Rise of the Empire Total War

"The enemy's trebuchets are coming!"

Amidst the shrieking screams, the heavy boulders thrown from the Ansmara Navy rolled and flew towards the advancing First Fleet. The sailors on the sails were the first to notice and shouted to the sailors below. However, this did not allow the battleship to take evasive actions in time. In the sight of the sailors, a huge boulder fell from the sky and smashed into the sea next to the battleship, splashing a large amount of water, which almost wet the sailors standing on the side of the ship.

Perhaps it was because this was a tentative shooting. The boulders fired by the enemy basically fell into the sea, which relieved the sailors on the Hawker gunship. They hurriedly accelerated the speed of the battleship, and at the same time controlled the artillery deployed on the bow to shoot at the enemy. .

The distance between the warships of the two sides is getting shorter and shorter, and the accuracy of the boulders and crossbows projected by the Ansmara Navy is also increasing. A Hawker gunboat was targeted by three enemy ships while sailing at high speed. A large number of huge boulders flew towards it and hit the hull of the gunboat heavily, smashing the hull into a terrifying pothole, and the stones were immediately crushed. It bounced off and fell into the water. Just when the sailors on the ship thought they had escaped disaster, the huge ignited crossbow bolt flew at high speed, passing through the smashed pothole and hitting the ammunition depot inside the cabin. Seconds later, the ammunition depot was ignited, and there was a deafening explosion. The entire battleship was blasted from the middle, and everything on board, including the sailors and artillery, was blown to the sky.

The shock wave generated by the explosion spread rapidly to the surroundings, and the seawater scattered round and round. Several warships close to this unlucky warship were affected by the shock wave of the explosion, and the sailors on them were blown down one after another and fell on the deck. The fragments brought were heavily embedded in the surface of the battleship, smashing out small holes.

Wiping away the sea water pouring down from the sky, a sailor hurriedly climbed up from the slippery deck. He looked at the wreckage of the warship that had been shattered and slowly sinking in shock. A long red lump fell down and hung directly on his neck. The slippery and greasy touch immediately gave him goosebumps. He quickly reached out and pulled the lump off, holding it in front of his eyes. When I saw it, I was so shocked that my face turned pale, it was clearly the intestines of the person who was blown into the sky!

He quickly threw his intestines on the ground, and then ran to the side to retch, but he was destined to be unable to vomit anything. Just as he was bending over to cover his stomach and retched, several boulders fell from the sky and hit him heavily. On the deck of this battleship, the sailors on it who were unable to dodge were smashed to death. After killing several people, the boulder jumped out a few meters away according to the inertia, and the scene was full of blood.

Boom boom boom——

While being attacked by the enemy's ship-borne trebuchets, the Hawker gunboats also began to fight back. They used oblique tactics, turned the bow from a distance, aimed the side with multiple artillery at the enemy, and then fired salvos. The shells flew at high speed over the sea, and accurately hit the Ansmara warship less than 200 meters away from them. As long as it was hit by more than one shell, the warship was basically scrapped.

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The Hawker gunboats also moved obliquely to both sides of the Ansmara Navy. They advanced while bombarding, which not only shortened the distance between the two armies, but also prevented the enemy ships from catching up, so they could only endure the beating. A cannonball flew out of the muzzle that was bursting with flames, crossed the sea 100 meters away, and hit the catapult deployed on the deck of an Ansmara warship. The black cannonball smashed the wooden catapult into pieces. , sawdust flew across, and the surrounding Ansmara sailors were also killed by the splashed sawdust and debris, and fell to the ground screaming. among.

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As time went by, Ainsley Hurt, the Minister of the Navy of the Republic on the "Poseidon", finally felt that something was wrong. He looked around and found that there were fewer and fewer warships around the flagship, less than three points of the original One day, he quickly looked back, only to be shocked to find that there were already a large number of warship debris and sailor corpses floating on the sea behind him. Apart from the warships surrounding the flagship, there are fewer and fewer own warships on the battlefield.

He also discovered that before he knew it, the Holy Roman Empire Navy, which was originally much smaller in number than his own, had made a faint gesture of surrounding them. broadside bombarded their fleet.

"Damn it! We're going to be surrounded!"

He roared angrily, ignoring that the purpose of leading his army here was to prevent the Holy Roman Empire expeditionary force from landing, and quickly ordered the remaining fifty warships to turn around and retreat to the south. The south is the direction they came from. The enemy ships there are the weakest and the most suitable direction to break through.

However, the Holy Roman Empire Navy would not just watch them retreat. When they turned their direction, countless shells roared towards them, causing great chaos. The action caused several warships to collide with each other while turning, causing serious damage.

Taking advantage of this time, the First Fleet, which had already made a siege, rushed towards the chaotic Ansmara fleet while waving the colored flags, approaching and shooting. This undoubtedly further increased the chaos of the Ansmara people. At this moment, the warships huddled together and collided with each other. From time to time, someone fell from the deck and fell into the sea because of the violent collision. The ramming angle of the bow did not have any effect on the enemy, but was used to accidentally injure friendly troops.

In this chaotic situation, Ainsley's flagship became the target of the Hawker's gunboats because of its huge size. Almost every second, shells roared and hit the hull. The reinforced hull could not withstand the shells. The impact caused the entire ship to be smashed to pieces and crumbling. Although the sailors on the flagship still tenaciously operated the ship-borne ballista and trebuchets to counterattack the Hawker gunship, they still failed to reverse the situation. After more than ten minutes, the flagship was seriously damaged, and a large amount of seawater poured in along the gap, and the whole The ship sinks slowly,

The sailors on the ship turned over the ship's side and jumped into the sea one after another, trying to escape the sunken warship. They fell one after another like dumplings, splashing water. No one cared about them. The surviving warships were already in danger. They had no choice but to lower the flag of the Republic of Ansmara under the violent bombardment of the Hawker gunboat and replace it with a white flag. .

As agreed, as the first warship raised the white flag, more and more warships followed suit. Seeing this, the Hawker gunboat stopped shelling. They surrounded the Ansmara warships and docked beside the warships. They sent infantry equipped with flintlock guns to board their decks and quickly took over the surrendered warships.