Chapter 210 Battle of the Blood Sea (Part 1)

The completeness and response speed of the Redwyne Fleet obviously exceeded the expectations of the attacker fleet.

When they found that the Redwyne Fleet was ready for battle, and took advantage of the sudden east wind, sails and oars, swaying and accelerating to charge back at them, they felt uneasy.

There are many old men who participated in the Greyjoy Rebellion during King Robert's reign in this surprise attacking Ironmen team.

Balon also launched several raids at the beginning of the rebellion. Under Euron's plan, Victarion led the Iron Fleet to raid Lannisport and burned the Lannister fleet. But later in the Battle of Fairy Island, Stannis led the Royal Fleet to set up an ambush and defeat the Iron Fleet. The destruction of the Iron Fleet allowed King Robert I to eliminate the threat at sea and land on the Iron Islands to completely suppress the Greyjoy Rebellion.

Although the Redwyne Fleet did not set up an ambush, more than 200 ships were generally intact and had already been deployed in battle formation.

This made the Ironmen's raid meaningless, and the battlefield suddenly blew east wind, and the Redwyne fleet launched a counterattack.

It should have been in a storm here!

Euron's magic should have paralyzed Redwyne's fleet!

However, none of this happened.

The storm suddenly dissipated, and the east wind became stronger.

Watching, the last section of the sea route became a collision between the two sides.

Although Redwyne's fleet accelerated for only one mile, the east wind was blowing stronger and stronger.

The Redwyne fleet used sails and oars and quickly accumulated momentum.

"Retract the sails!" The Ironmen captain shouted loudly.

The situation seemed to be reversed in a short moment. The Ironmen fleet could only retract the sails and use the oars, and continued to move forward with the accumulated impact force, and drove straight in.

But many experienced captains were already terrified and ready to die.

This surprise attack by the Ironmen fleet consisted of only more than seventy ships, and most of them were longboats. The only five ramming ships were the three-hundred-oared ships led by Euron at the front of the array. The warships with two hundred and one hundred oars behind them were much fewer than the Redwyne fleet.

When they met in the sea, the Redwyne fleet had already relied on the advantage of the number of ships to clearly encircle the two wings in the array, pushing the Ironmen to the center.

"The Redwyne fleet was well prepared, this is a trap!"

"Damn it, come on, so what if it's a trap, the Ironmen are invincible on the sea!"

"We have Euron's sea monsters!"

"Euron! Euron! Euron!"

The sound of thousands of wooden oars rising and falling and hitting the water was noisy on the sea, and it was also filled with roars, shouts, horns, drums and flute vibratos.

"For the king!"

"Roar! Roar! Roar!"

The ramming ships of the first array of the Redwyne fleet were less than three hundred feet away from the first row of large ships of the attackers. Trumpets blew in the fleet, faint but piercing, and then countless shouts and the sound of swords and shields rang out on the sea.

The people on both ships could even hear each other's roars and shouts.

"Catapults! Fire!"

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

The catapults on warships are similar to giant crossbows, and they work through torsion. The projectiles are large arrows or darts made of wood, with iron tips. After these arrows are fired, they are shot along a flat trajectory towards the target.

It must be pointed out that the power of the catapults is far from being able to easily break the hard wooden hull. Even if some large catapults can damage the hull, their poor accuracy and slow firing speed make it difficult to play a key role in naval battles.

But the reason why warships are equipped with catapults is more to fire two rounds before boarding to deter the enemy. Although the power is not great, the accuracy of the catapult is higher than that of the catapult. When boarding, it can also be used to set fire or launch grappling hooks.

At this time, firing huge crossbow arrows is more for deterrence. Of course, there is also the possibility that the crossbow arrows fly along the parabola to the deck and kill the other side's soldiers lined up on the deck.

Dozens or hundreds of huge crossbow arrows were shot from the front and back of the decks of both sides, briefly intersecting in the air, and then each shot at the other side's ship with its sharp edge.

"Catapult!"

After the storm stopped, both sides reacted quickly to lift the tarpaulin on the ship and set up the catapult.

Because the distance between the two sides was very close when they found each other, the soldiers operating the catapult had only a very short debugging time, and then placed the burning asphalt barrels and oil barrels on the speculation and threw them at each other.

The burning oil barrels and the asphalt barrels with hot smoke flew through the gaps between the fleets, and those thrown at each other were aimed at the decks of each other's ships.

But most of the oil barrels and asphalt barrels fell into the sea.

Only a few ships on both sides were hit, and the oil barrels and asphalt barrels exploded on the hull, and then were extinguished by the sailors who had been prepared with the seawater prepared on the ship.

Two ships were particularly unlucky. The oil barrels fell on the deck of the ship. The scalding hot oil ignited many soldiers on the deck with flames, and the ship was filled with wailing.

Some oil barrels on the Iron People's side fell into the sea and were still burning with green flames. It was wildfire. But their wildfire was obviously insufficient, and with hundreds of ships deployed in array on the sea and warships stretching for two or three miles to engage in battle, the impact of this wildfire was almost negligible.

The second round of crossbows was loaded, and another round of huge arrows attacked each other.

At this time, the ships of the first array of both sides had approached within a hundred feet.

"Ready!"

"Shoot!"

At this distance, the archers on the decks of both sides had already started to shoot the first round of arrow rain.

Arrows greeted the decks of both sides like hail. Hundreds, thousands, countless in an instant. Many people were shot and fell to the ground, and their shouts turned into wailing.

Soon, the second wave of arrow rain had also fallen from the sky.

The archers put the third arrow on the bowstring one after another.

The horn sounded again, woo-woo.

There was no chance for the third round of archery.

The speed of the Ironmen ship was very fast under the blessing of the previous westerly wind. Although they had retracted the sails, they still maintained their speed under the flying blades.

The Redwyne fleet was not fast enough to set sail. Although there was an increasingly strong easterly wind, the distance to the enemy was not enough to accelerate to the fastest speed, and it was slightly behind.

"Prepare for boarding!"

On the ramming ship of the Redwyne fleet, a knight waved his sword and shouted an order. The archers on the deck squatted on the spot, and the soldiers who were ready to board responded loudly, grabbing the hull one after another, waiting for the collision. Some people have already prepared the hooks and boards for boarding, waiting for the ramming ship to hit the enemy ship!

"There is a monster!"

"Sea monster!!!"

Suddenly, a terrified scream sounded on a ramming ship of the Redwyne fleet.

With the sound of splashing water, several huge sea monster tentacles rose from the sea and smashed down heavily on the deck.

Then, a sharp creaking sound came from the deck, and the sea monster tentacles directly tore off the mast of the ramming ship.

For a moment, wood chips flew and screams continued.

The sea monster's tentacles quickly tied up the entire ship tightly, and with huge and terrifying power, they directly broke the hardwood on the deck, as if they were going to drag the ship into the deep sea.

When the sea monster entangled the Redwyne warship, the boarding battle had already occurred.

The ramming ship of the Redwyne fleet wanted to collide with the ramming ship of the Ironmen. But the other party obviously knew that it was a loss to exchange one for one, so they tried their best to avoid colliding with the Redwyne fleet and went straight to the relatively small ships in the second array of the Redwyne fleet.

But despite this, two ramming ships still collided with each other.

Both ships were huge warships with 300 oars. The speed was so strong that all the crew members who were preparing for the boarding battle fell down, and the sailors and crew members in the cabin were all knocked unconscious.

Then, I don’t know who was the first to shout: "Kill!"

The sound of fighting followed.

The crossbow arrows only had one round, and then the hook flew across the two ships that collided with each other. The agile sailors and soldiers relied on the hook and the mast rope to start the boarding battle. For a while, blood and flesh flew on the decks of both sides. The marines collided with each other and let out a terrifying cry.

"Dragon!"

"Giant Dragon!!!"

Someone on the Ironborn side let out a creepy and shrill cry. People followed his sight and saw a three-headed dragon flying rapidly from the air on the sea behind the Redwyne fleet.

Viserys did not appear on the battlefield until the two fleets crossed into a group and saw the sea monster appear.

And with the dragon joining, the Redwyne fleet was instantly excited.

"For the king!"

"For Targaryen!"

On the ship that had already boarded, the knights and soldiers roared and rushed onto the enemy ship, fighting bravely.

On the Ironborn side, some captains who had not yet been involved in the battle also reacted and shouted in panic.

"Archers ready!"

"Crossbows ready!"

Watching the dragon fly over the Redwyne fleet and directly over the large ship entangled by the sea monster.

"Suvio!"

An unfamiliar Valyrian word sounded.

Under the horrified eyes of everyone, a breath of cold frost sprayed out of the dragon's mouth and swept towards the sea surface where the sea monster stretched out its tentacles.

In just a short moment, the sea surface and the bottom of the huge ramming ship were frozen by white ice.

The sea monster was unable to react, and it was too late to pull back its arm.

"Dracarys!"

The scorching flame ray swept across the sea monster's temporarily frozen arm.

Crackling.

The sea monster's tentacles felt pain and flapped randomly, eager to retract but unable to do so.

Viserys knew that it was better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten fingers, so he only burned the tentacle of the sea monster that stretched out from the sea.

With a creepy hissing sound, a huge tentacle was burned through and broken by the flame ray.

Wow!

The sea surface was instantly stirred up by thousands of huge waves.

Several more tentacles rushed out of the water, carrying huge waves and slapping towards Viserys.

Viserys raised a little higher. The arm was out of reach.

Instead, Viserys spit out frost again: "Suvio!" and froze the sea water where the sea monster was again.

Suddenly, with a splash, a ball of dark thick liquid shot out from the water.

The ink exploded in the air, and a smelly black rain fell.

Viserys flapped his wings to avoid it.

The sea monster's tentacles retracted back to the surface of the water without a care, even bringing Viserys's frozen ice into the water. One of the tentacles of the sea monster that was frozen together with the ship was burned off by Viserys. The others shed their skin and pulled back under the sea.

Viserys was still watching the sea monster enter the sea.

A few crossbow arrows flew past his body.

The iron people's ship thought it had found a great opportunity and shot crossbow arrows at the dragon in the sky.

Seeing the sea monster disappear.

Viserys simply climbed slowly into the air and flew over the small warships and longships behind the iron people's fleet.

"Dracarys! Suvio! Vāedar!"

With a loud voice, the three heads of the dragon sprayed three rays of light of different colors, and instantly swept from the sky to the iron people's longships and small warships.

The Ironborn ships were scattered, with the distance between them at least forty or fifty yards. Normally, Viserys would be most efficient in this situation with ordinary fireballs.

But sometimes on the battlefield, ray breath is more deterrent than fireballs.

White rays are ice, yellow rays are thunder, and red rays are fire.

Viserys flapped his wings and recklessly sprayed different rays at the same ship, or each ray at different ships. For a time, rays came one after another behind the Ironborn fleet, and several warships were damaged.

Longships and small warships often could not withstand a few horrible ray breaths.

Frost and lightning breaths are okay, but the most deadly is fire breath. The rays of fire breath are extremely powerful, and can tear small ships and longships directly into cracks like a knife cutting butter, causing great damage, breaking sails, and even directly cutting the ship into multiple sections, and directly penetrating into the cabin to cause damage to the inner wall of the cabin, leaking and sinking the ship. It's a pity that the enemy ships are too scattered.

"Disperse! Prepare the crossbows! Use the iron scorpion arrows!"

"Prepare the crossbows! Use the iron scorpion arrows!"

Toot-toot-toot--

The iron fleet blew a strange lama sound.

Three sounds, representing the response to the dragon!

Although Viserys took the lead and caused great deterrence to the enemy. But in the end, the fleet was in chaos in the melee, and many ironmen raiders knew that they had nowhere to retreat and could not surrender, so they fell into a crazy stress. Euron seemed to have been prepared to deal with the dragon, and equipped the ship accompanying him with iron scorpion arrows.

The longboats that were originally planned to intersperse paddled and scattered. Some ships even lowered their sails frantically, trying to stop the ships and turn back directly with the east wind. There is no distinction between front and back for longboats. As long as they can slow down, they can quickly go west with the wind.

They tried to distance themselves and shoot with iron scorpion crossbows.

However, Viserys is not a dragon in this world, and he also has medium and long-range means.

Since they want to distance themselves, Viserys is happy to accompany them.

He flew to a certain height: "Dracarys! Suvio! Vāedar!" Still shouting this unnecessary spell, Viserys' three heads accumulated different lights.

The next moment, Viserys turned into a turret, and one by one, red fireballs with high temperature, white ice balls with cold air, and golden lightning balls with terrifying aura flew towards the ships that were reacting to the stress like cannonballs.