Chapter 186 Attacked Flies

On February 21, the spring of the second year of the Gregorian calendar, the navy of the Duke of Lomec, which thought it was ready for everything, received the king's secret order and sailed to the sea, and couldn't wait to launch an attack on the Rome Island fleet!

Gordon is the commander-in-chief of the navy of the Principality of Lomek. His mission this time is to completely annihilate or capture a transport fleet on Rome Island. This mission is not easy for his navy, because Rome Island's transport ships are famous for their speed and strength. It can be said that this attack on Rome Island fleet will make Rome The island's fleet fled.

The plan he made was very simple - a sneak attack. He ordered the fleet to travel outside the port frequented by the Rome Island fleet, and then pretended to be a drill. The fleet of Rome Island entered the port, and then surrounded and blocked the port, annihilated the Rome Ferry fleet inside, and was lucky to capture several ships and go back to cross.

The Duchy of Lomec has 73 warships, which is a veritable maritime power. Most of these warships are tonnage, and they are equipped with crossbow guns and catapaces, and can transport a large number of soldiers. The disadvantage of these old warships is that they are slow, and the wooden structure is very weak - of course, Compared with the iron ships on Rome Island.

These sailboats are equipped with magic defense shields to protect their warships from any attack, but after all, the energy is limited, and the strength of the magic shields is not very high. Inspired by the Rome Island iron ships, these warships have temporarily nailed iron plates to their shells to strengthen their resistance to strike, but this has reduced the speed of the ship a lot. Now the formation speed of the Lomek Duchy fleet has dropped to 18 knots.

This is also the main reason for Gordon's worry, because the formation of the Rome Island transport fleet is more than 21 knots, which really makes Mellock's navy doubt whether its fleet can catch up with such a high-speed fleet. Therefore, the clever way to block the port has become the only feasible plan.

In the afternoon, the transport convoy of Romeck Island finally sailed to the port of the Principality of Lomec. Three transport fleets went here to transport the magical crystals collected by the mines acquired by Rome Island. They approached the port of Dante, the largest port of Mellock, as usual.

"Report to the captain that a large number of Lomek's naval warships were found in front of them, as if they were conducting naval exercises." The first officer of the Romem transport ship reported to the captain.

"Order the lookout to prepare for vigilance. All crew members are not allowed to leave the ship. The power cabin is not stopped. After loading things, we will leave." The captain ordered.

In view of the recent frequent movements of the armies of the Principality in the southwest and the joint posture against the Principality of Landing (in order to confuse the intelligence system of Rome Island, the false information released by several major duchies to the outside world), Rome Island also privately warned its transport fleets to remain vigilant and not to cause damage.

As soon as the three transport ships of Rome Island reached the port, a warship moored in the port slowly left the port. Its purpose was to inform the distant navy that they could plan to block the port. Soon General Gordon received the news, and he ordered the whole fleet to start rushing to Port Dante.

"Order all the crossbows to wind up and reload the catapling machine. For a while, as long as the other party does not surrender, they will beat me hard. There is no need to ask for instructions." Gordon ordered, and then his flagship also began to sail to Port Dante. In order to kill the Romer fleet, he used 30 warships, which can be described as killing chickens and knives.

Soon, the unintentional Lomec fleet surrounded the port of Dante and even sent several warships to destroy some other merchant ships that wanted to enter the port of Dante. After Gordon's order, these warships began to attack the port of Dante and once rushed into Dantene. In the port, there was no space for the start-up of the Rome Island fleet, so the three transport ships on Rome Island were completely captured alive.

However, the lookouts on the ships of the alert Rome Island fleet found that the situation was not good. These warships obviously came for themselves in Port Dante, so they quickly informed the captain of the fleet. The whole fleet had already started and left the port to prepare to break out of the port.

"Keep the course and accelerate to the maximum! Sink the Lomec naval warship on the route!" The captain of the fleet issued an order.

"Keep going! Speed 24! All the staff are ready to deal with the collision!" The first officer repeated the order, and everyone became nervous.

The Lomec navy, looking at the aggressive Romai transport ship, with a solemn face, immediately issued an order to fire: "All attack! Don't keep your hand!"

Soon, the Lomek navy launched an attack. Their crossbow guns and catapults fired round after round, and the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, so the accuracy of the hit was getting higher and higher. Soon some spears and stones hit the Romei navy's pilot ship. Although the Romai fleet has not suffered any casualties, the stones and crossbow ammunition hit the deck, smashed holes, broke the glass, and some hit the cockpit, smashing the roof of the driver's platform and the surrounding window frames.

As the distance between the two sides got closer and closer, the initial speed of the opponent's weapons became higher and higher, and the damage caused became greater and greater. Finally, there were casualties on the Rome Island fleet. Several unlucky crew members were hit by stones pierced the deck, killing 1 and 4 injured.

Finally, the sharp bow of the pilot ship of the Rome Island fleet cut into the bow of a warship of the Lomec Republic Navy. There was a fierce collision between the two sides. All the crew members of the two ships were shaken and scattered, but the Rome Island navigation ship, which still maintained high speed, was like a steel knife pierced into Lomé. The hull of the warship, the sound of metal and metal friction made people's ears very uncomfortable. From time to time, the screams and the sound of east and west breaking always reminded people of the tragedy of the scene.

"Your Excellency, my lord, it's not good, the Speed has been sunk!" A correspondent told Gordon the first bad news today.

"The enemy ship opened the way of blood and escaped!" Another correspondent ran over and said.

"Order the troops to continue to fire and sink them at all costs!" Gordon shouted angrily.

Two other transport ships on Rome Island that have not received much attack have begun to accelerate to the sea. Although they have destroyed many items on the ship, no important equipment has been hit. After receiving their orders to return to Rome Island at full speed, they quickly broke away from the seriously injured pilot ship and drove at full speed in the direction of Rome Island.

5 days later, the pilot ship with wounds and leaking water finally struggled to return to Rome Island. 17 people on the ship were killed and 32 people were injured. The ship was basically unrepaired. The scraper building of the whole ship was almost completely destroyed. The captain was hit by crossbow gunfire while rescuing the wounded and bleeding too much.