Chapter 511 Burning Gun

  The whistling wind and thunder sounded together, setting off the atmosphere of this thrilling encounter.

   "What's the situation! Lorenzo!"

  When Shrike rushed into the command room, the command room was already full of people, and he seemed to be the last to arrive.

   There is a specialization in the art industry. Lorenzo handed over the command to command the crew to rescue the emergency to Captain Notal, and he discussed how to counterattack with the Lan Jade who arrived.

"We were attacked. It's a group of pirates." Lorenzo glanced at the sea. The flames flashed, and another round of shelling made the cabin shake violently again. "I don't know how many of them, but in this way It's time to attack, but it really picks the time."

   "Do you want to speed up the evacuation? If the Chenhui Advance advances at full speed, they will not be able to catch up with us." Lan Feicui suggested that this is the most secure solution in her opinion.

   "We can escape, but those cargo ships can't."

  Lorenzo immediately rejected Blue Jade’s words,

   "Is there any counterattack for Chenhui Advance?" Lorenzo asked Captain Notar.

"Yes, but the weapons have not been used in actual combat at sea... at least they have not been used in this case," Notar was also shocked by the violent weather, "I don't know how effective the actual combat is, and they are mainly used Dealing with demons."

This was the first time that Notar saw this kind of battle. He was wondering if the other party would be a lunatic. Under such bad weather, normal people were trying to escape the storm, but the pirates chose to attack at this time. It may be that the other party was really alert and caught such a misunderstanding of thinking. In short, the Chenhui Advance is extremely passive now.

   "If you can deal with demons, you can deal with humans." Lorenzo shouted, "Ready to fight back!"

   "Ready to fight back!"

  Seeing this scene, Captain Nautal can only bite the bullet and issue instructions downwards.

The gray world sparked fire again, and rounds of shelling baptized the Chenhui Advance. Fortunately, the violent waves made it difficult for the Black Ya’s artillery to aim, and only a few shells hit the ship’s hull. But the good times did not last long. A fierce fire ignited on the deck, and a cannonball hit it, splashing fireworks.

  The hull of the iron-clad ship is protected by solid armor, but the buildings on the deck are completely exposed. Notar turned the rudder wheel hard to adjust the angle of Chenhui Advance as much as possible.

   The engine roared, black smoke rose from the huge chimney, and sparks were floating with the wind.

   "Fixed artillery fire!"

  Notar gave the order, but was stopped by Lorenzo.

   "Wait! Don't fire yet."

  Lorenzo stared at the Black Fang behind the raging waves, keeping a safe distance between it and Chenhui Advance.

"what are you up to?"

  Notar didn’t know exactly what illness Lorenzo was committing, and vowed to fight back, but at this critical moment he stopped again.

   "Our inclination is not enough, the fixed artillery is difficult to hit, rashly firing will only make the other side vigilant, we have to show weakness now." Lorenzo smiled terribly, "show weakness, find the right time, and kill with one blow."

  In this boring life on the sea, Lorenzo read a lot about ironclad ships in order to pass the boredom, and he constructed a new plan in his mind.

Today’s iron-clad ships in the world are basically equipped with fixed artillery, but the fixed artillery has a shooting dead angle. This is the problem encountered by the Chenhui Advance. Some people have tried to set up a rotating artillery on the terrace. The current hydraulic technology is not enough to support the rotation of dozens of tons of turrets, even if it can be driven, the speed is extremely slow, and the gains outweigh the losses.

For this reason, the perpetual pump came up with a very interesting method. They erected the terrace artillery into the steel fort. There is no need to turn the turret. Just turn the artillery in the turret. There is a mechanical structure above the artillery. For breech filling, as long as there are four gunners in the turret, it can work normally. Although the top of the turret is completely exposed and there is no protection, these risks are exchanged for faster maneuverability. The technicians of the perpetual pump I think it's worth it.

  Six rotating artillery like this is installed on the Chenhui Advance. They are distributed along the hull. One of them is a special one, which is temporarily installed by the permanent pump.

   "Make Ascalon fill the bullet, I need it to kill him with one blow."

Following Lorenzo’s order, the ferocious steel moved slowly under the baptism of heavy rain. A mechanical roar sounded in the tallest turret of the Chenhui Advance, and only a giant barrel rose from the groove. Dragging slowly, it was so heavy that the perpetual pump designed a ring slide along the periphery of the turret, and the steel moving on it supported the muzzle.

   "This is an actual combat exercise. What we encountered in the sea of ​​silence will only be worse than it is now."

  This is Lorenzo's idea. For Jihai, all he knows is the story told from others. He has never really been there, and he doesn't know what might happen.

  So what Lorenzo can do now is to get everyone to adapt to all this and get used to fighting on the waves.

  "Start filling up!"

Notar didn’t talk nonsense, and he shouted directly. Although he is the captain in his position, he is more like a housekeeper, managing the work and deployment of seafarers. When a war comes, his words can only be used as advice. .

  It's not that Notal has no experience in naval battles, but that he has never faced such enemies in his long service life, those monsters called demons.

  Shrike and Lan Jade both acquiesced to Lorenzo's order, Lorenzo was right, the leisure before was just the calm before the storm, they need to fight to make the blood warm.

   "Let me at least see how far this Chenhui Advance can be achieved."

  Lorenzo looked at the other end of the waves excitedly. Before he could finish his words, he was shattered by the roar of cannons.

  Ascalon opened fire.

Along with the loud noise, there was an invisible impact. The raindrops all over the sky stagnated for a second at this moment. The dripping water on the porthole changed its trajectory. The crystal water drops reflected the molten golden light, this glow. The moment it flashed, Chenhui Advance became heavier and heavier, suppressing the splashing waves.

  Everyone saw it.

It was a long spear, a burning and blazing spear. It was so fast that it was pulled into a slender and dazzling light in a flash. The extreme heat pierced through the obstructive winds and waves, and it was shining everywhere. Illuminate everything.

This is Ascalon. As Lorenzo who has experienced this artillery bombardment himself, he knows the power of this artillery. Judging from its range, when the enemy ship appears in Lorenzo’s field of vision, it It was already within the range of Ascalon's strike, and the rate of fire of this artillery was extremely fast, and there was almost no attenuation in a short distance.

As Lorenzo thought, Ascalon’s attack at this distance is hardly called a bombardment. The burning warhead is like a spear, which penetrates the hull of the ship at the moment it touches the Black Tooth. , The steel wherever he went was melted, and the time when the flesh and blood body did not react at all, it was burned into ashes full of ashes.

  The expected explosion did not appear. The speed of the warhead was too fast and too hot. It directly penetrated the hull and fell into the sea, arousing raging steam, and sinking to the bottom of the sea with its afterglow.

  As for the Black Tooth, this blow ploughed one side directly on their deck, and the mast and chimney collapsed. Lorenzo guessed that this blow might even penetrate the opponent's command room.

   "Really... the mighty power of God..."

  Notar looked at all this in amazement, he had never seen such a scene, it was hard to imagine that his ship was carrying such a big killer.

   "Don't look like you haven't seen the world. We still have a lot of God's power on our ship." Lorenzo smiled.

   "Is this the end?"

The Shrike looked at the Black Tooth. After Ascalon hits, the Black Tooth fell into silence. You could see a raging fire on the ship, and then there were successive explosions inside, possibly fireworks. It spread to ammunition and caused a martyrdom.

   "It should be over, we just need to wait for the storm to stop, and then go to receive the spoils and prisoners."

  Lorenzo looked at the fire rising in the sea and won the first battle. He thought it was not bad, but it was not enough.

   "Wait... there is light coming up."

  Blue Jade keenly observed something, she motioned to several people to look at the black tooth, and saw a little discordant light in the blazing fire, which flashed regularly, as if sending some signal.

   "What's going on? Notar." Lorenzo immediately asked the experienced Notar.

  "This...is communication. Ships on the sea lack effective means of communication. We will use semaphores during the day and the flashing of this light as a signal at night." Notar replied.

In order to prevent possible technological disasters, the country builders secretly restricted the progress of world science and technology, to be precise, the progress of communication technology. Technologies such as communicators have been implemented in the perpetual pump and have been used for cleaning. Except for the agencies, but due to this terrible reality, such technology still cannot be leaked out, so that everyone uses the big ship made of steel, but such primitive methods are still used in communication.

  Lorenzo began to feel the sense of fragmentation in this world, and in the following time, such a sense of fragmentation will continue to strengthen.

  Humans are like beasts trapped in a cage. The beast grows bigger and bigger until it fills the entire cage. In the end, it has only two choices, either to break through the cage or suffocate in the cage.

  The country builders made a choice. They were unable to break through the cage, and could only continuously weaken the beast.

   "It's terrible..."

  Lorenzo couldn't help sighing, this kind of loss did not last long, he asked Notar again.

  "Do you know what this means? Ask for help?"

"I think..." Notar raised the telescope. The fire on the Black Tooth interfered with his judgment. He hesitated for a while and said his thoughts, "I don't know, it's not the same as I know. , Probably a set of communication language within them."

   "You said... them?" Lorenzo said.

   "Yes, this signal is not for us to see..."

  While speaking, Notar's voice slowed down. He looked directly at Lorenzo, and their eyes all had the same answer.

  "Ready to fight! More than one enemy ship!"

  Lorenzo roared loudly. It was also at this time that countless fires burst on the sea. Not only one ship approached the Chenhui Advance under the cover of the storm, but six.

  They lay in ambush all around early in the morning. Not only did Ascalon’s attack fail to repel the pirates, it aroused their greed.

Dozens of warheads hit the Chenhui Advance. Even with advanced armor, it was unable to withstand such continuous attacks. The surface of the hull began to appear damaged, and some warheads directly hit a turret, putting it in flames. .

  It is very difficult to directly hit the turret in a regular naval battle, but the restless sea under the hull of the ship lifted every ship high and then smashed it down, and the trajectory in the bumps was unpredictable.

  Slight vibrations sounded from all over the hull, which was much smaller than the cannonball hit, but it still attracted Lorenzo's attention.

   "What!" he asked.

   "It's the pirates, they are on the ship!"

The soldiers shouted, facing the violent storm, several hooks were thrown on the fence, you can see that there are pirates who are not afraid of death actually approaching here on the battleship, you must know that they will be killed in the sea if they are not careful. .

  No... not only them, but the six iron-clad ships that had been in ambush for a long time came on the waves. They stopped the shelling and accelerated to approach the Chenhui Advance. The front end of the bow cut through the wind and rain with a cold collision.

  It seemed that they wanted to hit the Shen Chenhui Journey. Compared with their tonnage, it was obviously impossible to shake the Chenhui Journey, but they couldn't hold so many ships to attack together.

  Thunder flashed, and the jet-black flag danced wildly with the wind, and a sharp, pale tooth could be seen vaguely.

   Seeing all this, Notar seemed to think of something, he said a little nervously.

"I think I know who they are. They are the black pirates. After the end of the Viking civil wars, the largest group of Viking pirates. They disobeyed the King of Ice and Sea, and they have been wandering through the Viking countries. The edge of the sea."

  "Don't care who they are! All fixed artillery fires!"

  Lorenzo doesn't care about this, he shouted.

  The armor on the flank of Chenhui Advance was pulled down, and the artillery protruded out of the muzzle along the sliding rail. A few seconds later, the first round of salvo was launched.

  The artillery fire continued, but failed to stop the pirates, and there were waves of fighting on the deck, but Lorenzo did not seem to feel it, staring at the ships at sea.

  "Their goal has changed," Lorenzo wanted to understand. "The pirates used to be for the cargo ship, but I think they are advancing for the Chenhui now."

  "Us?" Shrike didn't understand.

   "It's not us, it's the iron-clad ship under our feet."

  According to Lorenzo, these pirates were originally to rob the cargo, but after seeing Ascalon’s posture, they changed their minds and prepared to rob the Chenhui Advance.

   "It's crazy."

  (End of this chapter)