Chapter 456

"Shelling! Port shot! Repeat, port shot!"

In the continuous alarm sound, the vortex escape spewed out the fire tongue 300 meters to the left of varkiri, and sprinkled a series of bullets.

The projectiles arced in the air and scrambled to fall around the fast-moving varkiri, splashing all over the sky.

Valkiri carried the bow high and went through the water curtain. The port roared. There were three doors of 32 pounds and two doors of 24 pounds. He threw iron bullets at an unfavorable firing angle, and then naturally... Returned in vain.

Lorraine stood in the bow of the ship, overlooking the chaotic war.

One to seven, two sea forts, four class five Galens, and Queen Anne revenge, which has been transformed beyond recognition and is not suitable to be simply classified into a certain ship type like valkiri.

Valkiri's mechanism of facing the enemy is very novel. It not only makes full use of the cross sail and wing sail with large sail surface, but also adds the longitudinal sail with the lowest sail position into the propulsion system of the whole ship.

This was originally the unique sailing technique of Oriental hard sailing ships.

Oriental hard sailing ships have always liked to configure longitudinal sails with multiple masts. With the flexibility of longitudinal sails, they do not have to consider the wind and turbulence of the back mast to the front mast, and can maximize the use of deck space to increase the number of masts.

Increasing the mast requires more deck space, increasing the deck space requires increasing the hull, and the increased hull needs more sails and masts to promote

This closed-loop design idea makes the Oriental ship embark on a completely different development direction from the West from the beginning.

Western shipbuilders focus on fluid, wind adaptability, center of gravity and stability... These are not the focus in the eyes of Oriental shipbuilders. For them, only keel strength and cabin distribution are the real design core of a ship.

According to the records handed down from the East Indian islands, the Oriental empire in its heyday built a 100m class ship with nine masts in the early 16th century.

Most western countries treat these histories as unreliable myths and legends. After all, at the beginning of the 16th century, Europe even had to make a 30 meter Galen. Even in the Anglo West battle of gwoline, which made the Drake family rise in the world, the mainstream configurations of both sides were Kirk and Karak.

As we all know, the Spanish invincible fleet is equal to more than a dozen 40 meter Caracas.

However, Lorraine knew that the 100m class Oriental giant ship was real, and Zheng He's treasure ship did achieve the design achievement that the western wind sailing had never achieved in his life.

Of course, Lorraine had no intention of arguing with Western shipbuilders about this. Whether the treasure boat and Noah's Ark were the same thing had nothing to do with Lorraine and valkiri.

Val Jiri is the essence of the shipbuilding industry in the new world. The most prominent part of her ship is sails.

Like the eastern hard sails, the stern longitudinal sail of valkiri not only has sail bones and a yard with a maximum rotation of 180 degrees from left to right, but also is equipped with a yard component, rotary sail, which is rarely seen in Western ships.

The function of the rotary sail is to coordinate the steering of the longitudinal sail, so that the whole sail surface can rotate uniformly and be fixed at any angle, so as to facilitate turning the sail to both sides when necessary. The longitudinal sail is temporarily used as a low sail horizontal sail.

The low sail horizontal sail has the unique characteristics of driving. Especially after the application of Western soft sail, it is easier to form a pocket like effect, so that the wind has nowhere to escape and achieve the effect of lowering the stern.

Lowering the stern is equivalent to raising the bow. On the one hand, raising the bow can greatly reduce the water resistance and improve the speed. On the other hand, it can also raise the freeboard of the enemy face, making full use of walkiri's thick hull armor to kill two birds with one stone.

This is the secret of valkiri's mechanism to meet the enemy.

However, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. In fact, there are relatively strict conditions for a ride in battle.

In terms of external forces, the wind direction of the battlefield must be stable, neither too weak nor scattered. The basic standard is 120 ° wind surface and above medium wind force.

In terms of internal force, the sails and course shall not change too much during the breakthrough, and the sails shall not be retracted or replenished at will. The adjustment of the steering wheel shall not exceed plus or minus 5 degrees.

These rigid restrictions make valkiri's bow lifting and thrusting really like the heavy cavalry charge prevailing in the middle ages, firm, brave, rigid, and indomitable.

Conventional evasion is destined to be abandoned in the process of penetration, and the opponent's artillery hit rate will be doubled. In order to prevent possible direct attack of high projectile, the deck personnel should be limited to the minimum standard, resulting in insufficient manpower at the ship operation post. Once there is an excessive turn, it is almost inevitable to stall sharply

You can't think much about it.

Lorraine was depressed to evaluate his new skills: "it's reckless to say a thousand things..."

Walkiri rushed into Blackbeard's hunting ground and made rapid progress from north to south, aiming at Blackbeard's flagship Queen Anne revenge.

Blackbeard felt a strong insult from her completely gaudy straight forward.

He and Lorraine are old rivals.

And unlike the cotton Jack who has hardly benefited from Lorraine, Blackbeard has firmly grasped the initiative of the battlefield regardless of victory or defeat in the past.

Lorraine must rack his brains and efforts to win a narrow victory over him. This is not only the consensus of the whole Caribbean, but also Blackbeard's own understanding.

But!

Just a new boat, Lorraine suddenly stopped cheating.

Witches do not cast spells and swordsmen do not draw swords. There can only be one reason for them to do so, that is, the opponent is not worth it!

He, the most powerful pirate king in the Caribbean, his highness Blackbeard, whose fierce name can easily stop children's crying at night, is no longer worth being regarded as an opponent?

Because of that ridiculous big ship in a turtle shell?

It's the greatest thing in the world!

Blackbeard seemed to see a wild boar in a turtle shell running around in his carefully arranged fence, and his hunters

"What are you doing?" Blackbeard said, biting his teeth. "What are they afraid of? Are they afraid of being bitten by that toothless and clawless iron turtle? Do you remember that you are the most cruel pirate in the Caribbean!"

"Zanin, let them push up! Cut the side boldly, go around boldly, cut off her windward, mix her legs and feet, throw the shrapnel on the white flag deck, and break the madman... Into pieces!"

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In the era of no telecommunications, how far can a person's anger float?

Lorraine never thought about it, nor did he try to combine the actions of the pirates with Blackbeard's anger.

When he plunged into less than a kilometer, he obviously felt the pirates on the opposite side agitated.

The shelling is getting closer and later

The pirates seem to have deliberately disturbed varkiri's upwind state.

Although this is a wonderful trick to interrupt the sudden advance, with the current number of Blackbeard pirates, they need at least two ships to bypass the side of valkiri and continue to catch up to within 100 meters.

However, valkiri is faster than any of Blackbeard's ships, and it is obviously impossible to catch up from behind. The vortex escape attempt has been tried, and now it has been thrown away for more than 300 meters.

All they could do was cut to the side, fold and sway close to the windy side of valkiri, and then listen to fate.

Lorraine suddenly realized something strange.

"It seems that dear yazha has been underestimated..." he whistled and turned to edre. "Go and tell the gunner desys that the pirates will soon cut within 100 meters of our starboard side, and the purpose should be to disturb our windward. I know it sounds a little unthinkable, but please prepare him for a quiet stop to approach the shelling."

A moment later, edre faithfully transmitted Lorraine's original words to acharin's ears, including the exclamation "dear yazha has been underestimated".

Acharin was stunned for a long time and blinked with dementia.

"Adley, you said the captain judged that the pirates who didn't know how to live and die were going to approach, cut, parallel or cross from our starboard side?"

"That's what the captain said, Mr. gunner."

"Did they regard themselves as dead? Or didn't they see valkiri Ramo's open gun door when we Gunners regarded us as dead?"

"I probably think you're a dead man," replied edley solemnly, "otherwise no one would joke about his life."

"Ah... It's really exciting news..." acharin shook his arm and got into the gun cabin from the bow cabin. "Please tell the pirates that acharin Desai greets their sisters."