rise of empire total war

Chapter 403
On the surface of the South Osa Sea, there are already a large number of corpses and broken boards floating. The originally blue sea surface was stained dark red by blood. Countless sharks happily wandered in it, enjoying the bloody smell and delicious food that lured fish. human flesh.

Not far away, the battle is still going on.Many Hawker gunboats have already escaped from the siege. Although their armed sailors suffered heavy casualties, they still killed all the enemies who jumped on the deck. The deck was full of corpses, and the blood even soaked the ankles of the survivors. Slowly dripping into the cabin, the air is filled with a strong smell of blood, accompanied by the unique salty smell of the ocean.

After several hours of fighting, no less than [-] enemy ships have been sunk and hundreds of enemies have been killed, but they also paid a heavy price. The ammunition depot of a gunboat was hit by a giant crossbow fired by the enemy. The flame on the ship ignited the gunpowder inside, causing the entire ship to explode from the inside. Everything on the ship, whether it was the Winsters or the Union sailors who attacked the deck, was blown to pieces. The violent explosion also spread to the surrounding area. Several Alliance warships.

In addition, because there were three gunboats that could not get rid of the siege of the enemy, in order to prevent the artillery on the ship from falling into the hands of the enemy, the surviving sailors ignited the ammunition depots and died together with the enemy.

Under the terrifying weapons of the Winster fleet, the sailors of the Alliance were dispirited. They had no intention of continuing to fight, but they had nowhere to escape. Sea battles were no match for land battles. They could easily escape when they lost a land battle, but in this vast In the sea, they had no choice but to abandon the boat and flee, and then died in the belly of the fish.

"fire!"

After breaking away from the siege of the alliance warships, the Hawker gunboat quickly distanced itself from them by taking advantage of its more flexibility, and pointed its side at the enemy ship that was catching up. The artillery shells accurately hit the hull of the alliance warship in a short-range salvo, blasting the wood on the surface of the warship to pieces. This is not the end, one of the shells just hit the draft of the enemy ship, breaking a hole on it. There was a big hole, and the surrounding seawater poured into the hull like crazy.

The cabin was flooded with water. The alliance sailors ignored the enemy and picked up all available tools to fill the gap. However, while they were busy, the second round of shelling came in an instant, and four shells It easily pierced through the wooden hull and wreaked havoc in the cabin. The crowded crowd inside was instantly plowed out a bloody path, their bodies were beaten to pieces, and the entire cabin was as cruel and bloody as a slaughterhouse.

"Damn it! What kind of terrifying weapon is this? We can't defeat them at all!" On the deck of the damaged warship, the captain hid behind the side of the ship, directing the sailors to use the ship's ballista to fight back, and cursed at the same time. He has been in the army for nearly ten years. , this is the first time he has encountered such a powerful opponent.

At this time, a blood-stained sailor ran up to him, slipped and fell directly in front of him. He didn't care to get up, and lay down on the ground, shouting in horror : "Captain, there are four more big holes in the cabin, and a lot of water has entered. Our people were attacked while repairing the gaps, and many people were killed!"

"What?" The captain was shocked, and he stood up straight away, but at this moment, he heard a harsh sound of wood breaking, the warship shook violently, and the entire hull tilted sharply to the left.The captain didn't take any precautions, and was thrown out in an instant, and fell into the icy sea water with a scream. He stuck his head out of the sea water with a plop, panting heavily, and when he was relieved, he hurriedly turned to look Looking towards his warship, he saw that half of his warship had sunk into the sea. The sailors screamed and grabbed the right side of the ship to prevent themselves from falling into the sea.

"Damn, why did it become like this?"

Thinking in his heart, he saw a large piece of floating wooden board not far away. The board could bear the weight of him alone, but when he was swimming towards the board, he suddenly saw a few triangles from the corner of his eye The dorsal fin swam towards him quickly, the captain was terrified and speeded up quickly, but how could he swim faster than the fish alone, in just a few seconds, he found desperately that he was surrounded by four sharks.

The four sharks swam around him, but they were not in a hurry to pounce on him. The captain's heart was occupied by despair. He wanted to scream, but his throat was suddenly blocked by something, and he couldn't make any sound. He didn't dare to continue. Swimming towards the board, he could only watch helplessly as the circle around him became smaller and smaller.

About 1 minute later, the blood came up and dyed the small piece of seawater red, and the four sharks also swam to the direction of the sunken ship with satisfaction, because there was plenty of food there for them to have a full meal.

This is just an insignificant episode.Since breaking away from the docking battle, the Hawker gunship has been bombarding the alliance warships chasing them with the advantage of artillery. A large number of warships sank to the bottom of the sea, and the sailors on them were hunted and killed by sharks wandering in the sea. The slaves on board the ship were even more miserable. They could only look desperately at the seawater pouring into the cabin, drowning alive in it.

Facing the artillery of the Winster fleet, the Union naval commander Rodney finally made up his mind to retreat. Since his flagship had been trying to avoid rushing to the forefront, the flagship suffered very little "care" and only one shell happened to hit it. Go through the tower on the deck and smash the ballista inside to pieces.

He stood on the deck, looking at the sunken ship, broken boards and floating corpses everywhere on the sea, he was completely devoid of fighting spirit. He shouted to order the flag bearer to issue a retreat order, and then called to the adjutant to tell the slaves in the cabin to move faster. retreat in the opposite direction.The retreat of the flagship was quickly witnessed by the warships that were chasing or about to retreat. These captains quickly ordered to retreat together, but the retreat of the warships was so fast. The Hawker gunboat also seized this opportunity to continue to the retreating fleet. The shelling instantly disrupted their retreat plan.

"Pursuit! Leave all the enemies in this sea to feed the fish!"

Sigurd shouted loudly, and his order was also passed on to the other warships by the standard bearer, and the captains of the ships immediately ordered to set sail and pursue them. The ship was still faster, and those lagging enemy ships were quickly caught up. Under the command of the captain, the Hawker gunboat slammed into the fleeing galley warship, forcing the opponent to slow down. Immediately afterwards, the muskets deployed on the deck The sailors stood in line, pointing their loaded guns at the Union ships opposite, and they didn't need to aim at all, because the enemy sailors were all crowded on the deck in a mess.

bang bang bang-

Flames and gunpowder smoke spewed out from the muzzle, and more than a dozen sailors fell down on the deck of the enemy ship. The rest were even more panicked and had no intention of resisting. As the first man dropped his weapon and knelt down to surrender, more and more people The people also knelt down and surrendered.

(End of this chapter)