Looking at the thick smoke rising from the side of the enemy warship from afar, and the series of low guns, Sidney did not react at all.

This is the ultimate range of a carrier-based smoothbore gun. In terms of the accuracy of the smoothbore gun, the chance of a warship being hit by a shell at a distance is similar to a person being hit by a bird shit. Moreover, even if he is covered by a shot by the opponent, the potential energy of the shell flying here has been exhausted long ago and cannot cause any damage to the thick hull at all.

This is just a deterrent shelling of the troops. The purpose is to allow the invading fleet to make evasive sailing to slow down their ship speed and buy time for their own fleets.

The flying shells smashed one water column after another within a hundred meters of the fleet.

Without Sidney's order, the First Fleet did not make any tactical evasion moves and still maintained a high speed.

The distance between the two fleets was approaching quickly, and the transport fleet was at a disadvantage in both position and formation. The sense of urgency made Lucius once again urge the Pegasus Knights to delay the speed of the enemy fleet as soon as possible.

Pegasus knights who have been using the game to fight have begun to increase their threat to the sails. They whistled in the air with two or three people and a group, trying their best to pull out the gaps to defend the griffin, and break through to the griffin's protection circle whenever they have the chance.

However, this time the Pegasus Knights encountered a royal griffin knight who was professional with bodyguards. Shu Xiao not only had to resist the attack of the Pegasus Knight himself, but also commanded the griffin to deploy layers of defense to ensure that the sails of his own warships were foolproof.

After a dazzling tactical cooperation, the Pegasus Knights still did not break through the griffin's defense. Their results were that they killed four griffins, but they were killed by six by griffins and archers.

The Pegasus Knight's fierce attack was curbed. The Pegasus opened the distance from the griffins to raise their strength and prepared for the next attack, while Sidney's first fleet entered the best range of the naval gun.

"All warships obey orders, turn right and rudder 15 degrees, all artillery enters the gun position, the target warship No. 4. The Iron Armor report your vision."

"Iron Plate Armor" is the first fleet towed warship. During the entire fleet's steering process, it will be the last to adjust its angle.

The brigade 4 of the brigade fleet is also the fourth-ranked battleship in the fifth series of the enemy fleet. Now it is entering the formation route 200 meters behind the right rear of the brigade escort fleet. At the angle, the stern of the brigade 4 of the brigade has been exposed sideways under the muzzle of the port gun of the first fleet.

Under Sidney's order, all the port guns of the First Fleet's port guns extended out of the gun door, and dark naval guns aimed at the enemy fleet's second-brig No. 4.

The strongest defense of a warship is the two side walls. The wood here is not only thickened, but also has external armor plates in important parts. The head and stern tower are affected by the load and front and rear specific gravity of the ship, so the defense is much weaker, especially the stern tower, rudder, captain's room, and bridge are all in this place. Therefore, if the stern tower of a ship is subjected to perforation from the rear, it is likely to lose its combat effectiveness in a short time.

Therefore, when it was discovered that the incoming fleet began to enter the shelling position, the escort fleet's second-brig ship No. 4 dared not keep the route to enter the formation, and turned the rudder urgently to use its starboard to welcome the shelling.

Sidney's ears kept echoing the angle of the captain's report.

However, the tail ship had not entered the shelling angle for a long time, while the enemy's second-brig ship No. 4 showed signs of turning the rudder to protect its weak position.

At a further distance, the artillery of the troops transport fleet kept firing, and the shells were getting closer and closer to the First Fleet. At this moment, Sidney decided not to wait for the "Iron Plate Armor" and ordered the entire fleet to fire at the enemy's second-brig ship No. 4.

"fire!"

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom..."

The 50 artillery pieces on the port side of the First Fleet opened fire from the first gun group, and in 10 seconds, tilted 50 shells towards the enemy Ship 4.

After firing the gun, the gunmen did not care what they hit. At the command of the gunman, they pulled the cannon with smoke from the guns into the cabin, quickly cleared the chamber, loaded gunpowder and shells, and then pushed the guns out of the gun door again.

Sidney set up a telescope, and 50 shells drew low parabolas in the air towards the enemy's brig.

At this time, the hull of the "Skull Soldier" shook slightly.

He was shot! But nothing, a shell hit the side can not cause too much damage to the "Skeleton Soldier".

Sidney continued to observe the effect of the shelling.

50 shells fell around the enemy's brig No. 4 ship, and the water columns splashed up close almost flooded the small brig.

The shells fired at different times were still falling, and one of them hit the top of the stern of the ship, and wood chips splashed into the sea water behind them.

"I've hit it!"

Although only one of the 50 shells hits the opponent, it is already very accurate to hit the opponent's first shot at a new ship, new cannon, and new sailors at this distance that has just entered the best range. Moreover, this shell hits the top floor of the enemy's stern tower, where some long-range troops are usually arranged, such as elf archers.

Seeing that one of his warships was exposed to the artillery fire of the entire enemy fleet, the three warships that had already entered the combat queue were accelerated to fire at the First Fleet to protect the warships from their warships to complete the steering and protect their stern. The warships of the First Fleet were shot one after another, but the distance made the shell unable to exert its full power, so they could only make marks on the strong ship armor without any force.

At this time, the "Iron Plate Armor" reported that it had entered the shelling position, and each artillery group and warship also reported that the second round of artillery loading had been completed.

Looking at the enemy ship that was about to turn the hull, Sidney quickly ordered: "Target enemy brigs, fire the gun! Freely shoot three rounds. Each ship maintains formation and speed!"

Amid the bursting fireworks, a volley of artillery fire sounded again.

With the first calibration, the cannons of this round of volley were not only increased to 60, but also the scattered range was even more concentrated.

The sea water hit the walls of the brig warship, and the shells frequently hit the brig warship's hull in the sea water.

After the second round of salvo, the First Fleet began three rounds of free shooting. After all artillery fired shells, after reloading the shells, they immediately fired without waiting for orders, and used high-frequency firing to increase the chance of hitting.
Chapter completed!