"Ditch the dinghy!"

"Fold the wings!"

"Captain's order, right rudder 5 degrees, maintain stability!"

"The whole ship has been transferred to the first level of alert, combat readiness! All personnel are on duty, irrelevant personnel are evacuated, and the main deck gun mounts are in place! ”

"Looking for fixation, all personnel are fixed nearby!"

"Collision warning, bomb warning!"

"Brig is 1.4 km away, the cruiser is 2.5 and the destroyer is 3.1, and after a minute, Brig is in range!"

The deck was full of sailors running, and Lorraine watched indifferently as Carmen ran into the solid bilge with McCarthy and Jenny, followed by the shipwrights in the inner cabin, and smiled.

"Have you notified the main force behind you?"

"The Admiral ship replied, the semi-encirclement unfolded, and the battle ended in one hour! The black goat and the cyclops had broken away from the formation and circled around the back of the island. ”

"An hour?" Lorraine pursed her lips dissatisfiedly, "Are you afraid of losing the skiff that you left behind?" ”

"It's rare to meet brave and aggressive Spanish fools, and even more rare is that they obviously treat me like a lone ship across the border......"

"Wow, what a waste."

Lorraine muttered to herself, raising her foot and stomping on the plank beneath her feet.

"Acharin, are you ready for a surprise?"

Acharin poked his head out of the bow deck: "Everything is ready, only the beauties of Spain are missing!" ”

"It's a pity that the beauties are all Cinderella, and if we want to keep them, we have to break their legs as much as we can before the clock strikes midnight......"

Lorraine looked up, her eyes tracking the sails oncoming Brig.

"Brig Distance!"

"Distance 420, deflected to two o'clock!"

"Left full rudder, cut broadside!"

"Captain's order, the left is full of cuts!"

In the midst of the shouting, Henna suddenly flicked the handwheel, and the Golden Deer made a sharp left turn at a very close distance, and forced its way into the T-head position less than 200 meters.

Brig was startled, firing her bow cannon as she dodged.

Two shells came out of their chambers, and in the flicking, the right cannon smashed into the hull of the port side of the Golden Deer, splashing wood chips, and the left cannon flew far away, making a huge splash on the sea.

The Golden Deer immediately shelled with color, port side!

The upper layer of scattered bullets, the lower layer of chain bullets, the projectiles in the sky were raised high by the inclination, and at least dozens of scattered iron bullets slapped on the mainsail of Brig, igniting the sail in an instant, and the whole sail was on fire.

And that's not the only takeaway from the T-head approach.

The chain bullets on the lower layer were mixed in the middle of the scattered bullets, and most of them fell into the water by grazing Brig in evasion, but there was still one that was lucky enough to wrap around the bow mast that Brig had raised high, and with a click, the mast broke in two!

The mast broke, pulled up into the air by taut cables, captured by gravity, and pulled hard as it fell.

The cables were attached to the mainmast, and the fire made the cables brittle and zoomed, and with this pull, they all broke in unison.

The broken mast that broke free from the shackles fell from a height of five or six meters and smashed on the deck, and the sailor wolf who was supposed to put out the fire rushed to the pig, and the two unlucky eggs couldn't dodge, and were hit hard, and immediately fell to the ground.

Brig, whose mainmast was on fire, suddenly lost the capital to compete on the battlefield.

The Golden Stag gracefully stabilized its hull, glided in a rounded arc, and in Brig's horrified eyes, in front of the nearby Spanish patrols and destroyers, once again launched its guns, launching a second salvo on the port side.

Distance 37 meters, relatively stationary target, slight wave, stroke.

10 doors of 18 pounds, 6 doors of 12 pounds in succession like a roll call, 8 hits in an instant, 4 of which formed a direct hit.

Brig described it as miserable, with the stern being lifted half a story and the fender railing broken.13

The more serious damage was on the starboard hull, which had withstood five shelling in a short time, and the hull was opened with two large holes, one on the heights, which blew away the second and third gun gates, and one near the low waterline, into which the raging sea poured in.

Passing through the hapless Brig, Lorraine sneered and bowed to the big ship that was turning on the other side.

"Your opponent is not me, gentlemen, turn at this time...... It's not a smart move. ”

Stepping on his words, the Golden Deer rode away in the wind, and the Haihai Fleet, which had abandoned the boat, cut out diagonally from the other side of the island in a neat formation, just in front of the two western ships in the process of turning.

The Spanish commander's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Oh God! It was not a lone ship at all, she was a scout ship of the British cruise formation...... Stop steering, meet the enemy, meet the enemy! ”

……

"Order all combat units, 10 degrees on the right side, and meet the enemy in battle!"

Nelson stood straight under Hinchinbrook's mainmast, his command sword.

In front of him, two Spanish warships were struggling to adjust their posture.

They had arrived at the attack point earlier, and they had easily taken the T head and caused trouble for their own fleet, according to the wind belt around the island.

But they didn't do anything.

They had squandered the great opportunity given by God, or rather, Lorraine had misjudged them with the movement of the Golden Deer, giving up all their advantages with their own hands.

The balance of victory was completely tilted under the banner of the rice word of Great Britain.

In this encounter, the Fleet was centered on Hinchinbrook and the Steppe Lion, with the Eros and the Unicorn as the first and last lines in a straight line, and the side-cut wind belt slid steadily past the left flank of the Spanish formation.

On the other hand, the Spanish patrol formation, which was already completely behind the British in terms of ship numbers and gun gates, Brig stepped on Lorraine's trap solidly, and was directly paralyzed by a dazzling critical attack.

The Spaniards were forced to fight two against four.

The hard power is only half of that of the British, and the formation is ......

Just now, in order to give the Golden Deer the maximum damage, the two western ships have been lined up in the battle formation during the operation, who knows that the opponent suddenly changed, and after turning at a ninety degree angle, the battle line has become a sad parallel line.

Their destroyers were helplessly hidden behind the cruisers, completely losing their shelling visibility, and could only watch as their flagships entered the battle column with 12 24-pounds and 6 12-pounds on the single side, and independently faced the terrifying fire of the British with a total of 24 24-pounds, 20 18-pounds and 24 12-pounds on each port.

It's an execution!

At a distance of 220 meters, the two sides fired at each other. In desperation, the Spanish cruisers poured almost all of their firepower on the leading Unicorn, hitting the bow with a single shot, and then could only watch as the British lined up and threw the projectiles out of the barrels.

Cannonballs continued to hit the hull of the Spanish cruiser, and sawdust flew in the smoke, and the huge hull was covered with bruises.

But her hull was heavy after all.

Just as Lorraine was helpless against the Andean at the Battle of Lerobel, Nelson's severely shrunken line was only capable of inflicting devastating damage on her with a limited twenty-four pound direct hit.

This opportunity only happened once.

A twenty-four-pound of Hinchenbrook pierced the bow of the western ship with a direct blow, and Nelson branded the enemy ship in almost the same way, avenging Collingwood as if it were a retribution.

The two sides staggered.

As the battle became clearer, the Spanish warships finally decided to abandon the wounded Brig, puff up their sails, and flee to the far end without looking back.

Seeing that the battle is about to end, the two sides are about to part ways, and a sudden change occurs!

The Golden Deer, which had left the scene earlier, suddenly returned from the upwind, and once again used the screen effect of the island to rush diagonally towards the destroyer that was closer like a mad cow.

"The crystal slippers can't satisfy us hungry princes!"

Lorraine shouted against the wind and drew his saber: "Bow guns ready for battle!" Solid Bullet Reloading! ”

"Bullet warning, roll warning! All crew check the solids! ”

"Straight line tactics!"

"Avoid! Fire! ”