1420 Yingyang Northwest (5)
"My lord, the other side is a fast warship that is known for its speed, and in terms of speed, we have no advantage!" The first mate's hesitant voice made the face of Si Efenger next to him even more cold, in the eyes of everyone, this ship just threatened himself, and immediately dodged away like a loach, from the sail to the hull is black, giving people a cold feeling, this black ghost follows closely beside him, and even when driving in a straight line, it is faintly more than half of his own bow, if it were not for the fact that there was no stopping the car on the sea, it is estimated that the other party would have forcibly crossed in front of him.
"The other party's boat operator is a master!" Si Efenger looked at the position of the other party's rudder, and standing there was a middle-aged man with some red hair, who was also looking at this side, and the eyes of both sides collided several times in a very short period of time.
"Prepare to take the ship, bring all the weapons up! If you don't want the other party to rush over, just move them all for me!" Si Effinger pulled out his saber, and at the same time, the other party almost at the same time, the opposite side of the ship also began to move, obviously, also gave the order to prepare for the ship's side battle, "Bastard, do you want to capture us?" Si Effinger scolded viciously, "Quick, everyone on deck!" Immediately the deck was like boiling water, and everyone, except for the first mate and Iefinger, who was in charge of the helm and command, the rest were in a state of equipment.
All the debris on the deck was quickly cleared, and a dozen sailors began to adjust the two-door ballista at the stern of the deck in a fixed position, and a large bundle of metal crossbow arrows was carried up by the sailors pantingly, and placed next to the heavy ballista, "Target, the enemy's command platform!" Si Effinger shouted in the direction of the ballista, the opposing commander was obviously also a veteran, and this guy must be eliminated first!"Target, 30 meters!' The powerful bowstring of the ballista was slowly pulled away by the sailors with a lever. A one-and-a-half-meter-long cluster of all-metal arrows was placed into the firing slot, and the ballista, pushed by several sailors, turned in the direction of the attacking black battleship,
On the deck below, the sailors began to run to the side of the ship, weapons taken from their respective cabins, wearing spare light chain mail, ropes with metal spikes, short tomahawks to break through the ship's side flaps, and round-tipped flails with spikes. Wait for some heavy weapons that can be thrown at a medium distance and cause massive damage to the enemy, "Attention, the enemy is coming up!"
I don't know who shouted, just now the sailors were running around, suddenly silenced, everyone's nerves were tensed, as the two ships approached again, the nervous faces of both sides, close to each other can see the bloodshot eyes of the other sailor's eyes "snap" Both sides are a scene of people turning over on their backs. The two warships were like two giant beasts squeezing together, "squeak!" The side of the ship made an unbearable squeezing sound, the deck tossed up and down, and the people on it staggered. The huge reaction force caused all the items on the deck to tilt to the other side
"Rush up!" the sailors on the opposite side let out a cry of battle, and a dozen strong sailors with turbans on their heads and their upper bodies fighting bare. With a long sword in his mouth, he couldn't wait for the two ships to be completely close together, and he couldn't wait to swing over with a rope from the opposite mast.
"Crossbow Attack!"
Almost at the same time, from the stern of the opposite ship, two cold rays of light thrown like meteors, with a force that could not be resisted by the flesh, made the side of the black sailboat fall down a piece, and the two heavy crossbow arrows brought a splash like blood mist in the group of sailors of the opposing side, and after shooting through the two people in a row, the trend was still unabated, and they plunged into the command platform in the middle of the opponent's hull, making a series of snapping and breaking sounds
"Almost!"
Si Efenger looked annoyed and punched on the fence of the bridge, and the cold light of one of the crossbow arrows almost brushed the red-haired middle-aged man who was obviously the captain of the ship, and at this time, a series of discordant sounds came from inside the command platform of the opposite battleship, and in full view of everyone, the internal bracket was hit hard The command platform suddenly deviated to the other side, and it collapsed on the spot, and the people above jumped for a while, and the sailors on both sides were a little stunned, "This is really ......" Si Edenger was also stupid,
The situation happened too suddenly, he was thinking about how good it would be if the other party was crushed to death, but unfortunately, he saw the red-haired middle-aged man, who was crawling out of the collapsed place in a hurry, patted the ashes on his body with his hand, and looked at himself with the same blazing eyes,
That seems to mean "not this time!" "Haha, that guy must be mad!" Smith Finger grinned at him teasingly, the black sail battleship was hit hard this time, and its speed slowed down significantly, and it seemed that the rudder on the bridge was also destroyed,
The black sail battleship, which had lost control, was quickly distanced by the dragon's tooth battleship, and although it was only a short encounter, the red splattered with human blood could already be seen on the side of the ship
"Help all the wounded down" Si Effinger ran over to take a look, this time, three people on his side were injured, only minor injuries, the most serious young sailor's leg was hung on the heel by the hook thrown by the other party, it was bloody, but it was not dangerous, "It's not a big problem! You need to recuperate for 1 month! You can walk like a fly again!"
The military doctor who accompanied the ship cleaned the wounds with herbs and comforted the wounded, Si Effinger ran back to his command platform, and several were killed by crossbow arrows on the opposite side, not to mention that the command platform was crushed, and he was running back and forth in a mess, and he couldn't continue to catch up with himself for the time being, and the crisis was resolved!" "Send the third and fourth convoys and drive this guy to the middle!" On the flagship of the transport fleet, Rodharu looked at the little prey in the distance with some unwillingness, which was speeding to escape, "Tsk, I really didn't expect that even Cecil's Dark Devil didn't succeed!" The other party's naval warship doesn't seem to be completely useless," Orb said with emotion next to him, completely in a state of mind to watch the excitement, "It's just a little faster, how much can a coward who doesn't dare to duel at sea do?
"As long as you restrain it, the rest doesn't matter!" Rod Haru secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Although there is some grievance, the transport fleet has safely entered the North Sea, if a qiē shun lì." By 12 o'clock in the evening, the convoy will arrive safely in Nysta, which is our big goal, as for the small fleet that slipped away, it is really not worth a penny, and in this sea area, even if it can run back in time to report, it will be too late"
Ten minutes later, Si Finger glanced at the huge fleet behind him, which had been dragged out in line after him, and felt that the time was almost up. He walked to the rudder of the ship, and asked the first mate next to him with a cold gaze, "How far are we from the ambush point!"
"Come here and the bend in front of you is here, my lord" The first mate replied loudly as he looked at a coastline in the distance that was faintly recessed inward, "Is that the one ahead?" Si Efenger looked at the inward bend in front of him with a solemn gaze, and a look of inexplicability appeared on his face, "Send a flag to the other ship, and all return to their posts and speed up." Get rid of it!, let's rush out for victory!" Sieffinger shouted excitedly to the sailors on deck, and the sailors ran to their positions, and the speed of the Dragon's Tooth increased again,
4:25 p.m.
The Falcon Navy group hidden in the inner bend was already able to see a large number of warships in the distance from the inside of the scope, just as they had been arranged before. The opposing fleet was scattered, and the frigates, located on the flanks, were supposed to extend back. As a result, they are all moving forward in the same way.
This completely opposite arrangement, once attacked, can not form an effective protection of the flank, but also needs to be turned around, not only wastes time, but also wastes the best fighters in the initial firefight.
An experienced opponent will not give the opponent a chance to adjust.
The eyes of all the captains were focused on the figures of the two dragon tooth ships in front of this huge group of ships.
The sound of breathing was a little heavy, and his eyes were full of the urge to defeat his opponent, even Dustrengkai licked his somewhat dry lips, and said with a fist, "Good fellow, look at what Si Efenger has attracted, this meal, we are going to eat to our heart's content, raise the battle flag, order the fleet, and prepare to attack according to the echelon!" Dustrengkai put down the lookout mirror in his hand, his eyes were full of ruthlessness, and he commanded loudly in a tone of ambition, "My lord, the order to prepare for battle has come from the flagship!" On a Dragon-class battleship, Tiggall had just lowered his scope, his detachment was in the rearguard position of the ship group, and if the ship group launched a surprise attack on the enemy, his main responsibility was the flank of the frigate group,
Judging from the usual array, his Dragon-class battleship was in an extremely advantageous upwind position, although the waves here were a little undulating, but for the Thor gunners on the battleship, shooting on the surging waves. It is the most mundane basic skill.
"The distance is four hundred meters, and the angle is seventy degrees to the southeast. The enemy's flagship should be in that direction," Teagar calmly gave the order, "Tell everyone, give priority to attacking the enemy's flagship!" That is a lot of people staring at it" "Understand, my lord! I dare to guarantee that with just one order, I can turn the designated target into a hornet's nest" The person in charge of directing the artillery bombardment is a veteran, and after more than a year of actual combat and improvement, the navy has also continued to improve and progress in Thor's firing command.
The original Thunder God scattered shooting was changed to a unified control of centralized shooting; the original several Thunder Gods shooting at different targets was changed to the fact that all the Thunder Gods on a battleship were concentrated to shoot at the same target; the original artillery bombarders selected and aimed at their own targets was changed to a unified target control officer.
The gunners only need to follow the number of shots. Various improvements were made to increase the firing accuracy and rate of fire of the Falcon battleship. And it has already achieved good results in real combat.
4:35 p.m.,
The transport ship group approached the inner bend, a sudden cliff wall, blocking part of the perspective in front, the cautious Rod Haru ordered a detachment to rush forward to explore the way, at this time, a rumbling rolling thunder, suddenly out of the bend of the inner bend rock wall, red light and thick smoke, in an instant completely filled the retina of everyone, five seconds later, countless Thor's cannonballs with a sharp whistling, smashed on the side of the transport fleet,
"Bastard, there really are enemies!"
Rodharu's face turned pale, he didn't expect to encounter a strong attack from the enemy when he was about to reach Nista,
Next to him, Obuz's face was already pale with fright, and he hid on the ground, and the sky-high flames swept the flanks of the transport fleet, only to see one after another strange warships that were the same as the previous one, like a sharp razor, swooping down from the flanks of the ship group. One transport ship after another was ignited, the soldiers on it were jumping into the sea, and a light comparable to thunder and lightning was sprayed from the sides of these strange warships, and the water column flying all over the sky made the entire sea boil
The frigate that had just been sent out encountered a fierce salvo of hundreds of Thor at the same time. Constant shells, raining down on the frigate, and the hull was torn apart in a huge explosion that rumbled, miserable,
A monstrous wave that exploded at the position of the frigate. It seems that the sea has been turned upside down, and it is completely impossible for people to see the situation inside.
The white smoke was filled, and the situation was not complete at all, as if a layer of magic had been cast, only to see a series of eye-catching red lights, lit up in the white smoke, extinguished, and lit up again. It was like a beating drum, and countless black dots flew into the air, and then they were raised by the blasted water column, and there was no chance to call for help. Only mutilated limbs fluttered everywhere in the smoke of gunpowder,
The mast of a frigate was blown off, and the mast and sail fell down in an instant, and it had completely lost the ability to move forward. The sailors above jumped into the sea in a state of panic to escape, but one after another explosions exploded on the surface of the sea less than ten meters away from them. The explosion of the ground and the water column hit them like a raging storm.
"There was an ambush in one of us, immediately order the frigate to come back!"
Rodharu looked at the flank that was involved, and his face turned pale,
Because the other party appeared too suddenly, the frigates on the flanks were all sent out, and it was difficult to turn for a while, and when they turned, they were also hit violently by the other party, and almost at the same time, billowing smoke came out, and white smoke arcs continued to hit these frigates.
Although Rod Haru didn't know what kind of weapon it was, he also knew that as long as those few frigates were sunk, all that was left would be a large number of transports that were incapacitated, and it would definitely be a massacre, which was so tragic that Rod Haru didn't dare to think about it. It's a pity that his order didn't have a chance to be issued, and his flagship flag had already made the Admirals of the Falcon Fleet, like wolves smelling a fishy smell, pounce towards his flagship position.
Thor spat out furious flames. With a dazzling firelight, he advanced towards him, smashing towards the direction of Rodharu's flagship, and smashing countless splashes next to the huge hull. The sturdy hull was swayed from side to side, and the waves that brought it up swept several sailors on the deck directly into the sea, and the waves swept across the deck, sweeping all the debris into the sea.
Marquis Orb was lying on the deck, frightened by the water jets raised around him, his legs and feet were weak, and he held the side of the ship with his hands, half-squatting there, which frightened Marquis Orb, who had never seen a naval battle, and he looked at Rod Haru, who was also swaying next to him, and shouted, "I can assure you, this is a premeditated attack, and we must get out of it immediately!" Otherwise, it will be too late!" "Evacuate? I want to evacuate too, but do you think this is on land? There are more than 100 warships, and it takes more than half an hour to flip a turn!"
Rod Haru held on to the side of the ship before he finally stood firm, not far away on the sea was filled with gunsmoke, the sound of cannons rumbled, from time to time there were transports erupting into fierce fire, in the thick smoke of gunpowder, it was completely impossible to see the specific situation, because of the downwind, the smoke of the Falcon Fleet shot was blown in the direction of the transport fleet, which put the transport fleet in a disadvantageous position, and even the most basic connection had problems, there was too much white smoke, and the standard-bearers could not see the specific instructions
Suddenly, a huge fireball exploded in front of his eyes, followed by a fierce fire from the sky, the sound of the explosion almost stunned him, under his intently watching, a large ship less than two hundred meters away from his flagship, erupted into a dense crushing explosion, the air wave almost overturned him, fortunately he hurriedly grabbed the side of the ship, so that he did not fall, but the unsuspecting Marquis of Orb fell solidly and ate.
The situation was too chaotic, Rod Haru had a sense of grief and indignation that was powerless to return to the sky, "No, we can't just wait for death" Finding that there was no hope of protection, some transport ship captains began to forcibly order a U-turn in the queue, and as a result, they collided with other moving transport ships in other directions, the tail rudder was broken, where the whole ship was crossing, and some simply crossed from the middle of the queue, trying to find an opportunity to evacuate from the side, the sea was filled with white fog, and the distance between the front and back could not be seen more than a hundred meters, and the whole scene was chaotic, like a rumored hell
"Three hundred and fifty meters away, shoot! Don't let it slip away!"
Tigal, who was in the rearguard position, was just blocking the exit from the enemy's side, and rows of firelight burst out from the side of the Dragon-class battleship.
Heavy artillery fire fell around the battleships that tried to escape from the side, stirring up the sea, and the rising column of water seemed to cover the battleship.
One of the large warships with a large speed and slow speed was directly hit by the heavy Thor installed at the front end of the Dragon class, and exploded, blowing the back half of this heavy battleship to pieces, and a large amount of seawater poured into the stern.
The battleship was out of balance, like a bird dragged by a cyclone, and its entire huge bow stood tall and upward. Everything on the deck slipped involuntarily down the stern of the ship into the water, and finally sank into the whirlpool of sea water (to be continued......