were the people who followed Alonso to the city of the Holy Pool to study, and now, these kingdom elites who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy are standing on this deck, blocking the huge sea fleet of the orcs.
The sails were reversed at an angle, and the king's group of warships quickly dispersed in two different directions, of course, this arrangement would not last long, and the experienced king of Teletum would not let any of his ships face the danger of being surrounded by orcs, and the purpose of dispersion was only to avoid the dense fire of the orc catapults.
"Chief, the enemy is fleeing in all directions. β
When he reported the battle again, the orc sentry was almost excited, but the next second, he saw the gloomy face of Justin, the commander-in-chief of the fleet.
"Stupid, they're not fleeing, they're dodging our fire!"
As Justin himself knew, the orc ships were large, but they were also very cumbersome, especially for long-range strikes, and they had to rely on catapults brought from land. Originally, these projectile weapons were only used for siege and were extremely inaccurate, so the orcs had to rely on dense flint cover to hit each other, but now, the cunning human officers have scattered their warship groups, making the orc catapults almost useless.
"Go ahead and sink them!"
Justin roared. The orc warship, under the orders of the Storm Chief, launched a frenzied chase towards the enemy. The huge steel bow cut through the sea, making a huge splash, and the laborers were almost exhausted. But the orc officer's whip continued to whip, carving bloody scars.
"Fire!"
The coalition's fleet is still firing. The Dwarven Musketeers reload with first-class speed and accuracy, and almost every shot accurately commands the hull of the orc battleship, and even the orc laborers inside can be seen through the wooden planks. The sea was covered with blood and floating splinters.
"Throw it out. β
Justin roared, and the orc laborers behind him immediately pulled the cables, and the ignited boulders flew up from the catapults in an instant, flying towards the human fleet opposite, and the boulders flew through the sky, leaving a thick black trail.
"Hurry up, you a**. β
The first round of flint had been thrown, but the brutal orc chieftain still cursed the laborers behind him, loaded the ammunition again, pulled the cable, and pulled the catapult back to its original state.
"Boom. β
The boulder flew and fell into the sea area where the human warship was located, splashing four or five meters high, although the hit rate was extremely low, but once it hit, it would be a devastating blow to the human warship.
A boulder hit a retreating human warship, and the huge impact force instantly smashed the deck of the ship to the ground, and the raging flames on the boulder quickly ignited the sails, and the terrifying impact force of the moment even made the entire ship shake, and the fire quickly spread to the entire battleship. Human sailors had to abandon ship and jump into the sea. The scene was the same as the orc fleet opposite, full of tragedy and casualties.
The naval battle was carried out in such an explosive air, the orc battleship approached the human warship at a very fast speed, and the flint on the ship continued to fly towards the human warship, gradually, the casualties of the human warship began to increase, and what was even more terrifying was that the orc ship was about to approach the human warship group, many human veterans knew that once they were hooked by the drawbridge on the orc warship, next, the orcs would land their warships through the drawbridge, and then there would only be bloody slaughter, so the human warships tried to avoid head-on confrontation with the orc ships, but sometimes they had to draw their short swords and fight head-to-handγ
"Brothers, get ready for battle, the orcs are coming aboard!"
A human warship has been cornered by an orc ship, and the captain is desperate and orders all the crew to go to the deck, draw their short swords, and prepare for a final confrontation.
Orc warships are twice as large as human warships, drawbridges protrude from multiple levels, some are flat hooks to human warships, some are diagonally hooked to human ships, you can imagine when a ship twice the size of your own warship crashes into itself and hooks its own hull with a drawbridge. Above, hundreds of heavily armed orc warriors roared and charged from the other side of the drawbridge.
The waves crashed against the orc and human warships, and the next moment, the bloody battle on the sea and deck began.
"Roar. β
The first orc warrior to rush down was covered in armor, and a giant axe swept over the human soldiers in front of him, and the violent force even knocked down the four human sailors in front of him in an instant, and one human sailor was instantly cut off his neck, and blood spurted out from the broken erect neck, a terrifying slaughter.
"Roar, roar, roar. β
With the fall of the first human sailor, more orc warriors stood on deck and endured two hours of chase, these orc warriors were already frantic to the extreme, and couldn't wait to start killing, blood-red eyes searched for all creatures that could be slaughtered, whether humans or elves, including animals, as long as the killing feeling of blood poured on their bodies. It can be said that under the rule of Bloodroar, the orcs have become complete beasts, and there is no humanity to speak of.
"Launch flares. β
The slaughter lasted for half an hour, and the human sailors tried to defend their ships, however, after half an hour, they found that their efforts were in vain, and in melee hand-to-hand combat, the orcs completely crushed them, and the tall orc officer even needed a hammer, and the sailor's shield disintegrated in fragments, and the sawdust was scattered with blood stains. Finally, the human captain had to order his soldiers to light flares to tell his king that the ship had fallen and had become an orc warship.
"Keep getting closer!"
After successfully capturing the first human warship, the orcs did not stop the pursuit, and one large warship after another continued to frantically approach the human warship, trying to approach the human warship in the same way, and capture more ships in the same way. Catapults are already almost useless, in such a short naval battle.
But not every orc warship can approach the human ship so easily, the exquisite bombardment of the dwarven cannons even blasted several orc drawbridges off the warship, these large drawbridges that have not yet hooked the human warship disintegrated in the air, and the planks and steel ropes smashed into the water one after another, making a huge splashing sound.
Some elven archers were able to shoot down the orc infantry on the deck even from a long distance. Two orc warships had to ram the human warships with brute force because the drawbridge was destroyed, hoping that through such a savage impact, they could sink each other. And there was indeed a human warship destroyed by such a savage impact by the orcs, the hull was shattered when it was hit, the middle of the hull was broken, the whole battleship was cut off by the waist, the broken wood splattered with blood, and the waves violently beat the hull and let out a terrifying roar. In fact, the violence and momentum of naval battles far exceed those of decisive battles on land.