Chapter 304 ***

The Black Dragon King, the favorite pet of the sea god Tira, in order to commemorate the human warrior who once died for her, the sea god Tira endowed the Black Dragon King with unparalleled combat power.

When the Black Dragon King was created, the sea god Tira gave the Black Dragon King three transformed forms.

The first was when Tang Jie first saw the Black Dragon King, its huge black sphere form.

The second is the posture of the Black Dragon King's battleship when Tang Jie drove out to sea.

And the third one, that is, when fighting, the new posture of the Black Dragon King.

As Tang Jie made his choice on the light curtain, the Black Dragon King's huge hull began to make a clicking sound, and when you listen carefully, it looks like the sound of the collision of the gears, but there is a rustle of countless tiny scales rubbing against each other.

If someone approached the Black Dragon King at this time, they would find that the Black Dragon King's hull was wriggling with countless tiny fragments, as if the ship had come to life in an instant, and the black dragon had stretched its limbs, making the textured scales on its body look like flowing water, refracting dazzling light.

Soon, in the stunned eyes of everyone, the huge black battleship slowly stretched out two rows of long, black wings from the belly of the hull, as if the black dragon was about to spread its wings and fly high.

The wings continued to stretch from the bottom to the top, wrapping almost the hull of the ship little by little, and then the top of the wings extended to the sail of the mainmast, and after a few clicks, it became one with the sail.

At a glance, the Black Dragon King looks like a battleship covered with a layer of black hard shell, the originally flat hull has become a little weird and swollen, especially the black wings that wrap the hull, the outline of the skeleton on it is clearly visible, and the fan surface of the wings is full of metal-like hard texture, as if it can resist all attacks.

Compared to the Black Dragon King's obviously enhanced defense, what was even more amazing was that the Black Dragon King's bow protruded a ramming horn similar to the shape of a sharp horn, this ramming horn was extremely thick and long, and it was full of sharp serrations, as if it would be twisted into powder at the slightest touch.

All warships are either equipped with large-caliber bow guns or hard pointed ramming angles in the bow, the former is mostly used in fierce naval battles, while the latter is mostly used for hand-to-hand combat.

A high-speed warship uses the hard ramming angle of the bow to hit the belly of a warship, which is equivalent to a knight holding a spear, and violently piercing the spear through the chest and abdomen of a person in a high-speed gallop, which can instantly kill people, and the same is true for warships, when the ramming angle hits the side of the ship, the huge momentum can sometimes even smash a ship in two!

Looking at the transformation of the Black Dragon King, whether it was the pirates of Alcatraz Island or the Second Fleet of the Falk Empire, these warriors all let out loud shouts and cheers, and their morale was high.

And the Shira fleet, which was in formation and ready to give the pirates a head-on attack, their eyes widened one by one, staring blankly at this strange posture of the battleship, and they couldn't react for a while.

"Thira, what kind of monster is this......" The first mate next to Pylos gasped and shouted unconsciously.

Pylos's face was very ugly, his eyes were full of shock, a trace of panic flashed through his eyes, and he suddenly realized that if this battleship was really allowed to break into his fleet, then the fleet formation would be chaotic, and it would definitely create an opportunity for the opponent to take advantage of it.

But after all, he was an experienced veteran, and after only staying for a while, Pylos quickly reacted, turned his head and shouted: "Turn around! Turn around quickly, and retreat while fighting! Raise the command flag and let the fleets on both sides flank this daring guy! I don't believe it's a turtle shell that can't be smashed!"

The first mate quickly conveyed Pylos's order, and the sailors, who were even frightened by the "Black Dragon King", sprang into action, chiseled open the powder keg, and filled the barrel with gunpowder and cannonballs.

And the two fleets that had received the flag order also slowly began to adjust their formations, with the flagship of the Shira fleet as the center, and began to compress to both sides, trying to squeeze the Black Dragon King and the fleet behind it into a ball in the shortest possible time, blocking its travel space.

According to the tactics of naval warfare, Pylos's tactical response is not wrong, he has an absolute advantage in the number of warships, as long as the opponent's battleship breaks into his V-shaped formation, then he will command the battleship to fight and retreat, and then the battleships on both sides quickly move closer to the middle, and cross-cutting, in the shortest possible time, the opponent's fleet can be cut from each other, so that they can change from a complete queue to a rabble fighting separately.

Once such a situation is formed, then the battle will soon be over, and Tang Jie's fleet will be slaughtered like sheep.

However, all of Pylos's tactical contingencies and expectations were based on normal circumstances, but the Black Dragon King in front of him was far beyond his expectations.

Because, the speed of the Black Dragon King is too fast!

The Black Dragon King's streamlined bow was like a sharp sword, so fast that it was about to split the air and the waves in half, it was like a fierce horse advancing at high speed, and like a torpedo that cleaved the waves, it rushed fiercely towards the flagship of the Shira fleet!

When the "Tempest" turned the bow of the ship and was about to retreat, the huge four-masted battleship had just crossed the hull, and the sailors on board saw that the Black Dragon King had clearly appeared in front of their eyes, less than a few hundred meters away from them, and with good eyesight, they could even see clearly the textured hard shell of this battleship that reflected the light of black metal.

"Turn around, you clumsy fools, don't you want to live?" Before Pylos could give the order, the first mate screamed in horror, the speed of this battleship was enough to terrify any sailor!

They had never seen such a fast battleship!!

The sailors of the Tempest were so frightened that their hands and feet trembled, and although their speed did not slow down due to the intense fear and oppression, by the time they turned the bow of the ship completely and prepared to retreat, the Black Dragon King was less than twenty meters away from them.

Twenty meters, this is a distance where you can see each other's facial features clearly face to face!

Pylos's eyes widened, staring at the Black Dragon King who was getting closer and closer, he subconsciously glanced to the side, and the first mate next to him dragged him to the handrail where he could grab and lean, while Tarberola, who was wearing a black robe, was gone.

Pylos then turned his attention to the deck, where the sailors were already clinging to the masts, railings, and other fixed places, and their faces were horrified waiting for the impending impact.

The Black Dragon King is getting closer and closer, so close that its shadow is almost already hanging over the deck of the Tempest!

Pylos stared at the battleship with his eyes fixed, and suddenly let out a long sigh: "Misstep......"

Before he finished speaking, there was a loud bang!

The black dragon king's bow had a five-meter-long and half-meter-thick ramming horn into the hull of the "Tempest".

Since the "Tempest" is also a huge castle-type battleship, it is not much worse than the Black Dragon King in terms of the scale of the battleship, especially in terms of height, so the Black Dragon King's ramming angle tore a big hole in the hull of the "Tempest".

A large number of sailors flew away in an instant because of the violent impact, some hit the mast and vomited blood, while others went straight over the side of the ship, let out a miserable cry, and fell into the sea.

And even worse is the sailors in the cabin, because the speed of the Black Dragon King is too fast, when the two warships collide together, the huge impact of the Black Dragon King slammed the bow of the "Tempest" flattened, and some of the sailors in the cabin were squeezed into meat paste before they had time to hum.

The "Tempest" master turned on his back, and the Imperial fleets of Shira on both sides were all shocked when they saw it, and they all accelerated their speed to move closer to the Tempest, and some warships had already begun to spray angry cannon fire and fire at the Black Dragon King.

But because the Black Dragon King and the Tempest were almost two ships connected at this time, the Shira Imperial warship wanted to attack the Black Dragon King with the most fierce artillery fire, and only some scattered cannon fire blasted towards the Black Dragon King, but the bombardment on the silhouette shell covered outside the hull left only a white mark, and nothing was left.

At the beginning, the pirate battleship that was closely following behind the Black Dragon King had been pulled out at this time, and Christina of the "Hell" was a little worried that Tang Jie would be attacked by the opponent's fierce artillery fire while driving the Black Dragon King, but she never expected that when the Black Dragon King began to speed up, it would break through the opponent's defense line so quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it stabbed the sword into the opponent's chest and heart!

"Assault!!" Christina looked at the "Tempest" that was knocked over by the Black Dragon King, she only felt a burst of blood boiling, and suddenly pulled out the long sword at her waist, and shouted sharply, "Rush in as fast as possible! Don't let them close!"

At this time, the Shira fleet was really painful and embarrassing, and they were faced with a dilemma: should they concentrate their artillery on this terrifying battleship, or should they use artillery to isolate the battleship behind it and divide them?

In fact, in the face of this problem, a person with a little more experience in naval warfare should decisively abandon the "Tempest" and concentrate its firepower on the battleships that followed behind the Black Dragon King, striving to strangle his henchmen first, and then surround and kill the Black Dragon King.

But in fact, although the captains of the Shira Imperial Navy fleet knew that they should do this, they still hesitated, because they were used to getting orders from the captain first, and at this time, the central command tower of the Shira fleet was defeated by the Black Dragon King in one fell swoop!

It was precisely this short moment of hesitation that turned the entire battle situation around!