It is actually very difficult to carry out a premeditated maritime attack in the medieval Warhammer world where communication is difficult and observation relies solely on the naked eye.

Unless, like Nelson and others, they know the enemy's route in advance and ambush them on their only way, otherwise it will be a matter of great luck to find the enemy ship on the vast sea. Can it be done?

It all depends on luck.

It should be noted that even the modern navy of Carter's predecessor in the 20th century, before the invention of radar, wanted to conduct a decisive battle at sea, it had to rely on deciphering telegrams or spies to transmit back the location of the enemy fleet.

The 'Luna Luna', which was on its eleventh day at sea, arrived at the expected sea area early based on friendly forces' intelligence. While maintaining the lowest speed, it circled in place.

Everyone on the ship, including the lookout, stared at the direction they were responsible for with their eyes wide open, fearing that they would miss the chance to discover the enemy.

Although the Ulthuan elves at this time already had products such as glass, they had not yet invented even the simplest telescope because of a layer of window paper. Therefore, everyone on the ship, including Nelson, could only rely on their eyesight.

Find the enemy by looking at it.

Although the eyesight of the elves is good, they lack optical equipment. The range of detecting enemies by sight alone is really limited. Even on a sunny day with clear weather, the vision limit of the elf lookout is only 30 kilometers. However, due to the influence of sea level, the actual

The visual distance will be much shorter. What's more, the weather is not good at this time, and being able to see a ship ten kilometers away is considered a very talented lookout.

Nelson, who wanted to experience the experience on the observatory, easily got permission from the Elf Prince.

Climbing up to the observation deck in the cold wind, and seeing the female observer's hands still shivering even though she was wrapped in a rice dumpling, the clone who was not prepared to withstand the cold was immediately punished.

"Excuse me, I'll come up and take a look."

However, when everyone came up, he endured the cold wind and smiled awkwardly with the strange-looking female lookout, and then occupied part of the space of the observation deck, which was not spacious.

"Didn't they tell you to put on more clothes before you come up?"

The female watcher on the side, with almost only a pair of eyes exposed, made a dull voice through the blanket and asked curiously.

"Ha... I just said that I wanted to come and experience it. I should have thought that I would go down immediately, so I didn't say anything, haha."

The female lookout who was observing the sea level with her back to Nelson rolled her eyes when she heard this: "No..."

Perhaps because she knew that Nelson was the guest of the Elf Prince, the female lookout, who was born as a commoner, took the initiative to lift a little of the quilt on her body and invited him to come in and hug each other for warmth.

"Ah? This..."

Although he had lived in Lothern for several months and understood the openness of the elven culture, Nelson, who still had a bit of Chinese shyness, did not react.

"It's very cold! Hurry up!"

In the end, due to practical reasons, Nelson and an elf girl he had never met stayed close to each other to warm each other.

Feeling the warmth coming from her body, Nelson suddenly felt less cold. At the same time, looking at the other person's calm face, Nelson, who felt that he was a little overthinking, quickly returned to normal, and began to look away from the other person's side.

At that time, he began to use the Sharingan and carefully observed the sea level more than ten or twenty kilometers away.

Maybe he was favored by some elf god. Not long after he stayed at the lookout, Nelson felt that he saw a bunch of black spots. However, he couldn't confirm it at the first time because of the wind and waves. He fixed his eyes and used his Sharingan to confirm it.

Those black spots in the distance are indeed ships.

"Is there something over there?"

Nelson, who deliberately gave the credit to the female lookout, pretended that he had discovered something and reminded her.

"What? Are you sure?"

Hearing that, she turned her head suspiciously and squinted her eyes to look carefully in the direction Nelson was pointing. After more than ten seconds, she was calm and trembled with excitement: "Yes! That's an enemy ship! We found that the enemy was located in the southeast, and there were more than a dozen in number.

Ship! This is our target!" At the same time, he stood up and shouted to the compatriots below.

Nelson, who had done his part after Zijue found the target, returned the quilt to the lookout, and then climbed down the deck quickly. The female lookout watched Nelson leave with complicated eyes. She had lived for hundreds of years.

She had a lot of experience, and she actually realized that Nelson was giving credit to herself the moment she finished shouting.

The 'Luna Luna' opened its sails immediately after discovering the target, and headed towards the enemy at full speed, riding the wind and waves. I don't know whether it was just following the tide or because the wind was strong, but Nelson, who thought the wooden sailboat was very slow, actually sailed at a speed of

Reaching the terrifying ten knots, it gives the impression that the whole ship is about to fly in the next moment.

When he saw the female mage who was maintaining the spell, he understood why it was so fast.

However, although the speed of "ten knots" is subjectively felt to be very fast, in fact, converted into a more popular unit, ten knots is a moving speed of less than 20 kilometers per hour. It was not revealed until more than 40 minutes later.

Only then did the Na Luna get close enough to see the Chaos ship clearly with the naked eye.

A fleet of sixteen keels of Chaos ships sailed chaotically on the sea. The Chaos believers on the ship kept waving the oars to maintain speed.

"Ready to fight!"

The tarpaulin used to protect the ballista from corrosion and moisture had already been removed on the way there, and the bow strings kept separately were installed.

After receiving the order, the sailor in charge of operating the ballista immediately began to unstretch the bowstring and load the ammunition, while the rest of the crew ran into the cabin one after another, took out bare bows from the waterproof and dry boxes, loaded the bowstrings and brought sufficient supplies.

Bows and arrows, in place on the deck.

On the sea where the weather is complex and changeable, hand-to-hand combat has always been the mainstream before ships entered the era of ironclads and artillery bombardments. On the one hand, crossbow weapons have limited lethality against ships, and are far less efficient than directly joining gangs.

High. On the other hand, it is also related to the difficulty of maintaining bows and arrows at sea. If the bow body and bow string are not properly managed like elves, the humid environment will soon turn the strong bow into garbage, and the bow string will be too loose to be used.

The corrosiveness of seawater is so strong that even if the hull of the ship is not regularly treated and painted, it will be corroded by the microorganisms attached to it. After a long time at sea, the bottom of the ship will be all that remains when it returns to port.

The resulting seafood is enough to make a big meal.

Due to the waves, in order to ensure the accuracy of early shooting, the 'Luna Luna' did not stop approaching until it was more than 150 meters away from the Chaos Fleet.

At this time, the human-rowed keel boats not far away could be clearly seen by the elves. The Chaos believers above had obviously noticed the approaching elves, and they all stood by the boats with harpooners and axes, shouting something.

, as if he was about to throw the weapon in his hand.

"Hmph, keep your distance, slowly approach to a hundred meters, and then start attacking!"

The Eagle Ship, which has a range advantage, has no need to get close to those simple keel boats.

Even if the keel boat is full of Khorne believers, and each one has bigger muscles than the other, the javelin and hand ax thrown by human power can fly sixty or seventy meters in the sky. Even if the javelin can fly a hundred meters with the bonus of the thrower,

On the erratic sea, they throw based on feeling and have no idea what the advance is. How can they hit the eagle ship that is moving at high speed? Moreover, even if it does hit, it will not have any impact on the ship.

"bouncing!"

Facing the enemy from the side allows the ballista on the Eagle ship to be used most efficiently. Under the command of the crew (crew position > sailor is equivalent to an officer), it hits the nearest keel ship. In the first round of test firing, half of the ammunition hit

Although it did not cause much damage to the ship, it successfully killed several Chaos believers who were staying beside the ship. They fell into the water with arrows and became delicacies for fish.

The sailors who did not need to operate the ballista picked up their bows and arrows and started shooting at the enemy a hundred meters away.

The keel ships, which were built with little consideration for naval warfare, were almost unable to fight back when faced with attacks from ballistae and bows.

After hundreds of arrows and crossbow bolts were fired, more than a dozen people were shot to death on the keel boat with only a hundred people, and more people were wounded by arrows.

At the same time, the ballistae, which fired more and more accurately, created many gaps near the waterline of the keel ship, causing seawater to continuously pour into the water and make the water deeper. This further reduced the speed of the ship, making it easier for the ballistae to aim.

Nelson, who was staying at the stern of the ship, looked at the Chaos Keel Ship that had no power to fight back. His heart was unmoved and he even wanted to laugh. The generation difference in the equipment between the two sides was too great.

For technical arms like the navy, as long as there is a generational difference, the significance of numerical advantage will become very small. No matter how brave you are, you cannot fill the gap. Those Chaos believers who are constantly roaring and roaring are the best example.

This is just a fleet of indigenous (referring to human) fallen ones, there are no real flying demons at all.

After being focused on fire for more than ten minutes, due to too many gaps made by ballistae near the waterline, the keel ship began to sink at an irreversible speed. The Chaos believers still alive on the ship had to throw away all their armor and weapons, and then jumped

Enter the water, otherwise the weight of the armor alone will cause them to drown.

At the cost of less than a thousand arrows/crossbow bolts, a keel ship was successfully sunk, causing the elves on board the Luna Luna to scream in joy.

Of course, being able to sink a ship so easily has a lot to do with the irrational structure of the keel boat. A keel boat without a sealed water tank has no way to repair a hole near the waterline except to use wooden boards to patch it up.

The speed at which the Chaos Believers repaired them could not keep up with the speed at which the holes appeared, so it was inevitable that they would be sunk.

"Today's hunting has just begun! Don't let down your guard, Azul!"

The 'Luna Luna', having tasted the sweetness, ignored the Chaos Fallen who fell into the water and pounced directly on another keel ship.

No matter how good the body of a person who falls into the water is, as long as he is not an amphibious creature, his life will be taken away by the cold water of the vast ocean sooner or later. Therefore, the elves are too lazy to waste arrows to kill them, and their lives are slowly taken away by the sea. It is the sea god Marcelan.
Chapter completed!