Alien Empire Total War - Chapter 246

boom–! ! !

A deafening explosion sounded on the sea, accompanied by soaring flames and a huge explosion. From the gorgeous flames of the explosion, shock waves that could be vaguely seen by the naked eye, the shock waves. It quickly spread to the surroundings, and the gust of wind also made the sails hanging on the surrounding battleships bulge.

“God—”

Bergman watched this terrifying scene in horror. When the faintly visible shock wave in the air rushed towards him, he hurriedly fell down subconsciously, just dodging the shock wave wrapped in a lot of wood chips, but Several sailors who were on the messy open deck with him, who were slow to react, were directly lifted up by the shock wave, blown off the deck, and fell heavily into the sea.

A few seconds later, Bergman stood up again in shock. He glanced back at the direction of the sailor who was blown away, and then looked at the battleship that was still sinking slowly in the distance, the heart in his chest. Constantly jumping violently.

It was a fifth-tier ship in the Enclave fleet. The deck of the poor fifth-tier ship was smashed through by a delayed-exploding blooming bomb from the sky. It fell into the ammunition depot on the lower deck and finally exploded. The blooming bomb The explosion also led to the explosion of a large amount of black powder stored in the entire ammunition depot. In just an instant, the battleship was blown up from the middle, and even the sailors on it were sent to the sky.

The shock wave generated by the explosion of the fifth-tier ship also spread to many surrounding warships. Many sailors who did not have time to respond were overturned and fell into the water just like the sailors in front. The battleship is okay, and it can consciously save itself when it falls into the water, but if it falls from a height of tens of meters, the whole person will faint on the spot.

It was one thing for the sailor to be lifted up by the shock wave, and what was even worse was that the sixth-tier ship closest to the exploding fifth-tier ship was directly affected by the explosion, and the power of the explosion smashed the side of the sixth-tier ship. A huge hole was opened, and the sparks also ignited the high-hanging sails of the sixth-tier ships, not to mention the unlucky sailors on the deck who were carried away by the impact.

It can be said that the sixth-tier ship was instantly paralyzed and lost its combat effectiveness.

An explosion damaged two warships, which made the Enklan sailors feel fearful, and subconsciously prayed to the gods they believed in, hoping that the gods would bless them and not die in the terrible explosion.

Admiral Zelos Bachmann of Enkland on the second-level flagship “Avna” also witnessed all this with his own eyes. He also showed a stunned expression, but soon recovered his calmness and continued to command the fleet and the fleet calmly. The approaching enemy ships engaged.

After the two sides got closer, Bachmann took the lead in ordering the flagship to abandon chain bullets and instead use grape bullets composed of countless tiny iron balls. This grape bullet is the same as the cannonball used by army artillery. Different names, so the role of grape bombs is also used to kill personnel on the deck of enemy ships.

Following Bachman’s order, the gunners dragged out grape bullets packed in sacks, poured the countless tiny iron **** into the muzzle, compacted them with a pounding tube, and ignited the leads—

“Broadside cannon–“

boom boom-

Under the dense cannon windows of the second-level flagship, a fierce salvo shot out. With the harsh sound of the cannon, countless iron **** flew out from the side of the battleship like a goddess scattered flowers, pulling up an invisible big net in mid-air. , shrouded an imperial fourth-tier ship that passed by them, and those small **** slammed into the hull of the fourth-tier ship, bringing up countless sawdust – not only the sailors on the open deck, but also some hiding The person behind the gun window was also shot over by the tiny iron ball, and let out a heart-piercing scream.

The surrounding imperial warships also immediately launched concentrated artillery fire on the second-level flagship with the largest target, but the solid bullets they fired could only leave one hole after another in the hull of the warship, and could not cause lethality to the warship itself. In contrast, the more intensive artillery fire of the second-level warships brought them more deadly and terrifying damage.

When the distance between the warships of the two sides was within 200 meters, the weapons of the two sides were not only the artillery attached to the warships, but the combat sailors also picked up the rifled guns distributed to them, relying on the side of the deck. The defenses fired at the deck of the enemy ship on the opposite side, the artillery of the warships below fired each other, and the muskets on the deck fired in unison, and the battle became more tense.

Everyone is preparing for the next pick-up battle. Even in the era of sailing warships dominating the sea, when the cannon fire cannot decide the winner, the two sides will still choose the oldest pick-up battle. Victory or defeat, as long as one side loses in the battle, the other side can take advantage of the situation to control the other side’s warships and increase its own strength.

However, because the Enkelan flagship was several meters taller than the imperial battleship, it was unable to participate in the battle, so the imperial battleship could only destroy the artillery on the flagship through constant artillery bombardment, or Punch a big hole.

At the same time as the two sides fought fiercely, the temporary fleet commanded by Perrin Sandy finally appeared on the periphery of the battlefield. Eighteen warships were divided into four directions and drove towards the center of the battlefield, although most of them were brigs and twins. It was composed of small warships dominated by dinghies, but the sudden appearance of a new force still brought a lot of psychological pressure to the Enkland Navy in the fierce battle.

Because the Enkelans soon noticed that the number of enemy warships on the battlefield had far surpassed them without knowing it, and their warships were mostly wounded in the previous artillery battles. A medium-sized battleship was even blown up in the middle, causing the other battleship to be severely damaged. The surviving sailors were unable to rescue them, and could only watch in despair as a large amount of seawater poured into the gap, and the battleship slowly sank.

With the addition of the Temporary Fleet, the situation on the battlefield that was still stalemate soon turned to the side of the Imperial Navy. The medium warships of the First Fleet were able to safely entangle with the enemy’s warships of the same rank, while the enemy’s small warships It was an exchange of fire with the battleships of the Provisional Fleet that later participated in the war.

The battleships in the provisional fleet are all survivors who escaped from the last naval battle. If it is concerned with the hatred of the Enkelan Navy, they are probably no less than Vitalig. Therefore, in the face of the enemy. After the ship, the sailors in the provisional fleet fought against the enemy ship with gnashing teeth, vowing to take revenge for the humiliation they had suffered.

On the surface of the Prodden Sea, artillery fire continued. Although they were surrounded, the Enkland Navy still had no idea of ​​giving up. They adjusted quickly, intending to forcibly open a passage and rush out from the encirclement.

But how could the Imperial Navy give them this chance? In order to keep them, the Imperial Navy used chain bullets again, tearing the sails on the Enkelan battleship, and at the same time closing the distance with the enemy ships, the sailors picked up the long The hook rope, swinging the charge, throws the hook rope on the deck of the enemy ship.

After the hooks and ropes were thrown onto the deck, the sailors pulled back sharply, and the hooks hooked the side of the ship. The Enkelan sailors on the deck of the enemy ship quickly reacted and drew their knives. The ropes were cut, but at this moment, several more hooks were thrown up, and one of them, when pulled back, slashed the ankle of a sailor who had just rushed forward, and his tendon was picked. Broken, the hapless sailor lost his strength and fell heavily to the ground, hunched over the injured position and kept screaming.

After the iron hook hooked on something, the imperial sailors used their strength to suckle, grabbing the rope and pulling behind them, trying to use the rope to shorten the distance between the two ships. At the same time, those with rifled guns also ran away. Go to the side of the ship, raise your gun and shoot at the enemy who wants to cut the rope with a knife.

“Prepare for a battle!”

As the distance between the two ships got closer and closer, more sailors ran up from the lower deck, and they also held various weapons in their hands, as if they were ready to go. Cheetah.

On the Enklan battleship opposite them, the Enklan sailors also ran to the deck, and they also held various weapons in their hands. The sailors quickly lifted several meters of wooden boards and placed them on the sides of the two ships. Then, someone in the crowd shouted first, and everyone roared and charged.

“Kill!”

“Jump over and slaughter those **** Enkelan pigs!”

The imperial sailors roared and climbed onto the side of the ship, rushing along the erected planks, and the Enkelan soldiers on the opposite deck (every battleship will be equipped with soldiers on the right track to deal with the naval battle) quickly raised their hands. Gun shooting, after they fired a row of salvos, the imperial sailors who jumped on the plank first were shot, screaming and falling to the sea from the side of the plank.

bang bang bang-

The soldiers on the empire’s side also fired back, and those soldiers in blue-blue military uniforms stood behind the ship’s side, firing ruthlessly toward the opposite side, covering their sailors rushing over.

An imperial sailor climbed onto the plank and rushed forward with a roar. A stray bullet rubbed the ends of his hair and flew backwards, just hitting the chest of a soldier who jumped onto the plank, who didn’t have time to let out a miserable sound. Called and fell back to the deck.

The sailor didn’t know this. With a rusty hand axe in his hand, he rushed over the plank in a few steps and jumped onto the deck of the enemy ship. A few seconds after he landed, an enemy shouted and attacked him, but He was severely kicked in the abdomen by the sailor, staggered backward and half kneeled on the ground. Then, the sailor raised the axe in his hand and slashed hard at the sailor’s neck. Blood spurted out instantly and splashed him. half body.

After cutting down an enemy, the sailor had not had time to pull the axe out of the enemy’s wound. He only felt a gunshot in front of him, and a bullet pierced his chest. Instead of disbelief, he widened his eyes and stared at a soldier of the En’s Army who was still smoking white smoke from his gun not far ahead. The soldier’s face was still a little immature, but he looked at himself as if Looking at a dead person, indifferent and ruthless.

Ah…dead.

The sailor thought to himself, he only felt that all his strength was flowing out of the gunshot on his chest, and then he fell back on the deck on his back.

Before the sailor lost consciousness, the last thing he saw were the feet of his comrades who were stepping in front of his eyes.

“kill!”

Imperial sailors and soldiers entered the deck of the enemy ship along the planks, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. In the brutal hand-to-hand combat, both sides used any weapons that could be called machetes, bayonets, axes, hammers, etc. used by them to attack the enemy.

In the history of human warfare, the most cruel one is undoubtedly the battle between cold weapons. Those sharp cold weapons can easily cut through the skin and muscles of human beings, release a lot of blood, and show the most brutal scene vividly.

This is something that hot weapons can’t do. Driven by gunpowder, a small insignificant projectile can easily take away a person’s precious life, and only leave an inconspicuous small wound on the dead body—— As a result, the post-mortem stress threshold for the murderer is significantly higher.

The bonuses provided by the system are not only on the army, but also on the sailors of the navy and their attached soldiers, so in the ensuing pick-up battle, the Enkland sailors, despite their home field advantage, are still defeated. The Imperials slaughtered to pieces, finally screaming and laying down their weapons and becoming prisoners of war.

Facts have proved that the imperial navy with the support of the system also has sufficient advantages in the battle. Sailors were either killed or captured, and even their ships were captured.

Two hours after the outbreak of the naval battle, only the second-level flagship “Avna” and several other medium-sized battleships were left with the enemy’s warships that were still resisting on the sea with a large number of wood chips floating. , the commander of the En army only hopes to break out of the siege with this flagship and return to friendly territorial waters. As for the other battleships that are still insisting~www.mtlnovel.com~ he has no time to take care of them.

However, the Imperial Navy obviously would not let them escape smoothly. Not only were the surrounding Imperial warships continue to shell the Avna, but also the bursting bullets from the mortars would fall on their heads from time to time. Because of the bursting bullets, The sails on the flagship were almost burned, which also caused the ship’s sailing speed to be significantly reduced.

The battle has been going on until now, and the hull of the Avna has long been devastated. The originally smooth and beautiful hull has countless potholes everywhere, and many gun windows and even the artillery behind it were also destroyed in the artillery battle. Destroyed, the sails and military flags hanging from the poles were almost burned, and dead sailors and damaged artillery wrecks were everywhere on the deck, blood mixed with sea water soaked the bodies of sailors.

Bachman, the commander of the En army, did not stay on the dangerous open deck. In other words, he did not dare to stay on it any longer. A bullet not long ago almost killed him. If his adjutant didn’t respond in time, Throwing him to the ground, blocking the flying shrapnel, he has long been inserted into a sieve by the shrapnel.

It is a pity that the adjutant who knocked him down died unfortunately, and even Bachmann’s fighting will also died with the death of the adjutant.