Chapter Ninety-Five: The First Battle of the Knockout Round

The "King of Sails" went to war.

In order not to have a conflict in the schedule, the first step is the individual knockout round. More than 2,000 warships from 16 groups participated in the Asian region, and the group stage was a single-round elimination system. The 16 captains who won in the end were divided into four groups, and the round-robin point system was adopted to select the top eight, and then the top eight caught each other, semi-finals, finals, and finally the Asian champion and runner-up captains joined the "King of Sailing" finals.

The team competition is also similar, and it is also the final Asian champion and runner-up fleet to participate in the final world-class finals.

The countdown to entering the competition venue was coming to an end, and Gangzi stood on the bridge of the Sea Whale early. During this period, Gangzi's activities in Dahan were not idle, and at his suggestion, all the warships of Ling Xiao's fleet went to Hangzhou together.

The Hangzhou Shipyard represents the highest shipbuilding technology in Dahan. According to Sir Gardner's understanding, the Hangzhou shipyard was more than capable of making a perfect modification of the brig.

According to Gangzi's proposal, the Hangzhou Shipyard installed six more guns for the Seawhale, so that Gangzi's captain's room was opened with two gun doors and two gun emplacements. You can imagine what the captain's room will be like when the battle comes.

Fortunately, my brother likes to stand next to the helmsman of the bridge when he fights.

When the countdown is over, the fighting opponents and scenes are randomly matched, and the Sea Lion enters the game dungeon as soon as it is light.

In the afternoon, the latitude was near the Tropic of Cancer, there were no islands on the sea, the wind was 20 degrees north-west, and the wind force was level 4. I didn't feel the ...... the sea flowing. One by one, the parameters were instantly generated in Gangzi's heart, and then the combat auxiliary department of the Lingxiao Legion also passed over the parameters they obtained, and they were almost the same.

"The Sea Whale sailed upwind, the lookout paid attention to the enemy, the speed of the ship remained in cruising mode, and the gun crew checked the state of the ship's guns one last time. Prepare gunpowder and shells. As he gave the order, Gangzi began to inquire about his opponent's information.

Gangzi's opponent this time turned out to be the same Han player, called Jin Xia Qian, piloting a brig battleship Maoming, without a legion logo, it seems to be a scattered player.

Find the legion auxiliary department, and Gangzi sent the name of Jin Xiaqian over.

For this contest. The Lingxiao Legion has set aside an information support department, and Hua Cai is in charge herself, which shows how much she attaches importance to this competition.

Through the continuous improvement of the intelligence department, the Lingxiao Legion has established its own set of databases, and the auxiliary personnel enter the name of "Jin Xia Qian" into the index. Soon searched for the information of "money under gold".

Under the money, the state is in Jiaozhou, and he is very low-key, and he likes to go to sea to explore by himself, so the intelligence department of the Lingxiao Legion does not have too detailed information.

But this is not difficult for the Celestial Army.

Through the East Asian naval war, the four major fleets of the Han Dynasty: the Green Forest Fleet, the Lingxiao Fleet, the White Shark Fleet and the Archangel Fleet worked together and established a very good cooperative relationship. Drawing lessons from this naval battle, the four fleets decided to cooperate in an all-round way at sea. A joint staff is under construction, and the four fleets have jointly vowed to build a great wall of steel on the Han Sea.

Information sharing is the basic sincerity of the Quadripartite cooperation.

At the request of the Sky Legion. The Jiaozhou Archangel Legion quickly passed on the information they had. So before the two sides met, Gangzi got the details of "Jinxia Money".

Outside the game, more gold called Jin Xia Qian from the beginning of the voyage to stand in the front row of sailing players, sloops, brigs and brigs are updated with the top captains, but this person likes to go to sea alone for adventures, so some people are unknown.

Interestingly, the first group activity that Jin Xia Qian participated in was to rob the Philippine silver ship, but he was besieged by Nanyang players after falling into the calculation. The battleship was also sunk. However, Jin Xia Qian quickly rebuilt a brig, and it can be seen that this person still has a certain ability.

The battle to rob the silver ship also caused the Archangel fleet to get the data of the gold money. By analyzing the approximate seamanship situation of the money under the money, the following is the case:

Captain: Jin Xia Qian Battleship: Brig Battleship Maoming

Intermediate navigation

Junior leadership

Elementary gunnery

Beginner sail control

Horizontal shooting

Captain's skill: no recoil (for a certain period of time, the hull is not affected by the recoil of the gun, and the aging is affected by the gunnery.) Exerts stamina. ）

Gangzi is still reading the information of Jin Xiaqian, who wants to be on the competition channel, Jin Xiaqian took the lead in speaking: "It won't be so unlucky, I met Gangzi in the first knockout game!" That's a! I'm at coordinates 849:287, hurry up to fight, go out early after the fight, and my daughter-in-law is still waiting to sail to Hawaii. ”

Hehehe, I originally thought that the opponent was a sullen man who liked a single machine, and it seems that people are taking their daughter-in-law to the sea to play a romantic "wife strict management".

For Jin Xiaqian, Gangzi replied: "Okay! Arriving soon, you first pick up the speed of the boat to warm up. ”

Ordered the Sea Whale to turn immediately and sail towards the sea where the other party was, and soon saw the Maoming in a circle there to maintain its speed.

Jin Xia Qian also saw the Sea Whale, and the Maoming rushed towards the Sea Whale with a large change of direction on the sea surface.

Judging from the marching posture of the Maoming, Gangzi judged that Jin Xiaqian was an adventurous captain who had not experienced too many naval battles, and was accustomed to keeping his eyes on the target and moving forward at full speed in a straight line. Although it is possible to reach the position quickly, the flexibility of the hull at high speed will be greatly reduced, which is not conducive to maneuvering at any time to avoid possible attacks.

When Gangzi saw the Maoming, he began to consciously reduce the speed of the ship, according to his own understanding of the condition of the Sea Whale, so that the maneuverability and speed of the battleship reached a certain balance, and at the same time, the auxiliary personnel continued to give accurate distance data, so that Gangzi could more intuitively control the constant position changes of the two sides.

"The rudder ruler of the Sea Whale is 43, with a slight right turn, the front sail is raised six squares, the rear sail is lowered three squares, the hull is kept stable, the port side gun door is open, and the gun crew is ready to fire." The experience of many naval battles, coupled with his training under Sir Gardner, gave Gangzi a better understanding of sailing ships, and he had a good grasp of hull adjustments outside the range of artillery.

The Sea Whale began to slowly change direction to the right, and as it approached the Maoming diagonally, the angle of fire of the naval guns slowly included the Maoming. The hull did not have much inclination. The muzzle of the gun is very stable.

When it spotted that the Sea Whale was in an attacking stance, the Maoming immediately turned to the right, and also showed its port side to the Sea Whale.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The Maoming was the first to fire, but the iron smoothbore guns did not hit the shells in front of the Sea Whale.

The Sea Whale did not return fire, the extreme firing of this fine iron smoothbore gun. There is no use except for wasting shells. As the distance between the two warships continued to close, the Sea Whale began to slowly adjust the direction of travel, and ensured that the Maoming was always within its own gun firing angle.

Close, close, close.

The shelling of the Maoming never stopped from the beginning, and the occasional lucky hit was not harmful to the Sea Whale. The Seawhale's guns, on the other hand, remained sunk until they reached the optimal range of the iron smoothbore guns. Gangzi just gave the order to fire back with artillery.

"With all the sails full, I need more speed, the gun crew attacks freely, I need to suppress the fire of the enemy ship, and I don't want to hit. Just ask for the frequency of shelling. ”

"Boom, boom, boom......" With a dense salvo, the Sea Whale finally fired the first round of shells since the start of the competition, followed by the free attack of the various gun crews. There was no neat salvo, and the crew sailors fired immediately after crashing into the ammunition, and with the blessing of various artillery skills, the rate of fire of the Sea Whale's guns was extremely terrifying.

The sea around the Maoming was boiling, and the money would not control the rhythm of the salvo, which made the hull even more turbulent under the influence of recoil. The next round of salvo is even more devoid of sight.

Captain's skill: "No recoil"

In the face of the salvo that the scatter does not know how to run to take it, Kaneshita immediately uses the captain's skill: no recoil. The hull is not affected by the recoil of the ship's guns, and it is indeed much more stable, but the "recoilless" cannot act on the impact of seawater. Therefore, under the intensive shelling of the Sea Whale, the accuracy of the Maoming's shelling has not improved much.

The Beginner Skill allows the Captain to use the Recoilless Skill to pass quickly. The effect disappeared, and the Maoming continued to recover the bumps after the salvo, and even worse, it was accurate to call Jin Xia Qian and had to turn on the captain's skill again. According to the rules of the competition, players are not allowed to use any potions in the arena, and their physical strength is completely up to their own recovery. Therefore, the captain's skill cannot be used unscrupulously with drugs.

But in the face of the famous Gangzi, Jin Xia Qian did not think that he would win this game. He only sought to give the Sea Whale a certain amount of heavy damage and lose the battle with dignity.

The two battleships approached in the exchange of shells. Finally got to the nearest location.

In the East Asian naval battle, Gangzi played key battles in the north and south, which accumulated a good reputation for him, and he also had his own fixed fan base, and the audience for a group knockout match was packed.

A part of the income from watching the game is rewarded to the winner, and compared with the audience counting in tens of thousands of units in the arena where Gangzi is located, the few two-digit numbers in other arenas are indeed a little shabby.

However, unlike the previous passionate battles, this opening is indeed a little dull, free shelling ensures the output of shells, but the accuracy is reduced greatly, how can it cause the audience to shout if it doesn't hit! Of course, I didn't appreciate Gangzi's unique captain skill - "Double Attack", which is the name given to Captain Gangzi's skill by players who don't know the existence of "inspiration".

The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway. Watching the lively audience slap all kinds of things to vent their dissatisfaction, but the small movement of ships that Gangzi has used since the beginning of the war still makes many captains with rich experience in naval warfare see the wonders.

As we all know, the speed of the ship is the best in a straight line, but once the direction is changed, the loss of potential energy under the pressure of the sea water will increase, resulting in the loss of speed. In naval warfare, in order to avoid shells, battleships generally do some maneuvering course, large or frequent maneuvers

It will cause the ship's deck to tilt and its speed decreased, with the former affecting its own hit rate and the latter increasing the enemy ship's hit rate.

Therefore, how to maintain speed and balance in combat maneuvers is a topic that all fleets are studying. However, it is difficult to come up with a systematic formula for the attributes and skills of each captain, the condition of the hull, the attributes and skills of the sailors, the direction and strength of the wind, the current of the ocean, and many other variables.

Not to mention the intricate combat environment in naval battles, it was later suggested that if you want to perform a perfect maneuver in naval battles, you can only rely on the talent and experience of the captain, and it will naturally be after more battles. (To be continued)

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