Chapter 308: Divide your troops to meet the attack
Every battleship roared, the muzzles of the guns flashed with blinding yellow fire, and the huge solid cannonballs fired at the same time, bringing out a fierce puff of smoke, accompanied by the deafening roar, the chambers of the guns fell violently. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The black arc of light crossed hundreds of meters of airspace and blasted towards the transport ship, and the continuous explosion of cannonballs tearing through the sky completely overshadowed the roaring sea breeze.
Pulling the black arc light, the iron ball flying in the sky has become an out-and-out messenger of death. The cannonball is like the god of death that weighs a person's life on the scales, except that on one side there is luck, and on the other side is death.
Whether it stirred up a huge splash of water that passed by, or was it directly shot into the soul and bombarded in the sea, this became a metaphysical thing.
In a sense, being killed by a shell is also a kind of luck, at least not to have to endure this endless torment.
Cannonballs flew over his head, falling beside him and splashing skyrocketing.
Didn't hit??
Less than two seconds after the buzzing sound, a new round of terrifying roars from far and near was about to arrive.
Pray to the ancestors?
After drinking the blood of unknown origin to turn himself into green skin, did the ancestors still bless themselves?
At some point, these seemingly endless shells became the greatest torture of the orcs.
If this was the first time to fight across the sea, perhaps all the orcs were confused, and they would paddle their heads to let the ship rush forward. But with the shadow of the first disastrous defeat of the landing battle, the surviving orcs inevitably panicked.
As an oarboat, the most feared thing is that the force on both sides is uneven, and the direct consequence of this is that the boat spins like a blind fly on the sea.
There was confusion in the orc fleet.
It's not that there are no orc commanders who have tried to organize a fleet of small boats to charge the alliance en masse, but after the last time the Kurtilas fleet suffered a big loss, it was no longer a careless single column that stopped in front of the orc transports, but a staggered double column.
Not only that, but the frenzied Admiral Dalin also changed the ship structure of most of the fleet.
Originally, for the purpose of artillery battles between fleets, Kurtilas's fleet was all on the port side, and the number of cannons was basically evenly distributed. Now, considering that the artillery battle would be followed by the most brutal blocking battle, Dahlin moved almost all the cannons to starboard, and the port side relied on ballast to keep the ship balanced.
In other words, as long as the coalition fleet could not gain the upper hand and could not grab the T-position, the port side, which had only a few cannons left, would basically kneel as soon as it touched the enemy.
Dai Lin is bold and careful, on the one hand, he does not think that the blood sail fleet that has taken refuge in the orcs can have much combat power, and on the other hand, he is confident in his command art.
Now he's got the bet right.
Even an ordinary destroyer can have more than 30 cannons on one side. This firepower is simply insane.
Solid spherical cannonballs swirled in the air, like a divine punishment for evil, and slammed into the small orc transports that were trying to rely on their agility to perform ant-possession tactics.
"Boom-"
Because of the rush of work, most of the materials of the new batch of transport ships cut corners. Originally, the orc ships were thick and hard, but now due to the lack of materials and the excessive pursuit of quantity, they are not even hard.
It is common sense that a seemingly huge transport ship can be blasted from the deck all the way to the bottom of the ship by a single cannon.
The truth was in front of us, and the rough and thin deck was easily blasted into the sky, mixed with splinters of wood and orc flesh, splashing in all directions like a torrential rain.
There is no need to rely on the explosion of gunpowder, nor the auger strength of rifling, just with that pure and violent kinetic energy, a solid iron ball can send a transport ship that can carry dozens or even hundreds of people to the bottom of the sea.
The scourge of cutting corners has also spread to the orc-like giant ironclad transports.
Originally, with the heavy iron armor, the cannon's shells smashed on it could not cause substantial damage even without ricocheting. But after the armor was thinned, the pig iron plate, which was not officially armored, became the biggest killer.
After being shelled, the brittle pig iron instantly shattered into thumb-sized fragments, which cracked and sputtered into the cabin with the impact of the shelling. The orc warriors, crammed into the cabin as canned sardines, became the biggest victims.
Under this kind of fragmentation attack beyond the limit of physical fitness, large swaths of orcs were harvested like wheat harvesting, but more often they suffered serious injuries that could not continue to fight.
If on a land battlefield, the furious and brave orcs will often choose an enemy to die together, but this is the sea, and in addition to their own people, those stray bullets within a radius of more than ten meters leave a bowl-sized bullet mark in the cabin.
Sitting on Dai Lin's ship, listening to the information gathered by the various mages.
Duke's face was still sinking like water.
"One good news, one bad news. ”
Admiral Dai Lin pursed his lips: "Men at sea always start to hear bad news. ”
"Well, the bad news is that you have to decide how to distribute the fleet now. If you land more than 8,000 transports on the shores of the South Stream, Terenus and Jean will come and fight you in no time. ”
"The good news?"
"At this pace, we have a chance to sink more than half of our orcs to the bottom of the ocean to feed the fish. ”
Dai Lin whistled: "I will let the Second Fleet and the Storm Fleet stay in Nanhai Town for your deployment." Regardless of the passage through the strait, the rest I pull off the coast of the South Stream?"
Duke pondered for a moment, Dalin was still worried about the Bloodsail Pirates, and that was the only way to go.
"You promise me. ”
"Rest assured, I'll do justice to them, even if they take out my Third Fleet if they're forced to. ”
Duke stared at Dalin for a moment, then finally nodded.
On the battlefield, the fighter plane is fleeting.
There is no hesitation.
The situation here was also reflected in the headquarters of Nanhai Town, Lothar gritted his teeth and looked at Ryan: "Admiral Ryan, can I hand over the best defense line of Nanhai Town to you?"
Ryan looked at his childhood friend, and Lothar's battle for the past year was still vivid. Ryan patted Lothar on the shoulder: "I'm not a kid who went to war for the first time. If such a good defense can be penetrated, I'll die. ”
"No, I don't want you to die, I ......"
Ryan punched Lothar in the chest lightly: "Go, Lothar Commander, the league needs you." ”
Without any more hesitation, Lothar beckoned Tulayan: "Let's go, destination, south-flowing coast." ”
With almost all of his cavalry, Lothar must reach Shadowfang Castle before the Horde lands.
The most brutal beach-grabbing landing battle is about to begin. (To be continued.) )