Wallace was a Scottish shipowner, but since 1485, when the family sided correctly, Wallace entered the English Navy at the age of 19. Although he ran transportation in peacetime and only entered the navy to participate in wartime in wartime, after 20 years, the 39-year-old Sir Wallace is also very familiar with naval warfare.

The French idea of naval warfare is a hard-bridged head-on collision, which is exactly the maritime version of the knightly charge. But here's the problem - the speed of the knights on land outpaces the infantry, and they can charge into enemy formations. But at sea, your ship is not faster than others, how can you guarantee that it will collide with an enemy ship?

The English were much older, and under Wallace's command, 54 large English ships were scattered. Moreover, all rushed to the west first, and not to meet the French fleet to the south head-on......

Why is that? Because the British want to "grab the wind"......

The so-called "strong wind" means to seize the upper wind, and the warships of this era were all sailing ships, mainly relying on the wind to drive the ships. When the wind is downwind, the speed is naturally faster.

At the same time, having the upper wind, the sailboat is not only able to move faster, but also is good for shooting. Of course, the so-called shooting at this time did not refer to the shooting of artillery, but to the shooting of bows and arrows. Bows and arrows fly slower and are more affected by the wind. Therefore, seizing the upper hand is very beneficial for long-range strikes against the enemy.

The 54 main warships, under the watchful eye of the French, first collectively turned to the west, and then, by the westerly wind, rushed to the southeast......

"Not good, convoy!"

The French commander-in-chief, Valgery, who originally commanded more than 100 main ships and wanted to fight the British fleet, was taken aback when he saw the direction of the main English fleet. Because, the direction of the advance of the main warships of England happened to be the densest concentration of medium-sized French transport ships...... There, those Kirk galleons were loaded with horses, artillery and other heavy supplies, which were very important......

So Count Valgery commanded in a loud voice:

"Turn the rudder left! Back! The back team becomes the front team! Be sure to stop the English pirates! ”

Afterwards, the heralds on board shouted loudly and sang a mountain song to convey the order of Count Walgery......

It took a while for the order to reach the last French warship. Then the formation of French warships began to awkwardly turn towards the rear and sail south, intending to stop the British warships rushing towards the convoy.

At this time, some people in the transport fleet were also apprehensive. Seeing the main force of the British warships rushing towards the cluster of transport ships, the personnel on the French transport ship were a little panicked. However, in the vast sea, they did not dare to run around. After all, it's too far from mainland France. Even if you want to retreat and escape, it's too late.

It was closer to the English land, but Sir Wallace had placed the remaining forty or so small and medium-sized warships in the northeast direction, and watched the transports with great interest. If any ship dares to force its way to the land of England, it will go up and beat it......

There was no guard protection on these transports, because the French kept most of their soldiers on the 100 ships. And on those transport ships, there is a lack of combat power. Therefore, even if they encounter those small and medium-sized English ships, these transports may not be able to fight.

The commander of the French army, General Valgery, seemed to have thought of this, so he sent 20 warships to attack the small and medium-sized warship formation of England in order to open a passage. After all, the main purpose of the French was to cross the sea for the fleet, not to fight a sea battle.

It is a pity that the small and medium-sized English ships were light and nimble. In the face of the main French warships rushing over, they were not in a hurry at all. Under the command of the commanders, these small and medium-sized English warships, taking advantage of the "small ship and good turn", circled the sea with the 20 French warships. But no matter how much they went around in circles, those small and medium-sized English warships did not give way to the land of England. Because, Sir Wallace had given an order that a French transport ship should never be allowed to dock, otherwise the captain would be dealt with by military law......

As a last resort, the captains of these small and medium-sized English warships took advantage of the flexibility of small and medium-sized ships and circled the French warships on the sea, but they just refused to give way.

The French warships were also complaining, and their 20 ships were all large ships of two or three hundred tons, and it was much more difficult to turn around than those small English ships. So, playing in circles with English boats is really not what they are good at. Therefore, no matter how much they rushed, they just couldn't catch those English boats, and they couldn't settle their opponents by broadside battles.

In desperation, the French captains ordered the ship's crossbowmen to use crossbows to shoot at the English sailors on the English boats that circled around.

But when sailing at sea, the stability of the ship is too poor. Those French crossbowmen were clearly aiming at the English people on the small English boat that passed by, but as the hull swayed from side to side, they hit the one after another......

When it comes to long-range attacks, who have the English been afraid of? As a result, the sailors who were good at archery on the English warships took out their English longbows and arrows one after another and began to counterattack......

It is very difficult to accurately aim at the enemy and shoot at a ship that is bumping from side to side. So, the English were pragmatic and did not aim and shoot accurately, but followed the feelings. Anyway, it is enough to put arrows on the deck of the French warship, and it is not possible to talk about aiming or not. The only requirement is to be fast in order to form a dense rain of arrows......

This trick really worked, compared to the French crossbowmen's flat aiming, this kind of rapid fire of the nature of the projectile, although the hit rate is not high, can be better than the rain of arrows. There were already many people on the deck of the French warship, and in the face of the dense rain of arrows, except for those knights and lords wearing plate armor, those sailors who did not wear plate armor suffered ......

"Ah, I've been shot!" A sailor who was manipulating the sails was unfortunately shot by a rain of arrows from an English sailor and fell off his mast.

The French commander hurriedly sent soldiers to help, but it was not only one or two sailors who were hit by the arrows. Many sailors and French soldiers who did not wear full plate armor suffered from the damage. The difference is in what part of the body is the arrow......

If you get an arrow in the vital part, it's over. If you are hit by an arrow in a general part, it may be good to pull out the arrow and bandage it. It's just that, with the level of treatment of the French army in this era, even the cloth used to bandage the wounds of the soldiers was black and tearing at will. Whether the arrow victim can survive in the end can really only depend on the will of God......

There are also unlucky people on the English side who have been hit by the French army's crossbow arrows, after all, although the French army is not very good at using crossbow arrows on ships, but with good luck, they can always catch an unlucky one. But on the whole, the British suffered a lot fewer casualties than the French......

The small ships here are entangled with the French warships, and the main warships over there are not ambiguous......

When the 80 main ships of the French fleet stood in front of the French convoy, under the command of Sir Wallace, the British suddenly turned the rudder and no longer attacked the French convoy head-on, but turned to the northeast......

In fact, this was just Wallace's way of evading the main force of the French fleet, but the French commander-in-chief, Valgery, was terrified. Because, in the north-east, there were 20 French ships that fought against the English boats......

General Valgery immediately dismounted the runabout from the ship and told them to rush to the northeast to withdraw the 20 French warships, so as not to be surrounded and annihilated by the 54 warships of the main force of the British army.

But in fact, Sir Wallace had no intention of besieging the 20 French ships that had left his camp. When "passing by" the main French fleet, the main warships of the British army fired thousands of arrows on the side of the main warship, and attacked the French army in a wave, taking away many French sailors and soldiers.

But then, when he saw that the French warships had the intention of rushing up to the broadside, Wallace took 54 of the main British warships and ran away again......

The ships turned their rudder again and headed north-west, and they went to seize the upper hand...... In short, Wallace's strategy is to fight to the end, never head-on......