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    Chapter The Battle of Elant Sea (6)

    "hurry up!"

    "hurry up!"

    "Everyone must row quickly, try to seize the northerly wind and move upstream as soon as possible, and get close to them. "One!  "

    "two!"

    "Three!"

    "Hey!"

    "one!"

    "two!"

    "Three!"

    "Hey!"

    ¡­¡­

    The boatswain loudly urged the oarsmen below. Under the urging of the chief, these men in their thirties shouted slogans one after another, quickly moved forward and swung the mast back, and the huge and slender battleship group turned to the side of the wind.  Drive forward.

    Lin Fenghan stood on the fifth-floor command tower of the flagship Hailan with a calm expression, looking straight ahead a few meters away, slowly walking out of the formation of many fleets heading towards the Hailan against the wind, and asked calmly: "Observer, the current direction of the wind, the wind  ?What is the average distance between our army and the enemy¡¯s battleships in front?¡±

    "Baron!"

    More than 30 observers on the seventh-floor watchtower looked ahead and said quickly: "The wind has now changed from northwest to northeast. The wind is gradually increasing, about level 2 to 3, and is slowly shifting towards the east. Our  The flagship is about 5 meters away from their northernmost ship. As long as we advance 4 meters to the west, we will completely overtake the rearguard of their northern fleet. Our flagship position is currently in line with their forward light warships!"

    "good!"

    "keep going!"

    "Observer, how long do you estimate it will take for us to pass their flank fleet." Lin Fenghan asked seriously looking at the fleet ahead.

    "About 3 to 5 minutes."

    "ah!"

    "Order the sailors to move forward at maximum speed and spare no effort."

    "yes!"

    ¡­¡­

    "The baron gave the order, the fleet is all forward, you row the warships with all your strength."

    "ah!"

    "No way!"

    "Are we rowing too slowly?"

    ¡°I¡¯ve been paddling for more than an hour and I¡¯m almost exhausted.¡±

    "Quiet!"

    The boatswain waved loudly, tiredly.  He said sternly: "Are you questioning the Baron's decision? Now the war has entered a critical moment. If our warship reaches the predetermined location first, we will win the war, so the opportunity cannot be lost."

    "From now on, I don't want to hear any complaints. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!"

    ¡°Everyone has it, everyone moves forward!¡±

    "yes!"

    "one!"

    "two!"

    "Three!"

    "Hey!"

    "one!"

    "two!"

    "Three!"

    "Hey!"

    ¡­¡­

    The sailors of the Hyland raised the canvas.  The mast rotates 78 degrees, and the observers on the five large masts quickly convey the wind direction data to the bottom. The bosuns tighten the sails at various angles according to the situation, and the helmsman at the rear operates the rudder firmly. The oarsmen below do not hesitate to  With physical strength, he rowed the sail with all his strength.  The three-sailed Hailan ran forward at a speed of 7 knots.

    The red flag embroidered with the letters "Full Advance" was constantly waving. Driven by the flagship Hailan, the main battleships Hailan and Clipper, which had a lighter hull at the rear, increased their forward speed and rowed forward with all their strength.

    At 1:20 p.m. on the 322nd, the oarsmen passed by and pushed forward desperately.  The flagship of the Hailan and the main battleship of the Elant finally advanced to a depth of 1 meter in the northern part of the Northern Combined Fleet formation. At this time, the Royal Northern Fleet and the Viscount Julali fleet, which were struggling to advance, were also close to the Elant fleet within more than 3 meters.

    "The north wind is getting stronger!"

    "Ha ha!"

    "Baron, the wind has increased. It is now level three to level four. Our wind meter is almost spinning."

    The observer on the mast platform happily shouted to Lin Fenghan.

    "Yeah?"

    "very good!"

    Lin Fenghan smiled and looked excitedly at the fleet that had surrounded part of the fleet and rubbed his hands: "Order the artillery to prepare for battle and the artillery to prepare. Aim at the enemy."

    "yes!"

    "yes!"

    Vera opened the window of the hull pavilion and looked at the fleet behind, frowned and said: "Baron, although the more than ten battleships in front of us are still more than 3 meters away from the enemy, the battleship line in the rear is too long, and they are not far away from the enemy.There are still four or five kilometers between the ship and the central area!  Isn't it too early to prepare for war now?  "

    "It is late!"

    Lin Fenghan raised his hand and looked at the strong wind blowing outside and the trembling flag, and explained: "Now the northeast has been hoisted. The wind is very strong. Our army will increase its sail to the southwest by three to four knots. With this  It takes less than 5 minutes to fully reach the battlefield. My line! The linear front configuration is to use distance and range to slowly output firepower, reduce the attack area and time of our warships, and accumulate less to win."

    "oh!"

    "Everyone enters combat mode. Secondary artillery fire!"

    Boom!

    Three 3mm cannons launched a wave of attacks on the battle group 3 meters away. Three fiery red shells hit the royal family's northern fleet four or five seconds later.

    Click!

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

    Boom!

    A 3mm shell hit the left tower of a medium-sized ship, breaking the mast of the medium-sized warship and shaking the hull. The other two shells fell into the waters near the surrounding warships, and the rising sea water splashed around them.  Deck of three light battleships.

    "Damn it, the distance is too far, you can't hit it!"

    "yes!"

    The sailors on the Hailan flagship discussed one after another. The five large battleships in the rear also aimed their cannons at the Royal Northern Warship and released the shells on the ship. 3 of the 15 shells hit the wooden planks, and the rest were all built in the water.  One light warship was directly hit with its hull and keel broken, and another was hit on the side of the hull.  The battleship began to slowly take on water.

    Lin Fenghan looked at the warship in front of him that was rowing faster, and said with a frown: "The gunners continue to prepare, we are going 7 meters forward to fire."

    "yes!"

    "yes!"

    ¡­¡­

    At the same time, they are equipped with trebuchets and ballistae.  The catapult's Northern battleship and the Viscount Julali battleship accelerated towards the north.  In the middle wing, Rofit looked at the huge fleet slowly encircling them from the east and south, and started the steam engines on the ship.

    The long chimney emitted black smoke.  The huge pulleys more than ten meters high on both sides rotated rapidly, leading the battleships to run towards the Kamikaze Express light battleship group in the east.

    "What kind of ships are those ships?"

    "yes!"

    "Why is there still black smoke?"

    "Too strange!"

    "Look at the wheels on both sides of this ship. They are actually rowing. They are also traveling in the crosswind, and they are running much faster than our ships."

    ¡°It¡¯s incredible!¡±

    ¡­¡­

    The noble fleet in the south direction looked at everything in front of them in surprise. The bosuns and captains looked at the rowers shouting hard below, and looked at the fast-moving ships on the other side, three to five kilometers away, and checked for uneven paths.

    "Everyone, listen!"

    "Change direction!"

    "Gunner, aim!"

    "Adjust your running position!"

    After advancing five or six hundred meters.  Rofitt stood on the deck and looked at the royal fleet approaching in the center 12 meters away, as well as the ships surrounding it 4 to 5 kilometers away in the southern area. He shouted and pointed to the rear.

    "Shoot!"

    "Shoot!"

    Boom!

    Boom!

    Boom!

    ¡­¡­

    ? Continuous sound of artillery sounded from the five steamships. More than twenty artillery shells flew out with an ear-splitting sound. The heavy shells hit the ocean and the battleships.  Huge waves burst from the sea.

    "ha!"

    "good!"

    "Hit!"

    When the water mist dissipated, the observers on the main battleship discovered that 7 out of 25 shells had hit the light battleship. The water splashed by three surrounding shells overturned a light ship on the ocean.

    "Well done!"

    "Let's keep firing!"

    "Do it! Kill these light battleships in front of us."

    "Um!"

    Solari rubbed his head and shouted: "Aim!"

    "shoot!"

    ¡­¡­

    Continuous shells were continuously released from the steam engine ship. Rofitt led the steam engine ship while retreating, and the Kamikaze Express behind it also followed the captain's order and rowed back.

    The large-scale naval battle has been going on for more than an hour, starting with one cannon firing and then more than a dozen cannons firing.  The bronze cannons of the Northern United Fleet also started their own attacks. The northern fleet and the southern fleet rushed towardsRushed away.  In this hour, the Elantra Navy damaged two warships, the Northern Alliance forces damaged more than 5 large and small warships, and more than 2 light warships sank.

    At 14:00 on the afternoon of March 22, on the Hailan, Lin Fenghan looked at everything in front of him excitedly and said happily to Vera: "Vera, our flagship heavy battleship in front has now penetrated more than 1 meter across the horizontal plane of their battleship group.  .The main fleet in the rear has been surrounded in a linear curve from the east. Most of the warships have reached the attack position. The enemy's main warships are 17 meters, 24 meters, 35 meters away from our division. 6 meters, ours  The warships are continuously 5 meters long, the enemy's forces are more than 7 meters horizontally from north to south, and more than 1 meter vertically from east to west. It's time to send out our commandos."

    "Um!"

    Lin Fenghan looked at the situation ahead, quickly moved his arm, and said loudly: "Order all the firepower of the battleship to be turned on and start shooting in full."

    "Order all warships in the rear to enter bombardment mode!"

    "Order all kamikaze ships to prepare."

    "yes!"

    "yes!"

    ¡­¡­

    Dazzling rays of light continued to emerge from the flagship of the Hailan. At this time, all four cannons of the Hailan were activated. The heavy battleship Hailan and the medium-sized battleship Clipper that followed behind them fired their own cannons at more than one Northern United Fleet ship in the north.  Cannonballs.

    "quick!"

    "quick!"

    "You guys hurry up!"

    ¡°Let¡¯s be stupid together!¡±

    Northern Squadron Commander Solaris yelled angrily at the sailors, and at the same time sent out boats and messengers on the ship. Solaris quickly spoke to the messenger: "Tell General Charesteas, our  The battleships to the north are being bombarded, I will use all my strength to stop their attack, and ask him to lead our main artillery fleet here quickly."

    "yes!"

    After Solaris finished speaking to the messenger, he spoke to the artillerymen on the ship: "Now our warships are constantly being hit by the enemy from long range, but we cannot sit still and wait for death. We immediately fire the ballistae and ballistae on our ship at 45 degrees.  , as long as one of our ballistae hits their warship, they will never give up."

    "yes!"

    "yes!"

    Many angry sailors who were beaten shouted angrily.

    Whoosh!

    Whoosh!

    Whoosh!

    ¡­¡­

    One after another, cannonballs and spears flew into the sky and fell into the ocean under the blow of the sea wind. In no time, some spears were inserted into the battleship Hailan 7 meters away. Three or four cannonball carriers were unfortunately hit by spear stones.  Hit, injured and fell to the ground.

    ¡°Brothers, cum!¡±

    "shoot!"

    "shoot!"

    "Blast those aristocratic minions who overestimate their capabilities to death!"

    "Kill them!"

    "Sink their ships!"

    ¡­¡­

    The sailors of the Elantra Navy roared excitedly and looked ahead excitedly. Hundreds of Northern Fleet warships were sunk by more than 2% in a distance of more than 3 meters, and some of the masts and canvas hulls were damaged.  Stay still on the sea.  The Elantra fleet, which discovered the Northern Fleet navy thirty or forty minutes in advance, took advantage of the opportunity and used its formation to severely attack the Northern United Fleet.

    Whoosh!

    Whoosh!

    Whoosh!

    ¡­¡­

    "Kill!"

    "Cum!"

    "Brothers, we have finally entered the effective range of the naval gun, fire!"

    "Fire!"

    ¡­¡­

    At this time, the soldiers of the Northern United Fleet, who were approaching the main fleet above the Elantra, were getting excited. The gunners took aim, the loaders loaded spears and stone bullets, and attacked the Hailan and other warships.

    "ah!"

    "We've been shot!"

    "There is a ballista!"

    ¡°The spears have pierced our canvas!¡±

    "Bros!"

    "Give them some color!"

    "Fire!"

    "Gunner, the hull of the ship was shaking too hard. Without stopping, our shells hit the water."

    "That's stupid!"

    "Re-aim and fire!"

    "yes!"

    "Kill!"

    ¡­¡­

    Boom!

    Boom!

    Boom!

    ¡­¡­

    Amidst the continuous shooting, a ship?One royal battleship was destroyed, sunk, or damaged by the Elantra bronze cannon battleship, but the ballistae and lances of the northern main battleship only destroyed the canvas, deck, and mast of the large battleship Hailan, without causing any damage to the hull.  Fatal damage, and within 7 to 1 meter, the power and accuracy of the bronze cannon reached its maximum level. After 15 rounds of firing, more than 3 of the remaining 60 warships of the Royal Northern Fleet had been sunk.  .

    "I can't beat him!"

    "We can't beat them!"

    "Our spears cannot penetrate their hulls!"

    "Our stone bombs can only shatter their decks, but cannot sink them. Their ships are too strong and huge."

    "Captain, let's retreat! This kind of naval battle is not on the same level. We cannot sacrifice ourselves in vain."

    "Yes! Boatswain, let's change the sails and leave the battlefield quickly! We are not fighting here, but dying!"

    "asshole!"

    "Don't leave your post!"

    "No return allowed!"

    ¡­¡­

    The results of numerous shelling naval battles made many royal sailors regretful after seeing the true power of bronze cannons. Some sailors had already raised the canvas, and the warships retreated in the opposite direction to the southwest.  Seven meters away, the fleet of Viscount Julali, which had already sailed, looked at everything in front of him at a loss and stopped at the rear and north of the royal fleet.

    To be continued at 22:2:36, August 22, 2013.  If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.  Mobile phone users please go to n
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