"Left Rudder 5!" Every time Hong Tao spoke, Carl shouted loudly beside him, the first mate is the captain's executive officer, and it is one of his jobs to accurately convey the captain's orders.

"Left rudder 5...... Left rudder 5......" With Karl's shout, there was an echo on the deck, and it was transmitted to the mast layer by layer. When the sailors on the transverse heard the command, they began to change the angle of each sail according to the sail master's command. This European sail could provide enough propulsion, but it was too cumbersome to operate, and a command came from the helm to a dozen sailmen to jump up and down on the mast for a few moments. Don't look at the sail warships when they shoot at each other, it is all gunners who are in the limelight, in fact, whether they can win or not, more than half of the credit is on these sailors, they must adjust the sail angle and area every moment according to the captain's orders, so that the sailboat can maintain enough power. Moreover, the gunner has a heavy ship protection, the sailman has nothing, he can't even hide, the horizontal is less than ten centimeters wide, and he can't step on one foot.

"Ah Jiao, have you ever seen this kind of ship?" The ship that Hong Tao saw through the telescope looked very strange, it did not have a bow or stern, but it had made a pointed room in the middle of the ship, which he had never seen before, so he had to hand the telescope to the already neatly dressed anchor.

"No ......" Standing on the stern tower at this time, he can clearly see each other with a telescope, A Jiao has been the captain of the whaling team for more than half a year, taking the whaler to and from the South China Sea, and has seen a lot of ships, he only looked at it a few times, and shook his head affirmatively.

"That's easy, northeast wind...... Hehe, it's the boat of the little devils, they are going to the Great Song Dynasty by the monsoon. Remember this type of ship, it is indispensable to deal with them in the future, as long as you meet them in the sea where no one is around, they will attack, catch those who can catch them, sink those who can't catch them, and poke them one by one with harpoons when they fall into the water! Hong Tao probably knew who the other side was, and now it was the beginning of the winter monsoon, and the Japanese ships began to cross to the west twice a year. They had to take advantage of the northeast wind to run to the Southern Song Dynasty, wait for the southwest wind to blow in the summer, and then take a boat back to Japan. Why aren't they North Koreans? Because the North Koreans have routes to the Shandong Peninsula to take, where the voyages are shorter and safer.

"Yes, I'm going to get the sketchpad!" Bo Jiao is the most talented child Hong Tao has ever seen, his handmade brush and sketch painting technique, can already be hung at Sotheby's to auction, if there is a chance, Hong Tao also wants him to learn painting, maybe it will be higher than the achievement of being a captain.

"Right hand drive 3! Hit the stern of the first ship, starboard ready to attack the second ship! "Japanese ship, Hong Tao seems to see a large group of slaves, isn't this Nima given away for nothing! As for how to attack two ships at the same time, Hong Tao felt that he could make full use of the Haibo's hull structure. Through his understanding of the shipbuilding technology of the Great Song Dynasty in the past few years, Hong Tao can guess what kind of structure the Japanese ship is, and the possibility of thin skin and big stuffing is very high. The planks of the Haibo are 40 centimeters thick, and there is a 30-centimeter-thick rib every 80 centimeters inside, and if this can still be damaged, then the ship will have to be returned to the factory to be redesigned, and it will not be qualified!

"Don't you warn them first, let them surrender so that they can even get the ship and the goods!" Karl has the blood of a crusader robber in his veins, and he always thinks about both people and money.

"Do you speak Japanese?" Hong Tao squinted and turned his head to look at Karl.

“…… It won't ......," Carl shook his head.

"Then I will?"

"Adults may ......" Carl is counting on Hong Tao to come forward.

"I do, but they don't necessarily understand, so forget it, their little stuff is of little use to me, I want people." Hong Tao didn't think about capturing the other party's ship at all, because it was not easy to carry, just pretending to be dozens of people, feeding a meal of gruel every day, and making do.

The battle was not interesting at all, and the Japanese on board could not think of a reason why this tall and mighty ship rushed from the left front at high speed and deliberately smashed the leading sailing ship. And the big ship was not finished after hitting the first ship, and then turned the rudder to the second ship, staggering past its starboard side. The Japanese on the boat originally thought that the big ship that caused the accident was going to escape, and they drew their katana swords and stood on the side of the ship and shouted. Most of the bolts were crooked, but a few were always on target, some nailed straight to the hull, some stuck in the houseboat and the hard sail, and no one was hurt.

The problem is that these crossbow arrows have a very strange appearance, the shaft is very thick, the same as an adult's arm, and there is smoke on it. Nani? Just as the Japanese on the ship were crouching on the deck wondering, the crossbow bolt nailed to the houseboat suddenly exploded, and after a puff of white smoke, a few people near it were unlucky, and they were jumped with a slimy face. The main thing is that this thing is still on fire! Almost at the same moment, two other bolts stuck in the hull and sails exploded, and in an instant the deck of the ship was enveloped in a puff of smoke, followed by fire. The painted planks and sails burned very quickly, and after a dozen seconds there was a big flame.

"The right rudder is full! Turn the sails! When there was an explosion on the opposing ship, there was another shout from the Haibo, and as the helmsman turned the steering wheel to the right, the sailmen on the mast began to jump up and down again. The galleon's body slowly tilted to the right, and the gray-white fishskin canvas was quickly rolled up, and when the bow had completed a 90-degree turn, the canvas was opened again, changing from headwind to downwind. With more sails, it is difficult to steer, especially when moving from downwind to upwind, and if you don't put the sails in half, this steering radius will be very, very large.

The larger the tonnage, the more sails, and the faster the ship, the more difficult it was to steer, which was the main reason why European sail warships eventually developed into battleline operations. If everyone catches and fights on the sea, the frequent turns alone will exhaust the sail operator to death, and as a result, no one can touch anyone, and if you don't do it, you will have to collide. So they just play and line up to spray each other, see who is strong, see who is lucky, and see who has more guns!

By the way, here to correct the problem of wind direction when the battle line of the sail battleship sprays each other, I have seen a lot of books that it is written that the sail battleship should play with its life to seize the limelight, in fact, this is not right, the real advantageous position is to attack from the downwind position. Only the commander of the fleet, who does not have an advantage in the number of ships and artillery, and intends to fight the enemy, will attack from the upper hand.

The reason for this is simple: when attacking from the upwind, the wind blows from the outside of you, so your boat tilts inward. With this tilt, the gun doors on your lower deck will not be opened, and as soon as you open it, the sea water will pour in, which means that you have at least one less layer of artillery. The muzzle of the two or three layers of artillery above you is also slightly downward, so you have to use a special device to adjust the angle of the gun. The angle of the guns on the ship is generally fixed, and it can only slide back and forth, not up and down, left and right, and even if it can be raised, it is very troublesome. Because the artillery at that time was very heavy, the 24-pounder naval gun weighed two tons, and the 12-pounder naval gun also had a ton and a half, and this was still medium and light artillery, without hydraulic auxiliaries, who could carry it?

Therefore, it is easier for naval guns in the downwind position to give full play to their firepower advantage, and it is also easier to break the opponent's mast and sails. Once the sailboat loses its sails and masts, it will only be beaten, and it will be difficult to turn around.

And there is another advantage to facing the enemy from the downwind direction, that is, if you want to run, turn your head and run, and it will be a tailwind immediately. If you attack from the upper hand, you can't even run if you can't beat the opponent, so you turn your head...... Gotcha, headwind!

This 360-degree turn to Hong Tao is still relatively satisfied, technical proficiency this thing, training in peacetime rises very slowly, once it comes to wartime, it basically rises a lot at one time, and people have to be forced! When the Haibo successfully completed its U-turn, the small boat that was still emitting black smoke had just run out for about a kilometer, and was soon overtaken by the Haibo with full sails with a tailwind.

"Hey! It's really a trick for each village! Give them one more round, lower a third of the sails, and follow it! "When the Haibo approached the port side again, Hong Tao was happy, and the people on the other boat were fighting the fire. Since only two crossbow arrows had just hit the ship's superstructure and sails, the fire was not too big, and although it was still difficult to extinguish, the Japanese had a solution, and they removed the hard sails made of straw mats and the burning roof panels and threw them into the sea.

"Calculate the direction of the wind and shoot again, they are not worth our crossbow arrows, and if you shoot too much, you will lose!" Just as the gunners on deck stuffed the shortened cork into the cast-iron barrel of the crossbow arrows, Hong Tao shouted again.

The effect of this shot was significantly better than the previous one, only two of the 10 crossbow arrows missed, and the rest were all nailed to the opposing ship. It was not that the gunner's accuracy had suddenly grown, but that this time it was closer, and the two ships were more than thirty meters away, and their speed had also decreased.