Iron Powder and Spellcasters Chapter 76

  Chapter 76 Out of Control and Fury

  When the Glory threw the hook line, the two warships immediately launched a long-range weapon fire. Heavy muskets, light muskets, hook guns, muskets, and even steel crossbows, stones, what is the use anyway.

  The gunshots sounded like popping beans, and both sides desperately shot more bullets and arrows into each other's boats.

  The army officer who climbed onto the platform was ordered by the regiment commander to ignore the enemies with muskets, but to suppress the revolving guns of the opponent.

   A few arms stretched out from behind the hull of the Vengeance, trying to cut the hook line.

   However, as the distance between the two sides narrowed, each time one of the hook lines was cut off, two more hook lines were caught on the side of the Vengeance.

  Veneta sailors shouted their horns and pulled the ropes, dragging the Vengeance closer to the Glory.

   Several sailors with amazing physical strength threw iron bombs on the deck of the Vengeance like throwing lead biscuits. After the explosions sounded one after another, the deck of the Vengeance wailed.

   Winters crouched behind the ship's side to avoid stray bullets and arrows, waiting for the jump gang's order.

   A few stray bullets even hit the hull in front of him, but got stuck in the hull and failed to penetrate the two-inch thick oak plank.

   Suddenly, all the sounds on the Vengeance disappeared strangely.

  The sound of gunshots, shouting and scolding, all the sounds disappeared, even the wailing disappeared.

   Winters, who was crouching behind the ship's side, noticed the difference, and the long-range firepower from the enemy ship not far away also disappeared along with the sound.

   He stuck his head out to observe and found that all the lights on the opposite boat had gone out. By the firelight of the Glory, he could see no one on the deck of the Vengeance.

   This quiet, dark ship looks eerie, like a ghost ship.

  More and more people on the Glory also noticed the strangeness of the other ship, and one sailor shouted excitedly: "We killed them all!"

   "Shut up!" The vicious captain rushed over and gave the sailor a big mouth, and then ordered the other sailors: "Turn off the lights on the boat! Move quickly!"

  Because the enemy could not be seen, the shooters on the Glory also stopped shooting. The two ships were slowly approaching in this gloomy and eerie atmosphere.

   When the distance between the two ships was only a few meters away, Chief Mate Karaman commanded loudly: "Put down the springboard!"

  The bow, waist and stern of the Glory protruded more than a dozen springboards, which were placed on the side of the Vengeance, fixing the two warships together.

   First Officer Klarman stood up, pulled out his saber and roared: "Long live ace Nick!"

  [HuzzahforWildcardNick!]

  [Ace Nick is Nareshaw's nickname]

  The sailors cheered loudly.

   Karaman was the first, with the sailors following him, rushing to the deck of the Vengeance.

  Captain Wilson shouted the battle cry of the Third Legion: "Great Veneta!"

   Winters, Bud and Andre, and all the soldiers shouted "Kazar!" in unison in response to the captain, and followed Wilson to the deck of the Vengeance.

   Yet the deck of the Vengeance was still empty and dead.

   "We really killed them all!" said the sailor just now in disbelief.

   There was a loud bang, and dozens of shotgun shells set off a **** storm on the deck of the Vengeance.

  The Tanirians pushed the heavy artillery to the position facing their deck, and took the lives of more than a dozen Veneta with one shot.

   Signaled by the roar of heavy artillery, the guns blared loudly, and the Vengeance launched a full-scale counterattack.

   The dark muzzles and muzzles protruded from the ship buildings on both sides of the bow and stern, pouring ammunition towards the Veneta people on the deck.

   The Vengeance's artillery deck bombarded the Glory's hull at close range. Because it did not carry a gunner, the Glory skipped the process of firing the naval guns directly, but the gunner of the Revenge was on board.

   This close combat is when the short-barreled cannons on the warships can exert their greatest power. The sixteen-pound and thirty-two-pound heavy artillery roared, making one terrifying wound after another on the Glory's hull.

   "What are your subordinates doing?!" On the stern of the Glory, Antonio shouted angrily at Lieutenant Colonel Conter: "Don't attack the ship building, hide behind the cover and wait to die?"

   Lieutenant Colonel Contell wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "When suddenly attacked, people's instinct is to hide in a safe place."

The deck of the   Vengeance was in chaos, the sailors and soldiers only felt that countless bullets were coming at them, the army and the navy were mixed, and both sides were disorganized.

"They're in the building! Attack the building! Attack the building!" Captain Wilson was furious when he saw his soldiers hiding behind cover, and he pulled out the soldiers who were curled up behind the debris on the deck. : "Don't hide here! Go attack the ship..."

   Before he could finish his sentence, a lead shot was shot from the left side of his neck, shattering his cervical vertebrae and causing a terrible wound on the right side of his neck.

   Wilson's body softened and fell on the deck of the Revenge.

   "First kill me who wears officers' uniforms!" Drake in the **** laughed loudly: "Reload fast, fast reload!"

   During land battles, officers will be protected in a phalanx. However, these professional soldiers in beautiful clothes are very conspicuous when fighting on the deck at close range.

The crew of the    Vengeance felt that the situation at this time was extremely strange, because this tactic of hiding in the ship building was obviously invented by the Navy.

   In the past, when the pirates in the inner sea tried to help the Veneta Navy, even if the number of pirates had an advantage, as long as the navy turtles retreated into the ship building, the pirates could not help them.

   Guarded in a sturdy ship building, the Veneta Navy can defeat pirates in the inner sea with one enemy, two, or even three.

   At this moment, the situation was completely reversed. The pirates were entrenched in the ship's building, and the navy was beaten on the deck.

  Winters saw a blood spurt from Wilson's neck and rushed to the captain's side regardless of the buckshot. It doesn't make any sense though, the captain is dead.

  The centurion was killed in action, and the command system of the 100th was incapacitated. Someone had to step up to replace Wilson.

   Musket, cannon, wailing, shouting huddled up on the deck where nothing could be heard, and a deafening voice drowned out all the others.

   "Attack the ship building! Everyone attack the ship building!"

   Winters used all his magic power to release the amplification technique for the first time, and shouted: "The three armies attack the stern! The sailors attack the bow!"

   General Taylor is right! The most useful spell on the battlefield is really Amplification!

The   killing spell has little effect on the battlefield of hundreds or thousands of people. How many people can the caster kill? ten? a hundred? Five hundred? Amplification can organize soldiers to help you kill people on a chaotic battlefield.

   "The 100th! Come with me!" Bud roared and dragged the two soldiers crouching behind the barrels and rushed to the poop.

  Andre followed him with his saber: "Kill!"

   Winters repeated it three times in a row, the first time he used all his magic power to release the amplification technique. The intense phantom limb pain made him feel like his body was being blown up three times in a row like a skin sac.

   He couldn't even stand, his hands were shaking constantly, and the skin all over his body was sweating uncontrollably.

   Fortunately, these three unquestionable orders have been heard by all Veneta people, and they are heard clearly. The sailors and soldiers just needed someone to tell them what to do, and they heard Winters' orders.

   First a few took the lead, then most followed the directions.

   Sailors rushed to the poop, and the 100th team rushed to the poop.

"This is evil! Witchcraft! Black magic!" The furious Drake grabbed the gunner's collar and shouted hysterically. backbone.

  Drake pushed the gunner back to the cannon: "Fire! Fire me! Kill me these wizards!"

   Winters smashed his thigh twice with the handle of the knife, suppressing the phantom limb pain with real physical pain, and after regaining a few traces of sobriety, he stood up and ran to the poop.

   At this time, on the side of the poop, the attack of the 100th team encountered a setback. The ship building on the warship is a fortress at sea, and the 100th soldiers who only came with short knives have no means of attacking the city.

  Andre and another tall soldier were slamming against the gate of the ship building, but the wooden door remained motionless.

   On the second and third floors of the ship building, people kept shooting at the army soldiers below with muskets. Bud had taken an arquebus from an unknown body and was struggling to reload.

   "Don't hit it! Can't hit it! It must be blocked with something inside!" Winters grabbed Andre.

   "What should I do then? You hold me up and I turn in from the second-floor window?" Andre didn't know what to do.

   "Are you courting death? You can chop off your hand if you pick up the muzzle pirate!"

   "Then what should I do?" Andre was completely helpless.

   Winters carefully recalled the structure of the Glory. This ship was a warship robbed by pirates, and its structure must be similar to that of the Glory: "Look for the entrance to the cabin! The cabin and the building are connected!"

   "Sir! Here!" a soldier shouted: "It can't be opened, it is blocked inside."

  Winters strode over, and on the deck was a square entrance about one and a half meters long. A wooden board was firmly on top of it, blocking the entrance to the cabin.

"Everyone who weighs more than 160 pounds, stand up! Hurry up!" Winters stood on the wooden board at the hatch of the ship and pulled Andre up, and the other tall and strong soldiers were also pulled up by him. this board.

  Bud led a few soldiers who could use muskets to suppress the shooters upstairs and cover Winters and the others.

   "Listen to my one and two passwords, everyone jumps together! Jump hard, jump high!" Winters didn't have time to explain the emergency, and shouted and ordered: "When I call two, just jump!"

   "One, two!" Everyone jumped unevenly, and the wooden board made a creaking sound.

  Andre understood what Winters was thinking, and he scolded him sharply: "Whoever can't jump, I will kill you!"

   "One, two!" The wooden board groaned in pain, and there seemed to be a cracking sound from the bottom of the wooden board.

   "One, two!" Everyone jumped more and more neatly, landing almost at the same time.

   "One, two!" With a loud noise, the wooden planks and the pillars bearing the planks below broke together, and all the people standing on the wooden planks fell into the cabin.

   "Ah! Ah! My arm!" cried a soldier.

   Before he could check his injuries, Winters got up and looked inside the cabin.

  The pirate gunner on the artillery deck below the open deck heard the sound from the hatch, and approached the hatch without knowing it, and suddenly saw six or seven soldiers falling from above, also stunned.

   "Kill!" Winters had no weapon in his hand, and threw himself towards the Tanirians in front of him.

  The pirate gunner was knocked down by Winters, and Winters couldn't take care of the other enemies beside him, and smashed his fist into the face and throat of the opponent.

  The other soldiers also came back to their senses and rushed to the enemy in the artillery deck to fight.

The    artillery deck was less than two meters high, and other soldiers on the deck also jumped down one after another, and a **** battle started on the artillery deck.

The skinny pirate under his body was bloodied and confused by several punches aimed at the bridge of the nose and throat by Winters. .

  Dirty hands scratched bloodstains on Winters' face. This was not a fight, it was just two desperate people struggling to survive.

  The violent side of Winters' temperament was aroused. He ignored the opponent's hand movements, pressed his knees against the opponent's chest, pulled out the machete around the opponent's waist, and wiped the pirate's neck directly.

  This machete is poorly maintained, so the bite is stronger. Pressing the back of the knife, he dragged and cut from the root to the tip, the wound was as deep as the cervical vertebrae, and almost cut off the pirate's head.

   The pirate gunner died instantly.

  Winters chopped another knife towards the wound to break the bones, stepped on the torso, and pulled the hair with his hands to tear off the last flesh between the necks, directly taking off the pirate's head.

  Winters, like a **** man, held the pirate's head in his left hand and a machete in his right, roaring to find a new opponent. The pirates on the artillery deck were so frightened by this demon-like killer that their morale completely collapsed, and they rolled and crawled to the lower cabin.

   "Hey! You kid... I'm going to have nightmares at night this month!" A deep male voice came, and a pair of big hands took the pirate's head from Winters and threw it aside.

The officer who spoke    took out his handkerchief and wiped the blood on Winters' face: "If you don't want to carry an ugly nickname all your life, you **** will stop doing this kind of thing in the future."

   Winters, recovering from his rage, recognized the face, a face he had only met, Captain Speyer of the Golden Lion.

  It turned out that the Golden Lion found an embarrassing situation after approaching the Revenge. Because the freeboard of the Revenge was too high, the boarding springboard of the Golden Lion could not be hung on the side of the ship.

   In desperation, Speyer had to order the springboard to be hung on the gun door. He had just led the crew to climb into the gun deck of the Vengeance from the gun muzzle when he saw this in front of him.

   Winters looked around, the soldiers and sailors bowed their heads in fear, not daring to look at him.

   He panted heavily, trying his best to suppress the blood surging in his chest.

  Bud came over and hugged Winters' shoulders, patted him on the back, and signaled that he was okay.

   "What's the situation on the ship now?" Speyer asked directly without talking nonsense.

   "The Tanirians are guarding the building, and I want to attack from the cabin." Winters answered succinctly.

   "You lead your people to clean up the remaining enemies in the cabin, and the enemies in the building are handed over to my people." Speyer looked into Winters' eyes and asked, "Is there a problem?"

  Andre was a little dissatisfied, but Winters had no intention of competing with Speyer at the moment. Since the other party was willing to gnaw on hard bones, of course it would be better. He signaled that Andre was okay, and Andre snorted and said nothing more.

   "The deck will be handed over to Your Excellency." Winters nodded to Speyer.

  Speier looked at the young man in front of him, and for the first time since joining the army, he gave the army officer a military salute: "Don't have an accident, I'll treat you to a drink after this battle."

   After he finished speaking, he turned and led his subordinates to the ladder leading to the ship's building, shouting to his subordinates, "One gold coin per head! But leave this **** Drake to me!"

The crew of the   Golden Lion kept crawling up from the muzzle, and a crew member gave Winters a water bladder as he approached him.

   Winters didn't see who this man was. He felt thirsty, but he refrained from drinking, and gave the water bladder to the soldiers.

Third Corps, Chief Brigade, 100th, Interim Commander Warrant Officer Montagne wiped the blood from the knife and said to the soldiers who followed him: "Come on! Follow me and finish the rest of the work. ."

   [About the nickname of General Nareshaw. Because Nareshaw is good at poker and all gambling items, everyone calls him [Shark Nick] and [Old Thousand Nick] behind his back, but no one dares to call him like that in front of his face, so they all use another awe-inspiring title [ace Nick Wildcard] ], which means you never know what Nareshaw has in his hand until he opens his hole card]

[When the galleon is jumped, sticking to the ship's building can often defeat the number of boardings. The Spanish galleon used this tactic when encountering pirates in the Southeast Asian waters. Both ronin and Chinese pirates jumped on Spain. The man's deck, but could not enter the ship building, was continuously killed by muskets and artillery, and finally had no choice but to retreat. The Venetians also used this tactic. But it's all the information in my memory, I can't remember the source, but I can guarantee that it's not a rant]

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