It sounds pretty good. Although I really hope to get meritorious, I put the safety of His Majesty the Emperor first. I am indeed a loyal minister. However, judging from the data given by the system, Apraksin, who has a four-star loyalty, is just a kind of person who will not betrayal under normal circumstances, but it is difficult to say that the conditions are good or the matter is urgent. Such an ordinary person is actually not as good as an ordinary general.

"Come on a show?" Egil glanced at the navy general opposite. However, this well-educated general had no movement except for a few shaking his eyelashes. He stood meticulously straight. [..com]

Egil's lips curled up and a smile appeared. No matter what the guy thought, in short, this idea was not bad for Egil. Just do it: "I approve of your loyalty, my general." Egil nodded, and then chuckled: "Since that's the case, then do what you said."

Aprakhin nodded and saluted: "Yes, Lord, I will convey your order immediately. Also, although the opponent's strength is insignificant, my subordinates still beg the Lord to return to a safer bridge or to rest in your cabin. The deck is too dangerous."

Hearing Apraxin's words, Egil couldn't help laughing: "You are really worried, my general. The other party is just a few little thieves. But I have the most powerful and deadliest fleet of this era. My ship is the greatest warship in the world! There is no safer place on the sea. Some concerns are good, but if you are too afraid, you cannot become an excellent general."

Egil's ship, which is described by Egil as the "great world" Royal Navy Victory, is the best embodiment of the Norman Empire's technology and industrial strength today. It is a heavy warship of 3,000 tons. In terms of classification, it can be compared with modern first-class ships. The extremely strong hull can withstand the attacks of wind and waves to the greatest extent. The bottom of the ship is wrapped with copper skin in order to strengthen it. At the same time, several important parts have been specially reinforced with steel sheets. The magnificent hull looks like a fortress floating on the sea.

However, the shortcoming is that the current gunpowder weapon technology of the Norman Empire is still not up to standard. Therefore, although this warship has sufficiently perfect defense, its attack power is not as powerful as that of modern battleships. This large three-deck warship each has fifty-four gun positions, but the number of guns placed is not that many - the most mature bronze cast cannon in the Norman Empire, thirty-two-published cast iron cannons, the most mature technology, and the recent technology of twenty-two-pound cannons, one with one bow and one with a stern. There are only fifty-four guns in total - of course, this is extremely powerful - the mainstream artillery warships in the Norman Empire are only equipped with eight guns, and they are all short-barrel cannons.

In addition, although this warship is extremely powerful, it is actually not suitable for ocean navigation. The heavy hull makes the ship's traveling very slowly. Although it is arranged with three masts and the masts are also supported by cloud-covered sails, the speed of this warship is still not as fast as ancient sailboats. When encountering enemy warships, they will not lose their fighter planes due to speed - it is absolutely impossible to escape - as Egil confidently, in this world, the ship that can sink this warship has not been built yet.

"The subordinates have been taught." Apraksin knelt on one knee and gave a big gift to Egil. Apraksin quickly helped the general up. When looking at the interface again, Apraksin's loyalty rose a little, with a "gratitude" feature attached, which made Egil secretly proud. He was still very leader-like.

Immediately afterwards, Apraxin returned to the bridge and issued an order. On the flank of the fleet, several fast sailboats quickly turned the direction, and the crossbows placed on both sides of the ship quickly aimed at the target. Because these fast sailboats were small in size, the crossbows placed were not very powerful. But it didn't matter. The experienced captains of the Norman Empire quickly made the right choice. Several large crossbow arrows that had repeatedly applied to the heavenly flame oil were taken up. After igniting, they pulled the trigger and shot at the warships... "What is that

Is it?!" On the opposite ship, he was speaking different languages ​​and holding his hair in cloth strips. He was wearing shorts and several pagan pirates in shorts, as they saw several large ships coming from the opposite side and fired strange weapons at them. He was suddenly panicked. Although the brigged fast ships were small ships in the Norman Empire combat sequence. But for other countries, this kind of ship with a displacement of two hundred tons was already large enough. Small sailboats that could only carry dozens of pirates against this kind of warship were simply killed in seconds.

"It's a crossbow!" The pagan pirate who had experienced fighting with Norman's pirates shouted, "Go away!"

The sailors and the slaves rowed desperately. At the same time, several sailors pulled the reins of the sails hard to lift the sails and speed up. In the end, they avoided this round of attacks.

"Continue shooting, don't stop, chase the distance of three nautical miles. Then return. The Royal Navy Victory issued such a flag again. So the fast sailboats approached the other side while continuing to shoot. Because of the closer distance, the accuracy began to gradually increase. Although there was still no crossbow arrow hitting the target at this moment, the deviation was getting smaller and smaller. The closest crossbow flew directly from the opponent's deck, and the huge force directly took away a fool who was not long-lived and did not dodge. If the sailboat was not low in hull, then it would have been hit at this moment.

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Listening to the hit idiot who was hit "swipe" and was hit into the sea, from near to far to inaudible, almost just a moment of screaming. At this moment, the remaining pirates on the deck were so scared that they climbed onto the deck.

"Bastard! Get up quickly! Are you lying here and waiting to die?!" Seeing that his subordinates were so useless, the pirate captain in charge of the pirate ship was furious and ran over and kicked the pirates with their butts stuck out and their heads held for several times: "Get up quickly! Go paddle and go to get rid of the sails! Let's retreat!"

After several pirates who had been hit by a few times, they woke up and followed the captain's orders to do their own things. Next to the ship, several other pagan pirate ships also turned their direction and began to escape with their lives. And behind them, the sailboats saw their prey still dare to run, so they opened their sails and chased them quickly. After a while, they disappeared between the vast sky - of course, they could still be seen with a telescope.

"Don't worry, keep sailing towards Cyprus." At this moment, Egil returned to the bridge and ordered: "Count the time, it should be here in a few days. Don't have anything to do... Be alert at night."

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When he heard Egil say this, Apraksin next to him understood it. Knowing that Egil was worried that the other party would not seduce the enemy during the day, he took the risk of the night boat and raided in the dark. He sighed in his heart: "Your Majesty said I was too careful, but it seems that Your Majesty is not that careless person...but such an arrangement is indeed necessary."

"Yes, the lord, my subordinates understand." Aprakhin nodded, then raised his head and ordered loudly: "From today, everyone should be careful, and the post is doubled! The soldiers are holding weapons day and night!"

At the same time, a few miles away, there was a cheer on the Norman fleet's fast sailing ship. After wasting more than twenty precious heavenly fire crossbows, the crossbow on the bow of the fast sailing ship finally hit the target. With a burst of screams, flying wood chips and thick smoke, the Berberian voice: "The ship is leaking!", as well as the crying, screaming, praying to their Allah. The galleon that broke a large hole slowly, but unswervingly sank into the sea. Archimedes' Law stood on the Norman side at this moment.

"God - they, their weapons are so powerful! We can't resist them at all!" Seeing this, the several galleys next to them were even more frightened. While howling like this, they tried their best to look towards Piao Astronomy

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"Continue to pursue!" The sailors who hit the target cheered like this, hoping to continue chasing, but their captain issued an order to return - the three nautical miles set by Apraksin had reached.

"This is your Majesty's order! Don't forget that our goal is to save the holy land, not to play games with these dirty sea worms." The captain shouted like this, and knocked on the railings of the ship's side. Then, amid the complaints of the sailors, several fast sailboats dropped their prey, turned the bow, and chased the main fleet that had been away for some time - navigation charts, sextant, compass and telescopes. They would not be lost.
Chapter completed!