Chapter 321

"Abandon the boat!"

"Fold in the sails!"

"Captain's order, right rudder 5 degrees, maintain stability!"

"The whole ship is on first-class alert, combat readiness! All personnel are on duty, irrelevant personnel take refuge, and the gun base on the main deck is in place!"

"Find a fixed, all personnel are fixed nearby!"

"Collision warning, bomb warning!"

"Brig is 1.4km away, the cruiser is 2.5 and the destroyer is 3.1. Brig is in range in a minute!"

There were running sailors everywhere on the deck. Lorraine looked indifferent and watched Carmen run into the solid bottom cabin with McCarthy and Jenny, followed by the boatmans in the inner cabin in the combat readiness position.

"Did you inform the main force behind you?"

"The captain ship replied, half surrounded, and set a limit of one hour to end the battle! The black goat and the Cyclops have left the formation and circled to the back of the island."

"An hour?" Lorraine glanced discontentedly. "Is it for fear of losing the abandoned boat?"

"It's rare to meet brave and aggressive Spanish fools. What's more rare is that they obviously regard me as a lonely ship crossing the border..."

"Oh, what a waste."

Lorraine muttered to himself, raised his foot and stamped the planks under his feet.

"Acharin, are you ready for the surprise?"

Acharin poked his head out of the bow deck: "everything is ready, only the beauties of Spain!"

"Unfortunately, the Americans are Cinderella. If we want to keep them, we have to break their legs as much as possible before the midnight bell..."

Lorraine raised her head and followed brig, who was coming in full sail.

"Brig distance!"

"Distance 420, deflected to two o'clock!"

"Port full rudder, cut to the side!"

"Captain's order, port full cut!"

In the sound of shouting, Haina suddenly pulled the hand wheel, the golden deer made a large left turn at a very close distance, and forcibly cut into the T-head position at a position of less than 200 meters.

Brig was shocked and fired her bow gun while avoiding.

Two shells came out of the chamber. In the swing, the right gun hit the hull on the port side of the golden deer, and wood chips splashed. The left gun flew out from a distance and threw huge spray on the sea.

The golden deer immediately returned its color and shelled on the port side!

The upper shot, the lower chain shot and the bullets all over the sky were raised high by the inclination angle. At least dozens of scattered iron bullets beat on brig's main sail, ignited the sail surface in an instant, and the whole sail ignited a raging fire.

This is not the only harvest of T-head approach this time.

The chain bullets in the lower layer were mixed in the middle of the shrapnel, and most of them fell into the water by rubbing against the escaping brig, but there was still a lucky one wrapped around the bowsprit of brig, and with a click, the bowsprit broke!

The inclined mast broke, was pulled high into the air by the taut cable, was captured by gravity, and was pulled heavily in the process of falling.

These sails were connected to the main mast. The fire made the ropes brittle and zoom. With this pull, they broke together.

The broken mast, which broke free from the shackles, fell from a height of five or six meters and hit the deck. The sailor who was supposed to fight the fire was reckless. The two unlucky guys couldn't escape. They were hit hard and fell to the ground immediately.

Brig, whose main mast caught fire, lost his capital to compete on the battlefield.

The golden deer gracefully stabilized the hull and slid over a round arc. In brig's frightened eyes, in front of the Spanish patrol and destroyer close at hand, it launched another artillery and launched a second round of salvo on the port side.

Distance 37 meters, relatively static target, micro wave, stroke.

18 pounds for 10 doors and 12 pounds for 6 doors sounded like a roll call, hitting 8 times in an instant, of which 4 times formed a direct hit.

Brig described it as miserable. The poop was lifted half a floor and the fender railing broke 13.

The more serious damage was on the starboard hull, which suffered five shelling in a short time. The hull was opened with two large holes, one at a high place and scattered the second and third guns, and the other near the water line at a low place. The turbulent sea water poured in.

Across the unlucky brig, Lorraine smiled coldly and bowed to the large ship turning on the other side.

"Your opponent is not me, gentlemen. It's not wise to turn... At this time."

Stepping on his words, the golden deer fled away in the wind, and the sea fleet that abandoned the small boat inserted obliquely from the other side of the island in a neat formation, just opposite to the two West ships in the process of turning.

The Spanish formation commander's eyes widened in disbelief.

"God! That's not an isolated ship at all. She's a scout ship of the British cruise formation... Stop turning, meet the enemy, meet the enemy!"

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"Command all combat units, right rudder 10 degrees, battle line to meet the enemy!"

Nelson stood upright under Hinchinbrook's main mast with his command sword.

In front of him, two Spanish warships were adjusting their posture in a panic.

They arrived at the starting point of the attack earlier. According to the wind belt around the island, they should easily occupy the T head and cause trouble to their fleet.

But they didn't do anything.

They wasted the great opportunity given by God, or Lorraine misjudged them with the movement of the golden deer and gave up all their advantages.

The scale of victory fell completely under the meter flag of Great Britain.

In this sea area, the sea fleet is taking Hinchinbrook and the prairie lion as the center, the Eros and unicorn as the head and tail, discharging an orthodox straight line, and the side cutting wind belt steadily slides through the left wing of the Spanish formation.

In contrast to the Spanish cruise formation, they had already lagged behind the British in the number of ships and guns. Brig stepped firmly into Lorraine's trap and was directly paralyzed by a dazzling storm.

The Spaniards were forced to fight two against four.

Hard power is only half that of the British, and the formation

Just now, in order to do maximum damage to the golden deer, the two western ships have been arranged in a battle line. Unexpectedly, the opponent suddenly changed. After turning 90 degrees, the battle line became a sad parallel line.

Their destroyers helplessly hid behind the side of the patrol ship and lost their artillery vision. They could only watch their flagship enter the battle line with 12 doors and 24 pounds and 6 doors and 12 pounds on one side, and independently face the terrorist fire of 24 doors and 24 pounds, 20 doors and 18 pounds and 24 doors and 12 pounds on one side of the British.

This is a sentence!

At a distance of 220 meters, the two sides fired guns at each other. In desperation, the Spanish patrol ship poured almost all its fire on the leading unicorn, hit a shot, broke through the bow, and then could only watch the British line up and pass in front of it, so as to throw bullets in the gun barrel.

Shells continued to hit the hull of the Spanish patrol ship, wood chips flew in the smoke, and the huge hull was black and blue.

But her hull is heavy after all.

Just as Lorraine had nothing to do with the Andes at the time of the Le Rober naval battle, Nelson's severely shrunk battle line had only a limited 24 pound direct attack that could cause devastating damage to her.

This opportunity happened only once.

Hinchinbrook's 24 pound shot through the bow of the West ship in a direct way. Nelson branded the enemy ship in almost the same way and avenged Collinwood like a mortal revenge.

The two sides crossed.

The victory and defeat of the battlefield became more and more clear. The Spanish warships finally decided to give up the injured brig ship, raise their sails and flee to the far end without looking back.

Seeing that the battle is coming to an end, the two sides will go their separate ways and change suddenly!

The golden deer, which had left the field earlier, suddenly came back from the upper air outlet, and once again used the screen effect of the island to rush at the destroyer close like a mad cow.

"Just crystal shoes can't satisfy our hungry princes!"

Lorraine shouted in the strong wind and pulled out her saber: "prepare the mortar gun at the bow! Fill with solid bullets!"

"Bomb warning, roll warning! All crew members check the cable!"

"Straight line approach tactics!"

"Dodge! Fire!"