Chapter 279 Interception at Sea

Drizzt and Luo Feng were talking when they saw the Knights soldiers retreating and turning around again.

The soldiers found many abandoned carriages from the slums and Woking market area, piled sandbags and stones on the carriage bodies, and pushed the carriages onto the bridge. They wanted to use this movable artificial obstacle. To withstand machine gun bullets.

"Prepare to retreat. There is no possibility of continuing to defend." Luo Feng said with a wry smile: "Our enemies are also good at learning lessons from battles."

The gray dwarf machine gunner put the hand-operated Gatling gun into the bag and followed Luo Feng and Drizzt to slide down the rope. Luo Feng took out a short iron cylinder and lit the fuse of the iron cylinder. An iron tube shot out a red fireball. The fireball flew into the air, opened a small parachute, and slowly fell down.

This is a signal flare, which Luo Feng uses to issue retreat orders to snipers hiding in the city.

The shadow thieves have been entrenched in the city of Ascatla for many years. They have built many interconnected secret passages in the houses in the city. There are also ropes and wheel hooks between the roofs of the houses. These are the shadow thieves' special passages, and now they have become The evacuation path of the guerrillas.

After receiving the signal, the Gray Dwarf guerrillas left their hiding sniper point and rushed to the dock area as quickly as possible.

In the coastal port of the dock area, several merchant ships loaded with people slowly left the port. Only one large ship was still anchored at the port, waiting for the guerrillas to return.

The soldiers who pushed the carriage finally broke through the blocked area of ​​the bridge. As soon as they entered the port area, they stepped on a landmine. The carriage filled with gravel was blown to pieces, and the stones flew into the sky like a rain of stones. Splash it down.

The soldiers did not dare to advance rashly. They had encountered mine tactics before when they marched towards Ascaltra. If there were no mages to use large-scale magic to destroy the minefields, the soldiers would not know how to blow it up if they just forced their way through. How many legs.

The entire city was covered by the "Practice Makes True Knowledge" spell, and the prophecy system's "Messaging Technique" could not be used. The frontline officers could only send agile messengers to run out of the city to find mage support.

In order to avoid the ubiquitous sniper fire in the city, the mages have retreated outside the city. Their number is very small, and their lives are much more valuable than soldiers, so they are unwilling to put themselves in danger.

When the mages learned that the Bradero gang had completely evacuated, and with the help of flying skills, they rushed to the minefield and used the rolling stone technique, the large ship parked at the port had already pulled up its sails and slowly left the dock.

On the deck of the big ship, a row of steel barrels stood diagonally. Gray dwarf artillerymen were calibrating the firing angle. Luo Feng held up his binoculars to observe the Knights soldiers pouring into the port area. He waved his hand and said loudly: "Fire all the cannonballs." Get out, you won’t need it for the time being when you return to the Underdark.”

In the Dark Area, it is difficult for mortars, a weapon of war, to find opportunities to use them. The projectile height is limited, and the projectiles often hit the cave ceiling and explode before they start to fall.

Yao En and Ao's scientific research team are working intensively to develop recoilless rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. In the environment of the underdark, these two weapons are the most powerful weapons for attacking cities.

After this operation is over, the Faerun underground party will be dormant for a long time. Instead of transporting the artillery shells back and storing them in a damp warehouse to rust, it is better to shoot them all out and leave a deep and terrifying memory to the enemy.

The mage's rolling stone technique created a minefield passage, and the Knights soldiers lined up in an orderly queue through the minefield. When the entire team was marching through the minefield, a sharp whistle came from the air. sound.

The soldiers suddenly panicked. After a terrifying whistle sounded in the air, Dragon Breath Technique broke out around them. Many of their colleagues died under the Dragon Breath Technique.

The soldiers who were busy running for their lives ran around like chickens. They were so frightened that they forgot that they were in a minefield. The team suddenly ran away. Before the mortar shells landed, flames were already rising on the ground one after another—— The unlucky soldier stepped on the mines on both sides of the passage.

The soldiers who stepped on the thunder were thrown into the air by the huge force of the explosion, and then fell down hard. Many of them did not die on the spot, but their lower limbs were bloody and bloody, and many of them had both of their legs blown off.

Seeing the tragic sight of soldiers stepping on minefields, the soldiers who had not yet rushed into the minefield were frightened and did not dare to continue running. But not long after, more violent explosions broke out in the crowd, and mortar shells fell.

The explosive power of mortar shells was far greater than that of landmines, and the covering and extended shelling swept across. The knights who had nowhere to escape were swallowed up by a sea of ​​fire.

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Not long after the fleet left port, a sailor who climbed up to the mast and carried out a telescope on a lookout mission shouted loudly: "There is a fleet intercepting us in the sea ahead! Look at the flag, it should be an offshore naval warship from Baldur's Gate!"

Baldur's Gate is a country founded by pirates. Baldur's Gate is an important node in maritime transportation in Faerûn. It attaches great importance to naval construction. The Grand Duke of Flaming Fist has an offshore fleet composed of more than ten warships.

Luo Feng raised his telescope and looked in the direction pointed by the lookout hand. Sure enough, there was a fleet setting sail and surrounding it from all sides. There were eight sailing ships on the other side lined up in a row, forming a semicircular circle on the sea. They were facing the circle. The evacuation fleet surrounded them.

From the appearance, these eight ships have wide hulls and are all three-masted sailing ships. They look a bit like Spanish Galenic sailing ships. However, due to the deviation of Faerûn continent's technology tree, artillery was strangely not invented. Galenic sailing ships were originally equipped with cannons. All the gun emplacements are loaded with giant crossbows.

It can be seen from the telescope that the soldiers on the warship are preparing for battle in full swing. They push the giant crossbow to the shooting dock on the side of the ship, turn the turntable to wind the giant crossbow, and ignite the arrow of the giant crossbow.

In Faerûn in this era, the main weapon of human naval warfare is the flame crossbow.

The ships in the coastal countries on the Faerûn continent are all wooden sailing ships. As long as the giant crossbow hits them, they can ignite the hull and sails.

This kind of giant crossbow can shoot up to three thousand yards, which is nearly one thousand meters. However, the hit rate of shooting at targets one thousand meters away is very low, and the effective combat distance is about four hundred meters.

The underground party led by Luo Feng evacuated the mass fleet, and only one ship was modified. The bow and stern were equipped with turntable platforms that could place hand-cranked Gatling guns. The remaining ships are civilian ships and merchant ships, with no combat capabilities at all.

Baldur's Gate is the nearest large port city to Ascaltra City. There are standing naval warships in the city on standby to hunt down the pirates rampaging across the Sword Bay. After receiving the magical message, Baldur's Gate's offshore fleet followed the ocean currents southward. , soon arrived at the Port of Ascatla, and was bumping into the underground party fleet preparing to evacuate.