Reborn As a Pirate

When it comes to the guiding thinking of naval warfare, battle line is a heavy term that has to be mentioned.

Once upon a time, sailing was booming. With the expansion of tonnage and the development of the iron casting industry, larger and larger artillery and longer and longer ranges changed the stereotyped understanding of human beings that naval warfare is equal to boarding for the first time.

However, the accuracy of the artillery at that time was limited, and the extremely low hit rate and unstable performance made the navy miserable. At one time, it could only raise the banner of bravery again, abandoning artillery fire and advocating swords in the army.

Until 1588, at the Battle of Gravelines, Francis Drake tore apart the front of the Armada with the raids that pirates were good at, and Charles Howard gave the Spaniards a fatal blow with limited artillery fire and the first line bombardment, playing The elegy of the Spanish maritime empire sounded.

England's road to maritime supremacy started from this moment, and the line bombardment tactics co-created by Charles Howard and Francis Drake became a solid banner for this step. Powerful warships are all dubbed battleships.

However, the instruments of war will always change because of changes in tactics.

After the birth of the battle line, the navies of all countries in the world are constantly tending to have strong ships and guns. The penetration of artillery can not keep up with the thickness of the hull. It is becoming more and more difficult to sink a main battleship in the battle line. Disaster.

According to the internal data of the British Admiralty, 80% of the medium-scale naval battles of more than 300 ships ended in a draw.

This is by no means the world the military seeks.

So from the middle of the 18th century onwards, a discussion of retrograde tactics was rampant in the Royal Navy.

approach!

Extremely advocating high-speed approach, pursuing short-handed soldiers in naval battles, imitating pirates, and achieving quick and victorious battles with single-ship duels or small-scale battle groups.

This discussion was mainly concentrated among young men with active minds, unencumbered by tradition, whose first achievement was to put dangerous mortars on ships.

The side-cutting tactics give full play to the short-range penetrating power of heavy artillery and the high-side advantages of large warships, and launch sports bombardment at a distance of 50 to 150 meters, greatly improving the hit rate of bombardment.

The staggered side attack tactic uses medium and short-range static shelling within 300 meters to give full play to the advantages of side firepower and protection, quickly clean the enemy's deck, or aim at the mast, destroying the enemy's mobility.

frontal assault tactics,

Use the bow to challenge the most powerful side of the opponent's firepower, and use super-destructive mortars to establish an advantage in short-term continuous evasion.

The three major detailed tactics have greatly enriched the reasoning on the map of the battle changes, and as the first believers who approached the thinking gradually became the backbone of the navy, the new tactics have gained a lot of experience in practice.

However, because of the ideological conflict with the older generation of commanders, these decisive, firm, brave, and radical officers themselves have not received corresponding affirmation.

They disobey orders and often break up the battle line. Regardless of victory or defeat, they are prone to huge casualties.

Shaq is one of the representatives, and he is also a representative of luck and prosperity, and his circular formation assistance defense itself is a practical deduction of close thinking, and it is also one of the few large-scale exercises in that generation that can enter the practical stage. One of the close combat methods.

As a result, the approaching thinking was subdued, and the battlefield of the debate was shrunk from the Admiralty to the Sea School, soaking up two freaks, Nelson from the experience school and Lorraine from the academic school.

Nelson was the orthodox heir to naval approach thinking.

In one of the few on-campus deduction confrontations, he invented and perfected the so-called unorthodox oblique puncture tactics, that is, completely abandoning the traditional advantage of the battle line, and using the T-line, the absolute disadvantaged position in the traditional field of vision, as the starting point of the battle , Realize local chaotic battles with brave advances, find and seize temporary T-heads in the gaps in the opponent's battle line.

Sink us, or be sunk by us, that is the essence of Nelson's tactics.

In contrast, Lorraine's thinking is more biased.

Based on the self-centered influence brought about by later generations, he loathes collective victory, neither willing to ignore his own safety, nor willing to regard sacrifice as glory.

So he resisted entrusting the weight of victory or defeat to others.

His deduction game rarely considers the confrontation of the big battle groups. In any environment, he actively seeks to divide and tear the big battlefield, hoping to use the victory or defeat of the core battle group to determine the balance of the big battlefield.

In short, sink me, or be sunk by me.

Lorraine and Nelson, me or us, individually or collectively, clashed in this approaching trend of thought.

In order to create proactive decisive battle opportunities that allow the small to control the big, Lorraine's tactics are full of strong non-planning and non-reference, and the value of inspiration and sensibility is often greater than rationality and planning.

Just like Cantabrian's use of triangular observation to perform out-of-sight raids, or Lefrancois's exchange to lure the enemy, etc., are all representative manifestations of this feature.

Among them, Lorraine likes the night the most.

At night without lights and fire, the observation range of two to three kilometers, especially in a relatively complex landform environment, holding the rugged and tortuous coastline...

Lorraine's advantages are fully utilized under such extreme conditions, and the night is Lorraine's home court.

However, today, in the Chesapeake Bay, at the estuary of the Chauptank River with complex landforms, and at the home court of Lorraine, the Jackdaw was actually ambushed.

The other party made full use of the night, the terrain, and the slackness and relaxation of the Jackdaw in a safe state, and openly parked the ship on their way home, and carried out a precise strike on the preset sea surface with static shelling!

Just when the Jackdaw took the initiative to sail into this preset sea!

Bombed on the port side! Evade!

Pierce screamed in the night sky with the characteristic grinding iron voice of a young man, Bell scrambled and pushed the helmsman away, pinched the handwheel and turned the rudder to the right.

But it's too late after all!

The first round was a salvo of Brigantines on both sides, and the impact points of the shells were distributed around the Jackdaw at a distance of 20 to 50 meters.

The second round was the additional bombardment of the Galen ship. The dense projectiles whizzed out in arcs. One projectile smashed a big hole near the bow on the port side, and the other hit the sail between the two square sails, instantly igniting a raging fire. fire.

Lorraine stood in the middle of the fire and water with a livid face, his feet were motionless like nails.

Report damage!

Karen, who was clutching his forehead, ran over with bared teeth and grinning. He walked all the way, dripping blood all the way, his face was pale, and his eyes were red.

The second sail on the main foremast caught fire, the third tier of the mainmast, and the second tier of the foremast sail failed, and the estimated speed was reduced by 20%! In addition, the No. 1 gun bay on the port side was severely damaged, and the stored corn also caught fire!

Push out all the corn in stock and solve the fire within five minutes. At the same time, send people to the mast. I don't need the lifting function, as long as it can blow air!

yes!

Lorraine took a deep breath: Let Pierce see who wrote it, I don't believe it's the wrong person!

His anger was instantly transformed into an order, and soon the report came. The attacking party's Galen ship was a fifth-class ship, with a bow like a red goddess. Combining the logo and the pirate flag, it was determined that it was the flagship Bloody Mary of Cotton Jack VII.

Cotton Jack... Lorraine gritted his teeth, This Pirate King's demeanor doesn't match his honor at all!

Things are now completely clear.

Two months ago, Katerina rushed into the mouth of the bay under the cover of Cotton Jack. Cotton Jack survived by some luck, hibernated for a long time, and gave Lorraine a big lesson today.

[In the face of the pirate's private enmity, the country is not a fart].

With his mind turned, Lorraine strode to the poop.

Noya, it's time until the first round of shelling!

1 minute and 13 seconds!

There is still time...

The mist all over the sky thinned, and Lorraine stared at Bloody Mary, who was close at hand, and gave orders loudly.

Bell, execute a frontal assault tactic against Bloody Mary, facing the enemy with the bow!

Are you going crazy again! Bell was shocked, but he quickly adjusted the bow of the ship according to Lorraine's order.

Pierce, report the enemy distance every 20 meters, and the shelling warning!

270, 250, 230 from the enemy...

Acharin! Hope you've finished reloading the bow guns!

Acharin poked his head out from the gun bay: Of course, Captain! Every lady knows that she must not open her legs when being pestered by a tramp, especially a delicate beauty like the Jackdaw!

Very well, next...

150, 130, 110, 90... Shelling! The bow of the ship was fired! Evade!

Pierce yelled mournfully, and while he was yelling, Lorraine's order sounded at the same time.

Acharin!

The next time you pick flowers in the robbery, don't show your eyes! The bow cannon is shot, let it go!

boom! Boom boom boom!

The Bloody Mary artillery roared, and at a distance of less than ninety meters, starting from the last gun bay on the port side, the flames exploded one after another.

The Jackdaw fired at almost the same time, the bow gun roared, and the scattered bullets hit the hull of the gun bay in the middle and front section of the Bloody Mary. Sporadic stray bullets shot into Da Zhang's gun port, instantly interrupting the opponent's shelling rounds.

The sailor's screams sounded immediately, and the deafening roar stopped abruptly!

The distance between the two sides is less than fifty!

Bell, left full rudder!

Wow!

The Jackdaw, which was rushing straight ahead, flicked its tail and turned around at close range, and the huge waves it set off slapped towards the Bloody Mary.

Brigantine, who was beside Bloody Mary, fired at the right time. Pierce didn't even have time to warn, three nine-pound chain bombs hit the Jackdaw's thick hull one after another, making a soft, dull sound, and there was no follow-up. news.

Leave! Lorraine clung to the guardrail and shouted loudly, Go back to Baltimore immediately!

The generous gift that His Highness the Pirate gave us...we will report it in the future!

...

In a short while, the outlet of the Qiaopu Tangke River.

The tumbling waves in front of him were gradually calming down, but Cotton Jack's heart couldn't calm down at all.

The sure-fire ambush failed...

The smuggling ship named Jackdaw was more cunning than rabbits in the prairie, but it didn't show the slightest panic when it was attacked suddenly.

Evasion, dash, feint, turn.

Every response she made was unexpected, and by the time Bloody Mary stabilized, she had regained the angle of the wind, fled five hundred meters away, and there was no possibility of pursuit.

Cotton Jack vaguely felt that he seemed to have provoked a troublesome opponent.

The helmsman, whom he regarded as his arm, approached him and said softly, Commander, one of the gunners in the lower cabin died, four were seriously injured, and more than a dozen were slightly injured... Such a terrifying opponent, why don't you pursue him?

The opponent is a Bagg-type high-speed ship, and now I have found Feng... It's not that I don't want to chase, but I can't catch up at all.

But she hurt the sail after all, if it's Brigantine...

Didn't you see it? She has given up on avoiding Brigantine's bombardment. If a fifth-tier ship is determined to run away, even if she is a commercial type, a mere nine-pounder can't stop her. What's more...

Cotton Jack shook his head bitterly.

I bought the Briton's roster from New Orleans at a high price, and that Drake is coming back. The characteristics of Bloody Mary are too obvious. Once Drake blocks the mouth of the bay, we won't be able to get out...

The notice goes on, the flag is lowered... let's evacuate.

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