Chapter 17 Unwilling Endings
This roaring moon wolf was summoned by a two-star magic card. The amount of mental power withdrawal is far beyond Luo Zhengdao's previous blind estimate. Now he can hold on to the enemy against dizziness and fatigue, even if it is not easy, he will be struck by lightning if he wants too many things.
It is certainly a pity to miss the opportunity to annihilate the enemy, but one thing cannot be ignored. This is a real manifestation of Luo Zhengdao's own lack of strength. Similarly, the opportunity to kill the warlock Najaf has appeared. If the opponent was stunned by the loss of magic power just now, if the experienced warrior rushed up to finish the attack early in the morning, Luo Zhengdao was a beginner who was just a beginner. Even if he did not consider the burden on his body by using magic cards, his first reaction would not be so fast. Moreover, killing is still an unconventional activity that Luo Zhengdao needs to adapt to. Under the interaction of various complex factors, he could only sigh.
Lost is temporary, and the only theme surrounding the battlefield is the only theme. How can there be so much American time for participants to think about the true meaning of their life? As Luo Zhengdao changed his mind, the sailors on the opposite sailboat had already set off to prepare for the jumping gang battle.
The battles that took place on the Ether Sea are more dangerous than those in the near-shore water environment, especially in special waters where the ether particles are spread relatively thin, and a person jumps foolishly from the ship, which is no different from suicide. No matter where the sailor is, he will definitely fix a driftwood board in the back and other parts that are not easily attacked by people before conducting a jumping gang battle, so as not to accidentally step on the air during the battle, and in a blink of an eye it becomes a mummy floating in the void for thousands of years.
"The ammunition is loaded!"
A warship is not equipped with firepower. In layman's terms, in order to maintain the stability of the center of gravity of the hull and the safety of navigation under complex sea conditions, those larger-weight cannons can only be arranged on the lower deck. Even guns of the same caliber must be arranged on the lower level below the short-body cannon to avoid the fatal hidden danger of head-heavy heads and light feet in the warship, and even follow the footsteps of the weak and uninhibited second-class Vassar. For example, the upper deck and mast tower of the warship are generally only equipped with light-weight small cannons, but since they are called cannons, their power is not comparable to those of unreliable fuse-type muskets.
When he heard the members of the artillery crew on the Yangwei yelling loudly, Luo Zhengdao pointed his sword at the group of miscellaneous troops of all races on the opposite sailboat, shouting loudly:
"Aim at the enemy ship and prepare to ignite!"
"Bang--"
At the command of the captain, the sailors did not take any deaf ears. In the middle of the upper deck of the Yangwei, a two-pound and a half-hawk cannon that turned the muzzle first opened fire. Amid the loud roar of the flaming flaming of the stone pine powder, hundreds of round stone bullets as big as beans rushed out of the cannon chamber accompanied by dazzling golden flames and white smoke. Immediately afterwards, brightly colored blood flowers bloomed on the enemy's body in the direction of the muzzle. Shotballs with a lethality comparable to the iron broom swept across the upper deck of the sailboat in an instant, clearing a large area at the speed of cutting wheat, and the blood stains on the ground made the deck extremely wet and sticky.
The current new world is still in the era of sailing on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. No matter what kind of metal is a scarce resource. It would be fine if it is used to make weapons such as swords, but it is still durable!
If a user is careful enough to maintain the weapon, a finely crafted metal sword will be passed down from the family for generations. The long service life is enough to spread the manufacturing cost, but using metal as ammunition is a purely prodigal.
Only military strategists in the industrial era would develop such a luxury and wasteful habit. If they had been in any previous period, such a prodigal general would have been strangled to death by the king and the minister of finance who were on the verge of bankruptcy at the celebration banquet. For this reason, any parts that could be replaced with other materials should be replaced with non-metallic materials. Not only were the shells used for these light artillery on the warships made of stone, but even the 12-pound cannons on the ships fired solid stone bombs most of the time.
It seems that the materials of stone shells are not strong, but don’t think that these stone balls with perfect circles are handicrafts polished by pure manual work. How much labor cost will it cost? The intelligent race of the new world is not an idiot, so how can you do such a stupid thing?
Unlike the old world composed of a small number of stars and the vast universe without gravity space, it is almost a new world that conquers the world with a planar structure. There are many special landform environments containing natural lava lake resources, such as the underground space of the Dark Sea where the Drow elves have long occupied is one of them.
In order to trade with the ground races and balance their import and export deficits, those underground tribes that lack hard currency will regularly send people to pour magma in the lava lake that has been melted for many years into standard molds treated by alchemy, or use the manufacturing method of letting the magma drip from a high place into water to quickly cool it into a sphere. After roughly polishing, a rough stone ball immediately turns into a stone shell that meets military standards. The cost of these stone shells is so low that it is really worse than metal shells of the same size!
Considering that when a solid stone bomb hits a hard target like a warship hull, the bullet body may break into countless small pieces, and its lethality is similar to the explosion effect of a shroud projectile, it seems to cause collateral damage to soft targets such as the ship's personnel than metal shells. Overall, the cost-effectiveness of the stone bomb is not worse than that of metal shells, and it is ideal to take the intermediate value in the trade-off between performance and price.
"The slalom cannon is in place!"
When it was time for the fire, Luo Zhengdao was not at ease with commanding the shelling. Seeing the sailors on the other side's boat starting to come over from mid-air with ropes. Sailor Chief Zorra Hegel quickly took over the command on the deck, and shouted at his subordinates:
"Fire! Don't stand stupidly, wait for someone to kick your ass?"
"Bang! Bang! Bang..."
Whether it is an army or a group of pirates, people who are purely violent in their careers believe in a simple rule. The simpler and rougher the method is, the easier it is to take effect. There is no doubt that Zora's curse and punches significantly accelerate the sailors' reaction. Under normal circumstances, multiple rotary cannons installed only at the side of the ship look like the Old World Gatling machine guns, and they are barely qualified to say rapid fire. At least, the cannon fires much faster than those who fire a shell, after one and a half to two minutes to clean the cannons and then load ammunition.
Seeing that his side had an advantage and could not transform into victory, warlock Najaf felt a sense of anxiety in his heart. He was separated by a large group of guards in front of him, and he could only rely on his mouth to go on the battlefield. So he shouted:
"Who cut off Will Nidham's head and rewarded a thousand gold coins for the gorge!"
Luo Zhengdao spent less than 6,000 gold coins to buy the second-hand Yaling warship of the Yangwei, including the renovation cost and the expense of rearranging the cannon. The purchasing power of the New World gold coins is also evident. For these pirates who are not going to sea, they will definitely spend all their salary and dividends if they can't wait at the end of the month. They are truly the "Moonlight Clan". One thousand gold coins are astronomical figures that can make them live happily for many years. These guys' eyes changed when they see Luo Zhengdao, and even the sailors on the Yangwei ship have some impure-minded balls. They secretly looked at their captain's precious mind worth a thousand gold, and didn't know what they were thinking.
Seeing this scene, Luo Zhengdao immediately realized the danger, bit the ball without thinking, and shouted:
"I bought Najaf's life, two thousand gold coins, and I will cash out when I see the head, and I will never default."
The bosses of both sides rushed to buy the opponent's lives with a large bonus. The group of minions who were responsible for fighting were so excited that they could not suppress themselves. Under the temptation of the bounty, they had to fight hard. However, the goals of the two sides' actions were just the opposite, and the result of exerting force was equivalent to returning to the starting line. On the three tangled warships, the sailors were hard to resolve. Such a chaotic scene seemed to be just to prove that there was no intermission in this bloody tug-of-war.
Suddenly, the sailors' union screams came from behind Luo Zhengdao:
"Ah! It was the Chaoyong who rushed over."
"Gudong——"
Almost at the same time when Luo Zhengdao turned around, the brig sailboat Chaoy, which was sent off the battlefield in advance, was loaded on its bow and made of bronze and pierced into the abdomen of the enemy ship close to the left side of the Yangwei. With the emergence of this large hole, unknown liquid flowing out of the two metal conduits above the ridge of the Super Yong was injected into the damaged cabin of the opponent's ship. Immediately afterwards, the sailors shouted in unison, and the hull of the Super Yong suddenly shook and retreated. At this time, a torch was thrown out from the hand of the captain of the one-eyed dragon, Fore Chopin, and fell to the break of the enemy ship's abdomen.
"Bang--"
With the strong winds at the Ether Sea and the oil poured into the cabin, the small flames caused by the torch suddenly rose high. After several breaths, these fast-pounce orange-red fires burned the sail rigging on the deck.
Seeing the boat under his feet turn into a hot furnace with turbulent flames, the sailors on the sailboat naturally disappear. They climbed onto the boat and prepared to escape. This scene was like a group of mice scrambling to dive before the ship sank, fearing that they would be a step late, and turned around and were ruthlessly swallowed by the raging fire and turned into the burial objects of this rotten ship.
"Quickly, cut the rope off and don't let the fire burn."
As an old pirate, Zorra Hegel is familiar with all the details of naval battles, just like familiar with the flowers and plants grown in the family yard. How to survive dangerous situations is a compulsory course for a pirate. He kicked a fire off an enemy sailor who was wailing from the enemy ship to the Yangwei. Then he called the sailors to push the opponent's ship away with a pole to fend for themselves to prevent the enemy ship from shaking.
Witnessing his own side's miserable defeat, the two sailing warships who were wandering in the distance were just waiting for an opportunity to join the battlefield, just like frightened hares. They turned the bow without saying a word, and they accelerated to escape from the battlefield regardless of silence.
On the flagship of the black-robed warlock Najaf, the lookout hand looked at the periphery for a while, and then made a gesture to tell the companion below what had happened.
"Well, what did you say? He actually came too, damn it."
Najaf stared at Yang Wei with unwillingness to hear from the sailor's mouth. Finally, he made a downward gesture helplessly and said in a dull voice:
"Enough, let's retreat!"
He cut off the ropes, anchor chains, springboards and other burdens connecting the two ships with a knife and axe, and the two sailing warships under Najaf turned in at a flying speed. Seeing this, Luo Zhengdao was completely confused and muttered:
"This guy is coming and leaving, what is he playing?"
Vina Dubov, who went down to the gun deck to command the battle during the battle, also appeared in front of Luo Zhengdao at this time, and she reminded with a serious expression:
"Will, don't waste time here. The goblin fleet may chase after you at any time. They are not as easy to deal with as the gang of fish Najaf brings."
Hearing the sound, Luo Zhengdao nodded in a good manner. In fact, there was no time to consider more issues at this moment. He ordered the people around him and said:
"Listen, clean the battlefield immediately, and we are going to prepare to evacuate."
Chapter completed!