Chapter 163: Battle for Sardinia Territory 4 (Naval Battle 1)
The player's fleet was prepared for an interception, and Yun Xiaohan made arrangements in the chat room after the reconnaissance ship escaped, once the enemy fleet arrived and attacked, everyone could escape freely, and he didn't care how the players escaped, as long as they all arrived at the landing point in the end.
So as soon as the enemy fleet rushed up, the player fleet on the Imperial side scattered as if it had exploded.
Since the merchant alliance is all medium-sized ships or above, and there were some battle losses before, the two fleets combined are about 240 ships, which is less than the player's fleet in terms of the number of ships, but the players are driving small boats.
But a boat is also a boat, and it is all to be chased.
Therefore, in the face of the situation that the opponents in front of them fled in all directions, the two fleets of the Shang Alliance could only follow and scatter to pursue.
As the largest ship in the player's fleet, the Vistellos is naturally considered by the NPC to be the flagship of the fleet, and it has been closely watched, with at least 5 large ships eyeing the Vestelos, of course, the NPC's opinion is completely correct.
Seeing that several big ships were rushing towards him at once, Yun Xiaohan didn't dare to fight back at all, but just changed his direction and fled at full speed, but fortunately, the speed of the ship was relatively fast, and he couldn't catch up for a while.
The tragedy is that because the players are chasing and fleeing at sea for the first time, there is no tacit understanding at all, and the players' ships continue to collide with each other, which greatly reduces the speed of the ship, not to mention the durability of some ships, and if the players on the ship touch the hull in the impact, they will lose a lot of health.
However, this situation is not the most unlucky, there are two small boats with particularly bad luck that are directly stopped by friendly ships and overturned, and the players on the ship are collectively killed by mistake, the scene is really unbearable to look at.
In just over 1 minute, more than 40 players' ships were sunk one after another, and this is because all the player ships are desperately fleeing, and if they meet the confrontation, this number may have doubled or tripled.
However, Yun Xiaohan didn't care about others at this time, the big ships that were chasing him were getting closer and closer to the Vestelos, and one of the nearest enemy ships was already loading the magic cannon.
As a small ship, the Vestelos still has a great advantage in steering speed, and without being reminded by Yun Xiaohan, the player at the helm immediately began to take a serpentine route.
Soon there were shells coming towards the Vistellos, the first few were still far away, but soon the impact point was getting closer and closer.
After a while, the first shot appeared close to miss, and the splash of water fell on Yun Xiaohan's face, and the virtual helmet just simulated the touch of cold water hitting his face at the right time, and Yun Xiaohan even seemed to feel a trace of saltiness brought by the sea.
This kind of high-fidelity touch makes Yun Xiaohan feel extremely real, but unfortunately only the touch of the face, and the physical aspect is still not covered.
The excitement of the artillery battle not only did not make Yun Xiaohan afraid, but made him extremely excited, being able to play this kind of game is really the greatest happiness as a gamer, and those who have this mood probably account for the vast majority of players, after all, the cannon giant ship is the dream of many men!
If the chat room wasn't closed, he would definitely be able to hear the excited shouts of countless players, because just on the Vestelos, Yun Xiaohan could hear many people shouting: "Cool, cool, it's so cool, come, shoot at me." ”
For players, winning or losing is naturally important, but it is more important to enjoy the process that you don't have the opportunity to enjoy in reality.
In the previous 9 battles, no one from the Imperial faction's player fleet was intercepted, and the players of the other two factions were all on NPC transports and did not participate in naval battles at all, so this is the first naval battle that players have experienced personally.
I believe that as long as someone records this video of the naval battle and uploads it to the forum, with the feelings of personal experience, it will immediately attract the envy of a large number of players.
To get back to the point, despite all the evasive maneuvers she had, the Vestelos was quickly hit.
The first maiden shell landed on the deck behind the rudder, and as the shells were solid, they immediately made a large hole in the wooden deck, pierced through the second cabin, and landed on the bottom row of the oars.
The Vistellos was lucky, after penetrating 2 decks in a row, the shell failed to penetrate the bottom of the ship, and the ship did not leak, otherwise the warriors and knight players at the bottom of the ship would not know how to plug the leak. Of course, this is also due to the fact that the bottom plate of the ship is made of relatively strong wood.
After this cannon, Yun Xiaohan realized that he had made a mistake in personnel arrangement, and he immediately asked a gunner to help in the paddle room, while his gun emplacement was topped by a professional archer player, and the other 5 vacant gun emplacements were volunteered to occupy by the excited players as early as the beginning of the battle.
In order to fight for these five gun positions, they all began to line up, and if they could not hit the enemy ship within 20 yards of two consecutive guns, they had to be laid off and replaced.
To be honest, if Yun Xiaohan didn't have to stay on the deck to command in order to ensure the buff effect of the Seagod's blessing, he would have gone in to grab the gun position and shoot a few shots.
Only a few seconds later, another cannonball came close to hitting the Vistellos, and its trajectory happened to pass between the two sails, and one of the sailing naval players, "Memories of the Little Fish", happened to be swept by the shell.
Although he was only wiped away, Xiao Yu's memory was like a lightning strike, and the person was shot down to the deck at once, and the abrasion and fall injuries added up to make him only have a bloody skin left, that is, he was lucky enough, and he was directly killed in seconds.
As the distance approached, and the enemy gunners became more familiar with the Vistellos' sailing rhythm, range, and wind influence, the enemy's hit rate began to increase.
However, because of the proximity of the distance, the hoisting of the high parabolic trajectory began to decrease rapidly, and most of them were flat direct shots, and the possibility of the bottom of the ship being pierced and leaking became much smaller.
However, direct fire took a huge toll due to the small size of the Vestelos and the large number of people on board, so the player could easily be hit by shells.
For players of this level, the huge solid bullet can be said to die if it hits, and it hurts when it hits. It's even worse than dying when you hit and being injured when you get hurt. If you get hit head-on, you won't even be able to find a whole corpse.
Of course, this is not because the corpse has been torn apart, and the game has blocked the particularly bloody picture, but because the whole person was directly sent into the sea.
Either half of the body is missing, and then the system instantly vaporizes the remaining half of the body.
After a while, the Vistelos was beaten and basically lost power, and after a few more shots, its durability was reduced to zero, and the ship began to sink.
From start to finish, none of the players on the Vestelos could hit an enemy ship, not even a luck cannon.
On the one hand, this is due to the player's poor gunnership, and on the other hand, it is also due to the fact that the players who are crowded in the gun compartment are killed a large number of players before the ship sinks, and there are even cases where two players are killed by a single shell.