Chapter 617: Encounter at Sea
Realizing that the Frost Fleet had finally set off and was moving in the direction of his own port, Kadrew was moved to tears.
It's not easy!
Recently, Kadru has been scolded by Sejuani to the point of autism - although he was even a little excited when he was scolded at first, but when this endless abuse became a daily routine, his nerves gradually began to lose his patience.
Now it's finally possible to get rid of this pain!
On the other hand, it took a long time for Rhodes to basically complete the retraining of the Frost Fleet - although the cooperation of this fleet is not very good, but at least it is not a head-off.
That's right, in this battle, the Frost Fleet is not the main combat unit, their main task is to cooperate with Rhodes......
Otherwise, do you really think that the grand magician will honestly fight a naval battle with you?
Whether it is the wolf ship fleet or the frost fleet, the goal of both sides is to fight head-on, and they are both "thinking that the advantage is big enough to go up", so the two sides simply came to the problem of an encounter in a dignified manner.
Walk in the opposite direction, in the opposite direction.
Then, almost one after the other, Cana and the Glacier Harrier Eagle spotted the enemy at the same time.
As a result, before the official contact, both the Wolf Ship Fleet and the Frost Fleet entered a state of readiness.
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In the northern part of the sea of conquest in midsummer, the sea breeze is blowing.
Although it's still summer, the temperature in the area has begun to cool – and while the currents from the south keep it at a relatively high level, the downward trend is significant.
This is the best season for naval battles.
Standing on the deck of the flagship, Rhodes silently moved his neck.
This battle ...... It's not easy.
When the numerical advantage accumulates to a certain extent, the individual's ability will be greatly reduced - if Rhodes faces hundreds of fighters, he can still be tortured, but when the number reaches thousands, tens of thousands, Rhodes will not be able to stand it.
The Wolf Ship is not just a big iron hulle, this kind of ship is a well-designed naval combat vessel, although it is relatively primitive, but it is also fully functional, and a simple spell bombardment is not enough to destroy this fleet.
And because of the need to take into account the command, Rod's tactical thinking must not be too unrestrained, and he must ensure that he is closed and fight, and he can use himself as a relatively stable battery output.
Just when Rhodes was smoothing out his tactical ideas for the last time, at sea level, the fleet of wolf ships appeared.
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As the lookout shouted about encountering the enemy, Cardru was the first to be on deck.
"Hurry up, bunnies, get the ropes ready, we'll run over them!"
At Caderu's order, the movable winch on deck was placed, and the sailors shouted the trumpet, and moved the spare iron cables out of the warehouse and coiled around them.
Kadrew himself rolled up his sleeves and grabbed a section of the rope, and after repelling the others on deck, picked up the heavy rope.
"Whew-whew-"
The heavy rope was fully swayed, and Cardru took aim before letting go and throwing it.
"Boom la la ......"
Like a long snake in mid-air, the heavy iron rope flew to the deck of the adjacent ship with its winch, and circled the curved iron ramming horns characteristic of wolf ships.
Next, the sailors went to the deck again, and they were trained to hang a large number of crude but extremely lethal weapons such as iron bolts and iron pillars on the iron cable that connected the two ships, and then carried the second iron cable from the cabin.
Kadru did the same, connecting the ship on the other end with the flagship.
At the same time, other ships were doing similar work, and the wolf fleet was armed before the two sides made contact.
All the wolf ships were connected by heavy iron cables, and the thick iron cables and the huge wolf ships together formed a huge wall that slowly advanced on the sea - whether it was the huge wolf ship, or the iron cables between the wolf ships, or the objects on the iron, these factors were fatal to the Frost Fleet.
On the other side, Rhodes also noticed this situation - the entire fleet of wolf ships, almost all of which were sunk at the front.
This means that the center of gravity of the ship has changed.
Originally, the wolf ship's curved ramming horns were used to break the ice - but now, these ramming horns have become the greatest suffering of the Alvarossa.
It's too late to go around the side now.
Facing the imposing chain of warships, Rhodes's flagship waved the flag.
The Frost Fleet began to disperse in an orderly manner as it was being done in training.
With Rhodes' flagship as the center, all the large and small ships began to disperse, among which the ships in the central position began to lower their sails and slow down, while the ships on both wings moved laterally, and the phalanx, which was originally a marching phalanx, quickly turned into a V-shaped goose-shaped formation.
Due to the large number of ships in the frost fleet, from a high altitude, under the backdrop of the huge V-shaped goose-shaped array, the iron cable horizontal formation arranged by the twenty wolf ships seems to be only a small horizontal, and the formation of the two warring sides is developing from "one" and "V" to the inverted "A" shape.
After completing the formation, a rain of arrows poured down.
Interestingly, in naval warfare, the firepower of the side is stronger than that of the bow and stern, and everyone likes to seize the horizontal side of the T-shaped and hit the enemy with as much side firepower as possible, but for the fleet of wolf ships, which are not good at shooting and long-range strikes, the side side is the weak point.
No way, the Winterclaw people prefer to throw weapons to bows and arrows, these throwing weapons are certainly much more powerful, but due to the range, in every naval battle, it is the frost fleet that has the firepower to suppress.
However, seeing that the Frost Fleet had changed its formation, as if it was about to target his own weaknesses, Kadrew was a little surprised, but he was not worried at all.
Although the goose-shaped formation can effectively reduce the impact and prepare for the encirclement battle, the wolf ship fleet will not easily expose the flaws in the flanks!
The kite with the oil bladder was raised, and Kadrew gave his instructions.
The auxiliary vessels hidden behind the tall wolf ship accepted the order and took the initiative to speed up to protect the flanks of the iron cable.
Most of the sailors on these auxiliary ships are rookies, and it is good to follow the wolf ship on weekdays, but now when it is time for them, the speed of these rookies is really alarming - there are even many ships that are drowned by the rain of arrows, and the ship capsizes and dies, and none of the sailors are spared.
Seeing these auxiliary ships broken and overturned, Kadrew was still expressionless.
For the Wolf Fleet, the auxiliary ships were all casualties - as long as the entire fleet turned around after the first charge, then the task of these people was completed.
In this way, the first collision between the frost fleet and the wolf ship fleet began.