Chapter 268: A Thousand Miles of Pursuit (Part II)
In fact, Sun Lin's idea is very simple, and it can be summed up in one word, that is: gambling. He was betting that the officer or the remaining Atlantaine naval officers would abandon the wounded and broken ships for their own lives.
In this world, as long as the more power he has, the more he will cherish his life, this is the last word accumulated by those in power for thousands of years, and those in power must generally have the idea that people will not be destroyed for themselves, so in Sun Lin's view, in order to speed up the escape, the commander or those Atlanta naval commanders will eliminate the damaged warships and wounded soldiers from the route they fled from while making a division of troops to confuse the pursuers, so that they cannot guess which escape route they are on. Because they are cumbersome, not only will they waste the last food left in the ship, but they will also slow down the overall march because of their weight and the degree of damage.
And even if the battleship and crew left behind were injured, they were definitely not injured, and they were the kind of ships that stayed to complete the task of interception when necessary, so in Sun Linkai, this channel with only some broken driftwood must have been left by the Atlantic fleeing fleet that existed in the Atlanta commander, and the other 3 were smoke bombs.
Of course, this judgment is not necessarily correct, and this is an important factor that led Sun Lin to finally decide to divide his troops to pursue, because even Sun Lin himself did not dare to guarantee that that or those commanders would suddenly have a brain convulsion or seek wealth in danger, and decided to mix himself with those wounded.
However, it turned out that this should be impossible, and on the third day after Sun Lin decided to divide his troops to pursue, Sun Lin successively received news from the crew of Xiyi with carrier pigeons: they found the three "smoke grenades" released by the Atlanta naval commander.
Just as Sun Lin predicted, the battleship equipped with the "smoke bomb" was full of traces left by the scorpion crossbow and the Greek fire thrower, and even one of the Atlanta whale battleships that was shot off the bow by the defending giant crossbow and had 5 holes in the hull, half of the hull burned by the Greek fire was in a carbonized state, and only 1 of the 6 sails remained. Incidentally, the fact that the whale was able to escape so far without sinking despite such a severe damage made it the focus of generations of shipwrights on which the sun never set, until a hundred years later, the damaged hull of the Thanavi that had undergone any restoration was still intact in the Crescent Ship Museum in New Delhi.
And the Atlanta wounded in these 3 "smoke bombs" are also not better, although most of the crew have been starved for 3 days, it is reasonable to say that they should be skinny, but due to the ship's damage and the influx of seawater, these Atlanta wounded bodies are almost all swollen by seawater bubbles, and the wounds on their bodies are even more festering and miserable, emitting a foul smell with a fishy smell. The most bizarre thing is that because these Atlanta wounded were so hungry that they couldn't even make a sound, most of the Atlanta crew members were already in a half-dead state, and when the sailors found them, they were like white balls of flesh spread out on the ship, looking dead that they couldn't die anymore, only the intermittent breathing still proved that they were still alive.
Out of the humane treatment of prisoners of war advocated by the Empire, the crew of the Sunset side still searched for dozens of Atlanta sailors in the damaged ships who could be revived by the Sunset Field Medic who accompanied them after returning to the Royal Fleet, and then used Greek firethrowers to ignite all the Atlanta warships present before carrying out the return mission, leaving behind a sea of fire that should not exist in the sea.........
On the other side, Sun Lin and his fleet continued to be in pursuit, because they were not facing those Atlanta warships whose hull structures were seriously damaged and even had to rely on the waves to move forward, until another three days, that is, the battle of the Karguaza Islands had started on the second day, and Sun Lin's telescope showed the figure of the main fleet of the Atalan 3rd and 9th fleets.
"It's an enemy ship! Prepare for the Greek fire! The battleship of Galie strikes! Under Sun Lin's roar, two slender and dark iron pipes gradually stretched out from the underside of the bow of the battleship of Galie, while the sails of the battleship itself continued to move forward at high speed in a full sail state, and the battleship of Hawkgar and Sun Lin's Royal Victory followed closely behind, and the Greek fire throwers equipped on board had also completed combat preparations.
On the other side of the "woo .........", the 3rd and 9th fleets of Atlanta, which found the figure of the sunset fleet, also broke out, and after a riot, they left behind the only two giant whale warships and most of the shark warships in their fleet, and Sun Lin could observe with a telescope that a total of 3 swordfish warships and several shark warships did not stop advancing, but all raised their broken canvases and fled the battlefield in all directions.
"Humph! At this time, he was still thinking of using this method to confuse me. Looking at the Atlanta side's contingency strategy, Sun Lin snorted coldly and said, but he had to admit in his heart that in the absence of the Hawker assault ship and the thousand fire ship in his hands, this method was indeed the most effective response policy.
Of course, it is not necessary to deal with it, but it is not necessary to have a very effective effect: "Let the battleship Hawkgar and the Victory prepare to collide together, and we will make a way for the battleship Galle!" "Sometimes, the stupid method may be the most advantageous way, under the command of Sun Lin, the four Hawkgar battleships plus the Royal Victory, a total of five heavy battleships that never set the sun passed the slowly slowing Garry battleship, and rushed into the oncoming Atlanta fleet with its sturdy bow ramming horns.
Although in the face of the intact giant whale battleship, it can be said that all the sailors who do not set the sun dare to think of this kind of practice in front of them, but at this time, the sailors who do not set the sun are facing two dilapidated giant whale battleships, and they are also giant whale battleships with more carbonized hulls, this idea is no longer unrealistic.
"......Boom" With the sound of impact, the Hawkgar battleship and the Royal Victory, as Sun Lin expected, not only blocked the two giant whale battleships, but also directly destroyed 1 shark battleship and forced 6 shark battleships to stop, although there were still some fish that slipped through the net and rushed to the Garee battleship, but those Atlanta ships were no longer able to stop the Galie warship from executing the battle to bypass the engagement and pursue those ships that escaped.
At the same time, the sailors of the Hawkgar and the Victory also used ropes to swing to the Atlanta ships that they had blocked, and slaughtered the captured Atlantan sailors. At this time, victory was already in Sun Lin's hands.
PS: Tomorrow the little pig has something.,The update time is all pushed to the evening.,By the way, ask for a recommendation ticket again.