Chapter 303: Battle at Sea (9)
With Pylos' roar, a man in a black robe walked out of the cabin of the "Tempest", which had just become the flagship.
This man was bloated, looking more than two meters tall, fat as a ball of meat, and his black robe covered all over his body, even the hat covered his face, and only a pair of glittering green eyes were hidden behind the black hole of the hat.
The man known as "Tarberola" walked out of the cabin and laughed in a hoarse voice, "Lord Pylos, what is it that annoys you so much?"
Tarberola's voice sounded very strange, like the sound of iron grinding on sand and stone, and the sailor next to him only frowned when he listened, grinning and grinning only to cover his ears.
Pylos, who had been surrounded by guards when he changed ships, was on deck, disheveled, crumpled, and his beautiful triangular captain's hat with feathers on his head hung crookedly on the side of his head, looking very embarrassed.
When Pyros heard Tarberola's words, he didn't bother to straighten himself out, but just glared at Tarberola viciously, and said with blood-red eyes, "Don't you have long eyes? Look around you! Have you forgotten our agreement?"
Tarberola smiled in a deep voice: "No, of course I haven't forgotten, but I didn't expect that we would fulfill our agreement so soon." I didn't think we needed ......."
Pylos looked extremely ugly and said, "Are you laughing at me?"
Tarberola laughed, "No, no, Dear Lord Pylos, I'm just ......" As she spoke, the black-robed man glanced up at the approaching fleet in the distance, and continued, "...... I didn't expect that your enemy would be so strong, he ...... There is an artifact of the sea god Tira, the Miracle Arrow......"
Pylos was stunned for a moment: "What? What did you say?"
"Lord Pylos, what he said is right, it was indeed the Miracle Arrow that dealt us a heavy blow just now!" A voice sounded next to him, but it was the ninth-level mage Magus McLith who flew from the "Ocean" to the "Tempest", he heard the conversation between the two people, and interjected.
"It is precisely because of such a terrifying artifact that we can suffer such heavy blows and losses...... "McLith's face was also extremely ugly, Tang Jie's attack just now made more than a thousand magicians lose their combat effectiveness in just a moment, and without a long time of meditation and cultivation, these magicians could not hope to return to their original level and realm.
Of course, the premise is that they must win the battle in front of them, otherwise, these mages will only have one end...... Feed the fish!
Pylos took a deep breath: "So, if this damn pirate does another attack like that, won't we all be doomed?"
McClair shook his head: "No, if my prediction is not wrong, there can only be one attack like that just now, and the miracle arrow should have exhausted all the strength of the other party just now, Lord Pylos, the current situation is that the magicians on both sides have been hit hard, I will try to let us win in the magic battle, or if it can't be done, then try to achieve the situation of the redemption, and what is needed next is the courage and will that Your Excellency should have to lead the battleship to achieve meritorious results." ”
Pylos grimaced, the anger he felt just now from the fierce attack on the flagship gradually subsided, he glanced at McClix, and said, "I'll clean up their ......"
As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Tarberola and said, "Fulfill the agreement between us, honorable Lord Tarberola!"
Tarberola glanced at Pylos with a pair of green eyes and smiled, "With all due respect, honorable Admiral Pyros, you humans are fragile...... Look at your fleet, isn't it still stronger than your enemies?"
Although this sentence is a bit of an outsider's awakening of the dreamer, for an old admiral like Pylos, who has experienced countless large-scale naval battles, how could he not understand this truth?
It's just that any victory will have a corresponding price, as a marshal of the empire, the supreme marshal of the navy, he has to do not just win, but to win at the smallest possible cost!
Otherwise, if the losses are too heavy, then such a crushing victory will not only disappoint His Majesty the Emperor with himself, but also give his political opponents the opportunity and space to play.
The corners of his mouth drooped slightly, his eyes were fixed on the approaching enemy ships, and he said slowly: "Your Excellency Tarberola, we will not discuss the question of who is superior and who is inferior on the battlefield, and the most important thing now is to quickly sweep these nasty maggots into the garbage heap of the ocean! Don't let them appear on this sea again!"
Tarberola laughed, "As you wish, Lord Pylos, as you wish!"
Pylos nodded, and he began to quickly calculate and deduce in his mind the tactical response that the opposing enemy ship might make in the next artillery battle.
Judging from his rich experience in naval warfare, although the other party has the upper hand in magic warfare at this time, the overall strength at this time is still the absolute upper hand of the Shira fleet.
Despite repeated blows from the other side, the Sila fleet still maintained more than seventy ships with complete combat strength, and ninety percent of the soldiers on these ships could fight bravely, and even some of the mages could compete with the other side.
If the other party turned around at this time and distanced himself from the other party to fight a magic battle, Pylos might have a big headache, but now the enemy rushed up, which was just in line with his appetite.
Come, rabble of Nilsia, and show you what the true elite of naval warfare is!
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For Tang Jie's side, although they had the upper hand in the magic battle, due to a series of magic battles, the magicians who were originally inferior to the other party in number received a series of heavy blows, especially the series of magic attacks that the opponent's magicians had released when resisting the miracle arrow, which also consumed a lot of their magic power.
Especially when the magicians of the Shira Imperial fleet launched a Jedi counterattack, the fierce magic battle was even more fierce to an unimaginable level.
The sky and the earth are filled with shocking and dazzling magical light, and every time a flickering magical light flashes in front of the eyes of every sea warrior, the sky seems to bloom as if a large firework blooms, and they will also understand that there has just broken out a terrible magic battle, and any small magic in this battle is enough to make them die dozens of times!
This kind of magic war eventually evolved into a contribution, first of all, the magicians of the Shira Empire, who were hit hard, first exhausted all their magic power, but after the magicians of the magic legion sank two warships with magic, they also used up their magic power.
At the same time, the battleships on both sides entered the edge distance between magic warfare and artillery battles, ten nautical miles!
Christina stood on the bow of the Inferno like a statue, constantly watching the formation of the opposing fleet with a telescope, and constantly issuing orders in her mouth.
Previously, because Tang Jie almost smashed the opponent's magic defense system with a miracle arrow, Christina was shocked, and was shocked by the deterrence of Tang Jie's power, and subconsciously wanted to hand over the command to this man, but when her flag was called to Tang Jie, she was reprimanded by Tang Jie.
In the monoculars in Christina's hand, the opposing fleet formed a goose-shaped formation, and pressed towards them with murderous energy.
Such a formation is based on absolute battleship superiority, if you cut from the middle of the goose-shaped formation, this is actually two trapezoidal formations, the flagship sits in the center, the tail is at the end of the formation, and the trapezoidal fleet on the left and right sides is actually some distance from the flagship, which seems to give people a feeling: as long as you break into the middle of the opponent's fleet regardless of it, you can capture the thief and capture the king!
But Christina knew that this formation was a formation that almost all Imperial navies liked to use, especially when the strength of her own fleet surpassed that of her opponent.
Hamil, who drafted the "Pirate Code", was the most rampant pirate in the era when he became the pirate king, and their nimble wolf pack tactics and fierce hand-to-hand combat tactics caused the officers and soldiers to return with a great defeat on more than one occasion when they were superior in strength.
It is precisely for this reason that a goose-shaped formation began to appear in naval battles, which seems to place the flagship in the most central and dangerous position, but because the flagship position is far behind, if the opponent rushes from the center desperately, then the battleships on both sides can quickly close, and then form the most dangerous "death canyon" in naval warfare, that is, two battleships side by side to beat a battleship at the same time.
To put it bluntly, in this formation, the flagship seems to be in the most dangerous position, but in fact it is the safest position, it not only plays the role of luring the enemy, but also plays the role of the center of the command tower, which can be very convenient to deploy and command the battle of the fleets on both sides, and there will be no situation in the naval battle.
Even if the pirate is not affected by the temptation and concentrates his firepower on only one of the trapezoidal fleets, then the other fleet and flagship will quickly outflank the pirates' waist and abdomen, and also form a flank and kill situation.
"Sure enough, it's a goose-shaped formation...... "Christina put down the binoculars in her hand and muttered in her mouth, "As I expected, it seems that it will really be a tough battle!"
She muttered, turned her head, glanced at Bill, and nodded at him.
Bill understood, nodded as well, then turned his head and yelled, "All of them, ready to fire!!"
All the sailors on the ship were shocked when they heard this sound, and they let out a cry in unison.
After watching the magician's brilliant and fierce magic battle, their battle arrived.