Chapter 19 Breaking the Iron Shoes
After seizing the second side gun position, Weiss, with the cooperation of Keith and two other federal soldiers, successfully killed a group of Norman soldiers with the method of attacking behind the scenes, allowing the federal officers and soldiers who boarded the ship to control a large section of the cabin passage between the second boarding platform on the starboard side and the two side gun positions, including 4 forks, 11 open and closed cabin doors, and 2 small-caliber rapid-fire cannons with blown-out shots, and picked up dozens of weapons and a considerable amount of ammunition left by the Norman soldiers.
Up to this point, the federal officers and soldiers who used the Starboard No. 2 boarding platform and crane frame to board the Norman battleship were only 30 people, including Weiss and Hartbauer, and nearly 100 Norman soldiers they killed. According to this trend, Weiss and the others were able to quickly reach the stern of the ship, blow up the auxiliary thrusters, and allow friendly forces on the ground to board the ship directly from the thunder, and speed up the federal army's attack and capture warships. However, the reputation of the Normans being used to fighting is by no means a boast of
Needless to say, even ordinary crew members can use firearms skillfully and calmly engage in close combat under the organization and command of the officers. They have a group of people, or a team of more than a dozen or twenty people, and rushed out from all directions, forks and even more hidden hatches, forming a siege and suppression of the federal troops that boarded the ship. Weiss' new partners are too tired to deal with it, and the subsequent boarding force is only enough to barely supplement the consumption.
The narrow cabin passage obviously could not give Weiss and the "Ape" Case space to use their skills and courage. The two of them used a pineapple to sweep the third ship's gun position with a pineapple. However, when they entered the cabin passage from the gun position and were about to use the "** magical skill" and hit the Normans hard from behind, they found that this was not directly connected to the previous cabin passage.
Under the detection of the "human radar", Weiss led Case in. After killing two Norman soldiers who carried shells from the ammunition room to the gun position, they walked far and they did not meet a Norman along the way. Instead, the mechanical roar in the cabin passage became clearer.
The two of them each held two guns and tiptoed forward, and came to an unguarded cabin door. There was no window in the cabin door. Weiss narrowed his eyes and saw that there were no armed personnel behind the door. He heard it again. The space behind the door was filled with rumbling roar. He thought for a moment and said to Keith: "Let's go in and explore the situation?"
Instead of blindly following, Case expressed his thoughts: "It is probably the boiler cabin or engine cabin. If it is just a power cabin, it is usually not enough to cut off the power supply and power of the entire warship. It has little effect. Why don't we try to go up and find a way to meet with our brothers. Without our support, they will fight very hard."
Weiss said: "The machines inside are running. We go in and do some damage. It can allow the Normans to mobilize troops, distract attention, and help our people relieve stress. I think there should be not many crew members here. We will destroy a few machines and go and meet our people."
Case thought for a while: "Okay! I'll follow your arrangement!"
The hatch door in front of me has neither a door handle nor axle. Judging from its appearance, it seems to be sliding up and down to open and close, rather than pushing and pulling open and closed like the previous hatch doors.
Before Weis could come out, Case walked to the door, turned a circular gate valve clockwise, and then quickly squatted down, facing the slowly opened hatch door.
The mechanical roar from inside was so noisy that Weiss and Case had to speak loudly if they wanted to communicate with each other in language.
Of course, the noise in the power compartment is so high that the sound of the opening of the cabin should not easily attract attention.
The cabin door was half raised, Weiss reached one knee to explore the situation inside with his naked eyes. It was indeed a cabin full of machinery and equipment. It was more than ten feet high, that is, four or five meters long, hundreds of feet long, and six or seventy feet wide, which was equivalent to a small auditorium. Considering that it was inside a flying warship, this size was already very large.
The rumbling machines were neatly arranged in three rows. Without open flames, they were definitely not boilers. The ones placed at the tail of the ship were usually engine bays, but they didn't look much like steam turbines.
After some observation, Weiss narrowed his eyes and switched to the "human radar" mode. There were 11 Normans in this huge cabin, most of whom were "fighting five scumbags", and only 5 had a combat power reading of nearly normal Norman soldiers.
2 vs 5, what is the chance of winning?
There were 11 Normans, 5 were soldiers and 6 were crew members... Weiss used gestures to inform his partner of the enemy situation. Regarding Weiss' observation, "Ape" Keith did not question at all. After confirming each other's eyes, the two attacked decisively. They stepped through the hatch door in turn and strided through the passage between the machines in meteors. They were domineering with both hands and guns.
Following the direction obtained from previous detection, Weiss saw three Normans wearing crew uniforms, steel helmets and armed belts at a glance, two carrying rifles and one wearing pistols on their waists. They gathered together, and it seemed that they were doing wiring work.
Shouldn’t it be the job of ordinary crew members to do maintenance?
In sight, two Norman soldiers were standing on the other end of the cabin, holding rifles, standing back to back.
Weiss signaled Case to stare at the three Norman soldiers nearby and deal with the two in the distance by himself. He walked forward quickly. When a Norman soldiers found him, he immediately roared: "Don't move! Raise your hands!"
This is a Norman sentence Weis learned before rushing to the northern border. It is very practical, but there are very few opportunities to use it.
Two Norman soldiers in the distance subconsciously raised their guns. Weiss did not give them the chance to aim and fire. They fired left and right. Although the power of this semi-automatic pistol is limited, as long as they have superb shooting skills, hitting the key points or shooting multiple times, the Norman soldiers can quickly lose their combat effectiveness.
Case's gun rang out at the same time.
"Don't move! Raise your hands!" After the gunfire stopped, Weiss yelled again.
On the other side of Case, two Norman soldiers carrying rifles had been knocked down, and one with a waist pistol was standing there, with his hands raised above his head.
Although the six Norman crew members in the cabin were not carrying weapons, they did not intend to surrender. Some of them picked up wrenches and tried to resist, while others ran straight towards the cabin door.
Weiss did not hesitate at all for the rebels, and changed into a magazine and fired directly. He frightened and scared the person who fled the way, but the cabin was too big, and a crew member escaped from an area that he could not control.
When Weiss escorted three Norman crew members who surrendered, he returned to his position, Kess said to him: "They were just laying out explosive wires!"
Weiss didn't feel strange at first. Since the Federal Army had boarded the ship and it was possible to seize the warship, the Normans began to self-destruct, because they did not want the warship to become the opponent's spoils intact, avoiding technical leakage, or even entering the battle sequence of the Federal Army, turning the gun to deal with their own people. But then they thought, if they wanted to blow up the warship, it would be enough to go to the main ammunition depot to put two time bombs, why bother to lay explosives in the power compartment?
"Do you understand Norman? Can you communicate with them?" Weiss asked Keith.
Keith shook his head decisively and signaled to Weiss that the reason he judged that the Normans were connecting the explosive wire was because he saw the explosive placed under the machine following the wire.
Set up a whole pack of explosives under the running machine, so why not be afraid of the machine's heat accidental explosion?
Weiss had a sudden inspiration and pointed a gun at the captured Norman officer: "Hey, do you speak Ulster? Will you?"
Although this guy didn't say anything, his eyes revealed some important information.
Weiss stared at him and noticed this, so he deliberately said to Case: "Look! There is no need to stay with a worthless prisoner of war, let me deal with him!"
"Wait!" the Norman officer spoke, "I can speak a little Ulster."
"Very good." Weiss signaled Case to watch the other Norman crew members and stood in front of the Norman officer. The man looked about twenty-five or six years old, with awkward expression and flashing eyes. The reason why he endured humiliation and survived was not because he was timid and afraid of death, but because something made him feel bound and unwilling to die. Maybe he had just gotten married, and he was always concerned about his beautiful wife at home, or he was deeply concerned about his parents.
"As long as you answer my question, I can let you go, you can go home alive, or continue to serve in the Norman army - as long as you want. As for them, they will never tell me what you talked to me...you understand!"
The sound of these machines was very noisy, and Weiss was worried that he could not hear clearly, so he slowed down and said again.
The Norman NCO in front of him actually agreed submissively.
If we had not delved into the character traits of this generation of Normans during the border battle, Weiss would have thought he had met a fake Norman.
On the battlefield, he saw Norman soldiers retreating more than once, and also saw their fear and unwillingness when they were dying. They are realistic and rational, and unlike their previous generation, they are simply a group of puppet soldiers without souls and consciousness.
"What machines are these?" Weiss asked.
"Steam engine is used to power the warships." Normann replied. Although his tone sounded normal, his flashing eyes betrayed his heart again.
"You're not a good actor," Weiss sneered, and he raised his hand and pressed the guy's forehead with the gun.
Norman NCO became nervous and he hurriedly said, "Okay, OK, Mr. Officer, as you guessed, these are the machines we use to make artificial star source stones."
Is this the secret weapon of the Normans?
Chapter completed!