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On April 21, off the northwestern coast of the Aubarro continent,
After more than a month of long-distance voyages, the Frye fleet, which was ordered to explore the seas, arrived in a distant and unfamiliar sea, with the help of the Salander charts, although the voyage was long, but it was lucky, several small islands along the way were in the season of abundant fruits, Frye looked at the charts in his hand, while biting an unknown fruit,
The fruit was sweet and full of water, and these fruits were picked from the island by sailors, and in the sea chart of Salander, the Salander recorded two passages to the other continent, not just one
One is the traditional sea route, a half-moon-shaped island chain that extends from the southern seaport of Salander to the southern seas along the Icadivar mainland, which can reach the continent of Obaro along the island chain, but now those island chains are still under the control of the Normans.
The other one is more dangerous, because it is only some legends, so the Salander people only draw another mysterious sea route based on the information provided by some lost sailors, this passage is directly connected to the north-central coast of the Ikadiwa continent, and does not need to start from the southern harbor of Saland, but enters the deep sea area from the northeast salient of Nord, and follows the direction of the wind blowing to the other continent, if it is a qiē lì, it can reach the continent of Obaro in three to four months
In order to open up the sea route of Obaro as soon as possible, the fat man handed over the drawing chart of the new sea route to the Imperial Admiralty, and after receiving the order of the fat man to open up the sea route, the Admiral Dustrenkai made a difficulty. What kind of people to send is already a headache.
Exploring the new sea route is not an easy task, the sea is unpredictable, no matter how experienced the captain does not dare to say that he can gallop the sea, although there is a chart of the guide, but what is more needed is human courage, the courage to move forward, even if you may know that there is no front at all, still have to be brave forward,
may also see hope, and in the end, it is impossible to escape the fate of the ship's demise. Dying on a desert island, the Imperial Admiralty chose the experienced, pirate-turned-Frye to take on the task. In fact, before joining the Falcon Navy, Frye was a pirate in this area, and now that he has the Admiralty's charts, his familiarity with the sea is simply level
Based on his past memories, Frye soon found several supply points on the charts, small deserted islands overgrown with all sorts of wild fruits, after a month-long adrift voyage. Finally there were some exciting targets, just three days ago, they saw a shipwreck from a shipwreck on the beach of a desert island, the hull was long, thin and shaped like a flattened tuna, and at first glance it was not a ship from the mainland of Ikadiva.
The discovery immediately excited Frye and the sailors of the fleet, and the presence of a shipwreck undoubtedly showed that he was not far from an unfamiliar continent and longed for a new continent. With pride in conquering most of the seas, the Frye fleet came to this strange sea and gave an order to prepare for possible encounters with strange fleets.
However, for the captain of the Falcon Navy No. 15 Dragon's Tooth battleship Fretronsk. The voyage was not a good one, for he fell ill.
The night before through the storm, he had some colds because of the cold, in which era of lack of medical knowledge, colds are very dangerous diseases, there is no treatment, can only rely on the body's own immune system to heal itself, such a process is not very good, in the continent of Icadivar, as many as a thousand people die of colds every year, many seemingly strong people will become quickly weakened because of colds, and finally inexplicably slow death,...,
"Slow down, three knots, follow in a straight line, pay attention. The order from the detachment flag soon spread throughout the fleet, and as captain of the 15th Dragon's Tooth, Fretronsk entrusted most of the command to the first mate, Rialonso. For a Dragon's Tooth battleship, after the captain lies down, the pilot controller is the actual captain.
"My lord, what do you think, can you get up and walk around?" said Rieonso, after delivering the order, nervously returning to Fretronsk's bedside, with an anxious look.
Rialoso graduated from the Naval Academy in the South last November, less than a year after joining the Navy, although for the Falcon Navy. Rialoso was still a novice in battle, but few people noticed the three gleaming anchor markings on the shoulders of his naval uniform, which meant that he was actually a veteran gunner who sank three enemy ships.
"How did you get here? Didn't you receive orders from the flagship? Fighting could break out at any moment, hurry back to the deck!" Fretronsk opened his eyes and saw Rio Alonso in his bedroom, and suddenly he couldn't help but shout anxiously, and his hoarse voice was like a broken bellows with a hole
"Captain, I'm just a gunner, I've never learned how to steer a battleship!"
Rialoso replied with an ugly face, the captain fell, all the pressure was on the shoulders of his first mate, in this strange sea, unfamiliar enemy, the huge pressure was something that he, the first mate who had never commanded a battleship, could not bear at present.
All kinds of dangerous situations could come at any time, but the most experienced man on board was lying on his stomach, and Rialonso subconsciously felt more nervous than ever, and he sincerely hoped that Fretronsk would get better soon.
After discovering the waves caused by the maneuver of the near-ocean current, the entire fleet slowed down, raised the alert level, and was ready for battle at any time, and Frye's rich experience in the ocean showed that the vicinity of the near-ocean current maneuver was often the place where a large area of land appeared, because only a large enough coastline could block the impact of the ocean current to form a backflow
While the continent of Icadivar was still shrouded in the warmth of spring, the weather here seemed very dry and cold, and the cold sunlight reflected layers of golden light on the water, and the continuous surging of the sea reflected the messy light.
A group of 8 Dragon's Tooth battleships and 12 Saland's five-masted battleships of the Frye Detachment of the Imperial Navy. The battleship marched slowly in a zigzag, and the heavy front chord of the battleship split a long water mark on the sea, which looked very majestic and powerful.
In the second row of the Frye detachment, twenty transports followed closely, and they were about a mile away from the battleships that had opened the way in front, and from a distance the sea looked like a row of small black dots
Time passed in tension, and in order to detect the situation as quickly as possible, the flagship ordered every observation post of the dragon's tooth warship in the fleet to stay on a high mast. Use their lookout glasses to carefully search the calm sea around them,
"Do you see anything?" these were the words that the captains of the ships were asking, and even some of the captains of the Dragon's Tooth battleships even climbed to the very top of the mast to search for targets. Sailed for a month. It depends on the last moment, whether the distant continent is really as legendary, at the top of this ocean current,
If it weren't for his health, Fretronsk would have been at the top of the mast by now.
After a month of sailing, everyone was full of longing and hope for the ultimate goal, which would be a huge discovery that would shake the entire Ikadisian continent, and might even affect the strategic deployment of the Imperial Navy
Finally, at 4:12 p.m., the fleet found the first target. The whole fleet began to get excited, it was a small transport ship with two sails, seeing the group of warships that appeared on the distant sea, this small transport ship was obviously frightened, and immediately turned the rudder to escape, but the impetus provided by the twin sails made its escape body like a fat duck that swayed and turned around...,
"Grab it now!"
Seeing that the target was about to run, Frye on the flagship decisively gave an order, and the two fastest dragon tooth ships stretched out and quickly increased their speed. Two graceful white arcs were drawn on the wings of the small isolated transport, sandwiching the transportship in the middle, and soon a middle-aged man dressed in sackcloth was taken to Frye's flagship by the naval soldiers
looked at the middle-aged man who was frightened in front of him, his face was pale, and he knelt in front of him and screamed in his mouth. Frye, the former pirate leader, is also stupid, and he calculates everything. Forget that the language cannot be communicated, and now the fleet is very tired and tired after sailing for a month, both the sailors and the warships are very tired and tired, and they urgently need a port to dock to rest, but how to tell this middle-aged man is a very difficult problem.
"Come, get a bag of gold coins!" Frye is worthy of being a pirate leader, and knows the temperament of these merchants very well, as long as he has money, he dares to do anything.
He asked people to take out a bag of gold coins, and then with a bang, all of them fell in front of the middle-aged merchant, and sure enough, he saw that this merchant, who was still full of panic just now, had a greedy look in his eyes at this moment, and the golden glitter almost filled the pupils of his eyes, but the sailors around him and the vicious pirate leader in front of him made him hesitate
"Tell ...... Sue...... I, there's ...... there Port!"
Frye gestured with his two hands and asked in his broken continental lingua franca, which he had learned as a pirate, just a few words, port. Live. Money, to put it simply, but in a different order, it means a different meaning, for example, the meaning that the Obaros now understands is to take them to the port, the fleet needs to be replenished, he can survive and get these gold coins, of course, under normal circumstances, Frye's shouting is "money, life, port"
"Woo wow, ah......" The middle-aged man who saw the gold coin suddenly became excited, raised his hand and gestured to the west, and sure enough, the offensive of money was invincible.
"Very well, how far is it?" Fry looked at the gesture of the middle-aged man and continued to ask lame excitedly, but this time the middle-aged businessman didn't seem to understand, and just shook the five fingers of his right hand in front of Frye, shaking Frye's eyes for a while
"Five hours, or five days?" Frye's face was full of confusion, he knew that nothing would come of him if he continued to ask, when he heard the sound of an alarm coming from the mast overhead, and it was the lookout post of the 17th Dragon's Tooth battleship at the head of the fleet that also signaled that the target had been found, and then. The 18 Dragon's Tooth battleships next to it also sent the same signal.
"2 medium warships, 3 small warships. The lookout post reported the information in flags, which made Frye's nerves tense immediately, and those five wobbling fingers would not refer to these five warships of unknown origin
He asked the middle-aged man to be escorted down first, and then ordered like the flag man above, "Know the other party's flag." Order the fleets to prepare for battle!" the other side hoisted a black skull flag. It should be a pirate!" The news from the lookout post made Frye overjoyed, and he was worried that he couldn't find a guide, and was there a guide on the ocean who knew the sea better than a pirate?
"It's the order for the fleet to attack!" Fretronsk, who was lying on the hospital bed, changed his face and wanted to get up from the hospital bed, but he was too weak to succeed several times,
"I don't know why, I'm not so nervous now, it's always been my dream to be a captain, thank you for letting me finish it ahead of schedule" Rio Alonso looked solemn and pressed his thick hand on his shoulder. Reincarnation ran up to the deck on the second floor, shouting "Stand up, raise the battle flag" as he ran.
On both sides of the fifteenth dragon tooth ship. Several dragon tooth ships have their own battle flags fluttering at the tops, and the most famous of them is naturally the pink piggy flag on the flagship Frye, and other battle flags fluttering mermaids, shark hunting, hyacinths, and purple Roland also flutter around it
"Forward, leave no one behind, sink them all!"
The corner of Frye's mouth was straddling the bumper corner at the very front of the flagship, his sword was held high in his hand, and his mouth shouted unscrupulously. The sea breeze howled, blowing his unkempt hair like wheat straw, and the whole person was like this elite fleet full of war, moving forward!
One guide is enough, this is the ocean, too many captives will only consume limited food and fresh water, now I can only hope that there are people in these pirates who are as proficient in the languages of the two continents as themselves,
Of course, Frye wouldn't admit that his Obaro language didn't add up to ten words. So he decided to throw all the pirates into the sea, and then shouted in the lame lingua franca that whoever could answer would live, a very simple and practical way. As for humanity or something, is it needed for pirates?
"Open a position!"
With the order to fight was given. The 8 dragon tooth ships were like tigers out of the box, rushing towards the panicked pirate ship opposite, and the sailors on the battleship began to boil with blood, they ran hard, and pulled the lowered sails with their strong hands as fast as possible, and in the sea breeze, the sails on the dragon tooth battleships were quickly blown up
On the two wings of the battleship, a wooden baffle covering the muzzle was also neatly turned outward, and the dark and cold muzzles were pushed out by the sailors in the cabin from behind the baffle.
"Target 322 meters, port 43 degrees, height 13, advance amount"
The sound from the rangefinder made the black hole in the belly of the hull turn quickly and neatly in the same direction, and the pirate ship on the opposite side seemed to have a premonition of something, and the five warships with pirate markings turned in unison, but it was too late, and the belly of the ship with their flanks exposed was immediately met with a salvo from the Falcon naval fleet
"Boom"
With the whole row of white smoke, after a burst of thunder, it erupted on the sea in the distance, and countless cannonballs with long black tails also crossed a beautiful arc on the sea surface, with a violent whistling sound.
"Bang" A medium-sized battleship flying the black pirate flag was the first to hang the color, because it was the most outward when turning, so it also encountered the most intense attack, and countless shells concentrated the heavy and fat starboard side of the battleship almost at the same time, and then penetrated through the middle of the wooden deck, and the broken wood flew sideways, almost instantly, on this already small hull, at the same time printed hundreds of holes,
Thundered...... The continuous huge explosion sound came from the hull of the ship, and the huge fire almost reflected half of the sky, and the red flames ignited the entire warship, like a huge red torch tumbling on the sea, and you can see that there are many black dots jumping into the sea, that should be the unlucky pirate
2 minutes later, another medium-sized corsair was also poisoned by the Falcon Navy, under the special care of the two rapidly approaching dragon tooth ships No. 17 and No. 19, the rickety hull was pierced with more than thirty Thor bullets, the entire hull appeared a large tilt, its side chords were almost completely torn apart, and the sea water swarmed in, and a few minutes later, the huge hull was filled with sea water and began to sink slowly,
Its iconic bow ramming angle sank first into the rough sea, and then raised its stern high, but the bruised hull could not support the weight of the stern.
When the stern was raised to a faster vertical, the hull of the ship broke through the middle with a thud from the middle, and it was extremely tragic
The high stern of the ship slammed down, making countless splashes, and then plunged deep into the sea, never to be seen again. On the surface of the sea, there are only floating debris, and there are two huge whirlpools.
Witnessing the sinking of two medium-sized warships, the other four small warships were completely stunned, one stopped on the sea, it was smashed by both guns in the position of the tail rudder, the main mast on it also collapsed and fell, the whole ship was crumbling and could sink at any time,
One of them collided with another ship when turning, the entire side of the ship collapsed in half, the hull tilted, and the sailors on it jumped into the sea in a panic, only one barely escaped from the battlefield, but it was also swaying and would sink at any time, in order to save time, Frye did not order a pursuit, so he gave the pirate ship a chance to escape (to be continued). If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )