"Boom, boom, boom!"
On Søren's fleet, hundreds of cannons fired at the same time.
Previously, only one side of the three main cannons fired. Now, the cannons on both sides were firing at full force.
Not only that, even the cannons on the other warships were firing at full force.
Although they had concentrated their firepower on one side before, now they had to bombard three sides.
But in terms of firepower per unit area, it was still about seventy to eighty percent of the previous fierceness, because the cannons on both sides of the fleet were firing at full force. In addition, they were firing grapeshot bullets and grapeshot bullets. Within a distance of two to three hundred meters, the firepower did not weaken, but doubled.
…
A minute before Søren's fleet fired, the pirates on the Rock Demon Fleet still looked ferocious and arrogant.
In their view, Søren's fleet was doomed. Even the heavens could not save them.
Because they were completely surrounded. As long as they got close, these pirates would be as agile as monkeys and as fierce as beasts. Once they jumped onto Søren's warships and started fighting, they would kill all twenty-five thousand people of Søren's fleet in at most an hour.
Not only that, in the Rock Demon's view, the ten thousand rock pirates in Søren's hands were useless.
Because the Rock Demon was the king of rock pirates. When the battle became a one-sided victory, Søren's ten thousand rock pirates would naturally change sides.
"Charge, kill all of Søren's fleet!"
"Kill them all, burn them all, rob them all!"
Countless pirates waved their machetes and howled like wild beasts.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"
However, all the ferociousness and fierceness of the pirates froze the moment Søren's cannons fired.
Because they saw something they had never seen before.
After a familiar loud bang, what was shot out was not the solid ball from before, nor was it a chain bullet that whistled like hell.
All the pirates felt as if the sky had darkened.
Then, countless bullets came down like a rainstorm.
It was really like a rainstorm!
Søren's hundreds of cannons fired at full force. More than a hundred thousand bullets were shot at once!
A short distance of two to three hundred meters.
The rain of bullets stopped in an instant!
"Pa, pa, pa, pa …"
They did not know whether to describe it as rain hitting the beach or as rain hitting the banana leaves.
In short …
After the terrifying torrential rain!
The Rock Demons' fleet seemed to tremble violently!
Then …
Mountains of corpses and seas of blood!
This was a pirate fleet, so the crew members were standing on the deck without any protection!
More than a hundred people were squeezed together, holding sabers in their hands as they prepared to jump off the ship.
After the hundreds of thousands of marbles rained down!
It was really like a knife cutting wheat. Oh, no, it was like a harvester cutting wheat.
One by one, they fell!
Within a distance of twenty to thirty meters, the lethality of the canister shell was extremely astonishing, even exceeding that of an arrow.
Unless he was hit in both arms, he would definitely die in the medical environment at that time.
Moreover, once one was hit, it was usually not just one bullet, but several, or even a dozen.
This was only the grapeshot bullets. Those hit by grapeshot bullets were as tragic as hell.
How powerful were the cannons on Earth? A single cannon could easily destroy an infantry battalion.
There was no place to hide under such a torrential rain of bullets.
In this round of bombardment, seventy percent were grapeshot, twenty percent were grapeshot, and the remaining ten percent were chain bullets!
In the air, Søren saw it clearly!
After the bombardment, the Rock Demons' fleet seemed to suddenly stop and then directly stopped.
Then, a cloud of blood mist rose from dozens of miles of the sea.
How many people died?
Søren didn't know, and neither did the Rock Demons!
…
After the bombardment.
The Rock Demon's limbs were cold, and his scalp was numb. He even lost his ability to think. His brain stopped thinking, and he just stood there in a daze.
After the bombardment, when he saw countless bullets raining down like a storm, he knew … it was over!
Previously, his flagship had been hit by chain bullets several times, and he had used them all to cut them in half.
But this time, there were more than a hundred bullets raining down on his flagship.
He couldn't cut it anymore!
Seeing him staring at the bow of the ship in a daze, the Rock Bandits beside him rushed forward and picked up their shields to protect the Rock Demon.
The Rock Bandits hated shields the most. They felt that naval battles didn't need shields at all. Therefore, they prepared very few shields.
But then, the Rock Bandits were horrified to find that even shields were useless!
The bullets actually pierced through the shields.
Then, the Rock Demon felt numbness and pain all over his body.
Two bullets directly shot into his body, and blood flowed out like a fountain.
He didn't like to wear armor, and the other pirates and Rock Bandits didn't like to wear armor either. Because naval battles were about jumping off the ship. How could they jump while wearing armor?
Thus, after dozens of bullets flew through the air. They instantly pierced through the Rock Bandit's body, and then into the body of another Rock Bandit.
The Rock Bandits beside the Rock Demon fell like wheat!
Not only that, the ferocious grapeshot and the shocking chain bullets tore apart the masts and sails of the fleet at this distance!
Instantly, the speed of the Rock Demon fleet slowed down!
Among them, dozens of ships had their masts broken, and the ships stopped and spun in place. The ships behind were still sailing by the wind, and then they collided together, as if they were chasing the tail of the ship.
The formation of the Rock Demon fleet was in chaos, and the fleet was trapped together in groups.
…
He won the bet!
Søren was ecstatic!
Just now, the Rock Demon used the middle army as bait to attract Søren's fleet and let the two wings outflank them.
This time, Søren used the entire fleet as bait to let the Rock Demon fleet outflank them and approach the death distance of two to three hundred meters.
Not only that, after surrounding Søren's fleet, in order to make it easier for them to jump off the ship and fight, the Rock Demon fleet that had already dispersed gathered together again.
Then, the grapeshot bullets and grapeshot bullets of Søren's fleet attacked like a storm!
Søren was betting that an attack of grapeshot bullets and grapeshot bullets would be enough to deal a strong blow to the Rock Demon fleet. At least, it would disrupt their formation, making it impossible for the Rock Demon fleet to approach smoothly, making it impossible for tens of thousands of pirates to jump off the ship and fight.
Sure enough, at such a distance, facing such a dense fleet, the power of grapeshot bullets and grapeshot bullets was greater than Søren imagined.
Søren was completely gambling with the fate of the entire fleet. If the attack was not strong enough to destroy the formation of the Rock Demon fleet, once the pirates jumped off the ship and fought, Søren's fleet would definitely be destroyed!
As for the Rock Demons, they were prepared to suffer heavy losses.
He knew that at this distance, the power of Søren's chain bullets was extremely astonishing! However, a cannon shot took about fifteen minutes, so Søren could only carry out two rounds of cannon shots at most before his fleet could get close and jump off the ship.
How many casualties could two rounds of cannon shots cause? Twenty percent was enough!
The Rock Demon could afford twenty percent casualties. Even if twenty to thirty thousand people died, the Rock Demon still had seventy to eighty thousand troops, which was enough to kill Søren's twenty-five thousand people three or four times.
Using the price of thirty to forty thousand people to destroy Søren's fleet was completely worth it!
However, what the Rock Demon didn't expect was that after the chain bullets, Søren still had more terrifying and deadly grapeshot bullets and grapeshot bullets!
So, he was instantly stunned!
A thought emerged in his mind. Could it be that … I'm going to lose this battle?
As soon as this thought came, the Rock Demon's whole body trembled!
He really never thought of this possibility. He was the king of naval battles, how could he lose?
That's right, Søren had won two glorious naval battles.
The first time, sixty thousand navy troops attacked Søren, but they were completely annihilated.
However, that wasn't the credit of the navy. It was because the allied forces underestimated the enemy and fell into Søren's trap. They were lured to Devil Bay and burned to ashes.
Because no one would have thought that Søren could actually use tens of millions of kerosene to create this flame trap!
The second time, Gui Xingfu's forty thousand navy troops attacked the Rubble Salt Field again!
This time, Søren knew that the navy couldn't win, so he directly gave up the naval battle and lured the Rock Demon's navy to attack the castle on land!
The two naval battles had nothing to do with the Suo Clan's navy.
So, not only in the Rock Demon's knowledge, but also in the world's knowledge, Søren's navy was on the weak side.
And the Rock Demon had the world's strongest navy, and it was four times the size of Søren's fleet. How could he lose?
This was a purely naval battle, without any traps, nor did he lure them to attack the castle on land. It was a fierce battle on the sea.
So, even in his dreams, the Rock Demon didn't think that he might lose.
At this moment, the thought of losing came to his mind for the first time.
The Rock Demon only felt a bone-chilling cold. His whole body had no temperature.
This was a battle that Søren couldn't afford to lose. Once he lost, it meant destruction!
How could the Rock Demon afford to lose?
Once the Rock Demon lost, not only the Rock Demon but the entire Rock Race would be destroyed!
He was the king of the Rock Race, shouldering the fate of the entire Rock Race!
Now, the Rock Demon finally knew why the queen never started a war, nor did she have any intention of expanding.
Although the Rock Bandits were very strong, as a race, they were too weak. Once they lost, it might mean the extinction of the entire race!
"King, King, King …"
The Rock General at the side shouted with all his might, pushing the Rock Demon.
Their king seemed to have turned into a stone statue, or a puppet, motionless.
No matter how he shouted or pushed, he just stood there in a daze.
… …
After an unknown period of time, the Rock Demon felt someone calling him, but the voice was very far away, as if it came from beyond the clouds of the heavens.
After a long while, he finally woke up.
Seeing the corpses all around him, he felt the heart-wrenching pain again.
"King, what do we do? Do we continue fighting, or retreat? "The Rock General at the side asked loudly!
The Rock Demon looked at his fleet, which still looked boundless and complete. There were still more than 900 warships.
However, many of the warships had already lost control, and the entire formation was in chaos.
As for how many people died? He really didn't know, and there was no way to count.
"How many casualties do we have on our ships?" The Rock Demon asked.
"Twenty-three." The Rock General said.
The Rock Demon guessed in his heart, then the entire fleet might have more than 10,000 casualties. Adding the previous casualties, it should be more than 20,000!
In other words, he still had 80,000 soldiers!
Next, he faced a difficult choice.
Continue fighting, or retreat?
Right now, his fleet's formation was already in chaos. If he continued fighting, if he was lucky, he could successfully get close to Søren's fleet and jump ship.
And if he successfully jumped ship, he would definitely win.
But if he was unlucky, he could very likely become a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
What was most feared in such a large scale naval battle was that the formation would be in chaos, and they would lose control!
If he retreated, at least half of them could escape. His Rock Bandits could still have 40,000 people escape back to the Thunder Islands.
But that way, he would be defeated prematurely!
He, the Rock Demon, was an invincible commander, and the Rock Bandits were invincible! Once he was defeated, not only would Søren completely regain control of the sea trade, he would also completely expel the Rock Bandits from the Ocean Guild. Not only that, the Thunder Islands would definitely face Søren's revenge, and the Hai family of Immortal Abode Island would also take advantage of the situation!
What should he do?
Should he continue fighting, or retreat?
The Rock Demon was also a gambler, and the balance in his heart was still on this side.
Only by continuing to fight could he possibly win, but he could also be completely annihilated.
Next, his brain was desperately trying to persuade himself not to continue fighting. It was still not too late to retreat, and Søren's second round of bombardment still needed some time to prepare.
As long as there's life, there's hope!
The Rock Demon kept persuading himself!
But … he still couldn't convince himself!
If he continued fighting, he would either win or be completely annihilated!
Instantly, the Rock Demon roared, "All ships, all warriors, do your best to get close to Søren's fleet! Each ship, each ship, fight independently. There's only one goal, to stick close, stick close, jump ship, and annihilate the Søren's fleet! "
Although the Rock Demon roared a lot, it was only a few words in flag language. Fight independently, stick close, disregard everything!
This was the Rock Demon's rebirth in the face of death!
This order was given!
In a few minutes, it spread to every ship, because this order was too simple.
Immediately, all the ships of the Rock Demon Fleet and all the pirates went crazy and fought on their own.
Every warship was like a shark, madly approaching Soran, no longer caring about any formation, no longer caring about tactics.
Only for one goal, stick close to Søren's fleet, jump ship, and fight!
Søren looked down from the sky. Instantly, the situation was extremely dangerous and tense!
Hundreds of Rock Demon warships, like a pack of wolves, madly pounced on Søren's fleet.
The whole scene was a mess!
At this moment, Søren was full of admiration for the Rock Demon.
This person always made the right decision at the critical moment, and he was extremely ruthless and decisive.
Fight independently, stick close to Søren's fleet, and fight to survive in the face of death.
Once he succeeded, Søren's fleet would be destroyed.
Moreover, the possibility of the Rock Demon's success was not low!
At this moment!
Søren's second round of close-range bombardment was ready!
It was still 70% grapeshot bullets, 20% grapeshot bullets, and 10% chain bullets!
This time, the Rock Demon Fleet was even closer.
The furthest was only more than 200 meters, and the closest was only more than 100 meters!
"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom …"
Hundreds of cannons fired fiercely!
Hundreds of bullets, once again, smashed out like a storm!
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