Chapter 866
The enemy that appeared opposite the Wanderers was a lone warship, while the Wanderers had a fleet.
The big gold master behind the wandering group provided thirty-five warships for this battle group's westward journey. This is a very powerful sea force. Many small principalities in the Old World don't have so many warships to surround their coastlines. .
In order to cross this long voyage, these warships were almost fully loaded when they set off. After several weeks of consumption, the entire fleet seemed much lighter at this time.
But at sea, quantity is often less important than quality.
The huge size and astonishing speed of the Akatsuki made all experienced captains nervous, and they quickly prepared for battle and dispersed their formation.
The sharp deflection just now was caused by the warships at the edge of the fleet forcibly changing their course. The warships of the Wanderers were also equipped with some artillery, and they were trying to face the enemy with their sides.
It's just that in the face of the incoming Akatsuki, these captains who are still learning new naval warfare tactics are younger brothers, and they are all behind the Akatsuki-class warships in terms of tactics and equipment.
Before the homeless fleet had time to fully deploy, the Akatsuki had already used a sharp change of direction, and firmly placed itself on the T-beam.
The captain closest to the Dawn almost inserted a telescope into his eye socket, but the giant warship on the other side actually made a completely impossible displacement against the headwind, and the other side was a magic power battleship!
As the side gun doors of the Daybreak opened one by one, guns of different lengths and calibers revealed their ferocious side. This is also a disadvantage of the experimental ship. Cannons with a double caliber perform better in naval battles.
The captains of the battleships in the first row of the Nomad Fleet were heartbroken the moment the opponent's gun door opened. They could hardly count the number of cannons, but one thing is certain, the battleship in front of them, despite its large number, At a disadvantage, but in terms of firepower, it completely crushed the entire wanderer fleet.
With the roar of the first round of artillery fire from the Akatsuki, the entire enemy ship on the opposite side was engulfed in the sea of flames. At least three warships broke off from the middle without even a chance to abandon the ship, and quickly sank to the bottom of the sea without even taking a bubble. .
There were seven or eight warships whose sails or decks were ignited, and the raging fire spread rapidly. The sailors covered in flames and the soldiers of the Wanderer Corps jumped into the sea like dumplings. Unfortunately, no one has the energy to manage it now. They are gone.
Those are the incendiary bombs equipped on the Akatsuki, the last few rounds in stock. This kind of shells has been proven to be effective in ground attack and purification of chaos. It will be equipped in large numbers when the next support arrives.
In order to avoid the friendly forces that were hit on the route, two panicked warships accidentally collided with each other. The bows of the warships bit tightly, and the two ships were entangled in this way, like a huge living target. .
Charles was a passenger on these two unlucky warships. At this time, he didn't bother to wipe the blood on his face, and was giving orders loudly: "Throw away all your armor, shields, and weapons! Damn it, you are wearing those things! Sure to drown! We won't need them in the ocean!"
Charles glanced at the direction of the severely damaged bow, then turned his head and glanced at the two lifeboats near the stern, and finally glanced at the panicked sailors and the artillerymen who had just emerged from the cabin, Gritting his teeth, he gave another order: "Don't throw away the weapons yet, let our people get together and don't disperse. Let's head towards the boat and take a few sailors along the way."
"Also, if someone wants to compete with us for a position, do it directly." Charles said to the soldiers around him with a gloomy expression: "There are only so many positions on the lifeboat, tell the brothers not to let those gunners board."
We are Musketeers, I can only be responsible for my own soldiers, sorry.
Soon, the mercenaries on the deck were fighting each other. Whether they were sailors, musketeers or gunners, they all knew that their only way of survival was on the lifeboat.
So many corpses will soon attract a large number of carnivorous sea creatures, and it is better to drown directly without a boat than to swim and float.
Mercenaries are realistic, they will not be soft because they are their former teammates, they will do anything to survive.
The second round of shelling from the Akatsuki helped most of them solve the problem. Two ships and more than 300 mercenaries, except for Charles who boarded the lifeboat with a dozen people and escaped smoothly, the rest of them were with the ship. buried.
A few late divers struggled to be sucked into the bottom of the sea by the vortex. Those wooden boats hit by large-caliber artillery seemed to be blasted from the middle, and sank into the bottom of the sea in an instant. Small whirlpool.
The poor captain of the Wanderers sank into the sea with his battleship during the first round of bombardment. He is a warrior of level nine, but the gods in charge of luck and probability must not be on his side today. On the one hand, the head of the regiment was directly hit by a high-speed shell at that time, and he was so torn apart that it was impossible to describe his current situation. At this time, he had almost melted into the water.
After pouring three rounds of artillery fire, the Akatsuki sunk fourteen ships and damaged fifteen warships. Of course, the captain of the Akatsuki didn't feel this. The shelling at this distance is almost like a cannon on land. The forehead was fired, and the crew struggled to miss it.
They are completely bullying each other with no experience in naval warfare, weak firepower, and backward equipment.
In the end, the Dawn was not wiped out, it slowly circled around the battered homeless fleet, casting a huge shadow on the heads of the survivors.
The surface of the sea was densely covered with fragments of people and ships. Many of the fifteen damaged warships had already begun to tilt, and they were destined to be unable to complete the rest of the voyage.
The six warships in the middle of the wanderer fleet did not suffer major damage, and there were even three unscathed. The friendly forces on the periphery became their shields, but these warships no longer had the courage to fire back.
The Akatsuki just left, leaving a mess on the ground, and the remaining people will no longer cause them much trouble.
The biggest question facing the Wanderers Group now is whether to save those members who fell into the water or not? What to do with the men on ships that are about to sink?
This is a very cruel choice, no matter how you choose, the Wanderer Group is over.
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