Chapter 239, The Ratman Fleet Arrives at the New World

When Sheng Qi climbed down from the bathtub warship and touched the ground again.

Calm, indescribable calm and tranquility.

A coast built of reefs, with a small piece of land left in the gap between the reefs.

Sheng Qi struggled to fall from the metal bathtub.

Half of his body was still in the sea, and the other half was leaning on the beach.

It was too calm, even a little dull.

The rat people on the land could at least light up torches to illuminate the darkness without a trace of light, but the conditions on the sea did not allow Sheng Qi to do so.

The complete darkness was about to torture him crazy.

When he set out, he brought thirty warships, and after seven days of darkness, there were only thirteen warships left by his side.

Or, fortunately, he was left with thirteen warships.

The huge bell on the bow worked, and the noisy bell helped the rat people to stick together on the sea, which prevented the Western Expeditionary Force led by Sheng Qi from being wiped out in this unprovoked disaster.

But he didn't know where he was now.

Sheng Qi didn't know where he was either. He just wanted to lie here quietly for a while.

He wanted to take a breath in the painful memories.

But sometimes, the more you want peace, the more you will be disturbed.

On the sea in the distance, a little light suddenly hit the sky.

It illuminated this area.

Practical spells brought a lot of convenience to the human side.

Only one wizard, two or three dark visions, and an illumination spell were needed, and the warships of the human side could sail into the sea just after the lightless day.

If it weren't for the fact that dark vision was essentially the same as the night vision ability of the rat people, which was also low-light vision instead of dark vision, even in the darkest moment, the human warships could still set sail.

The human navigator who obtained dark vision discovered the rat fleet gathered here.

After casting a little illumination spell, a human fleet sailed towards the location where the rat fleet was docked.

In the distance, a fireball spell was thrown out. For these strange-looking rat warships, the human side chose to attack directly.

Sheng Qi was startled by such a movement.

His claws tightly grasped the gravel on the beach. He really didn't want to board this damn thing again, and he didn't want to continue floating on the sea.

But it was obvious that he didn't have any more options.

This ocean trip left him with a great psychological shadow, a trauma that could not be healed until death.

But Sheng Qi suppressed such trauma abruptly. This thin guy climbed up from the peaceful beach and climbed onto the warship that frightened him again.

No matter how afraid he was, no matter how unwilling he was, he would not let go of the army in his hands, his only support.

The flag was erected on this bathtub warship in the dark night.

In the noisy and harsh bells, Sheng Qi, with an extremely ferocious expression, issued an order to march to the rat fleet.

Sheng Qi also had something that he would never give up even if he died.

In order to become a real big man, Sheng Qi was willing to do anything.

Amidst the whipping and scolding, the dying slave rats burst out their last strength, and the rat fleet without sails began to accelerate.

The two sides approached each other on the sea, and as they got closer, the appearance of the human warships also appeared vividly in front of the rats.

Compared with the bathtubs driven by the rats, these human ships are more in line with the concept of the word warship.

The shuttle-shaped hull, with three masts placed on the hull, is much faster than the rats' bathtub warships under the encouragement of the wind.

Not only that, under the effect of the lighting technique, you can see the gradually gathering human warriors on the upper decks of these warships.

Most of them are holding various scimitars and hand axes in their hands, gathering on the upper deck to make preparations.

At the very end of the warship, on a tower that is much higher than the upper deck, shadowy figures began to appear. They are archers, not only archers, but also some robed wizards.

The human side is making rapid preparations for war.

Their strategy is also very simple, or in other words, before the emergence of artillery, the battle mode on the sea was not so complicated, and boarding battle was an important part.

And human sea battles also continued this mode, approaching, touching each other, and then fighting each other on the deck.

Of course, there are some differences, such as the human mages standing on the tower and mixing with the archers.

Cannons have not been used by the Dark Eyes for a long time, and a large part of the reason is probably due to these mages.

These guys are indeed easy to use and versatile.

Various auxiliary spells, plus strong attack spells.

A fireball streaked across the sky, without deviating from the target, and accurately hit a rat warship. This fireball spell is too powerful for early naval battles.

The fireball with a terrifying high temperature is enough to ignite most wooden warships. As long as there are enough mages, then after a round of volleys close to each other, even the most powerful fleet will be destroyed in the rising flames.

It was extremely lucky, but it also became a constraint. The navigation level of the Ghost Eye people had not improved for many years, and instead more mages were assigned to warships.

More mages who can cast fireballs were assigned to warships.

This is certainly another route, and magic warships are not necessarily inferior to those giant warships and cannons, but in these long years, the ghost-eyed people have not really taken the most critical step towards magic civilization.

Fireballs are not so useful for the strange warships of the ratman Western Expedition.

Although the ratman's warships have many defects, strange designs, and are quite costly for the ratman, their own materials determine one point.

This all-metal cast bathtub is much stronger than the wooden warship, and it is not so afraid of fire. After all, it is a real all-metal casting, a strange product that is both advanced and backward.

The head-sized fireball fell on this all-metal warship, and it still had a terrible power. Where it was hit, the metal hull would still be melted, but it was only limited to the place where it was hit.

No matter how unreliable the Skaven's warship is, it will not sink on the spot because of a hole the size of a head.

Unless this fireball falls to the bottom of the Skaven's warship at an extremely tricky angle.

The Skaven's warship has no partitions, only a spiral downward staircase, that is to say, the Skaven's warship is single-layer, and the damage at the bottom is a very serious problem.

To be honest, relying on such a thing, Sheng Qi led the Western Expeditionary Force all the way across the sea, and even floated from the Half-Elf Hill to the main continent. Along the way, he still had thirteen ships left from the fleet of thirty ships, which is also a miracle.

Since this fireball, the mages on the human fleet began to attack with all their strength.

One fireball after another was thrown by them and streaked across the sky.

There were even many fireballs that fell to the bottom of the bathtub warship after streaking across the sky at a tricky angle.

This is a dangerous situation. As long as it hits successfully, a fireball as big as a head is enough to sink the ship and the ratmen on the ship to swim in the sea.

However, it is not a big problem. For such a situation, the ratmen also have a unique solution.

They have unique protection. Who says that a ship full of ratmen can't be a defense? The fireball hit the cabin of the ratman warship, and a terrifying flame rose.

The ratmen warriors wailed in the flames, but the fireball that fell to the bottom of the ship was also intercepted.

The ratmen began to fight back, and finally the crossbows installed on the warships worked. The ratmen once again proved their unique industrial capacity.

In various unreliable situations, flying across the harsh sea, using a large number of gears, these huge crossbows with questionable safety did not fall off at this moment

They even easily completed the huge crossbows that turned to move and aim and the first round of excitation.

Under the command of Sheng Qi, facing the human warships rushing towards them, the ratman fleet chose to defend.

Thirteen rat warships gathered together to form a circular defensive formation.

Turning the gears, the dying slave rats no longer provided kinetic energy for the rat warships, but began to work hard to rotate the weapons on the warships.

A heavy metal column was raised high, and the center of gravity and stability of this bathtub warship became more and more worrying. This was the special energy storage device that the big claw priests had tinkered with in order to smoothly use a group of slave rats to supply two sets of devices on the ship.

Raising this iron column high and then clamping it with gears is a process of storing energy. Next, whether it is the movement of weapons on the ship or the rotation of the propeller at the bottom of the ship.

All of them can rely on this high-raised iron column to complete the energy storage. If you want to release this accumulated energy, let this heavy iron column slowly fall under the action of gravity and drive the rotation of the gear, so that the stored energy can be released.

A set of strange and exquisite structures.

A primitive and not so primitive warship.

Huge crossbow arrows as thick as arms were continuously fired out. The lethality of these crossbow arrows was not low, and they could even break the hull of human warships.

During the firing, a crossbow arrow hit the mast of a human warship that was cruising towards the rat warship. In an instant, the thick mast made a sound of being overwhelmed and was broken by a blow. With a harsh sound, the tall mast fell down with the sails mounted on it.

The hull was shaking violently.

The broken mast swept across the upper deck, and the human warship completely lost its movement after gliding on the sea for a while.

The other human warships nimbly completed the avoidance and continued to rush towards the rats.

There were constantly fireballs falling, and the soldiers gathered on the upper deck were ready to move, and thick metal crossbow arrows flew over their heads.

In this era when the human empire is heading towards disintegration, you can't ask its army to be so professional and formal.

Most of the fleets also have an additional job as pirates. The real controllers behind these fleets, the nobles, are not just keeping these fleets for free.

Plundering is what they would do, even if the one in front of them at this moment is not ratmen, but something else.

They will still rush over brazenly.

The crossbow arrows of the rats hit a human warship below the waterline, and the thick crossbow arrows tore the not-so-strong wooden board.

The seawater began to pour in, but the human warship was much more reasonable than the rats' weird bathtub.

The cabin was closed, and the crew began to rescue the warship. The speed of the warship slowed down, but there was no risk of sinking.

On the other hand, in the continuous falling fireball attack, two fireballs hit the same area fortunately. In the gap of the reactive armor, a rat warship outside the defense formation unfortunately leaked. For this situation, the rats were helpless.

A rat warship began to sink slowly.

The rats jumped into the sea one after another, and the bathtub warship sank at a very fast speed.

The human fleet was about to fight with the rats, but with the sinking of this rat warship, a huge black area suddenly appeared on the sea surface.

But it was ignored by humans. The large number of rats struggling on the sea was not so eye-catching in this dim environment.

The carrying capacity of the rat warship may exceed the imagination of humans. After all, there is no standard for the rats. It is the first time to sail, and many things are particularly chaotic, including the number of rats carried in each warship.

In short.

It is based on the largest number. When it set sail, there was no room for rats in this bathtub warship, and the warship did not sink under the heavy load, and it could still run, so there was no problem at all.

It may not be a wise decision to engage in a boarding battle with the rats. Each rat warship is really full of rats.

But humans obviously have never encountered such a battle.

When a human warship approached, the two ships approached each other in the wizard's tailwind spell, and hooks were thrown at the rat warships one by one, and both sides anchored.

The human warriors who had been waiting on the deck for a long time began to cheer. The more experienced warriors took the lead and stepped on the rope to move forward. Behind them, a long wooden board was lifted up.

Soon, the first direct battle between the two sides officially began.

The rat warships actually did not have much advantage when facing human warships. Although these sailing warships were far less solid than the rat-cast metal warships, their speed and flexibility were much higher.

The wooden board was laid in the gap between the two ships, leaving a road.

This was the first time that the Western Expeditionary Force encountered humans, and it was also the first battle that the Western Expeditionary Force encountered on this main continent after crossing the ocean.

It broke out in a very sudden situation.

The rats had no experience in dealing with such a situation.

A human warrior with a short axe on his waist stepped onto the rat's bathtub warship, with an indelible excitement on his face until such a scene came into view.

On the dark and strange round ship, countless rats raised their heads together at this moment, and those pairs of scarlet eyes that were too numerous to count appeared in front of them at this moment.

The excitement on his face suddenly froze.

The Western Expeditionary Force, who had never fought a serious naval battle and had never had formal contact with humans, would be a little confused.

What are these guys?

Why did these sacrifices dare to charge at them?

The rats of the Western Expeditionary Force had such doubts.