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Nabul was stunned, in fact, he was familiar with mines, not only familiar, he had used mines in the war with the Portuguese navy in Europe, but their use was basically coastal, mainly to blockade the harbor, never thought of using mines on this kind of battlefield, because the dropped mines would soon drift away, unless it was in the formation of enemy warships...... Isn't that what it is?

Nabul was indeed stunned.

This way of naval warfare completely subverted his cognition.

Shouldn't a knight have the honor of a knight?

Shouldn't we have a face-to-face showdown?

He used the honor of a knight to open up a formation to the enemy, not wanting the enemy not only not to fight, but also spat himself in front of him, and he turned around and fled...... What about the "line up to shoot"? What about good honors?

Obviously, Nabul did not understand the tactics and tactics of the Chinese, and also, they lacked actual combat experience with the Orientals, and countless naval battles in Europe made their tactical thinking rigid.

Nabul firmly believes that the decisive battle between the two armies should be done according to the rules, and the yellow-skinned monkey is too ...... Shameless!

More than a dozen warships in front of him caught fire in a row, which made Nabul, who was scolding the sailors for their shameless behavior, wake up, but fortunately, the capital ship was behind, and there was no loss, Nabul immediately issued the fourth order of the day, which was a wrong order, and the only wrong order he had today, the capital ship retreated!

The retreat of the capital ship?

What about the "guards with knives" who are trapped by mines in front and unable to move?

Discarded?

At this time, Nabuur, who admired the dignity and honor of knights, completely ignored the "sword guard" in front of him.

Also, these warships, almost all of them are red-haired ghosts, what is his business?

Perhaps Nabul subconsciously borrowed the hand of the yellow-skinned monkey to teach the red-haired ghosts a lesson and weaken their strength, which is in the interests of Great Britain.

The enemy's capital ship moved in the eyes of the teammates in front of him who were looking forward to breaking the siege and pleading.

Just not forward, but southward.

They're going to run?!

The "guards with knives" trapped in front of them instantly realized what Nabul wanted to do.

"Damn the British......!"

The irresponsible order of the commander accommodated the mistakes of the generals under his command, and the commander of the "Escort with Knife" made an even more wrong choice in a hurry, he gave the order to forcibly break through the siege and forcibly break through in one direction.

The premise of this order is correct, breaking through in one direction can reduce battle damage as much as possible, and the area of mines that have been detonated will be safe.

Of course, someone needs to be, ah no, there are boats to go ahead and wade mines.

Red-haired ghosts are still relatively courageous, facing life and death, they are willing to obey orders.

The direction of the breakout is more bizarre, the frontal breakout.

Maybe the commander saw the six ships of the Naval Division eight miles away that had been blown sails and lost power.

Thinking about capturing them as a bargaining chip, when negotiating in the end, it can also be decent.

Or perhaps the commander hated Nabuur, the British, for retreating and abandoning his allies.

Anyway, the "guards with knives", under the leadership of the commander, broke through to the front.

……。

In many cases, the situation on the battlefield slowly accumulates into the last straw that breaks the camel's back because of small changes.

Nabul was right, the main forces of the rear combined fleet were on their way.

As long as its capital ships are not damaged, then the British Navy's right to speak in the combined fleet will not be lost.

As for the red-haired ghosts, then ask for more blessings, maybe when the main force of the combined fleet arrives, they can save their birth.

God bless you all! Nabur prayed earnestly for the allies he had abandoned.

……。

And that's how this naval battle ended?

Apparently not.

Shi Lang, who had observed the change in the situation on the battlefield from the telescope, finally showed his fangs.

"Order the Shanyin to lead 12 ships and Cixi to lead 12 ships to attack the enemy at the same time in the north and south, and drag the enemy's main ships fleeing south...... Ordered the minelayer to lay another mine-...... behind the enemy ship that wanted to break through. ”

Instead of laying mines in front of the mine to intercept it, but laying it directly behind, is it wrong or has another intention?

……。

At this point, Shi Lang's tactical concept has been clearly exposed.

Conform to the weather and wind direction, and use seven capital ships as bait to contain the attention of the enemy's main force.

Then, taking advantage of the heavy fog, more than 200 small boats carrying mines were used to launch an all-out attack on the enemy.

According to Shi Lang's words, this is called fighting big with small.

But I have to say that Shi Lang's large-scale application of mines in offshore naval warfare this time is indeed beyond the scope of naval warfare.

In this respect, the boat became a means of transporting and throwing mines using mutations, which played an extremely important role in the evolution of naval warfare tactics in the future.

Of course, Shi Lang's original tactical concept did not intend to completely annihilate the enemy ship's forward, because no matter how arrogant Shi Lang was, he knew that the enemy was strong and I was weak, his plan was to bite the other party hard and frustrate the enemy's spirit, and at the same time, to erase his reputation among the generals under King Wu in the future.

However, the enemy's response made Shi Lang sensitively aware of a glimmer of hope that the results of the battle could be expanded.

The enemy's capital ship chose to break away from its own "sword guard" on the battlefield?

Is this bile fat, or suicide?

Shi Lang was a little incomprehensible.

But he decided to test it, and he gave the order to send a detachment to the north and south to attack the enemy's main force, and to order the minelayers to lay mines directly behind the enemy in the breakthrough.

The intention was nothing more than to block the attempt to break through the enemy ships and turn around to rescue the main fleet.

……。

Nabul was unlucky.

He is actually a good naval general, for example, he has the ability to adapt and the courage of a strong man to break his wrist.

Although it was someone else's wrist that was broken, at least, everyone was still a coalition army.

The setback in this first battle was entirely due to the shamelessness of the enemy, so how could it be possible to change tactics without greeting people in advance and without the consent of others?

Said to line up and bombard, but the pigeons were released, can you still have a good time?

But this was not his most unlucky, what was even more was that after turning south for more than 20 miles, he was blocked by twelve warships led by the Cixi in the south.

When people are really unlucky, they will have their teeth when they drink cold water.

The huge sea just happened to be blocking the way.

But what Nabul definitely didn't expect was that the twelve warships of the Cixi had been staring at him for a long time.

But Nabul is not afraid, the number is thirty to twelve, what are you afraid of?

Nabul calmly ordered, "Crush them!" ”

After half an hour of bombardment, several shells of the Cixi caught fire, three of its ships were sunk, and six of them were damaged.

It can be described as miserable, this detachment has lost more than half.

As for the enemy ships, only four caught fire, six were damaged by bullets, and not a single ship sank.

This is the difference in strength! Nabul is a little proud, the yellow-skinned monkey will only play conspiracy shamelessly, lo and behold, this is revenge, right?

"Rush over...... Head south at full speed, rendezvous with the main fleet, and we'll be saved. Nabul shouted.