Chapter 455

"Order storm petrel to pay attention to the ship distance! She's too deep!"

"The grey hit directly to the face, and the brigantin mast broke. The victory is divided!"

"The black billed Gull was attacked by a splinter. Let her return... Direct attack! Report! The black billed Gull was directly hit by shrapnel and suffered heavy casualties!"

Katrina's eyebrows jumped heavily: "who's near the black billed Gull?"

"The white pelican and Hydrangea are nearby. The white pelican is located 600 in the northeast, opposite brigantin 1 and skuna 2. The hydrangea is located 330 in the southeast, opposite brigantin 2."

"Hydrangea can't get rid of her opponent in a short time..." Katrina pondered for a moment. "Let the White Pelican disperse her face-to-face opponent, rescue the black Headed Gull and take the black Headed Gull back to the main array."

"Yes!"

The messenger sailor ran away quickly. Katrina turned her head and looked at the battlefield filled with gunsmoke.

"Really... Ants kill elephants."

The battle of the main array officially began from the moment when the skeleton Bay combined fleet appeared.

With the advantage of single ship combat power, Drake's direct fleet has an advantage in details, but because of the lack of quantity, it is at a disadvantage in the overall situation, and the enemy is more with less everywhere.

The job of a pirate ship is to plunder.

Facing merchant ships, pirate ships need to be flexible, need high speed, and need to quickly connect to the side and seize the ship, so as to keep the integrity of prey as much as possible.

Because in terms of value, the merchant ship itself is often more valuable than the goods on board.

Therefore, in the selection and modification of pirate ships, pirates prefer to pursue speed and balance, even big pirates such as Blackbeard.

He pursues heavy firepower, first because of the development trend of pirate war, and second because his scale has long jumped out of the traditional artistic ability of pirates and began to chase the great word "power".

Skeleton Bay combined fleet fully reflects the situation of pirates.

In addition to the class V Galen, which is located in the distance like a dragon, the remaining 24 ships are led by two 40m barges, 14 brigantines and 10 high-speed skunas. There are neither brig ships focusing on naval artillery warfare nor slup ships that excessively weaken the combat effectiveness of single ships.

Their ships were mainly loaded with nine pounds and six pounds, and only the barg was equipped with a small amount of twelve pounds.

This makes the fleet directly under the brig ship with more elite crew quality have an absolute advantage in one-on-one combat.

However, the large ship heavy artillery has never been invincible in the sea, which Lorin gave a full score answer as early as Cantabrian.

In the one-on-one battle, the pirates may not be the opponents of the ships directly under them, but they have three to four times the quantitative advantage. As long as they implement the tactics of entanglement and connection, Drake can't easily say the victory or defeat.

They must always be vigilant, vigilant against pirates' forced connection to the side, and vigilant against sudden board cutting and high projectile throwing. Any negligence will lead to irreparable heavy losses, and the careless black headed gull is the best negative teaching material.

She was fighting one against four, including two brigantines and two scuna ships. As her support unit, the storm petrel was less than 500 southeast of her to fight one against three.

This is a very healthy ship distance for a circular array with natural defense attributes. Both ships can focus their attention on one side, and any attempt by the opponent to cut to the other side will throw themselves into the most appropriate artillery range of the two Briggs at the same time.

But just half an hour after the war, the storm petrel hit hi.

She lost her support position, ran farther and farther after her opponent, and suddenly widened the ship distance between herself and the black Headed Gull to more than 1000, and the black Headed Gull knew nothing about all this.

A brigantin jumped from port to the dead corner of the black billed Gull, and threw three shrapnel onto the black billed Gull's deck at the same time with a beautiful high throw.

Specific casualties cannot be estimated.

Including the captain and most of the sailors, at least 70 people gathered on the black billed Gull's deck when it was shot. A storm of iron slag and fragments swept across the back deck, and the black billed Gull lost its combat capability in an instant.

Fortunately, the White Pelican exceeded Katrina's expectations.

After receiving the rescue order, the White Pelican resolutely launched an assault in the opposite direction of the black billed Gull for the first time.

This action completely surprised the opponent's expectation. The scuna boat faced by the White Pelican could not retreat. It was directly hit by a 12 pound bow gun at a distance of 50 meters, and the bow was smashed with one shot.

The scuna ship was broken, and the White Pelican completed a series of processes such as sail mending, steering and acceleration during the assault, and plunged straight into the entangled brigantin.

The two ships crossed in the middle of the sea and exchanged a round of full artillery fire at a distance of 100 meters.

The white pelican's hull was shot at two places, and he also covered his opponent's face with his own shrapnel and chain bullets.

Brigantin stalled due to the broken bow mast. The minimally invasive White Pelican forced the last opponent and drew a big arc to kill the middle line between the black billed Gull and her opponents.

Five minutes later, the black billed Gull barely escaped the receiving side and swayed to the main array under the cover of the white pelican and the hydrangea.

"Perfect rescue..." Katrina appreciated the fighting White Pelican. "What's her captain's name?"

"Favna hangi." the staff officer flipped through the seaman's file, "The second daughter of Mr. Han Ji, a Pennsylvania farmer, is the fourth generation pioneer of the new world. Her uncle is the Pennsylvania trade manager of the Caribbean branch. She entered the intermediate school at her own expense in 78 and transferred to the command department of the senior school in 81. She graduated from the second grade in 84 and was assigned to the White Pelican as the second mate. At the beginning of the year, the captain was released outside, which promoted her to captain."

Katrina was stunned for a long time: "Captain Hanji... Female?"

I don't blame Katrina for this.

Drake chamber of commerce does not discriminate against women too much because of Lorraine. For example, Katrina herself is the unique female supervisor of the chamber of Commerce.

However, the general social atmosphere is there after all. There are few women in the industry, and most of them yearn for civilian work on land.

There is also the issue of gender guidance in chamber of Commerce schools. Women's courses in primary and secondary schools are mainly social and trade, and their future is basically limited to land.

But Captain Han Ji graduated from the senior command department

Katrina took the file from the staff and looked through it.

The intermediate school ranked ninth in marketing and 44th in social networking in the same period. Fafuna Hanji's major grades were very poor, but she took shipping and command as her elective courses, ranking second and first in the same period respectively.

There is her own application on the file, and the Chartered signature below is Carmen Xavier. In other words, Carmen chartered her to be promoted to the senior command section, which trained perhaps the first female captain produced by Drake chamber of Commerce.

"I knew for the first time that the school students were also part of the assets of the Federation..." Katrina muttered and put aside the file. "Let this high-quality asset come to see me after the battle. Also, how is the grey?"

"It's like a bullfight in the Madrid arena, surrounded by matadors and their assistants." the staff officer looked anxiously to the southwest, "one on eight, grey can't control her position. She has been pulled three kilometers away and will soon get out of our sight."

"This is also expected..." Katrina rubbed her eyebrows. "Where's captain Eriksson?"

"In the bilge, his two deputies went to the sea parrot and the skua respectively."

"It seems that he is also ready..." Katrina thought for a while. "How about the casualties of black billed gulls?"

"26 dead and 41 injured, very tragic, but fortunately, the command system was basically complete, and only the third officer and the chief sailor died."

"Has the wounded been transferred?"

"It has been transferred to the bilge of the alvette."

"Immediately replenish 20 people for them. Tell the captain that he has no time to repair. After repairing, the personnel will go to support the grey immediately."

The staff officer was stunned: "commander, their deck is full of blood. Even if we don't consider morale, it's greasy, even running..."

"That's their problem." Katrina looked at the staff discontentedly. "Compassion should be used in the right place, sir. This is the battlefield, and the alvette is already the most dangerous place in the battlefield!"

"Danger? How could the alvette be..."

"Eriksson is moving!" the police training on the lookout interrupted the staff's question. "Eriksson launched an assault on the ship, with a speed of six knots and three knots. The storm petrel was forced back. Eriksson is gathering the wing ship and is expected to approach in 15 minutes!"

The staff officer was stunned: "Lieutenant, the nearest one to us is the White Pelican. I'll let her return to the array immediately!"

"Let captain Han Ji guerrilla outside."

"Eh?"

"The guerrillas of the ships on the outside line approach the grey and kill the enemy in front of her as much as possible." Katrina looked at her young staff. "You go to the black billed Gull to convey this order. During the operation of arvit, the outside command will delegate the grey and execute it immediately."

"Yes... Yes!"