Chapter 267 Bombardment and Interception

Rotate the turret, clean the barrel, dissipate heat and reload.

Inside the cabin, three soldiers in gray uniforms surrounded a heavy artillery, repeating their own part of the work process in their minds.

And do their part of the work well when it is their turn.

There are twelve artillery groups like them, which maintain the continuous firepower projection of the artillery cruiser.

"Fire!"

The shooter maintained the Eagle Eye Technique and aimed at a skeleton warship composed entirely of skeletons through the mechanical sight attached to the 75 gun.

The distance is 600, and the angle is raised.

A gray-white mist burst out on the starboard side of the target he was aiming at, and several skeletons were completely destroyed by the attack. The entire warship began to slowly adjust its posture to prevent the unintelligent skeleton soldiers from accidentally falling through the gap.

"Firing completed, confirmed to hit the target!"

The shooter shouted excitedly. This was his first shell to hit the target in actual combat. He took out his notebook and quickly recorded the gun position data.

The pod is spacious for infantry, but in order to realize the firing and loading of muzzle-loading artillery, it is necessary to rely on mechanical equipment to rotate the turret to a certain angle after firing.

Parameter recording is to facilitate the return of the artillery after reloading...The shooter has also heard his immediate superior and the lord discuss the use of rear-loading artillery, but he refused this plan because he was not familiar with the technology.

Perhaps the rear-loading plan does not require frequent rotation of the turret, so that it can be loaded quickly, and there is no need for such complicated reset when aiming.

Their firing speed can be increased by more than 3 times.

The shooter thought so, put away his notebook, and looked at his officer who was ready to reload.

"Parameters recorded, reload!"

Unlike observations at sea where the impact point can be observed by falling into the water, it is not easy to track the trajectory of the shells in the cloud battle. Even if the shells pass by the target, the impact point cannot be observed. Only rely on your own experience to confirm the trajectory, or confirm the parameters based on the hit feedback when the shells hit directly.

The inability to accurately observe the calibration shooting leads to a further decline in shooting accuracy at long distances, but once it is pulled closer to the direct shooting distance where the drop is not so serious.

Thanks to the multiple thickening of the stable barrel wall, the 75 gun no longer needs to replace the barrel after continuous firing like the 30 gun.

It can continue to fire until the end of the entire battle. The faster the reloading speed, the faster its attack speed. Its firing rate depends largely on the physical strength of the loaders.

Six hundred meters away, a round of twelve rounds of volley fire.

Compared with musket fire, the 75 gun does not pursue volley fire. Each gun group can fire freely after confirming that the ammunition is loaded and aimed.

In order to maximize the firepower of this gunboat.

The fist-sized soft lead bullet will break when it hits the target, turning into a burst of fragments to cause secondary casualties. The skeleton warships of the undead only passed through the two hundred meters with the lowest hit rate, and two skeleton warships were destroyed by continuous long-range attacks.

There are not only these two artillery cruisers on the battlefield, but also four rapid-fire carriers carrying infantry pods that protect them in the center.

The artillery cruiser aimed at the target in front of it through its narrow field of vision, but the carrier was not disturbed by the smoke from the artillery, so it could look around the entire battlefield and be ready to deal with the incoming threats at any time.

"Report, a small flying object was found approaching quickly within 400 meters."

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"Awesome..."

Aina lay on the window sill of the merchant ship, enjoying the first air battle she had ever experienced in her life from this dangerous best viewing position.

She could understand those ghosts, and Aina had seen many of them. But on the other hand, those long warships with a little metallic texture in the sun used ship-borne weapons that Aina had never seen before to fire at their pursuers.

Every time they fired, a cloud of white smoke was raised, and in the blink of an eye, the skeleton fleet in the distance dropped the damaged bone fragments.

It reminded her of the time when she was a child, watching the hunters in the village hunting deer in the distance with crossbows.

Compared with the dead souls, Aina inexplicably felt that these large frigates with a metallic luster gave her a stronger sense of strangeness.

The dead souls were still within her understanding, and were the creations of magic and runes, but... what were they? There was no glimmer of magic, only cold and silent machinery and a sudden flash of fire.

Aina thought, glanced at Jiang Liu behind her, and thought of the soldiers in the cabin.

Miss Scholar gave up thinking.

Since the enemy was here to protect her, she prayed that these metal guys would win.

Although they were a little strange.

The merchant ship was still rising, but it had already left the distance of the battle between the two sides and entered a safer high altitude.

Jiang Liu, who was standing beside her, was able to leave the driving seat and replaced by Hackett, who had a bitter face. Looking at the two new gunboats that had already formed a line to fire at the target, he was surprised.

Before he set off, he had never seen a standard gunboat equipped in the country for long-range artillery.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the speed of weapon replacement in the country was fast.

"Hey, something is flying towards them!"

Aina keenly caught some gray-white flying objects that did not fall into the sea of ​​clouds after being thrown down by the white bone warship, but began to fly in the lower airspace.

Riding the wind, the target was aimed at the artillery cruiser that was pouring fire.

When they started to move, Aina thought these things were debris knocked down by the metal giant.

"This fleet set out to protect us, so we should not do anything that would put ourselves in danger."

Jiang Liu sighed. He also wanted to notify this leading defense fleet to pay attention to the enemy. But the spells he mastered were not very good at transmitting information over long distances. If he rashly used a conspicuous notification method and caused the enemy to turn his guns to attack his unarmed merchant ship, it would be a big trouble.

The guards would definitely change their formation to protect their merchant ship.

His primary goal was to evacuate to a safe location under the cover of the enemy. At that time, the initiative to engage in battle or evacuate would still be in the hands of his fleet.

"It doesn't matter."

He comforted.

Aina set her sights on the other four metallic ‘big guys’ that had not made any moves. When the gray-white flying objects approached half the distance, they started to move.

The four carriers quietly changed their formation, protecting the two gunboats that were firing, and all the shooting windows were opened to deal with the high-speed flying units coming through the clouds.

The undead spellcaster controlled all the bone bats to be pulled out from the sea of ​​clouds. He and the undead lord each controlled the actions of some flying units through the soul connection - his lord's strength was not as good as his own, and some difficult operations were only performed by him.

The undead lord standing beside him looked at his bone battleship destroyed by artillery, and gritted his teeth at the artillery cruiser reflecting gray luster in the distance.

This battle where they were just being used as targets and allowed to be fired at will finally come to an end.

"Then, attack..."

The gray-white undead creatures spread their wing membranes and rose up, like a swooping falcon.

What greeted them was a fast and fierce barrage interception net composed of a large number of shotguns.

The undead lord and the spellcaster were both slightly stunned. The fierce and violent attack they sensed did not hurt the skeleton of the bone bats. Only a very small number of bone bats had their skeletons damaged in this round of volleys.

The spellcaster was a little confused, and the undead lord felt relieved and secretly happy. It seemed that the only powerful thing was the two long-range attack ships.

The skeletons of undead creatures naturally avoid the impact of small long-range weapons.

Close combat is their world.

He had forgotten a very important point, that bone bats have more than just a skeleton.

After losing the wing membrane, it is impossible to truly fly with the skeleton.

This is true for floating rays, and it is also true for bone bats.

At least, the current bone bats cannot do this.