Monarch of Evernight: One hundred and four baits
bsp;Qianye got into the turret and replaced the gunner inside. Then under his guidance, he quickly figured out how to operate the frigate's ballista.
The operation of the frigate's ballista is not complicated. The difficulty lies in the fact that the initial speed of the ballista's giant arrows is not very fast, and the flight time in the void is relatively long, giving the target relatively sufficient time to dodge. The Spider Demon Warship is exactly Taking advantage of this weakness, he successfully evaded attacks many times.
However, the giant arrow ballistae does not have high requirements for the Force array and ammunition, and its range is higher than that of ordinary Force cannons, so it is the first choice for high-speed and flexible warships such as frigates.
Qianye figured out the operation method, then shook the wheel handle, and the huge turret turned accordingly, pointing at the Spider Demon warship not far away.
The gunner next to "Master Qian Qianye" saw Qianye turning the turret with just his own strength. He was stunned and speechless.
The turret weighs several tons, and its rotation is assisted by the Force array. The gunner needs to activate the array first and then adjust the direction. The movement is relatively slow, which is why it is difficult to target the flexible Nerubian warship. However, Qianye actually used brute force to push the turret to rotate, which had already stunned the people around him.
In Qianye's hands, the heavy turret was like an ordinary city gate cannon. It turned around several times faster than usual. He concentrated on taking aim and pressed the pedal hard. The frigate was shaken again, and a crossbow bolt was like Fly away!
When the arrow was fired, the gunner and several loaders on the side suddenly looked strange. The accuracy was not a little off, but it was too off. It was dozens of meters away from the port side of the Nerubian battleship. The spider demon warship didn't need to adjust its course at all, and it wouldn't be hit.
Sure enough, the spider demon warship moved to the left and immediately returned to its original course, without continuing to move towards the ridiculously crooked crossbow arrow.
The gunners and loaders were silent for a moment. They were all direct descendants of Zhao Yuying. Due to the eldest lady's face and Qianye's identity, they did not dare to speak out some of their thoughts.
Qianye didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with his aim. The loader had just loaded a new crossbow and stepped on the pedal. This time, his accuracy was slightly better and he flew over the spider demon warship. Although the spider demon warship was startled, it still missed the target by more than ten meters.
After two arrows passed, Qianye still didn't realize that his artillery skills were not good enough, so he concentrated on aiming again.
In the bridge, Zhao Yuying shouted excitedly: "Well done!"
The captain was startled by this sound. Zhao Yuying turned around and said angrily: "Why are you so dazed? Why don't you speed up!"
The captain subconsciously raised the speed to the fastest, but he had doubts in his heart. The Nerubian warship was far more flexible than the frigate. Raising the speed to the highest speed meant that it was easier to be thrown away. There have been several incidents before. Similar situation.
However, after accelerating, the captain suddenly found that the distance between him and the spider demon warship was rapidly shortening. The onlookers' gunners and loaders noticed something. Qianye's extremely inaccurate ballista arrows were always waiting in front of the Nerubian warship when it wanted to change its course.
The Spider Demon Battleship seemed to be in a hurry. The next two turning movements became extremely obvious, but they were both forced back by the crossbow arrows fired by Qianye. Now it flew almost in a straight line.
Straight-line flight is all about pure speed, and the strange-shaped spider demon warship is naturally far from the opponent of the Zhao clan frigate. In the blink of an eye, the distance between the two ships shortened to only 500 meters! At such a close distance, Zhao Yuying was determined to carry the car up the mountain and directly bombard the deck.
Qianye finally got the right shot this time. A crossbow arrow shot out and hit the side of the spider demon warship. The hull was not damaged, but a joint attached to that part was shattered. At the same time, another nearby One of them has become less agile.
After this shot, the spider demon warship suddenly became less flexible, just like a spider missing its legs, but it had little effect.
However, Qianye shot another arrow. The arrow that was originally shot into the air hit again because the spider demon warship had to avoid a piece of landing ship debris. This time, it simply took away two limbs. What's terrible is that the three limbs that were blown away were all on the same side. The spider demon warship suddenly changed from nimble to clumsy, and its flight path became extremely unstable.
Facing an opponent who has lost his flexibility, there is no need for Qianye to do anything. Zhao clan’s well-trained crew can handle it. The frigate simply flew around the Nerubian warship, hand-held force cannons and crossbow bolts of various sizes continued to pour on the Nerubian warship, while nimbly avoiding counterattacks.
Qianye fired another ballista, destroying several of the side muzzles of the Spider Demon warship, greatly reducing its firepower.
The end of the Nerubian Battleship is doomed. However, the Nerubian warships have always been known for their thick armor, strength and reliability. They persisted for a while under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Zhao clan frigates before exploding.
The frigate flew around the wreckage and confirmed that everyone in the Nerubian battleship had been killed and there were no survivors. Then it turned around and rushed towards another battle circle.
After the initial chaos, the **** fleet left behind by the Empire's Third Fleet finally reacted. They formed small groups, covering each other and cooperating, and fighting with the Nerubian assault ship. The Imperial fleet's advantages in ship type matching, tactical coordination, and training quality finally began to show, and the Nerubian raiding ships were destroyed one after another.
After more than half of the battleships exploded, the spider demons finally couldn't bear the losses and began to retreat. But retreating is not that easy. Many of the **** ships of the family fleet are elite high-speed battleships, and their speed is faster than the spider demon battleship. After a pursuit, all four warships left behind by the spider demon raiding fleet were destroyed, and this was the end of the battle.
Qianye is sitting in the main turret. Counting in this battle, he has destroyed two spider demon warships and severely damaged one. For a warrior who controls the turret of a warship for the first time, this achievement is brilliant.
However, Qianye was not very happy, and his eyes fell on the porthole. There, a twisted steel plate was embedded, almost punching through the porthole. Half of the steel plate was burnt black, and half of the broken arm belonging to the spider demon was stuck on it, which was also burned like coke.
Most of this steel plate is embedded in the outer armor of the turret, and only a few centimeters are needed to completely penetrate the porthole. In that case, Qianye sitting in the turret would be in danger. With the speed and force of the steel plate flying at that time, he could only stop it with Dongyue, otherwise he would be injured. However, there is only room for a gunner to sit in the turret console, and he cannot even stand upright. How can there be room for him to wave the Dongyue?
The scale of this battle was not too big, but it made Qianye experience the danger and cruelty of a void fleet battle. On the stage of force cannons and giant ballistae, personal power is too fragile, and more often than not, it is helpless.
Another difference from land warfare is its casualty rate. Once the battleship explodes, it is completely impossible for ordinary warriors to survive in the void, while warrior-level warriors will have to try their luck.
Just like those spider demon battleships, according to their level, there should be at least one strong viscount-level person on board. However, this raiding team uses less to hit more. No matter how excellent the combat power of a single warship is, there are still enemies in the void around it. After the warship explodes, there will be no help at all.
After a big battle, Qianye saw three or four dark warriors escaping from the destroyed and crashed battleships. However, in the void, where could they escape among the imperial fleet group? In the end, they were captured. Kill them one by one.
The crossbow cannon originally used to deal with the battleship armor that was thicker than the city walls and fortresses was blasted on the body. Even though the spider demon was strong, it was shattered on the spot. On the void battlefield, only those who have reached the level of **** generals can single-handedly influence the situation of the battle. Most generals are lucky to be able to protect themselves.
No matter how good Zhao Yuying's ship control skills are, and no matter how good Qianye's artillery skills are, they can only entangle one or two warships, and have minimal impact on the entire battle situation.
Sitting in the turret, Qianye realized for the first time the insignificance and powerlessness of manpower in the vast void.
The battle is over, and after hastily cleaning the battlefield, the Imperial landing fleet embarks on the journey again, leaving only pieces of floating wreckage in the void. In this brutal battle, dozens of Empire transport ships were destroyed, and nearly 10,000 of the soldiers inside perished before they could reach the battlefield.
Although half of the lost transport ships belonged to small and medium-sized aristocratic families, and half belonged to noble families and poor families, the loss of personnel was still real.
The losses suffered by the spider demons were not small. This elite raiding fleet eventually lost more than half. In a fleet battle, this proportion of battle losses can be considered heavy. And in the first battleship that Qianye destroyed, the commanding Nerubian Maneuvering Skills were not inferior to Zhao Yuying in the slightest.
Qianye walked out of the turret, returned his position to the original gunner, walked onto the bridge, and looked out. At the end of the line of sight, the Wei family's fleet can be seen advancing at a constant speed. The Wei family is one of the two top-ranking families in the imperial fleet, but the size of the floating fleet can only be ranked fourth. Since the Far East Province is still at war, it needs to leave enough warships to ensure battlefield air supremacy.
However, apart from being slightly lacking in numbers, the Wei fleet is well-organized, obviously well-trained and very elite. Whether it is a battleship or a transport ship, they all belong to the military active service level. In the battle just now, after the spider demons had a little contact, they all wisely chose to avoid this hard bone.
On the other side, the airships used by warriors from small and medium-sized aristocratic families and poor noble families were much shabbier, and they did not have the faint killing momentum of the Wei family fleet. It seems that the fierce war in the Far East battlefield during this period brought not only losses to the Wei family, but also the baptism of war. It’s no wonder that in the history of the empire, there are always many people of insight who gave up the comfortable life in the interior and resolutely headed to the war-torn borders to expand territory.
In the silent void, the huge imperial landing fleet kept moving forward.
There was an experience of being raided. This time the overall speed of the Empire's landing fleet slowed down a bit and the formation was kept closer. After paying the price of blood and life, even the most unruly warriors fully understood the cruelty of the void battlefield, and thus honestly obeyed the command of the third fleet guide ship and no longer had their own way.
However, the Empire's Third Fleet did not send additional **** ships. The main squadron with terrifying combat power was hidden in some corner of the void.
On the bridge, Zhao Yuying handed over the work in hand to the captain, came to Qianye and said, "Well done! Next time I can rest assured that you can board the ship alone."
Qianye smiled bitterly: "I'm not a child."
Zhao Yuying's eyes widened and she said: "Back then, I saw your naked buttocks"
As long as this topic is brought up and I don’t know whether it is true or not, Qianye can only raise his hands in surrender and say: "Okay, whatever you say is what it is."
Zhao Yuying lit a cigarette, threw another one to Qianye, and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"Isn't it a rule not to smoke on an aerostat?"
Zhao Yuying looked disdainful: "Whatever the rules are, I am the biggest one on this ship now."
"Then other people can smoke too?"
"They dare! Unless you can beat me, who dares to break his legs!"
Qianye looked at Zhao Yuying and saw that she was taking it for granted. She didn't feel there was anything wrong with her blatant implementation of two sets of principles, so he knew not to instill in her the one of leading by example.
"By the way, Yuying, we encountered a surprise attack here, why didn't we increase the **** force?"
The void is extremely vast, and they are heading to another floating land in the void that has just been discovered. The current flight route is not a fixed route at all. It is unlikely to be a coincidence that the dark race warships attacked under such circumstances. Obviously, this imperial landing fleet has been decorated by the Yongye side, and there will definitely be a battle next.
Zhao Yuying blew out a smoke ring and watched it slowly rise into the sky. Then she patted Qianye on the shoulder and said, "Don't think about it, there will be no reinforcements."
Qianye frowned and said: "But with the current **** force, it doesn't need to be more. If there is another spider demon fleet like just now, we still can't avoid the loss of the transport ship."
Zhao Yuying sneered and said: "So what? Do you think the big shots above will care about this small loss? To put it bluntly, the vast majority of people in this fleet are just cannon fodder. Really? How can we rely on them to occupy the Void Floating Continent? Just like you and me, they are the main force in the battle, but they are not the decisive force."
Qianye’s eyebrows furrowed even more tightly. He understood what Zhao Yuying meant, and it wasn't that he didn't understand the reasoning behind it. He just felt that it was a bit hard to accept that so many well-trained warriors would give up just like that.
Zhao Yuying looked at Qianye's expression and said: "The key to this war is half on the floating land and half outside the floating land. The bosses of the empire's fleets probably want it most right now. The most important thing is to kill Yong Ye’s main fleet. It doesn’t matter if we lose the entire landing fleet. As long as we kill Yong Ye’s void combat power, the floating land will fall into the hands of the empire sooner or later.”
"The entire landing fleet is a decoy?!" Qianye still found it unbelievable, considering that there were hundreds of thousands of troops in this fleet.
"How is this impossible? If the bait is not strong enough, how can it be called a battle of national destiny?" Zhao Yuying sneered.
Qianye slowly calmed down, sighed, and said, "If you and I were in that position, we would probably make the same decision, right?"
Zhao Yuying looked out the window and said quietly: "Whenever you don't say this and do this directly, that means you have really grown up."
Qianye's heart skipped a beat. For some reason, the silver-haired figure suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. He now has more and more ways to see some imperial military reports, and every time he will unconsciously search for information about that person. Qianye didn't know what he was looking for, but when he repeatedly saw the same news about missing certain occasions due to injuries, he felt his heart tighten.
Qianye was silent for a while and sighed: "Maybe I am not suitable to lead the army. Going to the front line to fight is where I should be."
Zhao Yuying didn’t know what she was thinking of, and she looked a little sad and said: "No one wants to be a general, but someone has to sit in that position. So the person sitting on it may not be happy."