[No pop-up novel website] The quality of the crew, the ragtag crew vs. the elite sailors, the "Elona" seems to have been completely defeated... After the cannon on the port side was released haphazardly, grape bullets were flying aimlessly on the water, which only caused a stir. A piece of sea water...
"Kill!" Lu Yuan's cold voice penetrated the cabin and froze the entire gun deck. Lu Yuan just shouted a step earlier, because Li Huamei had already drawn his sword at this time. After hearing his words, the sword flashed with cold light, Just kill the few who fired first with one sword!
The heads rolled down on the deck, and the smell of blood instantly filled the entire deck... Everyone, including Long Gou and Young Jin, became unspeakably frightened... They avoided Li Huamei's sight, with mixed emotions. .Because of these few people, the entire ship fell from heaven to hell. From this point of view, they definitely deserve to be killed! But from another perspective, they are all temporarily recruited sailors, and their total training does not exceed five hours, so they are not elite as they should be.
But Lu Yuan and Li Huamei are both accustomed leaders, and they deeply understand the essence of Thunder's methods, and will not struggle with this at all! After Li Huamei killed someone, he still held the gleaming sword and stood behind everyone, exuding endless cold air.
And Lu Yuan's voice sounded like thunder through the artillery deck, "Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed without mercy!"
Temporarily suppressing the interior will not make the harsh environment faced by the "Elona" any better - now the two ships are parallel, with less than twenty meters between them, and the cannons are facing each other!
But the 'hms. Bellona' is ready to go, and the thirty-two 32-pound guns on the starboard side loaded with solid ammunition have been ready for a long time! On the other side was the "Elona", which completely wasted their port salvo opportunity. Not only did the gun barrels be emptied, but several people died... What's more, the "Elona" was being lifted rapidly by the waves, and she There is no barrier between us and 'hms Bellona'! It's like a fish waiting to be slaughtered on the chopping board!
"No!!!!" Looking at the muzzle of the opponent's aimed gun. I don't know how many people on the "Elona" who were watching, all let out desperate wails in their hearts. Their pity for those who were killed just now, Disappeared in an instant!
"Load solid ammunition on the port side!" Lu Yuan's order came in time! He seemed to completely ignore the dark muzzle in front of him and began to calculate the next step of the battle.
The port side is the side of the ship that has just been hit by the waves. Now the people in the gun crew are looking at each other... In front is the muzzle of the gun that is about to fire. At the foot is the comrade who has just been killed... "Right away!" Li Huamei behind him suddenly shouted coldly. Everyone had a cold war and woke up completely!
You may not die if you are hit by a volley of artillery, but you will definitely die if you disobey orders! The gun crew on the port side started immediately, working as fast as possible! I dare not think about the muzzle pointing directly at the side of the ship! The artillery crew on the starboard side also paid 120% of its attention and listened intently to the orders of Lu Yuan and Li Huamei!
From the trough of the wave to the crest of the wave, it only lasts a few dozen seconds, but it feels like it has been stretched infinitely at this moment.
The sailors on the deck of the HMS Bellona can clearly see that the "Elona" is still struggling hard under the gun muzzle of the ship - she is in the process of rising huge waves. Started to turn, intending to have the bow of the ship facing the 'hms. Bellona' - reducing the area when being bombarded. This seemed to be the choice that had to be made when it was impossible to avoid the bombardment.
But she was on top of a huge wave! When the "Elona" only turned less than 15 degrees, the hull suddenly tilted significantly! The glass cabin on her bow was drooping, and John Workman's coffin seemed to be facing the HMS Bellona...
Will Clifford let this opportunity pass? Then he is not an invincible fleet commander! He looked at the clumsily turning hull with a grin, and waved his arms vigorously!
At the same moment, on the ship not far away, Lu Yuan suddenly snapped his fingers... This sound was of course drowned in the wind and rain. But this snap of fingers sounded like thunder in Secretary Kenny's ears! He seemed to remember that...in the not-too-distant past...when he lived in a cage and experienced the life of a slave...he seemed to have heard such a snapping sound. Someone told him that when he heard this sound, he should... …
"i..." Clifford's command stopped abruptly!
Clifford's secretary, Kenny, who seemed to be the person he trusted the most, who had been standing behind him, pulled out a knife without hesitation and stabbed Clifford in the lower back from behind! The command he shouted was stuck in the middle...
Because Kenny's movements were very covert, no one noticed them for the time being. The messenger only saw the commander shouting half aloud, but he waved his arms. So they hesitated for a moment, but still shouted "ire!"
Passed on the order...
Perhaps because of this one or two seconds of hesitation, at the moment when the cannon fired, the "Elona" was already lifted to an altitude of twenty meters by the big wave coming from behind her! She hung head and foot on the waves, and the shells she fired senselessly grazed her bow and shot into the waves below the ship.
The volleys of thirty-two cannons also just splashed countless water splashes and were annihilated in the blink of an eye! The first salvos from both ships were completely wasted, and things seemed to be back to the starting line.
"Why...why..." Clifford covered the wound on his waist and asked with difficulty.
Kenny, whose hands were covered with blood, looked pale and let go of the handle of the knife, taking a few steps back. He just shook his head in panic, "I don't know! I really don't know..."
"It's black magic again! Despicable..." Clifford suddenly stopped... He remembered the infectious disease trap he used, and the bottom line had been broken by him long ago.
"Take him down!" He simply ordered, and then grasped it again.[,! ] wheel rudder.
The "Elona" is still rising, and it is still turning awkwardly. Clifford is sure that he still has a chance... The current hull posture of the "Elona" is wrong. If she does not roll over when she falls, It is estimated that they will not be able to attack... The two sides will be separated by the waves at that time, and it will be like returning to the starting point and starting over.
But Clifford felt that he had a chance to win! Because he has seen through the gap between the two sides, that is the quality of the crew! This is a gap that is absolutely irreparable in the short term!
"Give me a bandage and don't pull out the knife!" He whispered to the doctor behind him, "I can't die...as long as I can win this battle!"
The doctor usually had a high status in the fleet, but he did not dare to compete with the fleet admiral. Moreover, in his opinion, the wound was not deep... It was more like Kenny stabbed the knife unconsciously, weak and weak.
The crew of the "Elona" first looked at the tongues of flames spraying from the opposite side, and their minds went blank. But then the enemy's shot missed, and the crew of the "Elona" was ecstatic!
"Hold!" Lu Yuan's command sounded through the battleship in time, suppressing the crew's manic change at this moment.
At this time, the "Elona" was standing on the top of the waves in a strange posture, but the crew had not yet realized that they would be smashed to pieces in the next moment.
"Starboard! ire!" Before the crew of the "Elona" could digest the surprise of escaping from death, Lu Yuan's order came again! This time, Li Huamei shouted "Starboard! ire!", and at the same time the sword sounded!
The gunners, who have been trapped in fear and uneasiness, are already highly concentrated! When they heard the double command, the string suddenly tightened, and driven by their bodies, they ignited the starboard cannon as quickly as possible!
When their iron drill was about to be inserted into the cannon port, perhaps a few of them suddenly realized that the muzzle of the cannon was still pointing toward the sky! Where are we going to hit?!
But their consciousness could no longer stop their bodies from moving. Each of them inserted the red-hot iron drill in their hands through the gun door.
Then at that moment, perhaps less than a second, the "Elona" was lifted to the highest peak by the waves, but the tilt of the hull finally caused the center of gravity to suddenly shift to The other side of the ship!
As a result, the hull of the "Elona" swung like a pendulum, and the ship suddenly tilted to the right by more than 40 degrees! She completed the turning action on the falling wave, and then fell to one side!
The instant tilt and weightlessness made the entire crew on the "Elona" scream in unison!
But they were definitely not as frightened as the crew of the 'hms. Bellona' at this time... Unconsciously, the ships on both sides were close to zero distance - one on the crest of the wave and the other on the trough... From 'hms. Bellona' Looking up from the silver deck of the "Elona", the "Elona" is like a sharp sword hanging above the head of the "hms. Bellona"!
Not only was she about to fall and hit the HMS Bellona on the head, but every cannon muzzle was filled with maddening flames!
"Was he killed by a cannon? Or was he killed by the falling ship?!" This was the question that almost every sailor on the deck was wondering in an instant...
And Clifford? The subsequent changes in the matter were completely beyond his expectation - the "Elona"'s seemingly failed U-turn turned out to be a shocking reversal! The original distance of twenty meters between boats actually disappeared in an instant! The sailor, who was obviously a scumbag, had grasped the ignition timing within a tenth of a second! Unimaginable things happened one after another, leaving his mind blank!
"No!!!!"... The voices of countless people on the deck of the HMS Bellona, including Clifford, made a huge harmony, which became the last trace they left in the world.
Twenty thick cannon muzzles gradually sprayed flames, and countless grapeshots rushed towards the deck of the 'hms. Bellona' like a heavy rain, covering every corner indiscriminately! In an instant, there was a river of blood on the deck!
Relying on the recoil of this salvo, the "Elona" managed to regain its balance dangerously, and landed safely with the waves...
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It’s been a hard first day at work, and this volume has its finale today.
