Chapter 252: Night Battle Across the Ages
Ogrim's speech was simple and violent. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Needless to say, it is natural that someone would depict the richness of the northern continent.
All he had to do was tell his people where the enemy was, and his compatriots, who had become violent from drinking the blood of demons, would swarm them.
Unlike most orcs, Orgrim appears to be extremely calm and sober.
Not only had he carefully studied the map to check the conditions in the waters around here, but he had also begun to learn the lingua franca of humanity since he left Stormwind. Orgrim left a family of captives behind to force an old woman to teach him the lingua franca with their relatives.
From pointing to the simplest objects, such as a rock, Ogrim crosses the pronunciation, one by one confirming his translations.
It's boring and not understood by the vast majority of orcs.
But this time he crossed the sea, and Orgrim came up with the corresponding results.
He saw the route of the transport fleet on a captured military map.
I know very well the power of those huge sea warships of mankind. That kind of roaring artillery blast could easily send more than ten orcs flying at the same time.
The orcs were powerless at sea.
So Ogrim's route was from Baladine Bay off the wetlands, northeast to shallow waters with considerable underwater reefs, and then north along the waters from Fort Riptide to Dangalok to the eastern beach next to the town of Southsea.
In this way, it will be possible for large forces to evade the most powerful sea fleet of mankind.
Orgrim considered the Fishmen and Naga who served the humans, but he felt that they were too few in number to pose a threat to the Horde.
He did not intend to land a large force on the eastern beach, where the mountains were steep and the entire beach was covered by human bows and ballistas. Landing there, even a victory would be a pyrrhic victory.
The western coast of Nanhai Town is different. There are more stones on the coast, which is convenient for concealment and cover.
There are too few guys with brains in the tribe. Orgrim could only calculate the departure and arrival times himself.
His calculations were precise, and if there were no accidents on the way, the first transports would arrive late at night.
After the decoy fleet, the landing time of the main forces will be around half past four in the morning. As long as the main forces can successfully land. When the Horde's forces reach Nanhai Town, it will be early in the morning.
The warriors of the tribe will have a full day to clean up the humans. Orgrim believed that with the unmatched physical strength and endurance of the orcs, the weaker humans, even if they could defend themselves for a moment, would be crushed and destroyed after a few hours.
Ogrim was so convinced.
In fact, on the Alliance's side, Admiral Dai Lin, who had already taken the fleet to sea, slapped the table and scolded his mother rarely after hearing the time when the tribe passed the sniper position: "Wouldn't this make our entire fleet be a mascot at sea!?"
Looking at the pitch-black sea in the distance through the monoculars, Dai Lin felt a sense of irritability.
"The leader of the orcs is clearly not a reckless man who can only charge. You've got a match, Dalein. The conversation was accosted by a beautiful woman with long blond hair and long, pointed ears, standing beside Dai Lin. This is a position closer to Dai Lin than the royal guards, and all of the above shows that this elven mage has a special status.
Indeed, the mage of the High Elves was named Gina Golden Sword, the lover of King Dalein. It's an almost open secret.
"Any news on this?"
"Yes, little Duke was summoned and he said, 'The plan remains the same'. β
Dai Lin suddenly calmed down. He was unfairly sure that Duke must have a special means to change the situation.
In this era, unless ships sailed to a distance of less than 100 meters from each other, there was no such thing as night fighting. Since Duke looked into the night and told him that his plan would not change, it would be better to wait for that opportunity.
It was late at night, the moon was shrouded in dark clouds, and it was very boring to look out over the pitch-black sea. Quite a few new lookouts fall asleep in such situations.
But no one slept tonight, and all the sailors were told to fight a night battle like never before. This determined that the mighty fleet of Kurtilas would either be left out of the battle and completely left to dry, or promoted to the hunters of the night.
A huge fleet, in a direction parallel to the distant coastline, was arranged in a 1 column. This is the best option for maximizing the firepower of the fleet for opponents who are not capable of resisting.
The helmsman stared at the stern lights of friendly ships not far ahead, carefully keeping his distance from the array.
In the darkness in the distance, the first reflections appeared.
This quickly attracted the attention of the lookout and Admiral Dalin, and more blurred spots of light appeared in the darkness.
Like a rising firework, the milky white ball of light rose lightly into the sky.
After just a dozen seconds, more and brighter lights lit up on the surface of the sea, illuminating a large area of the offshore area near the coast as if it were day.
"How could it be there?" Dai Lin wasn't a mage, he wasn't too sure.
High Elf mage Gina smiled: "If a human or High Elf mage apprentice makes such a failing magic, he will definitely be severely punished by the mentor, but in the case of the fishman, this is not bad." β
Fishman!?
It turned out to be a mage of the fish-people?
As Dai Lin, who has spent a long time at sea and has dealt with fish-people, Naga, and all kinds of sea monsters for half his life, of course he knows that there is also a branch of fish-man sages among fish-people. It's just that those ridiculous fish-man sages are the worst spellcasters, and the [ice arrows] they shoot can only make a place the size of a palm to form ice less than a finger's width. Scattered in one shot, unless it is shot at the vital point, there is no lethality at all.
Dai Lin never imagined that these fish-man sages, who could only cast Tier 1 magic at most, could be used in this way.
Yes, they're weak scum.
But after acting as a lighthouse, they are god-level teammates!
Seeing through the telescope that the orc transports in the glow-covered area were exactly the kind of target ships covered in iron, Dalin excitedly shouted, "Open the guns, fire, fireβ"
The Kurtilas fleet, which had been ready for a long time, let out a continuous roar after 2 minutes.
"Bang!bang!bang......"
The so-called salvo was nothing more than the firing of all the guns from the bow to the stern with an extremely short gap. If you fire the cannon at the same time, that terrifying recoil will destroy the entire deck and even the entire battleship.
Even if the shells didn't arrive at the same time, the sound was terrifying.
Heavy rain of iron bullets streaked across the dark sky, carrying a characteristic scream that symbolized the coming of death, and fell into the Horde's transport fleet. (To be continued.) )