Chapter 1447: The Ass of the Dead (Part 1, ask for a monthly ticket)
Looking at the gargoyles in the sky, which were densely packed like a group of dark clouds, everyone on the ship couldn't help but feel their scalps numb.
I was surprised that this was too much. A small island could actually hide so many terrifying monsters.
Although they now have more than ten battleships, including one aircraft carrier and four battleships.
The entire fleet is equipped with thousands of artillery pieces, with strong firepower and sufficient ammunition. It is no problem to destroy an entire enemy fleet of hundreds in a short time.
And it can also guarantee zero casualties.
However, it is still somewhat inadequate to deal with the tens of thousands of gargoyles flying in the sky.
Those gargoyles are not big in size, but they are very numerous and very flexible in the air. From a distance, they look very similar to bats, so humans call them bat ghosts.
And there were so many gargoyle rushes in the first wave. Who knows how many more are on the island? Are there other enemies?
What if this wave of killings is not finished and a group of people suddenly burst out?
At this time, it was seen that the gargoyles had entered the range of the battleship's cannon.
"Grenade, one-third fuse."
"Angle of attack is twenty, range is three thousand~!"
"Fire, fire~!"
Under hurried orders, each warship selected different shells and targets, and the cannons opened fire one after another.
'Boom, boom boom boom...'
Hundreds of artillery roared at the same time, the rumbling sound of the cannons kept ringing, and bursts of white smoke appeared from the side of the ship, which was then blown away by the sea breeze.
At the same time as the sound of the cannon sounded, balls of fire exploded among the gargoyles.
The gargoyles in mid-air were too dense, just like swarms of bats flying out of the cave at dusk. The cannonballs fired by the battleships crashed into the middle of the gargoyles. The impact alone tore the gargoyles into pieces, and then fell into pieces.
There was an explosion among the gargoyles.
Groups of orange-red fireballs flashed in the black torrent of gargoyles, causing the gargoyles to fly with flesh and blood, and fell from the sky like rain.
Looking down from the sky, you will see that the dark clouds seem to have dozens of holes dug out, but the holes are soon refilled by the gargoyles rushing up from behind.
Their numbers have not decreased at all~!!!
At the same time, they also discovered that the firepower here was fierce, and they screamed loudly. They flapped their broad wings vigorously and flew high into the sky.
At this time, the weakness of human warships was exposed. Although they have strong firepower and extremely long range, like all naval guns, they are not anti-aircraft~!
The maximum firing range of the naval gun is limited, and it cannot attack monsters flying overhead.
The gargoyles also seemed to have discovered this weakness of humans, and flew to high places one after another, preparing to dive downward from directly above.
There are not many people on the human fleet. The reason why it is powerful is that it is equipped with cannons.
Due to changes in naval warfare tactics, the previous tactic of jumping off the side of the ship is no longer practical, and there is no need to retain a large number of hand-to-hand combat sailors on board.
In addition to the artillery and sailors of the battleship, the Marine Corps was also transferred to the USS Enterprise.
But now the enemy avoided the cannon's firing range and rushed towards the battleship. Like the sharp arrow that penetrated Achilles' heel, it seized the battleship's weakness.
Once they land on the ship, they can easily rely on their numerical advantage to swamp all humans.
The war fortresses on the Enterprise were originally used to fight for air supremacy, but their combat targets were hostile war fortresses, and the gargoyles were not taken into account.
On the battleship, everyone turned to look at Lorraine, hoping that this man could lead them to create another miracle. After all, dealing with undead high priests and lichs was this man's specialty.
Lorraine looked at the dense gargoyles and was stunned for a while. Then he realized that everyone was looking at him and shouted angrily: "Why are you still standing there? Why don't you run away? Are you still waiting for them to serve us food and drinks?"
Quick, quick, quick, quick..."
Under Lorraine's urging, everyone suddenly woke up from a dream, and it turned out that this man had no more tricks.
The officers and soldiers on the ship took action one after another, shouting loudly and issuing orders one after another.
"Blow the trumpet and notify the other ships to retreat, retreat quickly."
"All war fortresses take off, take off, no one is left on the deck, all take air cover."
"Turn the rudder, turn the rudder quickly. Full right rudder, heading zero nine zero."
"Engine room, accelerate with full force."
"All Marines mobilized."
"Magician, call the magician up."
"Machine gun, quickly move the bolt onto the deck..."
"Replenish the shells for the 40 cannon."
"..."
In the shortest possible time, the orders were passed down one by one.
The warships immediately became busy. It was not unreasonable to choose them as the vanguard fleet. The sailors on the ship had been trained thousands of times and knew where to go and what to do when the crisis came. Everything was urgent but there was
sequence.
Each warship sounded its air horn or horn one after another, and then its huge body twisted, like a clumsy sea monster, and began to slowly turn around.
The only troublesome thing is the battleship of the Elf Kingdom. The Royal Ark is large in tonnage and is not equipped with steam power. Instead, it is powered by pure sails.
But at this time, these elven navies demonstrated their extremely high military qualities.
After receiving the order, countless elven sailors immediately climbed onto the mast and adjusted the sails in just one minute.
More than a dozen sails on the three masts at the front and rear were filled with sea breeze, and the ship's turning speed was no slower than that of a steam ship, or even a few times faster.
Seeing their swift actions, Sir Alex was a little suspicious: Were those bastards planning to escape from the beginning?
This one is so easy to adjust.
And due to the low speed of the Ark Royal, the radius of their turn was also small. By the time the human battleship turned around, it had already traveled a large distance.
Lorraine didn't need to look to imagine the sarcastic face of the Elf Navy at this moment.
However, the warships built by Naian are not built. Although they started a little slowly, the power generated by industrial civilization far exceeds that of sails.
Driven by the "rumbling" steam engine, the propellers stirred up the sea water. White waves surged onto the water. In just three to five minutes, they had already caught up with the Elf's Ark Royal.
Several cruisers with lighter tonnage failed to control their speed and even ran in front of Ark Royal.
Only then did the elven navy realize. It turned out that the human warships had been hidden along the way, and their maximum speed was not exposed.
These cunning humans~!
In anger, everyone stood on the side of the boat, waving their fists and yelling curses at those bastards.
Not to be outdone, the humans waved their fists and loudly cursed the elves for their ugly behavior of running away in panic.
Due to the heavy weight of the battleship, it was slow to start and accelerate. At this time, the gargoyles were getting closer and closer...
People who are close can see their ferocious faces with the naked eye.
At this time, the war fortresses had already taken off. They retreated, keeping a distance from the enemy, while firing at the black bat ghosts.
Boom boom boom boom...
The sound of cannons continued, and flames exploded in the group of bat ghosts. But this time, the bat ghosts seemed to be alerted. When they were flying, there was a huge gap between them.
Often when one shot goes down, although the bat ghosts are also blown up with blood and flesh, they can't kill a few.
At this time, the vanguard of the gargoyles had arrived above the mothership at the end of the formation.
They looked at the sailors running back and forth on the deck, and immediately folded their wings and swooped down, screaming.
At this time, the marines on the deck raised their guns and opened fire at the enemies flying in the air.
At this time, the machine guns in every corner also raised their muzzles high, spitting tongues of flame into the sky.
The 40mm fast cannon throws shells into the sky at the fastest speed.
A dense network of fire was formed above the battleship's head to intercept the swooping gargoyles.
The magicians stood on high places, not sparing their magic power at all. They waved their staffs and threw chains of lightning into the air to deal with dense enemies. This trick was the most useful.
Not to be outdone, the cardinals sang prayers loudly and raised their holy staffs. Then they saw streaks of white holy light burst out from the end of the staff, shining towards the bat ghosts.
Wherever the holy light went, gray flames erupted from the bodies of the bat ghosts that were hit, and they emitted shrill wails, while other bat ghosts hurriedly avoided.
Viewed from a distance, the bat ghost looks like a huge black arrow, thrusting straight into the deck of the Enterprise.
The entire deck is like an active volcano, spewing out blazing flames and magma, flying into the sky.
Immediately, the black arrows and the red flames collided, and countless red... er, bloody sparks exploded in the air.
Those bat ghosts exploded in the air, and bright red blood, huge corpses, broken limbs... fell from the sky like raindrops.
Some soldiers were unable to dodge and were immediately doused with blood on their heads and faces, and were even injured by the stumps.
At the same time, the offensive of those bat ghosts suddenly slowed down.
The ship withstood the bat ghost's attack through a multi-layered interception fire net composed of multiple arms.
At this moment, the steam boiler finally began to operate at full capacity. Driven by the four steam engines, the Enterprise's body shook, its speed immediately increased greatly, and it suddenly jumped forward.
The bat ghosts that were originally hovering over the Enterprise suddenly lost sight of their target, and couldn't help but be stunned.
Immediately after seeing it not far away, the battleship Victory plowed through the waves and inserted it diagonally. The portholes on the side of the ship opened, revealing the high muzzles of the guns inside.
Because the bat ghosts swooped down, their height from the sea surface was greatly reduced, only a few dozen meters, and they had already entered the battleship's firing range.
Immediately afterwards, more than fifty cannons opened fire one after another. Amidst the huge roar, streams of white smoke spewed out from the sides, almost covering the battleship.
Since the distance between the two sides was not far, all the guns and cannons were used to use anti-personnel shotgun shells specially designed to clean the deck and personnel.
There are not many of these artillery shells, but they are extremely vicious.
Although the range of the cannonball is not far, it is only a hundred or ten meters away at most.
However, one shot fired hundreds of finger-sized shotgun steel balls, which were distributed within a radius of twenty square meters, and were powerful enough to penetrate multiple layers of wooden ship boards.
Like a big broom, it easily sweeps away all the creatures in front of it.
It only takes a few shots to kill all the people on a battleship.
After the sound of the cannons, the sailors on the battleship saw a layer of small black dots like insects appearing in the air, flying towards the bat ghost on the opposite side...
In the next second, looking at the bat ghosts, the huge attack arrow seemed to have been erased by a huge piece of eraser, leaving only the upper part.
The lower part has disappeared, but countless black dots fell from the sky and fell into the sea. That area of the sea was like a boiling pot, with countless white waves splashing.
But then, the bat ghosts reacted, flapping their huge and ugly black-red transparent fleshy wings, climbing high into the sky, and continued to chase the battleship.
At this time, the speed of all the battleships had increased.
Even the Elven Navy's Ark Royal has reached a speed of eight to nine knots. Not to mention a human warship, which can reach a speed of ten to fifteen knots just by twisting its butt.
At this time, the machine guns arranged on the deck of the battleship kept firing, tracer bullets streaked across the sky, forming lines of fire, and the war fortress also kept firing to block the attack.
In order to chase the battleship, those bat ghosts had to brave human fire and flap their wings desperately. This could barely shorten the distance between the two sides.
Neither human warships nor elven warships require human power. Everyone only needs to run around on the deck, while the bat ghosts can only rely on their wings to fly desperately.
Although you can't see the difference at the beginning, the further time goes by, the more beneficial it will be for humans. After all, ships will not tire, but bat ghosts will.
The two sides were in a stalemate for about an hour. Every time the bat ghosts desperately approached, they would be hit head-on by human firearms. But when they reacted and wanted to fight back, humans would rely on their powerful steam power.
, and ran away again.
Unknowingly, the two sides were getting farther and farther away from the island. They were more than ten kilometers away.
At this moment, there was suddenly a sharp and ear-piercing whistle. When the bat ghosts heard the sound, they immediately turned around, flapped their wings, and flew back towards the island.
Watching the large dark cloud gradually go away, everyone on the battleship breathed a sigh of relief. The marines who had been fighting for a long time looked at each other and saw that everyone was in a mess, with stains all over their bodies and heads.
There were bloodstains, and some disgusting internal organs and stumps were hanging on some people's bodies.
If it had been anyone else, they might have vomited it out long ago. But these bastards were used to seeing the killing array, and they would even joke with each other, or they would just hide aside and look at the sea in the distance.
Smoking a cigarette silently.
On the bridge of the Enterprise, the officers were silent for a while while looking at the small island in the chart.
This is the first time that humans have taken the initiative to retreat during a battle~!
This island seems to be a tough nut to crack, very difficult to defeat~!!!
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On the other side, the lich Melalens walked briskly through a tunnel.
Although his steps were extremely light, there were waves of strange echoes in the silent cave, as if there were ghosts whispering.
He walked for a while, then turned a corner, and immediately saw a bright light in front of his eyes, and a blue sea appeared in front of him.
Although Melalance had long been disinterested in scenery, he still couldn't help but feel inexplicable awe at the miraculous craftsmanship of nature every time he came here.
This is a cave located on a cliff. The cliff is so high that it is as flat and smooth as a knife. However, there are countless tunnels in the cliff that can lead to the top of the cliff.
And there is a huge cave on the cliff, which overlooks the entire sea.
Right in front of the cave, there is a slender figure with his hands behind his back, looking down at the sea lonely but proudly.
When Melalance saw the man, he couldn't help but show a hint of admiration in his eyes, then bowed and said, "I have met Mr. Cameron."
The man turned back and glanced at him lightly. It was Cameron, the first disciple of the high priest.
Since the high priest was seriously injured and in retreat, he is now in charge of all undead affairs.
Cameron said calmly: "The bat ghosts are all back."
Melalen suddenly became excited and said: "Yes, sir. Sir, you are really powerful. Just by mobilizing the bat ghosts, you forced the human warships to flee in panic and ran dozens of miles away.
The flying eagle war god is nothing more than that."
Cameron listened to his flattery. Although it was extremely helpful, he still had a calm face. He shook his head and said calmly: "It's a pity, it's a pity. Human defense is too strict and the firepower is too fierce. Our mages can't take advantage of the opportunity to make a sneak attack.
them."
Melalance said hurriedly: "My lord is wise. But these humans are really too cunning."
As he said that, he glanced bitterly into the distance and saw a few black spots on the sea, with wisps of black smoke floating above their heads.
After such a long time, those black spots still did not disappear. It was obvious that the other party had stayed there again.
Melalance couldn't help but wonder: They didn't attack, and they didn't plan to leave, so what was the use of stopping there?
As if he had seen through Melalance's doubts, Cameron looked at the fleet in the distance, smiled disdainfully, and said: "I have read an Oriental Art of War. It says, as fast as the wind, as slow as the forest, and as aggressive as fire, no.
Moving like a mountain.
We just stay here and remain motionless, how can these humans be able to show off their tricks?"
After hearing this, Melalance couldn't help but marvel: "Sir, you have actually seen the Eastern art of war. It's really... it's really..."
As a lich, his vocabulary of flattery is quite limited. In the end, he found the right words and could only say: "It's... it's really amazing~!"
Vaguely, a low chuckle was heard not far away.
Melalance couldn't help but frown slightly, then turned around and saw a dark human figure standing in the darkness of the cave. It seemed to be a ghost...????(To be continued...)