Chapter 354: Queuing to Kill at Sea 4
As soon as the fireball in Nathan's hand left his hand, he saw the opponent's fleet being enveloped in a sudden burst of thick smoke.
There was no time to be surprised, huge collisions, shattering sounds and screams suddenly erupted on the ship, followed by thunderous sounds and violent shaking under the feet.
“What the hell, what happened?”
Nathan quickly held on to the railing on the side of the ship with his hands and concentrated on the deck. Just now he clearly heard someone’s voice. Screams.
A terrifying sight came into his eyes - on the deck in front, a bunch of incomplete people fell on it. Some were motionless and had no breath, and some were yelling and had not yet recovered. Some woke up from the fact that they were injured, and some were moaning with weak breaths. It looked like they were about to die. Scattered among their broken bodies were bits and pieces of human body parts.
"Father in Heaven!" "Devil!"
The deck was in chaos. Although there were not many dead and injured people, their miserable situation instantly shocked those who were lucky enough not to be injured. Some of the companions were trying to save their fallen companions, some were watching the battleship on the opposite side with their eyes wide open, trying to figure out its mystery, and more people were wandering around on the deck trying to find a shelter - they thought He was attacked by a powerful ballista.
Nathan's brain was quickly occupied by astonishment, his eyebrows were tightly knitted together, and his usual cynical expression disappeared without a trace.
There is no doubt that they were hit by the enemy, and the force of this blow was so powerful that it caused heavy damage to their own side in an instant and lost so much combat effectiveness.
"Damn it! What are the people below doing? Why doesn't the ship move?"
A frustrated voice shouted, it was the pirate leader Zod. As the commander of this fleet, the responsibility on his shoulders prompted him to wake up first. In the face of the enemy's unknown long-range attack methods, once the ship loses power, what awaits them will be further passive beatings.
Nathan then realized that the ship under his feet was no longer moving in the direction of attack, but was just drifting in the wind.
He hurried to the door of the rear cabin and looked down. Sure enough, the cabin was also in chaos, and there were many dead and wounded inside.
Nathan looked around and found that not only his flagship, but also the nine warships in the first row of the pirate fleet had been attacked, and all fell into varying degrees of chaos.
"Leader Zod! This thing attacked us!"
A minion pointed at the round iron ball in the corner and shouted.
His words attracted many people, who came to take a look.
“There’s one here too!” Not just an iron ball was discovered.
Nathan did not rush forward to watch. He vaguely felt that these iron balls were a bit strange.
"Ah! It burned me to death!" A brave pirate tried to pick up the iron ball, but he screamed in pain as soon as he touched the ball.
“Be careful, everyone, this thing is too hot!”
A hot iron ball? Is this what the enemy used to attack us?
Nathan was surprised. Could it be that there was some kind of powerful ejection device on the enemy's ship? But what's going on with that strange smoke?
Or... some kind of supernatural power?
While Nathan was deep in thought, the pirate leader Zod went down to the cabin with a curse and used a whip to force the rowers to restore order.
The pirate ship gradually started to move again, Zod asked his men to continuously send signals to other ships, and the fleet resumed its previous marching posture. Just when they were thinking about jumping onto the enemy's warship to find out what was going on, the northwest fleet on the opposite side was suddenly shrouded in thick smoke again.
No, come again?
The pirates were shocked, but after learning from the last time, this time they all lay down and crawled on the deck.
But this could not stop the arrival of the God of Death. With the whistling sound in the air, the iron balls kept bouncing on the deck, wantonly harvesting the lives on the way forward.
Not only the damage caused by the iron ball itself, but the wood chips thrown up by its impact also caused heavy damage to the pirates, and the ship was full of ghosts and howls.
The pirate fleet that had just resumed action once again came to a standstill.
"Zod!"
In the chaos, Nathan shouted the name of the pirate leader loudly, but received no response.
He remembered that Zod did not come back up after going to the cabin just now, so he immediately went down to the cabin to look for him.
However, all he found was the still warm body of the pirate leader.
“Leader Zod...has died!” The rowers who witnessed their leader being killed by a mysterious iron ball were already in despair.
Nathan gritted his teeth and said: "Okay! From now on, I will command this ship!" Now is not the time to feel sorry for this pirate leader who can only be regarded as a companion.
No one objected to his words. Everyone knew that this young man had an extraordinary status.
Nathan quickly ran up the stairs to the deck and shouted: "Captain Zod has been sacrificed. I declare that I will take over the command of the fleet. All the leaders are listening... Damn it, take cover!"
Before he finished speaking, he saw the northwest battleship directly opposite once again erupting into smoke and a sound like thunder.
Nathan immediately turned around and wanted to run and hide behind a pile of wine barrels not far away. However, he suddenly felt something flying past him, and then a huge impact came from his side. The force was so huge, it seemed like a giant hand slapped him, violently The shock wave carried his body and rolled continuously on the deck. After completing the last circle, Nathan's vision went dark and he fainted.
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Tirpitz carefully observed the effect of his own attack with a telescope, and he was very happy at the enemy's tragic situation.
The power of the 12-pound naval gun is huge. The solid iron bullet with a muzzle velocity of 477 meters per second when it comes out of the barrel flies with high temperature and huge kinetic energy. When it flies in front of people, the sound waves generated by supersonic speed will hit the person even if it does not hit them. The impact is so great that those who are too close to the flight path of the cannon will almost faint, or even suffer a concussion that will not heal for months.
However, there is still an imperfection, that is, the pirate fleet's offensive formation makes their bows face the Northwest Fleet, which results in the artillery having limited effect when hitting the hull, and many shells hit The enemy ship's hull was bounced away due to its inclination.
Do you want to change your formation? Tirpitz was confused.
Looking at the chaotic pirate fleet, Tirpitz finally made up his mind. Flags were raised on the masts one after another, and the fleet commander's orders were conveyed to each ship.
The six galleys at the rear continued to shoot at the pirate fleet, while the sailboat originally at the head began to turn to the left, outflanking the enemy, so that its sides were facing the side of the enemy ship. .
(End of this chapter)