22. Pursuit
The Red Devil Challenger saw the water columns erected one by one, and only then began to counterattack sporadically, and the shells flew to an unknown distance, Wang Qinian shook his head, although the first round of shelling was spectacular, but the close cannon was more than a dozen cubits away from the enemy ship, and it did not hurt the enemy at all.
Wang Qinian shouted: "Pursuit!"
Dai Weiner said, "Head, don't chase it, Redbeard has fled." β
"Why don't you chase, it's better to chase after the poor man and catch up with me!" Wang Qinian knew that the naval battles in this era were often two warships bombarding each other, who could not support it first, and left the battlefield, and the winning side often let it retreat, but Wang Qinian didn't want the Red Devil challenger to go, he had magic in his body, and he could guarantee that he could catch up on a certain distance.
Seeing that Wang Qinian insisted, Dai Weiner ordered the pursuit, and Wang Qinian saw the pursuit of the ship, and casually added a gust of wind behind the sail, and suddenly the sails of the Devil Artigo were wide open, and the ship suddenly increased its speed.
When Demps saw this, he did the same, waiting for the wind to stop, he was not like Wang Qinian, who came casually, recited a mantra in his mouth, and another gust of wind blew, and the sails were swollen again.
Wang Qinian saw that the ship's bow was a 30-pound heavy gun, and the gunner's assistant had filled the gunpowder into the barrel and began to load, and with a bang, the cannon was ejected, but it still did not hit, and the water column rose into the sky, but it was deflected by hundreds of cubits. Wang Qinian couldn't take his eyes off it, and an arc appeared in his head, and he began to correct it quickly, revealing a green light in his eyes.
The gunner quickly cleans the barrel, tears open a pack of paper-loaded gunpowder, fills the chamber, and after tamping, loads the shell, and the gunner ignites.
"Wait a minute, the muzzle of the gun is raised by two points. Rotate a minute to the left, yes, that's it, fire!" Wang Qinian said, and the gunner followed Wang Qinian's instructions, who called Wang Qinian the captain.
With a bang, the cannon was discharged, and a cloud of smoke rose from the Red Devil Challenger, and a violent explosion occurred, and the pirates aboard the Devil Artigo let out a burst of cheers. This is the first shell that hit an enemy ship today. Wang Qinian's eyes shrank slightly, there shouldn't be such a big movement, you know, the shot just now was a solid bullet. Instead of flowering bombs. How is it so effective. Did you inadvertently hit a powder keg or something?
"According to the direction of the general, change the chain and shoot a shot. "Davener was looking through a telescope, and the shot was not far from the foremast. Then he ordered.
The cannon was then replaced with a chain bullet, and the first shot was a rub against the foremast, but because it was a chain bullet, the iron chain between the two iron balls first cut off a pirate's waist, and then rubbed it on the foremast, and the mast squeaked and fell, and for a while the ship was in chaos, and three masts, one fell, although it was not the mainmast, but the speed dropped a lot.
There was another cheer on the Devil Artigo, and Wang Qinian stopped talking, looking like the overall situation had been decided, but in the end, although it would take several hours to resolve the battle, it was already powerless.
At this moment, a water curtain suddenly rose from the Red Devil Challenger, Wang Qinian's eyes twitched, the water curtain Tianhua was a protective spell in the water magic, and he couldn't help but turn around and ask Demps: "There is a magician on the Red Devil Challenger?"
"Probably not, maybe a magic scroll. Demps hesitated, as far as he knew, the three pirates in the northern seas were not large, all of them were three single ships, although those who were capable, Demps only knew that there was a magician on the Devil Artigo, that is, he was now two, and the other two did not have magicians, and there might be some scrolls.
Seeing that the Red Devil Challenger raised a layer of water curtain, clear and shining, Dai Weiner looked at Wang Qinian with his eyes, Wang Qinian scolded with a smile: "Look at my fart, give me a cannonball to smash, even if it is a scroll, I can't afford to smash it with a cannonball!"
With Wang Qinian's instructions, the ship was almost side by side with the Red Devil Challenger, but the distance was four or five miles, so the ship turned sideways, and twelve twelve-pound guns spewed out cannon fire.
Wang Qinian looked back at the two captives, the Amoro two-horned lizard dragon squatted on the side honestly, shrunk into a ball, and the dragon knight was tied up by pirates, but his face was black, and he hadn't woken up yet, Wang Qinian pointed his hand, and the black quickly turned into black smoke and disappeared, and he quickly woke up.
As soon as he woke up, he was obviously very irritable, and he scolded in a daze, and the pirate stepped forward and gave him a beating: "Little rabbit, dare to be hard-mouthed, see how I clean you up!"
Wang Qinian didn't stop it, seeing that his nose was blue and his face was swollen, he screamed again and again, and no longer opened his mouth to spit dirty words, so he opened his mouth faintly: "As a captive, you must have the consciousness of a captive, and you want to be happy on your lips, look, now you are not happy on your lips." β
He looked up and saw that it was Wang Qinian, the magician who was facing him, and he was trembling, he was nominally a dragon knight, but he was just a squire knight, in the sky, he was driving a dragon to attack the other party, and he was caught by the other party's big hand and lost consciousness.
After waking up, he found that he was tied up, and he didn't ask about thirty-seven twenty-one in a daze, and scolded when he opened his mouth, he had a more irritable personality, and the pirates didn't have a few good personalities, but he was beaten violently, and he completely sobered up, and when he heard a person talking, he looked up and saw that it was Wang Qinian, and he couldn't help but tremble.
Wang Qinian saw that he didn't speak, with a smile on his face: "Let me ask you, does Redbeard have a magician in his hands?"
When he saw the smile on Wang Qinian's face, he trembled again in his heart, felt a cold swish in his heart, squeezed out a little smile on his face, and pulled the wound on his face, laughing more ugly than crying: "There is no magician." β
Wang Qinian smiled at him, the black smoke in his hand rose again, he felt creepy, and shouted in horror: "Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
Wang Qinian looked at him strangely: "Who wants you to die?"
He had just breathed a sigh of relief as the black smoke melted into his body, and he wondered, "What are you going to do?"
"Nothing, it's just a small trick, brand you, rest assured, there is no discomfort, but if you rebel with your heart, or have any bad thoughts, then it will be nothing to you. Wang Qinian explained with a smile, when he heard that there was nothing wrong, his heart was relieved, and he didn't hear Wang Qinian's words clearly, in fact, this is a one-way contract, which is more binding than the contract, because his qiΔ, including the soul, belongs to Wang Qinian.
He didn't know, this was a slavery technique, in other words, he was already Wang Qinian's slave, in his body, black lines appeared on the surface of his heart, like a net, and disappeared in a flash, and a string of information returned to Wang Qinian's mind, Wang Qinian smiled and said: "Alof, the Redbeard Pirate Regiment is about to be destroyed, but since you have become a dragon knight, join us, and I will give you systematic training." β
Alof was stunned: "How do you know my name?"
Wang Qinian smiled: "Not only do I know your name, but I also know things that you don't know." β
Alof secretly slandered Wang Qinian in his heart, but he didn't expect that as soon as this thought came up in his heart, his heart hurt, he didn't know that the black mesh on his heart appeared again, and he screamed miserably, as if his heart had been ripped out in an instant, and he fell to the ground in pain, and the rope on his body had not been untied.
Wang Qinian sneered: "If you want to be disrespectful to me in your heart, you will enjoy such pain, this time it is light, you better remember to me, in your thoughts, you must not be disrespectful to me at all, do not let me be absent, from today on, your life is not your own, but mine." β
Alof's face turned pale, Wang Qinian glanced at him coldly, then looked at the Amoro two-horned lizard dragon, and said to it with a smile: "Little guy, don't be afraid, your master has surrendered, and you have also returned to me, I will not do anything to you, I will not ask for your life, and I can help you improve your combat effectiveness, and you will be grateful to me in the future." β
Wang Qinian looked at the Amoro two-horned lizard dragon, his eyes were like looking at a bunch of materials, and the Amoro two-horned lizard dragon couldn't help but shudder when he saw Wang Qinian's eyes, and felt that his dragon life was bleak from then on.
At this time, the third round of artillery fire covered the past, and the water curtain Tianhua finally reached the limit, Dai Weina also heard that Wang Qinian had ambushed the dragon knight Alof, knowing that the other party did not have a magician, he was even more relieved, and saw that the water curtain was broken all of a sudden, and his heart was overjoyed, two cannonballs hit the Red Devil Challenger, this time it did not cause an explosion, and the two cannonballs took the lives of two pirates.
The other party also fired back, but it was just a random sound, most of the shells hit the sea, one shell hit the ship, fortunately Demps used ironwood in advance, the cannonball hit the side of the ship, and did not penetrate, the hull of the ship shook, the blue-black aura flashed, the cannonball was bounced away, Demps was shocked, his face flushed, coughed twice, with bloodshots, Wang Qinian threw out a bottle of alchemy potion from the ring, Demps grabbed it, opened the bottle, and poured the potion into his mouth with a head raised, and the boredom and heat in his chest immediately turned into coolnessγ
"Much better, thank you, I'm not good at refining potions, especially these wound medicines. Temples said.
"You are a water mage, it is normal to be not good at it, under normal circumstances, fire mages are better at it, and water mages are more prominent in their healing skills. β
"That's for others, not for yourself, so if you know some alchemy potions, it's very beneficial, but I'm a wild magician, and I don't have any prescriptions, unlike you used to be a professor at Huolin Qiaoton, and your knowledge in this area is relatively complete. Demps said enviously.
"We're all in this together, and if you want a prescription, I've got a few here. β
"Thank you. β
As he spoke, there was a sudden big magic fluctuation from the Red Devil Challenger, and Davena was looking at the other party's ship with a telescope, exclaiming, "Oh no, the other party seems to have torn a scroll!"
Wang Qinian had already felt it, and Demps said in surprise: "It's a meteor shower, he actually has such a scroll in his hand!"
A large number of meteor-like fireballs appeared in the sky, heading towards the Devil Artego. (To be continued......)