Chapter 304, Shipwreck Ruins
The harsh sound came from the collision between battleships.
To be fair, neither human battleships nor rat battleships are that petite.
Sixty-eight meters in length, eighteen meters in width, and eight meters in height, this is the data of a human warship, like a square suspended on the ocean, and such a warship, at this time A total of thirty-eight ships gathered in this sea area.
This is a very good data. Perhaps due to the existence of mages and spells, the industrial capabilities of the residents of these islands are obviously stronger than the era they live in now.
It's just a pity that the enemies they face are a bit more exaggerated.
The radius is twenty and the height is six meters. These are the data of the rat warships. They are inferior to human sail warships, but the fact that they are made of all steel and the number and size of the fleet make up for this.
The number of rat warships is nearly double that of human sailing warships, and the number of rat warriors accumulated in them is almost double the number of sailors in these human sailing warships.
At this moment, the two sides collided with each other in an almost tragic manner.
The war on the ocean reached its most barbaric moment, with expensive warships colliding with each other in the most primitive manner.
Such a scene comes from Sheng Qi's persecution.
At the beginning, the two sides were still chasing each other on the sea. Relying on their flexible maneuverability and familiarity with this sea area, the sailing fleet wanted to drag this war into their rhythm. I was in a chase on the sea.
It’s just that Sheng Qi is more decisive than they thought.
The Skaven’s western fleet ignored the human fleets from beginning to end, but moved forward on its own, even crossing the island where a chaotic battle was taking place. Sheng Qi’s attitude towards humans They conducted an extremely effective misdirection, and his target was not these scattered islands and reefs from beginning to end.
What he wants to attack is the hurricane island in front of him, this huge island. He wants to spread the flames of war to the largest home of the residents of this island.
By the time the island residents noticed this and reacted, Sheng Qi had already led the Western Expeditionary Force through the island and reef belt.
They are very close to the island.
This is not an easy task, especially when the rat people are not familiar with this sea area.
Reckless advance.
Conglomerated reefs, eddies, and complex sea conditions are all obstacles to the Western fleet approaching Hurricane Island.
In this process, the special hull structure brought a lot of help to the Western fleet.
The bathtub-shaped hull brings huge buoyancy and extremely shallow draft. Rat-man warships can pass through most sea areas with reefs without any hindrance. These bathtub warships can even communicate with people under the sea. , those dangerous reef collisions are not qualified.
Excellent passability.
Of course, it is not without its disadvantages. When facing the vortex, the performance of the rat warships is not that good. The power output by the slave rats is still not strong enough. Facing those powerful in the ocean The vortex was played with like a toy and it was difficult to break free.
The situation is both good and bad, not absolute, and has caused considerable losses to the Western fleet.
Several more leaky rat warships appeared, and some stopped and started to rotate spontaneously somewhere on the sea.
As the commander of the Western Fleet, Sheng Qi didn't feel anything about this. He excitedly urged other members of the Western Fleet to continue moving forward, with a fluttering red flag hung high.
Inspired by the human fleet and his own thinking, Sheng Qi easily expanded a branch of the Rat Man Semaphore, relying on flags of various colors to command the huge Western fleet.
It is too simple compared to humans' perfect regulations that are complex enough to transmit a large amount of information, but it is enough for the Skaven's Western Fleet.
The Rat Man is not the one who should be worried now.
Not long after, the human fleet returned. They no longer stayed away and pulled the rat warships, but took the initiative to greet them.
Many attempts have been made by the human fleet to pull away the Skaven's Western Fleet, but it is obvious that it is the Skaven who are taking the weight now, and it is also the Skaven who have the initiative.
For Sheng Qi, even if all the rat-men warships in his hands were destroyed and stranded on the coast of the huge island in front of him, it was not such a tragic price. Soon after, a steady stream of rat-men The battleships will be replenished again.
This is not worth hesitating, and for the residents of these islands, are they willing to have the hot flames burning on their homes?
Ever since, such a scene happened.
In front of the coast, the warships of both sides collided with each other in the most rude and barbaric form. It was a boarding battle.
During the collision, the Rat Man's bathtub warship did not show the strength that an all-metal ship should have. In the harsh sound, the first thing to twist and deform was often the bathtub cast from these metals.
It is not surprising that although the island residents' sail warships are made of wood, they have multiple structures and complex supports. Although the rat men's warships are all made of high-quality steel, they only have a thin layer. The hull of the ship.
It can even be said that in such a collision, the island residents' sail battleship completely crushed the rat people's bathtub battleship.
However, the competition in the boarding battle is not entirely about the quality of the warships on both sides.
In the surging waves, beams of illumination were raised into the sky. The world suddenly became brighter, and a collision was about to happen.
The harsh sound is the sound of metal twisting and deforming.
There was also a sudden violent shock that almost made everything fly into the air.
There is not much good news. The twisted and deformed battleship of the Ratmen is firmly embedded in their battleship, and the two sides are probably inseparable for a while.
The boatswain immediately started to organize the ship. No, that was not the boatswain, that was the first mate. That’s right, he was no longer needed at the helm in such a bad situation.
Originally there were vats of wine on the deck, which was emboldening, but it would be too bad not to be able to drink even a sip of wine before dying.
But damn, now all that wine is probably fed to Poseidon. Although this is not a bad thing, maybe Poseidon will protect us after accepting such an offering, but I still want to take a sip first. .
The first mate, who had a beard and wore a tight and dirty aristocratic dress, still held his brass telescope in his hand. However, the brass telescope was somewhat deformed during the collision.
Shout loudly.
I really want to hear what he is talking about, but the guys around me are making a lot of noise. Damn it, they are the newcomers who just boarded the ship a month ago. These guys really don’t understand the rules. The boss above When speaking, you must never contradict someone.
He was thinking dissatisfiedly, but he also unconsciously listened to what they were shouting about.
A few dark-skinned young people were shouting loudly, talking about the boatswain. Finally, someone finally knew where the boatswain had gone. The unlucky guy was knocked off the battleship by the flying wine barrel. He was probably on his way to see the Poseidon now.
The look of the unshaven mate was already killing people, and the newcomers who didn’t understand the rules were still making noises.
He puffed up his chest unconsciously, hoping that the first mate would not see him.
At this time, a rat man had climbed up along the place where the two warships intersected. The thin guy looked at everyone on the deck with scarlet eyes, but what greeted him was a brass telescope that fell heavily.
At this moment, the last sentence of the first mate's words was finally heard clearly.
"The brave ones are the ones who can return to the sea!"
The chaotic battle began.
A large number of rat warriors, these pitiful guys with skinny bones, climbed up towards the human fleet.
The situation in the war was chaotic, especially when the Great Claw Priests began manipulating their big toys again.
There is no worry about accidental injury, and the kerosene barrel is thrown from almost zero distance.
The jet-black and sticky black oil spattered, turning the scene into a cruel hell-like situation almost instantly.
He remembered the first mate's last words and became a brave man.
Although the first mate was pulled down by a rat man carrying three spears shortly after saying these words, even the brass telescope in his hand was lost in the rat man's fight. No trace.
They were lucky. The rat priest who was going to drop the bomb encountered a malfunction in the trebuchet. Instead, the terrifying flames were ignited on the rat warship that collided with them.
But their luck is not good enough.
Because another rat warship stuck with them amidst a loud and sharp sound.
During the terrifying shaking, he flew high and fell into a pile of chaotic debris. He let out a painful cry and blood flowed from his forehead, but he was attracted by a small shiny pot. attention.
It's the boatswain's hip flask.
There was an expression of surprise on his face, and he held her tightly in his arms.
The boarding battle between the Skaven Western Fleet and the Human Fleet was extremely cruel and extremely chaotic. Battleships were intertwined with each other. The human fleet was trying to stop any Skaven ship with a decisive attitude. The battleship approaches Hurricane Island behind it.
And the Skaven warships are destroying them.
These expensive warships, in a very short period of time, became a huge continuous mass of ocean garbage while intertwining with each other.
Countless humans and rat-men fought desperately on this mass of marine garbage.
The rat warriors were very desperate. Perhaps they were tortured for too long by hunger, the harsh environment, the harsh bells, the unpleasant stench, and diseases. Or perhaps they had to deal with another new item. Having a relationship with simple things is such a strong fighting spirit.
On this ocean, there is no way out for them.
Well, maybe it’s that simple reason.
The reasons on the human side are equally straightforward. They will never let the rat people take another step forward. If they step back further, they will be home. In other words, if they push them further, they will have no way out.
Fighting, fighting, blood shed, corpses falling from the battleship.
Roaring, neighing, trying everything he could, he was unwilling and unable to take a step back.
The chaotic war has been going on for a long time, so long that both the Western Expeditionary Force and humans have thrown all the cards in their hands.
In the end, humans won, relying on the continuous arrival of human warriors in this piece of ocean garbage or shipwreck cemetery, and relying on the small sailing ships that continued to merge into this shipwreck cemetery.
This was a difficult victory, by no means easy. Both sides suffered heavy losses, including countless dead island residents and countless dead rat warriors.
The human side did not completely clear out the rat people in this shipwreck cemetery. In this chaotic ruins, this is a difficult thing to do. The poor guys who survived , those hungry rat people hid in the dark corners of the ruins, and started eating amidst the rustling sounds.
Eat and tear apart the corpses left in the ruins.
These dead human warriors are not the only ones who have to pay the price. The human fleet group has been almost wiped out. They are all piled up in this twisted ruins, intertwined with the simple warships of the rat people. Together, it's almost impossible to separate.
Although the rat barbarians also paid a heavy price and buried almost all the rat warships together, this was not a too difficult problem for the rat people.
The overly simple structure and the overly cheap and abundant labor force significantly lowered the cost of the Skaven battleship.
Their return is almost certain, even if they encounter failure at this time.
On the edge of the ruins of the shipwreck, on a rat-man battleship.
Obviously, Sheng Qi did not escape from this cruel fight, but faced with the continuous reinforcements from the human side, the balance of victory inevitably began to tilt towards the human side. This kind of irreparable In this situation, Sheng Qi couldn't offer much,
but he was not unprepared for this situation.
A small boat was lowered from the rat warship embedded in the ruins of the shipwreck. It was manned by a team of rat runners. The movement was very fast and came from the capture of the human warship. As the Western Fleet The commander-in-chief, of course he will not really live and die with the Western Fleet.
This small boat was what he had prepared. After getting on the small boat, the rat runners began to paddle quickly, and the small wooden legs of the boat rushed out like a swimming fish.
The destination was the islands and reefs not far away. In the frontal naval battle and the collision of fleets, the rat people were defeated, but in the battle for the islands and reefs, the rat people successfully won.
That was the destination of Sheng Qi's escape. It looked a little embarrassed, but it was not a big problem. At least Sheng Qi survived and did not die.
From time to time, sea monsters want to attack Sheng Qi. This tragic war attracts many wandering sea monsters, but the battle flag carried by Sheng Qi can make these sea monsters retreat in an instant. .
Sheng Qi is also a lucky rat man with a gift from God.
Obviously, he who bears the name of luck will not die so simply.
On the messy deck, a guy pulled out the stopper of the silver pot in his hand and poured it into his mouth. It was a pity that nothing came out. There was a disappointed expression on his face. He had planned to wait until he survived. He went to drink wine from the silver pot to motivate himself, but he survived, but he didn't expect that there was no wine at all in the silver pot.
(End of this chapter)