Chapter 303, Chaotic Naval Battle
In the dark ocean, not far from the main continent, there is a huge island. On this island, there is the only maritime province of the Youyan Human Empire,< br>
In the past, for a long time, or rather all the time, this island had not faced any real threats, and it had even been a threat to those coastal provinces for a long time.
The island is huge enough, but slightly smaller than the human provinces on the main continent. The towering mountains occupy most of the space on the island.
Yes, towering mountains, the kind of mountains that rise like steep slopes. Obviously, this huge island is not formed by the countless coral reefs and guano, but by the sea. It was created by the movement of the lower crust and was born in this world.
However, this small world does not even exist in the state of a planet, but is closer to a flat pancake. Such a world will be divided into plates like a planet, and there will be a hot and scalding core driving it. Are the plates moving against each other everywhere?
It is unknown, but the peak on this island continues to grow higher.
On a long time scale, this is a young island.
Probably only a young island tens of thousands of years old.
This huge island was discovered during the era of great expansion by the Youyan people. Until now, this island has been occupied by the Youyan people.
The island also received a new name from that day, Hurricane, Hurricane Island.
Sheng Qi's island hopping strategy failed when facing this hurricane island. This huge island is the home of the Dark Eye human fleet active in this sea area.
Until now, Sheng Qi has not completely annihilated the ghost-eye human fleets wandering in this sea area. The gap in flexibility makes the Skaven’s Western Fleet, yes, with the current Western Expeditionary Force The composition, perhaps renamed the Western Fleet, would be more appropriate.
Reluctantly, the Chinese and Western fleets allowed the human fleets to attack the supply ships and logistics points that were constantly arriving.
Grinning his teeth, he pushed forward, passing through islands one after another towards the source of these human fleets.
Now, the Western Fleet has found it. From a distance, Sheng Qi glimpsed the huge island whose outline appeared in the darkness.
The island hopping tactic is obviously no longer cost-effective, and now it has reached the stage where a strong attack is needed.
Taking an island reef around Hurricane Island as the target, a large number of bathtub warships floating on the ocean, covered in darkness, began to speed up.
At the bottom of the bathtub battleship, where the gears are stacked, the crackling sound of the long whip cutting through the sky is so clear even among the various chaotic sounds.
The slave rat increased its strength in fear and struggled to pull the metal chain in its hand. At this moment, the complex structure of a large number of gears in the bathtub battleship began to accelerate. The bathtub battleship began to accelerate. Started to speed up.
The humans on that island noticed the arrival of the rat people. A brazier filled with fuel was lit, and an old sentry yelled and cursed loudly.
“Boy, hurry up, hurry up and get that thing!”
The residents of Hurricane Island are not that unfamiliar with the main continent. After all, the head of the island owner Shangdu also bears the title of great nobility conferred by the imperial royal family.
Communication often happens, although sometimes the party being communicated with is not particularly happy, because in most cases, such communication has another way of calling it, robbery.
A young guy came here rolling and crawling, holding a cloth bag tightly in his hand.
"I'm here, Old John, I got it!"
He waved the bag in his hand, and the limping veteran took it from his hand.
The owner of Hurricane Island got a lot of good things during this robbery, such as this, fairy dust.
A handful of dazzling colorful dust was thrown into the rising flames, adding a dazzling colorful brilliance to the black smoke brought by the flames.
This is a dazzling light even in the dark.
This fairy dust came from a cargo ship full of magic materials. It must be a precious thing, but the king of the island did not pay too much attention to it, but distributed it casually as a warning method.
After all, it is something stolen. No matter how precious it is, it is still something stolen.
The defenders on Hurricane Island noticed the colorful smoke and dust here. One by one, the sailboats were pushed down into the ocean. They spread their sails in the darkness and were about to rush towards the warning island.
It’s just that the rat people’s western fleet is coming faster.
The waves were surging against the reef, and a distorted and harsh sound was heard. Some impatient guys, regardless of the impact of the hard rocks around the island and reef on the warship, forced the bathtub warship to the coast.
Obviously, such a rude login is still a bit unpredictable.
The human defenders on the island had just grasped the rapiers and scimitars in their hands, and the rat people had already begun to swarm out of the bathtub battleship.
There is not much timidity. These island residents may have a certain relationship with the living environment. After all, the sea has always been so ruthless and capricious, so naturally these island residents who grew up in the sea are not Will lack courage.
Just having courage is of no use.
The old veteran raised the crossbow in his hand, and the arrow streaked across the sky, directly hitting a rat warrior climbing up the smooth cliff.
A scream appeared, accompanied by the panicked sounds of many rat men. Obviously, more than one unlucky guy was about to roll off the cliff.
This brazier that ignites flames and bursts out colorful smoke is located on the highest platform on the island.
How high can an island reef be?
Old John, the veteran with a broken leg, is the backbone of this place, there is no doubt about it.
Even though he was just an old man with a broken leg, a rough wooden leg replaced Old John's left leg, making him walk with a limp.
His rough palm reached into the small cloth bag again, and another large handful of colorful dust was grabbed and thrown down towards the brazier in front of him.
It seems to have triggered some special reactions. The excess dust caused a violent explosion, and the flames rose high, with colorful flames.
Such a scene was not safe. The withered white hair on old John's head was also ignited. The old man obviously had no expectation of this and panicked and slapped the flames on his head. .
A little more embarrassed.
A rustling sound appeared, a pair of red eyes appeared on the edge of the high platform, and the stooped dwarf mice appeared in front of everyone present.
The condition of these rat warriors is not very good, which is not surprising. After all, after experiencing such a disastrous voyage, it is really difficult to be in a good condition. They are thin, with skin and flesh sticking tightly to the bones, and they are carrying An unspeakable stench is a very common condition.
But it made these guys even more dangerous. After all, after experiencing a long period of torture, the rat warriors were on the verge of collapse and even repeatedly touched death, and these guys became more manic and dangerous.
Especially before boarding the island, in the bathtub warship, large amounts of blood mushrooms were dumped on the filthy hull, and piled high into a hill.
Every rat warrior before participating in the battle can receive a blood mushroom.
One blood mushroom is definitely not enough, but it can make these already manic guys a little more excited.
The rat people swarmed forward. Lame old John spat hard.
Raised the scimitar in his hand high.
"The spirit of the ocean is watching us, and the weak are not qualified to return to the sea!"
The two sides collided and fought with each other.
There was no suspense in the final result. After all, the number of warships that the rat people stranded on the shore of this island and reef was more than ten.
Old John's rough wooden leg was cut off by a sinister rat-man, and he fell to the ground. The rat-men swarmed forward. The tortured rat-men warriors were now very eager to bite flesh and blood. strong.
Obviously, what the poor old guy is about to experience may not be pretty.
Last minute.
A cloth bag was thrown high and fell towards the brazier not far away.
Colorful flames exploded on the island.
Soon after, the flames stopped, and many rat warriors survived, but they were ignited and rolled crazily on the ground.
Scenes like this appear in many places in this sea area. Sheng Qi is storming the ring of islands and reefs outside Hurricane Island.
This triggered a stress reaction among the residents of the hurricane islands. After all, after the fall of these islands and reefs, the flames of war would be officially ignited on their homes.
A large number of sailboats floated on the dark sea, and the towering lighthouse standing on the coast of Hurricane Island burst out with unimaginable light.
Those human fleets that roamed this sea area like wolves appeared in groups from the depths of the ocean.
The chaotic battle is about to begin.
It’s not that the rat people didn’t have anything new. In fact, some black kerosene was carried onto the trebuchet.
While digging for minerals in the rolling hills, some black viscous black oil was discovered by the rat people. Of course, this black oil will also be used in the war, but it is restricted to the rat people's excavation. The black oil that comes out is a by-product of coal mines and cannot be mined on a large scale, and it is also used by the swollen ratmen.
These black oils seemed a bit useless, until the war at sea broke out, and the priests of Big Claw dug out these unused black oils from the corners.
After all, among the characteristics of these black oils, there is one that is extremely suitable for warfare on the ocean.
Burn on the water.
The excited big-clawed priests eagerly urged the slave rats to speed up their actions. Buckets of black liquid were carried onto the trebuchet. With sharp and excited shouts, the buckets of black oil It was thrown towards the approaching human fleets.
The next moment, flames were ignited in both camps.
Countless fireballs attacked the Western fleet, among which several unlucky bathtub warships were penetrated through the hull. Seawater poured in and began to sink toward the depths of the sea.
On the other side, black oil filled the ocean. The rats' aim was not very good, but simply, these black oil barrels were malicious and did not require powerful aim to be effective.
The flames spread over the ocean.
Huge sailing warships broke through the flames and rushed towards the rat-men's western warships. The flames ignited on the sea did not have a huge impact on these human warships, but it had a huge impact on those floating on the sea. This is not the case for sailboats.
In order to surround their homeland, these soldiers volunteered to take sailing boats and rush to the island and reef belt where the two sides were at war.
But the ignited flame will not give in because of their courage and belief.
One after another, the sailboats became fireballs on the sea.
It turns out that these black oils are indeed very suitable for use in maritime warfare.
Using these black oils to kill people is as simple as using flames to roast fresh meat.
Such a picture is not beautiful, but the strange thing is that not many people really flinched. There are still a steady stream of sailboats rushing into the ocean and rushing out from the diffuse flames.
Why there is such courage may have something to do with the fact that the rat people show their glorious deeds unabashedly.
Well, even if Sheng Qi is not as manic as Rat Zhan, as a rat general, it is obvious that he will not be kind to those heretics.
Killing, destruction, cruel and terrifying sacrifices, these are the scenes that will appear in the areas where the rat people pass by. These scenes are not concealed, and are intuitive and temporary witnesses to all intelligent creatures in the passing areas.
Such a scene can easily destroy the thoughts of compromise towards the rat people who witnessed this scene.
Undoubtedly, the island residents chose to fight to the death with the rat people.
Not surprising, after all, according to ancient legends, every island resident will return to the sea in the sea breeze after death. This is a very valued tradition.
Death is not so scary.
But a problem arises. The rat people do not simply kill. Such strange and terrifying evil rituals are so chilling.
After being concocted by the rat people like this, is it really possible to return to the sea in the sea breeze after death?
Shuddering, such a tragic scene appeared. The boundless simple sailboat broke through the continuous flames and rushed towards the islands and reefs.
The war is not so orderly.
The wailing rat-men attracted many thick tentacles to rush out of the water, clinging to the sinking rat-men warships and grabbing the rat-men warriors who were running in terror.
The surrounding Skaven warships did not lend a helping hand to their colleagues, and the poor guys were still running wildly and shouting in despair on the warship that was gradually sinking into the sea.
There are more important things to deal with, the human fleet is approaching.
Another volley occurred.
Sheng Qi began to shout loudly. In the roar, there was no hint of avoidance and hedging without fear.
A collision is about to occur between the Skaven Western Fleet and the Human Fleet.
(End of this chapter)