Chapter 37 The Maiden Voyage

"Isn't this badge in the shape of a half-moon?" I thought it was a half-moon badge hanging below, but I didn't expect that it was actually the original shape, but the half-moon part was gold, and the remaining part was silver, and The colors of the deck are so heavy together that it’s hard to tell them apart!

The old man said proudly: "This half-moon will not always be like this. It will follow the movement of the moon in the sky. When the moon in the sky becomes a full moon, it will also become a full moon."

"It's quite interesting!" I touched the badge. It was cold and very comfortable.

Leaving the place where the badges are hung is the front deck, where three huge turntables are placed. This is where the old man left us to install the magic crystal cannon. It suddenly occurred to me that this cannon would not be very easy to hit if placed directly on it! "Can you help me install a turret for my gun?" I turned around and asked the old man. Seeing that he seemed a little confused, I continued to explain to him. "Just make a cover, leave a gap in it, and cover the cannon inside with only the barrel sticking out!"

The old man thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll let someone do it."

After the old man finished handing over his men, we walked around the cabin again. There is a big difference between the cabin and the outside. The deck outside is very solemn and looks very intimidating, but the inside is as luxurious as a palace, especially the 40 double rooms I specially mentioned, which are almost decorated like presidential suites! However, it’s all money spent anyway, and the more luxurious he pretends to be, the happier I am.

When he reached the artillery room, the old man suddenly shouted. "Why are there only cannons? Where are your cannonballs?"

"I only have a small amount of money, which is enough to buy this but not that! Anyway, 10 rounds of cannon shells are given as a gift when purchasing each of the 600 cannons. I think 6,000 rounds should be enough for a naval battle, so I want to talk about it next time!"

"How can this work!" The old man was actually more excited than me. "Aren't you ruining my work? If my precious work sinks for the first time in the war, wouldn't it be a loss of my reputation?" The old man turned around a few times and said to me: "What's your name? Your sailor will take my letter to the siege equipment shop and transport another 54,000 rounds of artillery shells. The money will be replenished when you come back!"

"Is this okay?"

"What are you doing? Aren't you happy yet?"

"No, no, no! It's too late for me to be happy!" He quickly asked all the sailors to help carry the shells, while the old man ran to supervise the construction of the shell of the turret.

I sat bored on the dock and watched the busy and dizzy sailors loading cannonballs onto the ship. Suddenly someone tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around and saw that he was a typical magic swordsman. The magic sword studded with runes in his hand was really conspicuous.

"What?"

"Did you see the Seaway?"

"Are you talking about King Chuang's ship?"

As soon as I heard it I knew he was excited immediately. "Yes, yes, that's the one! Where's the ship?"

"gone!"

"gone?"

"Well! I left an hour ago. I heard that a joint fleet came over from Japan, and all our warships went to sea to fight!"

He smashed his sword on the ground in frustration and beat his head desperately. "Why can't I take a step faster! I missed it again!" Emotion is a guy who missed the boat!

The man was depressed there for a while and suddenly stopped, then picked up his sword and climbed onto the Biling like a whirlwind. I was shocked to see this madman running to my boat and getting into the helmsman's control room.

I thought to myself that this guy wouldn’t have water in his head! What are you doing on my boat? In order to be afraid of him causing trouble, I also climbed up. As soon as I stood on the string of the boat, I saw him rushing out again. This guy grabbed me. "Can you sail a boat?"

"Won't!"

As soon as he heard that I didn't know how to do it, Lima threw me aside and grabbed me when I saw someone, and then asked him if he knew how to sail a boat. This lunatic, the few helmsmen on this ship are all moving cannonballs now, it’s no wonder you can find someone who can sail the ship!

After working for a while, he rushed into the wheelhouse again. I saw him making a mess and rushed up to stop him. "Hey, who are you? Can you please don't touch my boat?"

"Your boat?" He looked at me and then continued his movements. "That's just right. I'm from the Anti-Japanese Federation. Now I'm requisitioning your ship. Please leave!"

faint! You think you are the police! And commandeer my ship! "Hey! Are you going too far? I'll give you a chance. If you want to fight the Japanese, just stay away. Our ship will naturally go to sea later!"

I originally thought he would agree, but unexpectedly he snorted at me. "You little girls, you know how to worship foreigners when buying Japanese things, how can you remember that you are Chinese!"

Although what he said was very passionate, I was not happy. "Hey! Watch your words! First, I'm not a woman, I'm a man! Second, who told you that women don't resist Japan?"

"That's right! Who said we won't resist Japan!" Ziyue suddenly ran in as she was talking. "It's you! Are you looking for death? Do you dare to say that I don't resist Japan? Come here and let us challenge each other!"

"You?" This guy looked at the two of us, obviously frightened by our looks. "I won't argue with you. Leave quickly and let me drive the boat out!" After reacting, he was still arrogant.

"Who provoked whom? Why don't you care about us?" Ziyue is a nationalist extremist. To dare to say that she does not resist Japan is undoubtedly to stir up a hornet's nest. She walked over, grabbed the guy, threw him over her shoulder and threw him to the deck outside. "Come on! Tie him to the bow of the boat! I'm going to see who dares to say that I don't resist Japan! Over there, quickly, fix the cannon for me!"

The unlucky guy was quickly tied to the bow of the ship by a group of sailors. Now we have two bow statues!

I ignored him and concentrated on directing the sailors over there to fix the fort. The turret on the old man's side was also quickly completed. Tianhuo and Lucky worked together as a temporary crane to install the turret on the gun emplacement, just enough to cover the cannon. Now it looks a lot like a battleship!

I was asking the old man to help us modify some details of the turret when another person ran up. The first thing I heard was the quarrel between Ziyue and him.

"Hello? What are you doing? Don't get on other people's ships, okay?" Ziyue was still angry, and her words were full of anger!

The visitor is quite picky. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, I just wanted to find the captain!"

"That's me! What's the matter?" I walked over and looked this person up and down. It looks a bit like the Terror Knight, so it shouldn't be much different.

"Hello, my name is Zhan Song, and I am a Death Knight. I would like to ask, can your ship go to sea? I was going to fight the Japanese and missed the battleship! So...!"

Upon hearing that it was anti-Japanese, Ziyue immediately became polite. "Then just wait a moment! We are supplying supplies, and we will go to sea as soon as everything is loaded!"

"Thank you then!" Zhan Ge thanked him politely, and then asked: "Well! Excuse me, that person on the bow of your boat...?"

"Are you talking about that guy?" Ziyue said disdainfully: "That lunatic wants to steal the ship!"

"Ah?" Zhan Ge was shocked, he dared to steal such a big ship! "That! You two, I actually know that person. His name is Wu Yu. We used to fight pirates together. That guy is just a straight-spirited person. I believe he didn't mean to steal the ship!"

"I know!" I interrupted him. "But he's so excited. If I hadn't tied him up, we probably wouldn't have left the port! I know he's anxious too, but letting him go won't help. It's better to tie him up!"

"That's right!" Zhan Ge also nodded in agreement.

I just finished talking here and the group of sailors led by Ying over there also brought back the cannonballs. Now each gun room can be allocated 100 cannonballs. Although it is still far from the standard configuration of 0 rounds per gun, I think these It’s enough for us to use for a while!

Finally everything was in place, and I stood on the tower in the middle of the ship and gave the order. "Boys, set sail!"

Five huge sails were lowered from the top with a roar, and countless small sails were unfolded from the side. Watching the sailors swinging from one mast to another like monkeys, I really admire their skill! Just out of port I ordered again! "Pulp out!" 750 long oars extended out of the hull and inserted into the water at the same time. The speed of the boat almost threw me off the high platform. What an exaggerated speed! Now I'm starting to think about whether there is too much slurry in the boat!

Two sailors wearing sailor hats came up to me and introduced themselves. It turned out that these two were my first mate and second mate. I showed Feng Yinpiaomiao's simple chart to the second officer, and he recognized it at a glance. "Captain, are we going here?"

"Yes! Just order them to go!"

"Yes!" The second officer took the order and walked to the railing of the command podium and began to give orders. Since his orders were basically shouted, I could hear them clearly. "Turn the rudder! Left rudder 40!"

"Left rudder 40!" the helmsman replied while starting to turn the steering wheel. Because the Bi Ling is so big, her steering wheel is actually operated by two sailors together. One person cannot turn the big thing with a diameter of more than two meters.

"Reef right sail, turn two!"

"Take in the right sail, turn two!" The sail operator also responded quickly to the command.

"Take the left pulp!"

"Retract the left oar!" The left oar of the ship immediately retracted, and I could clearly feel the ship turning sharply.

After a few seconds, the helmsman suddenly let go of the steering wheel, and the huge turntable began to spin back like crazy. The helmsman shouted at the same time: "Return the steering wheel!"

'Fuck' the sailor also shouted. "The wind is blowing, turn back the sails!"

The long oar on the left side of the ship also stretched out and was inserted into the water to start pushing the hull forward again.

I asked the second officer sideways. "How long until we get there?"

The second officer looked at the wind wheel above his head and said, "We'll be there in about two and a half hours!"

I looked at the time, it was almost two o'clock! "It will probably be almost five o'clock when we get there!"

I once again took out the carrier pigeon and wrote to Feng Yin Piaomiao. "We are on the road and we dare to arrive before five o'clock in the afternoon." After releasing the homing pigeons, it was a boring wait.

Standing on the side of the ship and watching the sea water being cut by the bow of the ship and turning into white waves several meters high and then falling back into the sea, I can roughly feel that the speed of the ship is already exaggerated! But there is no reference point in this vast sea, and I still feel that the boat speed is very slow!

Suddenly a strange idea appeared in my mind. "First mate!"

"exist!"

"Is there a rope on the boat?"

"Yes! What do you want to do, Captain?"

"Find someone to stretch your hair!"

"Stretching?" The first mate couldn't react for a moment.

I interrupted him and said, "Don't worry about it. Just prepare three longer and stronger ropes!"

"yes!"

The rope was ready after a while. I asked the sailor to tie this end of the rope to the bow, and then asked Ziyue to borrow the sky fire. Give Skyfire and Lucky Dragon a rope, and then give Little Dragon Girl a rope. After that it was simple, Lucky and Heavenly Fire were flying in the sky, and the little dragon girl was swimming in the water.

I gave the order and they started rushing forward. The long rope straightened instantly, and the whole ship suddenly jumped forward. All of us players on the deck were thrown towards the stern by the huge inertia. They formed a pile and did not stop until they hit the fort, but those NPCs continued to do their work without caring.

Bingbing got up from me and rubbed her small waist. "You are too barbaric!"

Big Pot Rice pushed me away from him and crawled out. "Although we are anxious, this speed will kill people!"

Ziyue pushed away the big pot of rice that was holding down half of her legs. "I think it's good. It's much faster this way!"

Wuwu also climbed out of the crowd. "Don't you still have a golden beetle? He's quite strong!"

Ziyue remembered it as soon as she heard it. "Yes! Hurry, call him out too, it will be faster!"

I said: "Do you think anyone can fly like a dragon for more than two hours? The golden beetle can only fly for a short time, and it will stop flying after a while!"

"Forget it!" Ziyue is good at this, she is very reasonable!

The battleship was speeding across the sea at an unimaginable speed, and countless waves were shattered one by one by the bow of the ship.

After about two hours of sailing, the lookout on the ship's mast suddenly started to signal below, and the second mate next to me immediately ran to report the situation to me. "Captain, we found a lot of floating objects on the water!"

"Floating object?" I immediately jumped off the control tower and ran directly to the side of the ship and stretched my head to look down! What kind of floating objects are these? They are all fragments of ships!

Ying and others also ran over and looked under the side of the ship. They saw countless broken branches and debris floating on the sea with the waves, and some large pieces of wood were obviously from the ship. I ordered Lucky and Skyfire to fly back, and then called back Little Dragon Girl. It seems that we have reached the battle sea area. If we continue to run rampant like this, we are likely to plunge into the enemy fleet!

"Mog!" Eagle shouted to the back, and the sailor behind immediately brought up a mop with a long bamboo pole. We watched him carefully pick up a few pieces of driftwood by dragging it into the water. Those driftwoods also had some shiny equipment on them.

"It's really weird, why are all the equipment floating on the wood?" Bingbing asked, looking at the equipment we picked up.

Zhan Song came up and explained to us. "Equipment will also be exploded in naval battles, but in order to prevent the equipment from falling into the sea, every time someone explodes the equipment, there will be ship debris dragging the equipment floating. But today I saw so many empty debris without equipment floating around. It means that a ship has really been sunk!”

"It looks like there's quite a lot!" Passerby A said as he looked at the debris that stretched for miles around. "It is estimated that this is the Goddess Alliance fleet that was ambushed!"

"There's someone over there!" Rose's sharp eyes saw someone clinging to the driftwood in the distance!

"Rescue people quickly!" I ordered the first mate.

Unexpectedly, the first mate shouted to the back: "Stop the ship! Release the rescue boat!"

The hatch cover at the stern of the ship suddenly opened with a "bang", and then the hatch cover plate was placed obliquely on the water, forming an angle of 30 degrees with the water surface. A small wooden boat that could seat more than 40 people rushed into the water along the slope, with three sailors on it. The boat quickly rowed to the side of the man and loaded him into the boat.

Eagle suddenly said to the first mate: "How many more of these rescue boats do we have?"

"219 ships!"

"So many?" I was surprised. "I don't think I told the old man to install a rescue boat?"

The first mate replied: "This is a rule. Every ship must be equipped with enough lifeboats to carry all crew members, so the ship owner will not be asked whether to install them. This is something that must be installed!"

"oh!"

Ying Ye quickly said: "Send 19 more ships out to search the nearby waters. There must be people here!"

As expected, what Ying said was absolutely correct. The rescue boats we sent out picked up more than 30 people one after another! What surprised me the most was that they actually fished out Hong Yue and Feng Yin Piaomiao. But fortunately, Hongyue is already unconscious! Although Feng Yin Piaomiao also fainted, we carried him to the infirmary, and the doctor prepared him several medicines to relieve his weakness caused by seawater immersion.

As soon as he recovered, I started asking him: "What happened to you? Why did it happen so badly?"

"You're finally here!" Feng Yin Piaomiao looked at me. "Do you know what we encountered?"

"Isn't it a joint fleet?"

"Yes! But there's something about them we don't understand!"

"Things I don't understand?" I wonder what can be called something I don't understand!

"There are three particularly outstanding warships in their fleet. You must be careful. We just suffered from their losses! Call your first mate and let him know what he is paying attention to so that he can avoid it later!"

I quickly called the first mate, and Feng Yin Piaomiao continued: "The enemy has three special battleships, one is called Kamikaze, one is called Nagashima, and one is called Kirishadow!

The Kamikaze is a very large battleship, and its cabin is full of small boats, but unlike our rescue ship, it brings suicide boats filled with gunpowder! These 'suicide' boats are fast, small and difficult to intercept, and many of our boats suffered big losses!

The Long Island is a gunboat, with a strange cannon installed on its bow. Its firing range is far beyond any of our cannons, and its speed is so fast that we can't catch up with it at all! He always takes advantage of his shooting range to hang and fight outside our shooting range. He will run away when we chase him, and he will chase after us when we run away. It is very annoying!

The Mist Shadow is the most annoying, it's basically a submarine! Our ship can't catch him at all, but he can always give us a fatal blow from behind! Luckily he had to surface to attack, otherwise we wouldn't have a single ship left! "

After listening to Feng Yin Piaomiao's words, everyone didn't know what to do. These three ships were indeed annoying enough. Such dangerous guys must find a way to deal with them first!

I thought for a moment and said to Ziyue: "You take Passerby A, Daguofan and Shura Ziyi to the fort to control the magic crystal cannon. I want you to destroy those three strange warships as soon as possible!"

"Got it!" Ziyue immediately ran out with them.

Then I said to the first mate: "Inform all the gun positions that the enemy's 'suicide' speedboat is the first priority target. He cannot be allowed to get close to him under any circumstances! I don't believe that 600 guns can't stop a few speedboats! Follow me." Come on deck, we’re about to enter the battle!”

As soon as I led everyone out of the door to the front deck, a huge force hit me from the right side. With a bang, I broke through the guardrail and flew out. At the same time, the first mate started shouting: "Artillery attack! Get to your positions and enter the battle!"

The people on the boat immediately understood what had happened, and they each rushed to their posts. And I climbed onto the deck soaking wet, took off the fake mage robe that had turned into tattered strips of cloth, and muttered: "Damn, it's a vile product! Didn't it say there is no durability limit?"

Everyone else on the boat looked at me like I was a monster. The meaning in their eyes was: Why are you not dead yet?