Chapter 18: Ambush

After a night of carnival, Lin Haijiang got up early, mostly due to his thirst after a hangover, looking at the sea and sky in the distance, a trace of fish white, and the feeling of the cool sea breeze blowing on his face made Lin Haijiang's heart relaxed.

The sound of the waves rattling in his ears made people seem to be extremely intoxicated, and after inspecting more than a dozen loyal sentinels, Lin Haijiang found that it was very necessary for the Phoenix to rectify it now, if it was impossible to even be prepared for danger in times of peace, then the situation of the Phoenix would be too dangerous.

After breakfast, Lin Haijiang gathered the entire crew and appointed Lawrence as the first mate of the Phoenix in public, and Lawrence's first suggestion to Lin Haijiang was not to use the name of the Phoenix!

"Need a new name?" Lin Haijiang's mind flashed a few ship names that haunted him, but they were for ironclad ships, and Lin Haijiang, who was still very resistant to sail warships in his heart, finally renamed the Phoenix as the "Taishan" comprehensive supply training ship.

Lawrence rolled his eyes at Lin Haijiang's name of the ship, but did not make any comments, but beckoned several sailors to begin to prepare the name of the ship on the side of the ship.

For a soldier, autonomy, self-discipline, and self-confidence are indispensable, but more importantly, obedience! In the motto of the famous West Point Military Academy, there is: obedience, obedience, obedience.

It can be seen that obedience is an important surname for soldiers, so many times a commander would rather have a subordinate with slightly less ability, but obey the surname must be good.

Through Lawrence's attitude towards the change of ship name, Lin Haijiang realized that Jenny. William really gave himself a treasure this time! An obedient professional naval prisoner is the first mate who is urgently needed and can follow him in the future.

The arrival of Lawrence brought everyone on the Tarzan back to the scene when the Phoenix had just gone to sea, and Lin Haijiang no longer trained everyone as before, but after Lawrence took over as the first mate, another round of painful training began again.

Lawrence is different from Lin Haijiang, Lin Haijiang's training method belongs to teaching and training, focusing and special training, but Lawrence is an overall training or torture is more appropriate.

In Lawrence's words, there was no smell of discipline in these men, and these sloppy sailors were not worthy of being called Royal Navy officers at all.

In Lin Haijiang's view, whether it is a Chinese sailor or his own black slaves, they are not close to the word soldier at all, and want to train them to be soldiers who are forbidden by order? Lin Haijiang thinks Lawrence is wasting his time.

"Could it be because you've been in prison for too long? Somewhat of a reaction to Mei's syndrome. Lin Haijiang's understanding of no one is perfect and in place, so he supports and tolerates all of Lawrence's actions.

Lin Haijiang's tolerance and support was the beginning of a nightmare for the sailors on the ship!

Every morning, all the sailors who were not on duty began to shout on the foredeck to line up, one by one with their heads held high and carrying their rifles in place, one movement was not standard, Lawrence's leather whip immediately made you regret the slack just now, and when Lawrence tirelessly practiced everyone, the whole crew began to clean up the day.

Previously, due to the limited space on the ship and the lack of fresh water, Lin Haijiang turned a blind eye to personal hygiene, and Lin Haijiang's cleaning of the warship was only superficial and general.

Lawrence even had to check the toilet carefully, and if the cabin was found to have a peculiar smell, or if the personal hygiene was not up to standard, then the whole cabin did not sleep, and all the decks were wiped until dawn.

So whenever it rains, whether it's a biting night or any time, the whole part of the ship is crowded with people washing clothes and bathing.

"I'd rather freeze to death than see a collar covered in dirt!" Lin Haijiang suddenly found that after more than 20 days of Lawrence's training, the decadent atmosphere on the ship was suddenly gone, and the sailors on the original Phoenix remembered their true identities, they were just temporary cameo pirates.

Every night, the crew with a sore back sore goes to bed and squeezes their round purses and curses the demon Lawrence to God.

If someone on board the ship had made a mistake, the first words would have been Lawrence, save me!

As the saying goes, happy times are always short-lived, and just when Lin Haijiang was commanding the Taishan for the first deal in 1853, a large Royal Navy fireworks flare rose from the stern of the hijacked cargo ship?

Lin Haijiang suddenly had a very bad premonition, three black spots appeared on the sea in the distance, to be precise, menacing ships appeared in three directions.

Lin Haijiang realized that he seemed to have swallowed the other party's bait, and the difficulty of ambushing on the sea was far greater than that on land, because the sea had a wide field of vision within a certain range, and it was difficult to lock the opponent's trace when the speed of the ship was about the same.

The other party took advantage of the complex sea currents and the natural conditions of many hidden objects near the Fik Islands to lure himself into the bait, I am afraid that this time it is really a bit fierce and unlucky!

Lin Haijiang glanced at Lawrence, who had a serious expression, and said, "Mr. Lawrence, I am ready to hang up the sails and fight in the direction of the enemy's ships that seem to be the strongest at most!" What do you think? Now, what if you were to be in command and you were going to prepare? ”

Lin Haijiang's several questions made Lawrence slightly stunned, and then he scratched his hand on the chart: "There are cruisers in three directions, especially three in the east, only in the west?" And to the west, it's still downstream! ”

Lawrence glanced at Lin Haijiang and continued: "If it were a normal ordinary command, he would definitely choose the west as the direction of the breakthrough, but the premise is that the opponent only has seven ships, if there is still a fleet waiting for us behind the island of Grand Rafe in the west, then the seven cruisers behind can form two rapid crossfires behind our ship and put us to death." ”

Lawrence looked at the three cruisers that were getting bigger and bigger on the horizon in the east and said with a tense face: "This plan can be said to be a seamless plan, but they shouldn't use cruisers to oppress a third-class battleship, and use our artillery range advantage to knock them hard!" ”

Mainsail hoisted, subsail steered, and both sides loaded! Full! Lawrence gave several orders in quick succession.

The deck and mainsail of the Tarzan were full of sailors running back and forth or sliding down the ropes, and the gun doors in the bow of the ship and on both sides of the ship were all open! This is clearly a battle at an absolute disadvantage!

Standing on the bridge of the Sharp Swordsman, Dolip put away his binoculars, and he watched in amazement as the opposing ship rushed towards him!

In this plan, he considered almost all possible surnames, from the bait of the ambush to the location of the ambush, to the process of the ambush, the ocean currents in the sea, and a series of possible surnames, as long as the opposite direction broke through in any direction except his own direction, he would be surrounded and suppressed.

For this encirclement and suppression, he specially borrowed a capital ship of the British Empire's Mediterranean Fleet, the Lady Rice, but the other party hoisted the mainsail and rushed towards him at the beginning? Was his plan discovered in the first place? Three cruisers against a third class battleship?

Dolip subconsciously bit his lip out of blood, should he still suffer from the sneer of that damn Carbonie? Dolip took a deep breath, as long as he entangled his opponent, then when the ship Lady Rice and ten other cruisers under the command of Carboney caught up, the opponent would not be able to fly even if he had wings.

The faint smell of blood spread in Dolip's mouth, and Dolip glanced at the first mate Lyman beside him and said, "Send a signal to the red scorpion and the blue star, besiege the pirate ship, drag the pirate ship and wait for the arrival of the ship, Mrs. Rice!" ”

At this moment, on the bridge of the ship Mrs. Rice, a blonde, blue-eyed and handsome young man is also watching with a telescope, he is the captain of the ship, Lieutenant Commander Carbony.

Although Carbony's telescope couldn't see anything at this distance, he was still watching with a very elegant posture, in fact, Carbony didn't really want a person like Doleep to succeed from his heart, and he didn't want Dolip to show his face in front of the Governor of Cambenin, so that he would obey Dolip's orders to cooperate with Dollip to eliminate pirates?

This is tantamount to an insult in disguise to Carbony!

Suddenly, a not-so-dense burst of artillery rang out from the other direction of the island? Then two flares exploded in the sky, but they were so close that the two observers on the Madame Rice stared for a long time and did not know how to reply to the long neck of the old mate standing under the mast.

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