Chapter 560

On the wide river, because of the continuous rainfall in the north, the water surface is much higher than before.

It used to be a natural river in the north of the mainland. It went all the way to the East. Since the Empire started to build the Kaspersky defense line three years ago, it spent tens of thousands of labor and nearly one million gold coins. It took two years to widen the original river channel more than twice.

In particular, the entrance to the sea on the east side was more than three times widened, making this less famous river on the mainland an artificial river with the transport capacity second only to that of the Lancang Grand Canal.

And all this is just for the needs of war.

One by one, the imperial sea soul class ships are driving slowly. Because there was not much wind, the ship was very slow, and the three masted sail was the traditional white of the Loran Navy, and at the top, the Empire's thorn flag was flying.

In order to be able to run in inland rivers, the two sides of the hull below the waterline are equipped with rollers in the water.

On the South Bank of the Grand Canal is one of the three fortresses of the Kaspersky line, the eastern fortress.

There are storm troops of three divisions stationed here, and over 100000 local garrison troops mobilized to the north.

Then the canal became a strong barrier to the north and east of the Empire!

This fortress is a little smaller than the main fortress guarded by general Rostock in the middle of the Kaspersky line, but it costs more here.

In order to make this artificial river a complete part of the eastern Kaspersky defense line, the fortress was built on the South Bank of the river. In addition to serving as a moat, the river would become a natural barrier for the Imperial Army on the south bank in wartime!

If the army of criminals wants to cross the river. It's going to be a very difficult job: if they try to use ships, then the Imperial Navy can drive directly into the river from the eastern entrance to defeat the enemy on the water!

The Imperial Navy has been operating for many years, and has experienced so many expeditions in Nanyang. On the water, it is absolutely a trustworthy force! The charges may be powerful, but even Dewey doesn't believe that these orcs can build ships better than humans.

And if the other party wants to build a bridge, it is even more a work that can not be completed! The navy can easily destroy the pontoon with strong ships. Even... We can let some criminals cross the river first. Then destroy the bridge, then the only outcome of some criminals crossing the river is to be besieged and annihilated.

It seems that the criminals also understand the difficulty of crossing the eastern defense line. At the beginning of the war, the wolf cavalry of the criminals also saw an outpost coming to the other side of the river of the eastern defense line, but soon retreated. According to the recent military situation, it seems that there have been scattered activities of those monster races on the other side. However, the other side has been slow to attack.

It's the central landlord's fortress. It's been a lot of fighting.

The orcs clearly understood the fact that they would rather use their flesh and blood to hit the strong city defense of the central main fortress than try to attack the water defense.

Now, after days of heavy rain, the river is rising. Making the river more open, the Empire sea soul class large warships can easily enter the river, even in a relatively wide area. Can also gather into a complete naval battle formation!

At the moment, the third detachment of the East China Sea fleet of the Loran empire was driving on the river towards the eastern fortress. A total of 23 large sea soul class ships were loaded with strategic materials from the south of the Empire.

Because of the huge consumption of inland transportation, after the beginning of the war, the Empire's huge Navy took on the role of the Empire's maritime transportation team. Numerous ports in the southern coastal areas of the Empire gathered all kinds of materials from the south of the Empire: weapons. Grain, pay, armor, winter clothes, etc. Then the Imperial Navy would take the loaded ships all the way north along the eastern coastline, and then drive inland from the entrance of the canal land. Transport to the frontier fortress.

Although these days, the North continued to appear in the history of rare continuous rainfall climate. But this autumn, in the south of the Empire. However, it still has an exciting harvest. It can be said that the strong national strength of Roland empire made human beings have war potential far beyond the criminals. With the help of the huge rear supply, human war supplies can be continuously supplied to the front.

This fleet carries a batch of winter food. In order to increase the transport capacity as much as possible, these large ships are only equipped with necessary sailors and very few combat personnel, and most of the cabins are used to carry goods.

On the deck, the sailors began to wind up under the order of the boatswain, while some combat personnel were staring nervously at the North Bank of the river.

"Take it easy, rookie." An old sailor came to take a picture of an obviously young man and said with a smile, "I've been to this river six times. The army of the monsters could not cross the river. They could only circle back and forth on the north bank. I'll tell you, we're on the water. It's safe. They can't rush into the river

With that, old water, whose clothes were covered with rust, pointed to the door by door catapults covered with canvas on the deck and said with a smile, "look! See those big guys? These things are amazing! If those monsters dare to get close to the shore, they'll shoot them... Bang

He opened his hands and made the movement of a catapult.

At this time, the people on the lookout tower suddenly bowed their heads and cried out: "there is an enemy on the north bank!"

This cry immediately alerted the people on board, and many sailors immediately ran to the right side of the ship.

Soon someone yelled, "Hey! Look! There? There? Those monsters are there! Ha ha, it's the same as the legend

Most of the sailors were not afraid, pointing to the north bank, laughing and pointing.

On the north bank, behind the river slope, black shadows came out of the bushes one by one. One by one, the giant wolf with long brown hair bared his teeth to the human fleet slowly driving on the river tens of meters apart. His mouth was full of hostile whimpers.

On the wolf's back, the wolf cavalry in crude but hard armor, green eyes under the helmet, staring coldly at the human sailors on the ship.

The river course separated by tens of meters makes the wolf cavalry unable to attack the ship. No matter how strong the giant wolf's jumping ability is, it is absolutely impossible to jump tens of meters to the ship.

These wolf cavalry did not use bows and arrows, they just appeared in rows on the river. Cold toward the human ship cast Morian eyes, some are pulling out their own long knife, to the mouth, spit out the scarlet tongue, gently licking the blood on the blade.

Some newlyweds on the ship who had never seen this scene could not help changing color when they saw the appearance of those monsters. But those old sailors who had experienced this scene many times comforted their companions one after another: "don't be afraid. We're on the water. They can't help it! Unfortunately, the number of them is too small, and last time we used them, these guys ran so fast that the catapult couldn't kill them in large quantities. Otherwise, they would have been so close to us that the captain would have ordered the firing. "

More unscrupulous sailors even made some humiliating and abusive actions to the other side.

"Monster! Come here! Are you afraid of water! Ha ha ha ha

"Come on. Jump down and take a shower

"Oh, I love your fur! I really want to skin you to make a new overcoat! "

Listening to the sailors' scolding, the officer didn't stop it immediately. At present, many soldiers have been killed in the front of the war. There is a deep hatred between human beings and these monsters. It is normal for sailors to act.

After letting the subordinates vent for a while, the sailor leader came over. He kicked a few people's buttocks and yelled: "don't play! Get to work!! Come on, come on! Get back to your posts! "

At the helmsman's position at the stern of the ship, a middle-aged man in the uniform of the commander of the Imperial Navy put down his telescope and took his eyes back from the north bank. This is the captain of the ship. He frowned, suddenly looked at the chief mate beside him and said in a low voice, "I think it's unusual."

"No wonder. They can stare at us from the shore The first mate muttered, "Captain. We've seen it several times. "

"But I think it's different this time." The captain frowned, his brows tightly together: "remember? We saw the enemy on the shore last night. Now it seems that they have been following us all day and night on the shore. This has never happened before... "

The chief officer thought about it and said, "it's almost to the fortress anyway. These guys can't make any difference, my Lord."

The captain pondered for a moment: "be careful. Send my order, let all combat personnel stand by! Catapults in position

The Chief Officer immediately stood in silence and gave a military salute. He was about to answer the call, but it was at this time!

Boom!!

A roar from the bow! The roaring crash came from underwater! Before the sailors on the boat could shout out, they felt a violent shaking at their feet. Some of them even stood by the boat and fell into the river.

The violent shaking of the hull, let a dangerous shadow in everyone's heart!

"My Lord, we are on the rocks." A boatswain who was used to walking on the sea immediately came to report. The captain immediately roared, "stupid! We're not at sea! This is the inland canal! Man made! How could there be a reef

Just finished, I heard another "boom"!!

This time, the sound was louder than just now. The ship was shaking violently. Yes, the captain's body staggered violently and nearly fell down. He held the rudder tightly and roared, "what happened?"

"We hit something. It's underwater. It's in the bow!" A sailor quickly came to return, but then there was a panic in front of him.

"Down! There's something under the water

"My God! It's a living thing! What a big shadow

"Ah! On the right side, too! "

There was a lot of shouting. At this time, the ship made a terrible sound of broken wood! With a violent shaking, an officer covered with oil under the cabin ran up and cried in a panic: "my Lord! Our cabin is flooded!! The drainages are all over! Next... "

"Send someone to drain! Asshole! " The captain scolded quickly: "drain! Let your people drain! Shut up the leak! The leaking cabin will be closed immediately!! son of a gun! Do you get on the boat the first day!! Do you want me to teach you these things? " Before he finished, he suddenly felt that the vibration under his feet had stopped abruptly, which was a short silence. As if with a hint of danger. But the calm lasted for a few breaths, and soon, in the yelling of the captain, the ship suddenly tilted to the right side“ What's going on? What's going on! " People cried out in panic, but the ship still seemed to be pushed up slowly by something underwater! The hull tilted so heavily that the bottom of the right side of the boat was almost out of the water, and the whole bottom of the right side of the boat was above the water! And the deck is heavily tilted. A lot of people didn't come to catch things, and soon they slipped down to the other side. The sound of plop was incessant, and many sailors fell into the water with exclamation. The captain seized the rudder of the ship and was about to say something. At this time, finally. Several huge black shadows, from the right side of the hull, slowly surfaced! The shadow grew higher and higher, and finally showed the whole face to the panic people on the ship! The captain felt that he was covered with shadow. He looked to the right in surprise. Subconsciously whispered: "God! What are these things? " This is his last word. Boom!!! Finally, the sea soul class ship was overturned by the whole ship, and the hull was overturned. Countless people fell into the water and the ship was thrown upside down! On the surface of the river, several monsters, seven or eight meters above the surface of the water, opened their mouth of fear and roared in horror!! On the river, chaos! Dewey felt like he was asleep, deep, deep. It can be said that since he became a magician. It seems that he hasn't slept so soundly for a long time. Magicians can use meditation to restore their mental power, which means that most magicians do not need to sleep most of their lives. Nearly one third of their lives are spent in bed. For magicians, this is a waste! Dewey's strength is growing rapidly. As his strength grows, he will sleep less and less. Most of the time. He uses meditation instead of sleep. If you meditate for three hours every day, you can not only exercise your mental strength. It can also save sleeping time to do other things. But this time, the sweet feeling of sleep, even in the unconscious state of the dream, Dewey still felt a long lost sense of comfort. What he didn't know was that his body was changing little by little in his sleep“ Sleep, boy, sleep... "Chris smiles and stands in front of Dewey. Dewey is as quiet as a baby. Chris's fingertips were still covered with blood, and on Dewey's chest, on the left side of his chest, there was a huge hole! The exposed part, a Yin red heart, was beating slowly and once... Bang! Bang bang! Bang bang! Bang... Chris took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled. In his mouth, a faint milky gas spewed out, and soon surrounded duvet's body. The Milky gas turned into a mass of water, and covered duvet's body in it. Then Chris reached out and gently pushed the skull like claw into Dewey's chest. His fingertips have been pinched on the beating heart! Bang bang! Bang bang! Bang Bang