For such a brilliant admiral as Field Marshal Collingwood, this era was undoubtedly wonderful.

Because the level of manufacture of sail warships has reached a certain peak, a fleet can be fully loaded with supplies and crews, far from the home port, and fight at sea for up to several months, such an efficient operation is far beyond the reach of the contemporaneous army, so the status of the navy has been greatly improved.

The most troubling issue of this era was how to really destroy the enemy's navy, and although the caliber, range, number, and rate of fire of the guns were slowly increasing, the thick skin of the large ships themselves made it seem a little futile.

The wood used to build ships is inherently buoyant and can continue to float even when multiple compartments are flooded, making it a difficult task to sink a large, well-designed multi-masted ship from long-range fire from a ship's cannon.

To this end, Field Marshal Collingwood invented a new method of warfare, that is, to lead the main warships of the fleet to bravely rush into the sequence of the enemy fleet, perform decisive formation interspersed actions, and inflict double heavy losses on the opponent's ships and personnel with close artillery bombardment and hand-to-hand combat on the deck.

In order to ensure the effectiveness of the battle, Marshal Collingwood gave his captains great autonomy of command, and never made hard and fast rules, only requiring them to give full play to their initiative and dare to engage in close combat.

This battle of the Kraken Fjord was the first time he practiced this new tactic, and he didn't expect it to be a great success as soon as it was used.

The Free Trade Alliance fleet, which was originally a headache for the coalition forces, has been beaten to pieces by him, and several famous enemy warships have been sunk one after another.

He was overjoyed by his brilliant achievements, and he imagined a vision for the future, and after this battle, what awaited him would be the road to prosperity.

In fact, the current situation is not entirely due to Marshal Collingwood alone, especially since this sudden storm has helped the coalition fleet a lot.

The storm destroyed the line formation of the Free Trade Alliance fleet, halving their firepower, and the four columns of the Allied fleet did not suffer major losses on the way forward.

Not to mention that the forces of the two sides are not equal in strength, the number of coalition ships is almost doubled, and the quality of ships is much higher.

An adjutant came to report to him: "Your Excellency, we have surrounded the enemy, but they have been so strong that not a single ship has surrendered to us until now, and they would rather sink than raise the white flag!"

Our losses in the exchange of fire were not small, the battleship "Lucky Dany" was sunk, the heavy cruiser "Midsummer Rose" caught fire, and the crew abandoned the ship and escaped. Several other ships were badly damaged and largely incapacitated. ”

"That's not going to work, we have to stop the loss in time! Pass my order and let the fleet concentrate its fire on the enemy's flagship 'Pelican'! It is best to kill or capture the Valstadian Prime Minister Langford Onassis, which will throw them into disarray, and then divide and surround the remaining enemy ships, annihilating them one by one. ”

His orders were quickly carried out by means of flags,

The two battleships began to flank the "Pelican", and the large ship was so badly wounded that it began to tilt after too much water.

Langford Onassis, the prime minister of Valstad, fled to a lifeboat with the top of the fleet, and then boarded another intact battleship, where he continued to command his Free Trade Alliance fleet to put up desperate resistance, but until now, unless reinforcements arrived, no effort could change his defeat.

Seeing that the battle was coming to an end, in the rear of the coalition column, the observer of the coalition flagship "Holy Trinity" detected the threat from the rear, and he vigorously struck the alarm bell and shouted:

"Oh no! It is a night owl flag with a black background! Reinforcements from the Valstadians are here! OMG! There are too many boats! Dense ...... I can't count ......."

At this time, Pope Palladia II of Flandrea was taking his cronies to observe the battle ahead, and after hearing the alarm, the pope quickly came to the stern of the ship and set up a telescope to observe.

"As I expected, the woman arrived with the full strength of the Valstad Royal Navy, don't panic, our reinforcements are also here, look over there."

Following the direction indicated by Palladia II, one sees the silhouette of another fleet with a black cross embroidered on its sails, the emblem of the Knights of Cruced.

Count Jaquinn couldn't take his eyes off it, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's really spectacular, all the elite navies of the four great powers...... Gathered in this little Banshee Fjord, is it ...... Is it just today? ”

Palladia II put down the telescope and said, "That's right, just today, it doesn't matter if you lose the land battle in front, this sea battle will determine the future pattern of the continent of Olacis." ”

Sister Dianne noticed the churning waves, and she thoughtfully draped a burqa over the pope's armor, which she then fastened with a sterling silver clasp, and whispered in the pope's ear: "And we will have the last laugh, in the name of pious servants, to eradicate heretics and disbelievers!" ”

"Well said!" Palladia II fumbled the hilt of his sword back and forth with a large hand in steel gloves, his fingers opening and closing, and turned and said:

"Herald, I, Pope Palladia Chiaramonti II, give orders in the name of the Supreme Commander of the Coalition;

Field Marshal Collingwood was ordered to lead the 1st and 2nd Fleets to continue to encircle the remnants of the Free Trade Alliance fleet and try to kill or capture Prime Minister Valstad.

The 3rd and 4th Fleets follow the flagship of the Holy Trinity and join the fleet of our allies, the Knights of the Cruced Order, to fight against the Royal Fleet of the Valstad Empire! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"As the signal flags were roped in turn, the huge coalition fleet began to carry out the Pope's orders.

The speed of the attack of the Varstadians was much faster than everyone expected, and they appeared on the horizon almost at the same time as the fleet of the Knights, but at this time, they had already left the other party far behind, and attacked the main force of the coalition fleet at an astonishing speed.

Count Jaquin exclaimed, "What's going on? How did those Valstads do it? How fast it can ...... Headwind? ”

The captain of the Holy Trinity said: "Earl, it seems that you rarely ride ships, and do not know much about the principles of sailing. ”

"Yes! I thought the sailboat was just going by the wind! ”

"That's a mistake, Lord Earl, the reason why a sailboat can move is not simply by the force of the wind blowing the front of the sail, but by a force with a more complex principle."

The Pope next to him was also interested in this topic and asked, "Captain, can you give us a brief explanation?" ”