"Lord Duke, the other party is not a reinforcement randomly found by Count Karl, they are more like the Royal Navy of the Golden River Empire, although they do not fly any banner of the Golden River Empire, but their way of fighting is very similar to the Emperor. www.biquge.info If this is the case, I don't recommend taking the initiative to attack it, the admirals taught by the Emperor have always kept in mind a rule, unless they have to, they will not fight a battle without the certainty of victory. Even with fewer ships, they were faster and had more powerful guns, and it would be unwise to fight them in such a vast sea. It is better to lure them into the river and reduce their space for movement, so as to take advantage of our large number of artillery to trap them. At this time, on a high slope near the mouth of the sea, that Lord Jiang was standing in front of a group of gorgeously dressed and imposing European nobles, trying to persuade the three men led by him.

As Hong Tao judged, he and the Earl's father and son chose to cross the English Channel at night, and used his familiarity with this area and the more detailed nautical charts to sail along the coastline, so as to avoid the unfamiliar interceptor ships and escape back to the Flemish Hanseatic naval port of Behenopzom.

It was a newly built port, located in the bay on the south side of the Rhine estuary, and was originally a small commercial port of the Nassau family, with a population of just over 3,000. Later, in order to control the North Sea, the alliance was funded by Flanders and Hanseatics, and it was converted into a military port anchorage that could anchor the Grand Fleet, and gradually became the southernmost military port of the Flemish Hanseatic Navy, and it was also the main stronghold of the alliance's invasion to the south and the Mediterranean.

He spent half of his life here seven years ago when he came to the port of Lübeck and built a sea-going ship for the Duke of Saxony. Compared to the cold climate of Lübeck, Berchenopzom is warmer.

Seeing that the fleet and sailors he had worked so hard to get out for six or seven years were about to make fearless sacrifices, Lord Jiang's heart was like a knife. Although he had just lost a main fleet, and only his own ship escaped with wounds, and the defeated general was not brave enough, he still had to remind the duke that he could not be rash, and the fleet on the opposite side was far from being so thin in numbers.

When I was in the navigation school, the Battle of the Three Kingdoms was a battle example that had to be analyzed repeatedly, and the current situation, how to figure out how to look like a copy of the Three Kingdoms Naval War. If it weren't for the fact that the old emperor had already abdicated to Cape Town, Lord Jiang even thought that the commander of the other party was the old emperor who had fought the Three Kingdoms Naval War and dragged to death more than 600 warships of the Mongol Empire with more than 20 warships.

The command habits and techniques are exactly the same as those taught in class, and it can be inferred that the following should be a drag knife trick. Take advantage of speed and naval guns to weaken as much enemy force as possible.

But it is not enough to understand it yourself, and now that the commander of the fleet has been taken over by the son of the Duke of Saxony, how to stop him from dying in vain must convince any one of the three dukes, especially the Duke of Saxony. The backbone of the fleet was all from Lübeck, and he also knew himself well.

"Jiang! You are the commander of the Alliance who is most familiar with naval warfare, and if there is nothing you can do, we must defend our honor with blood. Even if you suffer a lot of losses, you must keep the North Sea. Without the right to sail at sea, we are left with nothing. "The Duke of Saxony's name was Albert II, he was not very old, only about forty years old, with a thick mustache, and his eyes were fixed on the fleet on the sea, and his voice was low and decisive.

"Lord Jiang shouldn't have said such frustrating things at this time, your defeat does not mean the defeat of the alliance. Your talent in shipbuilding and cannon casting is unmatched, but the naval warfare of the East is not necessarily suitable here, and there are many excellent captains in the alliance who are braver. It takes courage to fight, doesn't it? "Compared to Albert II, Henry II, Duke of Brabant, spoke harsher.

The Flemish Hanseatic was only a commercial alliance, and many of the European nobles in the alliance had opinions about handing over the fleet built and trained by the alliance to an Oriental man, but only reluctantly agreed to it because of the insistence of the Duke of Saxony and the uniqueness of the Lübeck shipyard. Now that this oriental man has lost more than a dozen main fleets, whether he made a mistake in command in the naval battle or not, it is unforgivable, let alone pointing fingers at the command of the fleet.

"Alright, Lord Henry, let's focus on the battle first. When these guys are caught, we still need Lord Jiang to study their ships and cannons. Don't forget, with the river, there are these ships and cannons, and we can also obtain the benefits of maritime trade in the North Sea in recent years. His Excellency the Duke of Albert, like us, hopes that this situation will continue and be further developed. "The Duke of Brittany is the youngest, in his early twenties, but he is a French royal family, with the support of the powerful Louis IX behind him, and he is a referee.

"I'll take my leave and inspect the forts at the mouth of the river, maybe we'll use them." Seeing that his suggestion had no hope of passing, Lord Jiang sighed helplessly, glanced at the sail shadow on the sea with great nostalgia, and turned around and walked down the high slope.

"What a stubborn guy...... Albert, I heard that he had a vendetta against the mysterious Emperor of the East, and it was you who promised him the opportunity to avenge his revenge, so he helped you build these big ships and guns, isn't that so? "Henry II was not only a cautious and racist man, but also a gossip who wanted to inquire about everything.

"That's his private business, and it has nothing to do with the Alliance." Albert II did not even put down the telescope, expressed his meaning in the shortest possible words, and never spoke again.

In the distance, the two fleets were so close that it was hard to tell who was who. Hong Tao's battleship took advantage of the strong crosswind to give full play to its speed advantage, first grabbed the meeting point of the two fleets, and then forcibly turned 20 degrees to the northwest, completely placed the side in the direction of the opponent's bow, and inserted it at high speed in front of the enemy's vanguard fleet in the form of a column.

This engagement formation is very risky, as long as there is a ship in your fleet that does not have time to make a sharp turn, or if there is a problem in a certain part of the wind and waves, and the slight slower turn is a few minutes, you will crash into the enemy's formation. The Virginia-class battleship was made of steel keel, but its thin hull couldn't beat the big ones with their thick oak hulls.

But Hong Tao was not afraid, he was completely confident in the performance of his ships and the skills of his sailors, although these sailors were not the best, and they owed a lot less than the Royal Navy in terms of combat experience, but they were superior to the Royal Navy in one place, and that was the strict observance of orders and the contempt for life.

For the Indians who regarded death as a new birth, it was a great honor to die for the sun god, a great event that would bring their souls to heaven, and a happy event for the whole family, the whole village, and the whole clan to celebrate. With this kind of thinking, coupled with the chatter of Joseph's gang of gods all day long, these Indian sailors, under the command of Hong Tao, have all become fearless, fearless, thoughtless war machines.

"Start shooting!" When the opponent's two frontmost three-masted battleships were still 400 meters away from him, Hong Tao gave the order to open fire.

Three shells instantly came out of the chamber and whistled one of the ships away. Before the sailors of the opposing side could hear the sound of the cannon, two shells had already crashed into the bow of the ship from almost the same position, stirring up a large hole in the oak planks nearly half a meter thick, and at the same time, the cast iron shells were torn apart by the strong resistance and turned into a pile of iron. From the bow, almost swept the people on the lower artillery deck.

This three-masted cross-sail warship with a displacement of about 400 tons is like an elephant that has been hit by a shotgun, and under the support of the waves, it raises its head high, and the big hole in the bow of the ship is like a big mouth that is wailing, telling the sky about injustice. Then he lowered his head helplessly, and was buried deep under the water by the waves, and never lifted it again.

This is simply a miracle, in such a shaking and bumpy situation, the first round of shelling actually had two hits, Rao does not believe in any gods Hong Tao, also has to raise his head, wipe the sea water from his face, raise his right hand to the sky to salute, too powerful!

Unfortunately, miracles are not the norm, luck was all stolen by the Virginia, and the six battleships behind were clearly lacking something, although the gunners were trying to find the best time to pull the gun rope, but only one shell hit, and before it hit the hull, only a string of small holes were opened in the canvas of one ship.

"Thirty on the right side! Enter the downwind ...... 500 meters of free fire! After seven slender and low sailing ships crossed in front of the opposing fleet in turn, a new order came from Hong Tao's flagship. One by one, the battleships folded their sails, then made a ninety-degree turn against the arrow-shaped upper edge of the opposing fleet, and began to shoot at the ships behind.

This time it was no longer a one-sided strike, and the opposing warships finally found an opportunity to face the enemy on the side of the side, regardless ......of whether the distance was suitable or not, the large and small cannons all opened fire. Countless white flowers bloomed on the surface of the sea, and the sea breeze blew to the shore side.

"Inform the vanguard fleet and let them continue to the west, the main fleet to the northwest, and the support fleet to the north!" On the stern of the flagship of the Flemish Hanseatic stood a tall knight of about thirty years old, wearing chain mail and a long sword hanging from his waist. The slight dissonance was that instead of a shield, he was holding a telescope.

He was the eldest son of the Duke of Saxony and the crown prince of the Duchy, Albert III. The crown prince was an avid sailor, and had been learning the advanced navigation and shipbuilding of the East from Lord Jiang six years earlier. This time, Lord Jiang returned from a great defeat, and he became the commander of the fleet.

(To be continued.) )