Chapter 82

England, move on!

This is the new battle number of the broken fleet. It is used to refer to the alliance of the three chambers of Commerce, which has no suitable name so far. It is familiar to every sailor in the fleet.

Now there are only six brigantines in the fleet. There are no weaknesses and weaknesses. Each ship looks strong, flexible and heroic.

This is also the support that Lorraine dared to face the enemy at the lower tuyere.

He knew that the broken fleet was more suitable for disrupting wars than the comprehensive and huge merchant fleet.

The war began.

With Lorraine's order, the butterfly flower took the lead in straightening the bow. The slender bow mast pointed straight to the huge ship shadow in the distance. Haina jumped up from the lookout with a cable, took the steering wheel from the sailor's hand and controlled the warship.

The warships behind him spread like flowers.

Maoweihua and COD are folded to the south, hurricane and shower are folded to the north. The brave Levin commands his flagship tuna to catch up and cut into the side rear position of the butterfly from the side, like a loyal guard, closely following the butterfly.

Six warships and three regiments, each with a similar front and rear structure. Hurricane, butterfly and cattail rushed forward, followed by shower, tuna and cod.

The distance between them is only 100 meters, and the distance between combat groups is larger, which is only more than one kilometer.

The distance between the battle regiment and the battle regiment was opened, and all the ships straightened their bow, facing the enemy warships at high speed with their own front.

This is what Lorraine calls "B" tactics.

Since the development of battleships, the rules of naval warfare in various countries have long been mature.

The key to everything is to seize the upper hand with dense columns or columns and show the sideboard before the enemy completes the array.

There is often only one front, and in rare cases there are two.

One front is called T-type tactics and two horizontal lines are called Double ship tactics.

But that's not for brigantin.

In the regular battle line, frigates equipped with small caliber artillery are not included in the front line, because their advantages are flexible, and the traditional methods of warfare will kill their greatest advantages.

The battle group methods of frigates are different, and their guiding ideology is interspersed, sandwiched, more to fight less, and close combat.

Just like this b-battle method.

The variant of the marching formation is from the traditional dense formation of the Navy, which separates the density like a trident to form a sharp regiment directly inserted into the enemy array, avoiding the traditional and rigid battle line.

His change took Yodel's chamber of Commerce by surprise.

They originally intended to form a straight battle line on the wide front, giving full play to the advantages of many ships, upwind and strong side firepower, but the two sides approached too fast. With the rapid advance of the breaking fleet, the relative speed of the two sides was further increased.

Three kilometers, six minutes.

There was no time for their battle line to start. Five brigantines rushed forward at full speed and six slower skuna fell far behind.

The ships are still in the process of loose and chaotic formation, and the broken fleet has penetrated through the gap between the ships and crossed the side with them!

"Steady! Fire!"

One after another orders were blasted on the decks of both sides, and the more fully prepared breaking fleet was the first to fire. The orange fire bloomed on both sides, and the side guns roared!

Boom, boom!

The guns roared and the warships on both sides were in a mess like staggered canine teeth. The butterfly and tuna, one left and one right, caught the Dutch flagship, and they themselves were trapped in the bags of three brigantines of the same class.

Red bullets hit the hull, and nine pounds of iron bullets hit the board. For a time, water splashed and sawdust flew.

The hull shook violently, and Lorraine's feet were firmly rooted on the deck, shouting at her throat.

"Lower the sail! Slow down the boat! Time is life, gentlemen! Spread your legs and run!"

Lorraine's orders were faithfully carried out, and not just the butterfly.

According to the tactical manual, all six warships of the breaking fleet lowered the huge longitudinal sails supporting the progress as soon as they met the enemy, and only relied on the fishing sail in the middle of the mast and the bow sail to control the hull and retain the steering.

Disadvantages suddenly become advantages!

At the beginning of the war, Yodel chamber of Commerce was at the upper tuyere and the breaking fleet was at the lower tuyere. This brave interlude pulled both sides into a line. If Yodel chamber of commerce did not slow down, it would completely lose its advantage in the tuyere.

Even the front is Lorraine's fleet is more neat.

If Yodel's leading warship dares to break through the bag in the wind, lorinda can command the fleet to swing and cut the opponents with uneven formation into two sections with a complete battle line.

In this way, even those brigantin warships can escape from the sky, and the skuna type that falls behind will become fish on the Lorraine chopping board.

The Yodel chamber of Commerce had no choice.

Cut off the horizontal sails and fold in the vertical sails. Brigantin in the front gave up the breakthrough and launched a bombardment with the breaking fleet. The skuna type two wings in the rear column were launched to provide firepower support to the two wing front with the advantage of quantity.

From south to north, the front formed a similar stalemate.

At the north and south ends, the COD and the cattail cooperate, and the hurricane and the shower cooperate to clamp one brigantin of the Yodel chamber of Commerce respectively. At the periphery, there are three skuna ships belonging to yodel. The artillery roars and strangles a regiment.

In the middle of the front, five brigantines were in full swing. In order, they were Yodel Turandot, Drake butterfly, Yodel free tulip, Mindel tuna and Yodel Shetland.

The sailors could not even tell whether they surrounded the flagship of Yodel chamber of Commerce, or whether Yodel chamber of Commerce surrounded and divided the commander and deputy commander of the broken fleet with the flagship as the axis.

Artillery became the only star on the battlefield.

At the port No. 2 gun position on the gun deck, acharin muttered a prayer to God with a cross.

He has fired seven guns today, two in and five out. Compared with the distance of about 80 meters from the Turandot, this hit rate is enough to prove his exquisite gun skills.

Unfortunately, the effect is almost nil.

From a large perspective, the central front is the main axis of the whole battlefield, gathering five of all 11 brigantines on both sides. The victory or defeat here will determine the direction of the whole encounter.

In terms of vital interests, the butterfly is surrounded by the Turandot and the free tulip. It is less than 50 meters away from the free tulip and 80 meters away from the Turandot. The two sides exchange fire.

English sailors have the best gun handling skills in the world. Like this state, which is about equal to stopping the ship for shooting, the firing frequency of guns can reach one and a half to two minutes.

But the conditions conducive to gun operation are mutual, and the Dutch fire speed has been brought into full play because of the stalemate on the front. There will be an artillery attack in about two to three minutes.

The butterfly was shelled almost every minute, with a total of 16 shells in each round. Under the best evasion of Haina and Karen, the hit rate was less than 5%.

Up to now, the bow flower knot has been solidly shot three times, of which the most thrilling is the second hammer bullet, which crossed the ship's side, wiped the main mast and crashed on the main deck, killing an unlucky sailor.

The butterfly urgently needed to relieve the pressure, which could only fall on him and the nine pound gun in front of him.

The sailors quickly completed the filling of medicine and ammunition, inserted the firing line and put the gun truck in place.

Acharin narrowed his eyes and knelt on one knee. Through the small gun cabin, he stared at the shaking Turandot in the distance.

"Tell the Egyptian woman who plays with knives that I want to stabilize and let her maintain this firing angle... At least three rounds of shelling."

The Gunners around him rushed up to the main deck.

Acharin's target is between two and three gun positions of the Turandot.

There was a previous shot, the hull was damaged, and obvious charred and dents could be seen.

This position is five to seven degrees in front of acharin, and the elevation is close to zero, but if you want to break through the hull, the appropriate impact point is less than two meters.

In the shaking sea, this harsh condition is like

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

Acharin spit out the cross in his mouth and adjust the angle bit by bit with the cooperation of the gunner.

A short wind level

When the ship's body shook the least, acharin quickly lit the hair rope. He only heard a gun blast. The projectile fell on the sea less than three meters away from the Turandot, setting off a huge wave between the two ships.

"Well, I know you can't win the hearts of beautiful women by writing letters, not to mention the snobbish Dutch beauty..."

He spat, stood up and ordered the gunner around him: "clean the gun barrel and load live ammunition. Raise the elevation of the gun by 0.5 degrees. I'll turn over the balcony for the next gun."