Chapter 267 Bombardment and Interception

Rotate the turret, clean the barrel, dissipate heat and reload.

In the cabin, three soldiers in gray uniforms surrounded a heavy artillery, repeating their own part of the work process in their minds.

And do their part of the work well when it is their turn.

There are twelve artillery groups like them, which jointly maintain the continuous firepower projection of the artillery cruiser.

"Fire!"

The shooter maintained the Eagle Eye Technique and aimed at a skeleton warship made entirely of skeletons through the mechanical sight attached to the 75 gun.

The distance is 600, and the angle is raised.

A gray-white mist burst out on the starboard side of the target he was aiming at, and several brackets were completely destroyed in the attack. The entire warship began to slowly adjust its posture to prevent the skeleton soldiers with no intelligence from accidentally falling through the gap.

"Fire completed, confirm the target is hit!"

The shooter shouted excitedly. This was his first shell to hit in actual combat. At the same time, he took out a notebook to quickly record the gun position data.

The pod is spacious for infantry, but in order to fire and reload muzzle-loading artillery in it, mechanical equipment must be used to rotate the turret to a certain angle after firing.

The parameter recording is to facilitate the return of the artillery after reloading... The shooter has also heard his immediate superior and the lord discuss the plan of using rear-loading artillery, but the other party rejected this plan because the technology is not yet mature.

Perhaps the rear-loading plan does not require frequent rotation of the turret, and can be quickly loaded, and there is no need for such complicated reset when aiming.

Their firing speed can be increased by more than 3 times.

The shooter thought so, put away the notebook, and looked at his colleagues who were ready to reload.

"Parameters recorded, reload!"

Unlike the observation of the impact point at sea by falling into the water, the trajectory of the shell cannot be tracked well in the cloud battle. Even if the shell passes by the target, the impact point cannot be observed. You can only rely on your own experience to confirm the trajectory, or confirm the parameters based on the hit feedback when the shell hits directly.

Calibrated shooting cannot be accurately observed, resulting in further decline in shooting accuracy at long distances, but once it is pulled closer to the direct shooting distance where the drop is not so severe.

Thanks to the multiple thickening of the stable barrel wall, the 75 gun no longer needs to replace the barrel after continuous firing like the 30 gun.

It can continue to fire until the end of the entire battle. The faster the loading speed is, the faster its attack speed is. Its firing rate depends largely on the physical strength of the loaders.

At a distance of 600 meters, a round of twelve rounds of volley.

Like musket shooting, the 75 gun does not pursue volley strikes. Each gun group can fire freely after confirming that the loading and aiming are completed.

In order to maximize the pouring of all the firepower of this gunboat.

The fist-sized soft lead bullet will break when it hits the target, turning into a burst of fragments to cause secondary casualties. The skeleton warships of the undead have also been destroyed by continuous long-range strikes just by passing through the two hundred meters with the lowest hit rate.

There were not only these two artillery cruisers on the battlefield, but also four rapid-fire carriers carrying infantry pods protecting them in the center.

The artillery cruisers could only aim at the target in front of them through their narrow field of vision, but the carriers were not disturbed by the smoke from the artillery, so they could look around the entire battlefield and be ready to deal with the incoming threats at any time.

"Report, a small flying object was found approaching quickly within a distance of 400 meters."

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"Awesome..."

Aina lay on the window sill of the merchant ship, enjoying the first air battle she had ever experienced in her life in this dangerous best viewing position.

She could understand those ghosts, and Aina had seen many of them. But on the other side, those long warships with a metallic texture in the sun were using ship-borne weapons that Aina had never seen before to fire at their pursuers.

Every time they fired, a cloud of white smoke was raised, and in the blink of an eye, the skeleton fleet in the distance dropped the damaged bone fragments.

It reminded her of the scene when she was a child watching hunters from the same village hunting deer in the distance with crossbows.

Compared with the dead souls, Aina inexplicably felt that these large frigates with metallic colors gave her a stronger sense of alienation.

The dead souls were still within her understanding, and they were the creations of magic and runes, but what were they? There was no glimmer of magic, only cold and silent machinery and a sudden flash of fire.

Aina thought about it, glanced at Jiang Liu behind her, and thought of the soldiers in the cabin.

Miss Geologist gave up thinking.

Since the other party was here to protect her, she prayed that these metal guys could win.

Although they were a little strange.

The merchant ship was still rising, but it had left the fighting distance between the two sides and entered a safer high altitude.

Standing beside her, Jiang Liu was able to leave the driving seat and replaced the bitter-faced Hackett to drive. Looking at the two new gunboats that had already lined up to fire at the target in front of the observation window, there was also some surprise in his eyes.

Before he set off, he had never seen the territory equipped with standard gunboats that could carry out long-range artillery.

I couldn't help but sigh at the speed of the territory's weapons replacement.

"Hey, something is flying towards them!"

Aina keenly caught that some gray-white flying objects were thrown away by the white-bone warship and did not fall into the sea of ​​clouds, but began to fly in a lower airspace.

Riding the wind, the target was aimed at the artillery cruiser that was pouring fire.

When they did not move at first, Aina thought these things were debris shot down by the metal giant.

"This fleet set out to protect us. We should not do anything that would put ourselves in danger."

Jiang Liu sighed. He also wanted to notify this territory defense fleet to pay attention to the enemy. But the spells he mastered were not very good at transmitting information at a long distance. If he rashly used a conspicuous notification method and caused the other party to turn the gun to attack his unarmed merchant ship, it would be a big trouble.

The guards would definitely change their formation to protect their merchant ship.

His primary goal was to evacuate to a safe position under the cover of the enemy. At that time, the initiative to engage in battle or evacuate would still be in the hands of his own fleet.

"It doesn't matter."

He comforted.

Aina set her sights on the other four "big guys" with a metallic texture that had not moved. When the gray-white flying object approached half the distance, they moved.

The four carriers quietly changed their formation, protecting the two gunboats that were firing behind them, and all the shooting windows were opened to deal with the high-speed flying units coming through the clouds.

The undead spellcaster controlled all the bone bats to rise from the sea of ​​clouds. He and the undead lord each controlled the actions of some flying units through soul connection - his lord's ability was not as good as his own, and some difficult operations could only be performed by him.

The undead lord standing beside him looked at his bone battleship destroyed by artillery, and gritted his teeth at the artillery cruiser reflecting gray luster in the distance.

This kind of battle where he could only be used as a target and let the other side tilt the firepower was finally coming to an end.

"Then, attack..."

The gray-white undead creature stretched out its wing membrane and rose up, like a falcon diving upwards.

What greeted them was a fast and fierce barrage interception network composed of a large number of shotguns.

The Undead Lord and the spellcaster were both slightly stunned. The fierce and violent attack that seemed to them did not actually damage the skeleton of the bone bat. Only a few bone bats had their skeletons damaged in this round of volleys.

The spellcaster was a little confused, and the Undead Lord felt relieved and secretly happy. It seemed that the only powerful opponent was the two long-range attack ships.

The skeleton of the undead creature can naturally avoid the impact of the projectiles of small long-range weapons.

It is their own world in close combat.

He has forgotten a very important point, that the bone bat has more than just a skeleton.

After losing the wing membrane, it is impossible to truly fly with the skeleton.

This is true for the floating rays, and the same is true for the bone bats.

At least, the current bone bats cannot.