Chapter 104: The Rookie War
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In order to prevent the pirate fleet under his command from being infiltrated too deeply by external forces, Luo Zhengdao was very vigilant and politely declined the Yaling Empire's provision of a group of military advisers, and to this day, Vina Dubov, who is still No.1 in the artillery army, continues to serve as the gun commander of the flagship Avenger. (Please search for the fastest novel website!)
The half-elf beauty skillfully fiddled with the equipment such as the quadrant and rangefinder, and after she calculated the number of ballistics, she shouted in a coquettish voice:
"The orientation is fourth from the right, the ruler is minus two, and the fire is ready to be ignited...... Put! ”
"Knock knock ......"
Whether in the New World or the Old World, the basic definition of the so-called battleship is those capital ships that are qualified to participate in the battle line duel, with only great firepower or high sea, but the lame battleships that do not have sufficient defense and hull durability cannot survive the kind of stormy stone bombardment in the brutal close-range artillery battle. No matter how powerful and perfect they are boasted of, since they lack the most critical ability of battleships to take beatings, it means that they cannot withstand the baptism of bullets.
Luo Zhengdao's new flagship, the Avenger, is a brand-new Yaling V-class battleship with 74 light and heavy guns of various types, and a single broadside salvo can project stone shells weighing one and a half tons.
There is no doubt that in front of this gorgeous and delicate battleship, which lacks elegance and artistic atmosphere, those half-hung battleships piloted by traitors are vulnerable, and frigates and cruisers, which have not even touched the threshold of the battleship level, are swept by the fire of a powerful battleship, which is simply a shameless act of crushing matchboxes with lead balls.
"Your Excellency, the White Star is on fire! The Viscountess is sinking! The Violet has been battered, and it has hoisted a white flag to surrender. The Heron has lost contact, and the black swan over there seems to be dying. ”
At this moment, seeing that one after another of our warships were bombarded by the torrential rain of bullets, they were reduced to a slaughterhouse full of flesh and blood, even those with a little military common sense knew that their general trend had gone. Due to the distance, it was only fitting that the goblin fleet that was hurrying from the rear arrived to collect their corpses, and it was a beautiful thing to expect the goblin master to pull him in time. The human captain, who had been engaged in the trade of dried salted fish for a living, turned so pale that he was bloodless, and he forced his trembling legs to hold his trembling legs, and gasped and said:
"Quick, let's retreat, retreat immediately!"
Seeing the bad news coming one after another, the two devils who didn't have much fighting spirit and loyalty were frightened by the fierce offensive of the pirate fleet, and those battleships that were lucky enough not to enter the first round of attack list of Luo Zhengdao's fleet immediately chose to turn around and escape.
When the first wise man appeared, the others immediately began to follow suit, and while the men were running away, one of the sailors said to his captain:
"Captain, what shall we do when we go back? Goblins won't let deserters go. ”
Hearing this unnutritious nonsense, the distraught captain turned his head and glared at him viciously, and then said in a dejected manner:
"Alas, I can't care so much, if we don't run today, none of us want to live, do you want to die for those green skins?"
Something similar to the apostasy of the battle is comparable to the first time a woman who has lost her footing goes to the sea to sell meat, and she will inevitably hesitate for a while before entering the water, and then it will become natural to get used to it. At this time, with the idea that he would live for nothing for another day, the human servant army, which was already weak in battle, was scattered in an instant. In the face of the swift assault of the pirate fleet, they wisely chose the reasonable way out of scattering and fleeing, Luo Zhengdao was unwilling to disperse his limited military strength before facing the big enemy, so he could only watch these guys flee the battlefield in a hurry.
With a little unwillingness in his heart, Luo Zhengdao would not show it, but shouted with full anger:
"It was an appetizer just now, the hearty meal is still to come, everyone cheer up, today is going to be a long day."
With so many uncertainties and contingencies, the war of the authorities often turns into a contest in which both sides make mistakes, and whichever side makes fewer mistakes can declare himself victorious. From a certain point of view, the battlefield is also a game where everyone compares each other badly to break through the lower limit, and whoever does not do it badly will become the final winner. Modo Blackwater had obviously made a low-level mistake in using the servant army, and it was better to have a team of warlords behind these scumbags, at least to make these guys fearful, and now, the unskilled goblin commander could only watch them flee from the battlefield.
"Your Excellency, Commander, those humans are useless waste."
The goblin lieutenant muttered in the ear of the goblin commander, goblins have always admired courage and force, and despised traitors and soft bones, and these human servants can be said to have both. Modo Blackwater, who couldn't hide his anger, didn't need to hide his disgust for this group of scum, and he sneered and said:
"That's of course, they're not waste, and who else will be waste? Upon my order, the signal flag was immediately hoisted, and all the battleships marched in two columns, telling the transports to stay farther away. ”
"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander."
Luo Zhengdao successfully commanded the privateer fleet to play a perfect time difference tactic, defeating the detachment of the human servant army in one fell swoop, taking the first chess piece on the chessboard, and the next battle will be against the big goblin commander's own team, he wisely changed his combat style. Knowing that his capital was limited, Luo Zhengdao did not have the consciousness of a martyr who had a hard time with the goblin fleet, so he immediately ordered the bow of the ship to be turned, and the entire pirate fleet turned and sailed into the rain area, and with the dense rain curtain hanging down like silver filaments obscuring the vision of the goblin fleet, the warring parties returned to the same running line again.
"Your Excellency, the lookout reports that the pirate fleet has turned away and we are no longer able to track their whereabouts."
Hearing this, Modo Blackwater opened his binoculars, and sure enough, he could only see the last trace of the pirate ship's sails disappearing into the hazy rain and mist, and it tugged at the yellow-brown beard on its chin with a look of chagrin, and scolded indignantly:
"Bastard! These vile and cunning hairless monkeys, this time they can't let Will Needham run away anymore, and they all chase after them. ”
Sun Tzu said in the Art of War that he would seek profit from the general. Although the navy is much stronger than the 6th Army in terms of mobility, from the moment the goblin fleet began to pursue the Luo Zhengdao fleet, their troubles followed.
The goblin pursuit fleet under the command of Modo Blackwater is not a fixed formation, but a ragtag army cobbled together by many efforts, both personnel and ships belong to the initial stage of blind people riding blind horses to make do with each other, especially in terms of hardware.
The sources and types of goblin warships are too complex, not only the new and old styles of ships are different, but the maintenance and maintenance of ships are also uneven. The difference between the fastest and slowest ships was a full third, and the slowest of the broken ships could only be maintained at about seven knots, which was not a big problem in a fleet that needed to be kept even, and once the entire fleet began to chase the enemy frantically, these battleships that were either old or poorly maintained on a daily basis could not bear it. Immediately, they signaled one after another, affirming that they could not keep up with the thirteen-knot voyage of the Modo Blackwater flagship.
Upon hearing the news, the big goblin commander, who already knew a better understanding of the operation mode of the navy, scratched his head, after several years of navigation practice, it was not the kind of outright layman he had earlier. After hesitating for a moment, Modo Blackwater said to the adjutant with a purple face:
"Count, how many warships can keep up?"
Running to command the signal corps to inquire about the situation of the ships, the goblin adjutant ran back after a while, saluted and reported:
"Your Excellency, Commander, only forty-three ships can barely sustain more than ten knots."
The fist that was the size of a bowl slammed into the bulwark of the battleship, and this action revealed that Modo Blackwater's heart was not as calm as it appeared on the surface, and the big goblin commander muttered with a black old face:
"Well, that's enough. All right! Sue the ships that can't keep up, turn around and escort the transports to attack Wake Reef. Hmph, those hairless monkeys are smart on their own, and I don't think it's very good, and now I have a tenfold advantage in troops, and I won't suffer if I use them in a scattered way. ”
The goblin fleet was divided into two teams, the main force was led by the big goblin commander himself to continue to pursue Luo Zhengdao's pirate fleet, and those old warships that were too slow to keep up with the main force converged with the transport ship detachment and sailed to Wake Reef to prepare for the 6th battle. With the above tactical arrangements in place, Modo Blackwater began to lead his team to hang up the sails in the thin rain and fog, chasing and searching for the traces of the pirate fleet. Nearly half an hour later, the goblins who had lined up in a fan-faced horizontal line to search for pirates still found nothing, and at this time, a faint sense of foreboding appeared in Modo Blackwater's heart, and he clenched his fists anxiously and said to himself:
"What's going on? Why don't you see the shadow of pirates? ”
At this moment, a fleet staff officer hurriedly ran to the command platform and said eagerly:
"Your Excellency, the mage accompanying the ship said that we were fooled, and that those pirate warships were illusions created by magic."
Hearing this, Modo Blackwater, who had been struck by thunder, fell silent for a moment, and then asked loudly:
"And where's Will Needham?"
"I'm afraid...... I'm afraid he's going to attack our convoy. ”
Suddenly realizing that he had been tricked as a monkey again, Modo Heishui, who was so angry that his eyes were bloodshot at this time, and he roared sharply:
"Bastard! So what are you waiting for, the fleet turned to full reinforcements. ”
Even if Modo Heishui was to the point of thunder, in fact, it didn't feel that Luo Zhengdao could take much advantage in his heart, and this anger was purely a shameful reaction born from failing to see through the deception laid by the opponent in the first place. Any strategy can only be used under the premise that the difference in strength between the two sides is not large, and in front of the goblin fleet with overwhelming superiority, it is difficult for Luo Zhengdao to have practical results no matter what tricks he plays. The goblin side has an absolute superiority in troops, which cannot be changed no matter how clever Luo Zhengdao can come up with, he can't conjure a fleet out of thin air!