Chapter 61: The Orc Fleet is Discovered

The orc fleet is all composed of canoes, taking the route of cannon fodder sharpening, and the combat effectiveness of each canoe is very low, but once the canoe is scaled, it will become very terrifying. In particular, the elves have not mastered the means of long-range strikes, and it is difficult for them to calmly retreat after achieving a certain amount of damage to the orc fleet with the range of bows and arrows alone.

Moreover, the elven warship is based on the original elven row ship and the two-position armed merchant ship, and the various performance is still far from the real warship, the speed is slow, the defense is low, and the low side of the ship cannot effectively block the enemy's attack on the sailors on the ship. Gangzi's vision is becoming more and more dizzy, in his opinion, the warships of the Elven Navy should be all replaced, the brig can be used as a seafaring cargo ship, and the sloop sailing boat inland river navigation is their best destination.

But now the shipbuilding of the Emerald World is not like "The Rise of the Nation", where gold coins, materials, and drawings are stuffed into the shipyard, and a ship will be released in a few days. The shipbuilding here is really a plank, a willow ding spliced upwards, and the construction period of a qualified ship should be calculated in months or years. There is news that the canoe fleet of orcs has taken shape and is being resupplied for navigation. Gangzi didn't have time to rebuild the ship, so he could only use the only elven warship in his hand to face the orc fleet.

With these more than 100 warships, it will definitely not be able to beat a large number of canoes of the orcs, so Gangzi is ready to find another way to surprise the orc fleet.

The orc fleet is made up of canoes, and a log floating in the sea is extremely unstable, and the best way to deal with them is to ram them with a tall hull. A ship of the size of a brig doesn't even need to actually touch the canoe with its bow, it can be overturned by just moving its hull forward and squeezing the waves of the sea.

However, the hull of the ship travels in a line of attack, and the speed at which to destroy the orc canoe is limited, and it will be very dangerous to be surrounded by a large number of orc canoes.

So Gangzi thought of the chain horse that once roamed the land.

A single horse's charge is a line, and four horses can be chained together to kill an enemy on a single surface. If you attack with ships in a row at sea, you can say that you are killing yourself, and if one ship has a problem, it will affect other ships that are connected together. The Battle of Chibi in history is a lesson from the past.

But in the face of the orcs, it is different, first of all, the orc fleet does not have ships that can compete with the brigs, and it cannot quickly and effectively kill the elven brigs, so it cannot cause the navigation of the chain fleet to stop; Secondly, the orc canoe is too fragile, and to use a brig to collide is to kill a chicken with a cattle slaughtering knife, as long as the two warships pull up the chain and push it in front of the water, it is completely possible to overturn all the canoes between the two ships without affecting the speed.

In short, as long as there are no problems between the elven brigs, they can sweep the orcs into the sea over and over again like a broom.

As soon as Gangzi told him about his plan, the heavy stone that pressed on the elven navy was completely lifted. All the elven sailors were relieved, and remembered that they had seen the fleet of orc canoes, the swarms of canoes that had previously been powerless to propel, now seemed like ants drifting in the river on the leaves.

What the elven fleet needs to do now is how to ensure that the formation is not affected when the chains connect the brigs together, especially the ships must be kept apart, because if the chain is too high, it will pass over the head of the orc, and if the chain is too low, it will pass through the bottom of the canoe.

The morale of the elven navy that found the weakness of the orc fleet was greatly boosted. The enthusiasm for joint training is high. The morning glory elves had been assigned to ten brigs, and in the absence of direct communication between captains, Gangzi devised a simpler and more effective set of flags to direct the fleet.

Under the direction and command of the morning glory elves. The equi-spaced parallel queue between the brig and the "Flying Henan" began to stabilize, and the actual combat simulation training of the string connection began, so that if the distance between the ships was too wide, the rope would be broken. Prevents the hull from being damaged.

As the number of rope breaks decreased, and eventually ceased to break, Gangzi's chain boat finally took shape.

The chains made by the dwarves have been delivered. At the same time, in order to celebrate the completion of this big order, Kyle decided to party for three days, and the dwarven cabin did not welcome any visitors except for the elves who delivered wine and friends who came to party together.

Watching the truckloads of wine barrels being pulled closer to the dwarves' cabins, Tsuyoko expressed deep suspicions that the dwarves would finish paying the wine money and leave the elven forest, and put the experience into the work of connecting the brigs.

In order to ensure that the brigs can be quickly connected and separated during daily navigation and in emergencies, Gangzi installed two buckle hooks on the bow and stern of the brig. When pulling the chain, the hook will only get tighter and tighter and will never loosen, and when the chain needs to be loosened, you only need to pull the hook hard, so that the chain can be quickly separated from the hull, and at the same time, it can be quickly and conveniently placed.

Time passed day by day, and in the early morning of the day, when the "Flying Henan Man" was carrying out the attack training of the serial ship with the elf brig, a dhow sailing ship quickly drove in the distance, and they brought the news that the orc fleet had sailed.

Fifteen hundred canoes, a hundred large supply puzzle ships, were the full strength of this orc ship. Sea navigation is full of dangers, and the harsh living environment of canoes can cause a large number of non-combat attrition even for extremely endurance orcs. According to the experience of the orcs, 1,000 canoes are the last force to attack the elven fleet, and the overflowing 500 canoes will not reach the sea area where the elven fleet will be seen alive.

In order to attack, a dangerous march that can accept a third of the loss, there is no race in the Emerald World that is more crazy than the orcs, even if it is the undead race, except for the low-level undead who will only act according to their own skills, and the high-level undead with wisdom cherish the hard-won rebirth even more.

"Since the orcs say they are not afraid of death, then we will beat them until they are afraid."

――――The first admiral of the elven navy: Gangzi

After asking the Elven King for the Elven Navy to attack and getting permission, Gangzi, as the first admiral of the Elven Navy, boarded the "Flying Henan People" and issued the above concise oath to the entire Elven Navy.

"Raise the flagship flag, and the elven fleet will all attack, and march in a vector-shaped rapid marching formation towards the sea area where the orc fleet was discovered." After the battleship was prepared and the personnel were ready, Gangzi stood on the bridge and gave the order.

Christol, who acted as a herald, shouted loudly into the deck: "Raise the flagship, tell all the elven warships to leave the harbor, and march in a vector rapid march formation to the sea where the orc fleet was found." Tell us to kick all those dirty-faced hairy creatures into the sea, and tell them that the high-tech arms of the navy are not something that their flat heads can play with. ”

Christol's orders were mixed with all sorts of expletives, which caused the sailors on the "Flying Henan" to applaud, while the archers standing on both sides of the ship were dumbfounded, and these elves who were responsible for protecting the flagship were all recruited from the elven city. These quiet, slightly nervous elves and morning glory elves singing and scolding loudly did not seem to be a race.

Looking at the rising flagship flag and the elven flag bearer with the flag in the mainmast gondola, Christol silently said to the elven archers in his heart: "Peace and comfort are only the surface of the elves, and the furious waves of the sea will bring out the enthusiasm in your hearts." ”

The "Flying Henan People" was the first to sail out of Elf Harbor with its huge size, and the sailors who controlled the sails and helmed them were morning glory elves and black sail pirates. The "Flying Henan" quickly adjusted the rear angle and entered the cruising speed.

It was followed by ten brigs, and after this period of assault training, under the command of the morning glory elves, the brigs entered their positions one by one behind the "Flying Henan People". Behind them were a hundred dhows, and although they had also done some queue training during this period of time, they could not be allowed to master much in a short period of time without the guidance of the morning glory elves. In addition, the main force of this battle is not them, and Gangzi does not ask them too much, as long as they don't fall behind.

The Elven Navy fleet formed a formation and gradually moved away from Elven Harbor. The harbor was full of elves seeing them off, waving at the back of the fleet, hoping for their triumphant return. Among them were a number of tall treemen, wielding their rattans. Say goodbye to these friends who are fighting for their race.

Gangzi stood on the bridge, he really didn't think that he would lead the fleet to fight at sea in the Emerald World one day, Gangzi, who was used to being surrounded by all kinds of information, looked at his blank information column. It feels a little uncomfortable.

The three elven warships that Nastron had left behind to monitor the movements of the orc fleet had all returned, and there would be no more definite information about the orc fleet in the future.

"Inform Bucknar and tell his formation to move forward in search. I don't want to be attacked by an orc fleet that doesn't have time to form when I get close. ”

Gangzi's orders were conveyed through the flag.

As for Bucknar, Gangzi did not ask him to command the brig, as part of the chain of ships, the captain of the brig does not need to be too strong, the morning glory elf is more than competent, and the scout formation needs its commander to have excellent sailing experience. At Gangzi's request, Bucknar became the captain of a sloop, and led nine morning glory elves to steer ten sloops to form the elven navy's scout fleet.

Bucknar received the order, and immediately ordered his subordinates to speed up and throw off the capital ship group to fan ahead, and set up a cordon with eight dhows ten nautical miles in front of the main force of the Elven Navy, and the remaining two rushed forward to search.

Christol said to Gangzi worriedly: "Uncle Strom didn't leave enough ships to monitor the movement of the orc fleet in advance, and now we don't know the location of the orc fleet at all, the sea is so big, we are traveling so blindly, what should we do if we miss the orc fleet?" ”

Gangzi said without worry: "It is already very difficult to control more than a thousand canoes on the sea, and no matter how much the orc commander can't see it, it will only produce greater non-combat losses, so if the orc fleet wants to maintain the fleet is not chaotic, it is impossible to carry out complex sea anti-tracking maneuvers, they can only sail in a straight line under the leadership of one or several orcs who are familiar with navigation, and through the three elven warships that monitor the orc fleet, it can also be confirmed that the orc fleet is walking in a straight line, We're on their way, and they're not going to fly past us with our eyelids down. ”

Two days passed, and Gangzi finally waited for news of the orc fleet, and Bucknar sent a ship back to report that they had found the orc fleet twenty nautical miles ahead.

Gangzi immediately spread out the chart, marked the location of the elven fleet and the orc fleet, and brought in the data detected. It was discovered that if the elven fleet was to go full speed, it would encounter the orc fleet in the afternoon.

Fighting in the afternoon was not the right time, because once the battle dragged into the evening, the elven fleet, which relied on the flag to convey orders, would become chaotic. It's not like the main map, no matter how dark it is at night, you can see things nearby, and if there is no moonlight at night in the Emerald World, even if the elves have good night vision, it will be greatly affected.

"Tell Bucknar to continue to monitor the movements of the orc fleet, the main fleet turns to the right, we go to the left flank of the orc fleet, and attack from their flank once the battle begins."

Gangzi's order was quickly conveyed to each warship by the standard-bearer, and the entire elven fleet turned to the right and deviated from its original course. Outflank the left flank of the orc fleet.

Bucknar's scout fleet took turns monitoring the orc fleet, and the two groups watched the lateral ends of the orcs, and then after Bucknar left two sloops as liaison ships, the other four warships were assigned to the waters around the orc fleet to eliminate the possible alert ships of the orc fleet.

The morning glory elves carry out their combat missions in accordance with the combat regulations of the Jimo fleet, but the orc fleet does not have such good tactical literacy, they do not send alert ships at all, or they do not have the ability to send alert ships. Bucknar easily controlled the perimeter of the orc ship.

In the face of the elven warships that frequently appeared around him, the orc fleet did not raise enough vigilance. The elven warships were so fast that the orc fleet was unable to catch up with their ships. They can only be allowed to swagger around their own fleet to scout their own intelligence.

"What's the use of driving faster, once you are within range of the bow and arrow, we will press it with all our might, and my orc warship has the strongest explosive power. As long as we are given a charging distance of less than 500 meters, it is impossible for the elven warship to escape from our siege. Behold, this is an invincible fleet, if your fleet does not dare to engage us. We're going straight to Elf Harbor. ”

The commander of the orc fleet looked at the elven warships cruising in the two corners in front of his fleet, and ordered the fleet not to act rashly and continue to maintain course.

Afternoon. Gangzi led the main force of the elven fleet to the right flank of the orc ship, and the orc did not know that a hungry tiger had crawled beside him, and still slowly moved forward.

"At the front is the pilot ship of the orc fleet?" Gangzi arrived at the place where he could observe the orc fleet on a dhow, and he saw through his binoculars that the orc fleet was navigating a large wooden raft with a long wooden pole in the middle of the raft, and a blood-colored flag fluttering on the top of the wooden pole.

Nastron picked up the telescope given by Gangzi and scanned the orc fleet: "This is really a magical thing, I can see the orc fleet clearly here, and the orc fleet can't see us." That's right, that is the orc pilot fleet, its duty is to bring the orc fleet to the elf harbor, and it is also the ship that the orcs focus on protecting, if we attack, the pilot ship will hide in the orc fleet first. ”

Gangzi asked again: "There are a lot of large wooden rows in the orc fleet, and there are a lot of things piled up on them, are they supplies for the orcs?" ”

"Yes, the orc fleet is on it with food, water, shields, and spare weapons."

"When the fleet attacks, give priority to attacking these supplies, prepare more rockets, and burn them as much as possible if they can't hit them, without supplies, even if we don't destroy this fleet, they can't get on land alive."

"Understood," through this period of contact, the seafaring literacy shown by the morning glory elf is called the five-body throw that Strom admires, the difficulties that he was difficult to solve before are as simple as common sense in front of the morning glory elf, in the face of the gang who can command the morning glory elf at will, he no longer dares to have any contempt, he is studious like a good student, after he introduced the composition of the orc fleet, he asked: "Lord Admiral, when will we attack the orc fleet?"

"Visibility is low at night, the size of the orc fleet is too large to control, and they definitely don't dare to sail at night, and the morning after a night's sleep is their most relaxing moment, so we will take advantage of the night to enter the attack position, and launch an attack at dawn, at that time the sea is full of stopped canoes, and the orcs will not even have time to take their shield weapons before we will rush to nearly a thousand, tell all elven archers that they don't need mercy to treat orcs, just like orcs do to tree people, we don't need prisoners in this battle."

"Ahh Nastrom did not suspect that the victorious side of this battle already belonged to the elves, but was surprised by the slaughter order of Gangzi.

As a foreigner, it is impossible for Gangzi to serve as the elven naval admiral all the time, he wants to return to the main map, and Baknar also said that he will follow Gangzi to continue to learn all kinds of knowledge, then Nastrom, the most qualified elven captain, will become his successor and become the second elven naval admiral. And with the life span of the elves, if there is no change, the third elf naval commander Gangzi may not be able to see it. Therefore, it is very necessary to communicate with Nastrom and maintain a good trust and cooperative relationship. (To be continued......)