Chapter Seventy-One: The King's First Battle
Looking at the rising sun at the junction of the sea and the sky, Xu Mo exhaled slowly, lifted his foot, and shook the sand on his leather boots. He stood on a seaside beach on the island of Amorgos. Amorgos Island is located in the southeast of Kouforny, about twenty nautical miles apart, and has basically left the sea area where the two pirate kings are at war.
The Vasa was moored in the sea in front of the beach, and the sailors on board were catching up on sleep in their cabins after a night of intense work. Of course, there were also some energetic sailors who carried some food and rum and camped on the beaches of Amorgos.
"Admiral, have a drink!" Al walked over from the side and handed Xu Mo a large wooden wine glass.
"Bavarian stout!" Xu Mo raised his eyebrows in surprise, "I remember that the Vasa didn't resupply this alcoholic drink?" ”
"Hehe, this is our catch on that Venetian armed clipper. There were only two barrels in total, which were concealed by Frieza until yesterday, when they were accidentally discovered by Azisa in the hold, but they had been drunk by the bastard to the point that only half of the barrel remained. Arna wiped the hem of his coat with sweat and said in a pretended annoyance.
"Hmph, that bastard dares to hide the loot privately, as the admiral of the Vasa, he must not tolerate this hateful behavior, and his salary will be directly sent to Irene for safekeeping in the future!" Xu Mo took a sip of beer and said viciously.
"Admiral, isn't this too ruthless, and when we enter the tavern in the future, won't Frieza just swallow his saliva?" Al said with a grin.
"Haha!" Thinking of the fierce and vicious Frieza, who could only wag his tail and beg for mercy beside his drinking friends like a puppy, Al and Xu Mo laughed at each other.
"It's dawn, those two people should have already fought each other!" After laughing for a while, Al drank his wine and asked calmly, "Admiral, who do you say will win?" ”
"I don't know! Highetting had three times as many ships as Henry Morgan, but the English had faster ships and longer guns, making it difficult to judge the outcome of the battle. Xu Mo shrugged his shoulders, turned his head and asked, "Who do you want to win?" ”
"I'm an Arab mercenary, and of course I hope that Hayreddin will win!" Al grinned.
"Hey, leave them alone, let's go drink. In a few hours, when Blakeney and the others return, we'll know how the battle went! Xu Mo put down his mind and pulled Al towards the bonfire on the beach......
"Admiral, Blakeney, they've sent someone!" At noon, just when Xu Mo felt a little drunk, Al suddenly pointed to the sea and reminded.
Xu Mo was startled, and when he looked up, a dinghy happened to run aground on the beach, and Raleigh, who was dressed in non-mainstream clothes, climbed out of the dinghy and walked towards the bonfire with a large basket.
"Hey, Al, come on!" Approaching, the non-mainstream teenager picks out a large bunch of cherries from the basket and throws them to the Arab mercenaries.
"Where did you get so much fruit?" Al asked with some surprise as he looked at a large basket of cherries and olives.
"When those two at sea were fighting, we didn't dare to approach the battlefield, so we had to anchor in the fishing village of Naxos, which was purchased from the locals!" Raleigh picked up a green olive and rubbed it on his sailor's shirt and put it in his mouth, "After the naval battle is over, we will return to Koufonissi Island and ask Wood about the battle!" ”
"Are you the only ones coming back? What about the Blackneys? Xu Mo frowned and said.
"Blakeney is on the Armed Clipper, he told me to come back first, they're still tracking the Sea Sovereign!" Raleigh gave Xu Mo a look and secretly stuffed a diamond-shaped crystal into Xu Mo's hand.
"Did Henry Morgan win?" Christina and a few other officers gathered around with concern.
"No, it's a bit complicated......" Raleigh said with a wry smile.
Xu Mo slowly sat back next to the campfire, as if listening to Raleigh's report, but his mind had sunk into the soul imprint. The diamond-shaped crystal that Raleigh gave him, Xu Mo had seen once, was the same thing as the video of the battle of Azeroth that Ruel had given him.
This kind of crystal, which can record events like a video recorder, is not produced in X-space, and is a special item in Y-space, which requires a large number of merit points to be exchanged. Since Wood was determined to convert to X-Space, this time, at Xu Mo's request, he exchanged a large number of merit points for this crystal, which was used to record the battle between the two pirate kings in the morning.
A string of data flowed out of the crystal and fed back to Xu Mo's real-time battle screen, and a magnificent sea battle was vividly re-displayed in front of the young man's eyes.
As Xu Mo and the Vasa had speculated, the two pirate kings only sent a large number of armed clippers to search the sea at night, and did not immediately engage each other.
When the first light appeared in the east, the armed clippers who had been searching for it finally returned to their camp and relined themselves to meet the enemy.
There were twelve ships in Haireddin, the main force being three giant Arabian galleys, five drenched Arabian dunches and four square sailing merchant ships. The dhows were the armed clippers of the Haredding, while the schooners were the slower supply vessels. Henry Morgan's flagship was England's premier battleship, the Sea Sovereign, and he also had three armed Flemish clippers.
In terms of the number of ships, Highettin had an advantage, but the English had faster ships and longer guns. After the return of the armed clippers responsible for searching the sea, the two sides finally began to move head-on, and the battle began about three nautical miles from the harbor of Koufone West Island.
The battle formations used by the English were the most familiar to them, and were by far the most practical longitudinal battles in artillery warfare, and Henry Morgan began with the most powerful battleship, the Sea Sovereign, and seized the upper hand at high speed.
In fact, the giant Arab galleys exploded quickly over short distances, but Highreddin did not allow his fleet to line up with the English for the T-shape. Instead, three giant Arab galleys were used as the triangular core, armed clippers and supply ships were mixed and arranged to form a giant glaive formation in an arc.
This posture of the Ottoman fleet was obviously intended to outflank the enemy on both flanks by virtue of numerical superiority, and to annihilate four English warships in one fell swoop with the broadside combat they were good at. In fact, if it were in other seas, this glaive formation of Highredding would have been scattered and eaten up by the English warships that had turned to nimble in less than an hour.
However, in this part of the Aegean Sea, this formation of Hayredding is very suitable. There were so many islands around Kouforissi that there was little room for the English warships to turn around, and they could not rely on their speed to get around the rear of the Ottoman Glaive.
If you insist on bypassing the glaive from the flank, you will be forced into some narrow straits and harbors by your opponent. In that case, the numerically inferior English would not be able to take advantage of the long-range artillery and would have to engage in a close-range engagement with Highreddin, with total annihilation as a matter of course.
But when Xu Mo looked at the glaive array put forward by Haireddin, he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, the invincible king of the Mediterranean Sea was afraid that he would suffer a big loss. It's not that Xu Mo is more clever than Hayreddin, but that the Vasa itself was designed and built according to the drawings of the English battleship, and the young admiral knows too well the power of this kind of battleship.
The next half hour of battle became a show of the Sea Sovereign. The overjoyed King of the Caribbean did not let go of Highreddin's mistake, and the Sea Sovereign sailed at full speed, leading three Flanders to break through the Glaive at high speed. Like a quick knife cutting into the fluffy cheese, the three battleships on the left flank of the Ottoman battle formation were divided as a whole.
In just over ten minutes, before the other warships of the Ottoman First Privateer Fleet could react, these three warships were turned into three blazing bonfires at sea under the fierce blows of four English warships.
In particular, the Sea Sovereign, one of the world's largest battleships, erupted like an active volcano erupting from its side. In an instant, an armed clipper ship was smashed to pieces, as if it had been destroyed by a storm.
The rapidly advancing English fleet did not stop at all, and after two rounds of artillery bombardment, it broke through before the Ottoman ships in the center and on the right flank surrounded it, and completely cut through the glaive of Hayreddin. Then he made a beautiful tail spin on the surface of the sea and relined himself behind the Ottoman Glaive.
At this time, Barbarossa Hayreddin was shocked, and finally realized that he was tactically behind Henry Morgan, the Pirate King of the Caribbean, who was more than 20 years younger than him.
However, Hayreddin was also a battle-hardened pirate king, and he quickly reacted in time, allowing all the warships to move closer to the three giant Arab galleys in the center, forming a closer circle.
At this time, Henry Morgan, who had tasted the sweetness, of course, would not let the enemy regroup and pounce on the Ottoman warship like a hungry shark again......