The morning glow is all over the sky, reflecting the endless ocean. In the morning sun, the Flying Fish is fully sailed, riding the wind and waves.
"My lord, Professor Bob and his maid have woken up, and they are a little emotional now..." Schwader got on the slipway and reported to Lorist.
The people in the two sacks carried by El and others last night were Professor Bob, who had cracked the dwarf gunpowder formula, and his servant Silvera. Through Al's old brother, the current community boss, Ledos, learned that Professor Bob has no children and no family, but there is a widow named Silvera who died for him for nearly 20 years. year's personal servant.
According to Ledos' inquiries, the relationship between Professor Bob and this woman named Silvera is somewhat unclear. It is likely that he did not marry her because he was concerned about his reputation. In fact, the two have a very good relationship. It seems that Bob Professor Bo's monthly salary from Venus Star Academy is handed over to this Silvera who is responsible for arranging her own life.
The ranking of Daystar College in Morente City College is very low, it seems to be around 21. Professor Bob's salary is not high, only three goldfords per month. Since the professor likes to study some strange things and spends a lot on it, his life is not very affluent. In addition, Professor Bob didn't have a very happy time at Daystar College, and threatened to find another job many times.
Originally, Lorist thought he could easily recruit Professor Bob, but who knew that Professor Bob was a staunch liberal who hated nobles. Lorist went over to apply in person but was severely scolded and kicked out by the professor with a broom.
Although I don't know if Professor Bob had any conflicts with the nobles in the early years and suffered some losses, but time was running out and Lorist couldn't care less about knowing the inside story, so he ordered El to lead someone to get the professor out of the way last night. Halo, even his servant Silvera was caught together, and the professor couldn't help being willful when he got on the boat.
"Okay, I'll go see him and calm down the professor." Lorist said, he didn't see Schward rolling his eyes behind him.
Professor Bob's emotion was not a little excited, but very excited, especially after seeing Lorist, he understood why he was on the boat. At this moment, his anger was like a volcanic eruption, and a series of swear words spewed out, making people dumbfounded. It was hard to believe that this was a well-educated and well-behaved college professor.
"Professor Bob, I didn't invite you here with any malicious intent, I just wanted to..." Lorist waited for Professor Bob to stop.
"Don't think about anything, I won't do what you want, no matter what you want to do, I won't agree, you hateful..." Professor Bob didn't listen to what Lorist was saying, and said again After a while of scolding, mixed with words attacking Lorist's own intelligence, he dragged Lorist to the point where he was equal to a donkey.
Lorist turned a deaf ear, as if he didn't hear Professor Bob's personal attacks. He turned his eyes to the professor's servant, Silvera, and found that she was a little seasick, so he hurriedly ordered Schward, who was waiting outside the cabin, to get the medicine for seasickness from the medicine box in his cabin, and make a cup of tea for the professor by the way. moisten his hoarse throat...
The professor finally had nothing to do with Lorist's thick skin. He thought that he could provoke Lorist to beat him up, so that he could show his unyielding and unyielding belief that he would not be used by him. Unexpectedly, Lorist didn't take his scolding to heart at all, and instead took care of the seasick Silvera.
"What on earth do you want me to do? Kidnapping? I'm a poor professor with no money at all. Knowledge? There are so many professors in the colleges in Morente City, the level is much higher than mine, and you haven't heard of me and the college's professors. Are you arguing? In the eyes of other professors, I'm just a stubborn old man who doesn't do his job properly and likes to study strange things... "Drinking tea, Professor Bob, who had been silent for a long time, spoke again. This time he didn't scold, but just deeply Confuse.
Lorist smiled, as long as he can communicate normally: "Professor Bob, I'm looking for you for gunpowder."
"Dwarves' gunpowder?" Professor Bob was still puzzled: "I have already researched this, and I published the formula in an academic report last year. Wasn't it published by the Morente Daily? You should go to the public library to find it." It’s all there, there’s nothing missing.”
"Professor, I'm interested in your opinion that there is still a lot of room for improvement in the dwarves' propellant gunpowder. What I want to get is the best ratio of gunpowder." Lorist said.
Professor Bob spread his hands: "Then you should go to the dwarves and get a large amount of saltpeter ore from them, so that you can experiment with various gunpowder and finally get the best ratio. The problem is that in the human world , we have never found saltpeter mines. Those dwarves will never sell us saltpeter mines... "
Professor Bob swore again, but this time it was the square-headed dwarves.
"Professor, I don't have saltpeter mines, but I can provide you with a large amount of nitrate for gunpowder experiments. I invited you here for this..." Lorist said.
"Impossible..." The professor jumped up in shock: "How can you provide a large amount of nitrate without a nitrate mine? If you have a large amount of nitrate, you can tell me the first time you come to the door..."
Lorist smiled and shook his head: "Professor, you should understand that gunpowder is a powerful weapon that can even change the situation of Gelin Tran's vindictive dominance. I don't want to be a thorn in the side of others because of this. Nature is actually very wonderful. No saltpeter mines have been found in the human world, but there is a way to provide a large amount of saltpeter, but no one has discovered it except me. If you are patient and come to my family territory, you will know this What is the method."
"You tell me what is the method first?" The professor couldn't wait.
Lorist shook his head.
Professor Bob glared fiercely at Lorist, who smiled unmoved.
"Well, I'll just trust you once, you'd better not lie to me..." the professor conceded. There is no other way if you don't admit defeat, everyone is on board, and you can't escape even if you want to.
"There is a boat ahead, be on guard!" A lookout shouted from above.
"Professor Bob, Ms. Silvera, please rest on the boat for a few days and enjoy the scenery of the sea. When you arrive at my family territory, I believe you will understand that not all nobles are hateful. There are If you need anything, please feel free to instruct my guards, and I will try my best to satisfy the two of you if I can. Let me take my leave first." Lorist lowered his head and hurried to the top deck.
"Two large three-masted schooners, four medium-sized two-masted fast-sail merchants, and six medium-sized two-masted square-sail armed merchant ships. They surrounded us in a fan shape, and they seemed to be hostile! No, the flags they planted were wine barrels and Swords. They are the ships of the Chicod Chamber of Commerce! They are the enemy! …”
The hissing and lung-piercing shouts of the watchmen came from overhead, and the ships ahead were clearly discernible.
Lorist stepped onto the berth quickly, and saw that the first mate, Old Jack, was holding a strange ruler to measure a long rope that was blowing in the wind, still muttering in his mouth, as if he was calculating something.
"Captain!" Old Jack quickly yelled at the captain Wilson at the helm: "We are against the wind, and the speed is only eight knots. We can no longer do sharp turn evasion at such a high speed, and we will collide head-on in ten minutes... ”
"What's going on?" Lorist asked sharply.
"My lord, the fleet of the Chicod Chamber of Commerce on the opposite side obviously has bad intentions, and the commander who commanded this fleet is very experienced. Their formation is to round us up. No matter which direction we break through, we will fall into the trap." The opponent's two ships are under attack. Once they destroy our sail with long-range attack, our ship's speed advantage will not be brought into play, and we can only be slaughtered by them. I wanted to turn around to avoid it, but our ship The draft of the boat's wings is very deep, and if you turn a turn, you have to make a big circle, and then the other party has already contacted us..." Captain Wilson explained quickly.
"Avoid the two big ships on the opposite side, and zigzag between the two ships on the left, Josk, shoot down the sails of the two ships, El, change the rocket, let the steel crossbow shoot those ships at will... "Lorist thought for a while, and immediately made a decision.
Josk stood at the bow of the ship, the green longbow in his hand stretched to a full moon. There was a sound of thunder, and a green lightning shot out from his hand. Almost in the blink of an eye, the medium-sized two-masted fast sailing merchant ship that was only fifty or sixty meters away was hit by an invisible punch. The tallest mast at the bottom swayed twice, and fell towards the bow of the ship...
Josk broke the mast with an arrow, and the speed of the medium-sized two-masted fast sailing merchant ship suddenly slowed down, and even changed direction and turned in circles on the sea, causing chaos on the ship. A gap just appeared in front of everyone.
Josk bent his bow and took aim at another ship on the opposite side. The crew on this ship had already discovered the power of Josk's arrow. Moreover, there were several bow-wielding crew members who crowded the bow of the ship and shot arrows in this direction, intending to interfere with Josk's aiming.
Josk concentrated his breath, ignoring the random arrows swishing towards him, but this arrow didn't work as well as the first arrow, it broke the mast, but brushed past the mast, although it took away a Big piece of wood, but that mast is really all right. There was a roar of cheers from the sailor crew of the opposite ship. At this time, the distance between the two ships was only thirty or forty meters, and they were still approaching rapidly. Standing on the berth, Lorist could clearly see that the sailors and crew members of the opposite ship were drawing large crossbows, igniting fireballs and other long-range attacks. preparation.
Josk took a deep breath, shouted loudly, the green longbow in his hand thundered repeatedly, and the screams and screams on the opposite ship became one. The long green arrow in his throat fell on the deck struggling for his life, and the sailors and crew members who were busy on the deck fell down without exception. As soon as these twenty people were hit by arrows, the deck was suddenly empty, and the rest of the people who missed the arrows all found places to hide. No one expected that the enemy's golden archer would be so awesome. Shooting skills are already amazing.
A louder scream sounded, and the four sails on the medium-sized two-masted fast sailing merchant ship opposite were fully blown by the wind, and the bottom two large sails twisted and hung down in the wind. Just now, Josk shot four arrows that broke the knots of the ropes carrying the two large sails. The two large sails just landed on the fireballs burning in the brazier on the deck. The fire was rolling, and the fire was soaring into the sky. The watchman who was still on the observation deck of the mast looked at the raging fire below, and jumped into the sea screaming in despair...
Captain Wilson turned the rudder quickly, and Dawn's Flying Fish lightly brushed against the side of the burning medium-sized two-masted fast-sailing merchant ship opposite. In front is a vast sea and sky. When the intercepting fleet turns around again and wants to chase Chenxi's Flying Fish against the wind, Chenxi's Flying Fish can quickly throw them out of sight by virtue of its speed.
"Let it go!" On the deck of a large three-masted schooner more than a hundred meters away, four or five fireballs were shot from the ship with an order. Unfortunately, the range was not enough. Chen Xi's Flying Fish fell into the sea at a distance of more than ten meters.
A burly man with a purplish red face looked at the Flying Fish in the distance, and said lightly: "Stop firing fireballs, the range is not enough, it's just a waste of time. Let Haiyan fly, tell the third young master that we failed to intercept, and then tell the third Intercept the fleet and ask them to pay attention. There is a very powerful golden archer on the opponent's ship. He broke through our siege by himself and caused us to lose one ship. Leave one ship to save people, and the rest turn around. Tail chase. Let's hope the 3rd Intercepting Fleet doesn't disappoint us."
"Follow the order, Lord Admiral." A crew member rushed to deliver the order.
Another big man next to him asked: "Brother, that boat is really weird. It's as slippery as a loach. It's hard to catch up with our speed."
"It's okay, do your best. The third young master never forgets this boat because it's too fast. If the boat was willing to stop to pick up the third young master and send him to Morente City, the third young master would not We were eliminated by a difference of one day. The third interception fleet has Kumori Great Swordsman in command, and the old Alex of the admiral fleet has rich experience. He has a way to deal with that ship after receiving the news from us. If we turn around to avoid it, we will chase it and surround it, and then it will be difficult to fly."
The cheers on the Flying Fish in Chenxi kept ringing, and all the sailors and guards were very excited and motivated to pass through the enemy's interception unscathed.
Lorist watched the four or five fireballs fall far into the sea behind the ship, frowned and asked, "What is that?"
Captain Wilson looked back, just in time to see the last fireball falling into the water: "Oh, that's a fireball, my lord, this is the most important long-range weapon in sea battles, it is made of clay, fine sand mixed with silk hemp and kerosene, and finally Mix glue rattan juice with water to make a ball the size of a human head. When in use, ignite it and put it on a special large crossbow to launch it. The shooting range is within 100 meters.
It doesn't matter if this thing can't be shot, but if it hits the boat, it will be very troublesome. Sometimes with good luck, a fireball bomb can wipe out a large sea ship. I asked before whether our family is equipped with this kind of weapon, but the shipyard said that our family also has the latest long-range attack weapons, so don't mention such backward things. "
Lorist was about to speak, but saw El stepping onto the slipway cursing.
"My lord, those steel crossbows are useless at all," said El.
"What's the matter? What happened?" Lorist asked.
"My lord, although the steel crossbow has a long range, it can't be aimed right. This is not on land, the sea is ups and downs, and the opposite side is not an army formation. Just close your eyes and shoot in one direction. Those ships one or two hundred meters away look like It’s as big as a palm, and it’s hard to aim one by one. And these iron crossbow bolts are useless. I fired ten of them, and only two were shot. One stuck in the cabin did nothing. , the other one had a hole in the sail and went somewhere..." El complained.
Lorist was ashamed, he took it for granted, and moved the steel crossbow of the chariot to the ship to realize that it was not a long-range weapon suitable for fighting at sea, and it was not as threatening as the fireball fired by the Chicod Chamber of Commerce fleet.
"My lord, the best distance for a long-range attack in a sea battle is 30 to 50 meters. Most of the ships that want to hit the opponent beyond this distance rely on luck. After all, everyone is on the sea, and the ships are constantly moving. , so the long range is not an advantage. The most important thing in the current naval battle is to rely on the boarding battle. If the opponent's strength is superior, the general long-range attack will not cause much damage to the enemy." Captain Wilson said from the side.
Lorist nodded: "Thank you for your advice, Captain Wilson, we will discuss after we get back, what kind of weapons are most suitable for the ship..."
Before the words fell, the watchman shouted again: "Ahead, there is another fleet in front!"
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