Chapter Forty-Six: Shadow Raid!
After deciding to do it, Zhao Hao began to assign tasks.
"Ellie, you lead the Shadow Swordsmen to destroy the ship, and you must not give the other party a chance to move!"
Once you get the ship offshore, it's not easy to catch up.
"Yes, sir!"
Ellie took over the task.
Most of the other party's crew disembarked, and although there were a lot of people left, it was not difficult to take them.
As for why it was 'destroyed' and not 'captured', it was naturally for fear of accidents.
I have seen too many accidents because of greed, and in order to avoid twists and turns in the plan, Zhao Hao directly dealt with him.
Anyway, it's useless to leave the ship, and there is no one under his command to start it, so it is better to destroy it to prevent future troubles.
The task of solving the battleship is entrusted to Ellie, so the task of solving those 'pirates' who go ashore is naturally up to him.
Soon, Ellie led 37 shadow swordsmen, using the cover of trees and plants, and quietly approached in the direction of the battleship's anchorage.
There were lookouts standing in the lookout cabins at the top of the ship's mast, and it was not easy to get closer, and if it weren't for the large amount of vegetation cover, they would have been spotted here long ago.
Waited a while.
"Let's go!"
Zhao Hao led the troops to the side, which was also the place where the other party would definitely pass when he returned.
Ambush!
He hadn't thought about attacking head-on.
After all, more than 300 sailors armed with muskets are not stinky fish and rotten shrimp, and if they really want to attack, the most likely thing is to be shot into a sieve by the opponent's long-range fire.
Muskets!
It sounds like a real-world weapon.
But in reality, gunpowder is not a real-world recipe, but made by an alchemist, and it is very powerful.
Although the sailor is only second-order, it does not mean that the attack power of the musket is only second-order.
Even Freya's dragon scales may not be able to withstand a few rounds of musket fire, so some tactics are required.
And ambush is the best option.
Once the other side finds out that the ship is under attack, it will definitely return to the aid immediately.
Ambushed on the other party's way back to help, he can definitely kill the other party by surprise.
The other side!
The Shadow Swordsmen touched a few hundred meters away from the ship and stopped.
If you go any further, you will be spotted by the lookout with a telescope in hand.
It's not that the Shadow Swordsman can't hide it, but it's an open beach with no vegetation in front of it, and in this case, unless you can be invisible, don't want to get close and not be detected.
Ellie's eyes were full of murderous intent, and her body was as tense as a cheetah before a hunt.
When all the Shadow Swordsmen are ready.
"Kill!"
As soon as the words fell, the whole person swept forward at high speed, followed by 3 7 figures.
Before the two sailors who were standing between the beach and the woods could react, they were approached.
Choke!
The sword came out of its sheath with a soft sound, and the two corpses fell limply.
"Enemy attack!"
The lookout at the top of the mast shouted a warning and made the deck boil.
It's a pity that this kind of battleship is not a small wooden ship, and it can be driven casually.
Wow!
However, it was too late to sail away, but it was too late to raise the plank.
In this way, the entire battleship becomes a fortress.
Even with a large class like the Deadwood Guard, it will take a lot of time to break through such a fortress.
And this time was enough for the bed crossbow on the battleship to shoot it into a sieve.
If the pace is a little slower, maybe the sailors will be able to prepare calmly.
But the shadow swordsman can't have the endurance to run long distances, but the short-distance burst is extremely strong, and he can kill in front of the ship in just a few tens of seconds.
By this time the planks had been drawn halfway, and a dozen sailors had raised their muskets to aim at the rushing team.
Ellie leaped with her sword in hand, leaping towards the gap where she was drawing the plank.
It's just a dozen meters high on the side of the ship (dozens of meters high is plus the mast), how can it be possible to jump up, so the body falls with exhaustion in mid-air.
Phew, Bah!
More than a dozen muskets fired at Ellie, who had no room to dodge, at the same time.
It's just that before the projectile hits, she disappears first.
"Be careful!"
Before the sailors who were firing could find the target, they heard a reminder behind him, and hurriedly turned his head, just in time to see a cloud of silver bursting.
Swish!
The silver sword struck several of the sailors who twitched the ship's plank, causing it to slide down.
"I'll hold her back, pull the planks up, and hold on until the captain returns!"
A boatswain with his muscles bulging high puffed his sword and swooped it down, the sword glittering with dazzling light.
Obviously, this is a professional, and he uses skills.
Clang!
As the two swords intersected, Ellie's shadow suddenly stood up and stabbed the sword.
Imitation!
Faced with this strange attack, the boatswain was a little caught off guard, and could only try to avoid the deadly position of the sword.
Burst!
After the sword was featped, before Ellie could pursue, several sailors pounced on her.
It is clear that these sailors are well versed in battle formations.
Knowing that when facing a strong man, swarming up is completely a chance to slaughter, so he adopts the tactic of one person as the main attack as a bait and the others attack from the blind spot of the vision.
Very simple and straightforward tactics, but not very easy to crack.
Although there was no threat to Ellie, who was a level 10 awakened shadow jumper, it barely slowed down her attack.
If she was the only one, this tactic would have worked, but unfortunately she wasn't the only one who came to attack this time.
Poof, poof!
The sound of sharp blades stabbing into flesh appeared on the deck.
A large number of shadow swordsmen with long swords in their hands and cloaks fluttering behind them used their shadows to jump to the deck.
When Ellie was fighting just now, she also deliberately created a jumping position for the Shadow Swordsmen.
The murderous Shadow Swordsmen descended as if death, instantly staining the deck with blood.
At close range, the musket is not much more threatening than the burning stick.
That's when it happened.
Shout!
With a sharp cracking sound, a flare rises from the lookout module and then explodes high in the air, turning into a long-lasting cloud of red smoke.
Obviously, this is a warning to the captain and others who are digging for treasure.
It's a pity that the other party didn't notice it, and Ellie, who had just solved a sailor, had a smile in her eyes.
Because this is the key to the plan, that is, to give the other party a chance to warn, even if there is no signal flare, the messenger will be let go by her 'carelessness'.
Now, of course, there is no need to scruple.
"Kill!"
At this point, it is just a matter of settling the battle as soon as possible and destroying the ship to help another battlefield.
The sailors, who were barely resisting just now, found that these elven swordsmen seemed to move a little faster, and the defense line collapsed faster.
Chop melons and vegetables!
The shadow swordsmen faced these sailors, and they could only use this idiom to describe them.
After all, the attributes at this time are completely different from before.
[Eighth-Order Shadow Swordsman] (Attributes after the hero's blessing are in parentheses)
Health: 1200
Attack: 11 (20)
Defense: 8 (15)
Damage: 70-110 (84-133)
Speed: 8
Abilities: Shadow Imitation, Shadow Jump
Maintenance Cost: 150 gold every 4 weeks.
Attack, defense, and lethality have all undergone qualitative changes.
The improvement is so big, naturally because Ellie's hero template is a blue elite, and you can get an attribute boost every 3 levels, and 4 times are randomly assigned to the attack, with the initial 3 attacks, that is, 7 attacks.
In addition, in her hero specialty, for every 5 levels of her own level, the attack and defense of the shadow swordsman under her command is +1 attribute.
In other words, she can give the Shadow Swordsman a total of 9 attack damage.
The attack power of the blessing alone is almost equal to the class itself, and it is not surprising that it will be surpassed in the future.
And the damage is that the offensive technique is upgraded to the intermediate level, and the damage is increased by 20%.
Overbearing!
This is where heroes are strong, allowing their units to exert combat effectiveness that far exceeds their own strength.
The situation on the battleship's side has been decided, and the next thing is the main thing.