Reborn As a Pirate

England, go on!

This is the new battle number of the broken fleet. It is used to refer to the Three Chambers of Commerce Alliance, which has no proper name so far, and is familiar to every sailor in the fleet.

The fleet now only has six Brigantines, and there are no weaknesses or weaknesses. Each of them looks like a strong ship, flexible and heroic.

This is also the reason why Lorraine dared to face the enemy head-on at the downwind.

He knows very well that compared to a comprehensive and huge merchant fleet, a fleet that breaks diplomatic relations is more suitable for disrupting wars.

The war begins.

Following Lorraine's order, the Butterfly took the lead in straightening the bow, with the slender mast pointing directly at the huge shadow of the ship in the distance. Heina jumped up from the observation deck swinging the cable, took over the steering wheel from the sailor, and took control of the ship. battleship.

The warships behind them spread out like flowers.

The Cattail and the Cod were heading south, and the Hurricane and the Shower were heading north. The brave Raven commanded his flagship Tuna to catch up and cut into the rear of the Butterfly from the side, like a loyal guard. Follow closely behind the Butterfly.

Six battleships and three battle groups, each with a similar front and rear structure, the Hurricane, the Butterfly, and the Cattails rushed forward, followed by the Shower, the Tuna, and the Cod.

The distance between them is only a hundred meters, and the distance between the battle groups is larger, only more than one kilometer.

The distance between the battle groups was widened, and all the ships straightened their bows, with their fronts facing the enemy warships rushing at high speed.

This is the B strategy in Lorraine's mouth.

Since the development of battleships, the naval warfare regulations of various countries have long matured.

The key to everything is to seize the upper hand with a dense line or column, and show the side before the enemy completes the formation.

There is often only one such marching front, and very occasionally there will be two.

One front is called T-shaped tactics, and two horizontal lines are called two-ship tactics.

But that didn't suit Brigantine.

In a regular battle line, frigates equipped with small-caliber artillery were not originally included in the battle line, because their advantages were flexible, and traditional tactics would kill their greatest advantage.

The battle group method of the frigate is different, and its guiding ideology is to intersperse, double-team, use more to fight less, and fight hand-to-hand.

Just like this B strategy.

The marching formation is a variant of the traditional dense horizontal formation of the navy, which is divided into dense and dense like a trident, forming a sharp battle group that directly inserts into the enemy's formation, avoiding the traditional and rigid battle line confrontation.

His changes caught the Yodel Chamber of Commerce by surprise.

They originally planned to form a straight line of battle on the wide front, giving full play to the advantages of large number of ships, upper hand, and strong side firepower, but the speed of the two sides approaching too fast, as the fleet broke into the wind and rushed forward, it further increased the pressure on both sides. relative speed.

Three kilometers, six minutes.

It was too late for their line of battle to unfold, five Brigantines rushed forward at full speed, and six slower Skuners fell far behind.

The ships are still in the process of forming a loose and chaotic formation, and the broken-off fleet has already penetrated through the gaps between the warships and passed them by!

Steady! Fire!

One after another orders exploded on the decks of both sides, and the more fully prepared breaching fleet fired first, the orange flames bloomed on both sides, and the broadsides fired in unison!

Boom boom boom!

The naval guns roared, and the warships on both sides were in a mess like interlaced canines. The Butterfly and the Tuna surrounded the Dutch flagship on the left and the right, and they themselves were deeply trapped in the double-teaming of three Brigantines of the same level.

The bright red projectile hit the hull, and the nine-pound iron bullet hit the ship's plank. For a moment, water splashed and sawdust flew across.

The hull shook violently, Lorraine's feet were firmly planted on the deck like roots, and he shouted loudly.

Lower the schooners! Slow down! Time is of the essence, gentlemen! Spread your legs and run!

Lorraine's command was faithfully carried out,

And not just the Butterfly.

According to the tactical manual, all six warships of the Breakthrough Fleet lowered the huge vertical sails supporting the march as soon as they came into contact with the enemy, and only relied on the wind catcher and jib in the middle of the mast to control the hull and keep the steering.

Disadvantages suddenly become advantages!

At the beginning of the war, the Yodel Chamber of Commerce was in the upper air, and the Breaking Fleet was in the lower air. This brave interspersion pulled the two sides into a row. If the Yodel Chamber of Commerce did not slow down, it would completely lose its advantage in the air.

Even the front line is that Lorraine's fleet is more organized.

If Yodel's front line warships dared to break through the double-teaming by the wind, Lorraine could order the fleet to swing sideways and use a complete battle line to cut the opponent's uneven formation into two sections.

In this way, even those Brigantine battleships can escape, and the Schooners that fall behind will also become fish on the cutting board of Lorraine.

The Yodel Chamber of Commerce had no choice.

After cutting off the horizontal sails and furling the longitudinal sails, Brigentin in the front row gave up breaking through and launched a confrontation with the breaking fleet. The Schooner-type wings in the rear row spread out and used the superiority of numbers to provide fire support to the two-wing front.

From south to north, the battle lines formed a similar stalemate.

At the north and south ends, the Cod and the Cattail Flower cooperated, and the Hurricane cooperated with the Shower to enclose a Brigantine belonging to the Yodel Chamber of Commerce respectively, and on the periphery were three Skuner-type ships belonging to the Yodel. Roaring, strangling a group.

In the middle of the front line, the five Brigantines were fighting fiercely. They were Yodel-Turandot, Drake-Butterfly, Yodel-Liberty Tulip, Minder-Tuna, and Yodel-Sweetland Numbers, criss-crossed, and bombarded.

In it, the sailors couldn't even tell whether they surrounded the flagship of the Yodel Chamber of Commerce, or whether the Yodel Chamber of Commerce used the flagship as the axis to surround the admiral and deputy admiral who divided the broken fleet.

The artillery became the only protagonist on the battlefield.

At No. 2 battery on the port side of the gun deck, Yacharin prayed to God with a cross in his mouth.

He has fired seven cannons today, with two hits and five misses. Compared with the distance of about 80 meters from the Turandot, this hit rate is enough to prove his superb artillery skills.

Unfortunately, the effect is almost nothing.

From a broad perspective, the central front is the main axis of the entire battlefield, gathering five of the eleven Brigantine ships from both sides. The outcome here will determine the direction of the entire encounter.

In terms of vital interests, the Butterfly was surrounded by the Turandot and the Liberty Tulip, less than 50 meters away from the Liberty Tulip, and 80 meters away from the Turandot, and there was an exchange of fire on both sides.

The English sailors' artillery skills are the best in the world. In this state, which is equivalent to stopping the ship to shoot, the frequency of artillery firing can reach one and a half to two minutes.

However, the conditions that are conducive to gunning are mutual, and the rate of fire of the Dutch has also been maximized due to the stalemate on the front line. There will be an artillery attack in about two to three minutes.

The Butterfly was under bombardment almost every minute, with a total of 16 shells in each round. With Henna and Karen's efforts to avoid them, the hit rate was less than 5%.

So far, the Pansies had received three rounds, the most dangerous of which was the second chain ball, which went over the side of the ship, grazed the mainmast, and hit the main deck, killing an unfortunate sailor.

The Butterfly urgently needs to reduce the pressure, and this important task can only fall on him and the nine-pound gun in front of him.

The sailors quickly finished filling the guns, reloading the ammunition, inserting the hairline, and the gun carriage was in place.

Yacharin squinted his eyes and knelt on one knee, staring at the swaying Turandot in the distance through the small gun bay.

Go and tell that Egyptian woman playing with a knife, I want to be stable and let her maintain this angle of fire... At least three rounds of shelling.

The gunners around him rushed to the main deck.

Yacharin's target was between Turandot's No. 2 and No. 3 battery positions.

It had been hit there earlier, and the hull was damaged, with obvious scorching and dents visible.

This position is five to seven degrees directly in front of Yacharin, and the elevation angle is close to zero. However, if you want to penetrate the hull, the suitable impact point is only less than two meters away.

On rocky seas, such harsh conditions are like...

It's like trying to trick a beautiful lady into bed just by writing letters.

Yacharin spat out the cross in his mouth with a bah, and with the cooperation of the gunner, he adjusted the angle bit by bit.

A brief calm...

When the shaking of the ship was the smallest, Yacharin quickly ignited the hairline, only to hear a bang, and the projectile fell on the sea surface less than three meters away from the Turandot, setting off a huge wave covering the sky between the two ships.

Tch, I know you can't win the heart of a beauty by writing letters, let alone a snobbish Dutch beauty...

He spat, stood up, and ordered to the gunner beside him: Clean the barrel and load the live ammunition. Raise the elevation of the gun by 0.5 degrees. Next time, I will turn over the balcony.