"Cut...... I also pretend to be a ghost and scare people, and if the slogan can sink the battleship, I will eat these cannons...... Hey, your cannon is different, it's so small and so long. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info bro, how many shots per minute? Carl was very disdainful of the pre-war self-absorption of the Indians, although the voice of the shouting was different, but the people in his father-in-law's tribe were also in this set, except for looking very lively, there was no use for fart. However, when the gunner uncovered the gun, his eyes immediately couldn't turn away, he had never seen this kind of small cannon with a large shelf, let alone know the performance, so he could only ask the nearby gunners.

"According to the regulations, only five shots are allowed, and any more barrels will be red." The gunner knew Karl, and every six months or so the big man with the red beard would take a few ships to the Cité Soleil for deliveries, and he had nothing to hide.

“…… Five shots! Not yet the highest rate of fire! Bastard, you've fooled me again! Karl's face turned purple with anger, and now he understood why Hong Tao was so calm, and he had come up with a new naval gun with a minimum rate of fire of five rounds per minute. If you equip your own boat, it won't make people chase and dare not sleep.

"How far can you hit?" Just knowing the rate of fire Karl is not at ease, there are only four naval guns on the ship, which is too few.

"The minimum distance of the engagement is five hundred meters, and the farthest is one kilometer. In fact, no matter how far you go, you can hit it, but it's inconvenient to aim. "This gunner is also a talker, what kind of commander there is, what kind of soldier there is, this sentence is not false at all. While wiping the barrel with the barrel of the cannon, preparing to load, his mouth is not idle, he will answer all questions, and he will also give two sentences for free.

Before Carl could react from his shock, something else happened that shocked him even more. The gunner finished wiping the chamber of the gun, took a pointed copper-shelled cylinder from the groove under the deck behind him, and slipped it through the hole in the stern. Then he shook a handle next to the end of the gun and sealed the tail of the gun in a few clicks.

"It's a cannonball! Put it in from the back! Karl figured out why this kind of gun was so fast to reload, and it was cost-effective to just stuff it directly from the back without moving the gun body to charge and reload in front. And the shell is still a whole, as for why it is a pointed end, what the copper shell behind it is for, Karl has not yet figured it out. But this was enough, the speed of reloading and the long firing range made this gun seem to have no drawbacks, except for a slightly smaller caliber.

"It can still turn! I hate you...... Thankfully, he didn't bet on me...... "As if deliberately trying to show off with Karl, the gunner, after reloading, shook a large handle on the gun carriage and easily turned the heavy-looking gun several degrees, and the muzzle of the gun rushed diagonally in the direction of the bow. Karl glanced back and saw that Hong Tao was standing on the gun emplacements in the bow of the ship holding a telescope to observe the course of the fleet, and he could not make trouble at this time, but it did not prevent him from muttering a few words.

Carl was an eye-opener today, he had seen this kind of very low sailboat in the docks and Karl Fort in Sun City before, and he didn't pay much attention to it at the time, let alone that Hong Tao would use this kind of sailboat with a slender hull and a very thin hull as a battleship. According to Karl's understanding of battleships, there are several things that are necessary, such as solidity, the number of guns, and the speed. This kind of sailing ship with only one deck and not a large tonnage is obviously a flexible and fast transport ship, how can it be a warship.

But facts speak louder than experience, and after the completion of the series of actions of the Virginia class from the start to the turn to the formation, Carl immediately changed his original opinion. They were so nimble and so fast that they turned and accelerated, and took less than a third of the Royal Navy's preparation time.

As far as the navy was concerned, Karl had never seen a more elite and well-trained one than the Royal Navy of the Golden River Empire. If the people who flanked him a few days ago were replaced by the Royal Navy, and they still used the original ships, they would not be able to rush out a hundred times.

The fleet of the Flemish Hanseatic is very elite in Europe, but if it is put in Asia, it is estimated that it is a little stronger than the privateer fleet of the maritime merchants, and it can fight a draw with the sailors of the Great Song Dynasty, and meet the Royal Navy, and there is no hope of victory with more battles and less.

This is the special feature of the naval branches, and it is difficult to develop experience, technology, and skills in a short period of time like the army. The Navy needs a long period of accumulation, and this time is not calculated by years, but by employing people, generation after generation! Because it is impossible to fight a large-scale naval battle every year, but the commanders and sailors of warships who have participated in large-scale naval battles are definitely more experienced than those who have not.

"You're not in the right direction, they're downwind, they're faster!" Despite the new guns and new warships, Carl was still very worried, and couldn't help but lean over to Hong Tao and whispered a reminder.

"Keep the cargo ships farther away, they won't be used in the first wave of attacks, and keep a column." Hong Tao was not as easy as he just said, after all, this was the first large-scale actual combat between the Virginia-class battleship and the Qizu gun, and it would be nonsense to say that he was 100% sure, but he could only say that he was relatively sure.

"I won't follow the other party's rhythm like you, on the sea, I have the final say on how to fight. You should sit in a chair and watch, and if you are idle, you can change into leather shoes and sailors to collect shells. I warn you, don't touch your skin, it's as hot as a red-hot iron pot. "In front of Carl, you can pretend to be as big as you want, and you don't have to leave a way back. Hong Tao and Carl have broken away from their good-looking friendship, and even if they are embarrassed by each other, they will not be in the way.

"Dream, I won't be a sailor for you, you haven't tortured me enough!" Karl scoffed at Hongtao's offer, walked back to the middle of the deck, and sat down on Hongtao's fishing lounger made of rattan weaving. He also took out a cigar from the small hole in the armrest of the chair and put it in his mouth, and then took out a lighter from the small hole in the other armrest, lit the cigar with his clothes against the sea breeze, crossed Erlang's legs, and planned to watch the play.

The fleet of the Flemish Hanseatic was best described as menacing, they did not intend to hide their strength at all, nor did they express excessive alarm at the sudden appearance of the seven galleons on the south side of the archipelago, but only adjusted the original formation of the wild goose wings into two columns, and then rushed towards the fleet of the waves without slowing down, intending to sandwich the seven small galleons in the middle and ravage them with naval guns.

"Karl, do you know where the Flemish Hanseatic learned the art of shipbuilding? I feel that their tactics have the shadow of a nautical school, and they can't be born with it, right? It's only been a few years since they built these warships, and they haven't fought any naval battles, how can they sum it up? Seeing that the other party could change the formation uniformly during the full-speed driving process, Hong Tao was a little puzzled, and glanced back at Carl, who was pretending to be indifferent.

"How do I know? This alliance is very mysterious, I still listened to Baron Jiang and William, and other than that, I don't know anything about them. "It's not that Carl doesn't want to help, it's that he really doesn't know. In the past few years, he has focused all his energy on his son and Fort Mia, and there are many other things that have been missed. This is also the reason why he has dominated the Mediterranean for too long, always looking at others with a fixed eye, thinking that the technological advantage can be maintained for a lifetime.

"Baron Castle deserves to be taller and more beautiful than Karl Castle, you are a foodie!" Hong Tao was very dissatisfied with Carl's answer. Let a sea power grow right under your nose, and have the face to sit there and smoke, or rub yourself!

"......" Carl also knew that he was wrong, but he resolutely refused to admit it, and took Hong Tao's ridicule as a deaf ear, pretending not to hear it.

"Left helm ten, put away the bottom sail, keep a tight formation......" Seeing Carl playing with meat and bones, Hong Tao stopped talking nonsense with him, raised the telescope again, estimated the distance between the two fleets, and then looked at a few islands looming in the north, and gave a new order to the captain beside him.

"Left rudder ten, put away the bottom sail, keep a tight formation......" The captain of the Virginia could only be demoted to the rank of first mate due to the presence of Hong Tao, the commander of the fleet, responsible for conveying Hong Tao's orders.

The seven scissor sailboats, one next to the other, kept a distance of 100 meters from each other, turned left almost simultaneously and headed north. Thanks to the upper inclined sail, the boat does not need to climb to the top of the mast to close the top sail first, but can roll up the bottom sail directly from the bottom. This saves the manual labor of the sail operator and confuses outsiders. From a distance, there seems to be no noticeable change in the shape and number of sails.

"Your Excellency, these ships are probably the same ones who attacked our convoy last year. Looking at the ship's shape, it doesn't look like Jinheguo's, and I haven't seen this kind of battleship, its freeboard is too low, it can't fit too many naval guns, and the hull is not strong enough, so I'm afraid it's not suitable for use as a warship. I don't know where Count Carl got these ships, does he have a new ally? ”

At this time, on the flagship of the Hanseatic in Flanders, a European aristocratic man dressed in rich silk was communicating in Germanic with a tall, bearded middle-aged man beside him. The two of them also had a telescope in their hands, and if Hong Tao saw it, they would immediately recognize that this was a product that the Jinhe Empire exported to the members of the Straits Company. It is one size smaller than that used by the Royal Navy, and the observation distance and clarity are somewhat worse. However, as a nautical product, it is sufficient.

Even more strange is that this short man dressed as a European aristocrat has an East Asian face, and his hair and eyes are also black. In this year, the world has not yet begun to integrate, especially the Christian countries of Europe are still very closed, and there are almost no East Asians to be seen. Hong Tao and Jiang Zhuyi have been here for so many years, and they have basically never seen people from their hometown, there are many people with black hair and black eyes, but they all have a foreign face.

(To be continued.) )