Treasure Hunters, Sail the Blue Sea

Chapter 15 The Pirate Attack
When Alka and Siegert walked out of the captain's room.

Many sailors have gathered on the deck.

Seeing the captain's arrival, they gave way one after another.

"what happened?"

As soon as Halls asked, a middle-aged man who was well dressed and also in leather came over with a serious expression on his face.

It gives people a feeling of not being angry and arrogant. He is the first officer of this ship.

"Captain, a pirate has been spotted."

He said and pointed to the sea.

Several people immediately looked in the direction they pointed, and saw a sailboat slowly approaching that place.

Due to the faint fog on the sea and the distance is too far, it is not very clear.

Halls immediately took out a spotting telescope from his pocket and stretched it out, squinting his eyes to look carefully.

"It's pirates, and it should be the group that roamed around this sea area recently. It's really unlucky."

Then he immediately turned his head and shouted to the sailors behind him: "What are you still doing? Are you expecting them to let us go?"

Hearing the captain's shout, everyone started to move.

Arka also couldn't help but hold the dagger at his waist.

Siegert looked at Alka and patted: "Don't panic, don't you see that these sailors are actually calm?"

"It's normal to encounter pirates while sailing at sea. There are too many dangers in the sea. Are you ready to see blood?"

As he spoke, he directly pulled out the sailor knife in his hand and held it in his hand.

"Follow me, don't worry."

Alka, who was a little nervous, nodded, and then looked at the ring on his thumb.

Similarly, he pulled out the sailor knife from his waist.

Look at the pirate ship that has been heading towards them quickly.

That boat was obviously smaller than the one I was stepping on. It was also a two-masted boat, but it was smaller and thinner at the same time.

At this time, it seemed that he was in the right wind, and it seemed that he would rush over in a while.

Then one ballista after another was pushed out on the splint, lined up on the side of the ship, facing the direction of the enemy ship.

"Haven't there been a sailing period for gunpowder?"

At this moment, Arka remembered what he hadn't noticed, that is, the ship didn't see the artillery and the artillery deck at all.

Shipborne artillery can be said to be the most effective attack between ships in the sail period.

It is also the most iconic weapon.

If there is no artillery, then each other may only be able to fight by hitting and jumping.

Just as Alka was thinking this way, Captain Hals raised the long knife at his waist and shouted: "Where is my baby? Pull it up for me!"

After the words fell, several sailors pushed a heavy object from the cabin onto the deck in a short while.

artillery?

This thing is not much different from the artillery Alka once saw in some documents.

It's just that the appearance has changed from pure black to black gray, but it can be seen that it is still made of metal.

But it looks better than the artillery.

The gun barrel is a cylindrical shape about three meters long. Below the gun barrel is a bracket that can rotate left and right and lift up and down with a small float. It is equipped with 4 wheels.

It can be seen from this bracket that the barrel is not as heavy as I imagined.

Or maybe the technology is even better.

But it should all be cannon anyway.

Siegert obviously recognized the thing and couldn't help but cheered.

"Uncle Hals, you are really willing, when will you have a fight?"

Halls had a visibly nervous expression on his face, as if showing off his treasure, he said, "It's been a long time, but it's just that you rarely have time to use it, so you don't know."

Then he turned his head and said to a skinny man, "Tasi, I've given this to you to use, give me a good shot, and hit it right."

Taci rubbed her hands together and made a no-problem gesture.

"Leave it to me, captain, I will definitely let these pirates drink a pot, hehe!"

Then he took over a palm-sized cylinder from the head of the group, with gold rims inlaid on it, which looked very expensive.

With the joint efforts of several people, the cannon was pushed to the side of the ship.

A sailor holding a wooden barrel put the things in his arms next to the cannon heavily.

Taci commanded the sailors and stuffed fist-sized things into the gun barrel one after another, which seemed to be ammunition.

Didn't add anything inside, just stuffed the ammunition directly.

And all of them are smaller ammunition the size of a fist, so many, shotguns?

Siegert moved Alcala aside, about four or five meters away from the artillery.

"There is a good show to watch, this time it seems that it will not be too dangerous."

"What it is?"

"Stone-shock cannon, a very expensive weapon with great power."

"Do you know what it's made of?"

"I don't know, and not many people know."

It seems that Siegert doesn't know much.

"get ready!"

Taci said, and the four sailors on both sides of the rock-shaking cannon held the cannon.

Alka looked into the distance, and the enemy's pirate ship was about 600 meters away from them.

So far, can it be shot accurately?
"fire!"

Roaring all over, Tassie slammed the pillar handed over to him by the captain on a palm-sized platform behind the cannon.

Following the knock, Alka obviously felt the ship vibrate slightly.

But there was no loud sound like firing a cannon.

It's a very dull sound.

Watching several fist-sized objects cut through the air, making a sharp sound.

They smashed hard on the enemy's ships, and several even smashed directly on the deck.

Accurate hit!

"It's hit, hurry up, keep pretending."

It takes about 30 seconds to fire.

Every time is a precise hit.

Alka discovered that it wasn't that Tassie's technique was good, but that the artillery's hit rate was extremely high, and the distance of about 500 meters was almost a straight line.

The effective range will only be further.

This is obviously no ordinary artillery.

As the ship approached, those ballistas also fired arrows one by one.

But after launching it once, I didn't consider continuing to install it at all.

After four or five rounds were fired from the cannon, although the enemy's ship was a bit tattered, it still sailed to their side.

But it is not aimed at sinking enemy ships.

The use of this kind of shotgun should be to better kill the pirates above.

"The enemy is about to jump to the gang, take out your weapons, and teach these rats in the gutter a hard lesson!"

Tofu roared, and then pulled out the sailor knife from his waist.

Ropes with grapples flew over one after another, or caught on the side of the boat, or got entangled in the cables.

Siegert has been standing by Alka's side in this way.

And many sailors are already using their long knives to chop the grapples that fly up.

At this time, several arrows flew up and hit the two sailors accurately.

as the battle progresses.

Many pirates have boarded up.

There were many more people than they thought.

When the two pirates saw Alka and the two of them, they rushed over waving the sailor's long knife in their hands.

Sigurt immediately went up to him, kicked one of the pirates to the ground, and blocked the attacks of the pirates next to him with his sail knife.

Swinging the short knife around vigorously, he pushed the enemy's blade away and slashed on the enemy's shoulder.

The right foot tripped the enemy hard, and the knife in his hand slashed hard on the enemy's neck.

Blood spattered violently.

Siegert, experienced, turned his head slightly.

The blood didn't blur his vision, it just sprayed on his neck and cheeks.

A donkey rolled towards the rear, avoiding the attack of the pirate who was kicked down by him before and then stood up again.

Seeing the blood splatter and the sword fighting, Arka's heartbeat became faster and faster, and his breathing couldn't help but increase.

Surrounded by screams and extremely angry roars.

A cold touch was sent to his mind, reminding him to calm down.

He suddenly saw something, and quickly reminded loudly: "Be careful!"

The body couldn't help but move.

(End of this chapter)