Lorist was very annoyed. Apart from the fact that this decisive battle at sea was still going on in his plan at the beginning, the subsequent changes were completely beyond his expectations. Once again, he deeply realized that no enemy should be underestimated. This is not a game, but a real war. The enemy is also a person with flesh and blood and thoughts just like himself.
No one is a fool. I thought I could dominate this naval battle with the bronze artillery that surpassed this era, but the enemy used a few simple moves to offset the strategic advantage of the artillery. I have to learn this lesson.
A head wrapped in a black turban exposed half a human head on the side of the ship. This is the first sailor to climb up to hit the warship. There is no way, the whaling ship is much taller than ordinary large armed warships, and climbing is also very difficult. strenuous.
A soldier of the artillery firing team saw the sailor who climbed up, screamed and hurriedly picked up the long gun on the ground to prevent him from going over the side of the ship. But what was faster than him was a feathered arrow. There was a tuft of white feathers on the head wrapped in a black turban, and it disappeared before everyone's eyes with a shrill scream.
Lorist looked back, but saw Josk climbed onto the watchtower above the main mast at some point, with a green longbow in his hand, not only was there no enemy sailor on the whaling ship he was on, Being able to capsize, even the two whaling ships on the left and right can be taken care of. The sailors who were climbing the rammed battleship were nailed to the wall of the ship by feather arrows.
Well, this guy who stole the limelight has attracted the attention of the enemy, and a dozen or so longbowmen who survived the enemy took up their bows and crossbows to aim at him again. However, Josk shot lightning-like sharp arrows at the enemy from the watchtower without fear, and even had time to grab the long arrow that was shot at him and return the arrow to the enemy archer who shot the feather arrow...
"Schward, close combat is about to begin on the deck. You put the four cannons on the berth above. The focus is on dealing with the Sepnim sea castle battleship behind and blocking the enemy's sea assault team coming to close combat. Passage..." Lorist said, looking at the approaching fireboats, which were less than ten meters away from the whaling ship.
"Yes, Your Highness." Schwader immediately commanded the soldiers to drag the four bronze cannons and run towards the slipway. Lorist was right, the four cannons would be useless once they engaged in close combat.
There was a fierce shout of killing on the left side, and there were already several large enemy armed warships sticking to the side of the three whaling ships, except for the outermost one with its bow raised high. Besides, there was already a hand-to-hand combat on the decks of the two remaining whalers. The artillery had stopped roaring, and Lorist saw that Jim, the deputy commander of the artillery battalion, was chopping one of his opponents in half with his big axe.
The most ferocious person on the deck of the whaling ship over there was Reddy. He held his huge sword and had no enemies. Lorist saw several golden-rank swordsmen surrounded by their weapons shining with golden light. In the past, and then turned into a torn corpse and flew out during Reddy's slashing and killing, well, with Reddy there, Lorist can rest assured a hundred times.
This time Lorist brought two thousand-man guards. He arranged a hundred-man guard and two North Sea Fleet sea assault teams on each whaling ship. Once the armed force in close combat, it is they who are now fighting on the deck. It's just that I don't know what happened to the whaling ship with its bow raised high. No one has rushed out of the cabin to the deck yet. And the battleship Seppnim Sea Castle is rushing down a steady stream of armed soldiers to the whaling ship...
The whaling ship that Lorist was on didn't have the North Sea Fleet's stormtroopers, but five hundred guards. Now these guards are rushing out of the cabin and forming a horizontal array of five hundred people on the deck. They hold long swords and round shields, and are ready for the upcoming melee and gang battles.
"Genorio, order the large armed warships with artillery installed behind them to retreat, distance themselves, and bombard the enemy ships between the two whaling ships with artillery. The focus of the attack is on the superstructure of the enemy ships, preventing the enemy from Get on the whaling ship and kill the enemy's vital force, and reduce the pressure of our close combat." Lorist gave another order.
"Yes, Your Highness." Genorio replied.
"Be careful, you're about to hit it!"
The whaling ship shook violently, and most of the guards lined up in a row fell to the deck.
The whaling ship and the large armed battleships of the Armada were mixed in. The fire ship made an unpleasant sound of breaking. The fire ship that had been burned by the fire for half a day broke apart, and pieces of long planks were separated and fell into the sea. , followed by thick keel bones and burning masts, deformed and cracked under the squeeze of whaling ships and large armed warships, turning into a pile of ruins on the sea.
Several pieces of burning wood fell on the whaling ship and the large armed warship respectively, and no one paid attention to these things. Now the focus is only on the distance between the two ships, five meters, four meters, three meters, two meters, one meter, the two ships are getting closer, and then there is a loud shout: "Kill!"
Countless armed sailors of the Armada appeared on the large armed battleship, and they rushed towards the whaling ship with weapons and shields. However, a very embarrassing thing happened, because the whaling ship was about two meters higher than the side of the large armed warship. When these armed sailors jumped onto the side of the armed warship and rushed towards the whaling ship, they found that Hitting the wall of the whaling ship and falling into the sea, they had to give up their weapons and shields and grab the side of the whaling ship with both hands. All of a sudden, the left side of the whaling ship was filled with these armed sailors of the Armada...
On the contrary, those armed sailors who swung onto the whaling ship's deck with all kinds of cables had already fought with Lorist's guards. However, these dozens of enemies were quickly cleared away by the guards, and Lorist didn't even touch a single enemy. Then the guards grabbed the throwing axes and spears on the deck and gave the enemy on the large armed warship a condescending blow, and the screams became one.
A few guards began to chop their fingers along the side of the ship, and at the beginning, a few enemies hanging on the side of the ship screamed and fell into the sea holding their bloody palms. . In less than a quarter of an hour, all the armed sailors hanging on the side of the ship disappeared.
After a few more violent impacts, Lorist also couldn't stand still, and grabbed the cable next to him so as not to turn into a rolling gourd. After he stabilized his figure, he realized that four large armed warships were on the front, rear and left sides of the whaling ship. The fully equipped armed sailors of the Armada swung their cables and jumped onto the whaling ship's deck again, falling down. Many guards on the ground were attacked before they got up, and for the first time there were casualties.
Lorist leaped up, sword like lightning, harvesting the lives of these armed soldiers everywhere, and the roar of artillery resounded on the berth. He was about to rush to the whaling ship through the decks of two large armed warships that were attached together, but he was suddenly bombarded by artillery shells, causing casualties everywhere, a mess, and screams.
However, only two of the four bronze cannons on the berth were attacking the giant ship of Seppnim Sea Castle, and the other two turned around to deal with the large armed warship leaning against the rear of the whaling ship. Just now, this large armed battleship of the Armada hit the tail of the whaling ship. Although the slipway was higher than the deck, there was no need to worry about the enemy climbing onto the ship, but there were also a few nimble enemies who swung onto the slipway with cables and were killed by Schwader. I picked up three, and the remaining two are still gold-ranked swordsmen, and they cooperated with Shi Huade to kill inextricably.
Josk on the observation deck of the mast turned around in a hurry and shot one golden swordsman to death with two arrows, and the other was quickly killed by the sword by Schwader in a panic. At this time, the battle situation on the whaling ship had been controlled by Lorist, and the decks were covered with corpses of armed sailors, and no enemy who had turned up on the deck could survive the joint attack of Lorist's sword and the guards for a few days. The round waits until the reinforcements of the companions.
The high-level command of the Armada also knew that this huge battleship in the center was probably the command ship or flagship of the Norton family's fleet. The melee combat on the ship was slow to progress, and the number of armed soldiers who went up would die as many as possible. The long conch sound sounded again, and the huddled large armed warships switched their long-range attack weapons to launch a fierce attack on the whaling ship where Lorist was.
All of a sudden, the catapults and fireballs hit the whaling ship like raindrops, and Schwader on the berth was not to be outdone, and turned the four bronze cannons to suppress these long-range attack weapons on the enemy ship...
Josk turned over and fell from the mast watchtower. When he was close to the deck, he hooked his feet, followed the rope ladder and swung back and forth in mid-air twice before landing on the deck and yelling. Since the nearby large armed warships are much shorter than the whaling ships, many long-range weapons can only be fired upwards or projectiles, and the hulls of the whaling ships are double-layered to avoid being attacked when catching whales. The impact of the whale damaged the ship, so the long-range weapons on the enemy ship did not pose much threat to Lorist and the guards hiding behind the ship's side.
But for Josk on the observation deck of the mast, he became the best target, and many large crossbows were fired at him. Now he couldn't bear it anymore and quickly escaped.
Schwader on the berth reported to Lorist: "Your Highness, the enemy has nearly a hundred high-end combat forces, and more than a thousand armed sailors..."
"Let them come up, you just eliminate those annoying long-range attack weapons and block their back route." Lorist said with a wave of his hand. At this moment, he also really wanted to make a big kill, this naval battle was really aggrieved.
Schwader was right, the Armada had already deployed its high-end combat power, and nearly a hundred gold-rank swordsmen with golden sword lights flashed from all directions rushed towards Lorist's whaling ship. Behind them were nearly a thousand armed sailors who rushed down from the battleship of Seppnim Sea Castle, and a small half of them had long swords flashing white. This should be the most elite assault force of the Armada. Especially the five or six who rushed to the front. Although the weapons in their hands did not flash any color of sword light, their strange, flexible and swift movements clearly showed that they were all great sword masters.
Destroying the enemy's long-range attack weapons is very simple. The four bronze cannons were loaded with shotguns and only fired two rounds. The eight firepower points that were conducting long-range attacks suddenly flew into pieces, and both people and weapons were shattered. When Shi Huade and the others reloaded the ammunition, they realized that there was nothing to attack. There was no one around the other long-range attack weapons, and the enemies were all hiding.
The two figures leaped onto the deck and rushed straight at Lorist. Lorist sneered, and easily blocked, squared, and turned to turn the long sword in his hand with a cold light, and the two heads flew into the air. Two headless corpses "plopped" down on the deck, and the blood gushing out from their necks stained a large area of the deck red.
The dozen or so golden swordsmen who jumped onto the whaling ship following the two silhouettes were shouting "Kill!" and were about to rush over, but they didn't expect that Lorist would cut it off so easily and rush forward. The heads of those two seemed to be choking, and they were sucked into their stomachs only halfway through the killing sound.
Well? Lorist was a little puzzled, what's going on, shouldn't he rush over to kill himself? Why did he cringe instead.
"Let's back off." Lorist said to the guards around him, let the enemy come up more, so that killing would be more enjoyable.
Three more figures jumped onto the deck and appeared in front of those golden swordsmen.
"What's going on?" said the old man at the front. He was Viscount Penelope, the second great swordsman. He deliberately kept an eye out and asked his subordinates to board the ship first and then go up by themselves. I thought I would see a fierce fighting scene after going up, but I didn't expect to find myself huddled together, what a mess! Viscount Penelope wanted to curse.
"My lord, look..." A golden swordsman pointed to the two corpses on the deck.
Viscount Penelope looked back, and saw that the two corpses looked familiar, and then remembered, Great Swordsman Abigail, Great Swordsman Fitzni, one is a first-class Great Swordsman of his First Squadron. One is a second-level great swordsman enshrined by the Firebird Legion of the Kingdom of Chigeda, and Fezni's great swordsman competed with him for nearly a thousand moves and was evenly matched...
The golden swordsman next to him was still nagging: "One face to face, two great swordsmen were killed by him..."
He pointed at Lorist.
Viscount Penelope suddenly felt his heart beating faster, and an ominous premonition began to appear in his heart. It seemed that he had forgotten something very important this time, and it seemed that he should not be brave enough to participate in this battle to seize the ship in person. .
Licking his dry lips, Penelope looked at Lorist and said, "I am the commander of the Armada, Viscount Penelope, who is your Excellency?"
"This is my fleet." Lorist said, "I am Norton Lorist, Grand Duke of the Northland, head of the Norton family."
"I'll give you a chance to go together. I've been waiting for a long time." Lorist was a little impatient. Shouldn't he rush over to fight to the death as soon as he got on the boat? . This is a naval battle, not an aristocratic war.
"Blood, Blood Sword Master..." Viscount Penelope was immediately dumbfounded.
Next to "Bang Dang", a middle-aged nobleman in gorgeous clothes threw the long sword in his hand on the ground. He seemed to be a great swordsman too: "I surrender, please give me noble treatment."
"I, I..." Viscount Penelope threw the sword on the deck after struggling for a long time, and then said a complete sentence: "I, I also surrender, and I also demand noble treatment."
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