Chapter 674: Lion VS Golden Phoenix (3)
"Fire! Shoot alternately! Under the control of the flagmen, the Garet battleships on the left and right sides of the battlefield were lined up in two columns, and all the guns of the hundreds of guns were aimed at the Patton frigates, which numbered only 30, in a slow manner.
Although the sailors of the Holy Light Empire on the Patton frigate were curious about the black iron pipes sticking out of the design holes on both sides of these Canadian battleships, but because their 10 heavy warships were suddenly surrounded by fire in a short period of time, everyone on the Patton frigate instinctively felt a trace of fear for those dark gun barrels, and in this case, the captains of the 30 Patton frigates ordered almost at the same time to ask their warships to turn the ship sideways, Using the mechanical 3-fire crossbow on the side and stern of the Patton frigate to return fire, although everyone on the Patton frigate knew that doing so was very likely to expose the battleship to the enemy's fire, and his mechanical 3-round crossbow had only just reached a position where it could shoot back, and it was still unknown whether it could really shoot the javelin at the battleship of Galie, but it was at least much better than not firing back at all and continuing to sprint forward to target those battleships that never set.
It's a pity that because the firepower network formed by the Divine Light Empire for the fleet that never sets is still stuck in the concept of the firepower network formed by the scorpion crossbows of those naval battles, the 30 Patton frigates, who are fearless and ignorant, do not know how terrifying the lethality of the 100 or so guns equipped on the side of the hull of the 25 Galie warships is after they shoot alternately.
After the sound of the order, the 24 guns on the side of the first battleship that had already been loaded began to light the fuse one by one, and in the continuous roar, 24 shells were fired from the beginning to the tail in turn, and about half of the 24 guns in the first battleship led by the leader had already fired, the third battleship behind the first battleship also began to fire one by one. At the same time, when the 3rd battleship had nearly half of its guns fired, the 2nd Garen, which was about 50 meters away from the 1st and 3rd ships, also began to fire, followed by the 5th Garriet in the tail of the 3rd Garen, and then the 4th Garriet between the 3rd and 5th Garet in the ranks.........
Although this peculiar way of firing is not comparable to the salvo in terms of power and deterrence, this way of firing can make the long-range strikes of the Galie battleship become continuous, especially when the last battleship, that is, the 24th battleship, has finished firing, and the first Galie battleship has most likely completed the cleaning of the barrel and the loading of the shells. And so start a new round of shooting. This hail-like shot didn't take out the enemy quickly, but it did cause the enemy to panic visibly, especially when the sailors of the Great Empire of Divine Light aboard the Patton frigate saw the terrifying penetration of the solid shells.
"Ahh My hand! My hand! Looking at a comrade-in-arms who had been directly taken away from his arm by a rapidly flying cannonball, and the corpse on the ground beside him whose head had been cut off by half of the cannonball, the sailors of the Great Empire of Divine Light in the cabin of the battleship couldn't help but swallow. It's a pity that these sailors, who thought that staying in the cabin would be guaranteed a certain amount of life, were all killed by another shell in the next second, because they were standing on the same ballistic line before.
And something like this is happening on the rest of the Patton frigates today: in fact, the early guns were able to fire only solid shells. As a result, the early artillery battleships were not very lethal to the battleships. After all, the early artillery only had a stronger penetration power than the naval scorpion crossbow, and there was no difference between the early artillery and the naval scorpion crossbow, not to mention that the early artillery sacrificed the extremely outstanding accuracy ability among the war equipment of the great empire in exchange for such a powerful penetrating ability.
Compared to the pitiful situation of the Patton frigate, the situation of the Great Empire of Divine Light in the middle lane is not much better now, first of all, because their only 10 heavy warships were unsuspected, and they were turned into charcoal by the Greek fire jet device equipped in the heavy battleships of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets. In naval battles, although heavy warships move slowly, it is often the heavy warships that determine the outcome of the war, because these large men have powerful firepower that several medium-sized warships together are difficult to defeat. And the protection ability of its armor is often the existence of many assault and light warships that are very helpless in the face of it, not to mention that the number of people carried on heavy warships is often several times that of those assault warships.
Of course, although the Hawkgar battleship did not unload the city-defending giant crossbow and the No. 3 counterweight trebuchet, because these war equipment are heavy war equipment with a slow loading speed, and the strongest firepower of the Hawkgar battleship is installed on both sides of the battleship, it is estimated that the guns on both sides of the battleship have not been aimed at the painful turning speed of the heavy battleship, and the pilgrimage warships and Beagle battleships of the Holy Light Great Empire have all withdrawn from the battle area, but it is also thanks to the fact that the sun never sets has the fastest moving Hawk assault ship among the assault warships that move in a straight line.
"Fire! Fire! "After removing all the cold weapon-type war equipment, and only retaining the planks and hooks that have the side of the battle, the long-range combat weapons of the Hawker assault ship are only 12 No. 1 guns located in the cabins on both sides of the hull, in the absence of concentrated fire, in fact, the Hawker assault ship with only 6 guns is not very threatening for the Beagle battleship and the pilgrim battleship, even if the number of Hawker assault ships has reached 40, after all, the Hawker assault ship itself is neither a light warship nor a frigate, Rather, it is an assault warship that is specially supplied to the army carrying out coastal assaults on ships.
However, because the Hawk Assault Ship is also equipped with a lethal Greek fire jet device, and the Giant Battleship behind the Holy Light Ship and the sailors of the Holy Light Empire on the Pilgrim Ship have been shocked by the previous situation, in this case, the sailors of the Holy Light Empire have forgotten the speed advantage of the Bigg Battleship on their side, of course, to be precise, they have forgotten that the Bigg Battleship can use the speed advantage to delay the advance of the Sunset Assault Ship, so that the Pilgrim Battleship can be located in the rear for continuous output, Although this method cannot change the rout of the battleship, it can at least bite off a piece of the flesh of the Sunset Fleet before the complete rout, but unfortunately now the only thing left in the heart of the Divine Light side is to escape, fleeing from this battlefield full of devilish fire.
Under the influence of such thoughts, all the Beagle warships in the fleet of the Holy Light Empire wanted those Hawk Assault Ships to go head-on, and used the body of the Beagle battleship, whose tonnage was only worse than the Hawk Raider, to block the Hawk Assault Ship's advance, and the pilgrimage battleship as a medium-sized warship began to withdraw to the rear under the cover of the Beagle Battleship, obviously the Holy Light Empire's side had negotiated and decided to retain the limited combat strength of its fleet as much as possible in the case of irretrievable war- The Divine Light Empire wants to let the pilgrimage warships flee the battlefield.
For such a situation, the sun does not set, of course, it will not let the side of the Holy Light Great Empire succeed, because now as long as one more battleship of the Holy Light Great Empire is destroyed, then in the future, when the own fleet withdraws from the Lasman Islands coastal defense line and the Enoch Islands coastal defense line, the pressure on the lower Maginot line will be reduced by one point, after all, if the troops of the Holy Light Great Empire want to attack from the King's Inland Sea, then they must use warships to transport troops to land in the coastal area of the western region of the Central Continent. And for each reduction of ships, the number of soldiers that the Holy Light Empire could send to the Maginot Line each day decreased.
"Herald! Let the Garrets continue to move forward in the same direction as they did after defeating the Patton frigates, and we must leave all the pilgrim ships that want to evacuate here, and we must not let them escape to Vadano Island. "Seeing that the advance force of the Great Empire of Divine Light fell into an irretrievable rout under the surprise victory of his side with the Greek firethrower, the captain of the Giant immediately showed an excited gaze, and asked the flag bearers on the Giant to start moving to the rear of the battlefield and merging with the two Garried fleets located outside the battlefield, so as to block the retreat route of the dozens of pilgrimage warships, as for the opponent of the Galie warship before- The 30 Patton frigates have survived more than five rounds of alternating designs of the Canadian battleships, and all of them have seen water ingress in their cabins and a large number of cracks in their hulls.
In addition, the sailors of the Holy Light Great Empire on the Patton frigate had a large number of deaths or serious injuries due to the terrifying penetration of the artillery, if the sailors on the Patton frigate continue to fight back, then it will not be long before the Patton frigate will automatically go silent, and in this case, all the Patton frigates will stop counterattacking, and in a panic, they take out the planks stored on the ship, and begin to repair the hull of the Barleist warship with all their might, and this situation is exactly what the sun never sets, So the sailors on the battleship of Callie began to raise their full sails, began to move forward in an arc, and continued to replenish the group of Balian frigates with a few shells as they went.
However, at this moment, a pour of cold water was poured directly on the head of the captain of the Giant battleship: "The hired intelligence officer of the Fish Clan of the King Inland Sea has come to report that the side of Vadano Island seems to have discovered the situation here, and the fleet of the Holy Light Great Empire located in the surrounding area is the same, so they have discharged at least 3 fleets to rush here, and it is expected to arrive around 6 o'clock in the evening." (To be continued......)