Chapter 14 Giant ship VS dragon, epoch-making naval battle!
The firing principle of the 500mm main gun of the battleship that Crownpis advocated for the experiment is still the same as that of a ballista and a spear gun. The smoke is not a by-product of the explosive propulsion of gunpowder, but comes from the gun itself——
The method of making cannonballs is to use a material that has a certain strength but cannot withstand violent impacts (currently pottery is used) to make a hollow shell, stuff it with a necromantic fairy to summon, and then throw the sample into a certain burial ground.
After creating corpse pits and giving them a cemetery environment, they can give them the undead that they can use to continuously mass-produce corpses - the Plague Striker.
The Plague Striker can be made from ordinary corpses. It looks like a bloated corpse. It moves slowly and has no general attack capabilities. However, it will self-destruct after being attacked! The explosion does not produce anything like flames, but
Life-threatening negative energy - negative explosion!
Where is this kind of undead usually used?
The answer is to dig a trap, wait for the opponent to fall into the trap, and then drop the undead to blow them up.
In this way, the "warhead" problem of the artillery shell can be solved, but the "propellant powder" has not been solved. Although the large spring can give the tumbling artillery shell an effective range of nearly 700 meters, and the maximum range is close to a thousand meters -
However, Crounpis felt that this was still not exciting enough, and thought that since the undead also had a small amount of mp, and the amount of mp did not affect the power of self-destruction, wouldn't it make full use of the corpses to drain the MP before they self-destruct?
Therefore, according to the mp level of the Plague Striker, the zero-level magic that enchants multiple jets on the back seat of the main gun was prepared to be loaded by the Plague Striker as a cannonball, and then activated all at once.
Although the rocket launch mode was also considered, considering that the cannon would roll after being ejected from the chamber, the cannonball was too heavy and the tail fin could not stabilize it, so the jet propulsion magic could only be activated in the cannon bore, which resulted in the phenomenon of firing the cannon and spraying smoke.
Seeing the huge javelins falling into the water, and the cannonballs hitting the sea with bursts of purple-black explosions, Yayaka felt a little confused——
She has learned relevant knowledge about calibrated shooting, but how to calibrate firing when a command tower is used to direct the firing of multiple different weapons and the impact points are varied? This is also one of the bugs of the battleship.
Forget it, the spear guns and crossbows didn't look very effective when they hit those guys' scales. Instead, a small sea dragon that just touched the edge of the purple-black explosion let out a cry that seemed to be painful, and focused on those three.
The large triple turret has been calibrated.
And if he is accidentally bombarded by a salvo of battleships, Hailong will never give up!
However, they were confused for a while——
“Bang bang bang!”
“Bang bang bang!”
“Bang bang bang!”
The battleship's three triple turrets slightly rotated and adjusted their pitch angles, and continued to fire!
An ammunition delivery system similar to a water wheel is used internally. Under the continuous mechanical operation of a large group of undead, it can be fired as quickly as a magazine cannon!
Waves of purple-black explosions continued to explode around the sea dragons and on them!
The explosion also dyed the surrounding seawater black, setting off clusters of black-purple water columns rising into the sky, accompanied by half-human, half-snake creatures flying out in all directions! These half-human, half-snake creatures were floating on the sea, as if they had turned into corpses.
"Is that... a snake-shaped man? So there are so many things hidden in the surrounding sea?!" Yayaka's heart tightened.
What Yayaka saw was not a snake, but a demi-human named Naga. Unlike the snake, Naga was an amphibian, but the appearance of the two was indeed very similar, and inexperienced people would not be able to tell the difference.
Dragon scales are good things. They are strong and can be completely immune to attacks from spearguns and crossbows. They also have the ability to resist magic, but they have no immunity to these negative explosions that directly erode life.
If there is a sea dragon among them that can use faith-based magic, there may be a way to neutralize the negative energy, but unfortunately, the sea dragon is accustomed to taking advantage of the geographical advantages and points are all water-attribute ability points, so there is nothing that can be done for a while.
"Can we win?" Yayaka, who was almost broken, seemed to feel a little excited.
The nine main guns roared continuously, spitting out clouds of smoke, and the flying shells set off huge explosions on the sea. This naval battle mode subverted Yayaka's understanding of naval battles. This scene was simply too fascinating.
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But the sea dragons were not happy. It wasn't until the youngest sea dragon sank into the sea howling in pain that the sea dragons seemed to remember that they didn't come here to eat and explode for nothing?
Hai Long, the leader, yelled: "Get aboard! Don't let that ship leave safely!" At the same time, he opened his mouth and sprayed a stream of water dragon breath towards the battleship!
"Hoola!" The impact of high-pressure water suddenly exploded on the side of the battleship! The battleship shook greatly!
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" The other little sea dragons refused to admit defeat and sprayed water dragon breath, causing the battleship to rock back and forth, as if it was like a small boat that could be sunk by the sea at any time in a tsunami.
How strange that the battleship simply shook and showed no signs of sinking.
The constant bombardment of the sea dragon's breath has no effect on the undead crew members who can only mechanically repeat actions. They are still repeating the actions of loading and firing ammunition.
But Sea Dragon Breath's attack also had some effect: the swaying battleship, most of the shells and javelins fired lost their accuracy and fell into the sea water not close to the target.
Yayaka could only grit her teeth and hold on to the places on the bridge that she could hold on to, kneeling on one knee on the ground to prevent herself from falling.
Suddenly, she felt an unusual vibration mixed with the rocking of the ship, and she quickly rolled and crawled to the window and stuck half of her head out.
"Is this... the ship going to stop?"
It seemed that the ship had lost power. Perhaps the oars and rudder that she could not see were damaged. What she could confirm without using a probe was that the sails were probably also damaged by the dragon's breath.
Yayaka also saw something worse——
A row of Nagas gathered at the waterline of the ship. Some of them were scratching the outer wall with their claws. They probably wanted to climb up and board the ship, but the material of the ship was strong and smooth, so they couldn't get on; some of them couldn't get on.
He kept banging on the hull with the picked up javelin and his own weapons, probably trying to dig holes and sink it, but he couldn't even make scratches on the outer wall.
However, even so, the ship with all its power destroyed could no longer bring Yayaka back to land. Without food and fresh water, she could not persist until possible rescue. There is no such convenient thing as radar in this world.
Detection and search magic - it does not exist in the knowledge Yayaka learned.
The main guns, catapults, and spearguns are still roaring, but can the ammunition last until victory? I am alone and helpless. If the opponent is defeated, my comrades will definitely not give up.