Chapter 303: Battle at Sea!
"Quick, push the cannonballs up! Bastard, what are you rubbing!"
"Be careful, light, hell, do you think you're carrying cheese beer? This is a powder keg, it's going to kill if it falls on the ground! Do you want us to feed the fish?"
"Hang the spinnaker and untie that damn short noose!"
"Sailman, where is the sailman!"
"Gunner, come in, don't grind on the deck!"
"For the sake of the sea god Tira, don't fucking shiver, cheer me up, or I'll throw you into the sea first to feed the fish!"
On the deck of the Inferno, Bill shouted at the busy sailors on the deck in a high-pitched voice, while Christina used a telescope to watch intently at the changes in the formation of the battleships around her.
The tension on the Hell was as if it was about to burn, not only the flagship of the four-masted Lion King-class battleship, but also most of the other warships, and the loud shouts of the captain and first mate continued to be heard, spreading across the sea, making the calm sea more and more murderous.
Tang Jie knew that he was fighting alone and leading a warship to participate in a naval battle, he was a first-class top player, but in such a large-scale naval battle in front of him, he was a layman, he could give strategic advice, but let him command the specific tactics of a large-scale naval battle, that was really blind.
So Tang Jie simply threw all the command of the war to the heroic Christina, and since Christina took over this temporary fleet, she has a feeling of dying for her confidant, and she looks conscientious and dedicated.
Especially when a big battle was approaching, almost everyone on the ship was almost suffocated, and she was no exception, although the hand holding the monocular was still calm, but the heart in her chest was beating loud and fast.
From what she had observed, there were more than a hundred warships in all directions, and they were well-behaved and relaxed between advance and retreat, apparently regular navy, the size and training of which were enough to make her fearful.
But when she was frightened, her heart burned with fierce fighting intent, not everyone could encounter a naval battle of this scale, especially as the main commander of a huge battle!
"This battle, whether won or lost, has not been in vain to live in this world once!" Christina muttered as she put down the monoculars in her hand.
Bill, who was on the side, had sharp ears and couldn't help but say, "We're going to win!" Don't you have any confidence?"
Christina shook her head, her eyebrows tightened, and she said slowly: "When I was studying at the Royal Naval Academy, my teacher once said to me: When an excellent general faces a war, he first thinks about the consequences of his defeat, then thinks about why he fails, then thinks about how to avoid defeat, then thinks about how to achieve victory without failing, and finally thinks about what to do if he wins!"
Bill has been partnering with Christina and Nia to form fleets and train sailors for a while, so he knows a lot about the art of war in this red-haired woman's chest, although he himself is proficient in the art of navigation and has rich experience, but after all, he is only a pirate, and the pattern is limited, unlike Christina, a talent who studied in the Naval Academy, he heard Christina say this, and immediately frowned: "Sea God Tira, it's so troublesome to fight!" In the past, when Captain Tang Jie led us to fight, it was nothing more than fighting bravely and not fearing death! If we were all like you, our hair would have fallen out long ago!"
Christina just smiled when she heard this, but said in her heart: So you are my deputy, so Tang Jie handed over the command of this battle to me.
But when she thought of this, she thought about it: Although Tang Jie handed over the command of this battle to me, he was commanding me, could it be that I am the talent who commanded the soldiers as the teacher once said, and Tang Jie is the talent who commands the generals? Yes, he values me so much, I must be cautious in this battle, and I will never lose if I lose!
Christina thought for a while, but Bill on the side didn't know that the red-haired woman had turned so many thoughts in a blink of an eye, he looked at the approaching enemy ships on the sea level, and gritted his teeth and scolded: "Damn, these bastards either don't come, and they come so much!"
"Yes, the Shira Empire is out of the nest this time!" Christina nodded on the side.
While all the sailors of the Temporary Combined Fleet were busy preparing for battle, they were even busier than the magic swordsmen of the Magic Legion loaded on battleships such as the Hell.
In the face of this upcoming fierce naval battle, some of these magic swordsmen can only assist magic in hand-to-hand combat because of their magic skills, and they will not be able to play a role in the upcoming magic war, so they sit in their cabin lounge, quietly wiping their magic armor and magic spiral scimitar inlaid with exquisite magic patterns.
The swordsmen, who had learned powerful ranged magic and ranged auxiliary magic, stepped onto the deck one after another and began to draw makeshift magic arrays in the open deck area.
This kind of magic array is not complicated, most of them rely on the special positions between magicians to form a strong magic complementary, resulting in the effect of one plus one is greater than two.
"How are your people?" Tang Jie, who was standing on the bridge of the Black Dragon King and watching the overall situation, turned his head and asked Fiona, who was dressed in white robe beside him.
Fiona was now closing her eyes, feeling the breath of how many magicians were on the approaching battleship, she was not wearing her noble and exquisite pointed magic hat, her long golden hair was draped over her shoulders like a waterfall, and around her, pale blue magic ripples were flowing slowly, like a small stream.
Fiona heard Tang Jie's words, opened her eyes, and the hand holding the walnut cracker magic wand inlaid with magic crystals swept in the air, and suddenly a mist appeared, and groups of enemy ships began to appear in the mist.
Fiona's hand brushed over the mist, and then the mist flickered, and the picture seemed to be suddenly zoomed in, turning into the situation on the deck of a battleship.
Obviously, on the deck of this battleship, in addition to the busy sailors, there were soldiers in neat uniforms on both sides, and in the open space on the deck stood a group of magicians in magic robes, and they glanced at it, afraid that there were not more than forty or fifty people.
Tang Jie only glanced at it, and then gasped: "So many magicians?"
Fiona nodded with a stern face: "That's right, this is just a battleship, I can feel that almost every battleship on the other battleships has such a large number of magicians! Some battleships even have more than a hundred magicians!"
Tang Jie froze for a moment when he heard this, and then exhaled slowly: "It seems that the Xila Empire has really come with the strength of the country, this is a bitter battle!"
Tang Jie glanced at Fiona, smiled slightly, and said, "Fortunately, you also came, otherwise this battle will be extremely dangerous!"
Fiona was not modest either, and sneered unyieldingly, "I've probably calculated that there are at least two thousand magicians! Hey, they've made up their minds to bury my magic legion here!"
"More than two thousand?" Tang Jie was startled, "This is too scary, isn't it?"
Fiona said: "This is still my calculation of the less!Hmph, the vast majority of the magicians of the Shira Empire are from the Sky City of Talasha, and some of these magicians only learn one magic, and they are completely used as mechanical tools by the royal family of the Shira Empire in mass manufacturing and production, which is really an inferior product among magicians!"
Tang Jie smiled bitterly: "No matter how inferior the product is, it can't stop people from having a large volume!"
There was another sentence he didn't say, for fear of breaking Fiona's heart: although people are mass-produced products, they just study one trick, and there is a way that they are not afraid of a thousand tricks, but they are afraid of one trick! If more than 2,000 magicians are only proficient in one trick and then release it at once, it will also be a terrifying thing!
And Tang Jie's worries are not unfounded, because he has seen the magic legion fight with his own eyes, so he knows that the strength of this magic legion is hand-to-hand combat, but he is afraid that such a magic confrontation is not their strong point.
Fiona seemed to know what Tang Jie was thinking, she smiled slightly, and said proudly: "I know, are you worried that most of the magic legions are magic swordsmen, and there are not enough magicians who can fight from a distance? Hmph, you don't look at what they are wearing! Those magic armors, each set is tens of thousands of gold coins!" The magic pattern on it and the spiral scimitar in their hands can store a large amount of magic power, and the magic array I created can allow these demon warriors who can't fight far away to transfer the magic power in their bodies to the magicians who can fight far away!"
"So, although there are fewer magicians in the magic legion who can perform magic battles than the other party, they are not necessarily worse than them!" said Fiona.
Tang Jie smiled slightly on the side and said, "I believe this, and besides, isn't there you, the Queen of Magic?"
If it was in normal times, Fiona listened to Tang Jie's sycophancy, but I was afraid that she would have already smiled, but at this time, the big war was imminent, and the atmosphere was so tense that even Fiona, who had experienced a hundred battles, was a little nervous, her eyes stared at the battleship on the sea level, pointed with her hand, and said: "They are about to do it, you see!"
Tang Jie looked at Fiona's hand, and sure enough, in the sky above the battleship, azure magical elements were constantly gathering, so intense that they were like blue clouds floating in the sky.
These clouds piled up more and more, and gradually joined together, and from a distance it looked like a rising wave, overwhelmingly surging towards them!
Tang Jie's heart was shocked, he pursed his lips and didn't speak, but took out the miracle arrow hidden on his body with his backhand, looking at this surging magic wave as if he were facing a great enemy.
And just when Tang Jie took out the miracle arrow with his backhand, suddenly in this blue magic wave, there was a sudden ripple that was visible to the naked eye, and at this moment, Tang Jie suddenly saw that the sea level suddenly turned red, as if the sun jumped up from the sea in an instant, illuminating the sea and sky red!
Immediately after, countless fireballs burst into the sky from the sea level!
Tang Jie's eyes widened, watching as these countless magical fireballs rushed towards them like a raging storm!
Although it was still far away, such a dense magic fireball that covered the sky and the sun was too terrifying, as if someone was holding a burning blanket and covering their heads and faces, and they were overwhelmed!