On May 13, Le Robert Bay.

"The ship found on the third channel, the Skuna type, one!"

"Order the Badger to attack, and the Horseshoe responds."

"Yes! Order the Badger to attack the Horseshoe, and the second ship replied!"

Listening to the chaotic combat instructions, Lorraine raised his sight glass to look for the badger on the vast sea.

This is not difficult. Although the battleships of the Halloween are far apart, the general position has never been concealed from Lorraine.

He found the target in a short while.

In the sight glass, the Badger was full of sails, drawn a straight waterline on the sea, aggressively rushing towards the sneaky Skuna-type more than ten kilometers away.

The ending is doomed from this moment.

With warships versus non-warships and soldiers versus non-soldiers, the Badger has an absolute advantage regardless of firepower and combat skills, and the Horseshoe under the command of Bell is on the sidelines.

Regardless of the angle of view, the poor Skuna has no chance of turning over.

Lorraine lowered his sight glass boredly, leaned against the mainmast, and glanced at Nelson, who looked solemn in the lookout platform.

"Mr. Admiral, this kind of battle does not require your attention. The Major and Bell will soon sink Skuna."

"The lion and the rabbit have to go all out, Drake." Nelson touched the smooth hoops of the observation deck. "Speaking of which, I haven't thanked you for lending the Golden Deer to my command."

"It's always high. Obviously you can see farther on the Golden Deer than the Badger."

"It's a great help."

This conversation took place at the tip of the mainmast of the Golden Deer. Nelson and his informants occupied the highest mainmast observation deck on the ship. Out of politeness and boredom, Lorraine chose to accompany him and sat bored in the observation deck. On the outstretched sails, high above.

Lorraine calculated it silently in his heart.

"Admiral, is it appropriate to bombard the coast?"

"Appropriate shelling? Intimidation?"

"Almost." Lorraine stretched his waist. "Since yesterday afternoon, when we started indiscriminately hunting inside the bay, all the boats in the bay hid in the pier, and the scouts reported that there were 13 ships. It was also since then. Except for the limited number of ships entering the bay, we have nothing to do."

Nelson covered his chin with depression: "I thought they would organize at least one counterattack with the ship, but now it seems that I have overestimated the bloodiness of the French..."

"The general thinking of businessmen is rational. In the face of the Golden Deer, I don't think the impulsives can dominate the dock. We have to help them make up their minds to save themselves."

"Blamed?"

"Take off those two old forts and let them know that the dock can't protect them."

"I need to think about it again."

On May 13, the second day after the Halloween fleet entered Le Robel Bay, Bell and the replenished Lucky Horseshoe officially returned to the fleet and participated in the fleet's hunting operations for the first time.

Le Robert Bay is a sheltered bay outside the coastal town of Le Robert in Martinique. It is adjacent to the Gulf of Galion off La Trinité to the north and Le Francois, the station of the French Defense Fleet, to the south.

This is a high-quality harbour on Martinique, second only to Fort Franconian Bay, but it has not received corresponding attention and development.

Le Robel is not prosperous.

Compared to the town of Sainte Marie, the core commercial port on the Atlantic coast, and the military powerhouse of Le Francois, this town looks ordinary from any angle. The opportunity to combine the two functions into one.

The culprit for this status quo is the island and reef belt at the entrance of the bay.

The arc-shaped island and reef belt traverses the entrance of the bay like a threshold. There are a large number of messy bright and dark reefs and islands along the line, which makes the navigation channel into and out of the bay tortuous and narrow, and cannot accommodate the entry of battleships above level three. You must also be careful, like walking on thin ice.

But it is precisely such a geographical and hydrological environment that Nelson chose it as a decisive battle against the French Defense Fleet.

There are five entrances and exits in the island reef zone. The narrowest No. 2 and No. 3 can only be used for single-masted and non-standard small brigs. The wider channel No. 1 and No. 5 can be used for ships under 45 meters. Tier 5 and Tier 6 ships sail.

The condition of Channel 4 is the best, barely able to pass the fourth-class frigate with a length of about 50 meters and a draft of more than 6 meters.

After the loss of Lucky Horseshoe, the existing combat power of the defense fleet still includes the fourth-tier ship Andes, the fifth-tier ship Jupiter, and three sixth-tier ships, all of which are stronger in soft and hard power than the Halloween fleet.

Only in this sieve-like bay, the Halloween fleet can divide its opponents to the maximum, make up for the objective gap between the two sides in combat power, and leave enough tactical space for the commander.

But Martinique is the home of the French after all, and the situation in Le Rober Bay cannot be hidden from the defense fleet. How to get the opponent to take the initiative in knowing the situation has become a problem that Nelson must solve.

His answer is provocation.

The aborted battle plan to destroy Le Lorraine was the first provocation originally planned. Nelson planned to start from Le Lorraine, continuously exposing his whereabouts and destroying the large and small piers along the coast, in order to convey the strength gap between the two sides. Taunting the incompetence and cowardice of the defense fleet, forcing them to start a decisive battle with the Halloween fleet on the battlefield chosen by Nelson.

As a result, that plan did not go well.

Le Lorraine’s turret made Nelson’s original plan dying. The Heart-to-Heart Arsonist operation became a substitute for destroying Le Lorraine, and the Lucky Horseshoe and Zirned became new tools to squeeze the defense fleet.

This tool is the human wind chime at the gates of hell.

The insult of the wind chimes is self-evident, but compared to the ports that are caught in fire and water, the weight is insufficient.

In order to allow the original plan to continue, Nelson had to take the risk and changed the original bombardment of Le Robert to blockade of Le Robert.

Geographically, this is no different from putting the word "incompetence" on the face of the admiral of the defense fleet.

The opponent must respond to Nelson’s ultimate provocation. The British have already driven their ships into the French pockets. If the Halloween fleet is allowed to go away unscathed, they will shoulder the command of the defense fleet for the security and order of the Atlantic coast. The official is left with a retreat.

Nelson felt that the bait he had laid was heavy enough. Whether shelling LeRobel would not affect the decisive battle situation. In that case, why did Lorraine tirelessly propose shelling the land?

When attacking the land, even if it only faces two old forts, the risk that the fleet has to bear is huge.

Could it be the pillaging nature of the pirates?

Nelson shook his head vigorously.

Lorraine only suggested shelling, but did not force landing, which means that his fundamental purpose is not Le Robert’s wealth, the refuge ships in the dock...

vessel!

Nelson woke up suddenly.

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The refuge boats in the dock are very weak, like children who have not grown up. They are only qualified to tremble in front of the adults of the Halloween fleet.

But no matter how weak the ship is, they still have artillery on their deck, and no matter how young they are, they still have blades in their hands.

In case...in the event of a decisive battle between the two major fleets, these merchant ships participate at any cost, the Halloween fleet, which is not dominant, will fall into a desperate situation, which is fatal!

Nelson broke out in a cold sweat.

"Drake, the defense fleet will arrive at the battlefield at some point. I can't turn all the guns to Le Robel."

"There are only golden deer and lucky horseshoes, and only half a day. Before dawn tomorrow, are you sure to send all the boats on the pier to the bottom of the sea?"

"There must be no certainty." Lorraine scratched his hair and said embarrassedly. "But this kind of self-help must be done anyway, right?"

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