Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 77

2021-01-23

Chapter 77 Ending
The sea was calm again, the waves swept away the planks and stumps, Outside the lighthouse harbor, there are hardly any traces of the fierce battle last night.

Only on the sandy beach along the harbour, the charred keels of the two fireboats were still smoking.

“…In the name of God, Son of God, and Holy Spirit, we hand over their remains to the sea, and wait for the sea to bring them back to life in eternal peace and tranquility in heaven.”

On the deck of the Glory, Lieutenant Admiral Nareshaw is giving his final speech.

After a brief mourning ceremony, the bodies of the sailors were carried out to sea from a springboard covered with military flags.

This is life on board, everything is frugal and rudimentary, and the manners and morals of land do not apply here.

With no coffins and no cemeteries, fallen sailors were sealed in sacks filled with stones and "sent" into the sea. The living are busy living, continuing to struggle on the hard and dangerous seas.

At the moment, Winters is leading the remaining soldiers of the First Hundred Men Squad to dig graves outside Lighthouse Harbor.

Until now, Antonio, who was patient everywhere, was resolutely unwilling to give in at the funeral. In any case, he refused to accept the more time-saving sea burial, and insisted on burying the remains of the fallen soldiers of the Third Legion on land. .

The soldiers of the army are not sailors. Sailors are used to all this and can accept the sea as their destination. But Antonio Impossible would not tolerate throwing his soldiers into the sea to feed the fish.

After Captain Wilson's death, Winters took over as Hundred-Men Commander of the 1st Hundred Men Squad.

The Hundred-Men Commander was a full-service officer's post, so Winters was only temporary until a new full-service officer was dispatched from Army Headquarters to replace him.

Although Winters, as a vested interest, finds it difficult to criticize, he still finds a serious flaw in the Army's current officer system - insufficient redundancy.

There is only one officer in a Hundred Men Squad. Once the officer is killed, the entire Hundred Men Squad will be disorganized, and the replacement of the officer will have to wait to be sent from Army Headquarters, which makes the entire chain of command. It became a delicate and fragile egg sculpture.

But since he's just a small warrant officer, Winters thinks it's better to let the people above him worry about it, he just wants to dig these dirt holes as soon as possible.

In the decisive battle at sea more than ten hours ago, the Veneta Navy had the last laugh.

While the Glory and Vengeance came into contact, the other naval ships behind the Glory did not come to support the flagship.

The captains made a calm judgment, the battlefield needs them more, they can only believe that the Glory can win the duel with the Revenge.

The galleys were in a tough fight when the main fleet of Veneta broke through the fireboats.

Because of their numerical inferiority, when one Veneta galley sets its boarding ramp on the Tanirian warship, there will be another or even several Tanirians. The Asian warship shot her with artillery.

As a result, the galleys not only needed to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Tanilla warships in the front, but also suffered artillery fire from behind.

The arrival of the main battleship of Veneta has completely changed this situation.

When the naval battle turns into a tug-of-war on a crowded deck, the one with the bigger nerves and more numbness to the pain wins.

In the end, the Tanirians could no longer endure such bloody battles. They were not a navy, but a fleet of pirates, adventurers and speculators.

They went to sea with greed for spills of war and bounty, and when they realized that the battle could not be won, all the Tanirian ships scrambled and started to flee.

Before the Vengeance gave up her resistance, the Tanirian fleet had completely collapsed.

The pirates who were still able to escape, lowered their full sails regardless, took advantage of strong winds and waves to push their speed to the limit, and fled to the dangerous Sea Territory in the east.

However, Speyer didn't get his wish, because Drake escaped.

Time goes back more than ten hours ago.

On the Vengeance in the fierce battle, the first floor of the poop has been captured by the sailors of the Golden Lion, but there is only a narrow ladder on the way to the second layer, and the sailors can't get up for a while. Momentum thwarted.

At the entrance of the ladder of the second layer, Drake swung a machete and stabbed it on the neck of a Veneta sailor, and then kicked the limp body downstairs, frantically saying with a smile: "Don't send your poor men to die, Speyer! If you have the guts, come up and fight me one-on-one!"

Of course Speyer downstairs won't believe in Dre K's nonsense, because the advantage is increasing infinitely so Speyer is even more impatient and impatient: "I'm not in a hurry, in fact I'm looking forward to slowing down time so that I can enjoy your despair a little more! Hahahaha! Don't jump down on your own initiative, and I won't fight you one-on-one if you jump down!"

Drake's voice became more flustered and exasperated: "Coward! Coward! [Incoherent vulgar words] ]!"

The dirtier the scolding upstairs, the louder Speyer laughed, as if enjoying Drake's last madness.

However, he silently urged his crew with gestures, and the two revolving guns on the side of the ship were removed by the sailors of the Golden Lion and carried into the cabin.

While scolding Drake, Speyer did not stop at all, quickly reloading the two revolving cannons.

"Wait, I'm going up!" Speyer shouted, pointing the revolving gun at the stairs.

"I'm waiting for you! [vulgar language]!" Drake cursed while igniting the potion in the iron pot full of gunpowder, he dragged his words Living in Speyer is to buy time to make this improvised bomb.

Si si's burning iron kettle was thrown down the stairs at the same time, and the two revolving cannons that Speyer had brought in were also fired. When I got to the second layer ship building, there was screaming upstairs.

The moment the revolving gun fired, Speyer also saw what was thrown upstairs, he immediately moved towards the lower cabin and ran towards the lower cabin, accompanied by Speyer's "Run!" The pot exploded, and the formidable power of the explosion could be clearly felt on the Glory next to it.

"You...you're so despicable!" Smoke filled the poop, Speyer swearing swear words in this conversation for the first time.

"Huh, aren't you the same?" Drake replied with a sneer.

"It's a pity that your iron thunder exploded in two pieces. You have no formidable power, you just hear a sound."

"Your cannons also hit the wood and didn't hurt. A few people."

The deep in one's heart of this pair of rivals is actually very clear, the two of them are essentially one kind of people, Drake is Speyer of Taniria, and Speyer is Drake of Veneta.

The poop fell silent, except for the sound of fighting from elsewhere on the ship.

"Surrender, Drake. You've come to a dead end, and you're definitely not going to survive, but I promise to give you a good time so you won't be caught and insulted." Speyer said this time Totally sincere.

Drake upstairs pressed the wound on his arm by the spinning cannon, subconsciously wanted to say a few harsh words to refute, but suddenly felt disheartened.

Speyer is right, the Veneta on the Vengeance is like a hot knife through butter, the Taniria fleet on the sea is collapsing, he lost thoroughly, for the first time in his life He really understood what things have reached a dead end.

Drake held his machete again, gritted his teeth and said word by word: "You never want to catch me alive!"

The machete was around his neck. In an instant, Drake heard his subordinates shout: "There is a ship! It's crashing!"

In the deep night, a dark galleon quietly entered the battlefield from the Northwest, Instead of engaging in the melee, she approached the Vengeance's starboard side and hit the Golden Lion at full speed.

With the violent crash, the galleon fiercely hit the middle of the Golden Lion. The huge inertia made the big ship ride directly on the Golden Lion. The weight is transferred to the keel and finally to the hull of the Golden Lion.

In the painful groan of the hull, the Golden Lion was crushed by the waist and broke in two.

A group of boarding fleet swayed ropes from the galleon and jumped to the deck of the Vengeance. The man at the head carried four reed guns and double-wielded machetes, sweeping the entire deck like a rainstorm. of Veneta.

Drake recognized the uniquely shaped galleon and the Berserker-like double-dagger dancer. He laughed wildly and shouted: "It's the fire bird! It's Captain Kenway! Hahahaha! You all have to die!"

The last men beside Drake heard the fire The name bird also rekindled the fighting intent and followed Drake downstairs.

However, Speyer and the Golden Lion's crew were forced back into the cabin by the fire bird's boarding fleet.

Drake grabbed the shoulders of the man headed by the boarding fleet, and said frantically: "You finally came to help me! Nareshaw is on the next boat, let's go get them all. Kill them all! We didn't lose this battle!"

The man took off his hood, and it was Edward James, another Legendary captain of the Federation who was still trying to stop the war at the last moment, and the rigging master. · Kenway.

"I didn't come to raise you." Edward didn't say anything nonsense, Fiercely punched Drake unconscious.

With Drake, the boarding fleet of the fire bird quickly returned to their ship, and then walked away.

The whole raid was as fast as thunder, what happened when the officers on the Glory had not reacted, the fire bird had already rescued Drake.

The warships chasing the fleeing enemy reported that they saw a large black ship sailing into the Sea Territory, and no ship dared to follow the fire bird into the reef area. The ships in the reef area are already doomed to sink, so there is no need to chase them in.

The battle has been won, and no sailor is willing to take the risk at the last moment.

In this battle, the Veneta fleet captured four warships, including the Tanirian fleet's flagship Vengeance, at the cost of the loss of seven galleys and three galleons. The ship and five armed merchant ships sank and burned one warship and three armed merchant ships, and the rest of the Tanirian ships escaped into the Dead Sea Territory east of Lighthouse Harbor, where they went unaccounted for.

The warships that the Tanirians snatched from Haidong Port have all been recaptured or sunk.

The Tanirians could no longer assemble such a fleet that could go head-to-head with the Veneta navy.

A real big win.

The three galleons lost were all ignited when they broke through the arson ship.

Fortunately, the Glory was not burned down. The gunners of the Vengeance struck the waterline of the Glory with heavy artillery, causing the Glory's cabin to flood and the hull to sink.

During the sinking of the hull, the sampans nailed to the bow also sank into the water, and the fire on the arsonist was extinguished. And the sailors of the Glory desperately blocked the hole under the waterline and rescued the flagship of the fleet from the edge of the sinking.

In this way, the Glory survived the accident by accident, which is very sad.

And those twenty-one troop transport ships, as Nareshaw said, were watching from a distance throughout the naval battle, and they were of no use.

Dusk the day after the Battle of Lighthouse Harbor.

"There's actually no way." Cage lay on the bed, and said nonchalantly, "I didn't expect them at first. When those troop transport ships were requisitioned, they were connected with the original captains and sailors. Of course, they want to save their own ship.”

Cage is now shaved off, and there is a horrible to see wound on his scalp, with more than a dozen stitches on the wound. .

Not surprisingly, with the qualifications in this battle, he will be able to smoothly be promoted from midshipman to adjutant - the Navy has lost a large number of officers in action, and it is also in need of people to fill the vacancies.

"I don't think that's the case." Bud mused, "I think for your navy, captain's initiative is very important. Army officers are used to obeying orders, while The captains of the navy make decisions by themselves most of the time. Last night, when the Glory was approaching the enemy, none of the warships came to the rescue, and they all went straight to the main battlefield. This shows that the captains of each ship have made a judgment Compared with the rescue of the flagship, the frontal battlefield is more important."

Cage grinned: "Your statement is new...but think about it, it's right, that's it. A lonely ship On the sea, surrounded by water, a ship is a kingdom, and the captain is the king."

"I think it's still the reason for the inconsistent orders, the captain of the merchant ship wanted to go to war, but the army officers on the ship Might be waiting for orders. Army officers like to go to war, but the captain of the merchant ship might want to protect the ship. We might have an easier fight if we could assign a full commander to every ship."

Andrei's upper bunk snored untimely, and he always felt sleepy listening to these military discussions on paper. He is practical and can only be understood through personal involvement.

"How is that possible? How could the Army listen to the Navy officers? The Navy wouldn't be willing to listen to the Army officers." Cage also yawned.

"But aren't we under the command of the Joint Command now? The Joint Command should have the power to appoint officers who can command both the Army and the Navy." Winters pondered, leaning against his arm.

"Forget it, don't talk about that. If that's the case, you Army officers shouldn't be here, but on the galley. Replace the galley sailors. Go to those merchant ships that have been requisitioned. This is the most reasonable arrangement, so that the entire fleet can exert its full battle strength. But in the end, why not take care of your army and put you on a big ship?"

Cage's remarks left Winters and Bud speechless.

"Don't talk about this, I just heard something." Cage also realized that the atmosphere had become a little awkward, and quickly changed the subject, sat up on the patted Winters' bunk, and said with a smirk: " I heard that you scared the sailors on the Golden Lion to piss their pants."

"This is too exaggerated, how can it be to that extent." Bud immediately defended his friends: " Who told you this?"

Cage slapped his thigh: "Do you still use someone else to tell me? The whole fleet has spread. I guess you will have a nickname soon. You If you're afraid that others will sound bad, you can come up with a nickname and I'll spread it out for you. Alas, I've always wanted a nickname..."

After Cage was stabbed in the head, It seems to have turned on the talkative personality.

Winters sighed, curled up on his side with his back to Cage, feeling only a stomach ache.

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