Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 218: Double Battle Circus
The two figureheads [Funny Clown] can deflect shells by 30%, while [Avenging Angel] can increase the hit rate by 30%.

The two canceled each other out, instantly bringing the originally disparate artillery battle back to a head-on firepower competition.

Although the large sea monster fiddler crab grew up in the celestial circulation belt, it is very familiar with this sea area.

But remote positioning is not that accurate after all.

The Golden Deer only appeared on the side and rear of the Circus, and failed to directly occupy the most advantageous "T" position.

The concentrated fire of the scorching bombs naturally all fell on the side and rear port.

Of the 30 cast-iron shells fired by the fifteen guns, about half hit the enemy ships.

The stern of the Circus suddenly exploded, charred wood chips flew everywhere, and the hull exploded.

Rumble.
Those blazing shells that were not blocked by the figurehead special effects easily penetrated the thin planks here, drilled into the cabin one after another, and began to dance.

This nominal battleship was much taller than the Golden Deer with its forecastle and stern towers flattened, and most of the shells fell on its upper and lower gun decks.

The huge kinetic energy pushed the hot shells to bounce wildly in the closed cabin.

Crushing from side to side, the wooden gun carriages, the rigging that restrained them, the bent oak beams, nothing could stop their charge.

The many clown gunners who were manning the artillery here and preparing to shoot the Lancer at close range were in trouble in an instant.

Even those third-level transcendents on the [Stairs of Glory] route mostly do not have the ability to withstand artillery shells, let alone them who are only contaminated by a big ghost card?
The colorful blood mist like paint was sprayed everywhere, and even flowed into the sea through the gaps of the warship.

The man-eating shark in the water that was about to eat shook its head and instantly lost its appetite. There was disgust in its blood-red eyes. Not even a dog would eat this messy thing.

"My waist, my waist, ga ga. ah ah ah."

"My intestines are falling out, help me, help me.

Hahaha, interesting, this intestine is so interesting."

The injured clown was laughing and crying at the same time, and his speech was incoherent, as if it was difficult for him to express any other emotions except laughing.

This is especially true of the clown costumes on their bodies, which have clearly grown together with their flesh and blood, and the "exclusively customized skin" has become their real skin.

Who would believe that they are not weird?
In just over a dozen days, it was clear that these clowns were terminally ill.

"Double shot, shoot again!"

The recoil of the gun pushed the pulley loaded with the gun back violently.

The well-trained gunners cleaned the barrel, extinguished the sparks, loaded the propellant bag, the plug, and two projectiles. A bore rod pushed them all to the bottom of the barrel to firmly tighten them.

Finally, the powder bag in the barrel was punctured, the powder pool was filled with gunpowder, and the gunners on both sides pulled the rope to reset the cannon.

The whole process went smoothly and took only half a minute.

In the "Artillery Manual" compiled by any country, their performance is worthy of being rated as excellent.

It was also thanks to the elite gunners on the ship who were selected from thousands of people that Byron dared to use double-bullet shooting with two shells loaded at a time in fierce battles.

Not only that, he also replaced the 14 6-pound cannons originally equipped on the Golden Hind, each weighing nearly one ton, with lighter but larger caliber 18-pound carronades.

Combined with the original 32-pound carronade, the total projectile mass exceeded 280 pounds, comparable to that of many Tier cruisers.

“Hahaha, it’s Lord Sea Hunter who came to save us.

Quick, take this opportunity and fight back. "

Alfred excitedly took a swig of his drink.

"Return to your respective combat positions, reload your batteries, and give it a good beating!"

The Lancer was originally a standard 32-gun level cruiser, and belonged to the same level of battleship as the Severe that chased Byron and the Shark.

However, it underwent another firepower upgrade led by Violet. The lower gun deck was equipped with 20 18-pound guns, and the first open deck was replaced with 12 12-pound carronades.

After a long period of actual combat with the Golden Deer, and with the help of a master craftsman, the shape and combat method of the new carronade gradually matured.

The weight is only 1/4-1/3 of that of a long-barreled cannon of the same caliber, and the charge is less, which greatly reduces the recoil and barrel temperature.

The superior workmanship offsets the loss in velocity and accuracy.

Sliding gun mount, special bolts for adjusting the gun's elevation angle, and a simplified aiming device.

Even an untrained non-gunner seaman, if operated properly, can deliver a devastating and fiery blow to the enemy at close range.

Very suitable for large-scale military expansion.

As for the problem of having a range inferior to that of a cannon and insufficient long-range firepower?

Anyway, the normal combat distance in naval battles is about one hundred meters.

The range issue can be completely ignored, and instead the firepower advantage can be maximized.

This is the technological generation gap!
Besides, what kind of pirates are they if they don't dare to fight a boarding battle and instead board an enemy ship to capture it?
The carronade was born for pirate ships and gradually became an essential weapon for all pirate ships in the privateering fleet of the Vanguard Colonial Trading Company.

Even the first thing produced in the arsenal using the No. 8 crystal skull [Quetzalcoatl] was a precision hydraulic boring machine for cutting steel columns.

At this time, after realizing the ability of the [Figurehead·The Clown], the Lancer also changed its ammunition to shotguns.

Even if you can deflect 30%, so what? I can fire 500 bullets at you at once, so those 30 or 50 won't make a difference at all.

Deadly bullets and scorching smoke instantly engulfed the Circus.

[Bone-eating Clown] Kraskin stood on the rear deck without any cover and was inevitably hit by stray bullets from both sides.

There were suddenly several bullet holes on his body.

But before the colorful blood could flow out, the pale flesh inside just squirmed slightly, allowing Koraskin, who could have been torn into pieces at will, to return to his original state.

The bloody mouth was still smiling, but anger was gushing out of the eyes:

"Fight back, fight back quickly.

Full starboard, turn and ram him, catch that damned sea hunter, and get back my lost nose!"

The huge bloody hole in the middle of his face made the clown look like a ferocious evil ghost, ready to devour anyone. The pirate ship relied on its maneuverability in the doldrums and began to turn. Several cannons on the rear side that were within range also opened fire simultaneously.

However, because it had just taken a round of concentrated fire from the Golden Deer, the nearby artillery positions were seriously short of gunners and a lot of gun vehicles were damaged.

A sparse round of artillery fire failed to trigger the 10% explosion effect.

The best result would be breaking a halyard on the mainmast, which might have caused serious problems in normal wind conditions.

But there was not a single bit of wind at the moment, so the sail and cable captain immediately led his men to rush up and repair it as soon as possible, which would not delay things at all.

The worst situation for Byron's side at this time was that the other side had mobility, but they did not.

"Throw the spare rope out of the anchor hole and tie the other end to the keel."

"Yes!"

Bruch immediately took the order and left.

At the same time, the [Lancer] on the opposite side also executed the same order.

Byron stood at his command post, looking at the Circus that was about to turn around, with a dazzling red light flashing in the depths of his eyes:

"You raise soldiers for a thousand days and deploy them for a single moment. Not a pound of meat is eaten for free with me.

It's time for you to go online, donkeys, sharks, and horses!"

Black shark fins emerged from the water and divided into two groups in front of the two warships.

Even though their average body length is close to ten meters, there are still only 27 tiny man-eating sharks in this sea, each biting a thick cable and swinging their tails desperately.

Then the two pirate ships with a displacement of several hundred tons started moving again.

The speed was getting faster and faster, and it was not much behind the circus number.

But now there is no wind at sea, and many tricky tactics no longer work.

Then three white lines of water crossed the sea, starting a sea chase between the three warships.

The Circus was in the middle, and the Golden Deer and Lancer were on both sides, exerting their respective broadside firepower to the extreme.

"Ahhh"

"Fire, free fire!"

There were constant wailing and loud gunfire.
The hot wind whistling from the muzzles and the billowing pungent smoke seemed to make the air in this temporary calm zone boil again.

"Hold on, brothers. As long as we can survive the half-hour calm period, no one can stop our world's fastest ship, the Golden Deer!
The Circus was just a "Swallow-class" ship converted from a merchant ship, nominally the bottom of the battleship line.

Today we are going to use sailboats to defeat battleships!
*Fuck it!

The Circus has a displacement of only 682 tons, a gun deck length of 40 meters, and carries 50 guns.

下层贯通火炮甲板22门18磅加农炮，上层22门9磅加农炮，船艉楼甲板4门6磅炮，艏楼甲板2门6磅炮。

This type of ship, which was converted from a large merchant ship, was uniformly classified as the "Yan class".

There is a large shipyard in the pirate city of Blacksail Harbor, which can carry out a full set of corresponding modifications to merchant ships.

This 50-gun battleship not only meets the lower limit of all double-gun decks, but also meets the lower limit of all nominal battleships.

Even among all the titular battleships, she is the bantamweight.

Compared to Violet's Portland-class 50-gun fourth-level ship [Flaming Rose], with a displacement of 1088 tons, it is obviously far from enough.

If the [Flaming Rose] is considered a "light burlet weight" below the lightweight class, then the [Circus] is the lowest "light flyweight".

Although the total number of guns on Byron's two warships is not as large as its, the total projection quality is undoubtedly superior to it.

Even if a clown bomb occasionally falls on Byron's boat and explodes, he still believes that he will be the winner in the end.

Even in the process, elite pirates carefully selected from thousands of people were torn to pieces in the explosion.

There were the cheerful gunners who had sang together: "One hundred countries, pay tribute to me", and the reserve officers who listened carefully to his lectures.
But this is war!

While Byron's will was as firm as a rock, his desire to obtain 882 skeleton gold coins and build the undead army [Deathwing] became stronger and stronger.

On the other hand, the Circus was the first to collapse.

"No, their firepower is too strong, we can't go on like this.

The sharks in the water are all controlled by the Sea Hunter. I can only have a chance of winning if I kill him directly."

The bone-eating clown Kolaskin also realized that he, a great pirate, could not gain any advantage in the naval battle. After hesitating for a while, he finally took out the big golden joker card.

Even though every time the power of this cursed object was used, the spirituality of the entire ship would be more polluted, but now there was no time to care about that.

He attached the grinning golden ghost card to a cannon beside him, and covered both himself and the cannon with a huge red cloth.

Snapped!
With a snap of his fingers, he instantly activated the [Clown Trick] that was amplified to the extreme.

I saw the man and the cannon covered under the red cloth suddenly expand rapidly like a balloon.

Accompanied by a burst of wild laughter, a terrifying clown as big as a giant, several stories tall, appeared on the deck.

The cannon also grew in size and turned into a giant salute cannon painted with seven colors of oil paint.

The clown shook off the colorful hair on his head, and the moment he landed on the ground, he swelled up into a child-sized puppet with a wooden nose and overalls.

They held wooden muskets and rushed into the salute.

Koraskin grabbed a handful of his own clown crew members and stuffed them into the barrel, then aimed the salute at the Golden Hind.

"A clown will never lose. Eat my clown tricks - trapeze artist, ga ga ga."

Bang!
With a loud bang, the puppets and clowns in the salute flew to the deck of the Golden Hind opposite in an instant, like thrilling trapeze artists in a circus performance.

(End of this chapter)