Section 222 The First Ambergris War (7)

Several Nature's Boats sailed out, and some of the Elven Guards on the docks boarded at Yakin's orders.

Not only is the hull of each ship integrated, unlike the Terran ships, you can see obvious traces of splicing, the deck, rudder, anchor, mainmast, etc. on it all seem to grow out of a main trunk; if you can see its interior, even the crew's quarters, hammocks, and stairs are not inlaid together; even the sails of the sail ships are in the shape of super-large leaves.

"Arrows!" exclaimed Feanor as the Ark sailed out of the inner harbor and out of the outer harbor, and he lifted his cloak from his back and pulled out a silver longbow.

Someone sent an ironwood arrow, and Feerno snorted coldly, "Now let you see how to break these stupid dead things." ”

With that, he drew his long and narrow bow, drew the slender silver bow into an oval shape close to the full moon, and then let go of his hand, and the ironwood arrow detached from the string.

The ironwood arrow hit a solid iron bullet that was whistling in the middle of the road with a swift speed like a meteor, and the cannonball froze into the air, and then plummeted, and the arrow fired by Feuernor exploded into powder in the first half of the way.

The elves on the dock froze, and only after a moment of slowing down erupted in earth-shattering cheers.

Such archery is rare even among elves.

Previously, the High Elves had to rely on numbers to intercept artillery shells at such a distance, and some of the shells in the enemy ships were rotating, so it was even more difficult to slow down.

Feuerno, on the other hand, made a cannonball fall into the sea with a single arrow, and he showed not strength in front of everyone, but archery.

If you want to use archery to break the incoming cannonballs, Shihlinger, who is known as the first archery among the elf kings, is mostly swept directly with his archery skills, the arrows of the wind dragon, but Feerno accurately hits the center of the cannonball's arc with extremely exquisite archery, which still requires extremely strong force to counteract the movement of the cannonball, but the arrow is the point. The cannonball is a curved surface, and if you add the rotation state, it is even more difficult for this power to burst out and completely cancel out the kinetic energy of the cannonball, so it is impossible to do it alone with the archery skills of the elven archers.

But Feerno's hand showed everyone that with the strength of a high-level archer, he could break it with a single arrow, even with such archery. Even if the strength standard is not up to the high-level marksman, as long as he can accurately hit the center of the rotating surface, at least half of the kinetic energy of the cannonball can be canceled out, so that it will not fly to the dock at all.

"The arrows are coming again!" Feuerno shouted.

He drew his bow again and shot arrows, one bow and three arrows, and all three arrows flew together.

The middle arrow was still in the middle of the middle of the head-on direction, but this time the shell still fell into the sea, and the whole arrow trembled and turned to powder, but the two arrows flying diagonally hit two shells from the side, and the shell did not fall immediately. However, the thrust on the oblique stab changed the direction of the flight, and it deviated seriously from Mochizuki City.

The cheers of the elves this time were like thunder, this kind of archery can be called a magic arrow, no wonder there were rumors before that as long as Feenor is a legend, the royal court will definitely grant the throne of the elf king.

Feuerno straightened up and stood on the edge of the dock, and the two shots with all his might, a total of four arrows, showed his exquisite archery skills to boost the morale of the army.

The enemy's shelling from the sea caused a certain panic in the city. In particular, taking advantage of the range of more than the elven archery is very depressing. He proved to the elves present with his archery skills that the enemy's artillery bombardment, although powerful, was nothing more than a dead thing, and could not compare to the archery skills that the elves were proud of.

However, when he finished shooting these four arrows, it was not only the elven archers under him who were inspired, but also he himself was in high spirits. The depression, dullness, and panic caused by the ambergris incident all seemed to be shot with these four arrows.

At the moment of the great enemy, it is the best thing to meet the enemy wholeheartedly, so why worry about what power is not guaranteed, and the reputation is rich, even if you have selfish intentions in the ambergris ointment incident. Today, he went to sea to face the battle, whether he lived or died, he had already lived up to the empire.

At this moment, Feeno felt as if he had returned to the time when he was a teenager who practiced archery wholeheartedly, when there was nothing in his mind but the bow in his hand, the arrows he shot, and the target he hit.

"Yakin will bring a team of mages with me to fight, and Maya, you will lead the rest of the mages to stay at the docks for spell attacks. After Fierno finished speaking, he tapped his toes slightly, and swept across the air to a relatively backward natural boat.

His lieutenant Yakin also led a team of elven mages to follow Feuernor to the Nature's Boat, and the High Elves knew that this battle was unfavorable, and the enemy's fleet on the sea was so large that it could intimidate people with numbers alone, but the other side kept shelling. If the enemy is allowed to shell it, the elves will have to retreat into the city, and then the enemy may land on the shore.

The only way to do this is to strike bravely, close the distance, and annihilate the enemy with archery and magic at sea, so that the enemy knows that Mochizuki Castle is not without the power to fight back, or can force it to retreat.

The boat of nature sailed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it approached the enemy's fleet for seven or eight hundred meters.

The Nature's Boat can have such a fast speed, firstly, it will automatically become the most suitable shape for sailing on the water surface when it is shaped, and secondly, its sails are magical, because they are structurally integrated, and they are not as troublesome to maneuver as the sail warships of the Terrans.

When the sail warship of the Terran is controlled, there are many people who need to operate the sail alone, and then there are sailors who specialize in observing the wind direction and determining the approximate wind speed, and the sailors who operate the sails must work closely with the helmsman, so as to make the best use of the wind direction.

But even so, once you are engaged, try to take advantage of the favorable position before the engagement, because when the battle starts, the coordination may be fine-tuned at any time.

However, the High Elves' natural boats were able to use the wind to help fine-tune them in battle, and their sails were leaf-shaped, with stems and veins on the leaves, and when fully erected, they resembled wings supported by multiple beams.

However, the biggest advantage is that when manpower is tight or the battle is fierce to the point that the maneuverability of the battleship is very high, the helmsman of the High Elves can use the combination of three low-level spells of softening the body, limb fusion, and mutation to produce effects, and temporarily embed their limbs into the natural boat to become a part of it, and the druid's transformation form can also have a similar effect, but it is necessary to specialize in the natural mimicry system.

In this way, the steering and sailing of the natural boat can be controlled by the helmsman alone, and the feeling of the wind direction on the sail will be directly transmitted to the elf helmsman embedded in the hull through the integrated structure, eliminating the intermediate process. Achieve the most nuanced and direct understanding of the wind direction.

Of course, this situation is generally only in an emergency, because once you do it like this, there is a high probability that there will be serious consequences, at least half of the time, that part of the limb may never change back, and the longer the time, the greater the possibility of being discarded.

It is because of this performance and uniqueness of the Natureboat, coupled with courage and pride in elven archery. Fierno would not be driven back into the city by artillery like a dog, and then let the other side land, but took the initiative to attack.

Some of the natural boats are large and some are small, depending on the size of the remains of the tree man or tree embryo obtained during construction, although it can continue to grow for a period of time after being formed in the growth direction by natural magic, but the final size of the hull depends on the materials used.

Nature's boats that attack at this time, no matter how big or small. In terms of control, it has reached the point of embarrassing the Terran sail battleship, not only fast, but more importantly, sensitive. This could not be used in the fierce battle with the Sea Clan that day, first, there were too many Sea Clans, and more importantly, even if the Nature's Ship achieved such seafaring performance, it was impossible to overwhelm the Sea Clan and the sea beasts it controlled in the water.

But the voyage in front of the enemy ships was a show, although the enemy soon spotted the elves' ships rushing out and moved part of them to fire from the cannons. Attempted to wreck.

Columns of water rushed up next to the Nature's Boat, and the High Elves fought back.

The sound of bowstrings. The ironwood arrows endured for a long time, and stabbed at the enemy like unsheathed swords.

As the distance approached, the power of the elves' archery skills was revealed, and instead of the strength of the shot at the dock just now, it penetrated into the hull of the ship, and the body of a sailor close to the porthole trembled. There was a sudden bleeding light on his forehead, and he was killed by a sharp arrow that pierced the skull.

Some of the arrows were so powerful that they completely penetrated the hull shell, broke through small holes, and nailed them into the wall of the ship inside the portholes.

"The trouble is coming. Beshoff laughed, but for this advance battle. The coalition side has also been preparing for a long time, at least strategically, by implementing various means, including the events on the west coast.

And on the east coast, it is mainly by taking the High Elves by surprise, and it is of course best to make the defenders take the initiative to send them to death like now, once annihilated, the morale of Mochizuki City will inevitably be greatly damaged, and the landing will be unobstructed. If it doesn't go well, the coalition forces naturally have backup means, and it's a big deal to dispatch several legendary powerhouses in the fleet to forcibly bulldoze Mochizuki City, and also land successfully within the specified time and establish a teleportation base.

Of course, most of the legendary powerhouses are dignified, and if the other party's legendary powerhouses do not appear, it is not necessary for them to make a move.

"Well, it's a bit of a headache for them to use fire magic at the current distance. Bethoff frowned, the elves' low-level spells were not very good for the Sea Clan, because the other party could dive into the water, but the fire magic was a threat to the Terran ships.

"It seems that in the future, we will really have to consider the suggestions of the dwarves and build steel warships. "But that would require a lot of steel, and it would be more cumbersome to build, and once a steel ship is used, the sails will have to be abandoned." ”

"I don't think it's a bad idea to sail with steam machinery, at least we don't have to be limited by the wind anymore, you look at the ships of the High Elves, how we can't surpass them in the use of the wind. "It was Archmage Strauss who spoke, Asturias sent a total of three Legends in the advance fleet this time, and Titania sent two Commanders.

While the three of them were talking, several dull explosions were heard on the sea.

"Do you need me to do it now, I mean, that elven general seems to be causing us a lot of trouble. Beshoff said-

The High Elves' counterattack did cause some trouble for the coalition fleet, and their archery skills were not as easy to inflict heavy damage on the enemy as they thought, and although the stray arrows pierced the ship, there were not many sailors that could be killed by the hindered ironwood arrows.

The Terrans continued to bombard the distant Nature's Boats, and the Terrans fought back against the approaching Elven Marksmen.

A large number of musketeers appeared on the top deck and in the firing positions of the artillery deck, returning fire with muskets.

Although the archery skills of the High Elves are powerful, they are almost not missed, but you must know that they are rushing towards many ships, and the sailors on them are dozens or even hundreds of times more than them. For every arrow they fired, dozens of shots were fired back at them.

Terran musketeers rarely compare to the High Elves in shooting, unless they use the Source Power Gun, the general musket is also inferior in range to the High Elves when they are physically strong, and the High Elves can easily kill and injure a musketeer in the jungle.

But the significance of the musket is that it allows the shooter to greatly save the physical strength required for shooting. Maintaining a steady rate of fire and damage power, replacing some of the physical and technical effects with supplies, as long as there are muskets and bullets, they can continue to shoot for no worse time than elven marksmen, and the power of muskets is enough to cause casualties to fifth-order creatures.

So when the High Elves were just proud that their arrows had taken the lives of some of their enemies, the musketeers fought back to shatter their self-righteous dreams, and some of the elves who were shooting from the Nature's Boat in a more exposed position in order to actively kill the enemy were also hit by the muskets and their bodies trembled. They all fell into the sea, and the water was covered with blood.

In the confrontation just now, the High Elves had an advantage in terms of the number of kills, but if you consider the number of people who fought this time and the number of opponents, it was not happy at all.

If the High Elves have fallen to the point where the exchange rate of battle damage with the Terran warrior is 1 to 1, no, even if it is 1 to 2, 1 to 3. Even one to five is not only a shame, but also makes people feel hopeless about the war in front of them. But muskets made it possible to lose such a rate.

At this time, Feeno was already completely sure that the fleet that attacked Mochizuki City was a fleet of the Terrans, and it must be a fleet from the Azure Continent.

"Squad shooting, covering magical attacks. Feerno exclaimed.

Flags were raised on the various natural boats, and while continuing to dodge the shelling, the second round of counteroffensive was launched.

Some of the elves still bravely fought the musketeers, and they were responsible for attracting the attention of the enemy. Others took the opportunity to chant incantations, and large and small fireballs, bursts of flame, fusiform fire, and swimming fire snakes attacked the Terran warships.

These spells may not be able to surpass the full force of the elves' shots in terms of power impact, but the burning caused by the flames is the natural enemy of the warships at sea.

Of course, the ships of the Terrans are also fireproof, and some are even magical, but the Asturian fleet is except for the ten ships with magical powers. Everything else is mostly wooden, and even with the addition of a steam engine as a second power, the shell is still wooden.

The dwarves had come up with the idea of making warships out of steel, but unfortunately there was not enough money to support them in building them on a large scale, because in this world, due to teleportation technology, there is much more interest in exploring other planes than exploring the oceans.

This is because Solomon has long been wary of the High Elves, so he deliberately guided the development of some investments in navigation, and the ambergris trade added to the fire, otherwise the ships would be even more insufficient.

This round of counter-attack by the High Elves has been effective, causing more losses to the coalition fleet than just now, just now the rain of arrows looks mighty, but it only kills and wounds some sailors, and if you want to sink a huge battleship with only bows and arrows, even if you can do it, it has to be that the battleship does nothing, and it is only after the High Elves shoot there for a while that it can break through the water inlet that the ship will overturn, but under the current artillery fire and musket fire, the High Elves obviously have no chance.

But fire magic is different, although one or two low-level fire magic can't destroy a ship, but it is different if it ignites a fire, and the impact of magic is enough to pierce some ships with weak walls, and if a spell like Burst Flame happens to hit the place where the cannonball is stored, it will be a big problem.

Under the concentrated attack of the elven fire magic, the two sail warships were on fire, and the crew began to evacuate to other ships, and even more inverted, a warship with dual power of steam and sails encountered the tragedy of being hit by the explosion of the flame ball through the ammunition room, and a violent explosion occurred, and began to sink, and the crew did not even have time to retreat, so they had to jump into the sea.

However, in the process, one of the High Elves' Natureship was finally hit by a shelling, tearing a huge hole in the hull of the ship, and seawater poured in.

Although the Nature's Boat has a certain self-recovery ability, it also takes time, and it is obviously impossible to have enough time in such a fierce battlefield, and the activation ability of the Nature's Boat is more to save the repair time after the war, and it can only be supported for a longer time on the battlefield.

The Nature's Boat, which had been hit by the shelling, was immediately reduced in its ability to move, and immediately after five minutes it was shelled again, followed by a shelling of a flowering shell, and finally an incorrigible capsulation.

The elven warriors of this ship also have no chance to transfer to other ships, so they can only jump into the icy sea, and if they are lucky enough to meet a few Terran soldiers who have jumped into the sea before, then they can still fish for a few more books before they die first.

At the same time, the elven mages at the docks also launched an attack to help their own army as they fought against a massive enemy at sea.

Red clouds of fire condensed in the sky above and quickly drifted towards the battlefield. (To be continued.) )