Now Hong Tao finally understands why they are challenging Karl, because Karl Fort is too much of a hindrance to their next plan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info If Fort Karl is stuck in the middle, their ships will not be able to safely enter and exit the Mediterranean, in other words, if they want to talk in the Mediterranean, they must pull out the nail of Fort Karl, and it would be perfect if they could take it for themselves.

This kind of strategic layout is also very similar to the habit of the Kim Ha Kingdom, which said that it is very similar to the habit of taking charge of the navy. The use of the navy as the main control of the sea does not need to occupy one city after another, port after port, and only needs to pick a key point in each sea area. Occupy this key point, and the warships departing from here will be able to radiate a range of several hundred kilometers.

"I remember that there was no castle here, it should have been newly built, you see that its church spire has not yet been completed, can the Qizu cannon hit so far?" As soon as the negotiations were over, Karl climbed up from the bilge, and without even asking about the results of the negotiations, he took the telescope and prepared to act as a spectator, and now he took the role of staff officer as well.

"You can hit it, but it's not accurate. The Qizu cannon was not used for siege cities, and its shells would not be too destructive to the stone walls. I'll show you how to storm the city in a moment, and before that we'd better clear the ships. I wondered, could it be that after a day of fighting, they still didn't know the power of the Qizu cannon, so they had to try again? Are you trying to use up my shells with human lives? ”

This was the first time Karl had seen the Qizu cannon in actual combat, but there was another weapon he had not seen, and that was the mortar. Qizu artillery is not suitable for attacking stone walls that are too strong, but mortars are different. Its cannonballs may not be able to blow up the big rocks, but they are lethal enough for those behind and above the walls. As long as the other party is willing to shrink in the city to be bombed, Hong Tao doesn't care about throwing a few more shells into it, which is worth a few dollars.

"Sail down! The bow of the ship is to the north, and the anchor is dropped! "But before attacking the shipyard and the castle, Hong Tao had to deal with the sailing ships that rushed along the river. Their fearlessness is a bit annoying, and it's not for nothing. Since they are not afraid of death, then they are not reluctant to kill. Simply put the fleet in the middle of the river, five Virginia-class ships in front, two Salmon-class and two Virginia-class ships equipped with Qizu guns in the back, arranged in two rows in a staggered manner, and stood anchor to shoot targets. As long as the opponent can rush over, even if they win.

In the end, human courage is still invincible to the cruelty of cannonballs. After dropping anchor in a river channel where there were basically no surges, the accuracy of the Qizu cannon was second only to the test results on land, and the hit rate exceeded 50 percent in the face of those sailing ships that could not turn at a large angle and could only move along the channel, and even two gunners reached the level of missing a shot.

Seeing their ships mercilessly torn apart by their opponents with cannonballs, some of the Flemish Hanseatic captains and sailors were so frightened that they either turned around and headed for the harbor, or they sailed to the shore, ran aground on the gentler sand, and then jumped into the water and swam ashore.

Only a group of three-masted battleships with white crosses on a red background did not retreat, they lined up their ships in as many columns as possible, and used the first ship to eat cannonballs, and when the first ship lost its ability to sail, the second ship took the position of the first ship, and so stubbornly rolled forward, leaving at least ten corpses on the one-kilometer-long course. The closer the fleet was to the waves, the more difficult it was to advance, and in addition to the wind, the ships behind the fleet would also be attacked by shells from both sides due to the angle, and the meat shield tactics could not be sustained. But if the wind is right and the boat is fast enough, they are likely to break through the blockade of the waves.

"Put the dinghy out and get these people up, including those who are not seriously injured." This group of brave sailors from Denmark won the respect of their opponents, and for the first time, Hong Tao ordered his fleet to lower the dinghy and save the sailors who were still fighting desperately in the cold waters.

"I'm afraid Eric IV won't pay the ransom for these sailors." Karl didn't understand Hong Tao's approach, putting so many English, French, German sailors and petty nobles not to save them, but to save these Danish barbarian sailors, which was not in line with Hong Tao's personality of seeing money. Although the Danes had converted to Christianity a hundred years earlier and had become kings of England, the European aristocracy a little further south saw them as a bunch of savage pirates.

"They are very valuable people themselves, I will bring them back and convert them to the Helios, and then make me a sailor!" Hong Tao is not short of money at all, and he needs people and useful people more than gold and silver treasures.

"You must be the devil, and you have nothing to do with angels! It is despicable to fight the Mongols with the fishermen of the islands, then against the Europeans with the blacks and the big cannibals, and now with the so-called Indians and Danes against the Jinhe people! Karl understood what Hong Tao was going to do, and this was another move for him to return to the Golden River Empire. Carl didn't like Hong Tao's habit of using alien races to fight, and always felt that it was an immoral practice, more like a deception.

"War is meant to be a game of the despicable, who plays such a thing with honesty, kindness, and a man full of holiness? Lift anchor, clear a route for the cargo ship to burst forward, and let's see what kind of awesome characters are in that castle! Seeing that the sun was already setting in the west, Hong Tao did not want to slow down any longer, and he had to clean up the enemy's sea forces before dark, so that he could spend the night on the ship with confidence and boldness. Now there was one last target, the shipyard and the dozen or so sailing ships that had escaped.

After the massacre on the river, the ships of the Flemish Hanseatic no longer dared to rush up, and now it is estimated that no one will doubt the words of the admirals that the enemy's artillery is indeed irresistible. Everyone was evacuating towards the castle on the shore, which was empty by the time Hong Tao's fleet came to the waters near the shipyard. There were also two half-built three-masted galleons on the slipway, supported by wooden shelves, but unfortunately they never had a chance to go into the water again.

"Now it's your sailors' turn, let them come and get the ships that can be taken here back to Karl Fort first, which can be regarded as compensating me for part of the military expenses, and bring more people by the way, maybe there are more things to take in the castle." This time, Hong Tao did not order the destruction of those sailing ships, and several of them were still very new, and it seemed that they had been in use for no more than a year, and they were still new ships. The enemy again went in a hurry, most of the ships were good, some did not even tie their sails. Destroy all the scrap shells and spoiled things, and instead pull them back as trophies, some of them for Carl to replenish the oil fleet, and some of them sail back to Sun City to serve as transport ships and whaling ships.

"Shall I go back with me? I can't show up here, and you don't need my advice. "Carl has little interest in the siege after that, and since Hong Tao said it was easy, it must be easy. He didn't want to watch Hong Tao lead a group of aliens to slaughter the people here, especially those nobles, many of whom knew him, and some of them could be counted as acquaintances.

"What's the matter, you can't bear it? I can understand that if I go back to the Great Song Dynasty and see that some people do this, I will not bear it, after all, I look exactly the same as the Song people, and it is difficult to say that I am not a Song person. But you can't go yet, I might use the stuff in your head, and with you, I can at least figure out who I'm fighting against. It's not the end, it's just the beginning, and I'm aiming for Lübeck and Riga. Carl's mood can be understood, but this time it can only make him uncomfortable. Since he didn't know German, Karl was still useful, at least as a translator for himself.

"Okay, then I'll arrange for someone to drive the boat first, their big ship is really good, can you send me two more, I'll put it in Fort Mia, and teach the people of the Jones family to use it for whaling." What barely interested Carl was the dozen or so big ships on the water, and then he naturally remembered Fort Mia, who was the king, and had become a heart disease.

"You can do it, the new ship belongs to your oil fleet, pick the rest for me, and I will bring it back to Sun City to be used as a whaling ship and a transport ship." For the sake of Carl sacrificing himself as a bait, Hong Tao was generous and promised Carl all the good boats. In fact, in the end, these ships have to serve Sun City and the entire alliance, and the larger the oil fleet, the better it will be for the Spring Alliance. Not only can they transport oil, but they also have so many slaves.

After Carl left, Hong Tao began to arrange the camp. The night must be spent here, not only the fleet could not leave, but also the two hundred army men could not get on board, and their camp was in the shipyard. The timber piled up here is just right for building materials and bunkers, the tall gantry crane and the two sailboats that have not yet been built are the perfect vantage points for lookouts and snipers, and a few observation posts on the perimeter make for an excellent military camp.

Even if the enemy breaks through, it will not be able to spread out in formation in this complex environment, and it is just the living target of those army soldiers with shotguns and hiding behind cover, and they will die as many as they come, not to mention the fleet moored a few hundred meters in front of the shipyard as fire support. One on the shore and one in the water, covering each other, it was perfect. Those Flemish Hanseatic people were so stupid that they didn't burn down these facilities when they left, and they left them for their own use. From this point, it can also be seen that they are still full of confidence in land warfare, and they are reluctant to destroy their belongings, and they plan to wait for their withdrawal to reuse them.

This is the advantage of leading the war to the land of other countries, everything can be discarded, and it is not distressing to burn it all, but the invaded side is not so easy, they not only have to think about how to resist the enemy, but also calculate what to do after the battle, if you can destroy less, you can destroy less, and if you can keep a little more, you can keep a little more, after all, after defeating the enemy, you still have to live in this land, and there is not much difference between smashing it all and defeating the battle.

(To be continued.) )