Chapter 218

Count gervordang drew a bright red straight line on the chart.

This is the first red line at the end of the naval battle in Le Rober Bay, indicating the path of the Andes. Starting from its current position, it moves slowly in a straight line to suppress the strategic hub of the exit of the fifth channel.

With the action of the Andes... The Hornet is bound to turn into a dynamic. The greatest possibility is to give up the battle and seek the fourth channel to escape.

In this way, the pioneer and fortress stranded in the channel can easily enter the Bay and join the formation with the Andes.

Three zigzag color lines, which is the battle situation in the fifth channel area.

Then there is the key fourth channel.

The badly hit golden deer fled to the fourth channel first, and the totem has been sent to intercept.

The British would think that the purpose of the totem was to sink the golden deer, but in fact

Count gervadang dexterously turned his wrist and the straight line immediately turned into a curve.

The totem will sail at high speed and overtake the others to enter the fourth channel first.

Although the brig type combat firepower is weak, as long as the distance is appropriate, it can still be in the channel.

At the same time, if it is not for the purpose of making a decision, the lucky horseshoe, the Liao ship of the golden deer that has not been put into battle, will not be able to carry out the tail breaking tactics.

In this way, the fourth channel will be blocked, and the golden deer, hornet and lucky horseshoe will be locked in the bay. They will be forced to start a second round of decisive battle against the new French combat fleet and the fifth channel fleet with the Andes as the core.

The strength comparison between the two sides

On the west side of the flange is the intact fourth class ship Andes, the same intact pioneer and fortress.

On the British side is the seriously wounded golden deer, which is equipped with wasp and lucky horseshoe.

The decisive battle is infallible!

Count gervordang easily drew a huge fork on the outside of the fourth channel, smiled, dropped his quill pen and looked up for his adjutant.

"How's the wasp?"

"The target distance is 2700. It's setting sail and hasn't lifted anchor yet."

"Is there any luck?" the count shook his head. "What about the pioneer's reply to the order?"

"The fifth channel is restored, [the shelling density in the channel increases, and there is a risk of being shot if you continue to move forward. Please give more time]."

"The distance between the two sides?"

"Distance 630, difficult to travel."

"Annoying British speed..." the count stroked his beard in disgust. "This is a practical difficulty. In the narrow and long sea area, the British shelling is indeed flawless... Permission request, order them to give sufficient pressure to the target and force them to give up their position."

"Yes! Lieutenant!"

"And the reckless mercenary destroyer... Where did you escape?"

"With a distance of 5200 and a speed of 2, the Totem's pursuit has been effective. The relative distance has been reduced to 1100. It is sure to seize the channel before the target."

"Didn't the captured lucky horseshoe stop it?"

"Fortunately, the horseshoe still keeps moving on the outside line and shows no sign of participating in the war."

Count gervordang was stunned.

"You said there was no sign of war?"

"Yes!"

"What do the staff think?"

"The staff suggested that the flag of the lucky horseshoe belongs to the employed chamber of Commerce and is likely to refuse to carry out the tail breaking mission."

"Refuse to perform task?"

The count stroked his beard and meditated. Half of it, the fleet chief of staff ran over. After saluting, he couldn't help but put a new message into the adjutant's arms.

The adjutant looked and his face changed greatly.

"What? Bad news?" asked the count strangely.

"Lieutenant... The lucky horseshoe entered the battlefield... Speed 12 knots, target... The Andes."

"What!"

……

On the vast sea, the lucky horseshoe galloped in the wind.

Due to the differences in topography, naval warfare is very different from land warfare.

For example, there are few strategic places suitable for hiding troops on the sea, and there are only a few key lines of battle, such as deck view, lookout view, navigation boundary and so on.

Moreover, the sail warship moves slowly, and it is impossible for it to be as smart and smart as the army. The nonstop winds and waves on the sea limit the firepower arm of the sea ship. No matter how large the effective range of the naval gun is, the actual range can only reach 500 meters at most.

These restrictions have changed the concept of "ambush" in naval warfare. Ambush at sea is generally based on the concealment of tactical intention, that is, shaping or capturing various conditions that can lead to misjudgment, so that the enemy mistakenly anticipates the whole war situation and forms a ship dispatch beneficial to his own side.

Therefore, when the target of the lucky horseshoe was exposed and the fog of the battlefield was cleared, Lorraine basically showed his tactical intention to everyone.

It is still the king chariot translocation that acharin advised.

In the previous stalemate, because the lucky horseshoe formed a strategic match with the French totem, Lorraine had to fight the Andes with the golden deer, so that she could not find a chance to reverse the disadvantage of the battlefield.

Until that magical shot, the alchemical catapult narwhal took a direct hit of a 24 pound gun with a tough body.

Under the tragic appearance, the golden deer suffered almost no damage to its combat ability.

Lorraine's opportunity finally came. The golden deer eluded, the totem chased, the Andes set out to suppress the wasp, and the idle lucky horseshoe stood out, taking over the golden deer and becoming the opponent of the Andes.

The strategic stalemate is broken!

The timing of the Lucky Horseshoe's entry into the battlefield was extremely ingenious.

On the one hand, the Hornet is not a fish belly. Even if the Andes continues to forcibly implement the plan to open the fifth channel, Collinwood is enough to stick to the confluence with Bell and form a two-to-one blockade, even if it can not cause a decisive blow to the Andes, and the fifth channel is blocked as before.

On the other hand, even if the Andes abandoned its plan to open the fifth channel and chose a seemingly more secure action to merge with the totem, the distance between the four ships doomed that the two sides could not resume cooperation. Even if it was close at hand, a new match between the golden deer and the totem and the Andes and the lucky horseshoe was indeed formed.

Tian Ji and you raced with inferior horses against superior horses. They lost, superior horses against good horses, and good horses against inferior horses. They won two times, so they won.

Although there is not so much idealism in the real battlefield, Lorraine finally changed his concept and changed the conditions of victory from the decisive victory between the golden deer and the Andes to the defeat speed of totem and lucky horseshoe.

The party who solves the enemy in front of him first will gain the privilege of two enemies and one!

Lorraine took over the handwheel again.

"That's it. Come on, let's see if you sank bell first, or if I let your attendants lose combat power first... Right full rudder! Seize the T head!"

The golden deer, which had been wandering for a long time, suddenly recovered its spirit with the battle order. It was 800 meters away from the totem. Her course suddenly changed and cut to the middle between the totem and the fourth channel with a sharp arc.

"Full door chain bullet, 470 meters ahead of the target, fire!"

Meanwhile, bell Judea.

During the pursuit, bell expected the Andes to choose a direction and start the mobile artillery battle.

Although this may seem to threaten Lorraine's plan, in fact, the moving Andes is more vulnerable.

The hit rate of artillery will be greatly reduced, and the open sail will increase the bullet receiving surface. At the same time, the clumsiness of the ship can not seriously improve its ability to dodge attacks.

However, bell can think of, known as steady and conservative known as the hot wodang all thought of.

The Andes stopped without hesitation, gave up all support directions, lowered its sails and set up its guns, and waited for the lucky horseshoe in the most powerful static artillery state.

"Well, is it still your absolute advantage to sink me first? Then try it, old man!"

"Target distance 920, relative speed 7.5, engagement!"

Bell caught a turbulent current from north to south, and the handwheel slammed to the right. The lucky horseshoe set off a big wave and cut strongly into the bow oblique line of the Andes.

"Full of artillery!"

More than 20 projectiles flew out of the side of the Andes, and bell turned a blind eye to them at a distance of more than 600 meters, pressing the hand wheel firmly to approach.

The speed of the lucky horseshoe almost didn't drop at all!

In the short time from the launch of the shelling to the falling of the shells, she cut bravely and left all the shells behind.

"460400340280... Full of artillery!"

Everyone thought bell would turn the rudder and leave, but bell still didn't move!

The turbulence still maintains the wind direction from north to south. At this time, turning the rudder will stall the lucky horseshoe, and... The distance of 280 meters is not suitable for brig type shelling at all.

Charge!

Dense shells fell around the lucky horseshoe, and the huge waves hit the rudder and fed back to Bell's palm, and the handwheel could not stop shaking.

“220，180，140……”

Bell clenched his fist and moved the handwheel. The left rudder is ten degrees, parallel!

"Fire!"

With a roar, the lucky horseshoe tilted nearly ten degrees to the left, the starboard artillery opened all the time, and the rumbling artillery announced the attack at close range!

Attack and escape!

Grasping the moment when the turbulence ended, the warship still maintained a speed of more than 5 knots, and the flying bullets flew all over the whole sea area.

"Effective deterrence!" the observer shouted excitedly, "three shells jumped over the target and landed in the back sea area, with a distance of 50, 70220, which is an effective deterrence!"

Effective deterrence means that the Andes can feel threatened.

In the previous round of shelling, three shells fell behind the opponent, which means that as long as she is lucky enough, the lucky horseshoe can throw chain bullets or loose bullets onto the deck and cause real damage to the Andes.

Bell breathed a sigh of relief, stuck the handwheel and shook his stiff arm.

"Cut off the wing sail and launch the stern gun. It's time to run for your life, brave gentlemen..."