Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 200 Chapter 200 Debt Collection Action

Maritime traffic is not random. Although it seems that the sea is boundless, the routes are indeed numerous and fixed.

If you deviate from these routes, then there will not be so many ships passing by, and you can only be alone in distress.

What is even more depressing is that if you leave these routes, you may encounter more pirates, encounter unexplored reefs, and stay away from the monsoon, which will affect the navigation of ships.

For a long time, the poplar wood kingdom of the elves has been a naval power. They have better sailors and better ships, and they also have richer experience and a larger number of warships to maintain their lead.

Now is the season of returning home, countless ships are sailing at sea, and even some fleets can meet each other head to tail.

These ships carried steel and other materials purchased from all over the world, or directly carried gold coins, and returned to the Poplar Kingdom in this way, revitalizing the economy of the entire kingdom.

On a huge cargo ship, the sailor standing on the top of the sail squinted his eyes and saw a thick black smoke on the sea level.

He didn't know what it was, and immediately lowered his head and shouted to the others at his feet: "Look over there! Something is approaching over there! What is that?"

The sailors on the deck didn't understand the situation either, they hadn't seen the black smoke yet because they were lower down.

But soon, they already knew where the strange thing was, and they also noticed the billowing black smoke on the sea level, and two slender masts without sails.

"Where are their sails?" A sailor curiously asked the old sailor beside him when he saw the strange fast-moving ship.

The old sailor shook his head. He didn't know why a ship could sail rapidly on the sea without sails.

"It's approaching!" On the mast, the sailor in charge of looking out pointed at the strange ship in the distance and shouted loudly.Next to his ears, the flag of the huge poplar kingdom was fluttering in the wind.

"It can't be a pirate, right?" The adjutant who was holding the steering wheel at the back of the ship looked at the captain standing beside him.

The captain opened the binoculars and looked at the strange ship that was getting bigger and bigger on the sea level, and he was not sure: "I don't know. Saw that flag for the first time."

In his monocular, the battleship of the Datang Group flying the dragon flag was rushing towards them, apparently the other party had also spotted their whereabouts.

"But we have at least 10 armed merchant ships. Aren't they looking for death when they approach this way?" the adjutant looked forward and said with some uncertainty.

"It doesn't look like they're looking for trouble. If you come close like this, you'll be surrounded by us soon... This doesn't look like a naval battle." The captain also replied doubtfully.

Just as they were guessing, the captain put down the binoculars in his hand on the bridge of the battleship Burnas 1.

He looked at the officer beside him, and said: "Sound the battle alarm! Tell all positions to enter the battle state! Start aiming after the main gun is loaded!"

"All artillery starts to reload! The main gun is aimed!" The officer in charge of commanding the weapon approached the microphone and ordered loudly.

Accompanied by his order, in the small and closed space, a group of sailors skillfully pushed the prepared shells into the barrel, and quickly closed the breech block.

Then, the gunner in charge of aiming began to manipulate the artillery, aligning the scale with the scale calculated by the optical sight.

A mechanical computer is a good thing. It appeared a hundred years earlier than the real computer, but it can replace the computer to calculate rough artillery shooting parameters.

This kind of thing was installed on almost all warships before World War II. They can help shooters quickly calculate the angle of fire, and then let them control the artillery to hit the target as soon as possible.

Even so, it is very difficult to hit a moving ship target at sea. Often shooters have to throw first, and then correct the shooting angle to complete the attack that may hit the opponent.

If the opponent turns and gets rid of the straddle aim, then the parameters need to be reset and corrected again until the target is hit.

However, this is a situation where both sides fired at a distance of more than ten kilometers. Now the straight-line distance between Bunas 1 and the opponent's warship is no more than 10 kilometers.

Moreover, the Datang Group Navy, which has ironclad ships, has no intention of firing yet.They have to get closer to the target, and then show these poor elves that they are fully fired.

"Signage! Tell them that if they get closer, there is a danger of collision." Seeing the strange black ship getting closer and closer to him, the captain of the Yangmu Kingdom ordered vigilantly.

After finishing speaking, he added another sentence: "Let all sailors get ready and stand by at the gun positions! Get the gunpowder ready! At the same time, send a signal to the ships behind to get them ready for battle!"

"Understood!" A sailor walked to the back of the ship and began to wave the flag in his hand desperately to let the other party see his gestures clearly.

Soon, the ship behind also responded, the other side accelerated the speed, and also opened the gun ports on both sides.

The leading elf warship also gave way to its own course, and the two ships quickly moved side by side, posing as if they were going to pinch the monster ship rushing forward.

Kobnas 1 did not slow down, and even increased its speed to an extremely fast level close to 40 kilometers per hour, and the smoke from its two chimneys became thicker.

"The speed of the other party is so fast!" Although it is not easy to calculate the speed of the oncoming ship, many sailors of the elves still found the problem.

Even if they were walking towards each other, the other party shouldn't have gotten so close to such a distance so quickly.But before they were surprised, the opponent's strange ship couldn't hold back and opened fire directly.

The two oncoming shells roared and shattered the bow of the elf warship headed by it.The shell exploded just after it shattered the wooden shell of the ship, and the entire bow of the ship was blown away.

The long bow mast broke directly and plunged into the sea water in front of it, and the speed of the entire battleship instantly dropped to a level close to zero.

Because the explosion was too violent, the hull on the waterline turned into a pile of broken boards, and the underwater part of the bow was completely broken into parts.

Sea water poured into the hull in an instant, engulfing the cargo inside.Before the sailors in the warehouse could cry out, they were killed or stunned by the explosion, sucked into the sea water, and sank into the deep seabed.

This armed merchant ship carried gold coins and some saltpeter. The cargo itself was not heavy, otherwise it would have been impossible for it to lead the way.

But even so, it is now half-loaded, and soon the weight of the sea water and the cargo began to pull it toward the depths of the sea.

To make matters worse, the second mast on the bow also damaged the hull due to the explosion and broke under the action of the wind.

You only need to take a look at it to know that this armed merchant ship is finished...

The captain and first officer who were still preparing for battle at the stern were knocked to the ground by the explosion. When they finally stood up, they found that the bow of their warship had begun to sink.

Before they understood what was going on, they saw another armed merchant ship beside them begin to turn away from them.

Obviously, if they didn't get out of the way and showed the gun positions on the side, they couldn't attack the strange ship directly in front.

And at this moment, they have also confirmed that the other party is coming to attack them, and the other party is a... warship that they have never seen before!
"Quick! Quick! There are gold coins in the cabin! A box for gold coins!" After finally standing upright, the captain shouted loudly with an earthy face.

But the sailors on the deck had already panicked, and everyone had disregarded his orders and rammed around like headless flies.

After all, there were more than 70 slaves on board. These people were not combat units, nor had they been trained. The sudden explosion made them completely riot.

"Damn it!" the captain cursed, and then looked at the first officer: "Quick! Take people down! Save as much as you can! Gold! That gold!"

Just when he was in a mess, the captain of the elf race on another sailboat turned around, his eyes widened, and he looked at the bow of the strange black ship that was rushing towards him. A black device was slowly rotation.

As the thing slowly rotated, the two black tubes that had just spewed out flames turned towards him bit by bit.

He knew that they were two cannons, because he had just seen those two cannons firing, and he also knew that these two cannons did not seem to be the ones he had seen, or the Cyric cannons that were equipped on his ship.

Only a few seconds later, while he was stunned, the two cannons fired again, firing shells at the ship he was on.

Then, the ground shook, the floor under his feet burst open, and countless sawdust shredded his body.

Two shells directly hit the stern of the armed merchant ship, one shell exploded aft of the middle, and the other shell directly hit the watchtower of the ship.

As a result, the ship broke straight out of the middle, with severe flooding both aft and in the middle...

The captain of the armed merchant ship of the Yangmu Kingdom who was hit first was still trying to save the supplies he was carrying. This time, he witnessed the whole process of the explosion of the ship on his side.

Now, he is aware of a problem - the opponent's combat power seems to be beyond the ability of armed merchant ships like them to deal with.

What made him even more desperate was that the distance between the two sides was thousands of meters, and the opponent only fired 4 shots in total!

(End of this chapter)