Chapter 15: Sea monsters counterattack

"I don't know!" the first mate replied anxiously: "The enemy's warships were not seen on the sea, and the shells were not flying from the direction of the city."

"Can't see?" Jim thought for a moment and immediately understood: "Calculate the ballistic immediately, speculate on the possible target position, and then use artillery fire to conduct a tentative attack. The Frost Rose Alliance warship has a mirage system. Although it cannot be completely invisible, it is difficult to find at this distance. Let the lookout hand pay attention to the sea near the bounce point, and the splash of water will make them appear."

"I understand." The first mate quickly began to convey the order, and the people on the battleship quickly implemented it. However, after the shell trajectory was calculated, the sighting personnel did not give the data to the gunner, but reported it to the first mate again. After reading it, the first mate said to Jim with some uncertainty: "Captain..."

"What's wrong? Why not fire?"

"This..." The first mate handed Jim the ballistic calculation result.

Jim took the paper and looked at it, then suddenly looked up at the first mate in surprise. "Are you doing it wrong? The shells came from one hundred and seventy kilometers away?"

"I have reviewed it twice." The first mate said helplessly: "Not to mention the mirage system at this distance, even if an aircraft carrier is parked there, it is invisible!"

"If we can't see, how do the enemy see it?"

"Report, I found the enemy's sighting ship." The lookout hand suddenly screamed.

Now there is no need for the first mate to explain. Jim said to himself: "Do you see the sighting ship? They can actually make this thing!"

The second deputy hesitated and said, "The sighting ship requires an instant communication system, a super-magnification observation mirror and a triangular positioning system. Is this too exaggerated? Does the Frost Rose League have so many confidential technologies?"

Jim calmed down a little and said, "It's not a confidential technology. I heard that the Frost Rose League and the German Iron Crusaders have a good relationship. The Iron Crusaders' large-scale sight sighting technology has been very perfect. It's not surprising that the Frost Rose League can be bought. As for triangular positioning technology, it's just a pediatric thing. It can be done with a ruler and a tricenter. As for instant communication technology, I heard that they have already had it. It seems to be a technology based on crystal resonance. I heard that it also integrates magic array theory, which can not only transmit sound, but also image."

The first mate immediately said distressedly: "What should we do? Our cannon range cannot reach this far, and even if it is enough, it cannot aim!"

Just when the US fleet was extremely distressed, in the Sino-Germany mixed fleet 170 kilometers away, the King of Chuang was sitting proudly in the command seat watching the sailors busy performing system corrections.

The correspondent shouted: "The leading reconnaissance ship reported that the first hit the tail deck of the Liberty. The damage was minor. Feedback data: coordinates one plus three seconds, coordinates two plus seven seconds, coordinates three shrink one minute, coordinates four..."

The second deputy listened to the report and issued a skillful order: "Each ship allocates its targets according to the plan, loads high-explosive armor-piercing bombs, and fires a round of volleys."

"Yes. High-explosive armor-piercing bombs were fired in a round."

A large number of warships with the flags of the Frost Rose League and the Iron Crusader flag began to turn, and all the large main battleships in the entire fleet were deployed horizontally, and the main guns in the front and rear turned to aim at the group of warships in the distance.

The second deputy ordered again: "The leading ship assisted in correcting the data."

"Revised. Feedback data. Report: The enemy target begins to turn, all warships have an instantaneous hand added six and a half seconds, and the effective time is seven seconds. Six, five..."

The second deputy immediately ordered: "Arson the shelling, rush ahead."

The cannons of all warships immediately turned right a little and almost invisible. The human eye could not see the angle of six seconds. After the rotation was in place, the timer was still counting down three, two, one. Just as the number zero was shouted out, the main guns of all the main ships roared at the same time. The huge super caliber naval guns shot out conical white smoke rings one by one. The terrifying muzzle flames could often spray out more than seven meters, and the shell weighing more than half a ton was already dozens of kilometers away.

Jim was still shouting the warship and turning around. Suddenly, a terrifying scream sounded in the air. The first mate immediately pressed Jim under his body. With a loud bang, the Freedom, as the flagship, shaking violently, and then made a huge metal twist, slowly sliding down the sea like a giant beast roaring unwillingly. Jim survived under the protection of the brave NPC mate's weak body, but the poor First mate was smashed into a pile of rotten meat by glass fragments and a blown steel bar. The poor Freedom was completely finished. For the explosion armor-piercing bomb that hit directly, the Freedom's armor was too thin!

Not only the Liberty was hit. Almost one-fifth of the main battleships in the fleet were named, and the shooting rate of shells was as high as 95%, and almost no one was missed. Any warship that became the target could still persist after the baptism of shells. Except for the Super Sea Overlord heavy armored assault ship with super armor protection, all targets in this round of attacks should not be sunk.

Jim teleported to the warship next to him before the warship completely sank. This is the benefit of the magic sea battleground. The warships have teleportation arrays, and at least the personnel are transferred faster. Jim, who boarded the backup command ship Kamandra, shouted in anger: "All warships have completed half-spin and accelerated the impact. After closer, they will fight back with all their might. Quick destroyer. Kill that sightseeing ship for me."

This is the only opportunity. Even our guild warships cannot do such an out-of-visual range attack without observing the sight. There is no radar in the magic era. If the enemy cannot be seen at this distance, it is impossible to attack. However, we have leading reconnaissance ships. These specially modified little guys are actually super-high-speed hydrofoil boats. They can often run faster than torpedoes, and no warship can catch up with them. Every time our guild fleet conducts an out-of-visual range attack, they need them to reconnaissance in the middle. This fleet calculates the relative position of itself and the leading ship, and then the leading ship calculates the relative position of itself and the enemy. In this way, we can infer the relative position of the enemy and ourselves through simple trigonometric function calculations and conduct out-of-visual attacks. If this is not done, the leading ship can also directly report the bounce point to assist the main fleet in correcting the data.

Of course, the Americans can roughly think of the role of the leading ship. But as mentioned before, it is impossible to build a leading ship without the three technologies such as instant communication. The speed of transmitting coordinates by flagstones is too slow and the distance is too close.

At this time, he received the order. Two fast destroyers in the US fleet immediately accelerated and rushed towards the front ship. However, the front ship was not a bulky main ship. The huge observation camera above his head and the dozen crystal communication machines in the ship were installed. It was a thorough reconnaissance ship and had no intention of participating in the battle. The only thing it had to do after encountering the enemy was to run.

It is precisely based on the design idea of ​​the leading ship running whenever you see it, our guild's preamble is equipped with a superjet thruster, whose output power is the same as our landlord ship. This thruster occupies almost 90% of the cabin space of the leading ship, but the powerful output power of this thing can provide this hydrofoil boat with a displacement of less than three thousandths of the main ship's capital ship with a speed of three times faster than the fastest torpedo. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is flying on the water.

The American fast destroyer was just trying to be faster for the main ship, and it was not at the same level as our super leading ship. The leading ship drew a large arc on the sea at a terrible speed, and then began to rush towards the side of the destroyer. The artillery on the destroyer immediately began to turn. However, it was found that the turret rotation speed could not keep up with the enemy's movement speed, and it was completely unable to aim. The leading ship provocatively rushed through the middle of the two destroyers, and then rushed into the distance again. The closest round of the shells of the destroyer and the main fleet fell on the sea surface more than 100 meters behind it. For ships of its level, they had to take out the advance amount of the plane to calculate to make a hit, but it likes to run s. There is no way to calculate the advance amount.

The inability to sink the front guide ship means that we cannot stop our long-range artillery attacks. The only thing American warships can do is to rush forward against artillery fire. However, as the distance approaches, the number of artillery shells begins to gradually increase. The hit rate also has a sharp increase. Originally, the distance was long, and only the main guns on the main ships could reach the range. Now, after getting closer, even the secondary main ships have begun to participate in the battle, and the firepower naturally becomes more dense. However, even so, the Americans still stubbornly rushed to our fleet against artillery fire.

Jim looked at the fleet with only two-thirds left on the nearby sea, and felt so frustrated that he didn't know where to go. Fortunately, we could already see our warships ahead. He could finally order a counterattack. "First mate, send an order to open fire, concentrate fire and hit the largest land in the middle for me."

"yes."

The King of Break was watching the American warship in front rush towards the team at full speed. Suddenly, a water column more than 20 meters high suddenly flew up with a loud bang more than 30 meters in front of the warship.

"Yeah, can you fight far away?" The King of Chuang said with a smile.

Sitting beside the King of Chuang was Su Mei. She was holding a telescope and looking at the American warship opposite. "Americans are powerful countries in reality, which at least shows that they are very creative, and it is normal for them to improve the artillery with a longer range. But... aren't you going to let the sea clan attack? No matter how close you are, you will hit the strings of our ship? Our warships are horizontal. The American shells are much more powerful than the RB warships. I'm not sure whether this armor can stop it!"

"Okay." The King of Chuang said to the first mate: "Send a signal to let the aquarium move."

"clear."

As soon as the first mate turned around and issued the order, a large water column suddenly rose less than two meters outside the Storm's ship. The entire ship shook for a while. However, this was already the limit, and Americans did not have many opportunities to shoot at will.

Jim was looking at the explosion that was missing, thinking that the next shot would fall on the other party's boat. However, his idea was interrupted before it could be realized. The newly replaced flag of Jim seemed to hit something, and suddenly stopped. The huge inertia threw him out of his seat. The people in the bridge also fell all over the ground in a mess. The worst second mate actually flipped over the opposite side from the operating table, and it seemed that he had fallen lightly.

Before the people on the ship recovered, Jim suddenly found a water column rising outside the left string. At first, he thought it was an enemy's shell, but as the water splash fell, a tentacle with a huge suction cup appeared in the water column. No one in the mixed sea battle field did not recognize this thing. In the sea, the black demon octopus and the red squid can grow such super large suction cups in the sea. No matter which one is, it is not easy to deal with.

As soon as the crew got up from the ground, the warship suddenly trembled again, and then began to shake violently. Many people who had just gotten up fell down again. Jim ordered loudly: "Drop the deep water bomb."

"Yes." The first mate climbed to the sound tube and conveyed the order. Soon the crew on the ship rushed out of the cabin and threw the deep-water bomb from the edge of the ship. At such a close distance, the deep-water bomb would probably hurt his ship. But now he was caught by the sea monster and was affected by the bombs than he was shaken apart.

Deep water bombs like gasoline barrels rolled down from the side of the ship, but before they could explode, Jim suddenly found them flying out of the sea. Several huge bombs flew directly into the air, and then exploded in the air with a bang. With a clamor, all the glass on the battleship command tower exploded at the same time. There was no tempered glass in the game. After the glass on the ship exploded, they immediately flew around, and several crew members near the window were knocked to the ground.

Jim climbed up from the ground with his bleeding ears and rushed directly to the sound tube to order: "Everyone is stable. The ships near him use side string small-caliber weapons to help each other and blow off the tentacles."

The warships of the US fleet were only more than 100 meters apart. At this distance, the smallest caliber artillery could accurately hit the tentacles wrapped around the ship, but Jim forgot one thing. Whether it was an octopus or a squid, tentacles could be regenerated for them. In addition to making them more cruel, attacking tentacles was actually not good.

After breaking a few tentacles, these unlucky guys really made the sea monsters anxious. Jim saw with his own eyes that the warship on his side first sank downwards, then suddenly jumped out of the water, and was overturned in the air and smashed back to the water again. Then the tail of the warship suddenly raised up, and then the entire bow plunged into the sea. Finally, the entire ship quickly disappeared on the sea, leaving a huge vortex.

After the first ship was killed, a frigate on the side planned to speed up and rushed out, but was suddenly lifted out of the water. Jim watched helplessly as the middle section of the small frigate, which was more than 1,000 tons, was crushed by two thick tentacles, and then more than a dozen tentacles dragged the two ends of the ship and pushed upwards. The warship was immediately folded from the flattened middle section. Then the whole disappeared on the sea.

The frigate was pressed to the edge because the armor was too thin, and large warships could not be folded into iron balls like they were playing frigates. However, although monsters could not fold large warships, they could turn the warships over and deform some parts of the warships. Some monsters even invented the technique of using two ships to smash each other. The underwater uplifter designed by humans is actually a very inefficient way of advancing. The pitiful power of the warships can be completely ignored in front of these sea monsters. No matter how they turn the rudder or how they increase their strength, those warships can only be pushed back and forth at will. There is no way at all.

Jim looked at his fleet in pain and was dizzy by the monsters, and suddenly shouted fiercely: "Summon the underwater monsters. Go down to fight."

In "Zero", some players often level up at sea. Of course, many people also have dedicated water magic pets, and most of them are in the fleet. As soon as they heard the order, many players on the ship immediately jumped into the sea, and some monsters also entered the water.

This move is much better than the previous method, and the monsters immediately let go of the battleship, but the surging water surface shows that they are not idle.

American player Kirby jumped into the sea in a posture comparable to a diving athlete. His profession is an aquarium warrior, with a very high underwater combat power, and he is the captain of the Siren warship. However, he was not very lucky today. As soon as he jumped into the water, he immediately found a creature with a mushroom-shaped translucent umbrella cover and eight tentacles in front of him.

"Oh fuck! It's the Lightning Overlord Jellyfish!" Kirby turned around and ran away almost instinctively, but he swam less than five meters and suddenly felt a terrifying electric current flowing through his body, causing every hair in his body to stand up. It felt like I didn't know how to describe it. Fortunately, someone helped him block the shot just now. The two players who jumped down happened to fall between him and the jellyfish, and were electrocuted into a pile of black matter and became addicted to the seabed.

Kirby swam forward desperately without even turning his head. Although this transparent lightning overlord jellyfish was only a monster of level 800, this guy was an underwater creature. In the water, it was more terrifying than a land creature of level 900. Kirby, who swam for a long time, suddenly stopped. It was not that he thought it was far enough, but that he saw something even more scary. A giant octopus like a small island was passing by at a terrible speed. This was definitely not a black demon octopus that often attacked ships. The black demon he usually saw was not as big as a tentacle of this guy! What made him even more frightened was that as soon as the terrible super octopus passed, he found that a red lightning overlord jellyfish opposite was approaching him. The color of the lightning overlord jellyfish represents the level. Although red is not the most deadly species, the low-level transparent color of hyphen is already very dangerous, and red cannot get closer.

Swimming out of the water almost at the world record speed, Kirby quickly found the battleship and climbed up. He rushed all the way to the bridge where Jim was, shouting: "Captain, let's retreat quickly!"

"Why?" Jim looked at Kirby's water and knew that the guy had just come up from the sea. "Is there something going on below?"

"The situation? It's so big! The sea is full of lightning jellyfish, and I can't get down at all! And those tentacles, they are not the Black Demon Octopus and the Red Thorn Cuttlefish. I've never seen that thing, but it must be some kind of octopus, five to six times the size of the Black Demon Octopus."

"What?" Jim asked in shock, "Then have you seen their tentacles?"

"See it."

"Does those tentacles have cell particles that are constantly flashing in various colors?"

Kirby thought for a while and said, "I didn't pay much attention, but their tentacles seem to be changing color."

"That's right. These are giant octopus, the legendary marine guardian, who were originally guarding the Seven Seas Temple. A player had taken on related tasks before, but in the end he was killed by a giant octopus, probably these things."

Kirby said: "These monsters do not attack the enemy over there and attack us specifically. It is clearly the sea clan who is helping them. It is not a solution for us to fight like this!"

"Do you think we can still run away now?" Jim asked helplessly.

Kirby was no longer sounding now. The sea clan has an absolute advantage in the water. Although they may not be chasing the speed ships of the hydrofoil boats, the warships will definitely not be able to run away from them. Since there are so many octopuses here, there will definitely be no hope of running.

The two were sighing helplessly, and the first mate suddenly shouted: "There is movement on the sea."

The two looked up at the sea, but only saw thousands of dorsal fins standing on the sea surface. Jim immediately called out. "Oh no, it's the Iron Ridge Sailfish!" This Iron Ridge Sailfish is a slender aquatic monster with three obvious characteristics. The first is that these guys swim very fast. Even if they are not the first, there are few things in the sea to catch up with them. The second is that the dorsal fins and spines of these guys are all terrifyingly hard, and can easily cut the bottom cabin of warships, even steel warships. The third feature is the most annoying feature, that is, these guys are extremely cruel, and they will take the initiative to attack any non-similar creatures nearby even if they are not hungry.

Sure enough, all the octopus and jellyfish underwater ran away. The players who were on and off the water on the American warship thought they had won a lot, so they all surfaced to cheer and celebrate, but suddenly found a bunch of dorsal fins standing on the water surface and immediately became dumbfounded.
Chapter completed!