Chapter 400

"Enemy ship group 5 kilometers!"

"The chief officer ordered level II combat readiness, cancelled the rotation, all deck personnel in place, Gunners in place, boatman in place, and non war personnel to avoid the bottom cabin!"

"Check the ropes on your waist! Check yours and the artillery! Asasin woman drives a boat wildly. Drake won't give you a penny if she is ground into meat patties by decoupled cannons!"

"Enemy ship group 3 kilometers!"

"Lower the assault boat and drag it!"

"Check the cable again and count the personnel at each position!"

"Lookout mark!"

"Left ship 2900, eleven o'clock, mark to confirm the DIAS. Right ship 2700, two o'clock, mark to confirm the dagama, flagship locked!"

"The enemy Portuguese Navy, 74 class III Galen battleship II, the battle line is formed, the spacing is 170, and the gap is five degrees left rudder."

"Support fleet found 8.2km away, class V Galen destroyer 4, no sign of reinforcement. The flagship confirms dagama, marking is over!"

"Open the gun!"

"Battle alarm on both sides! The artillery commander orders to open the gun door, fill with solid and chain bullets, and don't move without orders!"

"Enemy ship group 2km!"

"Positive fire alarm! Open the bow gun guard!"

"Sail order, tighten the wing sail! Withdraw the bow sail! Spread the foremast half sail! The longitudinal sail is full!"

"Artillery ready! Move the artillery to the bow gun cabin, repeat, move the artillery to the bow gun cabin, and the command authority on both sides will be delegated!"

"Enemy ship group 1km!"

"Bomb alert! Bump alert! Roll alert!"

"The hunter gets on the mast! The stern cabin is closed! Ready for battle!"

"Chief officer, face the war!"

Lorraine stood in his command post, the central guardrail on the third floor of the poop, the platform in front of him was the second rudder position, and behind him was the highest stern cabin upper deck of the whole ship, where the longitudinal sail group was used to turn the sail.

The orderly orders in the chaos were constantly coming into his ears. He just closed his eyes and listened. Even if he had entered the combat distance of one kilometer, he had no intention to open his eyes.

It has to be said that a complete and mature team is the treasure of every captain's dream.

From entering the battlefield, he gave only one order to his sailors to sing upwind.

It doesn't matter what to sing. Whether it's ruling Britannia or the little widow going to the grave, as long as the song can be passed on, so that the other party can find out the fact that valkiri entered the battlefield as soon as possible, his goal will be achieved.

A safe Pierce, an opponent who does his best.

"The flag ordered the lady to wait and see what happened," Lorraine said suddenly.

He finally opened his eyes, and the light in his pupils reflected two huge warships lying across the sea.

"Come and surprise me, Portuguese. Let me have a good look at how many men my big girl can charm..."

……

On the da Gama, the old lieutenant general Scolari's face sank like water.

A ship marked [monster] is approaching on the sea not far away.

But she doesn't look like a monster at all.

She has the moving fluid only seen in Scolari's life, sword bow, shield stern, slender hull, stable and elegant, and can't see the bulky posture of a giant ship.

The shipbuilder turned her into a work of art.

The flat hull is wrapped with metal components. Under the waterline is a red flashing copper sheet, and on the waterline is a dark silver armor.

These armour pieces are opened from the position of the bow to expand to both sides with a pleasant curve, holding up the sail, the cable, the thick mast towering into the sky, the thin and long bowsprit piercing into the sky

Those boring designers even hired professional sculptors to carve her bow, a moving goddess wearing gold helmets and armor and riding a silver flying horse.

The Pegasus is a half body, which melts into the ship body from the wing root. The long mane and wingspan feathers of the horse are fine and close to the side of the body like a dive, without any impact on the wind breaking at the bow.

The goddess is the whole body, sitting on the back of the horse with her waist straight. Her face is buckled with a visor that only shows her eyes. The curve of her body arouses people's reverie.

Her left hand grasps the reins, her right arm is held high, and her slender fingers are open, holding up the clouds and glow like a sacrifice.

The bowsprit and continuous sails were clouds and rays of sunlight, which pierced out of her head, making people vaguely see a magic gun through the clouds.

What's the name of that gun?

Kungunil!

Scolari narrowed his eyes. He didn't understand why he, a pure and devout Christian, didn't think of Longinus. Instead, he thought of the eternal gun of the God King in pagan legend.

Maybe it's because it's too beautiful

He shook his head: "destroying her feels like a crime against all mankind."

"The enemy ship has a distance of 800, slow down to 7 knots, and the speed is stable! Dagama is ready, DIAS is ready!"

At the foot came the final report from the rangefinder. Scolari nodded and whispered, "order the battle line to shoot."

With that, he felt sad like narcissism.

"Someone needs to teach these children something. For example, courage is a virtue, but it won't always be useful..."

Captain Angelo immediately saluted: "yes! The battle line is full of fire, on the port side, put it!"

720 meters, Portugal's battle line spits out flames!

The gun starts from the stern side gun of dagama and the bow side gun of DIAS at the same time, firing every five seconds, from back to front and from top to bottom.

They are marine beasts produced in the same draft as the lion. Each side has 29 terrible heavy firepower equipment, 14 32 pounds in the lower layer and 15 24 pounds in the upper layer.

Of course, the bow mortar of the lion is not in their range. After all, the nerve knife that will turn the gun barrel into a shell at any time is the exclusive romance of British sailors.

But they also have their own small designs. For example, when the battle line is opened, the 18 pound guns in the fore and aft cabin can be easily adjusted to the upper deck through the gun truck ramp to form a fire supplement of the first three and the last five on each side, raising the single side fire to 37, giving full play to the powerful power contained in 74 gun ships.

That's how Scolari arranged it.

There are 37 doors for single ship and single side, and 74 doors for two ship battle lines. Each heavy gun under his command is enough to break a big tree, and in the next three minutes, all 74 solid bullets with a total weight of 974 pounds will be projected onto the top of the art like warship opposite.

Even real monsters will be frightened and bow their heads!

……

"The bow was shot!"

On the middle platform of the main mast, Barto's voice spread all over the deck in an instant.

Lorraine looked at the rain of bullets pouring over the sky, and there was no movement on her calm face.

"The forecastle is sheltered from the forecastle. According to the standard interval, each round of shelling will last about three minutes, just when the heavy artillery is loaded," he said.

The commander with a good voice around him immediately shouted: "the forecastle of the front deck is hidden, and the shelling will not stop! Repeat! The shelling will not stop!"

"Hannah, port five degrees, straight into the gap."

Haina didn't say a word and turned the hand wheel. Under the command of Lorraine, valkiri not only didn't avoid shelling, but took the initiative to hit the sea area with the most dense shells.

The first round of shells fell into the water and exploded on the sea hundreds of meters away from varkiri. Then they became tighter and denser.

Varkiri swayed and heaved on the boiling sea, firmly rushing into the gap between the two ships at high speed

"The wind." Lorraine's voice grew louder and louder, in the roar of getting closer and closer, so that he could be heard by his sailors.

Karen opened her hand, tore off her scarf, threw it into the air and watched it spin in the wind.

"The wind direction is northwest and North, 7 knots!"

"The maximum blast of the longitudinal sail, raise the bow and meet the gun!"

"Raise the bow high, fire alarm!"

The sail group of the longitudinal sail clenched its teeth and pushed the boom all the way to the section of the wind. The super large bony longitudinal sail with oriental characteristics swelled up, giving up all micro controls such as steering and avoidance, but blowing.

Bow up!

Suddenly, with a large thrust, the bow of valkiri, which had been tilted up, rushed up to the top of the wave like a slope, and raised the whole ship.

Closer and denser shells hit down and immediately... Collide!

"Shot in the bow! Direct attack!"

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The ship's bow was about 10 meters away from the spray of Lianpeng. In the mist, the first 24 pound shot directly at the iron covered gun baffle, smashing and smashing the huge shield, which was more than two meters high and solid and narrow like a scale leaf.

The debris did not fly away wantonly. Wrapped in thin iron sheet, it twisted and collided on the deck until it cracked a guardrail and fell into the sea from the side.

The second direct attack followed. A 32 pound solid, 16 pound red iron pellet hit the middle of the two blade gun baffle and hit a huge gap.

The lost iron shot was deeply embedded in the deck after a dull sound. In order to block it, at least four baffles were washed away. The broken support was twisted with the fallen iron sheet and slid out of the deck ten meters away.

Then the third, the fourth, and two in a row hit the hull armor one after another. The ship body trembled violently in the impact, but the projectile failed to hurt the armor and was powerlessly pushed away from the track.

500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters

The Portuguese stared at valkiri's charge, like Frank's great knight and polish winged magic soldier. No matter the arrow projectile in front, nothing could stop her will to move forward!

250 meters, 200 meters, 150 meters, 100 meters

The first round of battle line saturation ended, but the second round could not be effectively continued.

The design of the battle line never considered the approaching enemies destined to be torn up, so in the arrangement of rounds, the guns loaded on the outside line lost their firing angle, and the guns with firing angle on the inside line are still loading

Their opponent was not torn!

The moment the gunfire stopped, kungunil had broken the water mist, and a huge, beautiful, high headed monster stepped out under the guidance of the goddess!

"God! No injury! She's going to cut through the gap in the formation!"

"Bow and stern shot! Direct fire alarm!"