MTL - I Made Scientific Magic-Chapter 369 Can't chase, can't fight, can't run... This is also called war

  Chapter 369 Can't chase, can't fight, can't run, but...is this also called fighting?

  【Hadrata】West of the Kingdom, on the sea of ​​endless mist, a burst of intense divine light emerged, and the dense fog around it immediately subsided at a speed visible to the naked eye...

  Flying flags emerged in the mist, followed by the huge stick and hull, and then the entire fleet!

   This is the empire's long-distance fleet. Each ship is the latest sailing warship, with a length of more than 70 meters, like terrifying giant beasts cleaving the waves on the sea.

  However, this mighty fleet galloped all the way, but it looked extremely embarrassed. Some of the warships at the back were seriously damaged, and there were even flames on the sails.

  The next moment, accompanied by the roar of artillery fire, hundreds of shells the size of human heads flew out of the fog, and the target was the entire fleet!

Although these artillery pieces seemed to be inaccurate, most of them hit the sea surface, and some shells even landed directly hundreds of meters away from the target. Apart from blasting water columns, there was nothing else. any sense.

   It’s just that there are too many artillery fires. Even if only one-thirtieth of them can hit the target, it is still a huge threat...

  Among the hymns faintly resounding on the sea, the invisible divine magic protection surrounds sailing battleships, resisting the attack of shells.

   Casting such a large range of divine spells is obviously a big challenge for these priests and bishops.

   What's more important is that similar attacks will occur almost every ten minutes or so, without giving them a chance to rest and relax.

A warship that landed behind the fleet was hit by five consecutive artillery shots, and the magic protection covering the hull burst instantly. The priests on the sailing warship vomited blood under the strong backlash, and could only watch helplessly. The shells hit the hull, punching holes in the deck and hull.

One of the projectiles was even more insidiously blessed with explosion magic, and it exploded immediately after hitting the back of the ship. The flames and smoke column soared into the sky, and the huge hull was trembling and shaking, overturned and sank to the bottom of the water... miserable The screams resounded continuously, and the soldiers and priests on the ship could only jump into the sea to protect themselves, and swam to the nearest ship with difficulty.

   "This group of **** devil believers, the minions of evil gods, they should be thrown into hell, and their souls should be annihilated in the endless baking of hellfire!"

  In the middle of the fleet, on a huge battleship, Cardinal Siride cursed angrily, and the faces of the bishops beside him were extremely ugly.

  Half a month ago, they were ordered to lead the First Fleet of the Empire, ready to set off at sea, and directly raided the base camps of those wizards, and wiped out this disgusting illegal wizard organization that has plagued the Holy See for many years, hid in the mist like a mouse, and popped up from time to time!

  But to their surprise, when the fleet sailed halfway, it happened to meet with a fleet of wizards.

  Looking at the direction of the other party, they should be rushing to the [Hadrata] kingdom...the number of ships is less than one-third of theirs!

   This was undoubtedly a windfall, and the bishops were overjoyed. They hurried up to greet them, intending to destroy the wizard's fleet directly, so as to reduce the pressure on the kingdom's battlefield.

   It was only after the actual battle that they discovered that the enemy was not as weak as they had imagined, and was a solid bone.

  As soon as the battle was fought, the sharp artillery left a deep impression on Siride and others. Its quantity and power were far beyond the comparison of the fire oil throwers on their ships.

   This thing is said to be a new weapon developed by wizards, and the specific information is still in the stage of gathering, so they were caught off guard.

What annoyed Siride the most was that just when the First Fleet decided to resist the bombardment of artillery fire and forcibly approached for a boarding battle, the fleet of these wizards turned around and ran away without any intention of contacting them. Even run and attack with artillery.

  After rough calculations, the range of the artillery is more than one kilometer. Compared with the kerosene thrower equipped by the fleet, even with the blessing of divine magic, it can only hit about 500 meters.

  The distance of 500 meters left is like heaven. The First Fleet chased for several hours and lost more than 30 warships before they realized that they would never be able to cross this distance.

  The speed shown by the opponent is far from reaching the limit, but it has been giving them an illusion that they can catch up as long as they are faster, so as to consume the number of warships continuously.

  After realizing this, the fleet gave up the pursuit under the command of the judge, turned around and continued to sail to the land of wizards.

However, the wizards' ships were like a group of cunning and shameless hyenas, and they turned back again, hanging behind them, keeping a close distance, relying on the advantages of speed and range to harass and destroy them one after another. dozens of ships...

  Sylide and the others realized that they had fallen into an embarrassing situation where they couldn’t catch up, hit, or run away. Like a live target erected in the sea, they passively endured rounds of shelling from the opponent...

   Very aggrieved!

  Some bishops with a strong temper were even fainted by the anger!

It's not that Siride has tried to rely on the cardinal's flying ability to directly approach and attack those ships, but the problem is that their flying speed is not as fast as that of the giant steel ship, and once they get close to a distance of 200 meters, they need to face In the attack of dozens of magic crystal cannons, a cardinal was almost killed on the spot, and they could only turn back in despair in the end.

  The sound of gunfire continued. After this round of shooting, two more warships sank into the bottom of the water, and the fleet of wizards finally came out of the fog.

   At a rough glance, there are about a hundred ships, all of them without sails, but they can move forward rapidly on the sea, running several times faster than their sail warships!

  The most striking thing is the four giant battleships in front!

Each of them has a length of more than 100 meters and a height of more than 30 meters. The shell is made of all metal. It looks like it must weigh hundreds or even thousands of tons, like a mobile fortress on the sea. …

  Syrid couldn't imagine what powerful witchcraft those wizards used to make the giant ship made of steel sail rapidly in the sea!

  Seeing that the ferocious gun barrel on the giant steel ship began to adjust its orientation, and the next round of shelling was imminent, Syrid hurriedly turned his head to look at the presiding judge, and said eagerly.

   "Master Joshua, you should be able to do it now, right?"

   If the fight continues like this, the empire's fleet will only be exhausted under rounds of bombardment, and the enemy will not even be able to touch it!

  (end of this chapter)