The sound of the horn does not mean that the two longships are preparing to storm the sail battleship that is five times heavier than themselves, but rather that it is an ambush waiting for their prey to enter the trap in the distance. The speed at which they turned back can be described as astonishing: the "Running Wolf" was only halfway through its U-turn, and the two longships had already quickly switched from "escaping" to "chasing", not only clamping the return route of the Running Wolf to the left and right, flexibly and spicily, but also began to shoot some longbow shots. The sporadic thud of arrows striking the brand-new hull of the sail warship did not hurt half a man, but it was quite effective in harassing the movements of the sailors of the North.

And as the two longships harassed, the friendly forces that had been prepared for a few miles received the sound signal, accelerated their oars, and hurried towards the battlefield, and after a moment they came into view.

There were two more boats, and they were similar in size and weight to the "Running Wolf", but due to the difference in combat concepts, the Iron Folk sailboat had two more auxiliary sails in the bow and stern, and more oarsmen, who were obliquely facing the north wind, and under the dual effect of manpower and Bernoulli, they pursued at twice the maximum speed of the target.

It was only at this time that the Wolf was able to complete its turn and was trying to accelerate.

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There are many iron ships, but ninety percent of them are plundering long ships, and the main force of the iron fleet led by Euron is still hundreds of miles to the south at the moment, and the two sailing ships that appear here today are already the only ships suitable for frontal naval battles north of the sea monster cape - the calculation is to give the main force of the iron fleet a head before the news goes north and the northern warships in the ice gap harbor are also formed.

The comparison of the battle situation instantly changed from "1 sailboat against 2 long ships" to "1 sailboat against 2 sailboats plus 2 long ships", four packs of one, and the blind can see that the Running Wolf was caught...... Although he was alert in time before he fell into the trap, he still couldn't escape the trap!

"Lady Mormont, their ship is much faster than ours!"

"I can tell!" Maggie Mormont glared at his panicked subordinates, "You told me clearly that it was possible for us to retreat into the protection of Icefjord Harbor before we were overtaken?"

"Fear ...... I'm afraid it's a bit hanging. ”

"A little hanging is not enough! That's enough, drop the sails and retract the oars, leave a few people below deck to control the steering, and let everyone else come up and get ready for engagement!"

"It's ?...... Yes, ma'am!"

Since you can't run away, don't run. The Bear Island family doesn't look like a short woman at all, but they are calmer and more decisive than a whole boatload of men...... The Running Wolf, which had not yet reached full speed, slowly stopped, slightly adjusted its direction and aimed its side at the two iron-man sailboats that were chasing fiercely, twisted the two stone throwers, and aimed them at the two enemy ships that were heading straight away.

"Fight when you get closer, wildfire bombs are very expensive!" Maggie Mormont pointed to the crew lined up in front of him with a mace in one hand and a finger in the other, assigning tasks: "A few of you - keep an eye on the longship on the port side, the rest - starboard side, shoot me at once if you have a bow, I don't want you to have half a barrel of arrows in your hands when you fight on the side of the ship! And those few in black, don't look at us, take care of your wildfires and stone throwers, and promise me to set the two big boats on the other side! In short...... Don't let half of the sea monster cubs go!"

"Yes!"

After all, less than half of them were recruits, and when someone gave orders, the tension of the soldiers quickly subsided, and the figures running around in a panic on the deck gradually gathered, lined up with weapons in hand, waiting for the battle to come.

One of the two sailboats began to slow down and parallel when they approached more than 100 meters away, while the other continued to approach violently, and the collision angles under the bow of the ship were undulating among the water waves.

The Iron Islands' thousands of years of piracy history have long been deeply engraved in the culture of the methods and experience of naval warfare, and although the four Iron Folk warships are not all from the same family, they have quite tacitly adopted the first priority tactics that have been negotiated for a long time: 1+3, one sailboat covers and suppresses from afar, and the other approaches to lead the two shorter longships in a gang-jumping battle.

An orange-red flash of fire flashed, and the Iron Min's cover ship a hundred meters away was the first to "fire": it was not Egger's innovation to load projectile weapons onto the ship for naval warfare, and the one of the two Iron Min's sailboats for cover was also equipped with trebuchets, but only one was due to the lack of space due to the priority tendency to maneuverability. And its ammunition is a ball of "fire".

The dense hard core is wrapped in a thick layer of straw and wood chips poured with tar to form a viscous paste-like substance, and then wrapped in a straw mat and rotten cloth to fix it, ignited a moment before the projectile, and when it is thrown, it is already as brilliant as a magical fire meteor, leaving a clearly distinguishable smoke mark in the sky, slamming into the water not far from the Running Wolf, splashing a cloud of water and disappearing into the sea.

"Shoot back!"

The Northern Sailors and Night's Watch next to the two stone throwers were not at all glad that the other party had missed, in this era when there was no fire control and all the experience of feeling, it was the norm to adjust a long-range attack a few times before hitting it, and we must not sit idly by!

The target was not the enemy ship with trebuchets in the distance, but the one that was rapidly colliding with the approach, bang, swinging arms on the beam, two inconspicuous wildfire incendiary bombs flew out in response, and soon turned into two small black dots in the sky - the miracle of a shot into the soul did not happen, the incendiary bomb fell into the sea in a pop that only existed in the imagination, and the sea water of the frozen bay at zero degrees curbed the characteristics of this terrifying substance that could also burn on the water, and a total of three misses on both sides were silent.

"Adjust, continue!"

"It's coming, turn your head and turn your head! Don't expose the side to it!"

The first round of bombardment ended in a miss, the deck was full of shouts, orders and figures under the threat of sparse arrows, and the "gunner" withdrew their swing arms and turned the winch, and quickly pulled out the wildfire shells for the second round of attacks from the protective barrel filled with sand, while the ironfolk galleon that had been rammed straight was rapidly approaching with the rowing of two long rows of oars to the point where the faces of the sailors could be seen from each other with the Running Wolf. With their weapons held alalt and a full set of equipment such as gangplanks, grappling hooks and ropes, they were ready for a hearty broadside battle: the Iron Islands were scarce in resources, and although there were many longships, sailing ships with compartments on the upper and lower tiers were extremely rare, and it was naturally the best choice to capture the Running Wolf for their own use.

Torsion weapons require a certain amount of preparation time to "wind up", but fortunately, the rapidly shortening distance between friend and foe greatly reduces the charging process, and the second round of projectiles is quickly prepared, and under the commanding hand's loud orders, the enemy and us simultaneously launch the next wave of bombardment.

Iron Min's second tar incendiary bomb dragged black smoke and hit the mast of the Running Wolf like an eye, although it did not break the wooden pole in the air, but the fiery fragments fell on the deck like flowers, and in an instant it was all over the place and even burned to the sails that had just fallen and piled up beside it.

Relying on the numerical superiority of the catapults, the Running Wolf immediately launched a double firepower counterattack: one of the two incendiary bombs fell too close into the sea, and the other shot too far, but it should have passed over the hull and fell into the sea on the other side, but because the Iron People were hoisting the sails in pursuit of the Running Wolf, it fell into its open stern sail, and with a crisp sound, it broke on the sail, and several chemicals mixed and released a little heat, and the resulting nearly 100 degrees of heat ignited the wildfire as the main ingredient.

One large, two small and three-sided sails, and in an instant, a green flame gradually rose from one side.

No one stood under the sail and was roasted by the fire, and the hull of the ship could not be stopped. The Running Wolf turned thirty degrees with difficulty under the plucking of several long oars, avoiding the maximum damage to its own belly by the opponent's collision angle, but it was impossible for the organic power to escape closer...... With a loud bang, the two sailing ships collided diagonally, and a dozen iron hooks connected to ropes were tossed across the gang to hook them, and the relative speed of the two ships rapidly approached zero in the tooth-sore friction sound.

Behind the Iron Raiders, the stern sail of the ship, which had just been hit by an incendiary grenade, was gradually engulfed in flames and turned into a green torch, and the cold weather affected the spread of the wildfire, but as the flames gradually dried and roasted the canvas, mast and deck, the hot beast quickly regained its wildness, revealing a characteristic that even the user feared - nothing was incombustible, and it was difficult to extinguish.

As Westeros' most skilled "navy", Iron Folk certainly has a plan to deal with the fire of the battleship. But it was only for the ordinary burn-tamed incendiary weapon, and the green flames that swam across the deck like demons in the shape of demons?

The last time the ironmen were attacked by wildfires were either held hostage in Houguan Town or honestly de-iced in Seal Bay under the supervision of Carter Pike, who was looking at the East Sea, the astonishing destructive power of the wildfire instantly destroyed the confidence of the sailors on the burning sailboat to fight the fire...... The men at the stern screamed and hid in the center of the ship, and even those who were already huddled on the deck swallowed in amazement, and then turned back one after another, realizing that the only way to survive was to seize the northern warship in front of them and drive it back to the Iron Islands.

The Night's Watch who manipulated the catapult to hit the enemy ship would not have known that he had inadvertently increased the enemy's will to fight, but it didn't matter, and Maggie Mormont had no intention of engaging the enemy in a normal broadside battle: the relative speed between the two ships was gradually grinding to zero, and the Iron Raiders who had already gathered on the deck held their weapons aloft, waiting for the gangplank to be lowered for the next deck hand-to-hand combat, but instead of the North soldiers who were also holding their weapons, they were greeted by several large jars.

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