Chapter 492 Stalemate
Who doesn’t know that if you want to seize a ship, you must use grape bombs, because grape bombs have additional damage to the crew members. Only by eliminating all or most of the crew members can you better board the ship and seize the ship! As a naval warfare expert, how could Wei Bin not know this? Therefore, before the trip, Wei Bin filled each warship with 200 people. Firstly, they could be used when seizing the ship. Secondly, during the battle, they could replace those who were killed operating the artillery, making the warship more reliable. The artillery fire is always manned!
If a warship is fully loaded and wants to lose its combat effectiveness, it is only possible to sink the warship! Even if you use grape bullets, it is impossible to kill all the crew members, because before all the crew members die, the durability of the warship has long since returned to zero and it has been sunk! Grape bombs only add damage to the crew, but they still damage the hull. Three types of shells, heavy bombs, grape bombs, and chain bombs, damage the hull, mast, and crew, but each shell can only damage the hull, mast, and crew. It can cause a lot of damage in the areas it is good at, but the damage caused in the areas it is not good at is relatively low. For example, heavy bombs will cause high damage to the hull, but relatively low damage to the mast and crew. It is likely that in When the warship was sunk, only a few of the crew on board had died! Another example is grapeshot, which is a must-have cannonball for killing people and seizing a ship. If the number of crew members is not large, the hull and mast can still remain relatively intact after killing all the crew members. This is the difference between different cannonballs in different fields. sex!
So Crocodile's attempt to seize Wei Bin's ship won't work! As the originator of ship-robbing, how could he not be on guard against being robbed? The only drawback of Wei Bin doing this is that too many innocent players die! Some people didn't even touch the artillery fire, and the warship was sunk! There are also people who were killed by the enemy before they even touched the artillery fire. The enemy's artillery fire is random and indiscriminate. As long as you are on this ship and the opponent's artillery shell hits you, no matter you are an artillery Whether it is the captain at the helm or the unemployed crew waiting to replace the dead artillerymen, they may all be bombarded!
In this way, it is difficult for Crocodile to sink Wei Bin's ship, and it is also more difficult to kill all his crew members. The battle losses of Wei Bin's side are naturally reduced a lot!
After the two sides were in a stalemate for a while, Crocodile finally discovered an abnormality, but by this time Crocodile's warships had lost more than 500 ships, while Wei Bin's side had only lost more than 200 ships.
"Strange, why are they so resistant all of a sudden?" Crocodile asked strangely.
"Yes, boss, I also found out
, although the overall number and combat effectiveness of our warships are higher than theirs, our battle losses are actually higher than theirs. It's really strange! Should we retreat to base camp first? I think there must be something fishy about this! " Crocodile's first mate said.
"No, although our battle losses are a bit high, the final victory is still on our side. If we don't dare to fight them with such a crushing lineup, if word gets out, I, Crocodile, Where do you want to put your face? Give me the order and beat me! Beat me hard!" Crocodile ordered.
In this way, after a stalemate between the two sides for a while, Crocodile's warships were left with 1,000 ships, while Wei Bin's side was left with 500 ships. Although both sides lost half, Crocodile's loss was only 1,000 ships. Wei Bin only lost 500 ships, and his battle loss ratio had already doubled!
Of course, the two sides lost warships in different ways. On Crocodile's side, each warship only had fifty or sixty crew members. Of the 1,000 warships they lost, most of them were due to the loss of all the crew members. It only lost its combat effectiveness, and its warships were not sunk. On the other hand, Wei Bin's 500 warships were all sunk. Although both sides lost half of their combat effectiveness, there was still a big difference in the final analysis. This is why Crocodile's battle losses were obviously very high. The reason why he dared to continue fighting with Wei Bin was that he only lost some of his crew members, but the warship was still there. As long as he won the battle, his ship could still be used after repairs, and his real losses were not not a lot!
Soon, Crocodile finally discovered the clues!
"I know, they just came forward, and the hundreds of ships that withstood our artillery fire have much higher defense and durability than other warships, so they reduced the battle losses! Moreover, the crew on each of their ships There are a lot of them. Have you noticed that as long as the warship is not sunk, they have been firing back with full artillery fire, which means that their crew members are not dead at all. Damn it! Are there just so many of them who don't take human life seriously?" Kroc Dahl cursed.
"Yes, boss, they are so shameless. Why don't we change the target and ignore their high-defense warships for now?
Kill the warships with lower defense behind them first! Crocodile's first mate suggested.
"But, after all, we have bombed their warships with high defenses for a long time. Maybe they will be sunk by us soon. If we change the target now, wouldn't it be a big loss?" Crocodile said.
"But boss, although we have bombed their high-defense warships for a long time, we don't know how much durability they still have. What if they still have a lot of durability left and we continue to bomb them? Are you playing into the opponent's hands?" Crocodile's first mate suggested again.
There is indeed some truth to what the first mate said, and there is nothing wrong with Crocodile's words. No matter whose order is executed, there will be no problem, because they don't know how much durability these ships with high defense and high durability have left. They can only rely on luck. Go gamble!
"What you said makes some sense. Forget it, I won't embarrass you, just do as I say and continue to attack these ships with high defenses. I bet they won't be able to hold on for long! Besides, since they are determined not to Let us get their warships, then destroy them all, give me the order, change the artillery shells to heavy bombs, and sink all their warships!" Crocodile ordered, obviously, This is gambling. He doesn't want to embarrass his first mate. He is the leader. It doesn't matter if the bet is wrong. And this first mate is just the first mate on his flagship. If he listens to the first mate's advice, the result will be different. If the bet is wrong, the first mate will definitely be scolded in the end! They may even become the scapegoat in the end, after all, they killed so many crew members!
In addition, after guessing Wei Bin's tricks, Crocodile decisively changed his strategy and replaced all the grape bombs originally used to capture Wei Bin's warship with heavy bombs. Since they could not capture Wei Bin's ship, Then just destroy them all! Anyway, when they used grape bullets to attack before, they also relied on destroying Wei Bin's ship to reduce Wei Bin's combat power!
Sure enough, not long after the bombardment continued, almost all of Wei Bin's 200 warships were sunk. Only Wei Bin's and Tranquility's warships remained. Currently, Wei Bin's side still has 200 warships left, and Croke Dahl also feels bad, he still has 800 warships left!
"Boss Yingming, it's a good thing you didn't listen to me. If you had listened to me just now, it would have really given them an advantage, haha!" At this time, Crocodile's boss
The deputy said gratefully, of course he knew that he had just escaped from the gate of hell!
"Haha, even though our battle losses are still twice as much as theirs, it will be different next. Then they won't have these high-defense human shields in front, and their battle losses will be far greater. Beyond us! And they only have 200 warships left. Defeating them is just around the corner! It's just a pity that all their thousand three-masted warships will be sent to the bottom of the sea and cannot be used by me!" Crocodile sighed with emotion. , in the end, all the hard work was in vain, not even a single warship was captured, but instead he paid for a large number of crew members and the cost of repairing the ship!
"Boss, it's not good. The two hundred caravels that we just abandoned have all been occupied by the other side. They are now heading in our direction and will soon enter the shooting range!" Suddenly, While Crocodile was secretly happy, the first officer suddenly received another piece of bad news!
"What? How many ships do they have?" Crocodile asked hurriedly.
It turned out that in the pursuit battle just now, Wei Bin had secretly ordered a hundred three-masted warships to be sent out to capture the 200 caravels that were abandoned by Crocodile because their masts were seriously damaged and their sailing speed was seriously reduced!
Although the 100 three-masted warships sent by Wei Bin are no longer full, there are still more than 100 players on each ship. It is still very simple to capture these 200 caravels!
"Report to the boss, counting the warships they sent to occupy us, they have a total of 300 warships, heading in our direction!" the first mate said.
"That means there are only 500 ships in total? Don't be afraid. They only have a total of 300 three-masted warships that are not as powerful as ours and 200 caravels whose sailing speed is seriously damaged. That's all. There is nothing to be afraid of! We are like this, While moving in the direction of the base camp, they bombed the 200 three-masted warships in front of them, and then turned back to deal with their 300 warships. Their 200 light sailing ships were too slow to catch up. What's the use of us, if we can destroy the caravels with one shot? Finally, if you can, take back our 200 caravels!" Crocodile remained calm in the face of danger. After analyzing the gap in combat power between the two sides, he immediately The strategy was changed, rendering the 200 slowed-down caravels that Wei Bin had just captured useless!