Logically speaking, with a distance of only one thousand meters, as far as the eye can see on the sea, and such a clear weather, it should be easy to get to that huge sea beast.【】
But in fact, the sea beast used some unknown method to make its body appear to be imaginary from a straight-up perspective. Only the watcher looking down from the mast at a bird's-eye view could tell the difference.
Some flaws.
Looking at the surprised eyes of Huang Yan and others, the captain smiled and said:
"Don't worry, as long as you can spot the sea beasts with your hands, there is nothing to fear. In fact, the most troublesome thing about sea beasts is their hiding ability. Almost every sea beast in this sea has a unique skill to hide itself. This is similar to
The ability to be invisible is not uncommon, and can be easily exploited from high places. In fact, the most dangerous thing is a kind of sea beast that lurks from the sea to the side of the boat and then suddenly appears. Because the color of their backs is very similar to the color of the sea water, it seems that
If you have poor eyesight with your hands, it will be easy to leak."
Huang Yan finally understood why sea beasts are the most dangerous. If there is no effective attack method, and a sea beast suddenly approaches the ship like this, no matter how strong the hull defense is, it will not be able to withstand the sea beasts' successive attacks. But now with artillery,
Even if a sea monster suddenly appears lurking next to the ship, you can use dense artillery to give the sea monster a fierce attack. A sea monster that receives such an attack at close range, no matter how strong its vitality is, may not be able to survive two or three rounds of combined attacks.
Sure enough, under the command of Wang Shou, the sea beast that had just approached within a hundred meters of the ship was immediately knocked out of stealth by a burst of artillery attacks. Only then did Huang Yan clearly realize that this sea beast was a huge sea snake.
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The sea snake, which had been attacked by a series of attacks, was obviously a little afraid of the power of the artillery. Therefore, after following the ship for a period of time at a distance of one hundred meters away, the sea snake got into the sea and left on its own.
"Captain, won't these sea beasts directly attack the bottom of the ship from the sea?" Huang Yan was a little worried, what if these sea beasts directly attacked the bottom of the ship?
"Haha, you can rest assured on this. The bottoms of ships going out to sea have been specially treated. Sea monsters will not attack from underwater. Even if it is a sneak attack, they will only appear when lurking on the side of the ship.
Attack on the water surface. Although I don’t know the reason, my seniors told me this when I went to sea. And I have been out at sea for so many years, and I have never seen a sea beast directly attacking the bottom of the ship.” The captain answered Huang Yan’s doubts,
This made Huang Yan feel at ease a lot.
Another unbelievable thing! However, there are too many strange things in the Dream Continent, and it is impossible for Huang Yan to find out the root cause of each one. Anyway, as long as you know that sea monsters will not directly attack the bottom of the ship, that will be fine.
"By the way, why didn't you continue to fire just now? I remember that the attack range of the artillery is more than a hundred meters. If we attack for two more rounds, wouldn't the sea beast be killed? There are still ships behind us.
." After one doubt was solved, Huang Yan had another doubt.
"Sea beasts cannot be killed casually!" The captain glanced at Huang Yan and said in a low tone, "This is the experience we gained with our lives after equipping the artillery."
"When they first got the artillery, many members on the ship felt that the opportunity for revenge had come. Once they found traces of the sea beast, they would use the artillery to kill the sea beast completely. However, the sea beast that was killed would use something we didn't know
The method is to summon its companions for revenge before dying. Therefore, in the first two years after getting the cannon, many ships were attacked and sunk by many sea beasts in turn."
"After discovering this incident, our strategy for dealing with sea beasts became mainly to drive them away. As long as the sea beasts find that they cannot be treated well, they will generally retreat on their own. Only those that invade us are very close.
We will only kill the sea monsters within the range of the sea monster as a last resort. Once we kill the sea monster, we think that this trip to sea will be full of risks. Because if you kill the first one, you have to kill the second one.
The third one is that we have to deal with a steady stream of attacks. The sea monsters coming for revenge are not willing to die. The biggest danger of going to sea now is actually here."
The captain's words made Huang Yan understand the dangers of going to sea. Just think about it and you will know how many indigenous people died and how many ships were destroyed before he came to the conclusion that he could not kill the sea monster.
The lookout's shout interrupted Huang Yan's thoughts again.
"On the left side of the ship, a very huge shadow is approaching at an extremely fast speed. The distance is seven hundred...six hundred and five...six hundred." The numbers in the lookout's mouth were rapidly decreasing.
"No, pay attention to the gunners on the left side of the hull. Set the scale between two hundred and three hundred meters and carry out coverage shooting. When the sea monster approaches three hundred meters, attack immediately." The captain gave the order decisively.
As I said just now, this kind of sea beast diving from the sea is the most dangerous. Especially this sea beast is incredibly fast, and it is not easy to intercept it. Therefore, the attack must start when the maximum range of the artillery is 300 meters.
attack.
As the lookout shouted the distance of "three hundred", the cannon on the left side of the ship roared. Although this sea monster was extremely fast, it could not swim out of a hundred meters at once.
The artillery on the left covers a full range of one hundred meters.
The sea beast under attack let out a cry of pain. However, it continued to charge forward regardless. This scene was beyond the captain's expectations.
Generally speaking, the vitality of this kind of sea beast that can sneak is much lower than that of the invisible sea beast. In addition, this stealth sea beast is a speed sea beast, so its vitality should be even lower. From the painful sound of the sea beast just now
It was judged that that round of shelling should have caused considerable damage to the opponent. But why didn't this sea beast retreat?
The attack frequency of the artillery was lower than that of the muskets used by Huang Yan and the others. In addition, the sea monster was incredibly fast. It even approached the ship before the second round of bombardment was ready. At this scene, the captain couldn't help but regret.
If I had known this, I should have left half of the artillery for the second phase of the attack. But at that time, facing such a fast sea monster, it was really not necessarily possible to hit it with the coverage of half the artillery.
Ten meters away on the left side of the boat, a huge "shark" suddenly jumped out of the water, aimed at the boat, and hit it.
