Chapter 304 *** (Medium)
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"Rush up, hurry up!!"
"Fire, fire!, beat these bitches into meat foam!"
"Quick, hit that guy swimming in the sea, that guy is wearing an officer uniform, he's a big fish!"
"There are battleships approaching from the port side, and the speed is very fast!"
"They're saving the people in the water, aiming the cannons in the cabin at them!"
As Tang Jie drove the Black Dragon King into the center of the formation of the Xila fleet, the whole scene fell into chaos.
As soon as the Shira fleets on both sides hesitated slightly, Christina led the pirates to viciously rush into the formation, surrounding the flagship of the Shira fleet, the "Tempest", for a fierce attack!
In an instant, the huge four-masted battleship turned into a ball of fire, thick smoke billowed out, and even the Black Dragon King, who collided with the "Tempest" and embedded in the bow of the ship, was hit by many cannons, but fortunately, the Black Dragon King was in defensive mode at this time, and the shell was outrageously hard.
When the "Tempest" was stormed, the castle-like battleship was constantly screaming and screaming and jumping from the battleship into the water, and amazingly, Captain Pyrrhos, under the desperate protection of his first mate and men, managed to grab a small boat and escape the catastrophe unscathed.
The sailors, who jumped from the deck into the sea, saw a stormy boat on the surface of the sea, and one by one they were ecstatic and swam towards the small boat, which could only carry five people.
For a moment the sea was densely packed with innumerable people fluttering around the boat, and Pylos on board stood in disheveled clothes and in a state of disarray, while around him the first mate and several officers roared hoarsely, their eyes bulging and glaring at the fierceness of their eyes, and in the most stern tones, ordering them not to board the ship, and not to storm the captain's ship.
Pylos is a bigwig in the entire navy of the Shira Empire, and on weekdays, these soldiers are all in awe when they see Pylos, not to mention offended, they don't even dare to look up and take a look. But now, when people are about to die, where can they manage so much?
Even if the ship is the emperor of the Shira Empire at this time, I am afraid that I will pull into the water first and let myself live!
The more fierce the officers on the boat, the more fierce the impact of the sailors who fell into the water, and in just a few moments, more than a dozen hands were tightly grasped on the side of the ship.
Seeing that the deterrence could not be done, the officers brazenly pulled out the long knives at their waists and mercilessly slashed at the fingers on the side of the ship!
With a "du" knife, blood splattered, a row of fingers fell into the boat, and the sailors whose fingers were cut off fell into the sea with their hands covered in a miserable howl, and the sea water was quickly stained red, and then the blood was quickly diluted by the seawater.
The tragedy was going on and on, and the four officers on board were slashing at any sailor who dared to storm the boat like a wheel, and Pylos seemed to be numb by the bloody and cruel scene in front of him, and just stood on the ship in a daze, and at his feet, there were fingers rolling in the ship with the surging waves!
This scene not only made the sailors and officers on the other warships of the Shira Empire terrifying, but even the pirates were stunned and sent chills down their backs.
But the horror lasted only a few seconds, and soon the battleships of the Shira Empire approached the small ship like crazy.
"Go and save our captain!"
"Get them back!!"
"O merciful god of the sea, may your fraternity and magnanimity forgive these raging soldiers...... It's really, so cruel!"
The officers and soldiers on the battleships of the Shira Empire were all anxious, and some captains even lowered more than a dozen small boats at once to salvage and rescue Captain Pylos.
In the navy of the Shira Empire, there is a military order that is extremely strict, that is, the death of the commander, and all officers and soldiers from this commander down are implicated!
In other words, if Pylos dies in battle here, then the captain of every battleship in this fleet will go to the military court of the Empire, and what awaits them will be a gallows, a burning-table!
As a result, the pirates of Alcatraz Island were dumbfounded to see that these warships were still very rational just now and wanted to cut off their formation from the middle, but once they found that Pylos was in danger of being in danger on that small ship, they rushed towards this small ship like crazy one by one, regardless of any formation and any tactics!
Although Christina hoped that these guys could lose their minds and lose their formation, so that she could take advantage of the fire and rob and take advantage of the chaos, when almost all the warships on the other side rushed towards a place like crazy, Christina couldn't help but be stunned, because in the direction of these warships, there were not only the huge Black Dragon King, but also the flagship "Hell", "Expedition", "Victory", "Bad Boy" and other battleships.
It's as if Christina had laid out heavy troops in one place, ready to surround the point and send reinforcements, but she suddenly found that the forces she had deployed could only block ten warships, and the other party rushed over more than fifty warships in one go!
How to fight this!
Christina looked at these dense battleships on the sea, her eyes straightened, she found that she didn't need to aim on her side, she would definitely hit the target with her eyes closed, and even some battleships were so close that the crew could swing from one battleship to another!
Naval battles are the most particular about formation, and even if they don't pay attention to formation, it is very taboo that the warships get too close to each other, which will form a huge target for the other side.
But by this time, the fleet of the Shira Empire had been completely disorganized, and they rushed towards Pylos's boat like a swarm, and Christina's warship was in their path.
"What should I do?" Bill was so frightened by the sudden and amazing scene in front of him that the cold hairs on his back stood up, and the scene of dozens of warships rushing madly towards his side in front of him was really too testing people's concentration, it was as if there were thousands of cavalry torrents in front of him, rushing towards him, did he stand in place, or did he run away and dodge?
Bill's loud shouts sent Christina into a shiver, and she quickly responded: "Full rudder left, side sail, turn the bow, level the hull, and meet the opponent with the cabin cannon!!"
As soon as this order was issued, there was an uproar on the deck of the battleship at the front, followed by a loud shout from the chief and deputy commanders.
Christina's order was the equivalent of a group of ill-prepared soldiers suddenly encountering a massive cavalry charge, and they chose to stay put, and then set camp with a spear array!
This is a-for-tat hard shock!
Christina's split-second decision reveals her wildness and wildness!
Soon, the two warships that broke into the formation of the Shira Imperial fleet along with the Alcatraz battleships were regular troops with high military literacy after all, and they first completed the tactical change and flattened the hull.
Pirate warships such as the Inferno flattened the hull, and countless cabin guns were pushed out of their hatches, revealing their hideous fangs.
Christina stood on the bridge and shouted, "Fire!!"
There was a boom in cannons, and the sea was immediately covered in a thick smoke, and there was a pungent smoke everywhere.
Some of the sailors in the cabin were choking on the smoke and coughing violently, but they were constantly carrying ammunition with their hands and feet.
The swarming enemy ships, some of which were covered by the billowing artillery fire, others began to desperately return fire, and Christina's immediate reaction dealt a heavy blow to these frantic battleships.
In the blink of an eye, in just one round of attacks from eight warships, five of the battleships of the Shira fleet tumbled with flames and turned into a ball of fire.
The lessons of these battleships suddenly cleared the minds of these crazy battleship captains, and some of them began to direct the battleships to level their hulls and return fire with their cabin guns, while some of the battleships began to slowly turn around, trying to bypass Christina and the others to rescue Captain Pylos.
Although Christina punched the opponent hard at the first time, but the number of opponent's warships was too much, and soon the opponent relied on the numerical advantage to launch artillery fire, and for a time the cannon rumbled on the sea, and the firelight kept rolling on the warships of both sides, and the flying sawdust flew everywhere like blades.
The battleships on both sides were quickly strangled together, if someone stood in the sky and looked down, they would find that the battleships on both sides showed a parallel two lines at this time, the battleships on Christina's side were more scattered, but the artillery was fierce and intensive, and the battleships on the side of the Shira Empire were a little difficult to swing due to the large number of warships, the distance between the ships was small, and the battleships were chaotic, although the number was majority, but the artillery did not have an advantage in the bombardment.
Christina stood in the midst of the artillery fire, and although the cannon rumbled all around, she didn't hear it, and her mind was just thinking about countermeasures.
The current situation seems to be in her favor, but in fact, if she continues to fight like this, she will not win.
Although there were still ships on her side that had not joined the warband, and the battleships that had not followed behind were speeding up towards the warband, while others had made an arc in an attempt to attack the back of the Shira fleet.
But although there are warships on her side that have not joined the warband, the fleet of the Sheila Empire also has warships that have not joined the warband, and there are many more of them than her!
You must know that from the very beginning, the formation of the Shira Imperial Fleet was a V-shaped battle formation, and the Black Dragon King broke into the middle, which was equivalent to splitting the fleets on both sides, although it destroyed the central system of the Imperial Fleet and cut off the connection between the fleets on both sides, but it also made the fleet on the pirate side fall into a state of attack on both sides.
When the pirate's follow-up ships frantically rushed to join the warband, the Shira fleet on the other side also rushed towards the wargroup frantically, and since Christina's main attention was focused on the warships in front of her, she seemed a little overwhelmed when the warships behind her began to approach Pylos.
After all, the Sila Empire is far more than them in terms of the number of warships and soldiers.
Tang Jie's Black Dragon King was also deeply in a very embarrassing situation at this time.
Because the impact just now was too violent, the bow of the Black Dragon King and the bow of the Tempest were embedded in each other, and as a result, the Black Dragon King's attempt to turn around seemed clumsy and difficult to achieve.
This situation made Tang Jie smile bitterly, especially when he saw the battleships next to him approaching violently, showing off the dense cabin cannons one by one, he had a feeling of scalp tingling.
"I don't know if I can stop ......" Tang Jie smiled bitterly and glanced at Nia beside him, and said to himself.
The Black Dragon King's defense is perverted, but what will happen if it is besieged by the artillery of dozens of warships, it is unknown.
"Nia......" Tang Jie took a long breath and said, "Beat the flag, tell Christina, let her give it a go, and I will help her block the wave of soldiers behind!"
Nia glanced at Tang Jie deeply, walked to the deck without a sound, and quickly raised the flag.
Christina, who was directing the battle on the bridge at this time, didn't even have time to look at Tang Jie and his Black Dragon King after learning Tang Jie's banner, because the battle at this time had become fierce to the point of no return.
At this time, the fleets on both sides were only less than two hundred meters away from each other, and the power of the cabin guns was almost maximized.
It's like two brave men, both of whom have sharp blades in their hands, and then you stab me, and I stab you, don't dodge or dodge, and the knife will see blood!
What a cruelty and blood, what a test of one's willpower!
Even the most fierce pirates, no matter how brave the soldiers, couldn't help but turn pale and tremble in the face of such a cruel artillery battle!
Almost every second, dozens of cannons roared at the same time, dozens of fireworks erupted from the guns in the cabin every second, and dozens of soldiers screamed and were consumed by the cannon fire every second!
Everywhere there was gunsmoke, everywhere there were flames, everywhere there were battleships with smoke billowing and everywhere there were sailors covered in blood!
If the magic battle before this sea battle was a strategic missile bombardment with a grand scale and shocking scenes, then the shelling battle at this time is a sword battle between the two sides, a sword and a sword battle, and the blood is all over the sea!
The guards around Christina who were guarding her had changed three waves, and as the flagship, the "Hell" naturally attracted the most firepower, and now the Inferno was in tatters, and the cabin began to flooded on a large scale, and there were more than 20 cannons in the cabin guns that were just blown up in the bombardment, not to mention the cannons that were destroyed by the shelling.
The second officer on the ship has begun to urge the first mate Bill to let Christina change the battleship, but he was severely reprimanded by Bill, and Bill also knows very well that at this time, it is two people fighting to the death, and it is an extremely terrible consequence for either side to admit it.
The brutal battle lasted for another minute, and nearly a third of the battleships of Alcatraz and the Second Empire of Falk had been smashed into a blazing fireball, and countless sailors struggled and floated in the sea, some desperately swimming towards their own side of the battleship, and some were sunk into the sea by the whirlpool of water stirred up by the slowly sinking battleship.
But the ships of the Shira Empire were hit even harder, due to the dense formation, more than half of their warships have been sunk or bombed to the point that they are no longer combat-effective!
The combined casualty rate of nearly 50 percent made the sailors and soldiers on both sides shudder, and some of them already began to tremble, to fear, to break down, and to flee.
The first to turn the bow of the ship was the "Duke Sheldon" of the Shira Empire, the captain of this battleship was originally a very proud nobleman who liked to boast about himself and was extremely obsessed with the wind and snow, and before he set out, he even boasted to his noble mistress: I must cut off the heads of those daring pirates, and then use their skulls to make my stepping stones!
However, this short ten minutes of tragic artillery battle broke the Duke Sheldon's disguise, and this aristocratic captain, who had never experienced a war, suddenly encountered this tragic naval battle that was rare in a century, and his fragile nerves finally collapsed after suffering for more than ten minutes.
Although the "Duke Sheldon" had been at the rear of the battle formation and had not directly experienced artillery fire, the Duke of Sheldon was frightened by the continuous burning and sinking of the battleship, and he resolutely ordered the bow to turn around and begin to break away from the battle formation, despite the obstruction of the first mate.
Although the escape of the "Duke Sheldon" was only a very inconspicuous small wave in the chaos of the chaos of the chaos of dozens of nearly 100 warships, this small wave made the fierce battle of the Shira Imperial fleet begin to fill with a wave of panic and fear.
In their opinion, this group of pirates is just crazy!
They had never seen pirates who dared to fight head-on with the officers and soldiers and engage in a massive artillery battle!
Not to mention seeing it with your own eyes, you haven't even heard of it!
But these pirates not only dared to fight like this, but also stared at the blood-red eyes, and persevered in the crazy artillery battle, they did not collapse as imagined, but the positions of their regular army were a little messed up!
When the "Duke Sheldon" turned the bow of the ship and gradually broke away from the battle formation, the battleships on the entire sea were almost twisted together, and all the battleships of Alcatraz Island and all the battleships of Falco's second fleet were put into the battle group, although the divided fleet of the Shira Empire was supplemented by warships in the future, but due to the chaotic arrangement of battleships in the early stage, there was no formation at all, so the power of the artillery has been limited, and it was attacked by the pirates who opened the formation, and for a time the pirates began to win on the local battlefield.
But at this time, the captain of the Shira fleet, Pylos, was successfully rescued by the warships sent by the other fleet, and Pyrrhus boarded the battleship "Yanbo", and declared the "Yanbo" as the flagship, causing the battleship to raise the flag.
After changing ships twice, Pylos once again led his fleet and began to fight back against the pirates of Alcatraz.
The many sailors and soldiers who were originally stimulated by the escape of the battleship "Duke Sheldon" were shocked by the morale of the army, and when they saw the re-raised flagship battle flag, they couldn't help but cheer loudly.
The loose lines of the Shira fleet suddenly became stronger, because they were convinced that under the leadership of Captain Pylos, the opposing fleet would soon be flanking these damned pirates on both sides until they were completely sunk in the sea!
"Damn!" Christina's hand gripping the hilt of the long sword at her waist was so hard that her fingers were so pale that there was no trace of blood, her eyes stared fiercely at the Shira battleship in front of her, as long as she was given another ten minutes, no, even five minutes, she could completely crush this fleet, and then turn her head to deal with the other fleet!
Although even if the other fleet does not fight the tragic battle in front of it, its strength will far surpass its own side, not to mention that at this time, after experiencing a tragic battle, its own side has lost one-third of its crew, from warships to sailors!
But if you don't kill this fleet as soon as possible, once the fleets on both sides are closed, then the pirates will be in a dead and lifeless situation!
"Captain, it's up to you!" Christina turned her head to look at the Black Dragon King, muttering as if praying and moaning.
"Now, listen to my orders!!" Christina suddenly turned her head and ordered loudly, "Lower the sail, lean in, and get ready for hand-to-hand combat!!"
When this sentence was spoken, the murderous aura was so strong that the pirates on the deck heard it and their eyes immediately turned red, and their panting became extremely heavy.
Hand-to-hand combat, this is the killer weapon of pirates!
Christina wants to defeat the other party in the shortest possible time, and there is no doubt that the best way is to fight, that is, hand-to-hand combat!!
Now it's finally time for the bayonet to see red!
As soon as the flag of hand-to-hand combat was hung up, there was a loud cheer on the deck of the pirate ship, as pirates, they still crave hand-to-hand combat more than artillery combat, and die under the opponent's knife, this is the glorious way to die, being killed by artillery fire, even the other party's face can not be seen, this is too cowardly!
When the officers and men of the Second Fleet of the Falk Empire heard this crazy order, they looked at each other one by one, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, as officers and soldiers, they were still used to artillery battles more than hand-to-hand combat, but at the moment, they couldn't help but dance with this group of wolf-like pirates.
Captain Cook, the captain of the Second Fleet of the Falk Empire, had been stained with a very graceful beard by gunpowder fire, and his aristocratic demeanor and etiquette that had penetrated deep into the bone marrow had disappeared in the flames of war, and he threw his white gloves on the deck and yelled: "Damn, a bunch of crazy people! Such a close distance, such a dense artillery actually wants to rush up to hand-to-hand combat! Is this woman's head all mush? She's crazy?"
The officers around Cook also smiled wryly, and they all looked at their captain, and asked him what to do?
Cook looked at the broken body of the Hell not far away, resolutely rushed towards the opponent's battleship, he cursed viciously again, and then like a desperate wolf, he howled hysterically: "Follow up, if you want to die, everyone will die together!" Damn, the most regrettable thing in my life is that I stupidly agreed to them to fight this naval battle!!"
For a moment, the situation on the whole sea suddenly changed, and the pirates began to carry out a terrible hand-to-hand raid like a last madness, and these warships rushed towards the Shila fleet like torpedoes, and in the eyes of the soldiers of the Shila fleet, these crazy guys were more like a group of cavalry with bayonets and spears, and they were not afraid of death!
The soldiers of Sila standing on the deck were frightened by the terrifying assault momentum of the pirates, and some soldiers were so shocked that they sat on the deck as they watched the advancing posture of these warships!
The battle line that had just been stabilized by the severed Shira fleet became loose again, but at this time, Christina, who was a charging general, received a message that made her almost thunder: the pirate ship "Bad Boy" broke away from the formation without authorization and turned around and fled!!
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After the annual meeting, I returned from the training class of Lu Xun Academy of Literature, full of passion and motivation, although I was going to fly back to Shenzhen on the 29th, but it began to break out in the past few days, and today is just a normal update!
And even if I return to Shenzhen, I will continue to break out and make up for all the chapters I owe!
I'll only say it once! There will be more word bursts tomorrow!!