"Starboard bombed!"

A terrible scream sounded, and as soon as Lorraine looked up, he saw the white smoke rising into the air on the opposite side, and more than ten red dots pierced the sky with the sound of cannons, flying with a low whistling sound.

"Ten degrees on the left side, evade!"

At the end of the order, Henna jerked the handwheel, and the Golden Deer's hull rolled sideways, clinging to the edge of the wind.

Splash!

With the gliding Golden Deer as the center, more than a dozen large splashes of water bloomed in the hot mist, splashing up several meters, and hitting the hull of the Golden Deer like a heavy fist.

"Stand firm! Hold on to the rope! Right full rudder! Starboard ready .................. Fire! ”

The Golden Deer, which had not yet stabilized its hull, turned its rudder to the right at an exaggerated inclination, and the bulging sails cut away from the wind, and after a moment of calm, quickly cut into another bevel of the wind belt, and accelerated suddenly.

The distance between the two ships was rapidly closer, from 530 meters to about 460 meters in the blink of an eye.

The Golden Deer's right-leaning hull began to flatten out, and the gun barrel on the starboard side finished reloading, and it roamed out of the hole under the command of Yacharin.

Fire!

Lorraine's order was placed on the hull to return to equilibrium, and the gunners scrambled to pull the flintlock, and the starboard gun doors were called one by one.

Boom Boom Boom!

Ten eighteen-pounder guns, six twelve-pounder guns, and sixteen shells of various sizes were disarmed, and they smashed into the waters around the Andes like a reenactment of the picture.

The two sides continue to get closer!

430…… 410…… 360…… 320 meters!

Lorraine's complexion changed abruptly!

"Henna, fifth degree of left rudder, turn truss detachment, quick!"

But the command still seems to be a step slower.

At the moment when Lorraine gave the order, the Andes, which had maintained its position at the T-head, suddenly unleashed a more dense rain of bullets.

The earth-pouring projectile flew to the predetermined direction of the Golden Deer, smashing the sea surface to pieces, and the Golden Deer adjusted its course in time, grazing the explosion point and escaping, the closest distance, the bow of the ship was only less than ten meters from the splash.

The splintering waves crashed, the deck shook violently, and the running sailors screamed and fell to the ground.

Clutching his shoulders, he gritted his teeth and crawled out of the gun bay and grabbed Lorraine's hand.

"Captain! My gunner wounded three, and one directly injured his eye! Why the sudden change of plans? I need an explanation! ”

"We ......," Lorraine pointed to the detached sea area, "we walked around the ghost gate, and we were almost hit head-on by twenty-four pounds just now......"

"Phew!"

"Veteran...... Veteran! Lorraine gasped and called out to Daniel, the ship's doctor, and told him to give Acharin a priority examination for the bruise, while he strode over to Henna, holding on to the guardrail and giving orders.

"Continue to cut the wind on the left side and bring the engagement back to 500 meters. Rewodang, sure enough, it doesn't leak! ”

……

Half an hour after the battle began, the three battlefields in Lerobel Bay were still in order, and there were no accidents that could change the tide of the battle.

Nelson of the First Passage was out of sight in Lorraine, and the observing sailors of the Breech were staring at the battlefield.

The Badger has not sunk so far, and the hull moves nimblely, and it does not appear to have suffered a direct attack from the impact evasion.

Collingwood in the Fifth Passage Battle is within Lorraine's field of vision, and based on the information from the foremast, she still has the absolute initiative, and even if it is fought for a day and a night, it may not produce unexpected changes.

After all, in the era of breech loads, it was simply impossible to hit a target at a distance of 800 meters by pure luck.

The fiercest battle was naturally the Fourth Channel Battle, which remained in a state of movement warfare.

The main attacker of the Golden Deer, with the strong winds before the rainstorm, kept a distance of 300 to 500 meters from the Andes at an average speed of more than 5 knots and circled clockwise, so as to find an opportunity to make a portion.

The Andean was guarded, with the ship's redirectional sails delicately adjusted in the narrow sea area of two hull widths, always maintaining the T-head orientation of the Golden Deer.

In the back and forth of your artillery battles, she throws half of the guns at a time, and only when the Golden Deer tries to launch an approach assault, those dense gun doors will be fully opened, and a dense and accurate T-shaped artillery attack will be launched at the Golden Deer.

For the first time in actual combat, Lorraine finally felt the powerlessness of the net-like cover.

He knew that the source of all his powerlessness came from the 24 twenty-four-pounder guns in the gun bay of the Andes.

The 24-pounder shipborne flintlock long-range gun, with a barrel length of 2.7 meters, a caliber of 14.4 cm, cast iron, a total weight of 2.2 tons, equipped with 12-pound solid, chain ball shells and 24-pound grape shotguns, with a maximum range of 300 to 1800 meters, the French standard rate of fire is 120 seconds per round, and the British standard is 60 seconds per round.

On England's list of military supplies, the 24 and 32-pounder guns were classified as heavy naval guns, of the first class, and not for civilian use.

Also on this particular list are military charts, battleships of the third and higher levels, 48- and 68-pounder rail-mounted ship-mounted mortars unique to the United Kingdom, light guns under 9-pounder for the Army, and the latest flowering grenades......

From this list, you can see how much importance the European powers attached to the firepower of ships of the heavy artillery class.

Heavy artillery is a national weapon.

As the only firepower at sea that can shatter the hull of a battleship, the powerful countries have invested in it, and each country's artillery has its own uniqueness.

For example, the French cannon is more accurate, and the unique bronze formula can effectively reduce the weight of a single gun, further reducing the difficulty and process of accurate aiming for gunners.

The British gun has a unique derailment and gun mount design, which can greatly increase the reload speed and increase the firepower density of the battleship per unit time while increasing stability.

The Dutch guns, on the other hand, had a different code of operation, which allowed the gunner to be reduced from the standard configuration of twelve to seven without affecting the firing effect.

These are the core secrets of various countries, and while they are not allowed to be leaked out, they are not allowed to be arbitrarily held by the people.

At that time, because the sense of secrecy in the Netherlands was too weak, and the government lacked the ability to control large chambers of commerce, so that a large number of core technologies flowed out, which indirectly triggered the revolution in the history of HNA, which led to the decline of the Netherlands from another level.

In terms of consequentialism, Lorraine's only means of victory over the Andean was broadside combat, and victory was capture. In accordance with the principle of employment and the agreement with Nelson, he would have ownership of both the Andean and Jupiter.

But the Jupiter could be kept in his possession with all the beards and tails, but the Andean was secret, and the twenty-four pounder guns on board had to be handed over to the navy.

But Lorraine doesn't have the time to think about it now.

The threat of heavy artillery is imminent, and he is more concerned about how to survive these killers and achieve his goals than the disposition and gains and losses after victory.

"Hey, I can't help it......"

Another round of heavy artillery attacked, because of the distance between the two sides, most of them fell 100 meters away from the Golden Deer, and only two fell in the warning area within 100 meters, one 70 meters and the other more than 50 meters, which basically failed to pose a threat.

Lorraine was also able to get a closer look at the Andean gun's cannon door, which was obscured by the smoke of gunpowder.

Sure enough, from the time the Golden Deer regained distance, the Andean once again returned to its original unhurried firing rhythm.

A round of about 130 to 140 seconds was a little slower than the French standard of two minutes of heavy artillery, and the rhythm of 1-2-1 was maintained, using only half of the guns at a time.

This meant that half of the guns on the opposite giant ship were ready to fire at all times, and even if Lorraine made a sudden move, he would have to face 6 24-pound guns, and only one direct shot would be enough to make the Golden Deer break and become faltering.

Scheme...... A way to break the deadlock......

With an assault distance of 500 meters, it will take at least three minutes to make a port at the current speed of the Golden Deer.

The Andean could have launched the first round of saturated shelling from 300 meters away, and then completed its loading within 100 meters to continue with the second round.

The T-shaped straight rush was a big disadvantage to the Vertical Cube, because the course was fixed, and it was extremely difficult for the Golden Deer to avoid the shelling.

The French professional soldiers are also known for their accurate shelling, and at a distance of 100 meters, the average hit rate disclosed alone is far more than 5%.

It's like dancing on a mountain of knives......

While thinking, another round of shelling alternated. The Golden Deer temporarily lost the command of Yacharin, and the landing points of the shells became more and more scattered, while the Andean maintained the same level as before, and within two hundred meters, the water splashed.

At least...... We can't let them fire like this again!

Lorraine bit her lip and raised her hand to drag a running sailor.

"Go to the ship's infirmary and find Captain Desai's gunner." He said word by word, "If his injuries are dealt with, let him report to me immediately, and I will wait for him for ten minutes." ”

"Yes!"