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"Okay, it's our turn!"
Lu Yuan clapped his hands and led all the lieutenants to stand up and walked out of the captain's room together.
Currently, the camouflaged "Elona" is actually parked not far from the battlefield, about four nautical miles south.
However, unless you hold a large-magnification telescope and stare at this place for continuous observation, you will not be able to find it at all.
An easily overlooked fact is that if you stand on the deck of a ship and look toward the distance of the sea on a clear afternoon, you will find that the sky is getting lighter blue from the zenith to the horizon, and the water is getting lighter from the feet to the horizon. The sky is getting darker and darker blue, so at the junction of the sky and the sea, there is the junction of white and black. Most of the scenery you see on the sea will be obscured by these three, unless the object itself reflects light, otherwise Hard to find.
If a ship like the "Elona" stayed still, it would blend into the black background and would be impossible to detect.
Of course, Lu Yuan had already widely spread the news before, guiding the pirates in the Pirate Alliance and Nassau Port to move closer to the treasure fleet on the northern line, and the pirate ships on Dendan Island to move closer to the southern line. So even if they were discovered, it would not matter. Now around the battlefield There are many pirate ships patrolling around, and the "Elona" is just one of the larger ones. They are like vultures on the battlefield, waiting for the war to end so they can feast on the corpses.
At this time, Lu Yuan was like a real magician. He held a crystal clear crystal ball in his left palm, which was flashing white light regularly at this time. Then all the magic communications transmitted on the battlefield, whether from far away Whatever was passed here from Havana, or whatever was passed from the flagship to the squadron, could not escape Lu Yuan's monitoring.
With the level of magic in this world, they can use magic to transmit messages hundreds of sea miles away. This is enough to surprise Lu Yuan. But compared to the world of Baldur's Gate, the level of this kind of magic application is as different as that between the Ming Dynasty and the Second World War. The difference in the use of gunpowder in the eleventh century. Their method of communication is as unreliable as shouting with a loudspeaker on the battlefield. Moreover, the encoding method only corresponds to the frequency of the letters. Lu Yuan easily parsed all the "Channel"... Spanish. Also British, French, Dutch, etc.
"The French have declared defeat. What a good job those guys did, it really surprised me! The latest news is that the Dutch were attacked by the Ming Dynasty's fleet..." Lu Yuan paused and looked at Li Huamei.
"As expected!" She said with a very Western expression, "According to my understanding, Vice Admiral Lin will not let go of any opportunity. He said before that he left the Caribbean in disgrace. I was the first to not believe it! That sinister... Hey, a smart guy won't give up so easily. As for cooperating with the British... Ha! The British are going to be unlucky! What he is best at is deceiving his collaborators."
There was so much resentment in this tone. With so many things at hand, Lu Yuan decided to pretend not to understand, so he continued to announce. "The Dutch will surrender soon. This is our opportunity! By the way, I would like to emphasize it again. , we don’t need gold! All the ships with the guns pointing at them...sink them all!" Lu Yuan said as he stopped next to the wheel. "Now let's have a big fight!"
The fake "Barbados" raised the pirate flag and rushed straight into the battlefield from the south!
"Pirates! Damn pirates!" Ferdinando, commander of the Southern Treasure Fleet, cursed.
Now there are reinforcements from the Spanish fleet in the south, and a small number of Spanish ships in the north and almost the entire Dutch fleet have joined his command to obey his command - there are almost eighty large and small ships! Coupled with the withdrawal of the French from the battlefield, the southern fleet now has all the advantages regardless of the number of ships or personnel!
Just when he is about to succeed, whether it is annihilating or repelling the British ships, he can achieve an epic victory! He had been hesitating whether to eat one-third or one-fourth of the British fleet... But at this critical moment, this shameless pirate actually came and stabbed him!
Lu Yuan took the lead in driving the ship and rushed to the front. With the "Barbados" taking the lead, the pirates who were rarely intimidated by risks thought they had spotted an opportunity. They followed the "Barbados" and rushed over in a swarm.
Because of the support from Spain and the Dutch, the British had begun to attack at a disadvantage. After seeing the pirates coming up, they rationally made way for a passage.
Not to mention the leading ship, it looks a lot like the "Barbados". Based on the analysis of this battle, the pirates have only one goal, and that is the treasure fleet's wealth. They are now born to the British Allies and cannon fodder.
Seeing the spacious "passage", Lu Yuan drove the battleship and jumped in without hesitation! Although he only has front and rear vision, Lu Yuan's perception is extremely strong, and with magic assistance, there is no obstacle to his vision. The "Elona" was like a swimming fish, quickly passing through the corridor formed by the battleship, and then The thick body of the battleship avoided the firing range of those heavy Galen, and like a knife peeling an apple, embedded itself into the "city wall" composed of the Spanish heavy Galen.
"ire!" Lu Yuan yelled, and Li Huamei knocked on an angle iron. The sound followed an iron pipe, and the sound of the hit was clearly transmitted to the artillery deck on the noisy battlefield. "ire!", "ire!" "Commander John of Two Deck.[,! ] and Humphrey waved almost simultaneously!
The gunners inserted the red-hot iron drill directly into the ignition port. In less than a second, the twenty-two cannons on the port side erupted in long flames! The 32-pound projectile first flew upward for a while, then began to fall with huge kinetic energy, continuously accelerating, and finally slammed into a very tall Galenic sailing ship!
The projectile penetrated the one-meter-thick hull, leaving an oval hole outside the hull, but on the inside, wood chips like a volcanic eruption directly killed most of the sailors in the cabin! The projectile with unused kinetic energy changed direction. It penetrated the human body and the cabin wall downwards, landed on the bottom deck, tore open a huge crack, and then crashed into the cargo pile, breaking an unknown number of barrels.
On the cracks in the bottom chamber, bright golden light can be seen with the naked eye.
The "Elona" is still one hundred and twenty meters away from the ship. At this distance, the shells of the twenty-two artillery guns are usually scattered within a radius of two hundred meters, and can hit one or two rounds. It's just good luck. But in this era when cannonballs are still solid and cannot explode, it doesn't matter if you get hit by one or two cannonballs.
However, the "Elona" equipped with the "Olen long-barreled gun" greatly improved the shooting distance and accuracy, hitting 17 out of 22 shots! The ship was originally loaded with an extremely heavy amount of gold, which made the ship have a very deep draft. When half of the hit shells were concentrated near the waterline, the ship quickly tilted sharply - a minute later, it sank into the sea.
This bombardment was so unexpected that it had a remarkable effect.
"The golden ship... that's a golden ship!" Ferdinando covered his face, his heart aching to the point of bleeding! The sinking of a gold ship can offset a victory... "I need a big victory now...stop it! Hide all the gold ships and don't let that guy seize the opportunity again! Damn pirates!" He He yelled, but the fleet officers under his command did not listen to him. The war has reached this point. It can be said how to fight. These experienced people have already seen the direction.
If nothing unexpected happens, if both sides continue to consume like this, the British will inevitably be wiped out and the Spaniards will win miserably. Of course, in reality, the fight cannot be that brutal. As long as a few battleships are sunk, one side will have to retreat. .The question now is, when will the British see the reality clearly and then take the initiative to withdraw from this battle!
But now the British are like taking stimulants, following the pirates and charging under artillery fire, not caring at all whether they can win this war! And their vanguard, the ship painted in white and wood colors, the "hms. Bellona" also shoots at a fast pace and with high accuracy. It is so fierce that it can't find an opponent!
After Lu Yuan drove the ship and passed the Spanish forward, what appeared in front of the "Elona" was the supporting Dutch battle formation. They gathered the warships and used their thick hulls to compete with the opponent. , this is the most difficult one to deal with, and now it is also the strongest point of defense! But both Lu Yuan and the British behind him rushed towards this strongest point without hesitation.
Like madmen, the Spaniards were stunned.
Only Lu Yuan and the British knew that something unexpected was about to happen.
Facing the charging spear brought by the "Elona", the Netherlands did not hesitate to adjust the formation into a thick three-layer array, raised the muzzle, and the Spanish warships on both sides also moved towards the center to surround...
There are still fifty meters left, and the optimal firing range will soon be entered. The next three consecutive rounds of artillery will destroy most of the ships that rush into the fire range! Just when everyone thought the outcome was decided, a piece of news suddenly spread across the battlefield - Grand Baja Port had fallen, the Royal Governor died, and the Dutch were defeated, completely losing the chance to compete in a naval battle!
Just under the cannons of numerous Dutch ships, the "Elona" did not fire a single shot and passed by the group of warships without hesitation. The Dutch warships stopped in place in despair. For those who penetrated the battlefield, The ships in the formation did nothing. Before the Spaniards could react, Lu Yuan and the British seized the fleeting opportunity and rushed into the core group of ships.
More than a dozen merchant ships that didn't even carry cannons were already under the guns of the "Elona"!
