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Chapter 212 Fanatics
When the Dark Dragon Knights began to board the powered-down Allied warships according to their training, the priests of the Goddess Inquisition who had been standing idly by suddenly took action.
They first used light magic to easily break the debuff cast by the Dark Dragon Knights on the Allied officers and soldiers on the deck.
The Allied officers and soldiers who had returned to normal immediately launched a counterattack against the swooping Dark Dragon Knights. Although the effect of the muskets was poor, the cannons and shotguns with shorter range performed extremely well in breaking the magic defense shield.
The priests specifically cast light purification magic against the dark dragons and their knights whose magic shields had been broken.
The purification magic that had a healing effect on others, turned into a soul-burning torture on the dark dragon and its knight.
Some dark dragons let out screams and fell directly into the sea with their knights. Others could not control their flying direction and crashed directly into the mast of the ship. More fell directly onto the deck of the ship.
The Allied officers and soldiers immediately stepped forward and launched a fire attack on the dark dragons and their knights that fell on the deck, while the priests took out their one-handed hammers and stepped forward to take the lives of the dark dragons and dark knights.
After a wave of battles, nearly one-third of the dark dragons and their knights died, and another one-third suffered varying degrees of injuries. The dark dragons and dark knights who had escaped by chance were unable to step forward to rescue those who had fallen into the sea and were seeking help.
Because the officers and soldiers on the decks of the Allied warships, as well as the priests of the Goddess Inquisition, were launching fatal attacks on the dark dragons and knights that fell into the sea.
The Pegasus Knights, who had already intercepted the second batch of allied warships, discovered the abnormality here and hurried back to try to rescue them.
At this time, something strange happened again. Facing the attack of the Pegasus Knights, the fanatical priests fell into a state of prayer again.
As the priests fell into a state of prayer, they were covered by magic shields filled with holy light. These magic shields could shield against magic attacks, cold weapon melee attacks, and firearm shooting.
Upon seeing this, the commander of the Pegasus Knights ordered not to attack the enemy priests, and instead attacked the allied officers and soldiers on the deck.
The Pegasus Knights mainly rely on the attacks of Pegasus Knights, but Pegasus itself cannot cause substantial damage to the enemy. In addition, the magic scrolls carried by the Pegasus Knights are basically long-range fire magic scrolls, which makes it difficult for them to play a substantial role in the boarding battle.
Finally, the Pegasus Knights, who failed to capture the next Allied warship, were forced to withdraw because the enemy's main fleet had arrived, and the sailors of the second batch of Allied warships whose sails were burned by them were trying to rebuild new sails to restore power.
At the same time, Liu Rengui's warships were assembled in the open sea and rushed towards the allied fleet with great momentum.
The first batch of intercepted Allied warships tried to turn themselves into sea artillery to stop the attack of Liu Rengui's fleet, but Liu Rengui's fleet relied on the flexibility of its own warships to easily bypass the first batch of Allied warships that had lost power.
Liu Rengui's target was the second batch of Allied warships that were trying to restore power, as well as the main Allied fleet heading north.
As for the second batch of allied warships, Liu Rengui continued to burn their spare sails. It was obvious that the allied forces had made preparations in advance, fearing that the sails would lose power after being burned, and then become fish to be slaughtered. And judging from the tacit cooperation of the sailors, they should have trained for a long time to replace spare sails at sea.
It’s a pity that Liu Rengui did not give them the opportunity to demonstrate the results of their training. After Liu Rengui’s fleet destroyed the spare sails of the second batch of Allied warships, they went directly south to engage in battle with the main force of the Allied warships.
The main fleet of the Allied Forces saw that the two enemy air forces had withdrawn and believed that Liu Rengui had lost his air force, so they wanted to adopt a kite-flying tactic to maximize their own artillery advantage.
Liu Rengui soon gave the little surprise he had carefully prepared. In the middle of his entire fleet, there were twelve warships that were converted from huge merchant ships, and these warships were not equipped with enough archers and magicians.
The protection of the warship completely relies on the magic defense array set on the warship. Liu Rengui gave almost all the space on the warship to the Dark Dragon Knight. This design was actually a suggestion given to him by Zhang Wei, which was to build an offshore platform. According to Zhang Wei, it was an aircraft carrier.
Because the purpose of the entire battleship is to carry as many Dark Dragon Knights as possible, through design and modification, each battleship can carry twelve Dark Dragon Knights.
The platforms on both sides of the ship and the wide entrances and exits without doors are used for the take-off and landing of the Dark Dragon Knights. In order to ensure the balance and safety of the ship's navigation, two Dark Dragon Knights can take off and land at a time.
After the one hundred and forty-four Dark Dragon Knights assembled in the air, they pounced on the main force of the Allied warships.
Before they set off, they had received a warning from Liu Rengui that the chaplain on the Allied warship posed a great threat to them.
Therefore, Liu Rengui strictly ordered them not to be greedy for merit and act rashly, but to carry out the operations in their daily training, which was to bomb enemy warships from a long distance.
The combat purpose of these dark dragon knights is not as simple as destroying the enemy's power system, because from the perspective of combat methods, the magicians and archers on Liu Rengui's side do not have an advantage when exchanging fire with the enemy at close range, and may even be at a disadvantage.
Because the shotguns and cannons fired by the allied forces were almost the natural enemies of the magic shield. Without the protection of the magic shield, the archers, magicians and melee sailors of Liu Rengui's side would all be baptized by the enemy's artillery fire.
Therefore, Zhang He's air force was carrying out a combat plan to capture the enemy's warships, so the Pegasus Knights destroyed the enemy's power system, and then the Dark Dragon Knights with higher defense and combat capabilities carried out the ship-seizing battle.
Liu Rengui had never intended to capture the enemy's warships from the beginning. According to the intelligence he had collected, each of the three allied forces had its own well-built military factory. As long as they could occupy the enemy's territory as planned, wouldn't it be a matter of time before they could produce artillery, muskets and ammunition?