Chapter 477

"Impact!"

Boom, boom!

Valkiri slowly cut out from the bow of the romance at a very close distance, just like meeting the unlucky pirate on his first sea trip. He was in a panic and threw himself into the net.

Similar scenes have taken place four times today. Except for the first time that Lorin cheated successfully, the romance ship waited in place safely for the next three times and gave valkiri the most warm reception to the slow travel with a rare stillness.

Lorraine really knows the pain.

He now has no artillery protection, no speed support, and even large angle changes can be avoided. If he wants to repeatedly open the distance from the enemy ship under such conditions, all he can do is to regard the enemy ship robbing the road as a headland and and artificially create obstacles in the endless sea.

In other words, a round of severe beating will bring peace for a while.

According to the experience of the previous two times, this peaceful time usually lasts about five minutes, while the Queen Anne revenge, the slowest one, only takes four minutes to load.

This means that Blackbeard chose a relatively loose and orderly group warfare method while taking the overall initiative.

His conservatism greatly exceeded Lorraine's expectations, so Lorraine could not judge whether it was valkiri's performance at the beginning that left him too deep impression and made him hesitate, or whether he thought the victory was decided, which would have begun to consider the control of victory cost early.

But (´ - ') ┌

Whether Blackbeard is self abased or arrogant, at least before valkiri really shows defeat, Lorraine doesn't need to think too much about being forcibly connected to the side. This is the biggest and most fundamental good news.

There was plenty of time, and valkiri didn't have much preparation to do under the current situation. Lorraine thought for a while and was ready to see the rush repair of the gun cabin in person.

There are four ways to get into the gun chamber.

First, the floor arrangement of the forecastle and stern building is staggered and independent of the main cabin, and only the hatch leading to the bottom cabin is left on the lowest floor. Through these two doors, sailors can enter the bilge and then enter the gun cabin all the way up through the bilge channel.

Second, there is a manual loading and unloading hatch in front of the main mast, which connects the closed upper deck, gun cabin and cargo cabin from top to bottom, directly to the bottom cabin, and the mechanism for opening the transmission is also in the bottom cabin.

Third, in front of the steering wheel, the hatch between the closed upper deck and the back mast is the only open hatch of the gun cabin. It is very convenient to get in and out, but it is not convenient for Lorraine to go from the front deck to the back deck.

The fourth hatch is located on the inner side of the foremast and is hidden not far from the access door of the closed upper deck. It is not only convenient for access, but also not far from Lorraine's current position.

Lorraine naturally chose the nearest.

When he entered through the hatch, he saw that the mess on the upper deck had been cleaned up, and the original 24 pound short cannon had disappeared, leaving only the empty folded gun truck and the blood marks on the ground.

Stepping on the bloodstain, he went down to the gun cabin and saw more than 30 gun tubes of different lengths tied to the ground like a Panpipe, scattered and uneven, which seemed to have a strange beauty.

Karen is arranging work at the tail of the cabin farthest from Lorraine. When he sees Lorraine getting off the cabin, he quickly takes acharin to meet him.

"Captain, I was going to find you."

Lorraine's eyes brightened: "adjusted?"

"Unreliable temporary measures," Karen said regretfully, "but we are not able to restore the upper and lower cabins as they are. For the time being, this is the only effective measure we can do."

"Want to open up..." Lorraine patted Karen on the arm and comforted him. "At least, if we keep facing the regular Navy, we may never be aware of this hidden danger."

"After being comforted by you, my mood is even worse."

The environment of the gun cabin was very bad. Karen racked his brains and could only barely save the advance and retreat space of a few guns. There were three guns available on the port side, five on the starboard side, and all the 24 pounds of the closed deck were made into counterweights, and none of them could be left.

What's more troublesome is that this is only the gun space. Firing also requires ammunition and gunpowder. It is unrealistic to carry groups from the cabin corner. Pulling them in advance will occupy the space for advancing and withdrawing the chamber.

Karen is ready to let acharin separate several empty boxes of ammunition and put them on the barrel temporarily as needed. Acharin was very resistant, but he couldn't put forward a more operational opinion for the moment except holding a rope to fix the box.

Lorraine can only continue to play a comforting role.

He told yacharin that from the perspective of safety production, reducing the number of shots and improving the shooting accuracy can effectively reduce the incidence of accidents. Therefore, yacharin only needs one gun and one ship to end the battle in five shells.

Acharin wondered if he had auditory hallucinations

"Captain, what did you say just now? One gun and five guns sank all enemy ships, including the Queen Anne revenge?"

Lorraine opened her eyes with a guilty conscience: "no problem, you're not acharin who hits every shot..."

"This is a big problem!"

"Ah! Karen!" acharin's voice was louder, and Lorraine's voice was louder than him. "So my female warrior has regained her fighting ability, hasn't she?"

"About 90% of the resistance to waves, 70% of the balance and 80% of the speed." Karen looked at the budget data. "At present, there is only verification effectiveness left. Valkiri needs to pull the speed to eight knots, then quickly reduce it to three knots, and turn no more than 10 degrees. As long as the ship can be stable, we can operate normally before these counterweights are scattered."

Lorraine narrowed his eyes: "if it is verified, is it better to add shelling?"

"Join the shelling?" Karen and acharin looked at each other. "Are you going to..."

……

Valkiri stopped moving for the first time. She stopped at sea, folded her sails, kept only the bow sail and the stern sail half opened, and awkwardly began to turn in place.

Even in the intact state, such maneuver is not varkiri's specialty, because her aspect ratio is too large, and the stability of the slender hull is far inferior to the mainstream ships in the current world.

Black beard held up his mirror and said nothing.

Soon, semras and Zani came together.

Blackbeard put down his looking glass: "semras, what do you think Baiqi is going to do?"

"Dying struggle." semlars sneered, "his tortoise shell is so hard that he can't even break through Queen Anne's 32 pounds. But the shell is the shell. His claws are injured, and no matter how hard the shell is, it can't keep him safe all his life."

"So he should run away. Why did he turn around and still turn around?"

"Because he can't escape." semras replied confidently, "half an hour ago, the flagship of white flag only fired six guns, five on the starboard side, one on the bow, one on the port side and one on the stern."

"Bai Qi doesn't like to use the stern gun, because he is an offensive soldier, and the ship is rarely pursued. But the port side is the focus of our attack. There is only one reason for not firing a gun, that is, the port side is paralyzed."

"I have another data here. In the past half an hour, varkiri was shot 28 times, with an average speed of 4 knots, 5 big bends above 10 degrees and 0 full rudder bend."

"It can be seen that the scope of Bai Qi's paralysis is far beyond the port side. It should be that there is a big problem with the stability of the hull, resulting in problems in shelling, steering and acceleration."

"He can't escape. Not only can he escape, but he can't even evade the basic. He can only float on the sea and wait for us to weaken until he is broken down and sunk."

"So he has to save himself." semras drew a circle in the air. "Today's wind is southerly. Turning around can better cut into the downwind and try to improve his breakthrough speed. If my estimation is good, the improvement is about 2 to 3 knots, that is to say, the white flag armored ship is likely to reach 7 knots, which is barely the same as our speed."

"But is it possible for him to turn around in combat? It's hard!"

"The distance required for a small arc to turn around is too long. It is almost certain that our intention will be interrupted. In order to make his dream come true, Bai Qi can only choose to take risks and turn around in situ!"

Semras used three affirmative sentences, and then burst out laughing.

"Commander, Bai Qi's position has been disordered! This stupid action is more ridiculous than self deception. As long as we block his way, we can easily end the war and become a unique hero in the pirate world!"

"Captain, we are sure to win!"

With the exhilarating cry and repressive excitement, black beard could feel the pride and joy of semras. After all, he was the first to find the difference in valkiri. Lorraine was forced to jump over the wall, and he was a great think tank.

But there was still a strange intuition in Blackbeard's heart. He always felt that there was a contradiction, but he couldn't express it accurately.

He turned his head to Zanin.

The little shadow warrior held the railing on tiptoe, frowning.

"Captain, I can't refute semras' words. His previous judgment has been very accurate. It is his wisdom that makes us turn defeat into victory and occupy an overall advantage..."

"But the opposite is white flag... It's Lorraine Drake... I just think Queen Anne's Revenge had better not get too close to valkiri when blocking."

"Lorraine Drake never really panicked. Even in San Carlos, we didn't benefit from him."

"Leave some room for yourself... If everything before is a trap he has deliberately planned, at least we can have a choice not to lose."

"Captain, this is my only suggestion."

With that, Zanin shut up.

As Blackbeard's two most important people in wisdom, he and semras have fully expressed their views. Although their positions are different, they have no reason to continue to argue.

Blackbeard will have his own judgment. Every cadre of the pirate regiment knows that his king has always been a dictator.

Blackbeard raised his goggle again, looked at the embarrassment of walkiri's turn in the distance, looked quietly and said nothing.

After waiting for the U-turn to be completed and the horizontal sail to rise, he finally ordered.

"Each ship implements the bag and clip tactics, and after shelling, it forcibly connects to the side of valkiri."

"Semras, do the formation part. Remember to put Queen Anne's revenge on the outer line on the port side..."

"... yes!"