Chapter 265 Reaction and Defense

Sky Island No. 3, March 20, the military camp was stationed on Kong Island.

A wall made of wood and earth surrounds the central camp, and there are many musket towers. The thick wall and temporary wooden houses scattered around surround a small, clear lake in the center.

All the trees in a radius of 500 meters around the camp have been cut down, and a canal has been dug leading outside the camp, where there is a smaller man-made pool. Fawns with young antlers and some rabbit-like animals with fluffy fur were drinking water leisurely beside them, occasionally looking at the soldiers standing guard in the musket tower not far away.

There will also be predatory creatures that pounce from the forest or the sky and take away creatures that are not vigilant enough.

In the camp, an exclusive helipad for docking and maintaining aerospace ships has been planned, and three aerospace ships are currently moored there as a garrison for the Ring Island.

"The patrol ship pilot is ready! After the inspection is completed, you can take off!"

The pilot wearing a special pilot's cap shouted to the ground crew next to him, for fear that he wouldn't hear.

Ground crews are checking one by one whether the modified gunboat meets the take-off standards.

The gun pod carries six people. Each 75mm ship-borne muzzle-loading gun is manned by three soldiers who have undergone preliminary training. Most of them are composed of the gun crew originally responsible for the 30mm infantry small-caliber support artillery, and an additional accelerator is added. Cannon rotating loader.

After each firing, the gun needs to be rotated on a mechanical base in the cabin, and the soldiers clean the gun bore and then reload it.

One person adjusts the mechanical base, one person cleans the barrel, and one person aims and shoots.

During this period, two Seagull-class carriers were officially converted into artillery cruisers with three artillery pods and two ammunition pods.

The five-section Seagull-class carrier ship has an ammunition pod between every two artillery pods to facilitate ammunition supply.

The self-weight of the cruiser and the existence of the aerostat engine can very effectively offset the recoil force of the 75mm gun, which is not too large, so that the continuous firing of the artillery will not have a great impact on the flight attitude of the aerostat.

However, it is unlikely that the continuous firing of the six 75-mm guns on the ship will not have any impact on the flight attitude.

It can only be said that we try our best to let the soldiers get used to a relatively stable artillery platform during training, and let the pilots control the flight stability of this floating ship.

After preliminary training and test firing exercises with a large number of artillery shells, they were able to maintain a 40% hit rate within 400 meters, and a pitiful 20% hit rate as far as 800 meters.

As for your question about where to go to test-fire and get the results...

There are quite a few floating stone veins on the very large sky island, and these floating stone veins are home to a large number of creatures - not all of them can fly.

The territory does not have enough manpower to control the floating stone veins, but this does not prevent them from using ultra-long-range firepower to practice shooting accuracy from time to time while weakening the number of monsters.

The driver glanced out the window. The ground crew in orange vests were communicating with the running officers.

"grounded, new orders have arrived."

The officer waved his ground command flag and shouted to the driver.

"Supreme order, all armed aerospace ships in the territory take off with all anti-ship weapons and prepare to meet the enemy."

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"Relax, they can't catch up with us yet."

Jiang Liu comforted Hackett, who was still a little panicked next to him. The pile of moving bones did look a little scary. After seeing it a few times, he was no longer as shocked as the first time he saw it.

The aerostat produced by the territory is not fast, but compared to a group of short people, it is still quite tall.

The cargo-modified Seagull class is not fully loaded, and its speed is further improved compared to the fully loaded 4km/h.

Jiang Liu probed and looked at the twenty-four floating ships built from skeletons behind him. The gray-white skeletons were mixed with lavender stars, and there were also some high-efficiency floating stones taken directly from living things. Resonance cavity.

They do not adopt a fully enclosed structure like normal aerostats, but adopt an open structure, only building a strong skeleton.

There is a large number of sword-wielding skeleton soldiers huddled inside this large shelf, and a platform is set aside on the top for a white bone structure that can perform long-range throwing attacks. A group of skeleton bows and arrows stand at the feet of the white bone structure and feel that they will break at a touch. hand.

In this way, the Bone Battleship has the ability to conduct long-range attacks on closer targets.

Jiang Liu smacked his lips, feeling a little emotional.

Also, these skeletons have no flesh at all, so there is no need to worry about being discovered by cloud-dwelling creatures. Naturally, this lower-cost shipbuilding plan can be adopted.

Predatory cloud-dwelling creatures only like to eat meat and have no interest in bones... The only thing that can arouse their interest is the small amount of floating stone contained in the bones.

The bite was really hard and tooth-piercing, and you might get beaten. A few predators gave up on this behavior after trying it for a few times.

Chasing the merchant ships were twenty-four bone warships that were only slightly shorter than the Seagull class. The combat effectiveness of these bone warships was unknown, but their numbers far exceeded the territory of only eight Seagull class aerostats.

There is definitely a fighting force that cannot be underestimated here.

No wonder the other party chose to follow their trail. Jiang Liu sighed and licked his chapped lips.

The refitted cargo ship has not been replenished with water resources for some time, and the water tank on board has been exhausted. He and Aina's water-making skills are all relied on to maintain the fresh water needs of the 12 people on the ship.

He also had to squeeze out some water to moisten the tree species on board to ensure that they would not die of thirst.

However, his lord should also see the information that he had entered a state of engagement. He maintained a straight route so that the guards could find their position better.

He hoped that the airship that would save him would come sooner, after all, the ship was carrying a large number of seeds.

He looked up and looked into the distance. A red and yellow interwoven flag on the steel frame was waving at him.

He knew what that meant. The flag bearer was conveying information to him through the flag.

‘Elevate’

Jiang Liu changed the state from advancing to ascending. The forward speed of the entire airship decreased, and the bone warships chasing him from behind also became excited and gathered closer.

The ship rose to leave an attack channel for artillery fire.

The steel projectile drew a significant trajectory in the cloud, and the sound of the supersonic projectile tearing the air spread to the ears of the merchant ship captain along with the split cloud.

Four air-breaking sounds rang out in succession.

The first round of calibration fire landed on the skeletal warships that were hunting the merchant ship in the distance.

Steel crushed bones.