World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 796 - 384: Yan Mo, you’re finished!_3

Chapter 796: 384: Yan Mo, you’re finished!_3

If Suo Lun wanted to escape, it was indeed too late!

The fleets on both wings had broken away from the Central Army, all of them Rock Pirate ships, small and fast, and without the burden of the injured warships of the Central Army, once they pursued and encircled at full speed, Suo Lun had no chance of escape.

However...

Soon, Yan Mo discovered that Suo Lun wasn’t trying to flee, but was transforming his formation while heading south!

Originally, the Suo Lun Fleet only needed to face an enemy ahead, but now they had to face enemies to the front, left, and right!

Therefore, his fleet had to change formation, to disperse firepower across three directions, transforming from a straight-line formation into an inverted concave formation.

Moreover, this was done while on the move.

Yan Mo was really going mad, mad with joy!

Suo Lun, this fool, was his brain waterlogged? His cannons, originally concentrated in one direction, were indeed ferocious in firepower, augmented by the overly condensed Rock Demon Fleet, hence the large casualties inflicted; in just over three hours, they had damaged more than two hundred warships.

But now, Suo Lun’s modest firepower was to be dispersed in three directions, and the Rock Demon Fleet had fully spread out, with a density less than one-third of the original.

As a result, the hit rate of the Suo Lun Fleet’s cannons was miserably poor!

With that, what sort of battle achievements could they hope for?

Yan Mo chuckled inwardly, thinking that Suo Lun was nothing special after all. At first, greed clouded his judgment, leading him into a trap, and when he realized something was amiss, he only made one blunder after another.

Once the Rock Demon Fleet completed its transformation, the situation had already turned dire for Suo Lun.

And now, Yan Mo felt that Suo Lun’s defeat was sealed! For he had courted disaster, voluntarily forfeiting his most advantageous weapon, distance!

Yan Mo could imagine, given the Suo Lun Fleet’s not-so-high hit rate, and the need for more than a quarter of an hour to complete one attack, by the time their fleet closed in, the Suo Lun Fleet was utterly doomed.

Once it came to boarding combat, the Rock Pirates were invincible.

Suo Lun was heading south while changing formation, which made his speed particularly slow.

The Rock Demon Fleet, split into three directions, was rapidly encircling him, drawing ever closer, closer and closer.

In Yan Mo’s eyes, Suo Lun was courting death, but was Suo Lun really courting death?

No! In Suo Lun’s heart, he was stimulated by the earlier achievements!

Unexpectedly, although his navy was new and in its embryonic stage, it was also revolutionary, an era away in terms of advancement.

Even if it was new and unripe, in the face of the navy of the old era, it possessed unparalleled lethality.

The leap from boarding combat to concentrated Cannon Warships was almost like an instant evolutionary jump from before the Common Era to the 17th century on Earth, without any intermediate stages.

This progress far surpassed that from sailing warships to steam-powered warships, as well as from wooden armor to ironclads.

Before the battle, Suo Lun was extremely anxious and pessimistic, even preparing for defeat.

But once the real battle commenced, the results far exceeded his imagination.

Thus, an overconfident Suo Lun prepared to engage Yan Mo directly.

He planned to use his 25,000 sailors to take on the remaining 80,000 of the Rock Demon Fleet head-on.

And that was in a situation where they were surrounded on three sides!

Solid shot had been fired; the ship-killing chain shot had also been fired.

There was also the final super weapon, the Hell Killer within two or three hundred meters, which hadn’t been used yet.

That was the grape shot and canister shot!

Both types of shot were similar in principle, but grape shot contained fewer but larger balls, the size of tennis balls.

In contrast, a single canister shot contained several hundred balls.

If we consider 17th and 18th-century Earth naval battles, there is no doubt that grape shot was more powerful, as back then, the crew mostly hid inside the ships, protected by thick planks.

However, most of the pirates of the Rock Demon Fleet were on the deck.

Therefore, canister shot should prove to be much more lethal.

Hundreds of cannons firing canister shot simultaneously, with tens of thousands of balls raining down like a storm.

Within two hundred meters, the destructive power was something Suo Lun dared not even imagine!

...

"Switch to canister shot, switch to canister shot!"

While transforming, most of the Suo Lun Fleet’s cannons were loaded with canister shot.

Because the transformation was slowing the fleet considerably, Yan Mo’s three-sided fleet was closing in rapidly.

The Suo Lun Fleet continued its diligent and difficult transformation, seemingly unaware of the impending encirclement’s doom.

Nearly half an hour later, the formation of the Suo Lun Fleet was complete!

However, by then, the three-sided encircling Rock Demon Fleet was very close.

The opposing frontal fleet was only two hundred meters away, while the fleets on both sides were just three hundred meters away!

Both sides could now see the sailors aboard each other’s ships!

Originally, at this distance, the Rock Demon Fleet should have used crossbows to shoot. But Yan Mo gave up that option, feeling it was pointless.

Rushing in at full speed, then having tens of thousands of pirates board and commence close combat seemed much more satisfying to him, a way to annihilate the Suo Lun Fleet once and for all!

The Rock Demon Fleet approached closer and closer, completely encompassing the Suo Lun Fleet!

The faces of tens of thousands of Rock Pirates began to twist and contort with bloodlust, becoming increasingly ferocious.

"Ah... ah..."

The Rock Pirates began to mutilate themselves again, using daggers to slash their own faces, making the blood flow freely.

Licking the sharp blades with their tongues, their mouths became bloodied.

Tens of thousands of Rock Pirates let out a beast-like roar, sinister and frightening to behold.

If the battle really did come down to boarding combat, then Suo Lun was certainly doomed.

His 25,000 sailors stood no chance against Yan Mo’s 80,000 to 90,000, especially against such beast-like Rock Pirates.

The distance was closing in!

Yan Mo sneered, "Suo Lun, you’re finished!"

Suo Lun, looking back at Yan Mo, coldly said, "Yan Mo, you’re finished!"

Then, he gave a fierce order!

"Fire, fire, fire!"

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

Hundreds of cannons fired all at once!

Countless canister and grape shots, like a hellish downpour, were fiercely launched!

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