Chapter 38: 1 fire in the storm
and not far away.
On the sea in Pochuan Bay, the Dragon Stone Island fleet came by storm.
The bad weather hindered their progress, but also obscured their whereabouts.
Wow —
The warship broke through the wind and waves and was hidden in the storm, but the heavy rain was still pouring down, and the big raindrops crackled on the deck.
The sky was gloomy and terrible, and countless warships lined up and went out of the fog on the sea.
The ghosts and ghosts appear, as if they were floating out of the sea, looming, as if appearing out of thin air in the vision of the sentinel of the Wind's Breath.
The soldiers of the Baratheon family stood on the observation tower and rubbed his eyes severely, watching the huge fleet hidden in the storm approaching quickly.
"this…"
"This is…"
He even couldn't believe his eyes, and after reacting, he hurriedly rang the alarm bell.
But it was too late.
The fleet has braved the wind and waves to point straight to the port of Wind's Breath.
Fengshibao is one of the hardest castles in the Seven Kingdoms. The castle is surrounded by heavy outer walls.
The thickest place is about 100 feet high and 40 feet thick. The side facing the sea is about 80 feet thick. It is unusually strong. The city wall is composed of two layers of rocks and an interlayer of sand and gravel.
The wall is in a smooth arc shape, and the stones are so compact that even a trace of wind cannot get in.
There are even legends that the Fortress of Wind’s Breath was built by the ancient Storm King using magic to resist the harsh climate of Broken Ship Bay.
In fact, Feng's Breath Fort does not have a port. Linhai is a cliff, and there is only one waterway that can lead to the inside of Feng's Breath, but it is blocked by a fence gate.
The port of Fortress of Wind was built for Stannis to train the royal navy.
Because of its superior geographical location and deep offshore waters, it is not difficult for Fengshibao to build a port. Not far from the castle is where the Wang Family Water Army is now hoarding.
And now.
All of the Wang's navy warships that had just launched were all huddled in the harbor. The ropes were fixed, and they were clothed. They were fully prepared to withstand the storm.
Stannis has lived in Wind's Breath since he was a child, and he knows the bad weather in Broken Boat Bay.
Coupled with the warning received from Xuecheng not long ago, there is an unprecedented huge storm on the east coast of Westeros.
Although Broken Boat Bay was not the center of this storm, the impact was not great, maybe it was just a heavy rain.
But the cautious man is still fully prepared.
So long ago Stannis ordered all warships to be prohibited from leaving the port, and the navy's training plan was temporarily put on hold, and all soldiers were not allowed to board the ship while staying in the barracks.
Therefore, before the onset of this storm, even half of the sampan could not be found in the entire sea area near Wind's Breath, and it was naturally impossible to find the Targaryen Fleet that came quietly.
Now the Targaryen fleet is hidden in the storm that just started, and braved the wind and waves to go straight to the port of Wind's Breath.
Although the fleet suffered some losses in the storm, these losses were still within an acceptable range.
After all, the straight-line distance from the center of the storm in Heishui Bay has exceeded six hundred nautical miles, and this is just the edge of the storm.
Just because of the continuous movement of the storm, the Wind's Breath Fort was also affected by the disaster.
The fleet of Targaryen came suddenly like this, as if a divine soldier descended from the sky, and hit the soldiers of the Baratheon family by surprise.
No one would have thought that Targaryen’s fleet would come in a storm. The Royal Navy of Wind’s Breath Castle had not even launched a sampan, and was completely in a state of defenselessness.
Then this fleet that had just seen its embryonic form, and had not even fought in World War I, suffered a devastating blow.
boom boom boom—
The trebuchet on the flagship Black Death of the fleet made a rage, and the stone bullets broke through the air with a dull sound, directly blasting into the Baratheon fleet densely arranged in the distance and huddled in the harbor.
There were even a lot of stone bullets wrapped in a kerosene cloth bag and then ignited. The kerosene would not be extinguished by the violent rain. The flying kerosene bullets hit the ships of the Baratheon Fleet fiercely.
If the battle formation is lined up on the sea, perhaps these large-scale siege weapons may not have that high accuracy, but now Baratheon’s fleet is all densely packed in the harbor.
even anchored tightly on the shore with rope boats. The boats were squeezed together tightly next to the boats. The ropes also connected the warships together to prevent them from being scattered and colliding with each other in the storm and suffering serious losses.
There is nothing wrong with Stannis's orders, because this is indeed the best way to withstand the storm.
The battleship has no way to push it ashore or carry it into the castle. It can only use its own hard body to carry the wind and waves hard. Fixing the ships together can effectively increase the damage against the storm.
But now that it has encountered an attack, the warships connected together have become the living target of the Targaryen fleet. U U Reading www.uukanshu.com
The soldiers responsible for manipulating the catapult and ballista do not even need to aim at all. They only need to pull the rope to project the stone bullets to hit the target.
boom boom boom—
The newly-built Royal Fleet of the Baratheon family wailed in the storm. Stone bullets smashed through the deck, and billowing black smoke ignited the masking cloth, which in turn ignited the warship in the storm.
Hu~
The flames that started with the wind flowed in the cabin under the deck, the flames gradually rose, and the fire snake flew, igniting the grain and grass stocked in the cabin.
The pillars supporting the deck were engulfed in the fire, and then collapsed with a bang. The entire warship was wrapped in red fire, and finally separated from the sea and gradually sank.
However, more warships were hit by kerosene bombs, and even later, Targaryen’s fleet directly launched kerosene barrels through trebuchets, which further contributed to the fire.
in an instant.
A port not far from Wind's Rest.
A big fire blazed amidst the heavy rain. The Baratheon family fleet was completely engulfed by the flames, and thick billowing black smoke hit the sky, and the fire light reflected the entire sky.
On the second deck of the Black Death in the distance.
Veserys stood in the torrential rain and wind, and did not retract into the cabin, because he wanted to feel the real look of the war more intuitively.
Therefore, the boy was drenched in soup, his long silver-gold hair stuck to his small white face, and water drops continued to slide down his cheeks.
However, Veselis's lavender eyes are exceptionally bright, and the distant sea of fire is reflected in them.
"This fire burned away the usurper's ambition to invade Dragon Stone Island in the next five years."
