Chapter 263

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

Once upon a time, sailing was flourishing. With the expansion of tonnage and the development of cast iron industry, larger and larger guns and longer range changed the stereotype that naval warfare is equal to docking for the first time.

However, the artillery precision was limited at that time. The extremely low hit rate and unstable play made the Navy miserable. For a time, it could only raise the flag of "bravery" again, abandon artillery fire and advocate swords in the army.

Until 1588, at the battle of gravaline, Francis Drake scattered the front of the invincible fleet with the surprise attack that pirates were good at. Charles Howard gave the Spanish a fatal blow with limited artillery and the first line artillery, playing the elegy of the Spanish maritime empire.

England's maritime hegemony started from this moment, and the line artillery tactics jointly created by Charles Howard and Francis Drake became the banner of this step. Since then, the battle line has been regarded as the standard by all countries in the world, and even the most powerful warship has been named the bravery of battleship.

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

After the birth of the battle line, the navies around the world continue to tend to be strong and powerful. The penetration of the artillery can not keep up with the heaviness of the hull. It is becoming more and more difficult to sink a main warship in the battle line.

According to the internal data of the Department of the navy of Great Britain, 80% of the medium-sized naval battles of more than 300 doors are in a draw. The two sides of the battle are neither sinking nor breaking. They gather and disperse in a noisy manner. They are safe and happy without harming peace.

This is by no means the world pursued by soldiers.

Therefore, since the middle of the 18th century, a discussion of retro tactics has been making a lot of noise in the Royal Navy.

Get close!

It extremely advocates high-speed approach, pursues short soldiers in naval warfare, imitates pirates, and realizes rapid combat and victory by single ship duel or small-scale combat regiment.

This discussion mainly focused on young people with active thinking and free from tradition, and their first achievement was to carry dangerous mortars onto warships.

The sideboard cut in tactics give full play to the short-range penetration of heavy artillery and the sideboard height advantages of large warships, launch mobile artillery at a distance of 50 to 150 meters, and greatly improve the artillery hit rate.

Staggered side attack tactics, use medium and short-range static artillery within 300 meters to give full play to the side fire and protection advantages, quickly clean the enemy's deck, or aim at the ship mast to destroy the enemy's mobility.

Frontal assault tactics, challenge the side with the most powerful firepower of the other party with the bow, and use the mortar with ultra-high destructive power to establish an advantage in short-term continuous evasion.

The three detailed tactics greatly enriched the reasoning on the map of battle changes. With the first batch of believers who came close to the thinking gradually becoming the backbone of the Navy, the new tactics gained a lot of experience in practice.

However, because of the ideological conflict with the commanders of the older generation, these decisive, firm, brave and radical officers themselves have not been recognized accordingly.

They disobey orders and often break up battle lines. Whether they win or lose, they are prone to heavy casualties. All kinds of negativity are expanded for no reason, and the approach tactics are regarded as heresy

Shaq is one of the representatives, and he is also one of the representatives who can be called lucky and prosperous. His circular formation defense itself is a practical deduction of approach thinking, and it is also one of the few large-scale approach tactics that can enter the practical stage of that generation.

The close thinking was therefore subdued. The battlefield of debate shrank from the Admiralty to the sea school, impregnated with two freaks, Nelson of the experiential school and Lorraine of the academic school.

Nelson was the orthodox successor of the Navy's approach thinking.

In one of the few school rehearsals and confrontations, he invented and improved the oblique interspersed combat method called deviant, that is, he completely abandoned the advantages of the traditional battle line, took the absolute inferior position in the traditional vision of the T-line as the starting point of the campaign, achieved local chaos with brave breakthrough, and sought and seized the temporary T-head in the other party's battle line gap.

To sink us or sink us is the essence of Nelson's tactics.

In contrast, Lorraine's thinking is more biased.

Based on the self-centered influence brought by later generations, he hates collective victory and is neither willing to ignore his own security nor regard sacrifice as glory.

So he refused to entrust the weight of victory and defeat to others.

His deduction Bureau rarely considers the direct confrontation between the war regiments, actively seeks to divide and tear the big battlefield in any environment, and hopes to use the victory and defeat of the core battle regiment to control the balance of the big battlefield.

In short, it is to sink me or be sunk by me.

Lorraine and Nelson, I or we, individual or collective, had a confrontation in this approach trend of thought.

In order to create a decisive opportunity that is active enough to control the big with small, Lorraine's tactics are full of strong unplanned and non referential. The value of inspiration and sensibility is often greater than rationality and plan.

For example, Cantabrian used triangular observation to carry out field of view raids, or le Francois's exchange to lure the enemy, and so on.

Among them, Lorraine's favorite is the night.

In the night without lights and fire, the observation range of two to three kilometers, especially in the relatively complex geomorphic environment, holding the concave convex and tortuous coastline

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

However, today, the Jackdaw was ambushed in Chesapeake Bay, at the sea entrance of the joptank river with complex landform, and at the home of Lorraine home.

The other side made full use of the night, the terrain, and the slackness and relaxation of the Jackdaw in the safe state, openly parked the ship on their way home, and made an accurate attack on the preset sea surface with static artillery!

Just as the Jackdaw took the initiative to enter the preset sea!

"Port side shot! Avoid!"

Pierce screamed in the night sky with a young man's grinded iron voice. Bell rolled away the helmsman and held the handwheel to the full rudder.

But it's too late!

The first round was a volley of brigantines on both sides. The landing points of shells were around jackdaws, distributed at a distance of 20 to 50 meters.

The second round was the additional shelling of the Galen ship. Dense projectiles roared in an arc. One hit a big hole near the bow on the port side, and the other hit the fishing sail between the two masts, which immediately started a raging fire.

Lorraine stood between the fire and the water, his feet as motionless as nails.

"Report damage!"

Clutching his forehead, Karen bared his teeth and ran over, dripping blood all the way, his face pale and his eyes red.

"The second catch sail of the main foremast is on fire. The three-tier main mast and the two-tier cross sail of the foremast are invalid. The estimated speed is reduced by 20%. On the other hand, the port No. 1 gun cabin is broken, and the stored corn is on fire!"

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

"Yes!"

Lorraine took a deep breath: "let pierce see whose pen it is. I don't believe it's the wrong person!"

His anger was immediately converted into an order, and soon came a return. The aggressor's Galen was class V, and the bow was like a red goddess. Combined with the sign and pirate flag, it was judged to be the flagship Bloody Mary of cotton Jack VII.

"Cotton Jack..." Lorraine clenched his teeth. "The pirate king's bearing and respect don't match at all!"

The matter is now completely clear.

Two months ago, Katrina rushed into the bay under the cover of cotton Jack. Cotton Jack somehow survived and stayed dormant for a long time. Today, she taught Lorraine a big lesson.

In the face of pirates' private enemies, the state is nothing.

When his mind turned, Lorraine strode to the poop.

"Noah, time from the first round of shelling!"

"1 minute 13 seconds!"

There is still time

As the mist thinned down, Lorraine stared at the Bloody Mary close at hand and ordered loudly.

"Bell, carry out frontal assault tactics against Bloody Mary, bow against the enemy!"

"Are you crazy again!" bell was frightened, but he quickly adjusted the bow according to Lorraine's order.

"Pierce, report the enemy's distance at 20 meters, artillery warning!"

"270250230 away from the enemy..."

"Acharin! I hope you have finished loading the bow gun!"

Acharin poked his head out of the gun Cabin: "of course, Captain! Every lady knows that when she is entangled by tramps, she must not open her legs, especially for such a delicate beauty as the Jackdaw!"

"Good, next..."

"150, 130, 110, 90... Shelling! Bow shot! Evasion!"

Pierce cried bitterly, and as he shouted, Lorraine's orders rang out at the same time.

"Acharin!"

"Don't show your eyes next time you rob the road to pick flowers! Bow gun shotgun, put it off!"

Boom! Boom, boom!

The Bloody Mary cannon roared. At a distance of less than 90 meters, the fire burst out one after another from the last gun cabin on the port side.

The Jackdaw fired almost at the same time, the bow guns roared, and the shrapnel hit the shell of the gun cabin in the front of the Bloody Mary. Sporadic stray bullets shot into Zhang's gun door, instantly interrupting the opponent's artillery rounds.

The scream of the sailors sounded immediately, and the deafening roar broke suddenly!

The distance between the two sides is less than 50!

"Bell, full left rudder!"

WOW!

The jackdaw, heading straight forward, turned around at close range, and the huge waves flapped against the Bloody Mary. The waves were higher than the freeboard and covered her face like the sky pouring down!

Brigantin, beside Bloody Mary, launched the shelling at the right time. Pierce didn't even have time to warn. The chain bullets of three nine pound guns hit the heavy hull of the Jackdaw one after another, making a dull sound, and there was no follow-up news.

"Get out!" Lorraine shouted at the top of his voice, tugging at the guardrail. "Return to Baltimore now!"

"Your Highness The Pirate gave us a generous gift... We'll report it tomorrow!"

……

Shaoqing, the mouth of the joptank river.

The rolling waves are gradually calming down, but Jack's heart can't calm down at all.

The sure ambush failed

The smuggling ship named jackdaw was more cunning than the rabbit on the grassland. When it was suddenly attacked, it showed no panic.

Dodge, break in, feint, turn in.

Her every response was unexpected. When the Bloody Mary stabilized, she had recovered the cutting angle of the wind and fled 500 meters away. There was no possibility of pursuing again.

Jack felt vaguely 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 there were more than a dozen minor injuries... Really don't chase such a terrible opponent?"

"The other side is a Bagh type high-speed ship, and now I have found the wind... It's not that I don't want to catch up, it's that I can't catch up at all."

"But after all, she hurt the sail. If it was brigantin..."

"Don't you see? She has given up evading brigantine's shelling. If a class V ship decides to run, even if she is commercial, a mere nine pound gun can't stop her. What's more..."

Cotton Jack shook his head bitterly.

"I bought the British rotation list at a high price from New Orleans, and Drake is coming back. The characteristics of Bloody Mary are too obvious. When Drake blocks the bay mouth, we can't get out..."

"Inform me, lower the flag... Evacuate."