Chapter 95: The Furious Sea Rivalry (Part II)
"Fire!"
"Fire with all your might!
When the two warships were close to each other and sailed at close range, the battle also entered the white heat, and the dense smoke of gunpowder made the gunners unable to see the opponent clearly, only knowing that the enemy ship was opposite, and the indiscriminate firing of the cannon would definitely hit, hit the side of the ship or the deck, the mast, the stern or something, in short, as long as the cannon was fired.
The doctor was too busy to get busy, and he had to wait to die if he was hit by a shell. Blood and all sorts of internal organs flowed all over the cabins and decks, and there were already just over a hundred soldiers and sailors of two hundred men, however, the battle continued, and no one could retreat. Because at sea, they have no way back.
"Parallel forward, prepare the hook!"
Finally, when the two ships were close enough, the captain gave the order to engage in broadside combat.
Geralf cried out, his arm heavily bandaged, blood staining the wound red.
Alves hid behind the guardrail, gasping for breath, his body was covered in the blood of the crew, most of which had coagulated into a blood scab, Alves was just glad that he was still alive, he saw a sailor in front of him with a broken thigh, blood was pouring out of the broken leg, the young sailor screamed in pain, however, no one could save him. Alves knew that he would not live long, and could only pray that the pain would end soon. Other than that, he couldn't do anything.
The two ships were soon side by side, with the crews and soldiers of both sides standing on deck and in the cabin firing at each other, bullets and arrows flying wildly, while the warriors of the Ring Fort were ready to board the ship for battle.
The deck was packed with crowds ready for battle.
"Hooks! Hook throwing!"
The captain roared loudly and hatelessly.
Suddenly, the enemy ship was bombarded with heavy artillery at close range, a shotgun exploded in the crowd, at least a dozen soldiers fell under the flying projectiles, and a blood mist rose from the deck......
"Gods, stop this slaughter......
Alves prayed silently, he didn't care if he could get glory and reward, he only hoped that this battle would end soon, for a dwarf, glory is not worth mentioning, even if it is temporarily obtained, it will still be lost in the future, people will only remember those heroic lords and war heroes, no one will remember how heroic a dwarf is in battle.
Soon, the battle began, and countless ropes were thrown over and hung on the ships, through which sailors and warriors climbed to the opposite deck and engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. Love you eBook
The sound of shouts and the sound of weapons being struck, mixed with the sporadic sound of artillery fire, resounded through the sea.
Captain Geralf, with his crippled body, led the crowd in a bloody battle with the enemy ship's crew and soldiers. He stabbed to death an enemy soldier who was fighting his crew with his sword, and fired at close range, killing another enemy who rushed at him. But soon, he was also stabbed in the abdomen, and one of the Erlengrad mercenaries stabbed him in the abdomen with a short sword, and the old captain grabbed the blade, and the other sword, from top to bottom, stabbed the enemy in the neck. Blood gushed from the throats of the enemy soldiers, but Geralf himself was badly wounded, leaning against the mast, gasping for breath and covering the wound in his abdomen with his hands, but blood still oozed from his fingers. The ship's physician found the captain in the chaos and quickly took a bandage to bandage him.
"Drink, Life Potion!"
The doctor shouted, sending a bottle of red potion into the captain's mouth. This barely saved his life.
A rebel soldier ascends the deck of the Rose and, after killing one of the Hoop fighters, sees Alves shivering behind a barrel. "A dwarf. The soldier smirked, picked up his axe, and threw it at Alves.
Alves rolled and crawled, and hurriedly dodged, and the battle axes of the enemy soldiers slashed at the barrels, making a muffled sound of iron hitting the planks, but the force was too strong to pull it out for a while.
Alves took the opportunity to pull out his pistol, which he had specially prepared for himself before the naval battle, just in case. In a hurry, Alves picked up his pistol and opened fire on the rebel soldiers without even aiming.
The bullet was pushed out by the impact of the gunpowder explosion, and with a high-speed rotation, a miraculous shot burst the head of the rebel soldier, blood flowed out of the bullet hole, and the rebel soldier fell without a word, and Alves lay panting behind the barrel, glad that he had escaped.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise on the sea not far away, Alves turned his head to look, a ball of fire shrouded the rebel battleship, obviously, the shell hit the gunpowder magazine of the opposite battleship, causing the gunpowder to explode, the entire ship was directly blown up, and the broken wooden planks and corpses were scattered on the sea, staining the local sea area red. It is conceivable that at least hundreds of soldiers were blown to pieces in an instant, and their bodies turned into countless pieces and fell into the sea, which was completely unworthy of land warfare.
Gradually, the Queen's fleet gained the upper hand in naval battles, and despite having only fifteen ships, the Ice Queen's navy overwhelmed Erlengrad's navy with its thick hull, larger displacement, and more advanced artillery.
Some of the Frost Witches also joined the battle, and they could see some tiny blue dots of light flying around on the sea in the distance, which were the Frost Witch's magical attacks, and from the Rose, they were small blue dots, but Alves knew that up close, they were magic arrows larger than crossbow arrows.
Some of the enemy ships were frozen by the freezing wind before they could approach the Queen's fleet, and then the cannon of the Throne fired in unison, shattering the frozen enemy ships into splintering ice......
Finally, Alves's battleship waited for the support of other ships, and another battleship under the Queen's command, the Sea Serpent, sailed past the enemy ship, and the two battleships sandwiched Erlengrad's naval battleship in the middle, and more crew and soldiers boarded the deck of the enemy ship, and the battle turned from a fierce fight to a one-sided slaughter. Sporadic gunfire rang out from the deck, from inside the cabin. But the resistance gradually weakened, and many soldiers surrendered under the butcher's knife......
Although the enemy ship has been battered, it will not explode and sink without hitting the powder magazine, and the value of capturing a ship is far more meaningful than sinking it. After the war, it was towed back to the harbor for repairs, and it was a new warship. The defeated side actually doubled its losses, and while losing its own fleet, it also strengthened the opponent's strength.
Alves knew that after this battle, the situation of this rebellion would be one-sided, the original balanced strategic relationship between the two sides would be completely broken, once the harbor was blocked, the rebels would not be able to support it for too long, at the very least, as long as the blockade lasted for more than three months, there would be famine in the city, and the big cities were not like castles, even if they had more food stocks, they would not be enough for 100,000 people to consume......