"Gun range 300! 250... Bow shot!"
"Close the bow gun door! Be prepared for impact!"
"Close the gate!"
Different from the simple gun door supported outward by general wooden sailboats, because of the existence of armor attached and hanging armor support on the outside of the gun cabin, walkiri chose the inward side pull design for the gun door, and the material is a solid wood block wrapped with a thick iron shell, and the overall thickness is almost twice that of the ship shell.
It is said that the designer of the gun door was inspired when opening the red wine bottle stopper. Therefore, most of varkiri''s gun doors are usually called "cork" by sailors, and they are only changed to "gun door" and "gate" in formal instructions.
Cork is undoubtedly an excellent and practical design innovation. It not only solves the problem that the traditional gun door design can not be fully developed in the armor, and successfully maintains the overall anti gun strength of valkiri, but also derives the unique application of bow arc gun door, which is deeply loved by Gunners who are limited to peeping into the leopard all year round.
As for side effects
The combination of refined iron swing column and wood-based base is indeed not as reliable as the easy to fall off grid armor, but it is easy to be damaged and deformed only when subjected to direct attack.
This kind of opportunity is not common on the shaking sea all year round. Intuitively, it is even more rare than the ship hitting a reef when walking on the shore.
The Gunners wholeheartedly trusted the corks to protect their safety, just like now, the tail attack with the highest hit rate in the artillery battle is coming, and the rookies in valkiri just closed the gate and bolt, so they gathered behind the gun door and adjusted the firing angle of the gun base.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!
The virgin cigar was hit by one shot, and the stern gun shell hit the bow side of valkiri, rubbing a trail of sparks and flying obliquely.
The Gunners in the bow cabin were shocked by the loud noise, showing their teeth and eyes, but they still clenched their teeth, opened the gun door and pushed the gun truck to its position along the track.
"Target straight ahead! Range 180!"
"Front angle of main mortar 0, elevation 0, front angle of bow and auxiliary 0, elevation 2, shotgun loading!"
"Bow mate, prepare, release!"
Boom!
The red dot of the slow sky swept over the observation port from bottom to top. With the divergence of the shelling trajectory, it slapped on the water line of the virgin cigar, and only a few corners hit the stern of the ship.
"Two near misses!"
The observer immediately reported what he saw. The artillery commander pondered for a moment and shouted, "the elevation of the main mortar is 1, report the distance!"
"Target range 170!"
"One report from 20, fire at 110, fire and lower!"
"The elevation is adjusted to 1, the gun range is 110, fire, the gun gate receives!"
"Distance 150! 130!"
"Release the longitudinal lock of the stern! Launch the bow and impact!" the sudden change came down from the top of the head. The rookies ready for a big fight were silly. You looked at me and I looked at you. They lost their square inch all at once.
The bow began to sink. The sharp bottom line cut the water surface like a knife, and the waterfall like water wall squeezed and shunted to both sides. With the decline of field of vision, the whole ship was shaking in a strong earthquake.
The observer screamed like being strangled: "the bow sank! Sank! Elevation 18! 15! 12..."
"Fire!"
Boom! Boom!
Valkiri''s bow gun spewed out flames, and two 48 pound mortar guns fired 96 pound, 43.54 kg missiles at a position of more than 120 meters, throwing a large area.
However, the mortar gun''s trajectory is not as stable as the medium range gun, its range is short, and the preset elevation angle is also greatly insufficient.
Under all kinds of adverse effects, the projectiles only flew out 70 or 80 meters and scattered into large areas. They began to fall less than 100 meters, setting off a magnificent wave wall on the sea, and then... There was no next.
Awkwardness and silence intertwined, pouring into the bow gun cabin along the small gun door. Kerry watched with interest at the side of the cabin.
"Is it really good for them to perform so accurately?"
"Teaching by example is always more effective than words. That''s why women become the eternal mark in men''s hearts, while men... At least normal men don''t."
"After today, they will understand why there are ship operation, steering and command subjects in the required courses of gunners. After that, the really excellent Gunners will stand out from this group of rookies."
"But will it prolong the battle time? Maybe there will be damage."
Acharin raised his eyes: "pirates and gamblers will look forward to a cost-free business. We are businessmen and only believe that costs and benefits are directly proportional to each other."
"Then let them continue to hit the wall?"
"How can we just watch?" acharin turned. "Let the old people in each group write down all the mistakes today. After the post-war brief discussion, each mistake will swim 1000 meters."
"1000m," Kerrey just wanted to Tucao, and felt a chill on his body. He was scared to make complaints about his voice. "Yes! I promise I will never forget anything!"
"It doesn''t matter if you forget," acharin comforted. "Anyway, I''ll just look at it today. Then every time I find an omission below you, I''ll swim 10000 meters up and down the whole cabin with the ship, so I''ll inform you."
"Yes!!!"
……
At a distance of 120 meters, valkiri ended his dash and quickly regained his speed advantage after a short deceleration.
Bell controlled the ship to the port side, bypassed the parallel line of virgin cigar like a cloud and water, and chased on the side 150 meters away.
Ginny beaver felt the pressure of an avalanche.
In front of him, valkiri was showing amazing beauty. The goddess riding a heavenly horse and holding a divine spear, the towering freeboard, bulging sails, the breaking sound of breaking waves, and the dense guns facing them are reminding him all the time that Lorraine will catch up with them at any time.
After catching up? T-head, volley
Lorraine''s Gunners are not like orthodox pirates at all. Those accurate guns have amazing destructive power.
Havana''s great victory was dismembered alive. It seemed that it was only a short moment for the Shazui sea cucumber to jump from alive to high paraplegia.
If the virgin cigar is caught up, the consequences
Ginny''s eyes were red and red, like a ghost.
He grabbed his gunner, pointed to valkiri and shouted fiercely, "hit... Sink her! I order you to sink her!"
The gunner pursed his mouth pitifully and wanted to say that he couldn''t do it, but he didn''t dare to disobey the obviously violent Gini.
"Captain, maybe we can get closer..."
"Do you want white flag to sink me! Get closer? Only 150 meters! Sink her! At least break her mast!"
"Yes... Yes..."
Silent parallelism.
Since reaching the full head state, valkiri has unconsciously slowed down the ship''s speed.
Adjusting the ship''s speed from 11 knots to 8 knots does not require special lifting of the sails, but only a less perfect wind cutting angle and a slightly windless longitudinal sail angle.
Under great pressure, the virgin cigar didn''t find this little disharmony. It took only 15 minutes to catch up with valkiri, who was nearly two kilometers. In another 15 minutes, it didn''t finish surpassing. All pirates felt that this was their reward for their efforts.
The Gunners on board were particularly attentive.
At the same speed, in the same direction and parallel, the terrible varkiri is 150 meters away. The current situation is almost static for a long time.
He vomited greedily, raised his arm tremblingly, shook it, shook it again.
"Full side chain bullet, full... Put it!"
The roar tore up the silence. Bell just opened a little distance with the gunfire, and the flying chain bombs fell into the sea, fifty meters away and near where valkiri should have been.
Lorraine opened her eyes as if she had been awakened. "Did you fire?"
"Full on all sides," replied edley respectfully.
"Where''s the hit?"
"Three shots hit the area before return."
"15 minutes of aiming... Expected." he stretched his waist. "Is the Stormtrooper organized?"
"The skirmish team is led by Mr. Eriksson and Cao, with 50 people, and the musket team is led by major Harry Sheffield and lieutenant Les Ryder of the secret service, with 30 people."
"Security Bureau?"
"There are not enough people on board. Mr. Scott can''t spare time. The two volunteered."
"It''s up to them," Lorraine stood up and moved his arm. "Three minutes of board contact tactics, the stormtroopers on deck."
"Yes!"
When the order was given, LEV, Kao, Harry and rice led the murderous assault team out of hatch No. 2 at the bow and stern and lined up on the starboard side.
Bell whistled close, from nearly 200 meters to 150 meters, 100 meters, 50 meters
The virgin cigar has no gun to fight back. Gini can only hysterically shout for his pirate array and gather on the deck.
Boom!
I don''t know who fired a shot among the pirates. The short musket with an effective range of only 15 meters is difficult to pose a threat at this distance. The lead bullet jumped over the sea and flew far to the sail of the foremast.
But valkiri''s sailors exaggerated to avoid one, and the way they swayed and feared life and death made the pirates laugh.
The laughter reached Valkyrie''s deck, and LEV stamped his leather boots heavily with a smelly face.
Dong! Dong! Dong!
Acharin in the gun cabin gave a soft Bang: "the last shot, the inaccurate people went to find Eriksson charge commander after the war, and the gun cabin did not intervene."
"That''s it. Let''s go."
The two ships are 22 meters apart, at the same speed, in the same direction, approaching and preparing for battle.
Gini held her breath and waited for the first hook and rope. The pirates were waiting for the collision between the ship''s side and the ship''s side. The atmosphere of bloody battle dispersed over the sea. The 15 minute silence made almost everyone forget valkiri''s artillery fire.
Just then
"All side shrapnel, before self calibration. Prepare, release!"
Guinness''s pupil shrinks into the tip of a needle: "white flag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Boom!