England, forward!

This is the new battle name of the Broken Fleet, which is used to refer to the alliance of the Three Chambers of Commerce, which has no suitable name so far, and is familiar to every sailor in the fleet.

The fleet now consisted of only six Brigentin, with no weaknesses or weaknesses, and each one seemed to be strong, nimble and heroic.

This is also the reason why Lorraine dares to face the enemy head-on at the downwind.

He knew that compared to a comprehensive and large merchant fleet, the Broken Friendship Fleet was more suitable for disrupting the war.

The war began.

Following Lorraine's order, the Butterfly Flower took the lead in straightening the bow, the slender mast pointing straight to the huge shadow of the ship in the distance, and Henna jumped up from the lookout with a cable, took the steering wheel from the sailor, and took control of the ship.

The battleships behind him spread out like flowers.

The Cattail and Cod bounced south, and the Hurricane and Shower bounced north, and the brave Raven commanded his flagship Tuna to catch up, cutting into the flank and rear of the Butterfly Blossom from the side, following closely behind the Butterfly Blossom like a loyal escort.

Six warships, three warbands, each of which had a similar front and rear structure, with the Hurricane, Butterfly Flower, and Cattail rushing forward, followed by the Shower, Tuna, and Cod.

The distance between them was only 100 meters, and the distance between the battle groups was larger, only more than a kilometer.

The distance between the warbands was widened, and all the ships were straightened in the bow, facing the enemy ships rushing at high speed with their own fronts.

This is what Lorraine calls the B tactics.

Since the development of battleships, the naval combat regulations of various countries have long been mature.

The key to everything is to gain the upper hand in a dense horizontal or column formation, and to show the side before the enemy has completed the formation.

Such marching fronts tend to have only one, and in rare cases two.

One front is called a T-shaped tactic, and two horizontal lines are called two-ship tactics.

But that didn't suit Brigentine.

In regular battle columns, frigates equipped with small-caliber guns were not included in the battle line in the first place, because their advantage was flexible, and traditional tactics would kill their greatest advantage.

The method of battle-group of frigates is different, and its guiding ideology is to intersperse, wrap up, fight more with less, and engage in short-handed combat.

It's like this B-strategy.

The marching formation is a variant of the Navy's traditional dense horizontal formation, which is like a trident that separates and sparsely separates, forming a sharp battle group that is directly inserted into the enemy array, avoiding the traditional and rigid battle column bombardment.

His change of formation caught the Yodel Chamber by surprise.

They originally planned to form a straight battle line on the wide front, giving full play to the advantages of more ships, upwind, and strong firepower on the sideboards, but the speed at which the two sides approached was too fast, and as the broken fleet rushed into the wind, the relative speed of the two sides was further increased.

Three kilometers, six minutes.

Their battle line did not have time to unfold, and five Brigentines rushed forward at full speed, and six slower Skuna fell far behind.

The ships were still in the process of forming a loose and chaotic formation, and the Breaking Fleet had already penetrated through the gap between the warships and brushed against them!

"Solid! Fire! ”

One after another, the orders exploded on the decks of both sides, and the more well-prepared broken fleet opened fire first, and the orange flames bloomed on both sides, and the gunwales fired in unison!

Boom Boom!

The guns roared, and the battleships on both sides were like intertwined canine teeth. The Butterfly Flower and the Tuna were caught between the Dutch flagships on the left and the right, and they were themselves caught in the trap of three Brigentines of the same class.

The red-colored projectiles smashed into the hull, and the nine-pound iron projectiles slammed into the planks, and for a while, the water splashed and sawdust flew sideways.

The hull shook violently, and Lorraine's feet were firmly planted on the deck as if they were rooted, and she cried out at the top of her throat.

"Lower the shonk! Slow down the boat! Time is of the essence, gentlemen! Spread your legs and run! ”

Lorraine's orders were faithfully carried out, and not just the Butterfly.

According to the tactical manual, all six warships of the Breaking Fleet lowered the huge sails supporting the march at the moment of contact with the enemy, and only relied on the windcatcher in the middle of the mast and the bow spinnaker to control the hull and retain the steering.

Disadvantage suddenly becomes advantage!

At the beginning of the war, the Yodel Chamber of Commerce was upwind, and the broken fleet was downwind, and this brave interspersed pulled the two sides into a horizontal column, if the Yodel Chamber of Commerce did not slow down, it would completely lose the advantage on the outlet.

Even the battle line was Lorraine's fleet, which was more neat.

If Jodl's vanguard ships dared to break through the trap with the wind, Lorraine could command the fleet to swing sideways and cut the jagged opponents in two with a full line of battle.

In this way, the Brigentine battleships can escape, and the Skuna type that falls behind will become fish on the Lorraine chopping board.

The Yodel Chamber of Commerce had no choice.

Cutting off the crosssails and retracting the schooners, Brigentine in the front gave up the breakthrough and launched a confrontation with the broken fleet, and the two wings of the Skuna type in the rear were deployed, and the fire support of the two flanks was carried out with numerical superiority.

From south to north, a similar stalemate has formed on the front.

At the north and south ends, the Cod and the Cattail cooperated, and the Hurricane and the Shower cooperated to trap a Brigentine of the Yodel Chamber of Commerce, and three Skuna belonging to the Yodel Chamber of Commerce on the periphery, with cannon fire roaring and strangling.

In the middle of the battle line, five Brigentine ships fought hotly, in that order, they were Yodel-Turandot, Drake-Butterfly, Yodel-Liberty Tulip, Mindel-Tuna, and Yodel-Xiangran.

In the midst of it, the sailors couldn't even tell whether they were surrounding the flagship of the Yodel Chamber of Commerce, or whether the Yodel Chamber of Commerce used the flagship as the axis to encircle and divide the Admiral and Deputy Admiral of the Broken Fleet.

Artillery became the only starring role on the battlefield.

At the second gun emplacement on the port side of the gun deck, Acharin held a cross in his mouth and muttered a prayer to God.

He has fired seven cannons today, two hits, and five misses, compared to the distance of about 80 meters from the Turandot, this hit rate is enough to prove his superb artillery skills.

It's a pity that the effect is almost none.

In the grand scheme of things, the central front is the main axis of the entire battlefield, gathering five of the eleven Brigentines on both sides, and the outcome here will determine the course of the entire encounter.

In terms of vital interests, the Butterfly Flower was surrounded by the Turandot and the Liberty Tulip, less than 50 meters away from the Liberty Tulip and 80 meters away from the Turandot, and the two sides exchanged fire.

The English sailors were the best at handling their guns, and the frequency of firing of guns could reach one and a half to two minutes in a state that was about equivalent to stopping the ship to shoot.

But the conditions conducive to the operation of the artillery were mutual, and the rate of fire of the Dutch was also exerted to the extreme by the stalemate of the battle line, and in about two to three minutes, there was an artillery bombardment.

The Butterfly Blossom was shelled almost every minute, with a total of sixteen shells per round, and a hit rate of less than five percent under the best efforts of Henna and Karen to evade.

By this time, the Butterfly Flower had been hit three times, the most thrilling of which was the second splink ball, which crossed the ship's side, grazed the mainmast, and slammed into the main deck, killing an unlucky sailor.

The Butterfly Flower desperately needed to clear the pressure, and the task could only fall on him and the nine-pounder cannon in front of him.

The sailors quickly finished reloading, reloading, inserting the hairline, and the gun carriage was in position.

Yacharin squinted and knelt down on one knee, staring through the small gun bay at the swaying Turandot in the distance.

"Go tell the Egyptian woman who is playing with the knife that I want to be stable and keep her up this angle...... At least three rounds of shelling. ”

The gunners around him rushed to the main deck.

Acharin's target was between the second and third gun emplacements of the Turandot.

There had been a previous shot, and the hull was damaged, and visible blackening and dents could be seen.

This position is five to seven degrees directly in front of Yacharin, and the elevation angle is close to zero, but in order to penetrate the hull, the suitable point of impact is less than two meters.

On a shaky sea, such harsh conditions are like ......

"It's like trying to trick a beautiful lady into bed just by writing a letter."

Acharin spit out the cross in his mouth with a snort, and with the cooperation of the gunner, adjusted the angle little by little.

A brief ......

When the hull of the ship shook the least, Acharin quickly lit the cord, only to hear a cannon shot, and the projectile fell on the sea less than three meters from the Turandot, setting off a huge wave between the two ships.

"Hey, I know that I can't win the hearts of beauties by writing letters, let alone snobbish Dutch beauties......"

He took a sip, stood up, and ordered the gunners beside him: "Clean the barrel and reload the live ammunition." Raise the elevation angle of the gun by 0.5 degrees, and the next shot, I will climb the balcony. ”