Azeroth Shadow Trail

   Chapter 169 77. Jump Gang Battle! Waghhhhhhh! !

  South China Sea, this is the most prosperous trade route in Azeroth.

   All because of the deep tropics, abundant products, and stable ocean currents, it is very suitable for commercial operations. The goblin chaebols with great economic sense have established their own trading system in the South China Sea hundreds of years ago.

   And in many businesses, they maintain a monopoly model.

   Even when wars are raging in the eastern continent, this South China Sea route, called the "Golden Sea", is still prosperous.

Of course, because of the war, Kul Tiras, a powerful country on the sea, recruited many domestic merchant ships to support the war, resulting in the biggest competitor of the goblin chaebol, the Kul Tiras merchants' business in the South China Sea route has been greatly affected .

   So the goblin chaebols are very keen to seize this gap, almost crazy development.

   It is conceivable that after the end of the war, the pattern of the South China Sea trade route will inevitably undergo great changes.

   But, it’s still the same sentence.

   As long as the Kul Tiras fleet remains.

   As long as Dai Lin is still around.

   Those greedy green-skinned dwarfs, sooner or later, must return the wealth that belongs to Kul Tiras on this golden trade route!

   This is not a question of whether the goblins are willing or not.

  If Daelin is angered, send Kul Tiras's fleet to the South China Sea and go out on "piracy" or other miscellaneous charges.

   In less than half a year, the goblins have maintained their commercial advantages for hundreds of years, and they will be completely destroyed by Kul Tiras' strong ships and sharp cannons!

   Goblins are good at making money.

   But unfortunately, they are not really strong in combat.

   The worst thing is that in the world of Azeroth, there are currently few forces qualified to challenge Kul Tiras on the sea. Even if the goblins want to throw money around to buy murder, they can't find a fierce person who dares to take this job.

  This is embarrassing.

   But what happened on the South China Sea tonight has nothing to do with the goblins.

  Tonight the sky is gloomy, there are no stars and no moon, it is a good day for infiltration operations.

   The captains who received the order returned to their respective battleships.

  Beginning under the leadership of the first snake-man battleship "Mysterious Mistress" to discover the caravan ahead, it broke away from the **** position of the Alpaca, opened its full sails, and rushed forward.

  The huge alpaca was left alone behind.

   It was not used to fight.

   This kind of troll ship can only fight a battle when it is equipped with a full-scale pterodactyl knight, just like an aircraft carrier. For the most part, it was used as a transport ship.

   Even if there are big masts on both sides of the ship, it is not destined to run fast.

   Its main power is ocean currents, and it is already extremely fast if it can run out of 7 knots.

   But this ship is really big and can hold six times more materials than a normal warship.

  The treasures that were piled up at the bottom of the three warships as ballast have been transferred to the Alpaca, and food and drinking water were transported from the Alpaca to be used as ballast for other warships.

   "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

   A harsh siren sounded quickly in the merchant fleet ahead. The flagship of this fleet found three warships rushing towards the rear.

   But they didn't panic.

  As the orders were issued, sailors from all merchant ships rushed to the deck, took off their gun jackets, and some lookouts climbed up the masts along the ship's nets nimbly.

   They stayed on the observation deck, shouting continuously, pointing the gunners on the deck to the direction of the shelling.

   One by one appears to be well-trained.

In the end, it was a caravan with the flag of Kul Tiras. Most of these sailors came from that sea country, and the captains, first mates, second mates and gunners of the four merchant ships were all from Kul Tiras. Retired Navy Veteran.

   They were not afraid of the three ships rushing over, even though the ships of this caravan were not large in tonnage, and they were not warships for combat use.

   "That's the troll's ship!"

  An old captain put down his telescope and said to the chief mate beside him:

   "When I was cruising in the South China Sea, I saw it once or twice. It was a Zandalari troll ship. It's really strange. Although those troll fleets are powerful, they never leave their islands.

  Why are there three ships here? "

   "Maybe pirates, but they must be a group of newbies, maybe landlubbers full of arrogant fantasies!"

   The first officer grabbed the dwarf musket in his hand and said to his captain with a look of contempt:

   "Look at those three boats, they can only dash forward with full sails, and they can't even grab the downwind position. Their boats don't have ramming angles. Are they planning to fight us directly?

  !

  What a bunch of brainless pirates! As long as we have a standard battleship in our hands, and fifty other great boys who obey orders, I can definitely kill them! "

"not now."

  The old captain put away the telescope and looked at the troll ship with a serious face. He said to the first mate:

   "At other times, I'd be happy to teach these stinky pirates a lesson, but not tonight. Send a message to the 'Klein' and let it leave the fleet immediately.

   The remaining two ships will meet the enemy with this ship!

  The origin of the enemy is unknown, we will fight with all our strength and protect the safety of the lady at all costs! "

   The first mate led the order away with a serious face.

   Soon, the four ships on the side of the merchant fleet completed the formation change, and the three small tonnage but extremely flexible merchant ships were like knights lining up to meet the enemy.

   They kept changing course during the voyage, and finally lined up, turned the left string against the enemy, and blocked the direction of the three pirate ships while entering the shelling position.

   The last slightly larger merchant ship changed course in the opposite direction, as if escaping from the battle, pulling away the sea area where the artillery battle was about to take place.

  The three merchant ships facing the enemy were all sloops, with a crew of about 180 people, and only one artillery deck, carrying about 20-30 guns "small".

   Such ships also have a lot of equipment in the Kul Tiras fleet, but they are generally not involved in naval battles. They only serve as traffic information in the navy and occasionally **** merchant ships.

   That is still a military enhanced version.

   Now these three "civilian versions" are even more shabby, adding up to less than 80 naval guns, and their firepower is poor and weak, only the sailors are fighting.

   "Huh? Why didn't the pirates fire?"

  The old captain in charge of the battle saw with his binoculars that the three pirate ships had entered a range of 600 meters, but they had no intention of firing at all, and they were still rushing like bulls.

   This gesture, which completely violated all naval warfare rules, stunned the old captain for a while.

   He thought that the trolls were trying to do some weird magic, so he didn't order the cannons to fire. It wasn't until half a minute later, when the three ships got closer, that the three ships fired flaming crossbow arrows.

   sparse and inaccurate.

   "My God! The tide is up! It's not that they don't fire guns, they don't have guns at all!"

   The old captain was "stunned" by the pirates of the three ships at this moment. He looked back at his first mate who was also sluggish and said:

   "Where did these stunners come from? Why haven't I heard of such people in the South China Sea? Are they planning to use those backward ballistas to counter our artillery?

   Are they primitive people? "

   "Don't ask me, Captain, I don't know where their courage came from."

   The first mate took out the sailor knife from his waist and said to his captain;

   "But I know one thing, and that is tonight, we can get an easy victory, these pirates are here to give us military credit!

  How sweet.

   So many pirates, send their heads back to Boralus, we might get a naval reward for a decommissioned fourth-class warship. "

   "Fire!"

   The next second, the old captain laughed and swung the command knife in his hand downwards. The twelve guns on the left string of the merchant ship he was in fired simultaneously. This was a signal that the other two ships also fired.

  The accuracy of the sailors on the merchant ships is not as exaggerated as that of the navy, but in a salvo of nearly forty guns, at a distance of less than 500 meters, the accuracy is still there.

  The fastest and most violent "Black Hand" was the first to usher in a wave of artillery shells, which was directly interrupted by the main mast, and several large holes were blasted on the deck of the entire ship.

   But the advantage is that because there is no naval gun, there is no gunpowder on the ship to ignite, so there is no explosion.

   This is a pleasant surprise.

   And the more cunning Black Teeth and Mysterious Mother, rely on the Black Hand to attract firepower in front, and then accelerate again from the sides.

   They made up their minds and wanted to rush over to fight the merchant ships.

   "Fire!"

   A minute later, there was another salvo. This time, the target was divided into three ships. The water column was shot up on the sea, and the hapless Blacktooth also took a few shells.

   Several orcs were hit by cannonballs, and their flesh flew out on the spot.

   But it didn't take long before they jumped up again.

   "Something's wrong!"

  The old captain felt that something was wrong.

   When an ordinary pirate encounters this kind of firepower level, they will definitely retreat after a test, but the three ships in front of them have carried two rounds of artillery fire, and each ship has become tattered.

   But he kept his head down and rushed.

   "There's something in the water! Watch out! They're coming!"

   Just as the old captain was thinking about it, there was a sudden scream from the crew behind him.

   This veteran sweated coldly for a moment, and when he looked back, he saw some weird-looking guys, clutching weapons, hissing and climbing up the side of the boat from the water behind him.

snake!

   is a snake that walks upright!

  My God!

   Their weapons are also entwined with electric arc lightning.

   "Ha! I thought we were only going to play jump gangs, didn't we? Arrogant Kul Tirans!"

A hundred meters away, on the bow of the Black Teeth, Red Blackhand grinned and took off the sword on his back. He looked at the three merchant ships that were infiltrated and invaded from underwater by snake men, and his eyes were full of confusion. A tyranny.

   "Marines, get ready to jump!"

   Chief Blackhand yells:

   "Don't destroy those naval guns! Capture those human sailors alive! They are our property!"

   On the other side, under the sea.

  Blake stared at the sea above with a look of grief greater than death.

  Tonight, the performance of the undead pirates under his command can no longer be described as "clumsy".

   is a farce.

   Where is this a naval battle?

If it wasn't for a snake-man who could quickly travel through the water to the vicinity of a merchant ship, the three small boats with the advantages of speed and agility could use the method of "flying kites" to fly three small boats under their command only by navigating the gun positions. Ships are buried in the sea.

   Fortunately, he encountered a merchant ship with insufficient firepower. If it was a Kul Tiras standard battleship in front of him, Black would definitely immediately abandon his incompetent subordinates and sneak away alone.

   There is no chance of winning.

   And the battle scene that makes people laugh at the moment makes him wonder if his standard for picking his subordinates is too low?

   "Captain, why are you frowning? We won! The snake people are really powerful. The speed underwater is faster than the speed on land."

   First Officer Sefir was very excited. The ghost dragon looked at the flames lit above his head and the shouts from the pirates when they were fighting. Even a ghost of hers felt a surge of enthusiasm.

no way.

   Although he was born in the dragon family, Sefir had never observed the lives of mortals so carefully in his previous life, let alone intervened so actively.

   She doesn't understand naval battles, she just thinks it's fun to fight with a group of mortals.

"Ugh"

  Sefir's layman watching the excitement made Blake even more tired at this moment.

   He didn't even bother to explain this to his first mate.

   He turned the steering wheel under the water and let the Nagfar gallop at full speed in the other direction. He was very concerned about the ship that had left the merchant line before the battle.

   Judging from his experience.

  Either important things are on that ship, or there are people with unusual status on that ship.

   But either way, it managed to attract Blake's interest.

   "Sefir, you say, should I find some crew for the Nagfar?"

   In the full speed of the underwater battleship, the pirate rubbed his chin and said to the ghost dragon chief mate beside him:

   "It's the flagship anyway, it's always so empty, it doesn't feel very good."

   "Must be elite!"

  Sefir pushed his three-cornered hat, she said seriously:

   "My ship doesn't want that rubbish."

  Black nodded in agreement, he stared at the weird ship that was getting closer and closer, and said:

   "Well, that makes sense. Pick a time tomorrow and sift through the prisoners of war. Speaking of which, I suddenly think of a good idea that will definitely be interesting."

  Ps:

  Well, the content of yesterday's chapter was actually nothing. It is estimated that it was accompanied by the funny chapter name, which stimulated some readers and friends. Actually, don't worry.

  I have learned the lessons of the previous books, this book guarantees that there will never be a literary plot, a dark story of cannibalism, etc.

   This book is essentially light-hearted.

   So, don't be afraid of too dark content. Of course, I welcome brothers to put forward their opinions in this chapter. It's important to read and exchange opinions.

  Let's discuss rationally, in addition, the leader of the alliance is in the next month, I will save some manuscripts, love you.

   (end of this chapter)