The flying Zealander roared forward against the wind, dumbfounding the Aztlans on the two merchant ships behind it.
"A miracle! There is no doubt that this is a miracle!"
Tesosomok took the lead in kneeling down. As soon as Tesosomoc bowed, the Aztlan people also knelt down and worshiped on the boat. They were still paddling hard to keep the boat moving forward, but this time the boat stopped moving, lazily basking in the sun and swaying with the waves on the sea. It's like taking a lunch break.
Amy looked back and saw that the merchant ship where the Aztlan people were sitting was getting farther and farther away, and shouted: "Your Majesty, those Aztlan people did not catch up!"
"It's normal that we haven't caught up! That merchant ship was rented from the merchants of Alemany. It was not made by the Pirate Kingdom. It was originally a bit slower, and now there is a headwind. How can we catch up with Lu if we can't be faster than them?" Baker?”
"There is nothing we can do about the hull, so why not at least replace it with a jib? This way, their ship will be invisible!"
"Not everyone can use the spinnaker! It requires skills and manpower!" The pirate looked a little proud at the side. "We learned it for several days in the Tianfang Empire. Even if we install it, those Aztlan people won't be able to use it. of!"
"Then we can't just get rid of them like this, right? Your Majesty, look, their ship is only as big as my thumb..."
"Amy! Which is more important, the Aztlan people or the cargo of my ten ships?"
"Huh? But...but..."
"Don't worry, they know the way by themselves! When we came here, we didn't show them the way, right?"
"Huh? I think we need them to lead the way..."
"There is a chart, what are you afraid of?"
Amy was convinced. Since it is written like this in the book and drawn like this on the map, there is a high probability that there will be no problem.
"Okay, don't be idle." Ella clapped her hands at the other soldiers, "Take advantage of the opportunity to adjust our weapons again and see if there is anything abnormal?"
The first test was the giant crossbow. Hundreds of soldiers stood next to the sixteen giant crossbows. Each giant crossbow required ten soldiers to work together to turn the winch to open and buckle the crossbow string. There is also a special soldier responsible for setting up the crossbow bolts. As the firing command was given, the crossbow bolts flew out with a roar. It was easy to accurately judge the distance with the naked eye on the sea. Amy could only see the spear-like crossbow arrow getting farther and farther and smaller, and finally turned into a black dot the size of a grain of rice.
Reports came one after another:
"The No. 1 crossbow machine is operating normally!"
"The No. 2 crossbow machine is operating normally!"
"The No. 3 crossbow machine is operating normally!"
…
"Very good!" Ella clapped her hands with satisfaction, "Test the trebuchets again. They have been installed on the ship for a while, see if they can still operate normally?"
Compared with crossbows, trebuchets are much less accurate, and no matter how skilled the operator is, they cannot make the stone bullets accurately hit the designated location. But they are also more powerful. From the moment they were created, their mission was not to punch holes in the city wall, but to smash the entire city wall. If the giant crossbow cannot effectively kill the dragon, the trebuchet is the last trump card of Ayla's fleet.
The stone bullets flew in a parabola into the distance, and each stone bullet caused the sea to tremble, causing huge splashes of water.
The reporting voice came again:
"The No. 1 trebuchet is operating normally!"
"The No. 2 trebuchet is operating normally!"
"Trebuchet No. 3 is operating normally!"
…
Although Ella had asked the soldiers to debug these weapons before going to sea and knew that there was a high probability that these weapons would have no problems, she still nodded with satisfaction when she saw the normal operation of these weapons.
"Next is the hot air balloon... Hot air balloons don't seem to be of any use to dragons,"
Hot air balloons are very useful against ships on the sea. But hot air balloons can fly, and so can dragons. Moreover, hot air balloons can burst as soon as they are touched, but dragon scales cannot.
"In that case, let's not miss the hot air balloon." Ella waved her hand, "Test the ocean fire on the bow!"
"Ocean Fire?" Amy reminded Ella, "Your Majesty, you have forgotten that the bow of the ship is now my sculpture, and there is no Ocean Fire anymore!"
"Ocean Fire is our important weapon, how can we just remove it like this? Watch Amy, you will be surprised!"
At Ella's command, a group of pirates rushed to the bow of the ship and began to warm up the ocean fire. Due to various factors such as safety, storage, and price, the Ocean Fire on the bow of the Flying Zealander did not use the flammable and explosive Paracelsus type, but was still the old model made by Ella. , the device needs to be preheated before launching.
"Well...the heating device is indeed still there."
But Amy looked left and right and couldn't see where the jet was.
"King of Sweden, the warm-up is complete!"
"Okay!" Ella waved her hand, "Launch!"
I saw a soldier stepping on a pedal, and the mouth of the Amy statue on the bow suddenly opened, a jet pipe protruded from the inside, and began to spit out flames. Since the jet pipe is hidden in the sculpture's mouth, from the front, it looks like Amy's sculpture is opening its mouth to spit fire.
"How's it going, Amy, are you surprised?"
"No surprise at all, but rather shocked and angry!" Amy stamped the deck angrily and shouted, "Your Majesty, what did you do to my sculpture?"
"The chin was removed and made movable, then a hole was made in the back of the head and the jet pipe was inserted..."
"This is abuse! Abuse!"
"What's wrong? Fire-breathing sculptures are very rare. If you sell them, the price will increase a lot..."
"It sounds like some kind of monster to me! Besides, who would buy a sculpture with a hole in the back of the head!" Amy was about to burst into tears. "Are we going to fight a dragon? We haven't seen the dragon. I His mouth keeps spitting fire, who is the evil dragon here??"
"What should we do?" Seeing that Amy was a little unhappy, Ella asked cautiously, "Change it to breathing fire from her belly button?"
"It's not a problem at all!"
Amy was disheartened and plunged into the carpentry room on the second floor. In the next few days, people only heard the sound of saws and hammers coming from inside. They didn't know what was being done inside. Even the specially equipped carpenters were kicked out by Amy. Three days later, Amy finally came out, holding something like a wooden box in her hand.
"This is the mask I made for my sculpture! It can be separated left and right!" Amy said, "After you separate it, put it on the sculpture, and then close it, so others can't tell that it's me who breathes fire!"
"Gu...that ocean fire?"
"There are holes! There are holes for the eyes and mouth, it's totally fine!"
"It looks a bit like a bandit's mask." Ella shook her head vigorously, "I don't want to use this kind of thing as the bow of the Flying Zealander!"
“I don’t even want to be seen breathing fire from my statue!”
Although Ella objected, Amy still asked her personal guards to put the mask on the statue. The head of the bow of the Flying Zealander is just like this with a wooden box on it.
This time it was Ella's turn to be disappointed. It wasn't until the fleet sailed to Ireland that her mood improved.
(End of chapter)
