Hearthstone Farm Lord

Chapter 537 Naval battle between the two countries (2) (thanks to the ruthless poor one for February, ticket)
The "Iris" is located at the leading position of the Anjou-Pirate Fleet. The [-] meters around the warship condensed into ice, and the warships behind had to bypass the ice and sail towards the Ryan Fleet in two directions.

The Anjou navy went to the east side of the ice, and the pirates went to the west side.

Windsor also made adjustments to the gunboats. The six gunboats formed a "eight" shape, with their muzzles aimed at the two fleets, and they did not spare any artillery fire to saturate the enemy.

Especially the Anjou and pirate warships driving at the forefront. These warships enjoyed the "special treatment" of the Ryan gunboat. They were battered by artillery and sunk directly.
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Cameron Shancha stood on the ice, commanding the army of mages and archers to deal with Khadgar and Isabelle Violet.

Julia Shancha, on the other hand, lay down on the ice and panted heavily.

It took nearly all of her magic power to create this large ice formation.

The mage legion and archer troops are enough to deal with the harassment of Khadgar and Isabel, and Cameron does not need to take action, so Cameron also took time to observe the "new warships" of the Ryan Navy.

Gradually, he discovered some clues.

Ryan's new warship is indeed a big killer on the ocean battlefield. The long-range weapons it carries have a long range, great power, and intensive firepower.

But it has a fatal weakness - its defense is almost zero.

The deck is full of long-range weapons, and the first floor of the hull has also been transformed into a muzzle.

This kind of defensive power will definitely be broken into two sections by a single impact of an ordinary warship!

Moreover, the people operating the artillery on the new warships are almost all ordinary people, and there are very few black iron ranks.

In other words, as long as one's own warship can rush to the side of the enemy's new warship, and the soldiers on the warship land and engage in boarding battle with the opponent, the war will undoubtedly be won!
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Having found a way to win, Cameron didn't hesitate.

He flew into the air and loudly commanded all the warships:

"Attention everyone! The enemy fleet's defense capability is very weak. As long as we are close to the ship, we will definitely win! All ships speed up, and the first warship to board the enemy fleet will be rewarded with 5 gold coins and sealed. Second class work!"

Then, Cameron Shancha activated his grudge defense, resisted a [Powerful Arcane Missile] from Khadgar, and landed on the ice in despair.
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Hearing Cameron Shancha's instructions, both the Anjou Fleet and the Pirate Fleet were refreshed!
The enemy's firepower is very fierce and good, so far they have sunk 2 large warships and 4 small warships.

But the enemy gunboats seldom have only 6 ships. They have hundreds of warships, and they can completely destroy their opponents by virtue of their numerical advantage!
And the reward of 5 gold coins is really too tempting!

So these captains evacuated the fleet tacitly, keeping a distance from each other to avoid being affected by range attacks.

At the same time, let the oarsmen in the oar room row hard, and the fleet rushed to the Lane Navy at the fastest speed, and the speed of the ship quickly reached 14 knots.

The Ryan Navy was naturally prepared, and the gunboats were still methodically focusing on the enemy warships driving at the forefront.

Moreover, the gunners on the gunboats were also smart. They aimed at the place where the warships connected with the water. Within a few minutes, they sank 7 more warships, large and small.

When the enemy's foremost battleship was less than 0.5 nautical miles away from his own gunboat, Windsor ordered the artillery to stop and the gunboat turned.

At the same time, eight thick oars protruded from the oar room and quickly slid to help the gunboat turn, and after the turn was completed, the distance from the enemy ship was shortened.
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Seeing that the Ryan gunboat was about to escape, the captains of the Anjou-Pirate coalition army were suddenly dumbfounded.

So the captains walked to the side one after another and loudly discussed the next move in "encrypted sentences".

After all, Commander Cameron Shancha is far away from them, and he can no longer help them at the front line. What to do next can only be decided by themselves.

"Eagle hunting? (Do you want to chase?)"

"Hans' pig head. (I think it's better not to chase it, and it's stupid.)"

"Hedgehog Group. (We should organize defense and wait and see what happens.)"

"Eagle predation! Gretel Medal! (Must catch up! We will get the rewards you don't get!)"

"Scurvy! Bloodletting! (They don't have the ability to fight back now, catch up and destroy them!)"

By the end, the cries of "Eagle Prey" prevailed, and most captains were inclined to give chase.

The other captains had no choice but to agree, and everyone pursued together.
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Almost all the oarsmen in the Lane gunboat oar room are warriors above the Black Iron rank, and many are Bronze rank.

Under their full oars, the speed of the gunboat is much faster than that of the Anjou fleet, the speed can reach [-] knots, and the peak can reach [-] knots.

So while the gunboat was moving forward, Windsor also commanded the gunboat to stop and shoot a few shots from time to time, using the "kite flying tactic" to keep a distance of about 1.0-1.3 nautical miles from the enemy ship.

The Anjou-pirate fleet, which was attacked by artillery fire, soared in anger and accelerated to catch up with the Ryan fleet.

But after chasing for a while, these captains found:

The distance between our own warships and the enemy's gunboats has not narrowed, and catching up with the enemy fleet seems as elusive as arriving at a mirage.

The captain of a pirate warship had sharp eyes. He noticed the clues from the black iron and bronze-level vindictiveness attached to the giant oars of the gunboat, so he shouted:
"Damn the Lane people! Their rowers are all good at fighting! Most of them are even bronze-level. We can't catch up with them! But they have the ability to stop the boat and attack us!"

The other captains also understood what was going on after hearing this, and cursed one after another:
"Sly fox!"

"Damn silly roe deer!"

"The son born by Biao Zi!"

But they also know very well that verbal abuse is useless, they can only live their mouths.

It is impossible to catch up now, and it is impossible for them to stop the ship and be beaten, so the captains discussed retreating one after another:

"Iris Family Spirit! (Retreat)"

"Iris Family Spirit! (Retreat)"

The Anjou-pirate allied forces turned their bows one after another, preparing to return to the side of the "Iris", and asked Commander Cameron what to do next.
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The Anjou Navy began to turn their bows and retreat, and Ryan's gunboat would certainly not let them go so easily.

The gunboat took the initiative to attack the most lagging warships.

These warships accelerated, trying to avoid the attack of the Lane gunboat, but they couldn't do it. The speed of the Lane gunboat was much faster than them.

Wanting to fight back, the Ryan gunboat immediately stopped the ship and focused fire on them, continuing to "fly the kite".

In this way, the Ryan gunboat chased and killed all the way.

The Anjou-Pirate coalition forces lost another 2 large warships and a dozen small warships during the evacuation.

Ryan's gunboat has also greatly increased its confidence, and the more it hits, the more smoothly it hits, and the hit rate of the shells is getting higher and higher.

(End of this chapter)